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  Famous People - celebrity and historical
Stanton died in 1902 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
Stanton and Anthony were to remain close friends and colleagues the rest of her life, though unlike Anthony, Stanton wanted to push a broader platform of womens rights than suffrage.
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.
www.famouspeople.com /famous_biographies/Lizzie_Stanton.htm   (813 words)

  
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanton died in 1902 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
Stanton and Anthony were to remain close friends and colleagues the rest of her life, though unlike Anthony, Stanton wanted to push a broader platform of womens rights than suffrage.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton   (851 words)

  
 Henry Stanton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Stanton was well known as a dynamic orator and capable writer, and used these skills as a journalist, attorney, and politician.
Stanton helped to launch the Republican party in 1855, and was an ardent Republican on the issues of slavery and secession.
Stanton also had a lifelong interest in horticulture and gardening, and was known for setting aside time every day to tend the trees, fruits and vegetables in his garden.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Henry_Stanton   (733 words)

  
 Stanton, Henry T.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Henry T. Stanton was born in Alexandria, Virginia on June 30, 1834, the son of Judge Richard Henry Stanton.
Stanton served in the Confederate Army as a captain of a company in the 5th Kentucky regiment and from 1862-64 was assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. John S. Williams.
Stanton's father, Richard Henry Stanton (1812-1891), was born in Virginia but moved to Kentucky and was a noted jurist and author of Kentucky legal treatises and editor of Kentucky's revised statutes.
www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/stanton.html   (613 words)

  
 The Infidels - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Stanton was a great admirer of feminist Lucretia Mott, whom she heard speak at the International Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England in the spring of 1840 while on her honeymoon.
Stanton became angry when she couldn't see Mott speak, as women in the audience were required to sit in a roped-off section hidden from the view of the men in attendance.
Stanton wrote, "When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit." She suggested that solutions to abortion would be found, at least in part, in the elevation and enfranchisement of women.
www.theinfidels.org /zunb-elizabethcadystanton.htm   (1076 words)

  
 Women's Rights National Historical Park - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (U.S. National Park Service)
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 M'Clintock 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.
The statue of Stanton, Mott and Anthony housed in the U.S. Capitol was used as the symbol of the American Delegation to the 1995 Peking Conference.
www.nps.gov /wori/historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm   (982 words)

  
 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.
Stanton was a master of words and could write and speak to perfection of the things Susan B. Anthony saw and felt but could not herself express.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/nov12.html   (1360 words)

  
 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.
www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=149   (400 words)

  
 Durst Pioneers
Married 1) Catharine Bittinger, daughter of Henry Bittinger and Barbara "Barbary" Bauser and 2) Matilda Durst, daughter of Jacob Durst and Nancy Wiland.
Henry was apparently living on his 200-acre property in 1820; his close neighbors included Eli Ridgely and Henry Bittinger.
Henry may have left "Desert" prior to 4/20/1822; Peter Beachy was the owner of the 200-acre section of the tract on that date.
www.users.interport.net /a/s/ashlie/DURST.HTM   (1159 words)

  
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Biography | aaw_02_package.xml
Stanton was born to a prominent family in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815.
Stanton penned the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, that stated "that all men and women are created equal." In the document, Stanton demanded women's right to higher education and to professions then closed to them, more liberal divorce laws, property rights for married women, and women's suffrage.
Stanton died at her home in New York on October 16, 1902, well before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
www.bookrags.com /biography/stanton-elizabeth-cady-aaw-02   (846 words)

  
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
In 1840 she married Henry Brewster Stanton, a lawyer and abolitionist (she insisted that the word "obey" be dropped from the wedding ceremony).
At the meeting Stanton introduced her Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, that detailed the inferior status of women and that, in calling for extensive reforms, effectively launched the American women's-rights movement.
In 1854 Stanton received an unprecedented invitation to address the New York legislature; her speech resulted in new legislation in 1860 granting married women the rights to their wages and to equal guardianship of their children.
www.britannica.com /women/articles/Stanton_Elizabeth_Cady.html   (767 words)

