Record Data
Source citation
“Rights of Women in Kansas,” Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, August 4, 1859, p. 2: 4.
Original source
Buffalo (NY) Commercial
Newspaper: Publication
Lowell Daily Citizen & News
Newspaper: Headline
Rights of Women in Kansas
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
4
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Rights of Women in Kansas – The Kansas constitutional convention has made sundry concessions to the fair sex, or, otherwise, have imposed upon it new burdens and responsibilities. A a provision has been adopted giving females an equal voice in all matters pertaining to the common schools. They are also allowed equal property rights with males, and equal authority in the management of children during their minority is granted to husband and wife. Much of this reform is due to Mrs Mary Grove Nichols, who has been very active in the lobby. The experiments thus made are not very hazardous, and are, in the main, consonant with just ideas of the sphere of woman. – Buffalo Commercial.