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^ 461 body. Alumnae, local women’s clubs, and regional suffrage societies were quick to protest but unable to stop the change. (Lynn D. Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era [New Haven, Conn., 1990], 112–17.) 5. Annie Eliza Rogers Wood (1835–1906) was president of the California Equal Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1902. Born in Philadelphia and married to Charles Leland Wood in 1855 in Ohio, Wood gave birth to three children in Minnesota , before the family moved to Alameda, California, in the mid-1880s. There her husband had a lumber business. (Federal Census, St. Paul, Minn., 1880, and Alameda, Calif., 1900; San Francisco Call, 14 February 1906; Woman’s Journal, 24 March 1906; notes from family Bible, in editors’ files.) 6. Ellen Josephine Metcalfe McHenry (1827–1922), a writer and San Francisco pioneer, was Mary Keith’s mother. (Guide to the Keith-McHenry-Pond Family Papers, C-B 595, CU-BANC.) 7. William Keith (1838–1911) came to the United States from Scotland as a boy, worked as an engraver, and settled in California in 1859, becoming one of its most successful landscape painters. In 1883, he married Mary McHenry as his second wife. (DAB; Guide to the Keith-McHenry-Pond Family Papers, C-B 595, CUBANC .) Textual Notes¶4 l. 3 feelingn, and sustain her right royally.p¶6 ll. 7–8 I handled them nwhole of the 4 volumes.p¶7 l. 7 melodious and richnestp voice ••••••••• 225 • Margaret Richardson Sievwright and Christina K. Henderson1 to SBA Gisborne New Zealand December 22 1902 Dear Madam, In this hour of separation from the life-long friend, who has lately received a summons to come up higher, the Executive of the National Council of the Women of N.Z. feels constrained to offer you its heartfelt sympathy.We can scarcely hope that the feeling of inseparable loss will ever be quite healed; but, gradually, we trust sweet memories of the grand and fruitful work you and Mrs Stanton have accomplished together will take the place of sadness,and you will realize how fitting it seems,that you,who have always borne the hardest burdens, should also have found yourself chosen to meet this final blow. 28 november 1902 462 & Wherever the English tongue is spoken, there will the names of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton be by-and-by cherished, loved and venerated by a now rapidly evolving humanity. Praying that you may be long spared to see of the travail of your soul, and to have your heart’s dearest desire granted, We remain, dear Madam, Yours faithfully U M. H. Sievwright, President Christina Henderson, Secretary Y TLS, on letterhead of National Council of the Women of New Zealand, ECS Papers, DLC. Directed to Rochester, U.S.A. 1. Margaret Home Richardson Sievwright (1844–1905) and Christina Kirk Henderson (1861–1953) wrote as officers of New Zealand’s National Council of Women,founded in 1896 after women won the vote.Sievwright,born in Scotland, trained for nursing with Florence Nightingale before moving to New Zealand in 1870. Through the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, she became a leading advocate of woman suffrage. Henderson was born in Australia but raised in New Zealand.She trained for teaching, taught in a girls’high school,and became president of the Association of Women Teachers at its founding in 1901. (New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand [On-line encyclopedia, 2005—].) ••••••••• 226 • Interview with SBA in Rochester [26 January 1903] “I believe Mr. Smoot, 1 the Mormon apostle, will take his seat in the United States Senate and that he will keep it. There seems to me no possibility of prevention.” Miss Anthony was at her comfortable home, 17 Madison Street, looking as vigorous as ever. February 16 next she is to celebrate her 83d milestone on the great highway. 2 “You will find,” she said, “that Helen Gould and many other women, especially members of the Presbyterian clubs in New York, will be deeply opposed to Mr. Smoot’s ambitions on the ground that he is a Mormon apostle, and because the Mormon church is said to approve of polygamy. The W.C.T.U.is taking steps to oppose him,and all this is done because of prejudice to his religion. Whether or not he should be seated, I do not care to give out any opinion, but I am certain he...

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