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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(163)

Author:Kate Moore

28“deficiency of science”: “Dr. Dunglison’s Statistics of Insanity in the United States,” AJOI 17 (July 1860): 111.

29“for the purpose”: Dr. Knott, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 18.

30“unusual zealousness”: Ibid.

31“strong will”: Ibid.

32“slightly insane”: Elizabeth Packard’s admittance record at the Illinois State Hospital, Jacksonville Record 1:232, June 19, 1860, Barbara Sapinsley Papers. Access to these admittance records is now restricted by law.

33“present attack”: Ibid.

34“excessive application”: Ibid.

35“placed there by”: EP, TE, title page.

36“one look of”: EP, PHL, 72.

37“Never had I”: Ibid.

38“kisses from”: Ibid.

39“happy adieu”: Ibid.

40“dying hope”: Ibid., 69.

CHAPTER 8

1“from sister spirits”: EP, GD, 1:91.

2“no bruises”: EP, PHL, xi.

3“in agony”: Ibid.

4“drunkard husband”: EP, MP1, 171.

5“half of”: Ibid.

6“Of course”: EP, PHL, 121.

7“The manifestations”: Dr. Jules Falret, “On Moral Insanity,” AJOI 23, nos. 3–4 (April 1867): 534.

8“preserve the appearance”: Ibid.

9“It isn’t fair”: EP, GD, 1:287.

10“premature marks”: SO, MO, 24, in PHL, page 378 in PDF.

11“the only religious”: History of Woman Suffrage, ed. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, vol. 3, 1876–1885 (Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, 1887), 530.

12“It is not”: Sarah Minard, “Testimony of Mrs. Sarah Minard, of St. Charles, Ill.,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 129, in PHL, page 483 in PDF.

13“busy fingers”: SO, MO, 23, in PHL, page 377 in PDF.

14“universal respect”: Ibid.

15“In many instances”: EP, Bill No. 2, presented to the Committee on the Commitment of the Insane in Boston State House on March 29, 1865, quoted in MPE, 56 [italics added].

16“It was a”: EP, PHL, 80.

17“the greatest annoyances”: Dr. DeWolf recalling an application to his asylum, in “Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” AJOI 22, nos. 1–2 (July 1865): 54.

18“all domestic control”: Conolly, A Remonstrance, 10.

19“storage unit”: http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/thirdsight/2013/09/23/women-in-insane-asylums/ (site inaccessible as of publication time)。

20“put here”: EP, MPE, 96.

21“massive Thor”: Chicago Daily Press, 1858, quoted in Encyclopaedia Britannica, s.v. “Cyrus McCormick,” last modified June 10, 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-McCormick.

22“men of lesser”: Herbert N. Casson, Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work (1909; repr., Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971), 154.

23“smaller men could”: Ibid.

24“no authority”: Declaration of the General Assembly of the Old School Presbyterian Church, 1845, quoted in William T. Hutchinson, Cyrus Hall McCormick: Harvest 1856–1884 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century, 1935), 6n5.

25“subsidizing the preaching”: Hutchinson, Cyrus Hall McCormick, 14.

26“The oppressed ought”: EP, GD, 1:134.

27“I think he”: Ibid.

28“Self-interest”: TP, TPD, 65 (December 28, 1832)。

29“may not be”: TP, quoted by EP, TE, 109.

30“so entirely disregarded”: Letter from TP’s parishioners and deacons to EP, May 24, 1860, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.

31“We all have”: Sybil Dole, quoted by EP, GD, 2:254.

32“my deluded”: Ibid., 2:72.

33“She would not”: Abijah Dole, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 24.

34“a covert”: EP, TE, 101.

35“how many hopes”: AM, “The Better Way,” 20.

36“characters, feelings, connections”: Luther V. Bell, quoted in Gerald N. Grob, The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill (New York: Free Press, 1994), 83.

37“fountains of sympathy”: AM, The Escape, vii.

38“a heart of”: L. M. Glover, letter to the Ministers of the Gospel in Illinois, “Hospital for the Insane,” Jacksonville Journal, December 19, 1867.