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[162] _President_, Rev. N. J. Burton, Hartford. _Vice-presidents_,
Brigadier-general B. S. Roberts, U. S. A., New Haven; Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Hartford; Rev. Dr. Joseph Cummings, Middletown; Rev.
William L. Gage, Hartford; Rev. Olympia Brown, Bridgeport.
_Secretary_, Miss Frances Ellen Burr. _Executive Committee_, Mrs.
Isabella B. Hooker, Mrs. Lucy Elmes, Derby; Mrs. J. G. Parsons and
Miss Emily Manning, M. D., Hartford. _Treasurer_, John Hooker.

[163] On her departure for St. Petersburg, where her husband was
minister plenipotentiary, Mrs. Jewell left a check of $200 for the
State society. She was an honored officer of the National Suffrage
Association until the time of her death, in 1883.

[164] Mrs. Hooker writes us that the act passed upon Governor
Hubbard's recommendation was prepared at his request by Mr. Hooker,
and was essentially the same that had been unsuccessfully urged by
him upon the legislature eight years before. She then goes on to
say: "What part our society had in our bringing about so beneficent
a change in legislation, cannot be better set forth than in two
private letters from Samuel Bowles of the _Springfield Republican_,
and Governor Hubbard. While these gentlemen were friends of Mr.
Hooker and myself, yet, as politically opposed to each other, their
united testimony is exceedingly valuable, and since they have both
passed on to a world of more perfect adjustments, I feel that
nothing would give them greater satisfaction than to be put upon
record here as among the earliest defenders of the rights of women.

"SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 28, 1877.

"MY DEAR MRS. HOOKER:--I return your letters and paper as you
desired. It is an interesting story, and a most gratifying
movement forward. I am more happy over the bill passed, than I am
sorry over the bill that failed. We shall move fast enough. The
first great step is this successful measure in Connecticut--the
establishment in practice of the principle of equal, mutual,
legal rights, and equal, mutual, legal responsibilities, for
which I have been preaching and praying these twenty years. We
owe the success this year, _first_ to the right of the matter;
_second_, to the agitation of the whole question which has
disseminated the perception of that right; _third_, to you and
your husband in particular; and _fourth_, to the fact that you
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