Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born Nov. 12, 1815 at Johnstown, NY. In
her sixteenth year, by her own account, she was already a believer in
women's rights. Meeting Lucretia Mott at an anti-slavery convention
in London - on her wedding trip, it appears, she (they) soon issued a
call for a women's rights convention. It was subsequently held in
Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. Later she often joined forces with the now
more celebrated Susan B. Anthony to promote - and very effectively
so - this very just cause. It came to its ultimate fruition in 1920
with the passage of the XIXth Amendment. Today's New York Times
Headlines on-line took note of her death in New York City on October
27, 1902 and provided a link to the obituary published then by the
Times.
The Women's Hall of Fame was established in Seneca Falls in 1969, and
of course Mrs. Stanton was an early inductee. Today, in honor of
this extraordinary woman, a letterbox was placed nearby. Clues will
soon be provided in the LbNA Website.