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[ America’s Twelve Greatest Women
‘nally agreed to allow Miss Anthony
the freedom of speech. Up to this
time women were allowed to sit in at
the meetings and pay annual dues,
but were allowed no expression of
opinion. One of her biographers says:
’“Every girl who now enjoys a college
education; every woman who earns a
living in any profession or. trade;
every mother who has an equal right
with the father to the control and cus
tody of her children; every woman
who belongs to a club and works for
individual and civic improvement,
owes these sacred privileges to Susan
B. Anthony above all others.”
It was in 1872 that she made a test
of the legality of woman suffrage un
der the 14th amendment. She regist
ered with 15 other women and voted
at the November elections in the city
of Rochester. Two weeks later she
was arrested for violating the law.
Her trial was postponed and she vot
ed again four months later. She pre
pared for her jury trial by an in
tensive lecture tour aimed to educate
voters from among whom the jury
would be chosen. The judge directed
a verdict of guilty, refusing to allow
the jury to be polled. Miss Anthony
was fined 8100. She said she would
never pay it and she never did. She
said she “would ignore all law to help
a slave; and also to protect an,en
slaved woman.”
Mary E. Woolley
would cost Later she stole away by !■,'
| social system,
Mary Emma Woolley waJLborn in
herself »nd “bought a hop.” The pi ,
Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was lot was Frank Hawkes and right then I Norwalk, Conn., in 1863 and gradu-
bom in New York. She learned a Amelia resolved to be a flier. She a ted in 1894 from Brown University,
variety of languages; she took care to did not know how nor when, but that the first woman ever» awarded a
be well informed. Most of her writ did not matter. Since then she^has 'bachelor’s degree by that university,
ings were prose. But she wrote a made many records. She is described and in 1900 Brown gave her an LLD.
poem, as most prose writers do at one as being a sane, balanced, quiet or The same year she assumed the presi
time or another, and that poem was ganized girl, capable of vision, cap dency of Mount Holyoke. Miss Wool-
“Th« Battle Hymn of the Republic” able of putting the viaion into ac ley in 1981 was appointed by Presi
which was to do more fbr her endur tion. She never shows excitement. dent Hoover to be the first woman
ing fame than all her other writings She says that the trans-Atlantic flight delegate to an international confer
She ence on disarmament. She likes to
together. Julia Ward Howe has been alone did not take courage.
eulogised as poet and patriot, lover thinks of courage as an effort against talk peace. She believes in worl<^
of letters and learning, advocate for I oneself. The flight wasn’t against peace. It is probable that when there
over half a century, in print and liv herself. It was the thing she wanted was a War she did her part in the
ing speeches, of great causes of hu most to do. She waited to do it un grim things it was necessary to do;
man liberty, sincere friend of all that til she thought she was ready. And but when the war was over and people
had a chance to ait down and think
makes for the elevation and enrich- then did it..?
about it, she came to the conclusion
ment of womanhohod.
Mary Lyon
Carrie Chapman Catt
Mary Lyon, who was born in Buck that is is desirable to cultivate a
The ninth woman in the poll of land Mass., in February, 1797, was spirit of mercy rather than cruelty,
votes was Carrie Chapman Catt and the founder of Mt. Holyoke College. to the end that the quality of mercy
it was inevitable that she shbuld be Those were purist days and the 80 may not have to be tried on battle
included in the list of women leaders. pupils were not young ladies, or even fields, and that it is infinitely pre
Mrs. Catt was boro in 1859 and has I young women; they were females ferable to exalt the virtue of reason
spent the greater part of her life in ! with a thirst for education. She be rather than of violence, and that there
service for others. She brings to us came a teacher when she was 18, and are splendors of peace which far ex
a picture of a woman who has lived was firmly convinced that there was ceed the splendors of war, and that
fully and has seen her best hopes a place for women in the World out those who substitute in their hearts
realised.
side the home, especially in the field international un^eratanding and a
Her abundant interest in the Com-1 of education. In the early years of willingness to arbitrate for the pano
mittae on the Cause and Cure of War her career she formed the desire to ply of armed force will not be the
is based on a simple single concept:* establish a school exclusively for losers.
