views, for many years before the suffrage movement
assumed organized form. Mrs. Farnham's work rendered it possible
for those advocating woman suffrage years later, to do so with
comparative immunity from public ridicule. A society was
organized there in 1869, and Rev. D. G. Ingraham, E. B. Heacock,
H. M. Blackburn, Mrs. Georgiana Bruce Kirby, Mrs. Van
Valkenburgh, W. W. Broughton and wife, and Mrs. Jewell were
active members.

Prominent in Santa Clara county is Mrs. Sarah Wallis of Mayfield.
From the first agitation of the subject in 1868, when she entered
heartily into the work of getting subscribers to _The
Revolution_, she has been untiring in her efforts to advance the
interests of women. A lady of fine presence, great energy and
perseverance, Mrs. Wallis has been able to accomplish great good
for her sex. With a large separate estate, when the statutes
prevented her as a married woman from managing it, she determined
that the laws should be changed, and never ceased her efforts
until she succeeded in getting an amendment to the civil code
which enables married women to make contracts. The most
successful suffrage meetings ever held in Santa Clara county have
been at Mayfield. There Mrs. Wallis and her husband, Judge Joseph
S. Wallace, make their spacious and luxurious home the rendezvous
of lecturers and writers in the great work of woman's
emancipation.

Mrs. Sarah Knox Goodrich of San Jose, was among the first to see
the significance of the movement for woman's rights in 1868. Her
husband, William J. Knox, who shortly before his death had been
State senator, secured the passage of a bill, drafted by himself,
giving to married women the right to dispose of their own
separate property by will. Having been from her youth the
cherished companion of a man who believed in the equality of the
sexes, and being herself a thoughtful, clear-headed person, she
naturally took her place with those whose aim was the social and
political emancipation of woman, and has stood from the first a
tower of strength in this cause, giving largely of her wealth for
the propagation of its doctrines. Mrs. Knox Goodrich has for many
years paid her taxes, sometimes exorbitant, under protest, and at
important elections has also offered her vote, to have it