American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 |
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Page 675 - Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Page 478 - She was present at the organization of the New York Committee for the Prevention of State Regulation of Vice, in 1876, and was appointed one of the vice-presidents, which office she still holds.
Page 420 - Country By-Ways (1881); The Mate of the Daylight (1883) ; A Country Doctor (1884) ; A Marsh Island (1885) ; A White Heron (1886) ; The Story of the Normans (1887) ; The King of Folly Island and Other People (1888); Betty Leicester (1889); Strangers and Wayfarers (1890) ; Mr.
Page 467 - Friendless, assisted in the establishment of the Home for Aged Women and the Hospital for Women and Children, and was actively identified with the charitable work of the city.
Page 468 - What shall we do with our Daughters? and Other Lectures'' (Boston, 1883), and another is soon to follow. She has traveled extensively in the United States, literally from ocean to ocean, and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
Page 496 - ... orchestra. Soon after her marriage she severed her relations with her manager, and since then she has been playing with a company of her own. MATHER, Mrs. Sarah Ann, philanthropist, born in the town of Chester, Mass., 2oth March, SARAH ANN MATHER. 182o. She is the wife of the Rev James Mather, an honored member of the New England Southern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She is of Puritan ancestry, and traces her descent through eight generations born in this country. The father...
Page 562 - (Boston, 1852); " Kindergarten in Italy" in the " United States Bureau of Education Circular" (1872); a revised edition of Mary Mann's "Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class, and Moral Culture of Infancy" (New York, 1877);
Page 490 - Phlegethon." She has traveled much in the United States. She spent four months of 1890 in Oregon, Nevada, Utah and neighboring States, and furnished letters of travel for Oregon journals. She is one of the busiest women of the age and country in which she lives. MADISON, Mrs. Dorothy Payne, commonly called Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, fourth President of the United States, born in North Carolina, 2oth May, 1772, and died in Washington, D. C., izth July, 1849.
Page 563 - Her father, Joshua R. Gore, was a native of Hamden, Conn., and his parents and grandparents were Connecticut people. Her ancestors on the maternal side were among the first settlers of the old town of Milford. Her mother's name was Mary Smith. Lucy was the oldest of four children, and when she was about seven years of age, the family removed to New Haven, and the children were all educated in the public schools of that city. The girls were brought up to be self-reliant and helpful. From eighteen...
Page 480 - ... permanence of a seminary for young women as of a college for young men. The public was apathetic, and their appeals were fruitless. Failing in that effort, Miss Lyon left Ipswich, in 1834. after much and close study of the problem, with the distinct purpose of founding a permanent institution designed to train young women for the highest usefulness. Her aim was not the benefit of woman primarily, but the good of the world through woman. She laid her plan before a few gentlemen in Ipswich, invited...