Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-30
6HSySE
End Comes Amid Her
Family in New York
Home
Ardent Champion of the Cause of
Her Sex From Girl
hoods Years
Unremitting in the Advocacy of
Equal Rights for
Ali
Known as Platform Orator and
Once a Candidate for
Congress


Stanton, the noted woman suffragist,
died Sunday at her home in West
Ninety-fourth street, this city, of old
age. She was conscious almost to the
last. A week ago she began to fall
rapidly. This became more noticeable
as the week closed and then it was
known to the family that her death
was only question Of hours. She
was almost 81 years old.
The children with Mrs. Stanton
when she died were Mrs. M. F. Law
renee and Mrs. Stanton Batch of New
York, Henry and Robert L. Stanton
of new York, lawyers; Theodore
Stanton Of Paris and G.. Smith Stan
ton, real estate broker at Warden
Cliffe, L. l.
The funeral will be held on Wednes-
day Interment being in Wooulawn
cemetery.
Or Revolutionary Blood.
Mrs. Stanton was born Nov. u,
1915, at Johnstown, N. H. Her father
was Daniel c. Cady, judge of the New
York supreme court and a distin-
guished lawyer. Her mother was
Margaret Livingston, daughter of
Gn1nnn1 To T i1,;ro g Al
iutionary army, who fired on the
British ship Vulture in the Hudson
and forced her to sail away, leaving
Major Andre to his fate. Of her an
cestors Mrs. Stanton once remarked:
MY fathers ancestors came from
Connecticut. They were branches of
the sturdy puritan tree. The Living
stons were Scotch. l do not know of
any Cadys in England, but there was
Cade there-Jack Cade, the revolu-
tionist-and, maybe, the Cadys are de-
scended from him. So, you see, there
is plenty Of revolutionary blood in my
veins"
She began her work of securing
larger rights for women when she
was only a child. She was one of five
daughters. When she was 10 years old
her only brother died. Her father
was so grieved at the death Oh his
only son that he told Elizabeth he
wished she was boy. She there
upon decided she would do whatever
boys did and do it as well, too, as any
boy could. So she studied Greek and
Lalin and other subjects not unusual
ly taken up by girls nowadays, but
rarely attempted then.
In Fathers Law Office.
When she was graduated from the
youngstown academy at the age of Is
she stood second in her class, and
then for a while, as she could no.
enter college-no college being then
open to girls-she passed a good deal
Of her time in her fathers law Office.
1t was while listening to the com
plants of women who were unp1eas-
antly affected by the laws as they
stood, and especially by the laws
great partially for man, that she
learned OF the woman's legal inferiori-
ty.
She planned a novel and, to her
childish mind, a most effective way
OF mending matters without the inter-
vention of the legislature or anyone
else. She proposed to cut all the OBJ
noxious laws out of her fathers law
books. When he explained to her
that this would do no good and told
her that the legislature only could
make changes in the laws or abolish
them she declared that as soon as
she could she would talk to the legis-
lature about these laws, and she kent
her word.
When Elizabeth Cady was 16 she
entered Mrs. Wizards seminary at
Troy. Before this she expressed a
desire to go to Union college. and.
fuel was added to the flame in her
breast when she was made aware of
the determinations against women
that rendered her ineligible for admis-
sion to that famous old seat of learn
ing.
"CClS FlSi = uIuFe f7uSDanO.
After leaving the seminary and re-
turning home she was thrown in con-
tact with her cousin, Gerrits Smith.
the eloquent abolishionist. She be-
came greatly interested in this move
ment also, and said she was forcibly
struck with the similarity of the con-
ditions which oppressed white women
and the slaves Of the south. 1t was at
the home of the aboIitionist that she
met the man who afterward became
her husband.
Her marriage to Henry Brewster
Stanton, anti-slavery orator, senator
and lawyer, took place in 1870 They
went abroat on their wedding trip. ,
and attended the antislavery conven-
ton in England. A great many wom- |
en- had come on to attend the conven- |
ton, but they were not allowed to |
take their seats as delegates. Mrs. |
Stanton related that she first met |
Lucretia Mott in England, and that |
she impressed on the latter the !
necessity of calling a convention for
he discussion of women's rights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton came back to