Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Jonhstown. His father, Daniel Cady, was a man of laws and a politician; although he did not impose a rigorous academic discipline on Elizabeth, he allowed her to study and opened her library. Before Stanton narrowed his political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist, along with her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and her cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many people involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton tackled a series of issues regarding women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included the parental and custodial rights of women, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the family's economic health and birth control, positioning herself against abortion. She was also an open supporter of the Temperance Movement of the 19th century.
Susan Brownell Anthony (Adams, February 15, 1820-Rochester, March 13, 1906) was an American feminist and suffragist. Defender of civil rights, played an important role in the struggle for women's rights and the right to vote women in the nineteenth century in the United States. She was president of the National Association for the Suffrage of Women, an organization she created with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Their goal was to demonstrate that women were able to hold together under the sole foundation of their "womanhood" or the experience of being a woman. Its success was such that in 1925 it grouped thirty-six million women belonging to feminist associations of all countries.
