Record book of the IWSA, 1851-1881.

Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

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

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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...

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

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Lucy Stone (b. Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, MA–d. Oct. 18, 1893, Boston, MA) was born to parents Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone. At age 16, Stone began teaching in district schools always earning far less money than men. In 1847, she became the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree from Oberlin College. After college, Stone began her career with the Garrisonian Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and began giving public speeches on women's rights. In the fall of 1847, with...

Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909

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Woman's Rights Association of Indiana.

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Way, Amanda M., 1828-1914

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Amanda M. Way (b. July 10, 1828, Randolph, IN–d. Feb. 24, 1914, Whittier, CA) was part of the temperance and women's equal rights movements and a nurse during the Civil War. She was a schoolteacher by profession but began working as a milliner and seamstress to support her family after her father's death in 1849. She joined the Winchester Total Abstinence in 1844 and, in 1854, led a group of Winchester women in what is known as the "whiskey riots" or the "Page Liquor Case." During the Indiana w...

Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880

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Lucretia Mott (née Coffin) was born Jan. 3, 1793 in Nantucket, MA. She was a descendent of Peter Folger and Mary Morrell Folger and a cousin of Framer Benjamin Franklin. Mott became a teacher; her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid significantly more than female staff. A well known abolitionist, Mott considered slavery to be evil, a Quaker view. When she moved to Philadelphia, she became Quaker minister. Along with white and black wo...

Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association.

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Birdsall, Mary B., 1828–1894

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Mary Birdsall (b. 1828, Chester, PA–d. Feb. 1, 1894, Philadelphia, PA) moved to Richmond, Indiana with her family a a young age. She married Thomas Birdsall in 1848 and had three children Alvin, William, and Hubert. She began a journalism career in 1852 as editor of the Ladies Department of the Indiana Farmer. She purchased the early suffrage newspaper, The Lily, from Amelia Blooner in 1854 and served as editor and proprietor assisted by Mary F. Thomas. Birdsall was involved with suffrage and t...