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678 and she received just twenty-four votes in the district In 1868 "The Revolution" was started in New York City, and Mrs. Stanton became the editor, assisted by Parker Pillsbury. The publisher was Susan B. Anthony. She is joint author of "The History of Woman Suffrage." of which the first and second volumes were published in 1880, in New York City, and the third volume in 1886. in Rochester, N. Y. Her family consists of five sons and two daughters, all of whom are living, and some are gifted and famous. Mrs. Stanton is a vigorous woman of commanding size, gray-haired and dark-eyed. She possesses conversational powers of the highest order. As an orator, she is forceful, logical, witty, sarcastic and eloquent She has the mental force of a giant. In public debates and private arguments she has shown herself the polemic equal of many of the most brilliant men of her time. She believes that social and national safety lies alone in the purity of the individual, and in the full and free bestowal upon the individual, regardless of sex, of all the rights and privileges of citizenship. She was met with abuse, ridicule and misrepresentation at the beginning of her crusade for the women of the country, and she has lived down all and seen her cherished ambition fruited here and there, and the public brought to look upon woman suffrage as something to be desired.

STARKEY, Miss Jennie O., journalist, born in Detroit Mich., 29th July, 1863. She is the youngest daughter of the late Henry Starkey, of Detroit Her father was a journalist and prominent in municipal affairs, and from him she inherited her intellectual vigor and literary talent, showing those qualities while yet a school-girl. In April, 1878, before her graduation from the Detroit high

school, she joined the staff of the "Free Press" of that city, taking under her control the department known as " The Puzzler." Her analytical and inventive mind was turned to so good an account that she gained for the department a wide reputation. Her abilities outgrew those narrow limits, and she was soon made editor of a department known as "’The Household,' later of "Fair Woman's World." "The Letter-Box;" and "The Sunday Breakfast-Table." Her duties became so onerous that she was finally forced to drop the first mentioned of these departments. The others she still conducts. She was the first woman in Detroit to adopt journalism as a profession. She has given fourteen years of her life to her work. She was one of the charter members of the recently organized Woman's Press Club of Michigan, and has contributed much to the success of its meetings.

STARKWEATHER, Miss Amelia Minerva, educator and author, was born in Starkville,

town of Stark, Herkimer county, N. Y. At the age of four years she removed with her parents to Bergen, Genesee county, N. Y. She began her school career in the district school, and her advancement was rapid. While attending the Cary Collegiate Seminary, in Oakfield, N. Y., her love of poetry and poetic composition attracted the attention of the teachers and patrons of the school. She began to teach at the age of fifteen years, and gained a reputation for efficiency and faithfulness. Stricken with inflammation of the eyes, which left them in a weak state, she retired almost entirely from society for several years, pursuing with difficulty her vocation. Her first poem w as published in the "Progressive Batavian," and many poems have followed in various periodicals. After some years spent in successful teaching in New York, she removed to Pennsylvania and accepted a position in the primary department of the public schools of Titusville. There she found more leisure for literary pursuits, as well as time for Sunday-school and other Christian work, to which she was especially devoted. She was for seven years superintendent of a large Sunday-school. By her personal visitation and