To this no objection was made, and we met, in William Shinn's office, when my husband refused to sign unless my share of the purchase money were paid to him.
Mother's will was sacred to me.

The money he proposed to put in improvements on the Swissvale mills.

These, in case of his death before his mother, would go to his brothers.

I had not even a dower right in the estate, and already the proceeds of my labor and income from my separate estate were put upon it.

I refused to give him the money, and on my way alone from the lawyer's office it occurred to me that all the advances made by humanity had been through the pressure of injustice, and that the screws had been turned on me that I might do something to right the great wrong which forbade a married woman to own property.