d as ferryboats. When our weary line of march
had reached the Black Hills of Wyoming my mother became a victim
to the dreadful epidemic, cholera, that devastated the emigrant
trains in that never-to-be-forgotten year, and after a few hours'
illness her weary spirit was called to the skies. We made her a
grave in the solitudes of the eternal hills, and again took up
our line of march, "too sad to talk, too dumb to pray." But ten
weeks after, our Willie, the baby, was buried in the sands of the
Burnt River mountains. Reaching Oregon in the fall with our
broken household, consisting of my father and eight motherless
children, I engaged in school-teaching till the following August,
when I allowed the name of "Scott" to become "Duniway." Then for
twenty years I devoted myself, soul and body, to the cares,
toils, loves and hopes of a conscientious wife and mother. Five
sons and one daughter have been born to us, all of whom are
living and at home, engaged with their parents in harmonious
efforts for the enfranchisement of women.

The first woman suffrage society ever formed in Oregon, was
organized in Salem, the capital of the State, in the autumn of
1870, and consisted of about a dozen members. Col. C. A. Reed was
chosen president and G. W. Lawson, secretary. This little society
which maintained a quiescent existence for a year or more and
then disbanded without ceremony, was, in part, the basis of all
subsequent work of its character in Oregon. In the winter of 1871
this society honored me with credentials to a seat in the woman
suffrage convention which was to meet in San Francisco the
following May. My business called me to the Golden City before
the time for the convention, and a telegraphic summons compelled
me to return to Oregon without meeting with the California
Association in an official way, as I had hoped. But my
credentials introduced me to the San Francisco leaders, among
whom Emily Pitts Stevens occupied a prominent position as editor
and publisher of the _The Pioneer_, the first woman suffrage
paper that appeared on the Pacific coast. Before returning to
Oregon I resolved to purchase an outfit and begin the publication
of a newspaper myself, as I felt that the time had come for
vigorous work in my own State, and we had no journal in