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Free Thinker

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by Kimberly A. Hamlin


  Jerry (enslaved person owned by the Chenoweths), 5, 8, 9

  Jim Crow laws

  Jim Crow segregation, 53, 194

  voting rights and, 251, 257–58, 290–91

  Joan of Arc, 185, 185

  Johnson, Adelaide, 116, 120, 123, 169–71, 297

  “gallery of eminent women,” 297, 303

  Portrait Monument, 297

  Jordan, David Starr, 150

  Judy, Aunt (enslaved woman owned by the Chenoweths), 10

  June, Jennie (Jane Cunningham Croly), 129–30, 134, 141, 154

  Kansas, 15, 137

  Keezell, Amanda (Peale), 7–8, 16

  Keezell, George Bernard, 16

  Keezell, George II, 8

  Keezell family, 193. See also specific family members

  Kendall, Edward, 92

  Kentucky, raising of age of sexual consent in, 139

  Kester, Paul, 193, 269, 285–86, 288, 291

  kindergarten movement, 145

  Kussaka (Japanese friend of HHG), 176

  The Ladies’ Repository, 62

  LaFayette Square, protests in, 271–72

  La Follette, Robert, 215, 231

  Laidlaw, Harriet, 211, 236

  Lake Erie, 37

  Lathrop, Delia, 30, 33

  League of American Pen Women, 167, 198, 293

  League of Women Voters (LWV), 286, 293

  Lecky, W. E. H., History of European Morals, 62

  Lee, Fitzhugh, 127

  Lee, Robert E., 127

  Leland’s Opera House, 79–80

  Leslie, Miriam, 241–42

  Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education, 242

  Library of Congress, 170, 255, 272

  Lilly, Eli, 10, 11

  Lincoln, Abraham, 15–16, 17, 127, 193, 204, 248, 252, 296, 298

  Lincoln, Robert, 127

  Lincoln County, Missouri, Probate Court, 60

  Lincoln Memorial, 296, 298

  literacy tests, 251

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 267

  Los Angeles Herald, 126–27

  “Lost Cause,” 167

  Lucifer the Light-Bearer, 54, 96, 122–23

  Luse, H. Clay, 90

  Mack, Alice, 37–38, 39, 42

  Mack, Isaac, 38, 40, 42, 43, 46–47, 55, 150

  Mack, John, 37–38, 39, 42

  MacKaye, Hazel, 199

  Macon Daily Telegraph, 272–73

  Maine, 275

  Malaysia, 178

  Maldives, 179

  Manhattan Liberal Club, 85–86, 89, 90

  Manila, 178

  Mann, James, 255, 274, 275

  Manouvrier, Léonce Pierre, 179, 180

  Mariah (enslaved person owned by the Chenoweths), 5, 9

  marital rape, 145

  marriage, 140, 144–45, 170

  critique of, 143

  divorce reform and, 132–33

  egalitarian, 54, 123–24

  as “legalized prostitution,” 77

  patriarchal, 54, 75

  traditional, 77

  marriage reform, 144

  Marshall, Thomas, 276, 277

  Mason, William, 169

  Massachusetts, 142–43, 259, 266–67

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 129

  maternity, 134, 144–46, 148–50

  McAdoo, William, 254

  McCormick, Ruth Hanna, 217–18, 220

  McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers, 12, 30

  “melting pot” image of America, 87–88

  Melville, Catherine, 37–38, 39, 42, 46, 189

  Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage, 199

  menstruation, 97

  Methodist Church, 6–7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17

  Milholland, Inez, 229, 234

  Mill, John Stuart, “The Subjection of Women,” 62

  Milnor, M. Cleiland, 173–75

  Minneapolis Star Tribune, 130

  Minor, Francis, 32

  Minor, Virginia, 32

  misogyny, science and, 96–100

  Mississippi, 138, 256–58

  Missouri, 20, 21–22, 25, 36, 52, 78, 79, 83

  Monaco, 181

  Montclair, New Jersey, 184

  Moon, John, 255

  Moran, Edward, 166, 188

  Morton, Oliver, 17

  Mott, Lucretia, 296

  National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), xiii, 31, 132, 189–90, 195–207, 200, 224, 253, 258–59, 264, 268, 286

