onal law. We cannot too highly
appreciate the bravery and persistence of the few women who have
furnished these test cases and compelled the highest courts to
record their decisions.

FOOTNOTES:

[496] Having spent several days with Mrs. Schenck, in her cozy,
artistic home surrounded with a hedge of brilliant geraniums, I can
readily testify to the many virtues and attractions her large
circle of friends has always accorded her. From all I had heard I
was prepared to find Mrs. Schenck a woman of remarkable cultivation
and research, and I was not disappointed. Refined, honorable in her
feeling, clear in her judgments of men and measures, just and
upright In all her words and actions, she was indeed the fitting
leader for the uprising of women on the Pacific Slope. The
preparation of this chapter occupied the last year of her life, her
one wish to live was to complete the task, but when her failing
powers made that impossible she charged her friend Mrs. Manning,
with whom she resided, to take up the work that had fallen from her
hands and make a fair record of all that had been done and said, by
her noble coaedjutors, who had labored so faithfully to inaugurate
the greatest reform of the century.--[E. C. S.

[497] Among them are Laura Fowler, Kate Kennedy, Mary N. Wadleigh,
Trinity County; Anna L. Spencer, Alpine; Mrs. D. M. Coleman,
Shasta; Miss A. L. Irish, Mono; Los Angeles City Board of Education
has three women out of its five members, to-wit., Mrs. C. B. Jones
(chairman), Mrs. M. A. Hodgkins (secretary), Mrs. M. Graham.
Oakland Board, Miss A. Aldrich; Sacramento, Charlotte Slater; San
Jose, Mrs. B. L. Hollenbeck. Sister Mary Frances of the order of
"Sisters of Charity" came to California in 1849, and devoted her
great energies, and rare accomplishments, to the cause of education
up to the time of her demise in April, 1881. Annie Haven, Miss
Prince, Miss Austin, and a host of others have been successful in
the same field of labor, including Miss Merweidel, founder of the
kindergarten system in San Francisco.

[498] Among them were Mrs. Sarah Wallis of Mayfield, Mrs. E. T.
Schenck, Mrs. L. M. Clarke, Emily Pitts (afterwards Mrs. Stevens of
San Francisco).

[499] _President_, Elizabeth T. Schenck; _Vice-President_,
Emily Pitts Stevens; _Recording Secretary_, Mrs. Hutchinson;
_Corresponding Secretary_, Mrs. Celia Curtis; _Treasurer_, Mrs. S.
J. Corbett.

[500] The following persons were presen