Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-17
was presented by Mrs. Mariana W. Chap

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The attendance at the nights session was
as large as those of previous evenings.
| Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker of Connec-
| ticut the tenth child of the Beecher house
hold, spoke on United States Citizenship
Mrs. Caroline Miller of Maryland, one of
| the pioneers south of Mason and Dixon S
| line, made short address. in which she
! told of the work accomplished. She was
| followed by DR. Clara Marshall, dean of the
Woman's College. Philadelphia. who made a
most interesting address, in which she told
Of her struggles and. those of her sisters
for professional recognition in the medical
calling.
of Unity Church, Cleveland, Ohio, spoke
on THE Ministry of Religion Calling"
Rev. Anna Shaw and Rev. Antoinet;e
Brown Blackwell also spoke.
Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell, assistant at
torney general of Montana. about whose
RI n antic courtship and marriage a story
has already appeared in The Star. was .he
cc-o1uoing speaker.
Representative of Becchcr Household
Isabella Beecher Hooker was born at
| Litchfield, Conn. in 1892. She was the
tenth child in the famous Beecher house
! hold, and ten years the junior of the author
| of Uncle Toms Cabin While yet a
young woman she became deeply interest
ed in the cause to which she has since de-
NOteO SO LQuCn OF ner time ana energy, the
enfranchisement of women. In 184l Shit
| married John Hooker. direct descendant
of the founder OF Hartford. When hir. and
Mrs. Hooker celebrated their golden we'd
ding. in 1891, they did it on magnificent
scale, because said Mrs. Hooker. I'VE
have been such radical reformers. yet have
| lived and loved and worked together, 1t
seemed we should say a word Of encourage
| ment to the younger generation, who must
soon take our place.
Mrs. Hooker was perhaps the most inter-
esting character of the woman's world 8
fair board, the newspapers at that time al
| most daily calling to mind the early proverb
that the people of the United States were
composed of saints and sinners and the
Beecher family. 1t is said of Mrs Hooker
| that, as public speaker. as an Intellectual
woman: as the champion of ''womans
rights as a wife. a mother and a grand
| mother. has been and is a success.
An OId-Line sunragist.
Antoinette Louisa Brown, one Of the
| ardent old-line suffragists. was born in New
York in 1925. She graduated from the
] Oberlin literary department in 1877, and
| took a three years theological course of
study in the Theological Seminary. She
| first gave public lectures in 1916, in Michi-
| gan, and began to preach In 1S4S. Spent
over two years lecturer and preacher;
| settled IN South Butler. N. Y. in 1852: was
ordained as preacher by the Congregational
Orthodox Church, and council called by
| the church in 1853, being the first woman
| ever regularly ordained the first to perform
the marriage ceremony I'm 1859 and first
| to be authorized to administer the sacra-
ment. She is now Unitarian and has
written number of books connected with
the topics of her profession. She is mar
| ried to Samuel c. Blackwell and has five
| children She is still in vigorous health.
Inspired by Miss Anthony.
| Sarah Clay Bennett of Kentucky, the chair
| man of the federal suffrage committee Of the
! National AmericanWoman SuffrageAssoca-
| ton. when asked to give some of the salient
| points of her life replied by saying: Il was
! born an equal rights person. but l was not
suffragist, and did not realize that the
possession of the ballot by women could Sc
| cure them an equal protection of our laws
with men, in life liberty and property I'M
til about 1880. when Miss Susan b. Anthony
enabled me to perceive that the possession
OF the ballot by black men had lifted them
out OF the cotton fields of our southern
states, and seated them in the United
States Senate to help white men to make
| the laws which govern the people of this
country"
DR.. Martha Hughes Cannon
Martha Hughes Cannon. born in Wales,
went to Utah when child. She received
| an indifferent education up to the age OF
| fourteen years, then taught an infant
school of thirty pupils for one year. She
worked in Deseret printing Office for sub
sequent five years, and earned enough
| money to take a course in medicine and
surgery, graduating in Ann Harbor in 1880
Later she took a full course in the Ma
tional School of Elocution and Oratory in
Philadelphia, and also graduated from the
az Hillary department of medicine in the
University of Pennsylvania. Returning to
| Utah, she was resident physician of the
i Deseret Hospital for three years She mar
RED Angus M Cannon in 1885, and subse-
| quent'y visited Europe for two years. She
| has son and daughter. Since women
gained franchise in Utah she has taken an
active part In political management has
| served on state boards and was elected to
| the state senate in 1896 She is now en-
! gagged in the general practice of medicine In
| Salt Lake City.
Member of College Faculty.
Frances Stewart Mosher, AM, is an
| eastern woman by birth, and was educated
at Mt. Holyoke College She is a member
| of the faculty Of Hillsdale College, where
| she is teacher of French and history. She
| is an extensive traveller, and enjoyed a
residence of seven years in France and
| Germany while her husband was United
| States consul at Mica and Sonneburg She
| Travelled extensively In Europe from Ire
! land to Russia, and from the North Cane
| to the top of Vesuvius She was elected
| OF women at the recent session in Nash.
| Vile, Tenn.
| Convention Notes.
| Suffragists are by no means emancipated
| from big hats. There are several immense
ones worn by delegates
| There is much annoyance from women
| who want to visit and sit in the back OF
the room and who audibly discuss every
| thing. Miss Anthony and Mrs. Gait have
| tried in vain to suppress the nuisance.
Two young men. almost hidden under
| big chrysanthemums of yellow, act as
| pages of the convention.
1t was announced from the platform this
| morning that the bill allowing women to
act as notaries public has passed both
houses OF the Virginia legislature. and that
| It, will undoubtedly be signed by the gov
ernor Mrs. Ora Loughorne. one of the
| delightful representatives from Virginia
was much pleased to be able to make the
announcement She says that it is the very
first state Office opened to women in Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell of New York
says that although Susan B. Anthony and
Clara Barton are classed with criminals
| and idiots, under the law New York state
honors these women. and has decided to
perpetuate their faces in imperishable
! stone IN the great western STAIRWAY nf he