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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . In 184o she married See also: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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . With Susan B . See also:Anthony and Mathilda Joslyn See also:Gage she wrote The See also:History of Woman See also:Suffrage (3 vols., 188o—1886) . She was See also:president of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1865—1890 .

Her daughter, See also:

Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856— ), also became prominent as a worker for woman's suffrage .

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