The Ladies'
Association connected with it. 679, 680

PART IV. LADIES DISTINGUISHED FOR SERVICES AMONG THE FREEDMEN AND
REFUGEES.

MRS. FRANCES DANA GAGE.

Childhood and youth of Mrs. Gage--Anti-slavery views inculcated by
her parents and grand-parents--Her marriage--Her husband an earnest
reformer--Her connection with the press--Ostracism on account of her
opposition to slavery--Propositions made to her husband to swerve from
principle and thereby attain office--"Dare to stand alone"--Removal to
St. Louis--A contributor to the Missouri Republican--The noble stand of
Colonel Chambers--His death--She contributes to the Missouri Democrat,
but is finally excluded from its columns--Personal peril--Her advocacy
of the cause of Kansas--Editor of an Agricultural paper in Columbus,
Ohio--Her labors among the freedmen in the department of the South for
thirteen months, (1862-3)--Helps the soldiers also--Her four sons in
the army--Return Northward in the Autumn of 1863--Becomes a lecturer--
Advocating the Emancipation Act and the Constitutional Amendment,
prohibiting slavery--Labors for the Freedmen and Refugees in 1864--
Is injured by the overturning of a carriage at Galesburg, Ill., in
September, 1864--Lecturing again on her partial recovery--Summary of her
character. 683-690

MRS. LUCY GAYLORD POMEROY.

Birth and early education--Half-sister of the poets Lewis and Willis
Gaylord Clark--Educates herself for a Missionary--A Sunday-school
teacher--Sorrow--Is married to S. C. Pomeroy (afterward United States
Senator from Kansas)--Residence in Southampton, Mass.--Ill health--
Removal to Kansas--The Kansas Struggle and Border Ruffian War--Mrs.
Pomeroy a firm friend to the escaping slaves--The famine year of 1860--
Her house an office of distribution for supplies to the starving--
Accompanies her husband to Washington in 1861--Her labors and
contributions for the soldiers--In Washington and at Atchison, Kansas--
Return to Washington--Founding an asylum for colored orphans and
destitute aged colored women--The building obtained and furnished--Her
failing health--She comes north, but dies on the passage. 691-696

MARIA R. MANN.

Miss Mann a near relative of the late Hon. Horace Mann--Her career as
a teacher--Her loyalty--Comes to St. Louis--Becomes a nurse in the
Fifth St. Hospital--Condition of the Freedmen at St. Helena, Ark.