Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — MRS. CADY STANTON DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. CADY STANTON DEAD.

Famous Woman’s Rights Advocate Expires of Old Age. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the wellknown woman suffragist, died Sunday at her home in New York City. Old age

was given as the cause of death. She was conscious utmost to the test. About a week before Mrs. Stanton [began to fail rapidly, and then it was known to the family that her death; was only a question

days or hours. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton may truly be called the “grand old woman” of the suffragists. She Was one of the signers of th,e call for the first woman suffrage convention, which was held at Seneca Falls, N. Y., on July 8, 1848. She is the only signer of that call who has stuck to her colors throughout the years and has never flagged in the work then begun, although she has faced storms and hurricanes of ridicule nnd vituperation. Mra. Stanton was born of Puritau ancestry at Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1816. Her father was a distinguished lawyer of the time. She waa educated at Mrs. Willard’s Seminary at Troy. She vjas mac ried in 1840, went abroad, and on her return took up abolition. No convention of woman suffragists waa complete without Mrs. Stanton. .When Mrs. Stanton’s father, Judge Cady, heard of her resolution, “Thnt it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred rights to the elective franchise,” he was impressed with the idea thnt her mind had Itecome deranged and hastened from Johnstown to Seneca Falls to care for her. He tried to reason with her cn the elective franchise question, but failed to move her from her purpose.

MRS. STANTON.