Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-19

Mrs Lucy Stuue (Back welD was born a
few miles from West Brookfield, Mass,
Aug. l3, 1918 She WAS the second young
est In family of nine children, and her
father was n prosperous farmer. That
she came from a family noted for its
fighting blood is evidenced by the fact
that her great grandfather was killed in
the French and Indian war, and her grand
father served I'm the war of the revolution
and was afterward captain Of the 400 men
in Shay's rebellion.
Mrs. Stones father ruled his family
with a strong hand. 1t is perhaps due to
this fact that Mrs Stone became the great
champion of woman's rights that she
afterwards di !. Under her fathers re-
straining influence little Lucy grew up a
fearless, hardy child-strong truthful.
resolute, good student in school, hard
worker in her home and on the farm. aud
filled with a secret rebellion against the
way in which she saw woman treated all
around her.
Reading the Bible while yet young she
came across the passage which reads,
"Thy desire shall be co thy husband, and he
shall rule over thee" 1t had never be-
fore occurred to her that subsection II
woman was divinely ordained, and she
went 10 her mother almost speechless with
distress Her query was pitful and
showed character that afterward was TO
make the world stir. She asked her
mother, "Is there no way to put an end
to mep'
Her mother attempted to console her
and persuade her that it was woman's
duty to submit, but of that Lucy refused
20 be convinced. Later she wished to learn
Hebrew and Greek, that she mi hit be en-
sbled TO read the Bible in the original,
and satisfy herself as to the correctness
of the translation of these texts.
Carried Out Her Designs.
She was obliged to earn her own way
through college, and nobly she set about
accomplishing the plan that was nearest
and dearest her heart. She had at
taiued the age of rs before she had pro-
cured the means to take her to the goal
of her aspirations and hopes, Oberlin COL
lege. This was the only college at the
time that admitted women. She earned
her way through college by teaching dur
ing the vacations in the departments
and by doing housework at 3 cents an
hour. In lS47 she graduated with great
honor.
She carried out her plan of studying
Greek and Hebrew, and has ever since be-
lieved that when passages in the Bible
were properly translated they were on the
side of equal rights for women. In the
same year of her graduation at Oberlin
she delivered her first lecture on women's
rights in her brothers. church at Gardner,
Mass. In the following year, lS4s, she be-
came lecturer Tor the Massachusetts, Anti
Slavery society, and travelled extensively
In New England, the west and In Canada.
While lecturng in behalf Of anti-slavery
interests, she saw Powers statue OF the
Greek Slave, exhibited In Boston. The
sight SO moved her that her next lecture
was wholly confined To the discussion OF
woman's rights. At the conclusion of the
lecture Rev. Samuel May, agent for the
Anti i-slavery society. in whose behalflMrs.
Stone was lecturing, said to her that the
lecture would never do on an anti-slavery
platform. Mrs. Stone replied. III know
It. but / was woman hsfors was q ~