Daily Quiz for October 9, 2011

Mary Elizabeth Clyens Lease, 1850 – 1903, was a self-educated lawyer committed to creating a more egalitarian society. The child of Irish immigrants, she was a fundraiser for the Irish National League in America and worked for the Knights of Labor and the Farmers’ Alliance. She denied ever saying, "raise less corn and more hell," but the statement reflects her history as a labor agitator.