. Dr. Owens-Adair; some of her life experiences . r Women Political Workers—NoTrue Womans Duty 432-452 Answer to Criticism—Our Wandering Boy Again—Anti - Saloon Movement—Report of Interviews—Womans Influence for Evil—Chairman ExecutiveCommittee—Report to National Superintendent ofHeredity and Hygiene—Letter from Seymour Con-don—Letters to Legislature—Address to Legisla-ture 453-470 Address Before Womens Congress, Portland, 1896 471-478 Royal Mare, Plebian Foal—Race Suicide—Man Found onthe Road—Will Always Love Em—Go to Bed Withthe Chickens—Ladies Should Ride Astride 479-495 Social Life and Pro
. Dr. Owens-Adair; some of her life experiences . r Women Political Workers—NoTrue Womans Duty 432-452 Answer to Criticism—Our Wandering Boy Again—Anti - Saloon Movement—Report of Interviews—Womans Influence for Evil—Chairman ExecutiveCommittee—Report to National Superintendent ofHeredity and Hygiene—Letter from Seymour Con-don—Letters to Legislature—Address to Legisla-ture 453-470 Address Before Womens Congress, Portland, 1896 471-478 Royal Mare, Plebian Foal—Race Suicide—Man Found onthe Road—Will Always Love Em—Go to Bed Withthe Chickens—Ladies Should Ride Astride 479-495 Social Life and Professional Work—Lost in the Fog— Night Work—Legal Commendation 496-506 Address of Welcome to Washington W. C. T. U.—Ad-dress of Presentation—Response to Toast—AddressBefore Eastern Star—Favors Use of Knife—Mar-riage and Divorce 507-523 Dr. Adams Surgical Work—Dr. Adair Returns to Sunny-mead 524-530 First Recognition of Women by American Medical As-sociation—On the Trail—Progress of Women 531-537. /S^. -4. (a*^^- ^^ ~j^a^^ DR. OWENS-ADAIRSome of Her Life Experiences CHAPTER I. The Story of My Life. I was born February 7th, 1810, in Van Buren county,Missouri, being the second daughter of Thomas and SarahDamron Owens. My father and mother crossed the plains with the firstemigrant wagons of 1843, and settled on Clatsop plains,Clatsop county, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia, thewonderful RiA^er of the West, in sound of the ceaselessroar of that mightiest of oceans, the grand old then very small and delicate in stature, and of ahighly nervous and sensitive nature, I possessed a strongand vigorous constitution, and a most wonderful enduranceand recuperative power. These qualities were inherited,not only from my parents, but from my grandparents, aswell. My grandfather Owens was a man of exceptionalfinancial ability. He had a large plantation in Kentucky,and owned many slaves, and many stores throughout thestate. He
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