ojourner's life has
long been before the public, we prefer to anything this latest
thought of hers, standing then on the verge of the life of the
spirit."

Sojourner was long a resident and laborer in reform in Michigan,
from which State she went out to the District of Columbia to
befriend her people, as well as to other distant fields. She went
to help feed and clothe the refugees in Kansas in 1879-80, and in
reaching one locality she rode nearly a hundred miles in a lumber
wagon. She closed her eventful life in Battle Creek, where she
passed her last days, having reached the great age of one hundred
and ten years.

Mrs. Laura C. Haviland is another noble woman worthy of
mention. She has given a busy life to mitigating the
miseries of the unfortunate. She helped many a fugitive to
elude the kidnappers; she nursed the suffering soldiers, fed
the starving freedmen, following them into Kansas,[324] and
traveled thousands of miles with orphan children to find
them places in western homes. She and her husband at an
early day opened a manual-labor school, beginning by taking
nine children from the county-house, to educate them with
their own on a farm near Adrian. Out of her repeated
experiments, and petitions to the legislature for State aid,
grew at last the State school for homeless children at
Coldwater, where for years she gave her services to train
girls in various industries.

Mrs. Sybil Lawrence, a woman of strong character, and
charming social qualities, exerted a powerful influence for
many years in Ann Arbor. Being in sympathy with the suffrage
movement, and in favor of coeducation, she did all in her
power to make the experiment a success, by her aid and
counsels to the girls who first entered the University. Her
mother, sister, and nieces made a charming household of
earnest women ready for every good work. Their services in
the war were indispensable, and their sympathies during the
trying period of reconstruction were all on the side of
liberty and justice.

There are many other noble women in Michigan worthy of mention
did space permit, such as Miss Emily Ward, a woman of remarkable
force