Femmes éminentes de l'âge : être des récits de la vie et des actes des femmes les plus importantes de la génération actuelle . r est le plus que l'on peut rendre un croquis biographique. Elizabeth Cady, fille du juge Daniel Cady et Margaret Livingston, est née le 12 novembre 1816, à Johnstown, New York, à quarante milles au nord d'Albany. Le lieu de naissance est un parent secondaire et transmet le caractère. Le lieu de naissance d'Elizabeths était plus célèbre qu'il y a un demi-centuryago depuis; pour l'époque, bien que petit, c'était un centre in-tellecital marqué; et maintenant, bien que grand, c'est une ville de fabrication sans marque. Avant elle b

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Eminent women of the age : being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation . r is the most that one can render ina biographical sketch. Elizabeth Cady, daughter of Judge Daniel Cady andMargaret Livingston, was born November 12th, 1816, inJohnstown, New York, —forty miles north of Albany. Birthplace is a secondary parentage, and transmits charac-ter. Elizabeths birthplace was more famous half a centuryago than since; for then, though small, it was a marked in-tellectual centre; and now, though large, it is an unmarkedmanufacturing town. Before her birth, it was the vice-ducalseat of Sir William Johnson, the famous English negotiatorwith the Indians. During her girlhood, it was an arena forthe intellectual wrestlings of Kent, Tompkins, Spencer, Elisha Williams, and Abraham Van Vechten, who, as lawyers, were among the chiefest of their time. It is now devotedmainly to the fabrication of steel springs and buckskin gloves.So, like Wordsworths early star, it has faded into the lightof common day. A Yankee said that his chief ami ition was to become moro m^^: V7^ V a. MRS. ELIZABETH CADIT STANTON. 333 famous than his native town: Mrs. Stanton has lived tosee her historic birthplace shrink into a mere local repute, while she herself has been quoted, ridiculed, and abused intoa national fame. But Johnstown still retains one of its ancient splendors, —aglory still as fresh as at the foundation of the world. Stand-ing on its hills, one looks off upon a country of enamelledmeadow lands, that melt away southward toward the Mohawk, and northward to the base of those grand mountains whichare Gods monument over the grave of Johu Brown. Insight of six different counties in clear weather, ElizabethCady, a child of free winds and flowing brooks, roamed atwill, frolicking with lambs, chasing butterflies, or, likeProserpine, gathering flowers, herself a fairer flower. AsHanson Cox, standing under the pine tree at DartmouthCollege, and gazing

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