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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gage , Matilda Joslyn 1826 -1898 (search)
Gage, Matilda Joslyn 1826-1898
Social reformer; born in Cicero, N. Y., March 24, 1826; was an active writer and speaker on behalf of woman's suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
In 1872 she was elected president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
In connection with Susan B. Anthony (q. v.) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (q. v.) she wrote The history of woman suffrage, and independently Woman as an inventor.
She died in Chicago, Ill., March 18, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton , Elizabeth Cady 1815 - (search)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815-
Reformer; born in Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815; received an academic education.
In July, 1848, she called the first woman's rights.
convention, which met in Seneca Falls, N. Y., and succeeded, after much opposition, in having the first demand for woman suffrage adopted.
She was president of the Woman's Loyal League in 1861, and held the same office in the Woman's Suffrage Association in 1865-93.
She annually addressed Congress for over twenty-five years in advocacy of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States establishing woman suffrage.
She is the author of The history of woman suffrage (with Susan B.. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage); Eighty years and more; The woman's Bible, etc. See divorce laws, uniform.
Stockbridge Indians.
After the fights at Lexington and Concord, about fifty domiciliated Indians of the Stockbridge tribe, accompanied by their wives and little ones, and armed mostly with bows and arrows, a few only with muskets, planted their wigwams in the woods near where the Charles River enters the bay. They formed a company of minute-men, authorized by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts.
On June 21 two Indians, probably of this company, killed four of the British regulars with their bows and arrows and plundered them.
On July 8, 1775, some British barges were sounding the Charles River near its mouth, when they were driven off by these Indians.
There is no record of their doing any other military service in the siege of Boston.
These were the Indian savages brought down upon the British at Boston, alluded to in General Gage's letter to Agent Stuart.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)