Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884

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index Abolitionists, 105, 133, 149–50 Akron Woman’s Rights Convention of 1851, 143, 144–45 Albatross, 79, 105, 193 Aldrich, Cyrus, 125 Allegheny Car and Transportation Company, 184 Allegheny Cemetery, 187 Allen, Edward, 110 Allen, Ernest, 174–75, 176, 181, 183, 185, 186, 195 Allen, Mary Henrietta Swisshelm, 76, 109, 166–76, 181–86, 187, 188, 224 (n. 82); born, 4, 51–52, 202; as pianist, 6, 171, 185; accompanies her mother to Minnesota, 53, 111; deeded Indiana County land, 74, 219 (n. 50); characteristics of, 167, 195; discussed in Half a Century, 202–4 Allen, Nancy, 174–75 Allgor, Catherine, 182 American Frugal Housewife, 164–65 Andrew, John A., 158 Anthony, Susan B., 29, 51 Apprenticeship of printers, 91–92 Armour, Philip, 176 Astell, Mary, 40 Atlanta Constitution, 191 Bailey, Gamaliel, 228 (n. 61) Baker, George E., 157 Bankruptcy, 45 Basch, Norma, 51 Baxter, Jedediah H., 97, 98, 99, 100 Beecher, Catharine, 164–65 Beulah Presbyterian Church, 16–17 Big Spring Presbyterian Church, 38 Birney, James G., 105 Black, John, 16–17, 20, 38 ‘‘Black Gagites,’’ 22 Bloomer, Amelia, 147–48 Bloomers, 29–30, 100–101, 141–42 Boston Commonwealth, 141, 191 Boston Daily Journal, 109 Braddock’s Field, Pa., 19 Brott, George, 111–12 Browne, Albert G., 158 Bryant, William Cullen, 158 Buchanan, James, 114, 115–16 Butler, Pa., 46, 135 Calhoun, Thomas, 139–40, 227 (n. 53) Calling, 181–82 Calvinists, 10, 23. See also Covenanters Cameron, Simon, 94 Campbell Military Hospital, 80, 97, 98, 99, 100 Cannon, Agnes, 15 Cannon, Elizabeth. See Mitchell, Elizabeth Cannon Cannon, Jane Grey. See Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon Cannon, Mary, 18 Cannon, Mary Scott, 1, 9; opposes Jane’s marriage, 2, 38, 44; and property , 2, 64–66, 212 (n. 34); widowed, 2, 18; marries, 15; sessioned by Church, 16; dies, 46 250 index Cannon, Thomas, Jr., 1, 9; dies, 2, 18, 212 (n. 34); born and apprenticed, 15; moves family to Wilkinsburg, 16; moves family to Pittsburgh, 17; indebtedness of, 63–64 Cannon, Thomas, Sr., 15 Cannon, William, 15, 17, 18, 20 Capital punishment, 135 Catholics, 13, 25–29, 30–31, 123, 203 Celibacy, 57 Chancellorsville, battle of, 98 Chancery courts. See Equity courts Channing, William Ellery, 158 Channing, William Henry, 158 Charles I (king of England), 11, 12 Charles II (king of England), 12 Chase, Salmon P., 94 Chicago, Ill., 176–77 Chicago Tribune, 148 Child, Lydia Maria, 130, 149, 164–65 Chippewa. See Ojibwa Churchill, Carline Maria Nichols, 196 Clay, Cassius M., 124 Clerks, government, 94–97 Colman, Lucy N., 156–58 Compromise of 1850, 139 Courtship, 38, 41–42 Covenanter Presbyterianism, 11, 16, 23, 31–32, 38–39 Covenanters, 10, 11–15, 18, 19, 23, 103, 104, 137, 188 Coverture, 64–65 Cox, Richard S., 155, 238 (n. 98) Cromwell, Oliver, 12 Dakota Sioux, 5, 126, 149, 150–54, 194 Declaration of Sentiments, 216 (n. 38) Democrats, 110, 114–21, 123–24 Denver Queen Bee, 196 Dickinson, Anna, 130 Dickson, John, 185 Dickson-Steward Coal Company, 184, 185 Divorce, 49, 51, 53–55, 57 Dix, Dorothea, 98, 101 Donnelly, Ignatius, 123, 124–25 Double, Daniel, 175–76 Douglass, Frederick, 191 Dress Reform. See Bloomers Eaton, John, 117–18 Eaton, Peggy, 117–18 Edgar Thompson Steel Works, 184 Edgeworth School, 19, 37 Edwards, Rebecca, 130 Elizabeth I (queen of England), 12 Equity courts, 65 Errett, J. E., 107, 108 Evangelicals, 10–11 Ewalt, Samuel, 64 Family Journal and Saturday Visiter, 26, 111 Femininity, 7, 82, 88, 116 ‘‘Femme covert,’’ 215 (n. 18) Fessenden, William Pitt, 97 Field, Marshall, 176 Fleeson, Reese, 90, 105 Fredericksburg, Va., 101 Free Democrats, 107–8, 109–11, 122 Free Soil Party, 107–8, 110 Frémont, John C., 111, 126, 130 Fugitive Slave Act, 139 Gage, Frances, 144–45, 147 Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 148 Garrison, William Lloyd, 136, 149, 191 Gender, 209 (n. 1) Gender relations: among covenanters, 23, 104; during courtship, 38, 41–42; and marriage, 38–41, 42–43; and property ownership, 61, 62–63, 64– 77; and work, 80, 81–102; and politics , 106–7, 111, 112–21, 130, 131; on frontier, 112, 115 Gentility, 83, 162–63, 164 index 251 Giddings, Joshua, 228 (n. 61) Graham, John, 16–17 Greeley, Horace, 3, 98, 118, 129, 136 Grew, Mary, 68 Hale, John P., 106, 110 Half a Century, 15, 170, 195, 201–7, 210 (n. 1) Hann, John, 184 Harper’s Monthly, 175 Hicks, Rebecca Broadnax, 31...