Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-30
MRS ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

| A brief outline OF the life and services
/ OF Mrs, ( Cady Stanton, will, no doubt,
prove interesting to many Of our readers, as
considerable curiosity centers around the
lady since her appearance before our citi-
zens. From sketch Of her life by Theo-
dore Tilton, we find that Mrs Stanton is the
daughter OF Judge Daniel Cady, and Mar
garet Livingston, and was bori. in Johns
town, Few York, Nov. II, 1916. During
| her girlhood, in addition to her books, her
globes, her water coiors- and her guitar she
was an apt pupil to skies and fields, gardens
and meadows. focks and herds, making
God and nature her foster parents. The
one person, who more than any other, gave
an intellectual bent to her earl' life was
the Rev. Simon Hosack, good old Scotch
man, pastor for forty years of a Presbyter
ian church, in which the C..dy family had
always been members, and of which Mrs.
Stanton is member to this very day.
In her earlier gIrlhood she spent much of
her time in the Office of her father, and there
before she could understand much of the
talk of the older people, she heard many sad
complaints made by women, of the injus-
tice OF the law. The tears and coE plants
of these women who came to her father for
lega! advice touched her heart, and she was
shown that something called laws prey en-
ted him from putting stop to these cruel
and unjust things, In this way her heart
was filled with anger against those afro
cious laws. 1t is related by herse If that the
course of procedure she adopted to rid the
statute books of those barbarous laws, was
to mark them with pencil, and cut them
out with scissors surprising that her
father and his library were the beginning
and end of the law. As she grew in years,
however, she found it took stronger meas
ures to amend the laws tn an the scissors.
When Mrs. Stanton was in her tenth year
her brother who had just graduated at U MON
college, came home to die. This son seemed
to fill a larger space in his fathers affections
than the fl We daughters together. Thinking
of the wreck of all his hopes in the loss of
his dear son, he heaved deep sigh and
said to Elizabeth, go my daughter wish
you were boy y ''Then l ,oiU be boy
she answered, "and will do all that my
brot her did
She entered an academy aud, in a class
mo MI of p1 ;,I IL.
MATES, Latin and Greek. Two prizes were
offered for Greek one of which Mrs Stan
ton strove for and obtained Her 10Y knew
no bounds when she received it, One
thought alone occupied her mind. Now"
said she, ''my father will be happy; he will
te satisfied" Rushing into his Office, she
laid the prize in his lap, sn1 exclaimed,
'there, l have got It'll" and kissing her on
the forehead, he said with a sigh, "Ah you
should have been a boyl' She relates that
that ended h,r pleasure She FASTENED to
her room, and wept tears OF bitterness
AT the time of Dr. Hssack's death, which
was in Mrs. atantons fifteenth year her term
at the JohnStown Academy vas drawing
to close. Among the scholars, whether
girls or boys, none could recte better, or
run faster than herself She had been the
loved companion of sedate theologian,
and IL the same time was the ring leader Of
h bevy OF mad romps. after graduating at
the head of her class, sudden blow fell
upon her heart, and left a grevous wound.
She had secretly cherished the hope, that as,
she had kept ahead of the boys, and thus
shown at least her equality with the ''dom-
ineerIng sex, she would be sent, (as John
stown boys were then usually sent)
to Union College, at Schenectady
But when her heart was most set on Union
College, she was told that instead she must
60 to Mrs Willard Female Seminary at
Troy, and her Indignation was great at this
announcement, W hich was not without re-
ceving strong protest from her. In this
female seminary she spent tw years, which
to use her own words were 'sthe dreariest
years of her life. After leaving the Troy
seminary, the next seven years of her life
was spent at Johnstown, dividing her time
between book delving and horse tanning
| having an almost equal relish for both pas
| times In fact she would sometimes ride
half a day over hill and meadow, like fox
unter, and then study law books half the
night like a jurist Sometime when she
was busy with her embroidery or water
coloIs her father, who had poor opinion
! of such accomplishments would bring her
| the "Revised Statutes and desire her to
read them Mrs. Stanton with determ-
ination to make terself peer diligently
began and pursued that study of the laws of
| her country, which has since armed and
equipped her, for her struggle against ali
oppressive legislation concerning women.
| AS to her horse riding this has been given
up for the reason, and excuse the ungallant-
ry in limiting att, that lady of very elegant
but also very solid proportions is far more
at ease in carriage than in a saddle
| III ~ % White on FlSlJ 10 lef ulStlu-
! guished cousin, Gerrit Smith, at Peterboro
N. Y, she made the acquaintance of Mr.
Henry Stanton, tben young and feryid
orator, who had won distinction
in the anti-slavery movement. -
After short courtship they were married
and Immediately set sail for Europe.
| 'biu II
for the reason that Mr.. Stanton might full
f. the mission of a delegate to the World
Anti Slavery Convention" in London in
1910, On returning from Europe, Mr.
Stanton began the practice of law in Bos
ton. Mrs. Stanton was "a member of the