CHAPTER XLI. MICHIGAN. Women's Literary Clubs and Libraries--Mrs. Lucinda H. Stone--Classes of Girls in Europe--Ernestine L. Rose--Legislative Action, 1849-1885--State Woman Suffrage Society, 1870--Annual Conventions--Northwestern Association--Wendell Phillips' Letter--Nannette Gardner votes--Catharine A. F. Stebbins Refused--Legislative Action--Amendments Submitted--An Active Canvas of the State by Women--Election Day--The Amendment Lost, 40,000 Men Voted in Favor--University at Ann Arbor Opened to Girls, 1869--Kalamazoo Institute--J. A. B. Stone--Miss Madeline Stockwell and Miss Sarah Burger Applied for Admission to the University in 1857--Episcopal Church Bill--Local Societies--Quincy--Lansing--St. Johns--Manistee--Grand Rapids--Sojourner Truth--Laura C. Haviland--Sybil Lawrence 513 CHAPTER XLII. INDIANA. The First Woman Suffrage Convention After the War, 1869--Amanda M. Way--Annual Meetings, 1870-85, in the Larger Cities--Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, 1878--A Course of Lectures--In May, 1880, National Convention in Indianapolis--Zerelda G. Wallace--Social Entertainment--Governor Albert G. Porter--Susan B. Anthony's Birthday--Schuyler Colfax--Legislative Hearings--Temperance Women of Indiana--Helen M. Gougar--General Assembly--Delegates to Political Conventions--Women Address Political Meetings--Important Changes in the Laws for Women, from 1860 to 1884--Colleges Open to Women--Demia Butler--Professors--Lawyers--Doctors--Ministers--Miss Catharine Merrill--Miss Elizabeth Eaglesfield--Rev. Prudence Le Clerc--Dr. Mary F. Thomas--Prominent Men and Women--George W. Julian--The Journals--Gertrude Garrison 533 CHAPTER XLIII. ILLINOIS. Chicago a Great Commercial Centre--First Woman Suffrage Agitation, 1855--A. J. Grover--Society at Earlville--Prudence Crandall--Sanitary Movement--Woman in Journalism--Myra Bradwell--Excitement in Elmwood Church, 1868--Mrs. Huldah Joy--Pulpit Utterances--Convention, 1869, Library Hall, Chicago--Anna Dickinson, Robert Laird Collier Debate--Manhood Suffrage Denounced by Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony--Judge Charles B. Waite on the Constitutional Convention--Hearing before the Legislature--Western Suffrage Convention, Mrs. Livermore, President--Annual Meeting at Bloomington--Women Eligible to School Offices--Evanston College--Miss Alta Hulett Medical Association--Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson--"Woman's Kingdom" in the _Inter-Ocean_--Mrs. Harbert--Centennial Celebration at Evanston--Temperance Petition, 180,000--Frances E. Willard--Social Science Association--Art Union--Jane Graham Jones at International Congress in Paris--Moline Association 559 CHAPTER XLIV. MISSOURI.