Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — A WOMAN LAWYER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A WOMAN LAWYER.

- ' ***** rhe Remarkable Career of Ml»* Ella F. Knowlea—Her Legal Work. "S,. One of the queer things in the election of 1892 was the choosing of Mi« Ella F. Knowles, by a large majority,

as Attorney General of Montana. Miss Knowles wasborninNorthwood, Rockingham county, N. H:, and Is tho daughter of David Knowles and Louisa Knowles. Her mother died when she was 14 years of age, and

she graduated from the Northwood Seminary at the age of 15, and on© year later from the New Hampshire State Normal School. Afterwards she went to Bates College, Lewiston, Me., from which she graduated In the class of ’B4, receiving the degree of A. B. Four years later Bates College conferred on her the degree of -A. M. In 1885 Miss Knowles commenced the study of law in the office of Burnham & Brown, Manchester, N. H. She prosecuted her studies there about a year, when, on account of ill health, she went West, and took th« chair of elocution and Latin in lowa College. Being advised by physicians to go among the mountains, she went to Helena in the fall of 1887! She taught one year in the central school there, and then resumed the study of law. There was considerable prejudice against allowing her to practice. So the little woman went to work among the mombers of the last Territorial Legislature, that of 1888’B9, and had a bill introduced and passed to admit women to practice law. She was admitted to the bar on December 1, 1890. Now she has a practice of which many men would he proud, and is peculiarly popular among them.

MISS KNOWLES.