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Women Lawyers in the United States. take up all his business just where he left it and carry it on, being requested to do so by his clients in all cases which were at issue except one. Mrs. Kilgore has won the re spect and the confidence of the bar and the courts. She has twice been appointed Mas ter by the courts, and the character of the business intrusted to her proves that she has gained also the confidence of the public.

Among other valua ble business she is re tained as the solicitor of a corporation. She regrets that no other women are practis ing or studying law in Philadelphia, and says she would like to have a lady student in her office, and would give such an one a good chance with her after admission to the bar. There is, however, another woman study ing law in Warren, Penn., who has been for three years a regis tered student in a law office. This is Miss Alice G. McGee, and she is ready now for MARY A. examination, but is obliged to wait till February, when she will be twenty-one years old, before making her application. In New England Mrs. Clara H. Nash was the first woman to secure admission to the bar. She was admitted by the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, at Machias, in the October term, 1872. She had studied about three years in the office of her husband, F. C. Nash, Esq., and after admission formed a partnership with him, and they practised together in Washington County, and after ward in Portland, until recently, when they removed to Boston Here Mrs. Nash has

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taken a less active part in the business owing to domestic duties, and she has not yet been formally admitted to our bar. In July, 1877, Miss Mary Hall, of Hart ford, Conn., began to study law in the office of her brother, Ezra Hall, Esq. His death occurred the following November, but soon after she resumed her legal studies in the office of John Hooker, Esq., the State re porter, and continued there for three years. She then thought seri ously of going to some State where women were admitted to the bar, dreading the noise and criticism to which a pioneer in such a matter is always subject, but was induced to make her applica tion for admission in her own State, which she did in March, 1882. She passed the examination success fully, and the question of her admission un der the statute went before the Supreme Court on briefs. In July of the same year a decision was ren GREENE. dered favorable to her admission,1 and she was sworn in as an attorney soon after. She has been in constant practice since that time in Hartford, supporting herself com fortably. Her work has been largely for women. She does little court work, usually turning that over to her brothers of the profession. Boston University has strongly favored coeducation from its foundation, and all of its departments have been open to women. In 1874 Miss Elizabeth G. Daniels, of Hyde . Park, this State, was a student in the Law 1 In re Hall, 50 Conn. 131.