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Blackwell (MRS ANTOINETTE LOUISA BROWN)

MRS. ANTOINETTE LOUISA (BROWN), an American woman suffragist and Unitarian minister, born at Henrietta, N. Y., May 20, 1825.

A graduate of Oberlin (1847), she "preached on her own orders," at first in Congregational churches, becoming at length a champion of women's rights.

She married Samuel C., a brother of Dr.

Elizabeth Blackwell (1856). She has written "Shadows of Our Social System" (1855); "The Island Neighbors" (1871), novel of American Life; "Sexes a Throughout Nature" (1875); "Sea Drift" (1903); "The Making of the Universe" (1914); "The Social Side of Mind and Action" (1915).