Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — DEATH OE LUCY STONE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OE LUCY STONE.

The Noted Abolltlnlst and Reformer Passes Away at Boston. Mrs. Lucy Stone, of national and worldwide reputation as an Abolitionist and lecturer, died at Boston, Wednesday night, after a lingering illness. Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, Mass., August 13,1818. Her grandfather was a colonel in the Revolution and led 400 men in Shay’s rebellion. Her father was a prosperous farmer. She became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1848, traveling extensively in England, the West, and Canada, speaking also on woman’s rights. In 1855 she married Henry B. Blackwell (brother of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell) a merchant of Cincinnati and an Abolitionist, retaining by his consent her own name. A few years later, while living in New Jersey, her property was seized for taxes and she published a

protest against "taxation without representation." In 1800 Mrs. Stone was instrumental in forming the American Woman Suffrage Association. In the following year she became co-editor in the Woman’s Journal in Boston, and from 1873 to the present time she has been editor-in-chief, with her husband and daughter as associates. Mrs. Stone agjdn lectured in the West in behalf of the woman suffrage amendments in 1887-92. She held various offices In the national, State and local woman’s suffrage associations. “Lucy Stone,” said Mrs. Stanton, “first really stirred the Nation’s heart on the subject of woman suffrage." The fight between the United States Glass Company at Gas City and the union of workmen is “on.” The union men are confident that they will defeat the purpose of the company to shut them out. An eight-foot tight board fence is being built around the establishment. j ‘' Elwood Is getting to be a great sporting town. Many fighting cocks are owned there. • ___________ Book Agent (returning after having been fired down one flight, to irate broker) —But now, Joking aside, won’t you take one copy?

LUCY STONE.