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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement. She came from a privileged background, but decided early in life to fight for equal rights for women

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In 1979, 19th-century activist Susan B. Anthony became the first woman to appear on a circulating United States coin. Anthony is remembered for her work in fighting for women's right to vote, but it was her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton who actually launched the women's rights movement. She, however, never got a coin.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York, Stanton was the daughter of Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady, Johnstown's most prominent citizens.

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Elizabeth death was on October 26,1902, New York NY she died in her home she died at the age 86

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton She received her formal education at the Johnstown Academy and at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in New York. Her father was a noted lawyer and state assemblyman and young Elizabeth gained an informal legal education by talking with him and listening in on his conversations with colleagues and guests.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton She, too, became active in the anti-slavery movement and worked alongside leading abolitionists of the day including Sarah and Angelina Grimke and William Lloyd Garrison, all guests at the Stanton home while they lived in Albany, New York and later Boston.

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Elizabeth Cady was married to Henry Brewster Stanton, an activist in the anti-slavery cause, and they had seven children. Within her lifetime, Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw her daughter Harriot, born in 1856, do what she could not--attend college. Harriot graduated from Vassar College in 1878.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton She became the president of the Women's Political Union in 1915, succeeding her mother, and edited the organization's Women's Political World

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Elizabeth graduated from Johnstown Academy at age 16, women couldn’t enroll in college, so she proceeded to Troy Female Seminary instead. There she endured strict preaching of hellfire and damnation to such a severe degree that she had a breakdown.

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In the early 1880s, Stanton co-authored the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage with Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan B. Anthony. In 1895, she and a committee of women published The Woman’s Bible to point out the bias in the Bible towards women and challenge its stance that women should be submissive to men