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Rh Mrs. Blackwell was born in Henrietta, Monroe County, New York, May 20, 1825. Daughter of Joseph Brown, of Thompson, Conn, and Abby Morse, of Dudley, Mass. Her ancestors belonged to the early English colonists of New England. When but sixteen years of age, she taught school in order to pay for a collegiate course. She was a graduate of Oberlin College. In 1848 she published her first essay in the Oberlin Quarterly Review. After she had completed her theological course, she found she could not obtain a license, but she preached wherever an opportunity offered, and gradually all obstacles melted away, and in 1852, she became an ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in South Butler, Wayne County, New York. In 1856 she married Samuel C. Blackwell. Her life as a preacher, lecturer and writer has been a busy and useful one. She is the author of "Studies in General Science," "A Market Woman," "The Island Neighbors," "The Sexes Throughout Nature" and "The Physical Basis of Immortality."

Miss Florence E. Kollock was born January 19, 1848, in Waukesha, Wis. Daughter of William E. Kollock and Anne Margaret Hunter Kollock. Her first work was in the missionary field at Waverley, Iowa, in 1875. Later she removed to Blue Island, 111., then to Englewood, where she has since made her home. Her first congregation was in Englewood. There meetings were held in the Masonic Hall until through the efforts of Miss Kollock a church was built. She is recognized as a woman of great ability as an organizer in various branches of church work. She is the possessor of wonderful personal magnetism. In her preaching she has gathered about her a large circle. During one of her vacations she established a church in Pasadena Cal., which is now the largest Universalist Church on the Pacific Coast. She is prominent in all reformatory and educational work, the woman's suffrage and temperance movements.

Miss Mary Lydia Leggett was born April 25, 1852, in Sempronius, New York. Daughter of the Rev. William Leggett and Freelove Frost Leggett. In 1887 she was ordained in the Liberal Ministry in Kansas City, Mo. She built and dedicated a church in Beatrice, Neb., of which she was the minister until 1891, when she became pastor of a church near Boston. This church in Green Harbor, Mass., was founded by the granddaughter of the statesman, Daniel Webster, whose summer home was in this quaint little town on the old Plymouth shores. Miss Leggett has in her study the office table on which the great orator wrote his famous speeches.

Born January 26, 1840, in Morrow County, Ohio. Her father, Daniel Wood, was a minister. Her husband, Lucius V. Tuttle, was a volunteer in the Civil