The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-27
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONDIES
THE PIONEER OF WOMAN'S
RIGHTS LIVED TO NEARLY ~,
saw tho Married Woman's Property Act
Of This State Enacted When She Was
38-HOnorett Above Other Women by
the Myriad Women's clubs Of To-day.

Mrs. elizabeth lady stanton died at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon in her home
at 80 West Ninety fourth street, which she
was sharing with her oldest son. Henry
stanton. and her widowed daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Stanton Lawrence. Upto about
week ago Mrs. Stanton had remained men,
tally and physically vigorous in spite Of
her 81 years. and only two weeks ago to-
day communication from her touching
woman in the Bible was published in THE
SrS. She was ailing rather than sick
last week and her family had no appre-
tensions until the very last. when her heart
began to fail omnously. There was time
enough after the seriousness Of her con-
di,on became apparent to summon her
children. and all of them. four sons and
'wo daughters, were about her deathbed.
The funeral will probably be very simple
and attended only by the family.
Mrs. stanton was born at Johnstown,
y. Y. on Nov. -. 1915. Her father was
Justice Daniel Cady of the New York Su-
preme Court, and her mother was Margaret
Livingston, a daughter of Col James Liv-
ingston of Washingto n's staf. She was
rducated az the Johnstown Academy and
At Miss Emma Wizards school In Troy,
here she was graduated in 1882.
II is quite probable that the death OF
Mrs Stanton's only brother, when she was
10 years old, had a great deal 10 do with
Influencing her later life. 1t affected her
father deeply. and one day. not long after
the boy died, Justice Cady took his daughter
20 his knee, and looking long al her, finally
aid rather sadly:
L wish you might have been boy
According 10 Mrs Stanton's own story,
lie made up her mind 10 be just as much
- boy as she could, She knew that when
bows went to college they studied Greek
and Latin. IL was not the fashion then for
girls 10 bother much with Greek, but she had
%" sooner entered Miss Wizards school than
ehe announced that she wanted to study
t,reek. Asked why. she replied
To prepare TO enter Union College
When told that there was no place for
young women at Union, Miss Cady was
very much disgusted, but she insisted
upon studying Greek and predicted that
he time would come in this country when
colleges would be glad TO receive girls.
soon after her graduation, she told her
father one day that she wanted To know
more about the laws In the books in his
Office
Better read them. then was Justice
tady's answer.
His daughter accepted the suggestion
but the more she read the more disgusted
she became with the statute law All
laws seemed TO her to be enacted for the
benefit of men. She made up her mind
hat. some day, she would 60 before the
New York Legislature and demand that
some laws be made for the benefit of women.
In tho meantime, she concluded TO get rid
Il the laws she didn't like by cutting them
ont Of her fa' hers law books. When Jus
lice Cady discovered his daughter az this
work he convinced her that laws couldn't
lie repealed that way
Next 10 her father, she thought the
greatest man she had ever known was her
fathers cousin, Gerrit Smith Of Peterboro
Madison county, the Abollt ioni-t. She
uf'en visited his house and while on one of
hose visits she met Henry Brewster Stan
ron, then one of the most prominent and
earnest Of the younger Aholtionists She
married Mr.. stanton in 1910, when she was
Is wears old They went 10 England on
their wedding tour and attended the anti
slavery convention in London, 10 which
NIr. stanton was a delegate and where she
met LUcretia Mott. great many women
lad been sent as delegates but they were
lot allowed TO take their seats.
This suggested TO Mrs. stanton a con-
ren'ion somewhere 10 discuss womens
lights soon after her return from Eng
and, with Susan r, Anthony and others.
She began 20 agitate for woman suffrage
ir this State. The result of this agitation
vas the foundation. AZ Seneca Falls early
40 1875 of the National American Woman
'urrage Association. of which Mrs Slant on
vas chosen The first president. Mrs. Stan
ION wasn't very hopeful of obtaining the
IN ono subject, and that was that the
property owned by woman at the time Of
her marriage ought not 10 pass TO her
husband
Married womon's property rights become
text from which Mrs. Slant on preached
much and on which she wrote more. So
general was he attention which she drew
"a tho ,ub oct that during the session Of the
Legislature" Of lStS she received permiss ion
10 address that body on the subject which
was 50 near her heart. In once telling
~ hor preparation for that speech. she
said
! used IN go up into the garrett every
day tn r"hcar-o my speech. and after awhile
or"n convinced the rafters that l was
right
The day. came. the Assembly cham Der
"as crowded and Mrs Stanton made her
address and saw the act passed. The l"gis-
ia'ure, in the slang of to-day was easier "
han tho r"formers found many women
who cut them socially and lost no oppor-
'uniiv to ridiCilo them AZ n "shricking sis
'erhood." an epithet over which oblivion
has long rolled
In 1851. Mrs. stanton first met Susan u
Nn'hony. The STATIONS wore living in
Syracuse and m anti-slavery convention
was called TO meet there. Al the recess for
Irncheon on the first day Mrs stanton
walked home with her guests. William Lloyd
Garrison and George Thompson. On n
street corner they mot two women who
had also been to the convention and bot n
- whom Mr.. Garrison knew and intro
dpood 10 Mrs. Stanton. One was Miss An
tuonr and the other was Mrs, Amelia jerks
Boomer who contributed Turkish trousers
among many other things to the movement
Tor The enarcipa ton Of American women
In lsdO Mrs. stanton again addrc ssed
the New York Legislature. this time adj
Noca'lng that drunkenness 10 included as a
cause for divorce In 1867 she made an
argument before he New York Consiit,i-
Iona Convention in support Of her theory
hat, during the revision of the Constitution
the State resolved itself into its original
clements and that therefore, citizens Of
both SEXES had n right TO vote for members
% the convention
In 1858, Mrs. stanton was 4 candidate for
congress. In 1859, she devoted most of
The year To addressing Congress COM
nittees and State Constitut ional convcn-
lions on woman suffrage and all the
time she vas writing and lecturing on the
subject.
In these later years she has seen tho
multitude of women's clubs spring up
and on hor s0th birthday 1900 women
attended a birthday party given in her
honor ~ the Metropolitan Opera House