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  National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
When she married Henry Stanton, an activist in the anti-slavery cause, the word "obey" was omitted from the ceremony at her insistence.
After the women delegates were not seated, Stanton was convinced that women should hold a convention for their own rights, This decision was delayed until her move to Seneca Falls, where she was isolated and increasingly exhausted by a growing family.
Stanton drafted the Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments and argued forcefully for the ballot, a radical demand opposed by her husband and even Mrs.
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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton - MSN Encarta
Elizabeth Cady was born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, the fourth of six children.
For this convention, Cady Stanton drafted a Declaration of Sentiments modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence, in which she declared, “men and women are created equal.” Among the resolutions in her declaration, Cady Stanton included voting rights for women, despite the disapproval of Mott.
Cady Stanton's efforts were largely responsible for the introduction in 1878 of a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage.
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Stanton was a great admirer of feminist Lucretia Mott, whom she witnessed speak at the International Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England in the spring of 1840.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 to Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, a prestigious family of Johnstown, NY.
Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady.
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 The My Hero Project - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York on November 12, 1815 to Margaret Livingston and Judge Daniel Cady.
Elizabeth went to her pastor the day after her brother’s death and told him that she needed to become well educated in math and higher language classes, this was her desire at age 11.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was so brave for standing up and fighting for her rights as a woman, especially during a time when women were looked down upon and laughed at for wanting the same rights as men.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the eighth of eleven children, was born in Johnstown, New York, to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady.
Stanton's mother, Margaret Livingston Cady, a descendant of early Dutch settlers, was the daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Stanton died at her home in New York City on October 26, 1902 nearly twenty years before women were granted the right to vote in the United States.
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Stanton was ahead of her time in promoting ideas on divorce, welfare, child rearing, religion, and women's right to vote.
Stanton suggested that solutions to abortion would be found, at least in part, in the elevation and enfranchisement of women.
Stanton was also active internationally, spending a great deal of time in Europe in her later years, and in 1888 she helped prepare for the founding of the International Council of Women.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York in 1816.
Stanton believed that women should be able to divorce their husbands and have the rights to their children.
Stanton married Henry Stanton because he was the first man she had ever met that shared her view and beliefs.
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 ipedia.com: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot "In the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source." — at the Seneca Falls Convention, July 19-20, 1848 Elizabet...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902) was a leading figure of the Women's rights movement in the United States.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Izabelle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is one of the most important women in the history of women's rights.
When Elizabeth was in school she had to wear a collar and a red itchy dress.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton received a note from her old friend Lucretia Mott to attend the first world anti-slavery gathering on Friday, June 12, 1840.
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 Today in History: November 12
Stanton's verbal brilliance combined with the organizational ability and mental focus of her lifelong collaborator Susan B. Anthony made the two women a formidable resource to the early cause.
Stanton was the brains of the new association, while she herself was merely its hands and feet; but in truth the two women worked marvelously together, for Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died October 26, 1902 before the Woman's Suffrage Amendment was passed by Congress in 1919.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Notable Women Ancestors   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton popped up in my family tree while researching my CADY line, I knew who she was, but I knew very little about the woman herself.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born into an affluent family in Johnstown, NY on November 12, 1815, one of five daughters of Daniel and Mary (Livingston) Cady.
Elizabeth was its first president and remained as such until 1890 when NWSA merged with a more conservative group and became the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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 Lesson Plan - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York.
Her father was Judge Cady, and Elizabeth loved going in and sitting in the corner of his office, while his clients talked about their problems.
Elizabeth was upset by the way women were treated in general, and at this meeting discussed a few of her grievances.
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 Susan G. Butruille: Important Dates in Women's History: November
Newly-wed Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Quaker minister Lucretia Mott, an elected delegate, watched in astonishment as delegates Stanton called "narrow-minded bigots, pretending to be teachers and leaders of men," refused to seat the women, and banished them to seats behind a low curtain.
Media and clerical reaction was so swift and so savage that Elizabeth Cady Stanton later would write, "If I had had the slightest premonition of all that was to follow that convention, I fear I should not have had the courage to risk it.
Stanton, Anthony and Mott all would die before their right to vote would be recognized.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
More than once while Elizabeth was visiting, helping her cousins practice speeches against slavery, a frightened knock at the back door would halt all activity.
