[45] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 116. Among those who wore the bloomer costume were Angelina and Sarah Grimké, many women in sanitoriums and some of the Lowell, Mass. mill workers. In Ohio, the bloomer was so popular that 60 women in Akron wore it at a ball, and in Battle Creek, Michigan, 31 attended a Fourth of July celebration in the bloomer. Amelia Bloomer, moving to the West wore it for eight years. Garrison, Phillips, and William Henry Channing disapproved of the bloomer costume, but Gerrit Smith continued to champion it and his daughter wore it at fashionable receptions in Washington during his term in Congress.
[46] History of Woman Suffrage, I, p. 608.
[47] 1854 (copy), Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection.
[48] Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 111-112.
[49] March 3, 1854 (copy), Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection.
[50] Ms., Diary, March 24, 28, 1854.
[51] Ibid., March 29, 1854.
[52] Ibid., March 30, 1854.
[53] The New England Emigrant Aid Company, headed by Eli Thayer of Worcester, was formed to send free-soil settlers to Kansas, offering reduced fare and farm equipment. Their first settlers reached Kansas in August, 1854, founding the town of Lawrence in honor of one of their chief patrons, the wealthy Amos Lawrence of Massachusetts.
[54] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 121.