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one 3/4-length and one bust-length portraits with imprints of Whitney's Gallery Saint Paul and Hall & Co.s Nashville. Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (1814-84) was an American journalist, abolitionist and woman's rights advocate. She was a prolific writer, penning articles against capital punishment, for the abolition of slavery and advancing women's property rights, as well as short stories and poetry. After her divorce she moved to St. Cloud and took control of several newspapers. She served as a nurse during the Civil War, and was a close friend of Mary Todd Lincoln, Edwin Stanton and other prominent leaders of the time. She also made powerful enemies, not the least was General Sylvanus Lowry, whose "Committee of Vigilance" broke into the newspaper offices, destroying them and dumping the press into the Mississippi River. She lost her last paper, The Reconstructionist, after blasting President Johnson in print (Encyclopedia Britannica 1960). Condition: 1st VG+; 2nd with slight foxing.