  Advisory Council, 231, 244

  African American women and, 195, 201–4, 249, 253

  annual convention of 1894, 142

  annual convention of 1896, 221

  annual convention of 1898, 190

  annual convention of 1913, 214, 216

  annual convention of 1915, 219

  annual convention of 1916, 225, 226–27

  annual convention of 1917, 248–49

  appropriation of Lincoln’s comments on slavery, 204

  bequest from Miriam Leslie, 241–42

  celebration of ratification, 291

  chapters transition to League of Women Voters (LWV), 286

  Civil War and, 195

  closes “Suffrage House,” 280–81

  Congressional Committee, 190, 196, 209, 211–12, 215–20, 222, 230–32, 236, 238, 243, 245, 248, 253–54, 262, 270, 275–78

  Convention Program Committee, 212, 219

  credits Gardener for creation of House Committee on Woman’s Suffrage, 244

  disavows Woman’s Bible, 140, 143

  education committee, 284

  final convention in Chicago, 286

  focus on ousting Senate opponents in 1918 election, 267

  Gardener as NAWSA’s “diplomatic corps” in Washington, D.C., 221–49, 284–85

  Gardener’s arguments not welcome in, 132–33

  headquarters of, 190–91, 225–26, 227

  holds breakfast in Rankin’s honor, 236

  internal polls by, 254, 256, 260, 264

  “Looking Backward” luncheon, 296–97

  map showing increasing power of women voters before passage of Nineteenth Amendment, 271

  NWP and, 246, 279

  officers leaving White House, 261

  original Constitution of, 223

  Paul and, 196–207, 208–20, 241, 246

  policy of nonpartisanship, 217, 223, 224, 259–60

  Press Committee, 198

  procession during Wilson’s first inauguration, 196–207, 205

  publishes state-by-state population counts, 252

  race and, 195, 201–4, 213, 249, 253

  signing ceremonies and, 290

  Sixty-Fifth Congress and, 248–49, 250, 256–75

  in Smithsonian exhibition, 283, 284, 286

  Southern suffragists and, 213

  suffrage-as-war-measure argument and, 237, 243, 248, 263–64, 266, 267

  “Suffrage House,” 227–28, 230–32, 231, 232, 236, 277, 280–81, 281

  victory celebration at Suffrage House, 280

  Wilson and, 224, 225, 226, 234, 237–40, 242, 243, 247–48

  Women’s Overseas Hospital Committee and, 237–38, 260

  World War I and, 237

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 203–4

  national citizenship, 31–32

  National Congress of Mothers, 145–46

  National Congress of Women’s Divorce Reform Committee, 144

  National Council of Women Voters, 211

  National Liberal League, 73, 74–75

  National Portrait Gallery, 282

  National Press Club, 167

  National Woman’s Party (NWP), 209, 234, 240, 241, 242–43, 245–46

  commissions Johnson to create bust of Anthony, Stanton, and Mott, 297

  contributions to passage of Nineteenth Amendment, 279

  excluded from signing ceremony, 278–79

  excluded from Smithsonian exhibit, 283

  opposes Democrats, 259–60

  protests by, 255, 271–72, 29
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  signing ceremonies and, 290

  supports two pro-suffrage Democrats, 267

  National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), 101, 102, 131, 190–91. See also National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

  Native Americans, 181, 214

  “the New Departure,” 32, 48

  New Jersey, 229

  New York City, 67–68, 81–82, 83–94, 151–54

  New York Daily Graphic, 85

  New York Herald, 156–57

  New York State, 79, 246, 259

  New York State Freethinkers Association

  Convention in Albany (1885), 79–80

  Convention in Cassadaga Lake, 74–75

  New York Sun, 73, 86, 129

  New York Times, 300, 301

  New York Tribune, 275

  Nineteenth Amendment. See Susan B. Anthony Amendment

  Noble, Caroline Greene, 193, 236

  North American Review, 84

  North Carolina, 289

  North Dakota, 235

  Northeastern Federation of Women’s Clubs, 249

  Norton, Charles Eliot, 84

  Occoquan Workhouse, 245

  Ohio, 55–56, 68, 126

  Ohio Centennial Commission, 43, 55

  Ohio State Legislature, 55

  Oklahoma, 235

  Olney, Missouri, 24, 52

  Opequon Creek, 6

  Pacific Woman’s Congress, 148–50

  Paine, Thomas, 14, 86, 95–96

  The Age of Reason, 14, 61–62

  Pall Mall Gazette, 137

  Palo Alto, California, 150

  Panama, 219

  Panic of 1873, 88

  Pankhurst, Emmeline, 196

  Papez, James, 301

  Paris, France, 179–83, 180

  Park, Maud Wood, xiii, 220, 228, 230–33, 231, 236, 239–42, 244–45, 248, 251, 262, 266–67, 270, 276, 280, 283, 287, 303

