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Women in Missouri History Women in I N S E A R C H O F Edited by LeeAnnWhites, Mary C. Neth, and Gary R. Kremer .......................................... .......................................... University of Missouri Press Columbia and London Copyright © 2004 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 08 07 06 05 04 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women in Missouri history : in search of power and influence / edited by LeeAnn Whites, Mary C. Neth, and Gary R. Kremer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8262-1526-2 (alk. paper) 1. Women—Missouri—History. 2. Women—Missouri—Social conditions. I. Whites, LeeAnn. II. Neth, Mary. III. Kremer, Gary R. HQ1438.M8W65 2004 305.4’09778—dc22 2004002549 This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984. Designer: Kristie Lee Typesetter: Crane Composition, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Typefaces: Sabon and Gillies Antique For photo credits, see p. 275. Contents Introduction LeeAnn Whites and Mary C. Neth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 French Women in Colonial Missouri, 1750–1805 Susan Calafate Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Esther and Her Sisters: Free Women of Color as Property Owners in Colonial St. Louis, 1765–1803 Judith A. Gilbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 German-Speaking Women in Nineteenth-Century Missouri: The Immigrant Experience Linda Schelbitzki Pickle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 “May We as One Family Live in Peace and Harmony”: Relations between Mistresses and Slave Women in Antebellum Missouri Diane Mutti Burke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 City Sisters: The Sisters of St. Joseph in Missouri, 1836–1920 Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 The Tale of Two Minors: Women’s Rights on the Border LeeAnn Whites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 vi Contents The Changing Role of Protection on the Border: Gender and the Civil War in Saline County Rebekah Weber Bowen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Her Will against Theirs: Eda Hickam and the Ambiguity of Freedom in Postbellum Missouri Kimberly Schreck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Sedalia’s Ladies of the Evening: Prostitution and Class in a Nineteenth-Century Railroad Town Rhonda Chalfant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Domestic Drudges to Dazzling Divas: The Origins of African American Beauty Culture in St. Louis, 1900–1930 De Anna J. Reese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 “We Are Practicable, Sensible Women”: The Missouri Women Farmers’ Club and the Professionalization of Agriculture Rebecca S. Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Euphemia B. Koller and the Politics of Insanity in Ralls County, 1921–1927 Gregg Andrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Breaking into Politics: Emily Newell Blair and the Democratic Party in the 1920s Virginia Laas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 The Doctor’s Wife: Fannie Cook and Social Protest in Missouri, 1938–1949 Bonnie Stepenoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Bibliography of Secondary Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Acknowledgments Coordinating the computer programs of our many contributors was a challenge that was ably met by Patty Eggleston, staff member of the Uni- versity of Missouri–Columbia Department of History, and Kristine Stilwell, a Ph.D. candidate in history, who not only stepped in at a crucial time to put all of the manuscripts into the same format, but also went beyond the call of duty and did some editing as well. We thank both of them for mak- ing our work on this manuscript much easier. We also would like to thank Sandy Rubinstein Peterson, also a Ph.D. candidate in history, who com- piled and prepared the bibliography for the anthology. For many of the contributors to this volume, interest in the history of women in Missouri began with a request on the part of the Cooper County American Association of University Women to research the history of women for the 125th anniversary of the founding of their county. We would like to thank the members of that organization, especially Mary Ellen McVicker, as well as the Missouri Humanities Council, for their funding of that initial project. We would also like to thank the staffs of the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Western Historical Manuscript Collec- tion, and the Missouri State Archives for their generous research assistance over the years. vii ......................................... ......................................... 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