In Her Own Right : The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (55 page)

70
. ECS to Clara Colby, 12 Nov. 1900, ECS-LC; ECS diary, 12 Nov. 1900,
Letters
, 353–54. She also recalled that Henry had been terrified of dentists and would not have a tooth out “unless I was there to laugh at him.” With only 4 percent of the population over age sixty-five in 1900, longevity made ECS statistically rare. Achenbaum, “Obsolescence of Old Age,” 52.

71
. SBA diary, [May 1902],
CE
, 317; ECS to Theodore Roosevelt, 22 Oct. 1902, and ECS to Edith K. Roosevelt, 25 Oct. 1902, reprinted in
Independent
, 6 Nov. 1902, ECS-LC.

72
. H. S. Blatch to Helen Gardener, n.d., ECS-LC. See also Lawrence, “Sketch,” 134.

73
. Rhoda Barney Jenkins, telephone interview, 26 Feb. 1981; ECS diary, 20 Oct. 1901,
Letters
, 359–60.

74
. SBA to ESM, 29 Dec. 1902, ESM-NYPL.

75
. SBA to Ida Husted Harper, [Nov. 1902], Harper MSS, HEHL; SBA to Theodore Stanton, 18 May 1903, ECS-LC.

76
. ECS diary, 9 Feb. 1895,
Letters
, 316. ECS is buried in lot 5421. Nearby are the graves of HBS; Henry, Jr., and his wife Mary; Theodore; Margaret Lawrence; Harriot Blatch; and Robert Stanton.

1
. For discussion of the usefulness of the available theories, see Allan J. Lichtman and Valerie French,
Historians and the Living Past: The Theory and Practice of Historical Study
(Arlington Heights, Ill.: AHM, 1978), 128–39. Jacques Barzun,
Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History, and History
(Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1974), challenges the validity of psycho-historical endeavors on all counts.

2
. Leon Edel, “The Figure under the Carpet,”
Telling Lives
, 33–34.

3
. Albert Bandura,
Social Learning Theory
(Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977), vi–viii. See also Albert Bandura and Richard Walters,
Social Learning and Personality Development
(New York: Rinehart & Winston, 1963); Walter Mischel, “Toward a Cognitive Social Learning Reconceptualization of Personality,”
Psychological Review
80 (1973):252–83.

4
. Albert Bandura, “Self-Efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change,”
Psychological Review
84 (1977):191–215.

5
.
80Y
, 1.

6
. Jeanne J. Speizer, “Role Models, Mentors, and Sponsors: The Elusive Concepts,”
Signs
6 (Summer 1981):692–712.

7
. Laura Curtis Bullard, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” in
Our Famous Women
, ed. Bullard (Hartford, Conn.: Hartford, 1888), 604.

8
. Lois Hoffman, “Early Childhood Experiences and Women’s Achievement Motives,” in
Women and Achievement: Social and Motivational Analyses
, ed. Sandra Schwartz Tangri et al. (Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere Publishing Co., 1975), 132–36.

9
.
80Y
, 2; ECS diary, 23 May 1900,
Letters
, 350: “During the nine months of prenatal life, [mothers] are stamping every thought and feeling of their minds on the plastic beings to whom they are giving life and immortality.” Stanton advised young mothers not to play euchre or drink cocktails, for fear of making gamblers or drunkards of the next generation.

10
. See
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
, 1975 ed., article by Anthony A. Walsh; Justin Kaplan, “The Naked Self and Other Problems,” in
Telling Lives
, 47–49.

11
. ECS to Daniel Cady, 12 Jan. 1853,
Letters
, 46–47; “Phrenological Character of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Stanton,” ECS-VC. Bump-reading was very popular in that era. George Combe studied Lucretia Mott’s head when he visited Philadelphia in 1838 and found her temperament “nervous [and] bilious.” Bacon,
Valiant Friend
, 67.

