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[sketch written by herself]

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown New York. Her father was one of New York's distinguished lawyers, and her mother Margaret Livingston, was one of the most beautiful women of the well known family. 
	She was educated at the academy in her native town studying mathematics, Greek and latin side by side with the village boys, and took many prizes over their heads; at the age of sixteen she went to Mrs. Willards Seminary at Troy, where she remained two years. At twenty four she was married to Henry B. Stanton, a young lawyer and prominent abolitionist. After traveling some time in Europe Mr. Stanton commenced the practice of law in Boston where they lived several years and then [removed] to Seneca Falls New York and thence to the Metropolis. Their family consisted of five sons and two daughters. Mrs. Stanton was instrumental in calling the first woman suffrage convention ever held in the world, and she was the first to make the demand, in the form of a resolution, which she drew up and pressed - to a vote. Her life may be said (over)
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to have been devoted to this reform. For over forty years she has been an historic character in conventions and before legislative assemblies of both the state and nation. As a Lyceum lecturer, she travelled from the Atlantic to the Pacific for many Consecutive years, 
[written in blue pen and a different hand] and has no superior, man or woman as a lecturer, 
[written in her hand and ink] Hers has indeed been a busy and eventful life. [written in blue pen and a different hand] She is one of those much lauded but rarely seen personages, a beautiful woman whose youth is past. In point of scholarship, ability and force she is almost without a peer, seeming to enjoy a youth perpetual, that greatest gift of the gods.
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[typed transcript]

		Alma Lutz Collection
	(Sketch written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton)


Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York. Her father was one of New York's distinguished lawyers, and her mother, Margaret Livingston, was one of the most beautiful women of the well known family.  She was educated at the academy in her native town, studying mathematics, Greek and latin side by side with the village boys, and took many prizes over their heads. At the age of sixteen she went to Mrs. Willards Seminary at Troy, where she remained two years. At twenty-four she was married to Henry B. Stanton, a young lawyer and prominent abolitionist. After traveling some time in Europe Mr. Stanton commenced the practice of law in Boston where they lived several years ,and then removed to Seneca Falls New York and thence to the Metropolis. Their family consists of five sons and two daughters. Mrs. Stanton was instrumental in calling the first woman suffrage convention ever held in the world, and she was the first to make the demand in the form of a resolution which she drew up and pressed - to a vote. Her life may be said to have been devoted to this reform. For over forty years she has been an historic character in conventions and before legislative assemblies of both the state and nation. As a Lyceum lecturer, she travelled from the Atlantic to the Pacific for many consecutive years, (insert in some one else’s handwriting - “and has no superior, man or woman as a lecturer”)  Hers has indeed been a busy and eventful life.  (Addition in some one else’s handwriting - “She is one of those much lauded but rarely see personages, a beautiful woman whose youth is past. In point of scholarship, ability and force she is almost without a peer, seeming to enjoy a youth perpetual, that greatest gift of the Gods.
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