“This congress ought to be attended by every intelligent woman in the state.”
Janesville Gazette, October 3, 1879
In October of 1879, less than six months before her death, Lavinia Goodell attended the American Women’s Association congress in Madison.

According to the Wisconsin State Journal:
Continue reading →The aim of the congress is to render women more helpful to each other, and more useful to society. It desires to bring together, in friendly counsel, women of diverse experience – the educator, the philanthropist, the house-keeper, the scientist – that from the little candle each has lighted at the daily altar, where her daily service has been offered, a flame may be kindled which shall send light into the dark corners, where, in spite of our boasted civilization, sin, misery and ignorance still lurk.