Abolition, 24, 25, 27, 32, 105–6, 112, 116

and women, 25–27, 28, 32, 38, 41, 93

world meeting (1840), 35–37

Abortion, 102, 133

American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), 24, 27, 32, 53, 65, 93, 100, 103, 122.
See also names of anti-slavery organizations
; Reform

American Colonization Society, 27

American Equal Rights Association (AERA), vii, 118, 138, 140, 145, 193, 194

Anthony, Susan Brownell, 73, 214, 223

abolition, 93, 106

birthdays, 198–99, 209, 214

in Europe, 181, 214

family, 59, 73, 116, 167

History of Woman Suffrage, The
, 179–80

in NAWSA, 214, 215

in NWSA, 165, 166, 193

“nieces,” ix, 181, 182, 214

offices held, ix, 112, 125, 197, 214

pacifism, 109

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, 72–73, 91, 96, 147, 150, 151, 171, 204

suffrage strategy, 184, 194, 202

on temperance, 76, 77

George Francis Train and, 129–31, 134

and unions, 137–38

voting, 154, 171, 184

Woman’s Bible
, 212–13. See also
Revolution
debt; Stanton-Anthony friendship

Associative living, 45, 181, 191, 202

Autobiography. See
Eighty Years and More
(Elizabeth Cady Stanton);
Random Recollections
(Henry Brewster Stanton)

Avery, Rachel Foster, 181, 183, 197, 213

Bandura, Albert, 220–21

Bayard, Edward (brother-in-law), 7–9, 21, 23–24, 31, 48, 69, 75, 109, 210, 223

Bayard, Tryphena Cady (Mrs. Edward) (sister), 5–6, 7, 8, 40, 98, 108, 174, 180, 195, 201

Beecher, Henry Ward, 125n, 138, 159, 161.
See also
Beecher family; Beecher-Tilton scandal

Beecher family, 26, 145, 155–68.
See also
Beecher, Henry Ward; Hooker, Isabella Beecher

Beecher-Tilton scandal, 125n, 156–58, 166

Birney, James G., 32, 36, 39, 40

Biography, xii, xiii, xiv, 219–21

Birth control, 34, 65

Blacks.
See
Suffrage, black; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, racial attitudes

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 91, 197, 213

Blackwell, Antoinette Brown, 17n, 91, 96, 104, 112, 212, 218

Blackwell, Henry, 90, 91, 128, 134, 136, 213

Blackwell family, 18, 91, 92

Blake, Lillie Devereux, 132, 184, 208, 214–15

Blatch, Harriot Eaton Stanton (Mrs. Henry), (daughter), ix, 88, 93, 107n, 161, 163, 172, 174–75, 180, 181, 183, 188, 191, 195, 198, 200, 202, 214, 217–18

Blatch, Nora, 174, 181–82, 183, 195, 200, 206

Bloomer, Amelia, 64, 71, 72, 73, 81

Bloomers.
See
Dress reform

Brown, Antoinette.
See
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown

Brown, John, 24, 25, 92, 98, 107

Brown, Olympia, 134, 137, 205

Bullard, Laura Curtis, 133, 219–25

Cady, Catherine.
See
Wilkeson, Catherine Cady

Cady, Judge Daniel (father), 20–21, 43, 207, 223

background, 4–5

death, 97

grandchildren, 67, 68

sons, 7–9

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, 11, 30, 32, 55, 72, 82, 84, 222

Henry Brewster Stanton and, 30, 40, 48, 67

Cady, Eleazar (brother), 6–7

Cady family: children, 5–7, 10, 12

genealogical chart, 226–27

wealth, 3, 13, 15, 98.
See also individuals by name

Cady, Harriet.
See
Eaton, Harriet Cady

Cady, Margaret.
See
McMartin, Margaret Cady

Cady, Margaret Livingston (mother), xi, 3–4, 7, 10, 45, 79, 146, 151, 223

character, 4, 9–10, 11

as grandmother, 12, 49, 98

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, 9, 62, 71, 79

and suffrage, 12, 127

Cady, Tryphena.
See
Bayard, Tryphena Cady

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 43, 175, 208, 211, 212, 214–15, 218

Centennial of 1876, 166–67

Channing, William Henry, 81, 181

Chase, Salmon P., 105, 107, 116

Civil War, 105, 106, 108–9.
See also
Emancipation Proclamation

Coeducation, 17, 93, 164, 202

Colby, Clara Bewick, 185, 194, 211, 212, 215–16

Columbian Exposition, 202, 206–7

Conway, Moncure, 218

“Cult of true womanhood.”
See
Spheres, separate

Davis, Paulina Wright, 43, 44, 65, 83, 133, 137

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, The
, 6, 52–55, 56, 57, 218.
See also
Seneca Falls convention

Democrats, 153, 171

and suffrage, 124, 134–35, 192.

