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Title
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Historical Landmarks: A Virtual Road Trip
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Creator
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Colman, Penny
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Date Presented
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2020
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Description
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Penny Colman’s presentation offers a detailed historical journey through the life, locations, and enduring legacy of 19th-century feminist reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton (ECS) and the broader women's suffrage movement. The presentation traces Stanton's life chronologically via historical markers, landmarks, and monuments, starting in her birthplace of Johnstown, New York—highlighting sites such as her childhood home, her father's law office, local historical society collections, and the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association. It covers key milestones in her early life and activism, including her time at the Troy Female Seminary, her abolitionist ties in Peterboro, her 1847 move to Seneca Falls, the landmark 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, and her lifelong partnership with Susan B. Anthony. The presentation further details Stanton's expanding political footprint as she relocated to New York City and Tenafly, New Jersey, traveled the national lecture circuit, organized campaigns, attempted to vote in 1880, and co-authored the multi-volume History of Woman Suffrage. Notably, Colman highlights the significant influence of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women on Stanton and other suffragists, noting how Native women's authority, property rights, and social autonomy inspired the American women's rights movement. Additionally, the presentation reflects on contemporary evaluations of Stanton's complex legacy, incorporating a statement from the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association that addresses her racist post-15th Amendment writings alongside her roots in abolitionism. Finally, Colman examines Stanton's later years, her presidency of the International Council of Women, her 1902 passing, and her ongoing commemoration through statues, national monuments, and U.S. Navy vessels named in honor of trailblazing women.
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Johnstown
*Mural on side of water works
*Rededication marker-1937, 1975
*Courthouse marker 2017
*Marker PC talk about text on landmarks: "The Birthplace of Equal Rights For Women
in this country and the world was right here./At the near-by sites of young Elizabeth Cady's home; her father's law office; and her school, the Academy, she experienced the inspiration and the inequities of that zealous crusade for the emancipation of women.
ECS
The greatest feminist reformer of 19th century America.
The prpenitor [progenitor] of the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution which [gave] the right of suffrage to the women of the Republic./New York State and the Johnstown Constitutional Bicentennial Committee 1989
*Park Summary marker
*Johnstown Historical Society, 17 North William Street, front parlor room devoted to ECS: her piano, chair; father's bookcase, family bible.
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association
(Pictured is a rendering of the bronze statue of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton that has been commissioned by the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women's Consortium. Stanton was born and raised in Johnstown. The statue will be erected in the Sir William Johnson Park on West Main Street in 2020 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that gave all women the right to vote. An anonymous donor has offered to give up to $10,000 in matching funds to help pay for the statue, which will cost $75,000. To date, more than $50,000 has been raised. (Photo submitted)
- Leader Herald)
The Board of Directors of The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association stands in solidarity with the peaceful protesters of The Black Lives Matter movement. We acknowledge that during Elizabeth's life, she wrote racist remarks after voting rights for women were left out of the 15th amendment. We do feel, however, that given her roots in the abolitionist movement, her larger body of writing, her long friendship with Frederick Douglass, and her revolutionary approach to life, that Elizabeth - like those of us on the ECSHA Board - would have taken this moment in history to closely examine her beliefs and biases, and stand up for the equality of all human beings.
