resident of the State
Society one year before the war and one since, and has always
done good, service to the cause of woman with both pen and
tongue.
SARAH E. UNDERHILL.
Mrs. Underhill was first known in Indiana as the editor and
proprietor of the _Ladies' Tribune_ at Indianapolis in 1857. She
associated with her Amanda Way as office editor, that she might
devote her entire time to lecturing. Though she remained in the
State but three years, she was widely and favorably known as an
earnest and effective speaker on Woman Suffrage and Temperance.
When the war began, she was among the first to go to the sick and
wounded soldiers. A brief account of her work in the hospitals
will be found in the "Women of the War."
JANE MORROW.
Miss Morrow was a pioneer in our movement; attended the Second
Convention in 1852. She was not a speaker, but a practical
business woman, owning and successfully carrying on a dry-goods
store in Richmond for many years. By precept and example, she
taught the doctrine of woman's independence and self-reliance.
She was a kind, genial, sunny-hearted woman, who made all about
her bright and happy, though she was what the world calls an "old
maid." In 1867, she died suddenly, without a moment's warning or
parting word; but "Aunt Jane," as she was familiarly called, will
long be remembered in her native town.
MARY B. BIRDSALL
was secretary of the Convention of 1852, and held that position
for three years. She purchased _The Lily_, a Woman's Rights
paper, of Amelia Bloomer, in 1855, and published it for three
years. Her home is in Richmond.
MARY ROBINSON OWEN.
Mrs. Owen, wife of Robert Dale Owen, was not known to the public
until after the war. It is said, however, that she suggested and
helped prepare the amendments to the laws with reference to
woman's property rights, that her husband carried through our
Legislature. She had a strong, clear intellect, and her lectures
were more argumentative and pointed than rhetorical and flinched.
She sympathized with and aided her husband in all his reformatory
movements, and was his equal in mental power. She was one of the
vice-presidents of our Indiana St
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