Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
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- Blackwell, Lucy Stone, 1818-1893
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Birth Date
- 1818-08-13
Death Date
- 1893-10-18
Birth Place
- West Brookfield (Mass. : Town)
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- English
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- found: Her Woman suffrage in New Jersey, 1867.
- found: Wikipedia website, viewed March 25, 2022:Lucy Stone page (born West Brookfield, Massachusetts August 13, 1818; died Boston, Massachusetts October 18, 1893; Lucy Stone was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women; in 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree; she spoke out for women's rights and against slavery; she graduated from Oberlin College in 1847; Lucy Stone spent the late 1840s and the early 1850s traveling across the United States, hoping to build support for both abolition and women's rights; On a trip to Cincinnati in 1853, she met Henry Browne Blackwell, a businessman; Stone and Blackwell married on May 1, 1855; Stone refused to take her husband's last name; she was one of the first women in the United States to retain her maiden name upon becoming married; while residing in Cincinnati, Stone testified on the behalf of Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave who murdered one of her young children to prevent her return to slavery; in 1857, Stone retired from public speaking so that she could take care of her infant daughter; in that same year, the family moved from Ohio to New Jersey) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone
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- 1981-02-04: new
- 2022-04-02: revised
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