the editor
of the _Overland Monthly_, and the excellent prospects of the
magazine are largely the result of her own courage and the hard
work she has done.

The higher education in the State is being put upon a secure
basis. Hon. Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford,
have recently given a great part of their vast fortune for the
establishment of a university which bids fair to be the foremost
educational institution on the continent. In a letter specifying
his views in regard to the management of the university, Governor
Stanford says:

We deem it of the first importance that the education of
both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only
as nature dictates. The rights of one sex, political and
other, are the same as those of the other sex, and this
equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

There are many men and women throughout the State who have
faithfully advocated political equality for all citizens.[506]

Mendocino county has the honor of claiming as a citizen, one of
the earliest and ablest women in this reform, Clarina Howard
Nichols, who may be said to have sown the seeds of liberty in
three States in which she has resided, Vermont, Kansas and
California. Since 1870, her home has been with a son in Pomo,
where she finished her heroic life January 11, 1885. Though
always in rather straitened circumstances, Mrs. Nichols was
uniformly calm and cheerful, living in an atmosphere above the
petty annoyances of every-day life with the great souls of our
day and generation, keeping time in the march of progress. She
was too much absorbed in the vital questions of the hour even to
take note of her personal discomforts. Many of her able articles
published in magazines and the journals of the day, and letters
from year to year to our conventions, were written in such
conditions of weakness and suffering, as only a hero could have
overcome. She was a good writer, an effective speaker, and a
preeminently brave woman, gifted with that rarest of all virtues,
common sense.

The advocacy of woman's rights began in Santa Cruz county, with
the advent of that grand champion of her sex, the immortal Eliza
Farnham, who braved public scorn and contumely because of her
advanced