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^ 263 in the insurance business there until his death. Martha Beatrice Brown Mosher (1857–1926) was his wife and mother of their three sons. In 1898, she published a well-regarded book, Child Culture in the Home, A Book for Mothers. (Anthony, Anthony Genealogy,183; Insurance Times,February 1891,SBA scrapbook 17,Rare Books, DLC; WhNAA; New York Times, 11 July 1926, 20 May 1932.) Y Excelsior Diary 1899, n.p., SBA Papers, DLC. ••••••••• 113 • SBA to Robert R. Hitt1 10— East 68th street New York Jan. 7, 1899. My Dear Friend This morning’s Tribune 2 says your Com. is to report on the Hawaii Constitution early in the week 3 —and talks about the danger of establishing bad precedents on matters of commerce—all very well—but I want to beg of you not to make the fatal precedent of a sex-line for voting & holding office— All I ask for womans rights is that you will strike noutp the little adjective “male” wherever it occurs—that is male citizens &c—may hold the office of senator or representative—male citizens &c may vote!— In presenting a form of government to any of our newly acquired territories —it surely should be based on the most advanced principles—so far as the recognition of political equality for women— I do hope you will see & avoid the cruelty of putting intelligent women, native born & others—in political subjection to men—where a vast majority of them are not intelligent ! Draw your voting and office holding line as high as you please—on educational, property or intellectual or moral qualifications—but do not I pray you draw it on the lin that of caste, class, or sex!!— Hoping that you & your Committee will see the injustice proposed in the bill as reported to the Senate—and will strike out “male” as I have indicated—from your report—and thereby do your part toward founding a true “republican form of government” in Hawaii— I am—very sincerely— U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, Robert Roberts Hitt Papers, DLC. 1. Robert Roberts Hitt (1834–1906),Republican of Illinois,served in the House of Representatives from November 1882 until his death. He also served on the 2–6 january 1899 264 & Hawaiian Commission, and it fell to him on 6 December 1898 to introduce House Resolution 10990, to provide a government for Hawaii. Though he managed the bill in the House, Hitt was not, as SBA assumed, on the committee considering it. (BDAC; Congressional Record, 55th Cong., 3d sess., 27.) 2. New York Tribune, 7 January 1899. The article referred to an anxiety that “no provisions should be embodied in the Hawaiian act which might be cited and urged as precedents in future legislation concerning territorial acquisitions . . . as a result of the war with Spain.” 3. The Committee on Territories reported to the House of Representatives on 23 January 1899. (Congressional Record, 55th Cong., 3d sess., 953; 55th Cong., 3d sess., A Bill to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, 23 January 1899, H.R. 10990, amended.) ••••••••• 114 • From the Diary of SBA [7–13 January 1899] Sat. Jan. 7, 1899. In New York—and this one with Mattie & niece Guelma 1 —& Arthur Jr’s wife 2 —at nephew A. A. Moshers— Guelma left about 4 p.m. to go to Orange—Geo. A. Vails— 3 She sings in Cong. church there— Nephew Harry A. Baker did not get home to dinner— 4 Miss Powell—cousin S’s companion & house-keeper came for me—at 8 Oclock 1. Guelma Lawrence Baker (1875–1923),later Lyons,was Margaret Baker’s only daughter and a talented singer and actress making her career on the East Coast, mainly in light opera.Her voice was described as “a clear,true soprano voice.”She also toured with the great actress of tragedy Helena Modjeska. In 1910, she married Edwin Jacques Lyons, a theater director with whom she had worked. They returned to live in San Diego. (Baker Genealogical Ms., SBA Papers, MCR-S; Hearst’s Chicago Evening American, 10 March 1903; Johnson Briscoe, The Actors’ Birthday Book, 2d series [New York, 1908], 223; New York Times, 17 April 1910; Malcolm H. Stern, First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies, 1654–1988, 3d ed. [Baltimore, 1991], 182, on-line at American Jewish Archives; Certificate of Death, County of San Diego, California State Board of Health.) 2. Mattie Mosher and Guelma Baker were with Laura Bodine Mosher (1879– 1946), the wife of Arthur Byron Mosher (1876–?). Young...

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