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^ 107 30 september 1896 2. Kate Tupper Galpin (1855–1906) of Los Angeles spent a month with the amendment campaign in Northern California. SBA was impressed by her speaking skills when she first heard Galpin on September 29 in East Oakland. After growing up on a farm in Iowa, in a family that produced several distinguished women, Galpin taught school, graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College, and held professorships at colleges in Wisconsin and Nevada. Oratory and dramatics were her special interests, and after her marriage and move to California in 1890, she developed very popular classes for women to study the plays of Shakespeare. (American Women; Louis S. Lyons, ed., Who’s Who among the Women of California : An Annual [San Francisco,1922],158; Los Angeles Herald,8 September 1896, 11 January 1906; SBA diary, 29 September 1896, Film, 34:877ff.) 3. Frederick Smith Stratton (1859–1915) was an Oakland native, a lawyer, and candidate for the state senate from Alameda County. SBA thought he tempered his support for the suffrage amendment lest it weaken his chance for election. He and his wife, Alice Tasheira Lee Stratton (c. 1861–1897), hosted SBA overnight on this occasion. (WWW1; Guide to Frederick Smith Stratton Papers, 1900–1917, CU-BANC; Henry Anthon Bostwick, comp., Genealogy of the Bostwick Family in America. The Descendants of Arthur Bostwick, of Stratford, Conn. [Hudson, N.Y., 1901], 783; San Francisco Call, 19 May 1897; SBA diary, 1 October 1896, Film, 34:877ff.) 4. The meeting was held at 222 Eleventh Street, in the home of Emma Rogers Babson Friend (1839–1905). Friend came to California from Massachusetts in 1869 with her husband, William Hovey Friend, a businessman and Republican activist. Emma Friend was a founder of the Ebell Society and a local leader in the amendment campaign.(Joseph E.Baker,ed.,Past and Present of Alameda County, California [Chicago, 1914], 2:472–74; San Francisco Call, 13 March 1905.) ••••••••• 44 • Interview of SBA in Santa Barbara, California [16 October 1896] “Please tell me something of your trip. Did the people of Santa Barbara county treat you nicely?” asked the reporter. 1 “Yes indeed. They gave me a perfect ovation,” she answered. “At San Luis Obispo I addressed a Republican meeting with Senator Perkins. 2 From there south I was the guest of Superintendent Johnson of the narrow gauge railroad,a strong equal suffragist who arranged 10 minute addresses for me at each place the train stopped.” 3 108 & “At Arroyo Grande there were 1000 people awaiting us. Next was Nipomo where there were fully half that number. At Santa Maria there were considerably over a 1000 people waiting.They had prepared a stage for me to speak from. The people were very enthusiastic and carried me bodily from the train to the stage. We did not intend stopping at Los Alamos but there were so many people waiting at the train, clamoring to be talked to, that we paused a few minutes. “I go to Ventura tonight to address the people with Mrs. Chapman Catt and tomorrow night we speak here.” Y Santa Barbara Daily Independent, 16 October 1896, SBA scrapbook 25, Rare Books, DLC. 1. SBA left San Francisco on Monday, October 12, and arrived in San Luis Obispo that day, after “a hot dusty nine hours on the train through Salinas Valley.” She spoke that night. The train trip that she describes in this interview began on October 14. After her lecture in Santa Barbara on October 17, she stayed in southern California, speaking in San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Colton, and turned northward again to keep engagements in Bakersfield, Fresno, and Port Costa, before arriving back in San Francisco on October 26. Carrie Catt was with her for much of this trip. For reports of her speeches, see Film, 36:39, 46, 50–54, 59. 2. George Clement Perkins (1839–1923), shipowner and banker, was a former Republican governor of California and current senator, appointed to succeed the late Leland Stanford.He served in the United States Senate from July 1893 to 1915. (DAB; BDAC.) 3. Charles O. Johnson of San Luis Obispo was superintendent of the Pacific Coast Railway from 1892 to 1900. His wife was a vice president of the San Luis Obispo Political Equality Club, organized in May 1896. SBA traveled about sixtysix miles on this narrow gauge line that began at the ocean in Port Harford,traveled inland to San Luis Obispo, and headed south into Santa Barbara County...

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