Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — Myra Clark Gaines. [ARTICLE]

Myra Clark Gaines.

kidianapolis Sentinel. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines is dead, but her celebrated case still lives in the Supreme Court of the United States. She was one of the remarkable women of the age—indeed it would be difficult to find her superior in any age within the ealm of authentic history—as maid, wife, mother, widow, she may be tried by any test, and the more severe the ordeal, the brighter will sliine her womanly virtues and her mental endowments. SJhe established her legitimacy and rescued her own aud her mother’s name from shame. The wife of two men, both gentlemen of the highest character; the last the cbivalric General Gaines, she made it her life-work, not only to establish her legitimacy, which she triumphantly accomplished, but to obtain the property of her father, an immense estate in the very heart of the City of New Orleans, and this, too, she accomplished. The New Orleans courts gave he a judgment for $1,825,667, with interest on $950,110, at 5 per cent, from January, 1881, and costs amounting to $34,000. The City of New Orleans appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, where it is now undergoing final investigation. The record of the case consists of seven volumes, containing 7,454 closely printed pages, and a volume of 123 pages, devoted exclusively to the index. It may not be that the heirs of this illustrious woman will obtain the “property; Be this as it may, the name of Myra Clark Gaines should serve Women’s rights women a valuable purpose when they are in want of historical woman as brave, as proud, as pure as that of any woman past or present.