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Women Lawyers in the United States. ried, and has not practised as yet because she has been travelling most of the time; but to my question whether she intends to practise, she replies, " Yes; my husband is a lawyer, and the profession is to be our future life." Their home is in the beautiful city of Seattle, in Washington. Dean Wayland, of Yale Law School, sends me a catalogue of the University, and writes

that " the marked paragraph on page 25 is intended to prevent a repeti tion of the Jordan in cident." The para graph referred to ap pears on the page devoted to depart ments of instruction, and reads as fol lows : —

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as her name is not found on the rolls as a graduate. She was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Missouri in March, 1870; and I learn from an article on "Ad mission of Women to the Bar," by Miss Ellen A. Martin, published in the initial number of the " Chicago Law Times," that Miss Barkaloo was the first woman in this country to try a case in court. She died of typhoid fever in September, 1870. In 1869, also, Miss Phebe W. Couzins, of St. Louis, entered this law school, graduated in May, 1871, and was immediately admitted to the bar, but I un derstand that she has never practised. For some time, however, she acted as deputy "It is to be under under her father, who stood that the courses was United States of instruction above de Marshal, and ai his scribed are open to per sons of the male sex death she was ap only, except where both pointed to fill the un sexes are specifically in expired term as mar cluded." shal. She has also been well known as a The Southern law public speaker and school to which I have lecturer. Another referred, as an excep woman, Miss A. E. tion to the rule MYRA BRADWELL. P. McAlister of St. against the admission Louis, attended the of women as students, is located as much West as South, and it is school in 1886-1 887. But though Miss Couzins graduated in undoubtedly owing to the Western spirit of liberality that women have ever been 1871, there were two women ahead of her, — recognized at the bar in this country at all. one by a year, the other by a couple of months. The palm of seniority in this new The Law Department of Washington Uni versity in St. Louis, Mo., was always open departure of conferring a degree for a regu to both sexes without distinction. The lar course of legal study upon a woman first woman to enter as a student was must be awarded to the Union Law Col Miss Lemma Barkaloo, of Brooklyn, N. Y., lege of Chicago, and Chicago is altogether who had been refused admission to the the banner city in the number of its women Law School of Columbia. She entered lawyers as well. Dean Henry Booth of this the St. Louis School in the fall of 1869, college sends me the names of women grad but probably did not take a full course, uates as ten in number, and adds that some