  assured by Mann of passage of amendment in House, 274

  credits Gardener as key to Congressional passage, 278

  Gardener’s bequest to, 299

  helps Gardener financially, 285

  leads League of Women Voters (LWV), 286

  ratification effort and, 290

  spends Christmas with Gardener, 285–86

  strives to ensure recognition of Gardener, 303

  at Suffrage House, 281

  tribute to Gardener, 298–99

  Paul, Alice, 196–207, 197, 200, 208–20, 222–23, 230, 234, 240

  arrest and imprisonment of, 245, 271

  Catt’s open letter to, 241

  excluded from signing ceremony, 278–79

  fundraising letter, 241

  opposes Democrats, 259–60

  plans demonstration on eve of Wilson’s second inaugural, 240

  protests by, 271–72

  signing ceremonies and, 290

  in Tennessee for ratification session, 290

  works with Gardener on 1913 parade, 196–202

  See also National Woman’s Party (NWP)

  pay equity, 294

  Payne, Henry C. (post master general), 294–95

  Peace Commission, 268

  Peale, Amanda, 7–8, 16

  Peale, Bernard, 7, 15

  Peale, Catherine Ann, 7. See also Chenoweth, Catherine Ann (Peale)

  Peale, Jonathan, 7, 16

  Peale family, 7, 9, 16, 21, 193. See also specific family members

  Peales Crossroads, 7–8, 9, 16

  Peck, Mary Gray, 299

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 79, 188

  Phillips, Mary, 134–35, 149, 151–52, 156–58, 164–67, 173–77, 184

  photography, 184–85

  phrenology, 180

  Physicians’ and Surgeons’ Investigator, 100

  Piatt, Donn, 110, 113–14, 117–18

  Pickett, George (father), 166–67

  Pickett, George (son), 168

  Pickett, LaSalle Corbell, 166–68, 184

  Pittsburg Press, 127

  Poli’s Theater, 249, 291

  political autonomy, sexual autonomy and, 138, 218–19

  poll taxes, 251. See also Jim Crow laws

  Pomerene, Atlee, 233

  Popular Science Monthly, 40, 44, 92, 98, 99, 104, 111

  Portrait Monument, 297

  Potomac River, 16

  Pou, Edward W., 239–40, 242, 243, 244

  poverty, 88–90

  Powell, Aaron, 136–37

  the press, 74, 130, 242–43, 287–88, 295. See also specific publications

  professions, women and, 194

  Prohibition, 253, 272

  Prohibition Amendment, 253

  property laws, 19–20

  property restrictions, 251

  prostitution, 89, 115, 116, 134, 137, 226–27, 253

  Psychic Study Club, 154

  “public morals,” 226–27

  Puerto Rico, 159, 164–65

  purity reformers, 137, 140, 226–27

  Putnam, Samuel P., 86

  Waifs and Wanderings, 75–76, 86

  Putnam County, Indiana, 10–11, 12, 14–15

  Probate Court, 20, 21

  Quander, Nellie, 202

  race and racism, xiii, 129, 228–29, 250–52, 303

  Jim Crow laws, 53, 194

  NAWSA and, 195, 201–4, 213, 249, 253

  race-baiting arguments, 228–29, 256–57

  radicalism and, 90

  “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exhibition,” 129

  segregation, 53, 287

  statutory rape laws and, 138

  whiteness and, xiii, 138, 194–95, 251–52, 271–72, 275

  white privilege, 229, 251–52, 256–57, 303

  white reconciliation and, 193–94, 252

  “white slavery” and, 138

  white suffragists and, 194–95, 213, 251–52, 255–58, 271–73, 275, 279

  white supremacy and, 138, 271–72, 275

  Rachel (enslaved person owned by the Peale family), 7, 15

  Raker, John, 210, 255

  Rankin, Jeannette, 230, 236, 238, 255

  rape, 134, 142, 219, 227

  marital, 145

  statutory rape laws, 138, 142

  Ravenel, William, 282, 283

  “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exhibition,” 129

  Reconstruction era, 52, 194, 258, 273

  end of, 53, 194

  Reed, James, 275

  Reed, Thomas Bracket, 85

  reformism, 6

  anti-vice crusaders, 136–37, 140

  female reformers, 102, 116, 130, 144–45

  purity reformers, 137, 140, 226–27

  reform publications, 114, 135–36 (see also specific publications)

