Susan B. Anthony's Circle
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Portrait of Lucretia Coffin Mott.
Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880)
Quaker minister, abolitionist; organized with Elizabeth Cady Stanton the first woman’s rights convention in 1848; mentor to Susan B. Anthony when she joined the movement.
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Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Co-organizer of the first woman’s rights convention, orator, writer, abolitionist; friend and ally of Susan B. Anthony for fifty years; first woman to testify before the NYS Legislature (1854); president of the National Woman Suffrage Association; editor of woman’s rights newspaper The Revolution; co-author of first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage; author of The Woman’s Bible.
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Portrait of Lucy Stone.
Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
Abolitionist speaker, pioneer in woman’s rights movement; split with Anthony and Stanton over philosophical, political and tactical differences and founded the rival American Woman Suffrage Association; with husband Henry Blackwell published The Woman’s Journal.
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Portrait of Mary Stafford Anthony.
Mary Stafford Anthony (1827-1907)
Susan B. Anthony’s sister; attended the 1848 Rochester woman’s rights convention; teacher and principal in Rochester schools; active in the Rochester Political Equality Club and NYS Suffrage Association.
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Portrait of Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
Self-emancipated enslaved person; abolitionist orator and writer; publisher of The North Star; attended the Seneca Falls and Rochester woman’s rights conventions; disagreed with Anthony and Stanton over the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; attended a woman’s rights meeting the day he died.
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Portrait of Amy Kirby Post.
Amy Kirby Post (1802-1889)
Rochester Quaker, abolitionist, woman’s rights advocate, Spiritualist; with husband Isaac attended Seneca Falls and Rochester woman’s rights conventions; attempted to vote with Susan B. Anthony in 1872.
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Portrait of Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)
First woman to be an ordained minister in the United States; worked with Susan B. Anthony in 1850s but after marriage to Samuel Blackwell became less involved in public work.
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Portrait of Sojourner Truth.
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
African-American preacher, abolitionist; spoke eloquently on woman’s rights at several conventions.
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Portrait of Parker Pillsbury.
Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898)
Abolitionist, woman’s rights supporter, long-time friend and co-worker of Susan B. Anthony; edited with Stanton The Revolution.
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Portrait of Isabella Beecher Hooker.
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
Suffragist; organized the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in 1871; testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1872.
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Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Butler.
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893)
Civil War soldier; Republican Congressman from Massachusetts, 1867-1875 and 1877-1879; one of the most loyal supporters of women’s rights legislation in Congress.
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Portrait of Aaron Augustus Sargent.
Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827-1887)
California Congressman (1861-63, 1869-73) and Senator (1873-1879); married to Ellen Clark Sargent, a suffragist; introduced in the Senate a Constitutional amendment for woman suffrage in 1878.
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Portrait of Olympia Brown.
Olympia Brown (1835-1926)
Universalist minister; canvassed in Kansas and New York with Anthony and Stanton on behalf of suffrage referendums in 1867; active in the suffrage movement in Wisconsin; opposed merger of the suffrage organizations in 1890.
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Portrait of Anna Howard Shaw.
Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919)
Methodist minister, medical doctor, orator; groomed by Susan B. Anthony for leadership role in suffrage work; traveled extensively with Anthony on many suffrage campaigns; president of NAWSA 1905-1914.
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Portrait of Rachel Foster Avery.
Rachel Foster Avery (1858-1919)
First "niece" of Susan B. Anthony; traveled to Europe with Anthony in 1883; corresponding secretary of NAWSA; managed the 1888 International Council of Women; led fight against Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Woman’s Bible.
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Portrait of Harriet Taylor Upton.
Harriet Taylor Upton (1853-1945)
Republican political activist in Ohio, orator, editor of suffrage newspaper Progress; treasurer of NAWSA and ran its headquarters when it was located in Warren, OH.
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Portrait of Emma Biddlecom Sweet.
Emma Biddlecom Sweet (1862-1951)
Served intermittently as Susan B. Anthony’s secretary 1894-1905; traveled to California in 1896 with Anthony to help work on suffrage campaign; active in NYS Woman Suffrage Association and Rochester Political Equality Club.
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Portrait of Mary Garrett Hay.
Mary Garrett Hay (1857-1928)
Suffragist, temperance reformer; worked closely with Carrie Chapman Catt on several suffrage campaigns including California in 1896.
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Portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt.
