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| | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
 | | The American reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on the 12th of November 1815, the daughter of Daniel Cady (1773-1859), a Federalist member of the National House of Representatives in 1815-17 and a justice of the supreme court of New York state in 1847-55. |
 | | In 1840 she married Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-87), a lawyer and journalist, who had been a prominent abolitionist since his student days (1832-34) in Lane Theological Seminary, and who took her on a wedding journey to London, where he was a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention. |
 | | Stanton, who had become intimately acquainted in London with Lucretia Mott, one of the women delegates barred from the anti-slavery convention, devoted herself to the cause of women's rights. |
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