eir proceedings. Among
these ladies were Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Miss Arathusia Forbes,
Mrs. Devereux Blake and Miss Susan King of New York, a wealthy
tea-merchant and extensive traveler, and myself. That day the Rev.
Dr. Craven was the principal speaker. The whole tenor of his
remarks were so insulting to women that Miss King proposed to send
an artist the following Sunday to photograph the women possessing
so little self-respect as to sit under his ministrations. He
punctuated his four-hours' vulgar diatribe by a series of
resounding whacks with the Bible on the table before him.--[M. J.
G.

[283] Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Miss Ellen Miles and Mrs. Jackson of
Jersey City.

[284] Mrs. Theresa Walling Seagrove of Keyport, Rev. Phebe A.
Hanaford of Jersey City and Henry B. Blackwell of Boston were the
speakers.

CHAPTER XL.

OHIO.

The First Soldiers' Aid Society--Mrs. Mendenhall--Cincinnati
Equal Rights Association, 1868--Homeopathic Medical College and
Hospital--Hon. J. M. Ashley--State Society, 1869--Murat
Halstead's Letter--Dayton Convention, 1870--Women Protest against
Enfranchisement--Sarah Knowles Bolton--Statistics on
Coeducation--Thomas Wentworth Higginson--Woman's Crusade,
1874--Miriam M. Cole--Ladies' Health Association--Professor
Curtis--Hospital for Women and Children, 1879--Letter from J. D.
Buck, M. D.--March, 1881, Degrees Conferred on Women--Toledo
Association, 1869--Sarah Langdon Williams--_The Sunday
Journal_--_The Ballot-Box_--Constitutional Convention--Judge
Waite--Amendment Making Women Eligible to Office--Mr. Voris,
Chairman Special Committee on Woman Suffrage--State Convention,
1873--Rev. Robert McCune--Centennial Celebration--Women Decline
to Take Part--Correspondence--Newbury Association--Women Voting,
1871--Sophia Ober Allen--Annual Meeting, Painesville, 1885--State
Society, Mrs. Frances M. Casement, President--Adelbert College.

Early in the year 1862, Cincinnati became a hospital for the army
operations under General Grant and was soon filled with wounded
heroes from Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing, and the women
here, as in all other cities, were absorbed in hospital and
sanitary work. To the women of Cleveland is justly due the honor of
organizing the first soldiers' aid society, a meeting being called
for this purpose five days after the fall of Fort Sumter. Through
the influence of Mr