WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY _By_ GRACE HUMPHREY AUTHOR OF Illinois--The Story of the Prairie State [Illustration] INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1919 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I POCAHONTAS 1 II ANNE HUTCHINSON 18 III BETSY ROSS 30 IV MARY LINDLEY MURRAY 40 V MOLLY PITCHER 47 VI MARTHA WASHINGTON 55 VII JEMIMA JOHNSON 72 VIII SACAJAWEA 80 IX DOLLY MADISON 101 X LUCRETIA MOTT 115 XI HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 132 XII JULIA WARD HOWE 154 XIII MARY A. LIVERMORE 164 XIV BARBARA FRITCHIE 179 XV CLARA BARTON 189 EPILOGUE 207 BIBLIOGRAPHY 211 INDEX 219 WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY CHAPTER I POCAHONTAS 1595-1617 One cold stormy day, more than three hundred years ago, a group of Indians was sitting around the fire in a “long house” on the James River in Virginia. Warriors and young braves, squaws and maidens, were listening to stories, while the children played about boisterously. Some of them were wrestling, some racing with dogs, and others turning somersaults in the long narrow passageway.