Elizabeth Smith (Cady) Stanton (1815 - 1902)

Born 12 Nov 1815 in Johnstown, Fulton, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Brewster Stanton — married 1 May 1840 in Johnstown, Fulton, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Oct 1902 at age 86 in New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth (Cady) Stanton was a part of the Suffragette Movement.

Elizabeth (Cady) Stanton is Notable.

A leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s

Elizabeth Smith Cady was born on on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She was born into an affluent family, one of five daughters of Daniel Cady and Mary (Livingston) Cady. (Three more daughters would be born after her.) At a very young age, Elizabeth realized the discrimination women faced. "The first event engraved on my memory was the birth of a sister when I was four years old... I heard so many friends remark, 'What a pity it is she's a girl!'... I did not understand at the time that girls were considered an inferior order of beings."^{[citation needed]}

As early as 16 years of age, she became a believer in women's rights. Her vexation and mortification were great when her brothers went to college and she could not also go. About this time she was often in a tilt with the law students in her father's office over the rights of women.

She began her education at the Johnstown Academy, and later became a pupil at Emma Willard's Seminary, in Troy, a school noted then throughout the country. She was graduated with the class of '32.

After graduation from the Willard Seminary in Troy, Mrs. Stanton came to find herself in sympathy with the principles enunciated by her cousin, Gerritt Smith, the anti-slavery agitator. She became desirous of knowing just what the conditions were in the South, and it was at the house of an abolitionist that she met her future husband.

She was in Paris in 1840 at the time the body of Napoleon Bonaparte was brought to France from St. Helena by the Prince de Joinville, and witnessed the wild excitement over the event.

In 1840, while attending a world anti-slavery convention in London, she made the acquaintance of Lucretia Mott, which resulted in the joint issuance of a call for a woman's rights convention. Mrs. Stanton was on her wedding trip at this time. She had married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840. Together they have seven children: Daniel Cady, Henry Brewster, Garrett Smith, Theodore Weld, Margaret Livingston, Harriet Eaton Stanton and Robert Livingston.^[1][2][3][4]

In 1851, she met Susan B. Anthony and formed a decades-long partnership that was crucial to the development of the women's rights movement.

In 1854 she appeared before the New York Legislature and addressed it on "The Rights of Married Women." Six years later she took the stand that drunkenness should constitute a cause for divorce. She was instrumental in having the question of woman suffrage submitted to Kansas in 1867 and Michigan in 1874. She was President of the National Committee of her party from 1855 to 1865. She was also identified with the Women's Loyal League and was President of the National Women's Suffrage Association unit 1883. In 1868 she sought to become an actual political factor by entering the lists for Congress. For the past quarter of a century and over she had annually addressed a committee of Congress in favor of an amendment for women to the Constitution of the United States.

Through her efforts, practically unaided, she caused the passage of a "Woman's Property bill" by the New York Legislature, delivering a two-hour speech. With her work as an anti-slavery advocate and claimant for women's rights, she also found time to devote to the cause of temperance.

During the American Civil War, Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Anthony, established the Women's Loyal National League to campaign for the abolition of slavery. They started a newspaper called The Revolution in 1868 to work for women's rights and were the founders of the Loyal League, which aided in providing relief to the suffering families of Union soldiers.

After the war, Stanton and Anthony were the main organizers of the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both African Americans and women. When the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was introduced that would provide suffrage for black men only, they opposed it, insisting that suffrage should be extended to all African Americans and all women at the same time.

Stanton became the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which she and Anthony created to represent their wing of the movement. Stanton became the first president of the united organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

From 1870 to 1880 she devoted the greater part of her time to lecturing.

In 1886. Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony issued in collaboration three volumes entitled "History of Women's Suffrage."

On Nov. 12, 1895, she was the central figure at the Metropolitan Opera House in which prominent suffragists from every part of the country had attended. During this year she also published "Woman's Bible," which was considered the crowning work of Mrs. Stanton's life.

In 1898, Mrs. Stanton published "Eighty Years and More," being a volume of reminiscences of her life. She was the author of scores of essays upon marriage, divorce, and allied subjects.

Mrs. Stanton died on October 26, 1902 at her home in the Stuart Apartment House in New York City, New York, United States.^[5][6] She had been ailing for several months before eventually being confined to her bed.^[6] While confined she wrote two articles for publication before lapsing into a semi-consciousness and passing away.^[6] She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, Bronx County, New York, United States.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ United States Census, 1850, E C Stanton in household of Henry B Stanton, Seneca Falls, Seneca, New York, United States.
2. ↑ United States Census, 1860, Elizabeth C Stanton in entry for Henry B Stanton, 1860; 4th Ward Seneca Falls Village, Seneca, New York, United States.
3. ↑ United States Census, 1870 Elizabeth C Stanton in entry for Henry B Stanton, 1870; Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, United States.
4. ↑ United States Census, 1880, E Cady Stanton in household of Henry B Stanton, Tenafly, Bergen, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district ED 11, sheet 465B.
5. ↑ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 26 Oct 1902; citing Death, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies at her Home, The New York Times, New York, New York. 27 Oct 1902, Mon. Pg. 1.
7. ↑ Find A Grave, memorial page for Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 Nov 1815–26 Oct 1902), Find a Grave Memorial ID 974, citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA.

See also:

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSKM-XNT : accessed 27 July 2021), Elizabeth Stanton, Borough of Manhattan, Election District 8 New York City Ward 21, New York County, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 523, sheet 18A, family 384

• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elizabeth_Cady_%282%29

• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/cady/elizabeth.html

• Wikipedia:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NHLS/66000572_text , accessed 1 Sep 2022.

• Historic American Buildings Survey, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, 32 Washington Street, Seneca Falls, Seneca County, NY, https://loc.gov/pictures/item/ny1128/ , accessed 1 Sep 2022.