That war, as one the lower and least girls. In this she met with great op
In “The President’s House” at
intelligent activities of mankind, from position from men but she persisted South Hadley, Mias Woolley lives a
the dawn of time needs to be under in her efforts and finally succeeded rich life; bird houses are hung in her
stood in order that a taste or even a in interesting enough capital to build trees; collie dogs run in and out of
willingness to engage in it nay be a girls’ seminary which was opened the house.
Friends come and go.
healed.
November 8, 1837. Mary Lyon was There is an air of business; good busi
As greatness goes, so simplicity radical and democratic, but the qual ness, having to do with the progress
goes. Today in New Rochelle, New ity which entitled her to her niche in of men toward better things.
York, Mrs. Catt lives in a comfortable the Hall of Fame is durability. She
white house surrounded by books and wore well when her ideas were tested.
Longfellow must have had in mind
flowers and the material comforts of Laughter, suspicion, the insistent such women ae the foregoing group
living. Mrs. Catt believes that when clamor of lazy tongues, these she of twelve when he wrote: "A lady
people learn what poor business war could ignore; because of a wistful with a lamp shall stand in the great
is, war will be no more. It requires yearning of her own when she was history of the land. A noble type of
patience to teach people sr-h facts. young, that she had a better educa- "irood heroic womanhod.”
And perhaps the one sentence that tion; and an indomitable determina
could accurately sum up Mrs. Catt’a tion, now that she was grown, to
An optimist is the fellow who takes
career and the things she has succeas- make it possible for others to have the cold water thrown upon his pro
done would be, “She is a pat what was established too late for her positions, heats it with enthusiasm,
'ent wyman.
to participate in as a pupil.
makes eteam and pushes ahead.
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Amelia Earhart Putnam has won
• I-
her place in the Hall of Fame solely
ha/>anao
r\9 her
haw splendid
c 1 a vwz J i
«»J
becaus
* of
courage and
The open poll by women to deter- great ambitions for mankind,
Clara Barton
mine the twelve greatest woman lead
Third on the list is Clara Barton.
ers in the United States during the
larit 100 years, sponsored by the Na 'She was born in Oxford, Maas., in
tional Council of Women and the La 1821. Her early years were spent in
dies’ Home Journal, for. the Hall of Jie school room, first as pupil and
Her first school
Fame at the Chicago Century of Prog then as teacher.
ress Exposition, Tevealed the following teaching experience, at Bordentown,
names as receiving the greatest num N. J., began with six pupils and closed
Miss Barton obtained a
ber of votes, and in the order of votes with 600.
received, are:
Mary Baker Eddy, clerkship in the U. 8. Patent office
Jane Addams, Clara Barton, Frances and is said to be the first woman
E. Willard, Susan B. Anthony, Helen clerk to draw a salary from a Gov
Keller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia ernment department at Washington..
During the Civil War she spent her
Ward Howe, Carrie Chapman Catt,
Amelia Earhart Putnam, Mary Lyon entire time caring for the needy and
for four years after the war ended
and Mary E. Woolley.
Since these women are to be honor she hunted for mssing soldiers. In
ed by having their portraits placed in 1869 she went to Geneva for rest and
the Hall of Fame, at the Century of there learned about the International
Afjer observing the
Progress Exposition in Chicago, their Red Cross.
biographies are of more than passing great amount of relief work that was
done by the Red Cross abroad, she
interest.
