Swain, who was the first woman to cast her ballot in
that city. We also met Judges Howe and Kingman and Governor
Campbell, and heard from them of the wonderful changes wrought in
the court-room and at the polls by the presence of enfranchised
women. We spoke in the very court-room in which women had sat as
jurors and felt an added inspiration from that fact.--[S. B. A.

[495] The following is the list of the first grand jury at Laramie
City, composed of nine men and six women, as impanneled and sworn:
C. H. Bussard, foreman; Mrs. Jane E. Hilton, T. W. DeKay, Jeremiah
Boies, Mrs. H. C. Swain. Joseph DeMars, M. N. Merrill, Mrs. M. A.
Pierce, Mrs. C. Blake, Richard Turpin, G. W. Cardwell, Mrs. S. L.
Larimer, N. C. Worth, Mrs. Jane Mackle, W. H. Mitchell.

CHAPTER LIII.

CALIFORNIA.

Liberal Provisions in the Constitution--Elizabeth T.
Schenck--Eliza W. Farnham--Mrs. Mills' Seminary, now a State
Institution--Jeannie Carr, State Superintendent of Schools--First
Awakening--_The Revolution_--Anna Dickinson--Mrs. Gordon
Addresses the Legislature, 1868--Mrs. Pitts Stevens Edits _The
Pioneer_--First Suffrage Society on the Pacific Coast,
1869--State Convention, January 26, 1870, Mrs. Wallis,
President--State Association Formed, Mrs. Haskell of Petaluma,
President--Mrs. Gordon Nominated for Senator--In 1871, Mrs.
Stanton and Miss Anthony Visit California--Hon. A. A. Sargent
Speaks in Favor of Suffrage for Woman--Ellen Clarke Sargent
Active in the Movement--Legislation Making Women Eligible to Hold
School Offices, 1873--July 10, 1873, State Society Incorporated,
Sarah Wallis, President--Mrs. Clara Foltz--A Bill Giving Women
the Right to Practice Law--The Bill Passed and Signed by the
Governor--Contest Over Admitting Women into the Law Department of
the University--Supreme Court Decision Favorable--Hon. A. A.
Sargent on the Constitution and Laws--Journalists and
Printers--Silk Culture--Legislative Appropriation--Mrs. Knox
Goodrich Celebrates July 4, 1876--Imposing Demonstration--Ladies
in the Procession.

The central figure in the seal of California is the presiding
goddess of that State, her spear in one hand, the other resting on
her shield, the cabalistic word "Eureka" over her head and a bear
crouching quietly at her feet. She seems to be calmly contemplating
the magnificent harbor within the Golden Gate. The