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1800 Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter was born. She was a philanthropist, who was twice married and twice widowed. While she was married the second time, she founded the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia. Subsequently, she established the Ladies Academy of Art, which became the art school of Cincinnati, Ohio. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1856, made nine pilgrimages to Rome and founded at least twenty sisterhoods and convents in the Philadelphia and Cincinnati archdioceses.
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1840 Elizabeth Cady married Henry Brewster Stanton (an abolitionist), omitting the word obey from the ceremony. She had already observed enough about the legal relationships between men and women to insist that the word obey be dropped from the ceremony. Being herself an active abolitionist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and was a womens rights activist. Outraged that in 1840, at the Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention in London, women delegates were denied official standing, she joined forces with Lucretia Mott in 1848 and called for a womens rights convention in New York. That convention, and the Declaration of Sentiments written by Stanton which was approved there, is credited with initiating the long struggle towards women's rights and woman suffrage
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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