, and others, are
leading women, and were once residents here, and members of the
Woman's Union. Among those actively interested here now, I shall
only mention a few, Mrs. Nancy Hershberger, Mary Curry, Elvira
Broedbeck, Lucy A. Christian, Ella O. Fallon, Mary Stirrell, and
many others.

[394] Among those present were the following ladies and gentlemen:
Dr. and Mrs. Walker, Phoebe Couzins, esq., Hon. and Mrs. John B.
Henderson, Gov. and Mrs. E. O. Stanard, Mr. and Mrs. Chester H.
Krum, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Minor, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Patrick, Major
and Mrs. J. E. D. Couzins, Major and Mrs. J. R. Meeker, Major and
Mrs. W. S. Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Lippmann, Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Noa,
Miss Noa, Miss A. L. Forbes, Judge Krum, Judge Reber, Judge Todd,
Geo. M. Stuart (dean), Prof. Riley, State Entomologist; Prof.
Hager, State Geologist; J. R. Stuart, artist, and others.

CHAPTER XLV.

IOWA.

Beautiful Scenery--Liberal in Politics and Reforms--Legislation
for Women--No Right yet to Joint Earnings--Early
Agitation--Frances Dana Gage, 1854--Mrs. Bloomer Before the
Territorial Legislature, 1856--Mrs. Martha H. Brinkerhoff--Mrs.
Annie Savery, 1868--County Associations Formed in 1869--State
Society Organized at Mt. Pleasant, 1870, Henry O'Connor,
President--Mrs. Cutler Answers Judge Palmer--First Annual
Meeting, Des Moines--Letter from Bishop Simpson--The State
Register Complimentary--Mass-Meeting at the Capitol--Mrs. Savery
and Mrs. Harbert--Legislative Action--Methodist and Universalist
Churches Indorse Woman Suffrage--Republican Plank, 1874--Governor
Carpenter's Message, 1876--Annual Meeting, 1882, Many Clergymen
Present--Five Hundred Editors Interviewed--Miss Hindman and Mrs.
Campbell--Mrs. Callanan Interviews Governor Sherman,
1884--Lawyers--Governor Kirkwood Appoints Women to Office--County
Superintendents--Elizabeth S. Cook--Journalism--Literature--
Medicine--Ministry--Inventions--President of a National Bank--
The Heroic Kate Shelly--Temperance--Improvement in the Laws.

The euphonious Indian name, Iowa, signifying "the beautiful land,"
is peculiarly appropriate to those gently undulating prairies,
decorated in the season of flowers with a brilliant garniture of
honey-suckles, jassamines, wild roses and violets, watered with a
chain of picturesque lakes and rivers, chasing each other into the
bosom of the boundless Mississippi.