en holding
those offices usually employ a half dozen women to assist them in
copying, allowing each two-thirds of the price paid by the State,
or ten cents per folio.

[Illustration: Sarah Burger Stearns]

In this State the suffrage cause has had the sympathy of not a
few noble women in the successful practice of the healing art;
thus lending their influence for the political emancipation of
their sex, while blessing the community with their medical skill.
To Doctors Hood and Whetstone is due the credit of establishing
the Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children, and training
school for nurses, of which they are now the attending
physicians; and Dr. Hood also attends the Bethany Home, founded
by the sisterhood of Bethany, for the benefit of friendless girls
and women. In the town of Detroit may be seen a drug store neatly
fitted up, with "Ogden's Pharmacy" over the door, and upon it, in
gilt letters, "Emma K. Ogden, M. D." While the doctor practices
her profession, she employs a young woman as prescription clerk.
The Minnesota State Medical Society has admitted nine women to
membership.[442]

Conspicuous among evangelists in this State are Mrs. Mary C.
Nind, Minneapolis, Mrs. Mary A. Shepardson, Wasioga, Mrs. Ruth
Cogswell Rowell, Winona, and Rev. Eliza Tupper Wilkes, Rochester.

Thus far this chapter has been given mainly to individuals in the
State, and to the home influences that have aided in creating
sentiment in favor of full suffrage for woman. United with these
have been other influences coming like the rays of the morning
sun directly from the East where so many noble women are at work
for the freedom of their sex. Among them are some of the most
popular lecturers in the country.[443]

In September, 1881, representative women from various localities
met at Hastings and organized a State Woman Suffrage
Association[444] auxiliary to the National. During the first year
one hundred and twenty-four members were enrolled. During the
second the membership more than doubled. In October, 1882, the
association held its first annual meeting. The audiences were
large, and the speakers[445] most heartily applauded. Mrs. Nelson
presided. In her letter of greeting to this meeting, from which
ill-health obliged her to be absent, t