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Anthony successor as leader of the suffrage movement; led successful 1893 suffrage campaign in Colorado; president of NAWSA 1900-1904, 1915-1920; founder of International Woman Suffrage Alliance; developed strategy for winning the vote in 1920.
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Portrait of Ida Husted Harper.
Ida Husted Harper (1851-1931)
Historian of woman suffrage movement, journalist, co-edited with Susan B. Anthony volume 4 of History of Woman Suffrage and edited volumes 5 and 6; wrote Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony; directed press relations for NAWSA.
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Portrait of Harriot Stanton Blatch.
Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s daughter, suffrage leader; founded Women’s Political Union to lobby for suffrage amendment to NYS Constitution; worked through Alice Paul’s Congressional Union for federal amendment.
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Portrait of Lucy E. Anthony.
Lucy E. Anthony (1860-1944)
Susan B. Anthony’s niece (daughter of Anthony’s brother Jacob Merritt Anthony); worked on several suffrage campaigns; served as Anna Howard Shaw’s secretary.
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Portrait of Alice Stone Blackwell.
Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950)
Daughter of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell; edited with parents The Woman’s Journal; instrumental in the 1890 reconciliation of the two suffrage factions; served as recording secretary of the NAWSA.
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Portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Author, lecturer on themes related to women and labor, intellectual of the women’s movement; wrote Women and Economics, a manifesto for women’s economic independence and Herlands, a feminist fantasy.
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Portrait of Ernestine Potowski Rose.
Ernestine Potwoski Rose (1810-1892)
Feminist, reformer, freethinker; born in Poland; immigrated to the U.S. in 1836; campaigned for NYS Married Women’s Property Act; traveled and spoke extensively on women’s rights, abolition, and temperance; founding member of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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Portrait of Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898)
Pioneer in women's rights movement; help found National American Woman Association; co-author with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the first three volumes of The History of Woman Suffrage; editor of the newspaper, The National Citizen and Ballot Box; broke with NAWSA and founded Woman’s National Liberal Union to promote her progressive religious views.
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Portrait of Martha Coffin Wright.
Martha Coffin Wright (1806-1875)
Women’s rights leader, abolitionist, sister of Lucretia Mott; help plan the Seneca Falls Convention; served as officer at early woman’s rights conventions; founding member of National Woman Suffrage Association.
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Portrait of Virginia L. Minor.
Virginia Minor (1824-1894)
Civil War relief worker, Missouri suffrage leader; with her husband contended that women had the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment and took the case to the Supreme Court where it was defeated.
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Portrait of Clara Bewick Colby.
Clara Bewick Colby (1846-1916)
Suffrage organizer in Nebraska; publisher of the woman's rights newspaper Woman's Tribune, shared liberal religious opinions with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage; worked for federal suffrage amendment through NAWSA and later Federal Suffrage Association.
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Portrait of Lillie Devereux Blake.
Lillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913)
Orator, author, leader in the NYS suffrage movement; personal and tactical differences with Susan B. Anthony led to their falling out; left NAWSA to found National Legislative League.
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Portrait of Abigail Scott Duniway.
Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915)
Leader of suffrage movement in Oregon, author, journalist; traveled and spoke throughout western states on behalf of suffrage; published newspaper the New Northwest; became estranged from NAWSA, but continued to speak and write for suffrage.
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Portrait of Myra Bradwell.
Myra Colby Bradwell (1931-1894)
Lawyer, Civil War worker; publisher of Chicago Legal News; lobbied Illinois State Legislature for woman suffrage and married women’s property rights; denied admission to the Illinois bar in 1869, she took the case to the Supreme Court where it was defeated; finally admitted into practice in 1890.
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Portrait of Paulina W. Davis.
Paulina Wright Davis (1813-1876)
Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate; lectured on women’s health; organized the first National Woman’s Rights Convention that met in Wooster, MA in 1850; published the woman’s rights newspaper the Una; founding member of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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Portrait of Clemence Sophia Lozier, M.D.
Clemence Sophia Lozier (1813-1888)
One of the first women to receive a medical degree (Central Medical College in Rochester, 1853); lecturer on medical topics to women audiences; founder of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women (1863); donated funds to The Revolution.
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Portrait of Clarina I. Howard Nichols.
Clarina Howard Nichols (1810-1885)
Newspaper editor, lecturer; led campaign in Vermont for legislation to protect married women’s legal rights; attended early woman’s rights conventions; worked with Susan B. Anthony on the 1867 Kansas suffrage campaign.
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Portrait of Jane H. Spofford.