Elizabeth and the other ladies present were required to sit silent behind a modesty screen.
Elizabeth helped when she could, but The Cause was definitely secondary to raising her seven children and much of the work fell to her spinster friend Susan B. Anthony.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a women's rights activist of the 1800's in the United States.
Elizabeth Cady eventually married Henry Stanton, who became an attorney and was involved in the anti-slavery movement.
Elizabeth was interested in a broader set of rights than Susan (such as coeducation and dress reform), who was mostly interested in suffrage (the right to vote).
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 Educational Theory of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Stanton felt as though she was "well born" and "put together" with rare knowledge provided by her parents.
Stanton was "open-minded" in her time of unusual practices and believed strongly in regards to family qualities and prenatal influences.
Stanton disagreed with the "separate spheres" theory of male and female behavior stating that women are not suited for public life.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It was on this date, November 12, 1815, that feminist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, the daughter of a lawyer.
Stanton grew to use the term "Nature" interchangeably with "God" in her speeches, observing that "The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died on 26 October 1902, before the dream of woman suffrage was realized in the US.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton — FactMonster.com
The woman delegates were excluded from the floor of the convention; the indignation this aroused in Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott was an important factor in their efforts to organize women to win greater equality.
Elizabeth Stanton was a brilliant orator and an able journalist, and as a writer and lecturer she strove for legal, political, and industrial equality of women and for liberal divorce laws.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Elizabeth Cady Stanton American reformer Born: 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an influential...
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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Johnstown, N.Y. She was educated at the Troy Female Seminary (now Emma Willard School) in Troy, N.Y. In 1840 she married Henry Brewster Stanton, a journalist and abolitionist, and attended with him the international slavery convention in London.
The woman delegates were excluded from the floor of the convention; the indignation this aroused in Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott was an important factor in their efforts to organize women to win greater equality.
Elizabeth Stanton was a brilliant orator and an able journalist, and as a writer and lecturer she strove for legal, political, and industrial equality of women and for liberal divorce laws.
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 Not for Ourselves Alone. JMMH video review
Stanton and Anthony's campaign to reform the marriage laws fares better, at least in the first half.
They tell the story of Stanton's creation of the Women's Bible in the 1890s and show the intolerance of other suffragists toward a thinker who was far ahead of her time on many matters.
Burns and Barnes are hardly alone in their tendency to conflate suffrage and women's rights—to see Stanton and Anthony as leaders of a movement which had one crowning idea and pursued a few peculiar agendas on the side.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902) was the most famous freethinking woman of her day.
Stanton held that suffrage for women would be wasted if the Church still controlled their sex in the home and in society.
Stanton suffered the sting of having the organization she founded, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, condemn The Woman’s Bible.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers (Library of Congress)
Stanton spoke and wrote widely about the political, economic, religious, and social wrongs perpetrated against women and provided leadership in organizations devoted to securing rights for women, particularly the right to vote.
Married to an abolitionist, Henry B. Stanton, Stanton was active in the antislavery movement in the decades preceding the Civil War and a proponent of Negro rights during Reconstruction.
The correspondence provides glimpses into Stanton's family life illustrating how she balanced her family responsibilities with the demands placed on her as a leader in the movement.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography
Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York, into the privileged life of a judge’s family.
When Elizabeth accompanied her husband to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, she encountered the women’s suffrage leader, Lucretia Mott, and shared her indignation at the convention’s refusal to seat women delegates.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton met the mockery and criticism of her contemporaries with firmness and humor: “They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves.
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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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 Open Collections Program: Women Working: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a primary architect of the suffrage movement, organizer of the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, and the colleague and friend of Susan B. Anthony.
Born in 1815, in Johnstown, New York, Elizabeth Cady was the daughter of Daniel Cady, a prominent judge, and Margaret Livingston.
Elizabeth Cady married fellow abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840, insisting that the "obey" be dropped from the ceremony.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) is believed to be the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, and for the next fifty years played a leadership role in the women's rights movement.
Stanton had an early introduction to the reform movements, including encounters as a young woman with fugitive slaves at the home of her cousin Gerrit Smith.
Stanton, Mott, Wright, Hunt, and Mary Ann McClintock made the plan to call the first women's rights convention, initiating the women's rights movement in the United States, and Stanton's role as a leader in that movement.
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