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Chapter XXII Victories in the West

367 Minor vs. Happersett, History of Woman Suffrage, II, pp. 741-742. North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana were admitted in 1889, Wyoming and Idaho in 1890.

368 Ibid., IV, pp. 999-1000.

369 North Dakota’s constitution provided that the legislature might in the future enfranchise women.

370 History of Woman Suffrage, IV, p. 556.

371 Harper, Anthony, II, p. 690.

372 Ibid., p. 688.

373 Anna Howard Shaw, The Story of a Pioneer (New York, 1915), p. 202.

374 Harper, Anthony, II, p. 731.

375 Ms., Diary, Feb. 28, April 18, 1893.

376 Published first in the Woman’s Tribune, then as a book in 1898 under the title, Eighty Years and More.

377 Harper, Anthony, II, p. 712.

378 During this visit the young sculptor, Adelaide Johnson, modeled busts of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton which later were chiseled in marble and were exhibited with the bust of Lucretia Mott at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893. They are now in the Capitol in Washington.

379 To Clarina Nichols. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 544. Miss Anthony wrote in her diary, Oct. 18, 1893, “Lucy Stone died this evening at her home—Dorchester, Mass. aged 75—I can but wonder if the spirit now sees things as it did 25 years ago!” The wound inflicted by Lucy’s misunderstanding of her motives had never healed.

380 Ibid., p. 727.

381 Rachel Foster was married in 1888 to Cyrus Miller Avery.

382 May Wright Sewall, Editor, The World’s Congress of Representative Women (Chicago, 1894), p. 464.

383 Statement by Lucy E. Anthony, Una R. Winter Collection.

384 Miss Anthony’s diary, 1893, mentions visiting “dear Mrs. Coonley” (Lydia Avery Coonley) in her beautiful, friendly home. May Wright Sewall, and devoted Emily Gross. Her sister Mary, Daniel, Merritt, and their families joined her at the Fair for a few weeks.

385 Shaw, The Story of a Pioneer, pp. 205-207.

386 Ms., Diary, Nov. 8, 1893.

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