Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880

Lucretia Mott née Coffin; January 3, 1793, Nantucket, Massachusetts - November 11, 1880, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania; escendent of Peter Folger[2] and Mary Morrell Folger, cousin was Framer Benjamin Franklin; sister, Martha Coffin Wright; spouse, James Mott; became a teacher after graduation. Her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid significantly more than female staff; Mott considered slavery to be evil, a Quaker view; became Quaker minister; Mott and other white and black women founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society; Mott attended all three national Anti-Slavery Conventions of American Women (1837, 1838, 1839); In June 1840, Mott attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention, better known as the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, England, even though she was not allowed to vote; friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton; In 1848, Mott and Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention; elected the first president of the American Equal Rights Association but resigned from the association in 1868 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony allied with a controversial businessman named George Francis Train; In 1864, Mott and several other Hicksite Quakers incorporated Swarthmore College; was a leading voice in the Universal Peace Union; On April 10, 1811, Lucretia Coffin married James Mott at Pine Street Meeting in Philadelphia. They had six children. Their second child, Thomas Mott, died at age two. Their surviving children all became active in the anti-slavery and other reform movements, following in their parents' paths. Her great-granddaughter May Hallowell Loud became an artist;