slature to give a married woman the
right to hold real estate in her own name. This was in 1836, and
she continued the work of securing signatures until 1848, when
the bill was passed. She was a matchless orator and lectured on
woman suffrage for nearly fifty years.

Lucy Stone's voice pleaded the wide continent over for justice
for her sex. Her life-long devotion to the woman suffrage cause
was idealized by the companionship and assistance of her husband,
Henry B. Blackwell, the one man in this nation who under any and
all circumstances has made woman's cause his chief consideration.
Her first lecture on woman's rights was given in 1847, the year
of her graduation at Oberlin College, and her life work was
epitomized in her dying words, "Make the world better."

Martha C. Wright, Jane Hunt and Mary Ann McClintock were three of
those noble women who issued the call for the Seneca Falls
Convention, and were ever ready for service.

Paulina Wright Davis, who called the first National Convention in
1850 and presided over its twentieth celebration in 1870, was one
of the moving spirits of the work for more than twenty-five
years. Assisted by Caroline H. Dall, she edited the _Una_,
founded in 1853, the first distinctively woman suffrage paper.

Frances Dana Gage, better known by her pen-name, "Aunt Fanny,"
was farmer, editor, lecturer and worker in the Sanitary
Commission. Of her eight children six were stalwart sons, and she
used to boast that she was the mother of thirty-six feet of boys.
She was a pillar of strength to the movement in early days.

Clarina Howard Nichols is associated with the seed-sowing in
Vermont, in Wisconsin and especially in Kansas, where her labors
with the first constitutional convention, in 1859, engrafted in
organic law many rights for women which were obtained elsewhere,
if at all, only by slow and difficult legislative changes. Susan
E. Wattles led the Kansas campaign of 1859 with Mrs. Nichols.

Emily Robinson of Salem, Ohio, was one of the chief movers in
the second Woman's Rights Convention, and this was held in her
own town in 1850. From that time until the present year she has
been unfaltering in her devotion.

Dr. Susan A. Edson, who was graduated in medicine in 1854, was a
fellow-pioneer in the Distri