et at
Brooklyn, N.Y., asking that body to sanction and provide for the
ordination of women as ministers of the Methodist Church.

[380] On the platform were Julia Ward Howe, Massachusetts; Lillie
Peckham, Wisconsin; Miriam M. Cole, Ohio; Mary A. Livermore, Hon.
Sharon Tyndale, Judge Waite and Rev. Mr. Harrison, Illinois; Susan
B. Anthony, New York. The officers of the Woman Suffrage
Association of Missouri: _President_, Mrs. Francis Minor:
_Vice-President_, Mrs. Beverly Allen: _Secretary_, Mrs. William T.
Hazard: _Treasurer_, Mrs. George B. Hall; Miss Mary Beady, Miss
Phoebe Couzins, Mrs. E. Tittman, Mrs. Alfred Clapp, Miss A. L.
Forbes, Isaac H. Sturgeon, Mrs. J. C. Orrick, Mrs. R. J. Lackland,
Francis Minor, and many others.

[381] For speech and resolutions, see Vol. II., page 408.

[382] Dissension and division were the effect in every State,
except where the associations wisely remained independent and all
continued to work together, and the forces otherwise expended in
rivalry were directed against the common enemy.

[383] For this speech of B. Gratz Brown see Vol. II., page 136.

[384] For full account of Miss Barkaloo see New York chapter, page
404.

[385] Besides those already named, there are many other women
worthy of mention--Mrs. Hannah Stagg, Mrs. George H. Rha, Mrs. S.
F. Gruff, Miss N. M. Lavelle, Mrs. Helen E. Starrett, Mrs. A. E.
Dickinson, Mrs. E. R. Case, Miss S. Sharman, Mrs. Mary S. Phelps,
Miss Mary E. Beedy, Mrs. Fanny O'Haly, Mrs. J. C. Orrick, Miss
Henrietta Moore, Mrs. Stephen Ridgeley, Mrs. M. E. Bedford, Mrs. M.
Jackson; and among our German friends are Mrs. Rosa Tittman, Mrs.
Dr. Fiala, Mrs. Lena Hildebrand, Mrs. G. G. Fenkelnberg, Mrs.
Rombauer, Miss Lidergerber.

[386] For a full report of Mrs. Minor's trial, see History of Woman
Suffrage, Vol. II., page 715.

[387] The committee were: J. B. Merwin, Virginia L. Minor, John
Snyder, Lydia F. Dickinson, Maria E. F. Jackson.

[388] The officers were: _President_, Mrs. Virginia L. Minor;
_Vice-Presidents_, Mrs. Eliza J. Patrick, Mrs. Caroline J. Todd,
Miss Phoebe W. Couzins; _Executive Committee_, Mrs. E. P. Johnson,
Mrs. W. W. Polk; _Secretary_, Miss Eliza B. Buckley; _Treasurer_,
Miss Maggie Baumgartner.

[389] They were, Mrs. S. L. Goslin, Mis. A. E. Goslin, Mrs. M. M.
Soper, Annie E. Batcheller, Mary Curry, Annie R. Irvine.

[390] _President_, Emma G. Dobyns; _Vice-President_, Kate Evans
Thatcher; _Secretary_, Matilda C. Sh