Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin

She greatly aided the cause from the lecture platform, for though a member of the Society of Friends, she availed herself of the freedom accorded to the speaker in meetings.

[3] In 1872, she removed to Terre Haute, Indiana, where for many years her husband was a teacher in the State Normal School.

[2] It was in Terre Haute that Hodgin entered the field of work that thereafter chiefly occupied her time and thought.

In 1878, the strain upon her induced nervous exhaustion, from which she found relief by a six-months retirement in the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, Livingston County, New York.

She was president of the WCTU in her own county, was secretary of the State Suffrage Association, and was one of the trustees of the Hadley Industrial Home for the education of poor girls.

[5] In religion, she was a member of the Society of Friends and availed herself of the freedom accorded to the women of that church to "speak in meeting".