xii
Contents.
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | |
| NEW YORK-1860-1885. | |
| Saratoga Convention, July 13, 14, 1869 — State Society Formed, Martha C. Wright, President — The Revolution Established, 1868 — Educational Movement — New York City Society, 1870, Charlotte B. Wilbour, President — Presidential Campaign, 1872 — Hearings at Albany, 1873 — Constitutional Commission — An Effort to Open Columbia College, President Barnard in Favor — Centennial Celebration, 1876 — School Officers — Senator Emerson of Monroe. 1877 — Governor Robinson's Veto School Suffrage, 1880 — Governor Cornell Recommended it in his Message — Stewart's Home for Working Women — Women as Police — An Act to Prohibit Disfranchisement — Attorney-General Russell's Adverse Opinion — The Power of the Legislature to Extend Suffrage — Great Demonstration in Chickering Hall, March 7, 1884 — Hearing at Albany, 1885 — Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Howell, Gov. Hoyt of Wyoming | 395 |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | |
| PENNSYLVANIA. | |
| Carrie Burnham — The Canon and Civil Law the Source of Woman's Degradation — Women Sold with Cattle in 1768 — Women Arrested in Pittsburg — Mrs. Mc-Manus Opposition to Women in Colleges and Hospitals; John W. Forney Vindicates their Rights — Ann Preston — Women in Dentistry — James Truman's Letter — Swarthmore College — Suffrage Association Formed in 1866, in Philadelphia — John K. Wildman's Letter — Judge William S. Pierce — The Citizens' Suffrage Association, 333 Walnut Street, Edward M. Davis, President — Petitions to the Legislature — lda Hindman, Mrs. Stanton, Address the Convention — Messrs. Broomall and Campbell Debate with the Opposition — Amendment Making Women Eligible to School Offices — Two Women Elected to Philadelphia School Board, 1874 — The Wages of Married Women Constitutional Convention, 1873 — Bishop Simpson, Mary Grew, Sarah C. Hallowell, MatiProtected — J. Edgar Thomson's Will — Literary Women as Editors — The Rev. Knox Little — Anne E. McDowell — Women as Physicians in Insane Asylums — The Fourteenth Amendment Resolution, 1881 — Ex-Gov. Hoyt's Lecture on Wyoming | 444 |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | |
| NEW JERSEY. | |
| Women Voted in the Early Days — Deprived of the Right by Legislative Enactment in 1807 — Women Demand the Restoration of Their Rights in 1868 — At the Polls in Vineland and Roseville Park — Lucy Stone Agitates the Question — State Suffrage Society Organized in 1867 — Conventions — A Memorial to the Legislature — Mary F. Davis — Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford — Political Science Club — Mrs. Cornelia C. Hussey — Orange Club, 1870 — Mrs. Devereux Blake gives the Oration, July 4, 1881 — Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's Letter — The Laws of New Jersey in Regard to Property and Divorce — Constitutional Commission, 1873 — Trial of Rev. Isaac M. See — Women Preaching in his Pulpit — The Case Appealed — Mrs. Jones, Jailoress — Legislative Hearings | 476 |
