The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-19
WOMEN OF NOTE.

Mrs. MARY +. SPARGO FRAZIER is
the only woman lawyer in Cleveland,
Ohio.
GENERAL BouLANGER's wife and
daughter are believers in Woman Suf-
frage.
Mrs. &. c. FIELD has been elected
superintendent of public schools ut
Green Bay, Wis.
Miss AGNES MCCLELLAN. local editor
of tile Seward Democrat. is the young
est lady editor Of Nebraska. She is
but Is.
AT town meeting in Lee. N. H.,
the other day. Mrs. Rebccca Bennett
was chosen moderator, the first time a
woman was ever called on to preside
over town meeting in the State.
DIR. HATTIE ALLEN. of Waterloo. II.
has been chosen assistant professor of
medicine in the University of Michi-
gan. She is believed to be the first
woman ever selected for such posi-
ton at the West.
Miss CLARA BARTON. the president
of the American Red Cross Society, in
addition TO her other decorations has
just been presented by the Grand
Duchess Of Baden with an amathyst in
the shape OF pansy.
Miss MARY L. LEGGETT. of Beatrice,
Ncb., was recently ordained in Kansas
City as minister of the Unitarian de-
nomination. She is the first woman
ever ordained in that city and one of
the first west Of the Mississippi.
Miss MARY HANKEY was the first
woman to graduate from Columbia
college. taking her degree of Bachelor
of Arts last summer. At Columbia
she took Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon.
French, German, Italian and Spanish.
and yet withal was practical house.
keeper. good musician anda clever.
draughts-woman.
Mrs. PATTI LYLE COLLINS is en-.
ployed by the Government at Washing
ton as a reader of 'blind handwriting
in the Dead Letter Office. She is al
expert, and is paid good salary. She
is said to read every known languag,
except Russian and Chinese. A thou
sand letters day pass through hc1
hands, but she deals only with the adj
| dresses.
Mrs. GooDsIL, Of Napoleon, Oak,
found the ''city" in which she liset
threatened with humiliation by riya
town, which aspired to be the county,
seat. Mrs. Goodsill saw every voter il
the county personally, and carried thu
day by a large majority, saving thu
county-seat. getting new depot from
the railroad company. and increasin.
the business facilities of the town.
ISABEL +. HAPGOoD. who enjoys
well-dcserved reputation as m excel
lent translator from the Russian ans
from the French. is now in st. Peters
burg. and is writing an interestin:
series of letters to the Independent
Her TRANSACTIONS OF Tolstoi's work
have been approved by that author
and he will provide her with an carl
copy of the novel upon which he is no,
engaged at his home in Moscow.
Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, VIII
takes SO prominent part in the VIC
mems congress at Washington. is Z
years old. She was the chief agenc
in calling the first ''Women's Right
Convention" i'm this country. whic
was held at Seneca Falls. N. Y, i
184S. 1t was then that she introduce
the famous resolution that the INTEL
gent world has been debating eve
since: "Resolred, That it is the dut
} of the women Of this country to secur
J to themselves their sacred right to til
elective franchise. As Il result he
father (she was then unmarried) actr
ally consulted friends as to the propr
ETY. Of placing her in m insane asylum
The Presidents sister has droppe
as completely out Of newspaper mel
ton rs If she had never presided in tn
:. White House. but her name still h
power among the select circles fro'
which private school pupils come.
spite of her school-room duties Mi.
> Cleveland is seen very frequently
tho quiet gatherings OF society. She
) rs pronounced blonde as her brothe
Her eyes arc blush gray, and Il
} very best Of New Yo"k dressmakers d
full justice to her graceful figure.
class she is always very quiet
dressed, but there as elsewhere 81
gives the impression Of a woman
3 position, or As an enthusiastic pup
l puts it, q queen every inch Of hey