Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-10-30
GREAT WOMEN LEADER DEAD
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Long a Leader in the Fight
for Equal Rights.
WAS AT THE FIRST CONVENTION
And offered the First Suffrage
Resolution.
Her Labors in the Cause Extended Over
More Than Half a Century-Her Death
Resulted From Illness of Day Only
Was in Her 8Ith Year.

New York City, N. T., Oct. 27.-Mrs.
ElIanbetb Oady Stanton, the original woman
suffrage advocate. died at 3 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon at the home Of her son, Robert l..
Stanton, and her daughter, Mrs. Margaret.
r. lance, in the Stuart apartment house,
No. $50 West Ninety -fonrth street. She
would have been 81 years old had she lived
until November 18th next, and preparations
we're already under way for the celebration
of her birthday,
For some years Mrs. stanton had peen
feeble and because of her physical inhrnity
gbe had uaed cane in walking. Her brill
liant mind remained keen to the last how
ever and, alihouzh she had not taken her
former active part in her special beld OF
wotnen's advancement, she was busy up to
the last with her correspondence, and always
was ready to talk and write on the SUBJECTS
in which she was most interested.
Esaft failure was the cause of her death.
For the last few months she had been under
the more or less constant care OF physician,
and lagt Saturday she was stricken with an
attack Of weakness. which sent her ITO bed.
SIZE was only partially conscious during the
"a hnnrs OF her last illness. Her last act was
to dictate several letters TO her private secfe-
| tary Saturday night.
, Al her bedside when she died were her
daughters. Mrs. Lance and Mrs. Stantcn
Blafeh, and her SONS. Robert L., 6. Smith
| and Henry Stanton. The only absentee was
| her son Theodore. who is in Paris.
| Mrs. Stanton for more than 30 years had
| devoted her life to wornaTi's rights. she
shared with Miss Susan B. Anthony the
| leadership Of the movement in this country
i and the world.
| Mrs. Stanton was accustomed to tell her
/ friends, who wondered at her zeal for the
| cause, that she received the inspiration for
I It when 10 years OF age, when her tather
j took her on his knee aps wished she was a
h boy She INDUCED in hoy.sh recreations. At
4 school, while che BGceseded 10 MASTER
/ ing the intricacies of Grsek. Latin and
i mathematics. she also was aple to vault
four-bar fence with the agility OF young
\ athlete.
She was born in Johnsiovn, n. y, the
daughter of Judge Daniel 'Sady aud Me--
| garet Livingston Cady. She studiee at the
country school and later at an academy at
Troy, whence she wRs gradu3ted in JsiS.
| Then for seven year, she remained in Johns
| town atudying law in her fathers office and
abaorbing much knowledge that served her
well in her wors of later years.
In 1899 she met Henry Brasster Slant on
the anti-savsry orator ana Journalist. md
they we're married year lhter. She went 20
London with him, having bsen chnsen as q
delegate to the Woruan's Anti Slavery Com
yention there. There she met Lucinda Mott,
and with her signed the first call for q
woman's rights convention.
Returning 10 this country. she lived with
her husband in Boston and later poFed q
L seneca Edlfs, ". Il IN tlat tuVH- oil huil
18th and Goth, 1sl8 the first assambags
known in history as q wonian's rights con.
vention was held. She was the moving
spirit. Her father, hearing she had drafted
resolution demanding the elective iran
chise for women, tried TO argue her out Oh
her belief, but in vain.
During succeeding years she assumed 1
position at the head of the movement and
in addition addressed Legislatures and
public gatherings on drunkenness, diyorc,
and other topics. She canvassed Kansas ID
1857 and in Michigan in 1874. when thost
States submitted the question of woman .
| rights to the people. She served as presi
dent of the National Wornan's Suffrage
| Association until 1880.
| In 1898 she created furore as a candidate
for Congress in the Eighth New York dis
| trict, with a creed of free speech. fres
press. free slen and free trade" Shs
received "a votes. She was joint author viii
Susan B. Anthony of the History oi
Woman's Suffrage and in 1886, on cele
brating her e0th birthday she published two
volumes of Eighty Years and More. Or
that occasion 1900 women from all parts OF
! the world gathered to congratulate her.
During the past 10 years she has been 9
resident of New York City. She was kesnly
alive to all the present day conditions and
| discussed in the newspapers and on thu
platform the liberal Sunday. of which sht
was an ardent advocate, intemperance
factory evils and many other like topics.