  Republican National Convention, 52–53, 224

  Republican Party, 52–53, 224, 225, 232, 259, 267, 273

  The Reverend Griffith Davenport, 151–53

  Ridpath, John Clark, 13, 147–48, 154, 165

  death of, 158

  Rockefeller, John D., 179

  Rockingham County, Virginia, 7

  Roebling, John, 26

  Roehl, Kate Chenoweth. See also Chenoweth, Kate, death of, 150–51

  Roessing, Jennie, 220

  Roosevelt, Alice, 272

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 88, 169, 190, 272

  Russell, Lillian, 199–200

  Saginaw Courier-Herald, 123–24

  Salem, Massachusetts, 118

  Sandusky, Ohio, 36–50, 51, 59–60, 63, 78, 189

  Sandusky Daily Register, 38, 40, 42–43, 46, 47, 48

  San Francisco, California, 148–50

  world’s fair in, 219

  San Francisco Call, 148–50

  Saulsbury, Willard, 267

  Scalchi, Sofia, 85

  science, 94, 95–100, 104–8, 133, 146, 172, 177, 300–302

  brain science, 97–108, 171–72, 177, 179, 180–81, 300–303, 302

  critique of, 303

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bsp; gender bias in, 96–108, 302, 303

  limits of, 108

  public opinion and, 104–5

  women’s participation in, 105–6

  Science Sermons Society, 108

  secession, debates about, 15–16

  Second Great Awakening, 6, 28

  secularism, 73, 86, 96, 132

  segregation, 53, 287. See also Jim Crow laws

  Selfridge, Harry Gordon, 183

  Sewall, May Wright, 125–26, 127, 129

  sex differences, 62

  brain science and, 97–99, 105–8, 300–302

  sexual autonomy, 139–42, 218–19

  sexual consent, age of, 142

  campaign to raise, 136–40, 142, 143

  race and, 138

  raised in Britain, 137

  sexual double standard, 48–49, 54, 56, 115–16, 134, 137, 139, 145, 226–27, 286

  sexuality, 44–45, 132, 134, 145

  sexually transmitted disease, 45, 133–34, 137, 140, 145, 146–47

  Shafroth Palmer national suffrage amendment, 219

  Shaw, Anna Howard, 190, 206, 212–14, 219–20, 234–35, 237–39, 282, 286

  Shenandoah Mountains, 293

  Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, 16

  Shepard, Seth, 168

  Sherman, William T., 84

  Sims, Thetus, 255

  Singapore, 179

  Sixteenth Amendment, 43

  Stanton’s draft of, 32

  slave ownership, 5, 15, 16

  slavery, xiii, 54

  debates about, 15–16

  Slenker, Elmina, 76, 77

  Smart, Alice, 56–57, 60, 84, 87, 91–92

  moves to New York City, 67–68

  See also Chenoweth, Mary Alice

  Smart, Charles Selden, 41–50, 62–63, 67–68, 77–78, 84, 87, 89, 116, 150, 170, 183, 278

  arrested for fraud, 147, 148

  in Atlanta, Georgia, 140–41

  as business manager of The Arena, 136, 147

  cremation of, 157

  death of, 155–57, 172, 269

  declining mental faculties of, 153–54

  economic struggles, 147

  Equitable Life Assurance Society and, 91–94, 118–19, 134–35, 148

  fake marriage to Gardener/Chenoweth, 109, 123–25, 134–35, 156–58, 164, 173–75, 269

  fictive version of, 123–24

  goes to California, 149–50

  health issues of, 93, 100, 118–19, 135, 146–47, 153–57, 154–57

  honorably discharged of accusations, 148

  leaves Equitable Life Assurance Society, 136

  leaves Ohio, 56

  loses Democratic Party nomination for school commissioner, 55

  moves to Boston, Massachusetts, 147

  moves to Detroit, Michigan, 56–59

  moves to St. Louis, 79

  in New York City, 81–82, 151–54

  obituary in Free Thought magazine, 158

  as Ohio Commissioner of Common Schools, 41, 55

  possible forgery of divorce papers, 173–74

  possibly hid relationship with Gardener from first wife and family, 174

 

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