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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Women's Right's Convention,
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shownotes | 1 Comment Before there were suffragists to march and
fight for the vote, there was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Before she
teamed up with another superhero for women’s rights, Elizabeth
was a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother. Then, one warm
summer day in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York she stood up, gave
her first public speech and helped to start a movement.
Elizabeth Cady was born in November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, NY.
She was the eighth of eleven children of Daniel- a lawyer and
judge- and Margaret Cady. All but one of their sons died in
infancy and Daniel’s hope rested on his surviving son, Eleazar.
That hope was crushed when he, too died at the age of 20.
Elizabeth, then 11, couldn’t understand why she couldn’t fulfill
the hopes of her father who said to her, “I wish you were a
boy.” She tried- she rode h