ct of Columbia with Dr. Caroline B.
Winslow, whose death preceded hers by about one year. She was one
of the most distinguished army nurses and the friend and faithful
attendant of President Garfield. For many years she was the
president of the District Woman Suffrage Association. Among the
earlier woman physicians who espoused the cause were Dr. Harriot
K. Hunt, Dr. Mary B. Jackson, Dr. Ann Preston, one of the
founders and physicians of the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia,
and Dr. Clemence S. Lozier, a founder and physician of the New
York Medical College for Women.
Sarah Helen Whitman was the first literary woman of reputation
who gave her name to the movement, which later counted among its
warmest friends Lydia Maria Child, Alice and Phoebe Cary and Mary
Clemmer.
Amalia B. Post of Cheyenne, to whom the enfranchisement of the
women of Wyoming was largely due, was ready, as she often said,
at the first tap of the drum at Seneca Falls. She occupied the
place of honor by the side of the Governor on that proud day when
the admission of Wyoming as a State was celebrated.
Josephine S. Griffing, organizer of the Freedman's Bureau; Amelia
Bloomer, editor of the _Lily_, the first temperance and woman's
rights paper; Mary Grew, for twenty-three years president of the
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association; Myra Bradwell, the first
woman to enter the ranks of legal journalism; Virginia L. Minor,
the dove with the eagle's heart, who took to the U. S. Supreme
Court her suit against the Missouri officials for refusing her
vote--all these, and many more who might be added, form the noble
galaxy who brought to the cause of woman's liberty rare personal
beauty, social gifts, intellectual culture, and the
all-compelling eloquence of earnestness and sincerity.
Albert O. Willcox of New York, whose eighty-seven years were
filled with valuable work for reforms, was drawn to the
conviction that women should have a share in the Government by a
sermon preached by Lucretia Mott in 1831, and from that time
declared himself publicly for the movement and was its life-long
supporter.
James G. Clark, the sweet-souled troubadour of reform, sang for
woman's freedom in suffrage conventions all over the land.
Joseph N. Dolph was always to be counted o
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