Chapter 70

THE CENTENNIAL YEAR.

Among those who sent most cordial letters of greeting, with requests that their names should be enrolled in the centennial autograph-book as signers of the woman's declaration of sentiments, were: _Maine_, Lavinia M. Snow, Lucy A. Snow; _New Hampshire_, Marilla M. Ricker, Abby P. Ela; _Massachusetts_, E. T. Strickland, Sarah E. Wall; _Rhode Island_, Paulina Wright Davis; _Connecticut_, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Frances Ellen Burr, Julia and Abby Smith; _New York_, Clemence S. Lozier, Henrietta Paine Westbrook, Nettie A. Ford, Elizabeth B. Phelps, Charlotte A. Cleveland, Elizabeth M. Atwell; _Pennsylvania_, E. A. Stetson Lozier, Anna Thomson; _New Jersey_, Ellen Dickinson, S. Mary Clute, Mary M. Van Clief, S. H. Cornell, Emma L. Wilde, Jennie Dixon, Casa Tonti, Marie Howland, Lucinda B. Chandler; _District of Columbia_, Addie T. Holton, Margaret E. Johnson, Sabra P. Abell, Ruth Carr Dennison, Ellen H. Sheldon, Mary Shadd Cary and ninety-four others, Mary F. Foster, Susan A. Edson; _Virginia_, Sally Holly, Carrie Putnam; _Kentucky_, Annie Laurie Quinby; _Tennessee_, Elizabeth Avery Meriwether; _Louisiana_, Elizabeth Lisle Saxon; _Michigan_, Sarah C. Owen, Margaret J. E. Millar; _Illinois_, A. J. Grover, Edward P. Powell, Cynthia A. Leonard, Susan H. Richardson; _Missouri_, Francis Minor, Annie R. Irvine; _California_, Sarah L. Knox, Sarah J. Wallis, Carrie M. Robinson, Mary E. Kellogg, Georgiana Bruce Kirby; _Oregon_, Mrs. A. J. Johns, Eveline Merrick Roork, Charles A. Reed; _Washington Territory_, Mary Olney Brown, Abby H. H. Stuart; _Utah Territory_, Annie Godbe; _Iowa_, Amelia Bloomer, Submit C. Loomis, Philo A. Lyon and seventy-five others of Humboldt, Jane A. Telker, Nancy R. Allen, Margaret Euart Colby, Mrs. Ellen M. Robinson, Mrs. G. R. Woodworth, Mrs. W. W. Johnson, Mrs. Caroline A. Ingham, Mrs. Mabel A. Stough, Mrs. R. H. Spencer, Mrs. J. W. Kenyon, Mrs. A. M. Horton, Miss L. T. Dood, Mary L. Watson, Mrs. Sarah A. McCoy, Mrs. J. J. Wilson, Mrs. F. L. Calkins, Mrs. L. H. Smith, Mrs. Emma C. Spear, Mrs. M. L. Burlingame, Mrs. G. W. Blanchard, Mrs. D. L. Ford, Mrs. E. C. Buffam, Mrs. Cora A. Jones, Mrs. Clara M. Wilson; _Wisconsin_, Laura Ross Wolcott, M. Josephine Pearce, Eliza T. Wilson, H. S. Brown; _Minnesota_, Sarah Burger Stearns; _Kansas_, Susan E. Wattles, Elsie Stewart, Henrietta L. Miller, Lottie Griffin, Jane M. Burke, Malura Hickson, Elsie J. Miller; _Colorado_, Alida C. Avery; _Ohio_, Sarah R. L. Williams, Margaret V. Longley; _England_, Lydia E. Becker, Caroline A. Biggs, Jessie M. Wellstood.

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