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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 57 1 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 54 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 22 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 17 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 7 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 7 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820- (search)
zing societies; in 1852 she assisted in organizing the Woman's New York State Temperance Society. In 1854-55 she held conventions in each county in New York in behalf of female suffrage. She was a leader in the anti-slavery movement, and one of the earliest advocates of the coeducation of women. Greatly through her influence, the New York legislature, in 1860, passed the act giving married women the possession of their earnings, and the guardianship of their children. In 1868, with Mrs. E. C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, she began the publication of the Revolutionist, a paper devoted to the emancipation of women. In 1872 she cast test ballots at the State and congressional elections in Rechester, N. Y., and was indicted and fined for illegal voting, but the fine was never exacted. She attended, as a delegate, the International Council of Women, in London, in 1899. In 1900 her birthday was celebrated by a popular demonstration in Washington. D. C., and she retired from the pres
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815- (search)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815- Reformer; born in Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815; received an academic education. In July, 1848, she called the first woman's rights. convention, which met in Seneca Falls, N. Y., and succeeded, after much opposition, in having the first demand for woman suffrage adopted. She was president of the Woman's Loyal League in 1861, and held the same office in the Woman's Suffrage Association in 1865-93. She annually addressed Congress for over twenty-five years in advocacy of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States establishing woman suffrage. She is the author of The history of woman suffrage (with Susan B.. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage); Eighty years and more; The woman's Bible, etc. See divorce laws, uniform.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Suffrage, woman. (search)
tenden, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, Mrs. George White Field, Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder, Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones, Mrs. Elihu Root, Mrs. George Waddington, Mrs. Rossiter Johnson, and Mrs. George Phillips. Mrs. Phillips is secretary, 789 Park Avenue, New York. There are also societies in Massachusetts, Illinois, Oregon, Iowa, and Washington, and others are being organized. These work to oppose the extension of suffrage in their own States, but last winter combined in sending seven women to appear before congressional committees to protest against a petition for women suffrage. The National American Woman's Suffrage Association, Mrs. C. Chapman Catt, president; honorary presidents, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; vice-president-at-large, Rev. Anna. H. Shaw, Philadelphia, Pa.; corresponding secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia. Pa.; recording secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, Mass.; treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, O.; office, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, 1867 Woman's suffrage campaign in Kansas conducted by Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and George Francis Train with the Hutchinson family of singers......September–October, ceeding Pope, removed......Dec. 28, 1867 Senate refuses to approve of the suspension of Secretary Stanton......Jan. 13, 1868 Act exempting cotton from internal tax......Feb. 3, 1868 President Johnson removes Stanton, and appoints Gen. Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War ad int.; act declared illegal by the Senate......Feb. 21, 1868 Mr. Stanton refuses to vacate, and has Thomas arrested aMr. Stanton refuses to vacate, and has Thomas arrested and held to bail (discharged Feb. 24)......Feb. 22, 1868 House of Representatives votes to impeach the President, 124 to 42......Feb. 24, 1868 Impeachment reported at the bar of the Senate by Thy same vote as on article XI., and adjourns sine die by vote of 34 to 16......May 26, 1868 Mr. Stanton resigns as Secretary of War, May 26, and is succeeded by General Schofield......May 30, 1868
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
...September, 1866 Treaty made with many Indian tribes for removal to Indian territory......Feb. 23, 1867 Generals Hancock and Custer march against Indians in western Kansas......April 30, 1867 Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry, raised for the protection of the frontier, mustered into the United States service......July 15, 1867 Cherokee neutral lands sold to James F. Joy......Oct. 9, 1867 Heavy Texas cattle trade at Abilene......October, 1867 Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols, and George Francis Train, with the Hutchinson family of singers, advocate woman suffrage......1867 Vote upon amending constitution: For striking out the word white, 10,483; for striking out male, 9,070; against, 19,857......Nov. 5, 1867 Indian raids in Solomon Valley and along the Republican and Saline rivers......August, 1868 Kansas academy of science founded at Topeka, under the name of Kansas Natural History Society......Sept. 1, 1868 Governor C