[148] The first woman in the United States to obtain a medical degree, 1849.
[149] History of Woman Suffrage, II, pp. 57-58.
[150] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 230. Members of the Women's National Loyal League wore a silver pin showing a slave breaking his last chains and bearing the inscription, "In emancipation is national unity." Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Drake, Sept. 18, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection.
[151] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 234.
[152] Ibid., To Samuel May, Jr., Sept. 21, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection.
[153] April 14, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress.
[154] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 230.
[155] June 12, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, July 1, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. About this time, a friend of Susan B. Anthony's youth, now a widower living in Ohio in comfortable circumstances, unsuccessfully urged her to marry him.
[156] Sept. 23, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
[157] Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, pp. 103-104.