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Elizabeth Cady

Female 1815 - 1902  (86 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Elizabeth Cady 
    Birth 12 Nov 1815  Johnstown, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 26 Oct 1902  New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I323175  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 6 Feb 2003 

    Father Judge Daniel Cady,   b. 29 Apr 1773, Chatham, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Oct 1859 (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Margaret Chinn Livingston,   b. 18 Feb 1785   d. 15 Sep 1871 (Age 86 years) 
    Family ID F128797  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Henry Brewster Stanton   d. 1887 
    Marriage 1840 
    Children 
    +1. Harriet Eaton Stanton   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F128798  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Dec 2001 

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      Her parents, Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, preferred boys. One of Stanton's earliest memories was of her parents' disappointment on the birth of her younger sister. While growing up, Stanton tried to copy her brothers' academic achievements. She attended Johnstown Academy and studied Greek and mathematics. She also learned to ride and manage a horse and became a skilled debater. After she graduated in 1830, she convinced her father to allow her to attend the Troy Female Seminary in New York. It was one of the first women's academies to offer an advanced education equal to that of male academies. Here she studied logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy.
      Stanton's father was a judge and lawyer, and after she returned from the academy in 1833, she read law in his office and watched how he handled his cases. Seeing firsthand how women suffered legal discrimination, she resolved to change the laws. She also became involved at this time with the abolitionist movement and was exposed to progressive-thinking reformers. One of these was the journalist Henry Stanton, whom she married in 1840 against her father's wishes.
      Stanton traveled with her husband to London to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention in June 1840. Here Stanton met Lucretia Mott, who was to become her close friend and intellectual mentor. When the convention refused to recognize women as legitimate delegates, Stanton and Mott were humiliated and angered. They resolved to call together a women's rights convention after they returned to America. Eight years later, in Seneca Falls, New York, they carried through with their plan. On July 19, 1848, five women met to "discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women." Stanton, acting as leader, wrote the meeting's manifesto, the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. It included a women's bill of rights and listed demands for social equality, including women's suffrage. Public response to the declaration was highly critical, but soon other women met and began petitioning for suffrage.
      In 1851, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony, whose organizing abilities complemented Stanton's more philosophical focus. Their lifelong association did much for the advancement of women's rights. The women's movement still remained within the larger antislavery movement, and when slavery came to an end, so did abolitionist support for women's rights. This betrayal led Stanton and Anthony in 1868 to create the independent National Woman Suffrage Association, with Stanton as president. That same year, Stanton began publishing the Revolution, a women's rights newspaper. She refused to focus on suffrage alone, believing it was only a part of a greater program of social, economic, and political reform. Stanton sought to change not only the legal status of women but the way society viewed the very role of women. Her ideas were progressive. She protested the sexual abuse of women and championed the idea of husbands and wives equally caring for their children. She also lobbied to have men and women educated together.
      In 1881 Stanton and Anthony published the first volume of the History of Woman Suffrage, a collection of writings about the movement's struggle. Two more volumes were published in the next five years. While many women's organizations had sprung up by this time, they differed in their opinions and approach. Many called only for moral reforms in society, not women's suffrage. To better achieve their goals, Stanton and Anthony united the two major women's groups into the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890.
      Although Stanton was elected the first president, her radical stance on religion threatened to break the association apart. She believed organized religion promoted superstition and hostility to women. In 1895 she published The Women's Bible, a study of sexism in the Old Testament. A storm of protest arose and many of Stanton's colleagues condemned her. By the time she died in 1902, she was no longer the movement's leader. The Nineteenth Amendment, adopted by Congress in 1920, finally gave women the right to vote, but it did little to alter their lives. Change began only when Stanton's far-reaching ideas of equality were finally recognized in the last half of the twentieth century.



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