mmittee_, Hon. M. B.
Castle, Sandwich: Mrs. E. J. Loomis, 2,939 Wabash avenue, Chicago;
Mrs. Clara L. Peters, Watseka; Mrs. L. R. Wardner, Anna; Mrs. Julia
Mills Dunn, Moline; Mrs. Helen E. Starrett, Lake Side Building,
Chicago; Capt. W. S. Harbert, Evanston; Rev. C. C. Harrah, Galva.

[373] From time to time we have had for president, Mrs. Eunice G.
Sayles, Mrs. Anna M. J. Dow, Mrs. Flora N. Candee, Mrs. Julia Mills
Dunn, Mrs. Nettie H. Wheelock; for secretaries, Mrs. C. W. Heald,
Mrs. Lucy Anderson, Mrs. Kate Anderson; among those who have been
active members of the society from its formation are, Harriet B. G.
Lester, Ida Peyton, L. F. M'Clennan, Catharine H. Calkins, Dr. Jane
H. Miller, Margaret Osborne, Harriet M. Gillette, Laoti Gates, Mary
F. Barnes, Mary Wright, M. M. Hubbard, Emma Jones, Mary A. Stewart,
Kate S. Holt, Mary A. Stephens, Abbie A. Gould, Mrs. M'Cord, Lydia
Wheelock, Mrs. E. P. Reynolds, J. A. Tallman, Ann Eliza Reator, Dr.
S. E. Bailey, Dr. E. A. Taylor, Lucy Ainsworth, Jerome B. Wheelock,
M. A. Young, Mary Knowles, M. E. Abbot, Lois Forward, Mrs. Young.

[374] Mrs. Clara Lyon Peters of Watseka, furnished the largest
petition ever sent from Illinois; W. B. Wright of Greenview, Mrs.
S. Eliza Lyon of Toulon, Mrs. Hannah J. Coffee of Orion, Mrs. Eva
Edwards of Plymouth, Mrs. C. E. Larned of Champaign, Mrs. Barbara
M. Prince of Bloomington, Mrs. F. B. Rowe of Freedom, Mrs. Jane
Barnett, Mrs. E. H. Blacfan, and Mrs. E. T. Lippincott of Orion,
Mrs. Julia Dunn of Moline, Mrs. Clara P. Bourland of Peoria,
Sybilla Leek Browne of Odell, Mrs. Jacob Martin, Cairo, Mary E.
Higbee, Kirkland Grove, Mary Thompson, LaSalle, Emily Z. Hall of
Savoy, Elizabeth J. Loomis of Chicago, have all done worthy work in
circulating petitions, both to congress and the State legislature.

[375] Mrs. Archibald is the daughter of Betsey Hawks, of Genesee
county, N. Y. I well remember the brave-hearted mother in the early
days of the movement, when in 1852 I made my first stammering
speech in the town-hall at Batavia. She arranged the meeting, and
entertained the speakers, and was indeed "the cause" in that
conservative village.--[S. B. A.

[376] When at Durand, near Davis, in 1877, Mrs. Davis and her
husband drove over, and at the close of my lecture, she gave me her
maiden name and said, "Do you not remember me? I sat by your side
and fairly pushed you up in that teachers' convention at Rochester,
in 1853, when you made that