American educator, born in Milwaukee, WI; educated at Northwestern University; was made principal of the Plainwell, MI, high-school; later of the Franklin, IN, high-school; subsequently taught in the Indianapolis high-school; in 1880 married T. L. Sewall, of Indianapolis, and in 1882, opened with him a girls’ preparatory school in that city. She was a delegate to the International Council of Women which met in Washington in 1888, and was one of the founders of the permanent National and International councils, and served as president of the former and vice-president of the latter. She was appointed member at large of the board of managers of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, and was chosen chairman of the committee which had charge of the World’s Congress of Representative Women. In connection with this she edited Résumé of the World’s Congress of Representative Women. In Indianapolis she was one of the founders of the Woman’s Club, the Equal Suffrage Society, and other organizations of women.