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Credit is given to the Christian Sci returned to America with the firm
ence Monitor for the greater part of determination to do something of the
the information concerning these kind for her own country.. After many
attempts she finally succeeded in en
women, contained in this article.
listing the interest and support of
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy, who received the President Garfield, but before he
highest number of votes, was the Dis could actually recommend to Con
coverer and Founder of Christian Sci gress the adoption of the Geneva
ence and the author of “Science and convention he was assassinated, but
Helen Keller
Health, with Key to the Scriptures”, President Arthur obtained the con
Helen Keller, boro in 1880 in Tus
the textbook of Christian Science. Mrs. firmation from Congress in March,
Eddy was boro in New England, July 1882, and so the American Red Cross cumbia, Ala., is a most remarkable
16, 1821, and in the nearly ninety had its beginning, all due to the un woman- and an inspiration to all who
years which she spent in active ser tiring efforts of that big woman, come in contact with her. At the age
vice, she wrote many books and art Clara Barton, who was only five feet of 19 months she was left blind, deaf
and dumb as the effects of an illness.
icles on the subject of Christian Sci tall!
Up to the age of seven no attempt
ence. Perhaps one of her greatest
Frances E. Willard
achievements was the publishing of
Frances E. Willard - was born in was made to educate her. But there
the Christian Science Monitor, an In Churchville, N. Y. in Sept., 1849. In then crossed her' path Miss Anne
ternational Daily Newspaper, which 1884 she founded the World Women's Mansfield Sullivan, a young school
is known and respected the world over Christian Temperance Union and call teacher, to whom somehow the vision
for its clean news and interesting ed upon Women the world over “to was given that here was a life that
feature article*. Mrs. Eddy was a protect the home, outlaw the liquor need not be spoiled because of a J
mist remarkable woman, not only traffic, seek and procure enfranchise physical handicap.
By slow, careful beginnings, a sys
from the standpoint of personal ap ment of women, work to establish
With
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pearance but because of her intellectu demand an equal standard of purity tem of teaching wan begun. V.
ality.
She possessed a spiritual for men and women and labor un what success these beginnings were
poise which betokens a reflection of ceasingly that justice may be opposed crowned it is only necessary to say
the changeless life of Spirit. Mrs. to greed and gain, and that Christ’s that in 1904 Miss Keller was gradu
i
Eddy’s gift to humanity means the Golden Rule may triumph, in custom ated with honors.
Lectures and stage appearances
restoration
of the Christ-healing and in law.”
Miss Willard was one of the found have kept Helen Keller before the daring in the face of so-called ob-
brought to the world through J mim of
Nazereth and simply yet impressively ers of the National Council of Wom world; not for-personal aggrandize- riaclee. Amelia Earhart was boro in
end that
she might
recorded in the Bible.
w.uv Slav
MUgm Atcbl»<”>. K»"-. and »olo flying
» — was
en and associated with her were such ment but all to the wsna
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** one would
The
widening
use ' of the ll“t thing in the
great women as Busan B. Anthony, help others. r
Jane Addams
have thought of in association with
Jane Addams, who received the next Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton, Lucy Braille books and making them avail
her as a little girl. Her girlhood was
able
to
those
who
could
not
afford
to
Stone
and
Elizabeth
Cady
Stanton.
highest number of votes in the poll
spent much as other girls would live,
taken, was boro at Cedarville, Ill., While the first inclination of some of buy thepn for themselves; the estab
but while in California with her fath
.Sept. 6, 1860, and graduated from the Washington newspapers of the lishment of scholarships for ambi
er she forced him to inquire at a fly
Rockford College in 1881. Her father, day was to laugh at the spectacle of tious, handicapped boys and girls; the
ing field as to how long it would take
John Adams, was a banker-miller. He these earnest women who had come spreading of knowledge which would
to learn to fly and what the lessons
make
possible
and
encourage
the
par
>ut
of
their
homes,
leaving
pots
and
was a member of the Assembly and a
kettles and kitchens and nurseries, ticipation of friends all over the world
close friend of Abraham Lincoln.
When the Chicago fire swept the ctypmonly counted their "proper do in the problem of smoothing away all r
neighborhood of Halstead and Polk main”, to engage in discussion about that seemed hard for under privileged
Streets in 1871, the mansion of world affairs, gradually the papers people—these have been her contribu
Charles Hull, wealthy farmer and took the delegates more seriously, in tions to progress.
