xclude women. This proves that Dr.
Brown's devotion to the doctrine of equal rights is of that rare
degree which will bear the crucial test of official and pecuniary
sacrifice. He has been an active member of the State and city
suffrage associations from the beginning.

The name of Mary E. Haggart first appears as a member of the
State Association at the convention held in Indianapolis in 1869.
In 1870, Mr. Hadley made a speech in the State Senate against
woman suffrage, to which Mrs. Haggart wrote an able reply which
was published and widely commented on by the press of the State.
Her next notable effort was in a discussion through several
numbers of the _Ladies' Own Magazine_, published by Mrs. Cora
Bland, where she completely refuted the objections urged by her
opponent, a literary gentleman of some note. Mrs. Haggart has
addressed the legislatures of her own State, of Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Kentucky, as well as the Judiciary Committee of
the House of Representatives at the hearing granted the National
Association. She seldom speaks without the most careful
preparation, and never without manifesting abilities of the
highest order. Perhaps no woman in the State, as a speaker, has
won higher encomiums from the press or has better deserved them.

The first active step taken in suffrage by Mrs. Florence M.
Adkinson (then Miss Burlingame) was to call a convention in
Lawrenceburg. In 1871, 1872, she gave several lectures on
suffrage and temperance in Ohio, and held a series of meetings in
southeastern Indiana. Though an acceptable speaker, it is as a
writer that Mrs. Adkinson is best known; she is an officer in
both the State and the city organizations, and in every capacity
serves the cause with rare fidelity.

The name of Lizzie Boynton of Crawfordsville frequently occurs in
suffrage reports between 1865 and 1870. She was a member of the
State Association and a frequent speaker at its conventions.
Besides working in that body, she assisted in the organization of
the local society at Crawfordsville, wrote poems, stories,
essays, and won high rank in the State in literature and reform.
From mature womanhood her record as Mrs. Harbert belongs to
Illinois rather than Indiana.

The first time I met Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace she was c