See also:ELIZABETH CADY See also:STANTON (1815-1902)
, See also:American reformer, was See also:born in See also:Johnstown, New See also:York, on the 12th of See also:November 1815, the daughter of See also:Daniel Cady (1773–1859), a Federalist member of the See also:National See also:House of Representatives in 1815–1817 and a See also:justice of the supreme See also:court of New York See also:state in 1847–1855
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She was educated at the Johnstown See also:Academy and at the See also:Troy See also:Female See also:Seminary (now the Emma See also:Willard School), where she graduated in 1832
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In 184o she married See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Brewster See also:Stanton (1805–1887), a lawyer and journalist, who had been a prominent abolitionist since his student days (1832–1834) in See also:Lane Theological, Seminary, and who took her on a See also:wedding See also:journey to See also:London, where he was a delegate to the See also:World's See also:Anti-See also:Slavery See also:Convention
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He was a member of the New York See also:Senate in 1850-1851, was one of the founders of the Republican party in New York, and from r868 until his See also:death was on the See also:staff of the New York See also:Sun
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Mrs Stanton, who had become intimately acquainted in London with Mrs See also:Lucretia See also:Mott, one of the See also:women delegates barred from the anti-slavery convention, devoted herself to the cause of women's rights
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She did much by the circulation of petitions to secure the passage in New York in 1848 of a See also:law giving a married woman See also:property rights; and in the same See also:year on the 19th and loth of
See also:June in See also:Seneca Falls (q.v.), whither the Stantons had removed in 1847 from See also:Boston, was held, chiefly under the leadership of Mrs Mott and Mrs Stanton, the first Woman's Rights Convention
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She spoke before the New York legislature on the rights of married women in 1854 and on See also:drunkenness as a ground for See also:divorce in 1860, and for twenty-five years she annually addressed a See also:committee of See also:Congress urging an See also:amendment to the Federal constitution giving certain privileges to women
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With See also:Parker Pillsbury (1809—1898) she edited in 1867—187o The Revolution, a See also:radical newspaper, which in 187o was consolidated with the See also:Christian Enquirer
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To the Woman's See also:Tribune she made important contributions, See also:publishing in it serially parts of the Woman's See also:Bible (1895), which she and others pre-pared, and her See also:personal reminiscences, published in 1898 as Eighty Years and More
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With Susan B
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See also:Anthony and Mathilda Joslyn See also:Gage she wrote The See also:History of Woman See also:Suffrage (3 vols., 188o—1886)
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She was See also:president of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1865—1890
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Her daughter, See also:Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856— ), also became prominent as a worker for woman's suffrage
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