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Show TWO WOMEN PREACHERS. "' Ber. Ffcceb Hanaford and bv. Antol. netteBlackwoll. Special Correspondence.) Chicago, Aug. 28. The Rev. Phcebe Hanaford was born on the island of Nantucket Nan-tucket in 1839. Her father was Capt. George W. Coffin, a descendant of Tristatn Coffin, one of the original purchasers of Nantucket, and she is also descended from Peter Folger. She studied theology under the Rev. Ethan Allen, an Episcopal clergyman of Nantucket, and when she was but 17 years of age she delivered her first sermon. Her marriage to Dr. Hanaford when she was 80, which was followed by the birth and care of children. Dostnoned her REV. PHCEBB HANAFORD. slonal career, although she continued to prepare herself for it, and it was not until she was 87 years of age that Bhe began regular reg-ular ministerial work. She was ordained as pastor of the First Universalis! church at Hlnghara, Mass., and in a short time accepted a call to Jersey City at a salary of $3,500 a year. Mrs. Hanaford has preached throughout New England, and has lectured and preached in most ot the middle and some of the southern states. She has written fifteen books and 1ms been a constant con-tributorto con-tributorto different papers and periodicals. One of her books, "Daughters of America," has reached a circulation of 60,000 copies. She has for many years been an earnest laborer for equal suffrage. . Mrs. Hanaford is the first woman who ever acted its chaplain of a legislative body. In. 1870 and 1873 she acted in that capacity iftrst Ju the house of representatives and afterward in the senate of Connecticut. For many years she has been an officer of Sorosis of New York city, a member of the New England Woman's club and of the Women's Christian Temperance union. Mrs. Hanoford's last work is , "The Heart of Siasconset," which is just published. I For more than forty years Mrs. Black-well Black-well has been prominently connected with those movements inaugurated to secure for women the best educational opportunities opportuni-ties as well as the franchise. She is further distinguished as having been the Urst vrom-nn vrom-nn ordained as a Christian minister and for her versatile mind aud substantial acquirements. ac-quirements. Mrs. Blackwell was born in Henrietta, Monroe county, N. Y., in 1825. When she was 16 years old she bezan to tench school winters, and when she was 19 years of age she determined to go to the college at Ober-lin, Ober-lin, O., to finish her education. While there she taught in the lower departments and thus defrayed the expenses of hor college course, while she completed the prescribed course in Greek and Hebrew in vacation time. She was graduated from Oberlin in 1817 and afterward received from that Institution In-stitution the A. M. degree. After finishing a course in theology at Oberlin Mrs. Blackwell lectured on different differ-ent reforms and preached whenever and ' wherever an opportunity offered, without regard to sect. In 1853 she was ordained pastor of a Congregational church at South Butler, Wayne county, N. Y. Beside lecturing and preaching Mrs. Blackwell has always done more or less literary work. . Her series of sketches "Shadows of Our Social System," puts, lished in The New York Tribune, attracted wide attention, and was afterward published pub-lished in book form. Her books "Sex Throughout Nature," "The Physical Basis of Immortality" and other works have all , had a bearing on the questions to which she has given her attention since she began public work. Her latest work is "Religion as Founded Upon Natural Demonstration Independent of Revelation." ' Mrs. Blackwell is the mother xf five children and has had a particularly happy married life. While they were students at Oberlin Lucy Stone and Mrs. Blackwell became close friends, and from then until the present time the friendship has con- REV. ANTOrSETTE BROWH BLACKWELL, . tinued. They married brothers who were in sympathy with their views, and for more than forty years they have worked together for the franchise for women and other reforms. Mrs. Stone never took the name of Blackwell, as she believes that every woman should retain her own name as well as her independent individuality. ANTOINETTE VAH HOESKS. |