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Bloomer, Amelia Jenks

suffragist, journalist, author, was born May 27, 1818, in Homer, N. Y. She married in 1840, and resided in Seneca Falls, N. Y., where she wrote frequently on the enfranchisement of women, and on Jan. 1, 1849, issued the first number of The Lily, a semi-monthly publication, devoted to temperance and woman's rights, which attained a circulation of 4,000. In the winter of 1855 Mrs. Bloomer addressed the territorial legislature of Nebraska on the subject of conferring the ballot on women.

She took part in organizing the Iowa state suffrage association, and was at one time its president, but in later years withdrew entirely from public life.

BLOOMFIELD-MOORE, MRS. CLARA SOPHIA, author, poet, was born in 1824 in Pennsylvania. She is a Philadelphia writer who has lived much abroad, and chiefly in England, and is the author of Miscellaneous Poems; On Dangerous Ground, a romance of American Society; Sensible Etiquette; Gondaline's Lesson and Other Poems; Slander and Gossip; and The Warden's Tale and Other Poems.