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 James W. North, a lawyer of Augusta, Maine and husband of Ferrin's cousin Phebe Upton, assisted Upton Ferrin by perfecting "the divorce petition, in circulation during her six years of petition work. The following year the Divorce Law was amended, and shortly thereafter two old ladies, nearly seventy years of age, having no future marriage in view, but solely influenced by a desire to secure their own property to their own children, which without such divorce they would be unable to do, although one of their husbands had not provided for his wife in twenty years, nor the other in thirty years, availed themselves of its new privileges."
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