She has been greatly honored.
landowner was saved. Eighteen years proportion as the reporters observed
later Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Ad the earnestness and capability with When the honors have carried with
dams were looking for a base for which the women set to work on the them awards of money, Miss Keller
has made haste to turn them into
“neighboring” with immigrants of job they saw to be done.
In 44 years the National Council of funds for her interesting and import
two-score nations who were flounder
has grown to 5,000,000 ant projects. When she might have
ing around in a strange land trying to Women
find work and freedom. Seeing the through affiliated groups and out of been thought to live in a world of
Charles Hull mansion, they said, plans laid at that first meeting there considerable solitude, she has said the
“God's hand must have saved this for rrew an International Council of exact opposite was true; she has sa
us’’, took it over and established Hull Women, with affiliated councils in 43 vored the amusements and interests
of her fellows, ridden in airplanes,
2,. .
House which has become a sort of bea rountries.
Frances Willard is the only won\an gone on camping trips, sat in a motion
con for the whole settlement move
ment.
represented in the Statuary Hall of picture house beside Charles Chaplin,
When Hull House was firet opened he Capitol at Washington. She early visited houses of royalty in Europe’
the neighbors didn’t know what to -aught a vision of a regenerated climbed mountains, sailed great riv
think. They came to it gingerly. Then world. She believed total abstinence ers and oceans, owned pete, loved the
in greater numbers. They heard Eng- ' was one virtue that would not only rush and roar of great cities and the
lish spoken there and experimented revive a disappointed and disappoint peace and quiet of the country.
When she could have easily been a
world but open a vast vista of
with it. They remembered handicraft ing
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in child welfare, legis stone the builders of the world would
which was synonymous with their own improvement
1
far-off homes and found they could re- lation, world peace and all the aspects have rejected, she has made hereelf
a «tone of utmost importance, point
vive their skill at it in Hull House. if the communal life of the world.
ing the way to others who have fol-
They found Jane Addams them, a
Susan B. Anthony
her example
in carrying
plain, stalwart, simple woman, who
Susan Brownell Anthony was born owed
smiled genially at them, and found out n 1820 in South Adams, Mass., of through the great and kindly things
things that were distressing them and Quaker ancestry.
She was a pre that a world made thoughtful may do
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helped to put them right
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. Interest in foreign-born people
about the rooms of Hull House led
to interest in legislation that would
protect, them at their work. A rep
resentative of a manufacturer’s as
sociation had the temerity to come to
Jane Addams and offer her 150,000 to
abandon a piece of legislation inimi
cal to his interests. Needless to say,
she did not take it
And, peace among all the nations
of the earth. That, perhaps equally
with helping underprivileged neigh
bors, has been a crusade of Jane Ad-
dam's career. She hopes for a world
completely without arms.
She be-
lie vet it wilt come. It will come by
education.
A great woman, with
*rite when she was three years of
age. She had an unusual memory.
After attending various schools she
prepared to teach, but she tired of
the teaching profession, and in 1850
returned to her home where such men
as Frederick Douglass, Channing,
Pillsbury. Garrison and Phillips often
visited. Her moat intmate friend was
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was a
co-worker of Frances E. Willard and
other leading women of her day.
She broke all precedents when, at
tending a meeting of the New York
Educational Convention, she rose, to
talk. The meeting was thrown into
a state of disorder for snore
half
an hour before ths mon present fi-
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born
June 14, 1811, i„ Litchfield, Conn.,
and was one of several children in a
literary family. She
Henry Ward Beecher. Her greatest
literary work of course is “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” but many other books
and articles were written by her
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” did immeasur
able good in a living cause and no one
can read it today, or tomorrow, or a
hundred years from now without feel
ing that the sympathies stirred by the
of the slave are one with those
that forever move the world of good
men and woman in their efforts to
right the wrongs of the political and
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