ife in the control of their respective
properties, both real and personal, are identical, as provided
for in sections 1, 2, 3, and 4. Chapter 62, page 539, compiled
laws of Kansas, 1878:

SECTION 1. The property, real and personal, which any woman
in this State may own at the time of her marriage, and the
rents, issues, profits, and proceeds thereof, and any real,
personal, or mixed property which shall come to her by
descent, devise, or bequest, or the gift of any person
except her husband, shall remain her sole and separate
property, notwithstanding her marriage, and not be subject
to the disposal of her husband, or liable for his debts.

SEC. 2. A married woman, while the marriage relation
subsists, may bargain, sell and convey her real and personal
property, and enter into any contract with reference to the
same, in the same manner, to the same extent, and with like
effect as a married man may in relation to his real and
personal property.

SEC. 3. A woman may, while married, sue and be sued, in the
same manner as if unmarried.

SEC. 4. Any married woman may carry on any trade or
business, and perform any labor or services, on her sole and
separate account, and the earnings of any married woman from
her trade, business, labor or services, shall be her sole
and separate property, and may be used and invested by her
in her own name.

It is a fact worthy of note that the above legislation, also the
passage of the law of descents and distributions, immediately
followed the woman suffrage campaign of 1867.

In 1880, the Democrats of Kansas, in their State convention at
Topeka, nominated Miss Sarah A. Brown of Douglas county, for
superintendent of public instruction, the first instance on
record of a woman receiving a nomination from one of the leading
political parties for a State office. The following is Miss
Brown's letter of acceptance:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, Douglas }
Co., Kansas,}
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Sept. 30, 1880. }

_To Hon. John Martin, Topeka, Kansas, Chairman of the State
Democra