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association has a one-hour, one-mile cell phone tour called "Walking the Footsteps of Elizabeth Cady Stanton," plus events, exhibits, banners and signs throughout the town. They also have a fabulous web site:
http://ElizabethCadyStanton Hometown.org
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women's Consortium, umbrella of women org
***1933 graduates from Troy Female Seminary Troy
*EW Statue in Robison Commons Russell Sage College; "In Honor of Emma Hart Willard/who on this spot established/A.D. 1821/the first permanent school in America/for the advanced education of women/Erected by her pupils and friends/A.D. 1897/Her most enduring monument/the gratitude of educated women." By Alexander Doyle, based on oil portrait of her sitting at a dest [desk] Emma Willard Statue Association/Troy 1890 Mrs. C.C. MacArthur
*EW Marker-2
***Peterboro (Freethought Trail)
*Gerrit Smith
*second wife: Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith
*Elizabeth Smith Miller (pic of ECS in bloomers)
***Seneca Falls Moves May 1847
*House 32 Washington Street-father gave she could own cause of Married Women's Property Act, contractor
*Markers e.g. "Stanton's Busy World"; "We Will Achieve Wonders" ECS-SBAI letter 8/20/1857
"Stanton's Grassmere" (William Wordsworth) "Center of the Rebellion"
Waterloo
*McClintock House (letter)
*Hunt House
Seneca Falls
*Convention Marker
*Waterwall
*ECS Elementary School
*Rochester Convention PC NOTE Daniel & Lucy and Mary attend
*When Anthony Met Stanton Statue, East Bayard Street, east of Ovid, Village of Sen Falls, July 18, 1998, A. E. Ted Aub (1998 Governor's Commission Honoring the Achievements of Women)
spread of conventions & activism: Rochester (Daniel & Lucy Anthony Mary Anthony) & West Chester Marker
1850s-ECS temperance to Women's Rights all the while babies
1862 Moves to NYC (she 47 years old now)
1866-1867
Fort Plain, NY
*Diefendorf Hall Marker "Woman's Rights leaders SBA and ECS spoke here March 3, 1867 on universal suffrage. (2014 Buys Property in Tenafly
KS and NY campaigns
1868 Tenafly
*map
*house & orginal [original] marker & new marker
*vote attempt
NYC
*Street sign (1869 Woman's Bureau Building, 49 E 25rg Street, where former NWSA & published The Revolution)
Oxford, OH Italianate Side A & Side B
*marker 11/9/1870-2015 League of women voters
CA
*Sarah Wallis Homesite "Mayfield Farm"
WI Lucy Smith Morris Home 209 E Park Avenue
1880 retires from lecture circuit
*Poster Massillon OH 1875
Tenafly & Fayetteville
History of Woman Suffrage with MJG
*Marker husband
*2 markers Cicero & Fayateevill [Fayetteville]
*Women's Rights, Victor hoe-dee no SHOW-nee
"...The freedom of Haudenosaunee women and the power they wielded in their political life influenced the women's suffrage movement through leaders such as ECS. MJG and LM. Their personal relationships with people from the Haudenosaunee nation were a great inspiration to them in their suffrage campaign.
(Ganondagan State Historic Site, Victor,
hoe dee-no-SHOW--nee
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), women of the six nation Iroquois Confederacy model of freedom for ECS MJG control of own property, custody of children power to initiate divorce,
Nov 2. 1880 ECS attempted to vote 1880 both retire HWS
1882 goes to Europe S 1883
1888 ECS presides over first meeting of International Council of Women in Washington, DC
1889 portrait Anna Elizabeth Klumpke NPG, East Gallery 122
Adelaide Johnson's bust in Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument (1892 Marble bust by Aldelaide Johnson on display at a the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, il)
Portrait Monument 1921, crypt 1997
Anacostia FD Home-ECS steel engraving
1890 (WY in with statehood-ECS diary) but that it take [takes] 1893, 1896 "I cannot express the joy that this victory has brought to my soul." 42 years after SF
1891 THE STAΝΤΟΝ (1890-1894 women suffer am ref in SD, CO, KS, NY) after NY defeat "IT IS VERY HUMILIATING FOR WOMEN TO HAVE THEIR SACRED RIGHTS AT THE MERCY OF A MALE OLIGARCHY." *250 Broadway
1902 OBITS
GRAVE
HSB marker, Olean
1909 Maud Malone
Hyattsville Marker The Const* 19th Am
Johnstown Statue, Central Park
Ship USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, transport ship commissioned 9/17/1942 USS Hopper destroyer Rear Adm Grace Nopper USNS Mary Sears first oceanographer of the Navy WWII
USNS Sacagawea
USNS Amelia Earhart
USS Gabrielle Giffords
USNS Sally Ridg [Ridge]
USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee, first woman to receive Navy Cross WWI
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Rights
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CC BY
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Date Created
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2020
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Contributor
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Webb, Matthew