  
 Kennedy's Children, David J. DeRose
Henry's wife (Stanton's mother) is now dying of cancer; her final request is to see her son once more before she passes away.
Henry and this younger man spend a long, wakeful night, camped on the open ground near the skeletal wreckage of an abandoned car, attempting to determine if they may, in fact, be father and son.
Henry's personal past and that of his newfound companion are interwoven with the lives of four other figures who, while not present "in the flesh" at this encounter, nevertheless share the stage throughout the play.
lists.village.virginia.edu /sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Reviews/DeRose_Kennedy_kids.html   (1751 words)

  
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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.
keep3.sjfc.edu /students/ajm4064/unitplan/stanton.htm   (291 words)

  
 Paula Treckel
Stanton's biographer Elizabeth Griffith has traced the trajectory of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life: Her Personal Anguish was transformed into Anger; Her Anger fired Analysis; Her Analysis became the basis for Action.
It was Stanton's attacks on marriage, the very bedrock of nineteenth century gender roles, that upset her audience the most, and her words were calculated to provoke: "A man marrying gives up no right, she argued, but a woman, every right, even the most sacred of all, the right to her own person...
Stanton's The Woman's Bible is important not so much as a piece of biblical scholarship as a declaration of her complete independence from all traditional institutions shaping American life.
gos.sbc.edu /t/treckel.html   (6627 words)

  
 Epitaph Newsletter Volume 22, Number 2
Henry Stanton described him as one of the poorest and worst-dressed men in Rochester who lived in a cheap house in an obscure part of the village and commented that it was unusual for a man so poor to wield such political power.
Henry Stanton was a student at the Rochester Institute of Practical Education and claimed to have studied the classics at various locations in the Rochester area.
Henry Stanton intended to continue his education at Oberlin but was appointed general agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society and began the work that occupied a large share of his life for many years.
www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?PAGE=3114   (3441 words)

  
 Legend of Capt Stanton
Stanton must have been surprised to see Indians bolt from the lodges as he and his men trotted their horses into the Sacramento Mountain ravine on the afternoon of Jan. 19, 1855.
At first, Stanton told his men to take cover behind the timber, but when he realized the Mescaleros had the advantage in number and position, he ordered the soldiers to ride for camp, which was only three-quarters of a mile away.
Stanton was reloading his carbine when he was killed by a shot through the head.
www.nm-scv.org /CaptStanton.html   (1841 words)

  
 Women's Rights NHP: Special History Study (Chapter 3)
Stanton noted in an 1859 letter that one cook was leaving to take a job in a factory, and that she really could not blame her for being tired of "revolving round the cook stove." [24] Stanton was not the only Seneca Falls resident who had trouble retaining help.
Henry Stanton was generally willing to let his wife pursue her reform interests if she could find the time, but even this very liberal individual was not going to volunteer to assume any of the domestic duties to allow her some leisure in which to work.
Stanton would turn from her desk, where lay a manuscript of a lecture upon the wrongs of woman in marriage, to give a young girl about to be married the most loving sympathy and the wisest and most judicious advice.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/wori/shs3.htm   (6682 words)

  
 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, her husband and Lucretia Mott traveled to London as delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention.
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."
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1112almanac.htm   (567 words)

  
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902), was an early leader of the women's rights movement.
Stanton was born in Johnstown, N.Y., and graduated from the Troy Female Seminary (now the Emma Willard School).
Stanton wrote a Declaration of Sentiments, using the Declaration of Independence as her model.
www.puhsd.k12.ca.us /chana/staffpages/eichman/Adult_School/us/spring/civil_rights/3/stanton.htm   (278 words)

  
 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.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/stanton.html   (907 words)

