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LUCY [BLACKWELL] STONE (1818-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 957 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCY [See also:BLACKWELL] See also:STONE (1818-1893)  , See also:American reformer, See also:anti-See also:slavery and woman's-rights See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:West Brookfield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 13th of See also:August 1818 . Her See also:father refused her the See also:college See also:education that she so eagerly desired, but she earned enough to carry her through See also:Oberlin College, where she graduated in 1847 . She immediately went on the lecture See also:platform as an See also:advocate of abolition and of woman's rights, and her remarkable See also:voice and commanding eloquence often held in check the most disorderly audiences . In 1855 she married Dr See also:Henry B . See also:Blackwell (1824—1909), a prominent abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights, who agreed that she should keep her See also:maiden name; after 187o he assisted his wife in the management of the Woman's See also:Journal of See also:Boston, of which she became editor in 1872 . She allowed her New See also:Jersey See also:property to be sold for taxes, and then published a pamphlet on " See also:taxation without See also:representation." She campaigned for woman's See also:suffrage amendments in See also:Kansas (1867), See also:Vermont (1870), See also:Michigan (1874), See also:Colorado (1877) and See also:Nebraska (1892) . She died in See also:Dorchester, See also:Mass., on the 18th of See also:October 1893 . Her daughter, ALICE See also:STONE BLACKWELL (b . 1857), carried on, with her father, the Woman's Journal after 1893, and in 1885—1905 edited the Woman's See also:Column . Her See also:husband's sisters, See also:ELIZABETH BLACKWELL (1821—1910) and EMILY BLACKWELL (1826—1910), were prominent physicians . The former graduated at the See also:Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New See also:York, in 1849, receiving the first physician's degree granted to a woman in the See also:United States, and studied in See also:Philadelphia, in See also:Paris and in See also:London, where she began to practise in 1869 . She died at See also:Hastings on the 1st of See also:June 1910 .

Emily Blackwell graduated at the Medical See also:

Department of Western Reserve University in 1854; in 1853, with her See also:sister, she founded the New York Infirmary for See also:Women and See also:Children; and she was for many years See also:dean of the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary which she and her sister established in 1865 .

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