Missouri the first State to Open Colleges of Law and Medicine to Woman--Liberal Legislation--Harriet Hosmer--Wayman Crow--Dr. Joseph N. McDowell--Works of Art--Women in the War--Adeline Couzins--Virginia L. Minor--Petitions--Woman Suffrage Association, May 8, 1867--First Woman Suffrage Convention, Oct. 6, 1869--Able Resolutions by Francis Minor--Action Asked for in the Methodist Church--Constitutional Convention--Mrs. Hazard's Report--National Suffrage Association, 1879--Virginia L. Minor Before the Committee on Constitutional Amendments--Mrs. Minor Tries to Vote--Her Case in the Supreme Court--Mrs. Annie R. Irvine--"Oregon Woman's Union"--Miss Phoebe Couzins Graduates From the Law School, 1871--Reception by Members of the Bar--Speeches--Dr. Walker--Judge Krum--Hon. Albert Todd--Ex-Governor E. O. Stanard--Ex-Senator Henderson--Judge Reber--George M. Stewart--Mrs. Minor--Miss Couzins 594 CHAPTER XLV. IOWA. Beautiful Scenery--Liberal in Politics and Reforms--Legislation for Women--No Right yet to Joint Earnings--Early Agitation--Frances Dana Gage, 1854--Mrs. Amelia Bloomer Lectures in Council Bluffs, 1856--Mrs. Martha H. Brinkerhoff--Mrs. Annie Savery, 1868--County Associations Formed in 1869--State Society Organized at Mt. Pleasant, 1870, Henry O'Connor, President--Mrs. Cutler Answers Judge Palmer--First Annual Meeting, Des Moines--Letter from Bishop Simpson--The State Register Complimentary--Mass-Meeting at the Capitol--Mrs. Savery and Mrs. Harbert--Legislative Action--Methodist and Universalist Churches Indorse Woman Suffrage--Republican Plank, 1874--Governor Carpenter's Message, 1876--Annual Meeting, 1882, Many Clergymen Present--Five Hundred Editors Interviewed--Miss Hindman and Mrs. Campbell--Mrs. Callanan Interviews Governor Sherman, 1884--Lawyers--Governor Kirkwood Appoints Women to Office--County Superintendents--Elizabeth S. Cook--Journalism--Literature-- Medicine--Ministry--Inventions--President of a National Bank-- The Heroic Kate Shelly--Temperance--Improvement in the Laws 612 CHAPTER XLVI. WISCONSIN. Progressive Legislation--The Rights of Married Women--The Constitution Shows Four Classes Having the Right to Vote--Woman Suffrage Agitation--C. L. Sholes' Minority Report, 1856--Judge David Noggle and J. T. Mills' Minority Report, 1859--State Association Formed, 1869--Milwaukee Convention--Dr. Laura Ross--Hearing Before the Legislature--Convention in Janesville, 1870--State University--Elizabeth R. Wentworth--Suffrage Amendment, 1880, '81, '82--Rev. Olympia Brown, Racine, 1877--Madam Anneke--Judge Ryan--Three Days' Convention at Racine, 1883--Eveleen L. Mason--Dr. Sarah Munro--Rev. Dr. Corwin--Lavinia Godell, Lawyer--Angie King--Kate Kane 638 CHAPTER XLVII. MINNESOTA.