uperior young people, whose influence will, no
doubt, be felt in every progressive movement in that State. Mrs.
Gage's children sympathize with their mother in her broad, liberal
views on all questions.--[E. C. S.

CHAPTER XLIX.

NEBRASKA.

Clara Bewick Colby--Nebraska Came into the Possession of the
United States, 1803--The Home of the Dakotas--Organized as a
Territory, 1854--Territorial Legislature--Mrs. Amelia Bloomer
Addresses the House--Gen. Wm. Larimer, 1856--A Bill to Confer
Suffrage on Woman--Passed the House--Lost in the
Senate--Constitution Harmonized with the Fourteenth
Amendment--Admitted as a State March 1, 1867--Mrs. Stanton, Miss
Anthony Lecture in the State, 1867--Mrs. Tracy Cutler, 1870--Mrs.
Esther L. Warner's Letter--Constitutional Convention, 1871--Woman
Suffrage Amendment Submitted--Lost by 12,676 against, 3,502
for--Prolonged Discussion--Constitutional Convention,
1875--Grasshoppers Devastate the Country--_Inter-Ocean_, Mrs.
Harbert--Omaha _Republican_, 1876--Woman's Column Edited by Mrs.
Harriet S. Brooks--"Woman's Kingdom"--State Society formed,
January 19, 1881, Mrs. Brooks President--Mrs. Dinsmoore, Mrs.
Colby, Mrs. Brooks, before the Legislature--Amendment again
Submitted--Active Canvass of the State, 1882--First Convention of
the State Association--Charles F. Manderson--Unreliable
Petitions--An Unfair Count of Votes for Woman Suffrage--Amendment
Defeated--Conventions in Omaha--Notable Women in the
State--Conventions--_Woman's Tribune_ Established in 1883.

Clara Bewick Colby, the historian for Nebraska, is of English
parentage, and came to Wisconsin when eight years of age. In her
country home, as one of a large family, she had but scant
opportunities for attending the district school, but her father
encouraged and assisted his children to study in the winter
evenings, and in this way she fitted herself to teach in country
schools. After a few terms she entered, the State University at
Madison, and while there made a constant effort to secure equal
privileges and opportunities for the students of her sex. She was
graduated with honors in 1869, and at once became a teacher of
history and Latin in the institution. She was married to Leonard W.
Colby, a graduate of the same university, and moved to Beatrice,
Nebraska, in 1872. Amidst the hardships of pioneer life in a new
count