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See also:STANTON, See also:ELIZABETH CADY (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
- 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 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.
End of Article: STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY (1815-1902)
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