other remonstrated, but in vain. They
replied, "women never received as much as men for any work";
"it did not cost as much to keep a woman as a man," and
moreover, these school matters belonged to men, and women
had no right to interfere. In 1842, my mother offered to
board the teacher in her district, gratis, if the board
would raise her salary proportionally. They received her
proposition with scorn. She then refused to pay her taxes.
Such was the respect for her in the community, and the sense
of justice in regard to the teachers, that the authorities
suffered the tax to go unpaid, and at the end of the year
accepted the proposition, and for many years after, she
boarded the teacher in her district, making the woman's net
salary equal to that of the man.

My mother lived to see her daughters employed in her
township on equal salaries with men. But in process of time,
another board, for the express purpose of humiliating mother
and daughters alike, passed a resolution to take two dollars
a month from each of their salaries, when all three
resigned. They all honored her, by carrying into their
life-work the noble principles for which she suffered so
much.

She was the grand-daughter of a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian
minister, who, with his young family, was among the earliest
settlers in the wilderness of what is now known as the
prosperous and beautiful county of Washington, Pennsylvania.
Her name was Sarah Campbell. She was born in 1798. From her
earliest girlhood she rebelled against the injustice done
women by the law. She felt acutely the wrong done her and
her sisters by being denied an education equal to their
brothers, and denied also an equal share of their
inheritance. While the father possessed a large estate, and
provided liberally for his sons, he left his daughters a
mere pittance.

In view of such facts, it is folly to say that women were ever
satisfied with the humiliating discriminations of sex they have
endured in all periods, and in all ranks in society.

The first annual report of the association was prepared by Eliza
Sproat Turner. She said: