The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-27
DEATH OF A NOTED WOMAN
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, FAMOUS
AS REFORMER AND AUTHOR.
Was President Of the WOman's Ma
tiOnaI Suffrage Association 1865 to
1S93-Miss Anthony's Tribute.

NEW YORK, Oct 26.-Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, the woman suffragist, died to-day
at her home in West Ninety fourth street
in this city. Old age was given as the
cause of death. She was conscious almost
to the last. About a week ago Mrs. STAN
ton began to fail rapidly. This became more
noticeable last week and then it was known
to the family that her death was only a
question of days or hours. The children
with Mrs Stanton when she died were Mrs
M F. Lawrence and Mrs. Stanton Blatch
of New York; Henry and Robert L. STAN
ton, of New York, lawyers; Theodore STAN
ton, of Paris, and G. Smith Stanton, a
real-estate broker at Warden Cliffe, l.. l..
The funeral will be held on Wednesday,
but the hour has not been set. The inter-
ment will be in Woodiawn Cemetery.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. woman suffrag-
list and author, was born at Johnstown,
N. Y. Nov. II, 1916 Her native town was
we'll known as a center of literary
life and activity, and Miss Cady not
only enjoyed but was benefited by her sur
roundings. She had in early youth all the
advantages which come from life in a
city, as we'll as those of the country, for
she had the advantage of healthy physical
life, secured by exercise in the open air, as
we'll as that of having refined and educated
people around her at home, and of benefit
ing by their conversation and by observa-
ton of their behavior. She often spoke
with great affection of an old pastor, the
Rev. Simon Hosack. who was her most
trusted friend in youth. 1t was by fire.
quenting her fathers law Office that her
mind was drawn to what she considered
the absurdly inconsistent and unjust laws
which appeared and still appear to large
extent on the statute book, prejudicial to
the rights of women. 1t is said that when
very young she conceived the brilliant idea
of amending those laws by clipping them
out or her fathers 5 statute DOCKS, but she
soon discovered that ii did no good. At
school she excellent student, and
always made 1t point. to study all that
the boys were in the habit of studying. She
delved into the classic mysteries of Greek
roots. talked boys slang, tried to drive
horses as boys did. and, in fact, was alb
sorbed by an anxiety to be a boy; and
when she got out of the academy she was
most thoroughly disgusted to find that be-
cause she was woman 1t would be utterly
impossible for her to go to Union College
and that she must go to a young ladies'
seminary. With great reluctance she final
ly went to Miss Wizards French Seminary,
in the city of Troy, where her course as
a student was not altogether a smooth and
happy one. In 1887 she met and made the
acquaintance of Henry B. Stanton, who
was a radical anti-slavery agitator, and
after a very short season of courtship they
were married. From that time she be-
came one OF the most active and energetic
advocates of woman's rights, and was the
moving spirit In the first convention of the
womans suffrage project, which was held
in 1S4S at Seneca Falls, n. Y, where Mr..
and Mrs. Stanton were residing
For over a quarter of a century Mrs.
Stanton annually addressed congressional
committees in favor of woman's suffrage
and various reforms. She was president of
from 1866 to 1893. She wrote several books
on the suffrage question.