ies having many professed friends among
the members, were received with every demonstration of respect.
Addresses were made by Miss Phoebe Couzins and Dr. Ada Greunan.
The petition was respectfully considered and a fair vote given
for the submission of an amendment.

Subsequent sessions of the legislature have been besieged, as was
also the constitutional convention in 1875; but beyond the
passage of several laws improving the general status of women, we
have not made much impression upon the law-making power of our
State; not so much since the State passed into the hands of the
Democrats, as while the Republicans were in the majority.

But the public meetings and social influence of our association
have done much for the cause of woman suffrage. Strangers are
surprised to find so little prejudice existing against a movement
so decidedly unpopular in many places. The convention held in St.
Louis in October, 1869, was one of the very best I have ever
known, and its influence was long felt for good. In the spring of
1871 our association became auxiliary to the American, and in
consequence several of our active members seceded, viz.: Mr. and
Mrs. Minor, Miss Couzins, Dr. Greunan and others. In the autumn
of 1872 the American Association held its annual meeting in St.
Louis.

The law school of Washington University has always been open to
women. Miss Couzins was the first to avail herself of its
advantages in 1869, though Miss Barkaloo of Brooklyn, denied
admission to Columbia Law School, soon joined her, and was
admitted to the bar in 1870. While Miss Barkaloo was not the
first woman admitted to the bar in the United States, she
doubtless was the first to try a case in court. She died after a
few months of most promising practice.[384] Miss Couzins was
admitted to the bar in May, 1871.

The St. Louis School of Design, which has done much for woman,
was originated by members of our association; principally by Mrs.
Mary F. Henderson, who has given untiring effort in that
direction. Our members were also instrumental in opening to women
the St. Louis Homeopathic Medical College, and active in opposing
what was known as the St. Louis "Social Evil Law." They aided Dr.
Eliot in his valiant struggle against that iniquity. Mrs. E.
Patrick