Papers, 1871-1884 (inclusive).

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1871-1884 (inclusive).

Typed copies of letters to General Benjamin F. Butler re: woman suffrage from Susan B. Anthony, Henry B. Blackwell, Phoebe W. Couzins, and Mary A. Livermore.

1 folder.

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66r2ntn (person)

Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activ...

Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63z8wwv (person)

Mary Livermore, born Mary Ashton Rice, (December 19, 1820 – May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. When the American Civil War broke out, she became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission, headquarters at Chicago, performing a vast amount of labor of all kinds—organizing auxiliary societies, visiting hospitals and military posts, contributing to the press, answering correspondence, and other things incident to the work done by tha...

Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pz5cdh (person)

Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...

Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6571dkr (person)

Marshall, Andrew

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64j38dd (person)

Couzins, Phoebe Wilson, 1839-1913.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk8b9k (person)

Couzins, lawyer and suffragist, was the first woman to earn a law degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the first to serve as a federal marshal. She helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, but renounced suffrage in 1897. In 1890 she was appointed one of two Missouri delegates to the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. For further information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letters...