Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1820, Feb. 15 | Born near Adams, Mass. |
| 1837-1838 | Student, Friends seminary near Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1839 | Teacher, Eunice Kenyon's Friends Seminary, New Rochelle, N.Y. |
| 1846 | Headmistress, Female Department, Canajoharie Academy, Rochester, N.Y. |
| 1848 | Joined the Daughters of Temperance in Canajorarie, N.Y.; by Mar. 1849 had become Presiding Sister of the Montgomery Union, No. 29, of the Daughters of Temperance in Canajoharie, a position she also held after moving to Rochester, N.Y., and joining that city's union in mid-1849 |
| 1849 | Managed family farm |
| 1851 | Met Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| 1852 | Formed the Woman's New York State Temperance Society |
| 1853 | Helped organize the “Whole World's Temperance Convention” Helped a group of Rochester, N.Y., seamstresses draft a code of fair wages for working women in the city |
| 1854 | Organized and participated in a canvass to obtain signatures on petitions demanding woman suffrage and improvement of the Married Woman's Property Law in New York |
| 1856 | Principal New York agent, American Anti-Slavery Society |
| 1866 | Corresponding secretary, American Equal Rights Association |
| 1868-1870 | Published the Revolution, a weekly periodical edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others |
| 1869 | Organized a woman's suffrage convention, Washington, D.C. Formed, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the National Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1872 | Voted illegally for president |
| 1876 | Presented a “Woman's Declaration of 1876” with two colleagues at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1881-1902 | Financed and coedited first four volumes of History of Woman Suffrage (New York, Fowler & Wells, 1881-[1922] 6 vols.) |
| 1888 | Founded the International Council of Women |
| 1890 | Settled in Rochester, N.Y. Vice president at large, National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1892-1900 | President, National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1892 | Trustee, State Industrial School, Rochester, N.Y. |
| 1895-1896 | Campaigned in California to secure the vote for women |
| 1898 | Collaborated in the preparation of The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898-1908. 3 vols.), by Ida H. Harper |
| 1900 | Helped open the University of Rochester, N.Y., to women |
| 1904 | Founded, with Carrie Chapman Catt, the International Woman Suffrage Alliance |
| 1906, Mar. 13 | Died, Rochester, N.Y. |