Girls in State University--Sarah Burger Stearns--Harriet E. Bishop, the First Teacher in St. Paul--Mary J. Colburn Won the Prize--Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, St. Cloud--Fourth of July Oration, 1866--First Legislative Hearing, 1867--Governor Austin's Veto--First Society at Rochester--Kasson--Almira W. Anthony--Mary P. Wheeler--Harriet M. White--The W. C. T. U.--Harriet A. Hobart--Literary and Art Clubs--School Suffrage, 1876--Charlotte O. Van Cleve and Mrs. C. S. Winchell Elected to School Board--Mrs. Governor Pillsbury--Temperance Vote, 1877--Property Rights of Married Women--Women as Officers, Teachers, Editors, Ministers, Doctors, Lawyers 649 CHAPTER XLVIII. DAKOTA. Influences of Climate and Scenery--Legislative Action, 1872--Mrs. Marietta Bones--In February, 1879, School Suffrage Granted Women--Constitutional Convention, 1883--Matilda Joslyn Gage Addressed a Letter to the Convention and an Appeal to the Women of the State--Mrs. Bones Addressed the Convention in Person--The Effort to get the Word "Male" out of the Constitution Failed--Legislature of 1885--Major Pickler Presents the Bill--Carried Through Both Houses--Governor Pierce's Veto--Major Pickler's Letter 662 CHAPTER XLIX. NEBRASKA. Clara Bewick Colby--Nebraska Came into the Possession of the United States, 1803--The Home of the Dakotas--Organized as a Territory, 1854--Territorial Legislature--Mrs. Amelia Bloomer Addresses the House--Gen. Wm. Larimer, 1856--A Bill to Confer Suffrage on Women--Passed the House--Lost in the Senate--Constitution Harmonized with the Fourteenth Amendment--Admitted as a State March 1, 1867--Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony Lecture in the State, 1867--Mrs. Tracy Cutler, 1870--Mrs. Esther L. Warner's Letter--Constitutional Convention, 1871--Woman Suffrage Amendment Submitted--Lost by 12,676 against, 3,502 for--Prolonged Discussion--Constitutional Convention, 1875--Grasshoppers Devastate the Country--_Inter-Ocean_, Mrs. Harbert--Omaha _Republican_, 1876--Woman's Column Edited by Mrs. Harriet S. Brooks--"Woman's Kingdom"--State Society Formed, January 19, 1881, Mrs. Brooks President--Mrs. Dinsmoor, Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Brooks, before the Legislature--Amendment again Submitted--Active Canvass of the State, 1882--First Convention of the State Association--Charles F. Manderson--Unreliable Politicians--An Unfair Count of Votes for Woman Suffrage--Amendment Defeated--Conventions in Omaha--Notable Women in the State--Conventions--_Woman's Tribune_ Established in 1883 670 CHAPTER L. KANSAS.