Calhoun, Mrs. M. L. S. Duncan, Mrs. S. S. Allen, Dr. and Mrs. Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll, Angie Eager, Mary Kenny, George and Martha Parry and Mr, and Mrs, William Stevens, were interested in the earlier agitation of the question; Mrs. Sanford, Mrs. A. M. Stoddard and Mrs, M. Johnson are among the later converts, Merced county the home of Rowena Granice Steele, the author, and publisher of the San Joaquin Valley Argus, has furnished the State with a worthy and capable advocate of woman suffrage, both as a speaker and writer. In her cozy, rose-embowered cottage at Merced, she generously entertains her numerous guests, who always seek out this distinguished and warm-hearted friend of woman, Stanislaus county is the present home of Jennie Phelps Purvis, a talented and brilliant woman, well known in literary circles in an early day and for some years a prominent officer and member of the State society. At Modesto are Mrs. Lapham and daughter Amel, and Mr, and Mrs. Brown, good friends to suffrage. In San Diego are Mrs. F. P. Kingsbury, Mrs. Tallant. In Santa Cruz county, Georgiana Bruce Kirby, Mrs. H. M. Blackburn, Mrs. M. E. Heacock, Rev. D. G. Ingraham, Ellen Van Valkenburg. In Los Angeles county, Mrs. Eliza J. Hall, M.D. Ingo county, J. A. Jennings. Santa Clara county, J. J. Owen, the able editor of the San José Mercury; Laura J. Watkins, Hon, O. H. Smith and wife, Mrs. G. B. McKee, Mrs. McFarland, Mrs. Herman, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. J. J. Crawford, Mrs. R. B. Hall, Mrs, Knox, Mrs. Wallis, Mrs. C. M. Putney, Mrs. Damon, Miss Walsh, and many others, have all helped the good cause in San José; while Louisa Smith of Santa Clara, a lady of advancing years, was ever a faithful friend of the cause, as was also Miss Emma S. Sleeper of Mountain View, formerly of Mt. Morris, N. Y. In Nevada county, originally the home of Senator A. A. Sargent, the question of woman suffrage was agitated at an early day. The most active friends were: Ellen Clark Sargent, Emily Rolfe, Mrs, Leavett, Mrs. E. P. Keeney, Mrs. E. Loyed, Elmira Eddy, Mr. and Mrs, William Stevens, Mrs Hanson, Judge Palmer and Mrs, Cynthia Palmer.
CHAPTER LVI.
great britain.
a cronological table of the successive steps of progress towards freedom for women.
- 1848. Queen's College, Harley street, London, founded for girls.
- 1849. Bedford College, London, founded; incorporated, 1869.
- 1850. North London Collegiate School for girls opened by Miss Buss, April 4.
- 1854. Cheltenham Ladies' College commenced. . . .Miss Nightingale goes to Sentari; from hence may be dated the beginning of training schools for nurses, metropolitan associations for nursing the poor, etc., etc.
- 1856. Female Artists' Society founded.
- 1857. Divorce and Matrimonial Causes act passed, by which divorce and judicial separation became attainable in course of law. . . .Ladies' Sanitary Association, founded October 1.
- 1858. Englishwoman's Journal started (now Englishwoman's Review) by Bessie R. Parkes and Mdme. Bodichon, March 2. . . .First swimming bath for ladies, opened in Marylebone, July 14.
- 1859. Society for the Employment of Women established in London, June 22.
- 1860. Law-copying Office for women opened February 15. . . .Victoria Printing Press, established March 26. . . .Institution for the Employment of Needle-women commenced. . . .First admission of women students to the Royal Academy (Miss Herford).
- 1861. Lectures on Physiology to ladies at University College, April.
