OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - OBIT: HINDMAN, Miss Matilda
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Undated Newspaper Article;
DEATH CLOSES AN ACTIVE LIFE
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Miss Matilda Hindman, Prominent Champion
 of Womans Suffrage, Passes Away.
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FIRST TO ATTAIN M. A. DEGREE
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     Miss Matilda Hindman, for many years one of the most prominent advocates 
of woman's suffrage in the United States, and a prominent local club woman is 
dead at the old family homestead near Monongahela City, Washington County, 
Pa.  Miss Hindman's death occured Tuesday night after a long illness, and was 
due to a general breakdown of the sustem.  She died in the home which her 
family had occupied for over 60 years. and in which she was born.  Miss 
Hindman was decended from early settlers of Washington county, and on her 
mothers side from the famous Campbell family of Scotland.  Her ancestors 
always took a prominent part in public affairs, and from them Miss Hindman 
inherited much literary ability.
     She was for many years a well-known writer, many articles from her pen 
appearing in the leading magazines and newspapers of the country.  She was an 
ardent advocate of reforms and many of her articles were published in The 
Gazette.  Miss Hindman held thoughout her long life as one of her leading 
principals that any woman who consented to do a mans work for less than a 
mans wages was wronging not only her own sex, but the whole army of 
wageworkers.  She entered Mt. Union college and took the regular course with 
the men students.
     In 1860 she was graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts, being the 
first woman to attain the degree of M. A. in any college or school either in 
the United States or Europe.  The fact that Miss Hindman had won the degree 
was commented upon by all the large papers of this country and Europe.  At 
the commencement exercises at Mt. Union college she delivered her oration 
from the platform upon which seven men graduates sat, and her address was so 
far above the average commencement oration that a brilliant future was 
predicted for her as a speaker.  This prediction was made good by her in 
later life, as she for about 25 years lectured in almost every state in the 
country in the interest of various reforms and had a personal acquaintance 
with almost every woman of prominence in the United States.  On the lecture 
platform hers was a familiar figure along with thoes of Julia Ward Hewe, Mrs. 
Mary A. Livermore, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, H. B. Blockwell 
and others.
     Miss Hindman spent much of her life in campaign work for woman's 
suffrage, appearing before ecclesiastical and legislative bodies, 
constitutional and congressional committies.
     Miss Hindman was one of the most active club women of the country, and 
on many occasions lectured on parliamentary law before women's clubs in many 
cities.  In 1882 she was elected the vice president for Pennsylvania of the 
National Woman's Suffrage association and was president of the State Federal 
Suffrage association.  Miss Hindman was the first president of the local 
Woman's Suffrage club, holding that position for many years.
     She was a former president of the Travelers club, and when that 
organization split, thoes who seceeded organized the present New Era club, 
the name being suggested by Miss Hindman.  In her youth Miss Hindman was a 
pupil of the late Judge J. W. F. White of this county, and it is related that 
Judge White in his after career at the local bar had declared Miss Hindman 
the brightest pupil he had ever taught. Miss Hindman was also a relative of 
Edward Campbell, former prothonotary of this county.
     She is survived by two sisters,  Miss Jennie Hindman, probation officer 
for Allegheny county, and Mrs. M. H. Wright, a former newspaper man of 
Pittsburgh.  Funeral services will held at the Mingo Presbyterian church, 
near Finleyville, at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The interment will be made 
in the old family buring ground at Mingo cemetery.






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