Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-10-27
FAMOUS W()MANDEAD
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Aged
Eighty-seven Years.
LONG STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
For Over HALF a Century Deceased
Advanced Woman Suffrage ON
the Lecture Platform and
I'm Legislative Halls.


NEW YORK, Oct 27-Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton died yesterday aft
ernoon at the age of eighty-seven after
a short illness at her home in this CITY,
Mrs. Stanton was born in Johnstown
N. T., in 1876 IN her fathers Judge
Cady) law office she learned the legal
wrongs to which her sex was compelled
to submit, and this laid the foundation
for her famous career as an advocate
of .sWomans rights" In 1889 she was
married to III. b. Stanton, a prominent
antislavery lecturer, and accompanied
him on his toug through the country.
Mrs. Stanton's long life had been de-
voted to resisting the various tyrannies
against her sex.
While in London shortly after her
marriage attending the worlds anti
slavery convention Mrs. Stanton met
Lucretia Mott, a pioneer in the wom-
ans rights movement, and the two
formulated, signed and issued a call
for the first woman's rights convention.
It was held in the Stanton home in
Seneca Falls July 10 and 20, 1913.
From that time on Mrs. Stanton agi-
tated the question of Woman's suf-
fTage
In 1854, despite the angry protest Of
her father, she delivered an address be-
fore the New York legislature on Mar
ried Women's Property" A tremen-
dous crowd gathered to hear her. She
spoke two hours and was congratulated
warmly, even by those who opposed
the legislation she was advocating. The
bill defining the rights Of married wom-
en- passed a few days later. It was her
first big victory.
Six years later she appeared before
the legislature again, that time in ia
vor Of bill making drunkenness a
ground for divorce. She was elected
president of the Woman's Loyal league
in 1861. In 1867 she spoke before the
| Legislature and the constitutional con-
vention. Asserting that during the re-
| vision Of the constitution the state was
resolved into it's original elements, she
contended that citizens of both sexes
had right to vote for members of the
constitutional convention. In this effort
she met defeat
l.
| frage was submitted to the people of
Kansas in 1867 and Michigan in 1874,
she canvassed those two states thor
oughly.
She and Susan B. Anthony had met
and become warm friends and allies in
| the cause of equal rights for women.
| They worked together on many lines
| leading toward the uplifting of Wom-
ankind
Mrs Stanton addressed many con-
gress committees and conventions As
lecturer she went to all parts of the
/ country In 1868 she even went to the
extreme of being a candidate for repre-
sentative in congress. In the editorial
management of "a paper named the
Revolution, founded in 1858, she was
Parker Pfllsbury. The three also wrote
the History of Woman's Suffrage
For ten years Mrs. Stanton was
president of the National Woman's
Suffrage association and at one time
began preparing a Woman's edition Of
the Bible.
For twenty-five years she annually
addressed a committee of congress in
favor of a constitutional amendment
giving women the right of suffrage.
Mrs. Stanton's eightieth birthday
was celebrated in 1895 under the au-
spices Of the national council Of Wom-
en-. Three thousand delegates from wo-
mems societies and clubs gathered in
the Metropolitan Opera House~to do
i her honor.