Dickinson, Anna, 137

Divorce reform, 54, 76, 92, 101–2, 106, 158, 159–60

Douglass, Frederick, 44, 57, 81, 106, 134, 152, 184

Dress reform, 71–72, 92

Eaton, Harriet Cady (Mrs. Daniel) (sister), 6, 8, 40, 56, 98, 108, 161, 195

Eddy, Eliza Jackson, 44, 92n, 179

Education, women’s, 17, 92, 180.
See also
Coeducation; Emma Willard School; Oberlin College; Vassar College; Willard, Emma H.

Eighty Years and More
(Elizabeth Cady Stanton autobiography), ix, 115, 207–8, 214, 216, 222

Emancipation Proclamation, 110–11

Emma Willard School, 6, 17–19, 18n, 207

Equal Rights Amendment, ix

Erie Canal, 15, 67

Female friendship, 13, 38, 61, 74–75, 81, 84, 99, 119, 198.
See also
Stanton-Anthony friendship

Feminism.
See
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist ideology

Finney, Charles Grandison, 19–21, 26, 223.
See also
Revival

Foster, Abby Kelley, 44, 65, 75, 92, 138

Foster, Rachel.
See
Avery, Rachel Foster

Foster, Stephen, 44, 106, 134, 136, 138

Fourteenth Amendment, 122–23, 125, 134, 153, 155

Free Soil party, 48, 65

Frémont, John C, 90, 113, 116

Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 137, 153, 166, 176, 182, 205

Garrison, William Lloyd, 27, 32, 37, 38, 39, 41, 44, 73, 90n, 92, 103, 104, 116, 119, 122, 130, 216

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 202

Graham, Sylvester, 23, 34, 35

Grant, Ulysses S., 152, 153, 154, 166

Greeley, Horace, 58, 87, 109, 114, 116, 125n, 127, 128, 135, 137, 153, 159, 164

on divorce, 101–2, 104

Grimké, Angelina.
See
Weld, Angelina Grimké

Grimké, Sarah, 34, 43

Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, 187

Harper, Ida Husted, xiii, 180

Hicksite Quakers.
See
Quakers

History of Woman Suffrage, The
, xi, 87, 170, 176, 177–80, 184, 185, 207, 218

Homeopathy, 23, 50, 69

Hooker, Isabella, 135, 145–47, 151, 156, 205

Hosack, Rev. Simon, 8, 9, 224

Hovey, Charles, 44, 92, 96

Hovey Fund, 96, 106, 128

Howe, Julia Ward, 135, 138, 161, 180, 193, 194

Hunt, Dr. Harriot, 65

Hunt, Jane and Richard, 51, 52

Infanticide, 102, 133, 159

International Council of Women, The, 192, 193–94, 214

Jackson, Francis, 44, 92

Johnstown, N.Y., 3, 15, 183

Kansas referendum of 1867, 127–30

Lane Theological Seminary.
See
Stanton, Henry Brewster, abolition

Laura Fair trial.
See
Trials

Lawrence, Margaret Livingston Stanton (Mrs. Frank) (daughter), 2, 76, 78, 87, 161, 174, 183, 195, 198, 201, 207

Liberty party, 15, 24, 32, 40, 42, 46

Lincoln, Abraham, 105, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116–17

London, 1840.
See
World Anti-Slavery Convention

Lozier, Dr. Clemence, 187

Lyceum, 160–61, 169.
See also
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, lecturer

Married women’s property rights, 92, 109–10, 146

in New York, 7, 43, 49, 81–83, 92, 97, 100–101

McClintock, Mary Ann, 51, 52

McMartin, Margaret Cady (Mrs. Duncan) (sister), 6, 8, 195

Medicine, 23, 87

women doctors, 65, 92, 187.
See also
Graham, Sylvester; Homeopathy; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, health care

Merger.
See
National American Women Suffrage Association

Miller, Elizabeth Smith (Mrs. Charles) (cousin), xiv, 40, 49, 67, 75, 107n, 137, 159, 223

in bloomers, 71–72

family, 24, 68, 75

in old age, 183, 195, 201, 206, 214

Minor v Happersett
, 155–56

Mormon women, vii, 150, 199

Motherhood.
See
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; image; motherhood

Mott, James, 38, 39

Mott, Lucretia Coffin, 116, 132, 135, 137, 139, 169, 223

background, 37–38

death, 175–76

and economics, 53n

meeting attendance, 93, 125, 166

and religion, 41, 45, 210

as role model, 10, 59, 62, 76, 175, 221

Seneca Falls, 50–54

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, 60, 75–76, 96, 124.
See also
Abolition; Mott, James; Quakers; Seneca Falls convention