  
 Woman: Society's Humanizer. New Feminism
When Elizabeth Cady married abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840, she'd already observed enough about the legal relationships between men and women to insist that the word obey be dropped from the ceremony.
Stanton often served as the writer and Anthony as the strategist in this effective working relationship.
After the Civil War, Stanton and Anthony were among those who were determined to focus on female suffrage when only voting rights of freed males were addressed in Reconstruction.
www.newoman.org /mujeres/articulo.phtml?id=1959   (262 words)

  
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography - Biography.com
In 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton married a reformer Henry Stanton (omitting “obey” from the marriage oath), and they went at once to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she joined other women in objecting to their exclusion from the assembly.
After meeting Susan B Anthony in the early 1850s, she was one of the leaders in promoting women's rights in general (such as divorce) and the right to vote in particular.
More so than many other women in that movement, she was able and willing to speak out on a wide spectrum of issues—from the primacy of legislatures over the courts and constitution, to women's right to ride bicycles—and she deserves to be recognized as one of the more remarkable individuals in American history.
www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9492182   (567 words)

  
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 to Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, a prestigious family of Johnstown, NY.
Sadly, one of Stanton's first memories was the when her sister was born.
Like Anthony, who referred to abortion as "infanticide", Stanton stated, ""When we consider that women have been treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit." However, she had some very strange biblical views.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b4elizabethcstanton_p2al.htm   (647 words)

  
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography: Stanton and Anthony Papers Project Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Her marriage to the antislavery orator Henry B. Stanton in 1840 introduced her to the most advanced circles of reform as well as to motherhood and domestic life.
Stanton also returned to her lifelong examination of the relationship between organized religion and women's subordination.
Stanton died in October 1902 in an apartment in New York City that she shared with two of her grown children.
ecssba.rutgers.edu /studies/ecsbio.html   (548 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | | Film | Four-year itch | 1998-03-19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Henry's counterpart is Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the governor's confidante and political troubleshooter, who once worked for McGovern and still has her counterculture credentials and her brass.
At a Stanton Thanksgiving party at the governor's mansion, we see his cracker buddies swarming the vast lawn, and the sight is not pretty.
Stanton doesn't even have much of a family context; his young son pops up briefly, and also his mother (Diane Ladd), but they have almost no emotional weight.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1998-03-19/film2.html   (1329 words)

  
 Elizabeth Stanton
The most obvious indication of Elizabeth Cady's ambition for women's equality was when she met and married Henry Stanton in 1840.
Elizabeth and Henry had seven children and her responsibilities as a mother often prohibited her from extended travel.
With the growth of her children and the resurgence of what now to be known as the Chautauqua Circuit Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony delivered speeches on motherhood, marriage, family issues and the quest for women to have the right to vote.
www.comm.unt.edu /histofperf/danrogers/stanton.htm   (513 words)

  
 Henry and Judith Smith of Norfolk County England - Hingham and Rehoboth MA - All-Info About - Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Since I can remember, my father always referred to her as "Judith Cooper Stanton." I strongly believe that his reference was based on details found in the Stanton Will, other documents and family information verbally passed to him, who was 11 at the time of my great grandfather's death, and who remembered him well.
Update: September 14, 2003: while researching at FamilySearch, I discovered numerous entries indicating that Judith, wife of Henry Smith, was the daughter of Thomas Cowper and Margaret ____; a couple that her mother was Judith Stanton; and one entry that Judith Cooper was the daughter of Thomas Cowper and Margaret Stanton.
Henry was the son of Henry and Judith Smith of Hingham and Rehoboth.
www.genealogy.allinfoabout.com /lineage/smith1.html   (1605 words)

  
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed, and this became the focus of the group's campaign over the next few years.
Stanton was elected as NAWSA first president but was replaced by Susan B. Anthony in 1892.
Stanton was also a historian of the struggle for women's rights and with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, complied and published the four volume,
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWstanton.htm   (2045 words)

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