The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-02
W NOTED WOMEN.
The Veteran Reformer and the
Strongest Female Advocate
of Female Suffrage.

The Veteran Reformer and the
} Strongest Female Advocate
Of Female Suffrage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
A native of Johnstown, New York
Elizabeth Cady was born on the l2th
of November, 1926. The town was
well known as q center OF literary
life and activity, and Miss Cady not
only enjoyed, but was benefited by.
her surroundings. She had in early
youth all the advantages which come
from life in q city, as well as those of
the country, fo. she had the advant-
age of healthy, physical life secured
by exercise in the open air, as well as
that of having refined and educated
people around her at h"me and of
benefittlng by their conversation and
BY observation of their behavior.
She speaks with great affection of an
cid pastor, the Rev. Simon Hosack,
who was her most trusted friend in
youth. 1t was by frequenting her.
fathers law office that her mind was
| drawn to what she now COZ ;iders the
| a%bsurdedly inconsistent and unjust
laws which appeared and still appear
| to a large extent on the statute books
prejudicial to the rights of women.
It is said that when young she con-
ceived the brilliant idea of amending
those laws by clipping them from
her fathers statute books, but she
soon found that it did 10 good. At
school she was an excellent student, |
and always made it q point to study |
all that the boys we're in the habit of
studying. She delved into the classic
mysteries of Greek root, talked boys
slang. tried to. drive horses as boys
did, and, IN fact, was absorbed by
an anxiety to be a boy: and when she
got out of the academy she was most
thoroughly disguised to find that be-
cause she was q woman it would be
impossible for her tn go to
Union College, and that she must
go to a young ladies' seminary. With
great %reluctancy she finally went to
Miss Wizards French Seminary in
the city of Troy, where. her course as
a student was not altogether a happy
one. In 1887 she met and made the
acquaintance of Henry B. Stanton,
who was a radical a~nti-slavery agita-
and after a very short season of
;ourtship they were married. From
hat time she became one of the most
Ictive and energetic advocates of Wo-
rights, and was the moving &
pirit in the first convention of the
vomen's suffrage project, which was I
leid in 184S, at Seneca Falls, New :
York, where Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton q
we're residing. She is an able and q
loquent speaker, enjoys the proud :,
of being the only woman !
vho ever ran for Congress, and is =
vithal a good-hearted, honest soul, =
nd not fanatical in all her modes r
f thinking. Mrs. Stanton's married :,
are, so far as the world =
nows, precisely as happy as if she T
id not believe in wOmen's rights. a
he has the most loveable face Of all ~
b~est-known feminine agitators -
'ho have made their mark in the "
'nited States. r
SUSAN B. ANTHONY. v
OF all the little band of men and a
omen who have have gained respect cl
ON their bitterest enemies by oak Il
g and holding a very positive opin- p
n on the right of women to vote, +
nd the expediency of conceding s.
lat right in the United States, Susan tt
Anthony is perhaps the most d:
'omir ent. Her birthplace was the al
tie village of South Adams, in the OF
'estern part of the State of Massa- th
and almost under the shad- XII
v of the Hoosac Mountains. She XII
born February Is, 1920, and in OF
rly life was brought under the blue OF
of P%uritanic family manage Ia
ent, which were far more hateful vi
asn applied in the family life than pa
len only existing as legal enact We
ents in Connecticut. lee
reaching womanhood Miss sy
lthony became a school-teacher, as 4,
the custom of very MANY young "a
lies among the middle classes ia
r section OF New England and as ,
the case, she was not paid I
rly as compared with the men do 1a'
the same work, although she was ~ ~
'ognlzed as an excellent teacher. "a
e "School Commissioners" refused cn
recognize the facts that women are o!
n teachers of children, and men VIC
not, and at the end of fifteen Tile
'rs of hard work Miss ANTHONY
nd herself with $500 in her pocket nh,
l a determination in her heart to -"
something to right the wrongs
lch women had to suffer, and G
she herself had experienced. 40 -
were called, societies ~ ~
e organized, and Miss ANTHONY ~
anne u fairly well-known figure a. ~
.ng radical agitators in everv field E
ocial development. a oi
ISIS Anthony looks like a Quaker g.
dresses in sombre fashion, and 30 a.
Ies it a point to make herself telt dov,
.rever she goes. With Wendell ~"
Hips and VIM. Lloyd Garrison hr;e
was very actively identified with 1T" "3.
movement for the abolition of nat
and she is capable of seeing fnrt
a thing as justice in the abstract 1;at,
lde of questions connected with thos
personal hobby. The movement, n;ck
~ in the New England States at heer
time, and still partially retaining Yea,
;rength, in favor of stopping the Tha
ufacture and sale of intoxicating mt;
'rs, has received her warmest dow
ort. Miss Anthony is at present The,
lie over 63 years of age. look
wen
Tn H,s vo,,n1er ,,o1 guns
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