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Dr. Sarah H. Stevenson, of Chicago, admitted as a delegate (the first woman) to the American Medical Association at Philadelphia......1876 Mrs. Belva Lockwood admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, 1879; disability removed by an act of Congress approved......Feb. 15, 1879 [Others since admitted: Laura De Force Gordon, of Stockton, Cal.; Ada M. Bittenbender, of Lincoln, Neb.; Carrie Barnham Kilgore, of Philadelphia; Clara M. Foltz, of San Diego, Cal.; Lelia Robinson-Sawtelle, of Boston; Emma M. Gillet, of Washington, D. C.] Woman's Christian Temperance Union founded in the United States by Frances E. Willard......1883 Mrs. Belva Lockwood accepts the nomination for President of the United States from the California Woman's Suffrage Convention......September, 1884 A select committee of the United States Senate, Feb. 7, 1889, and the House judiciary committee, May 29, 1890, reported in favor of amending the Constitution to permit woman suffrag