ted to that responsible position in any State of this Union.
In 1885 Louisa B. Stephens was made president of the First
National Bank of Marion, Iowa; and a national bank in Newbery,
South Carolina, honored itself by placing a woman at the head of
its official board.

The _North Carolinian_ of January, 1870, contained an able
editorial endorsing woman suffrage, closing with:

For one we say, tear down the barriers, give woman an
opportunity to show her wisdom and virtue; place the ballot
in her hands that she may protect herself and reform men,
and ere a quarter of a century has elapsed many of the
foulest blots upon the civilization of this age will have
passed away.

From an interesting article in the _Boston Advertiser_, May 22,
1875, by Rev. James Freeman Clark, concerning Dr. Susan Dimock, one
of North Carolina's promising daughters, whose career was ended in
the wreck of the Schiller near the Scilly islands, we make a few
extracts:

One of our eminent surgeons, Dr. Samuel Cabot, said to me
yesterday:

"This community will never know what a loss it has had in
Dr. Dimock. It was not merely her skill, though that was
remarkable, considering her youth and limited experience,
but also her nerve, that qualified her to become a great
surgeon. I have seldom known one at once so determined and
so self-possessed. Skill is a quality much more easily found
than this self-control that nothing can flurry. She had that
in an eminent degree; and, had she lived, she would have
been sure to stand, in time, among those at the head of her
profession. The usual weapons of ridicule would have been
impotent against a woman who had reached that supreme
position which Susan Dimock would certainly have attained."

During the war of the rebellion, Miss Dimock sought admission
into the medical school of Harvard University, preferring, if
possible, to take a degree in an American college. Twice she
applied, and was twice refused. Hearing that the University of
Zurich was open to women, she went there, and was received with a
hospitality which the institutions of her own country did not
offer. She pursued her medical studies there, and graduated with
honor. A number of the "Revue