Elizabeth Cady Stanton


 
 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was a social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States. With her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also active in the anti-slavery Abolitionist movement. Stanton had a strong friendship with abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

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Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady. Daniel Cady was a prominent attorney who served a term in Congress and later became a judge. Margaret Livingston was the daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Henry Brewster Stanton through her early involvement in the temperance and abolition movements. Henry Stanton was a journalist, an antislavery orator, and, after their marriage, became an attorney. The couple were married in 1840 and had seven children. Stanton died in 1902 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

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1815: 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar)....

October 26: October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining....

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