e her home in Milwaukee, where she taught a
successful school for young ladies. Madame Anneke, a widow
with one son and two daughters, lived quietly the closing
years of her life, and in death found the peace and rest she
had never known in her busy life on earth.

Prof. G. S. Albee, president of the State Normal School at
Oshkosh, is a firm friend and outspoken advocate of equal right
of the sexes to all the privileges of education, not excepting
the education of the ballot-box. John Bascom, president of the
Wisconsin University, has been an advocate of suffrage for women
many years. While connected with Williams College he worked to
secure the admission of women thereto. As one of a committee of
five to whom the matter was referred, he, together with David
Dudley Field, presented a minority report favoring their
admission. Since he has been at the head of our State University
he has been in perfect sympathy with its liberal coeducational
policy, and has insured to the young women equal advantages in
every respect with the young men. To his wise management may be
attributed the success of higher coeducation in Wisconsin. He
gave an able and scholarly address before our convention at
Madison in '82, and is always found ready to speak for woman
suffrage, both in public and private. His influence has done much
for the advancement of the cause in our State. A cordial letter
was received from Mrs. Bascom at the last Washington convention,
which was listened to with interest and prized by the officers of
the National Association:

MADISON, Wis., January 16, 1885.

MY DEAR MISS ANTHONY: I am sorry I cannot be present and
meet the many wise and great women who will respond to your
call for the Seventeenth Annual Convention.

What a glorious record these words reveal of unwavering
faith in the right, and heroic persistency in its pursuit on
one side, and what blindness of prejudice and selfishness of
power on the other. The struggle has indeed been a long one,
and yet no other moral movement involving so many and so
great social changes ever made more rapid progress. You and
your fellow-laborers are truly to be congratulated on the
full