Western New York Suffragists - Rochester Region Suffrage Timeline

1789	Ontario County, New York is established from the Phelps and Gorham land purchase.
1795	William Clough Bloss is born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on January 19.
1798	Isaac Post is born in Westbury, New York on February 26.
1802	Amy Kirby is born in Jericho, New York on December 20.
1805	Henry Selden is born in Lyme, Connecticut.
1810	Abigail Norton is born.
1814	Emily Collins is born on August 11.
1816	Rhoda Palmer is born north of Geneva, New York on June 25.
1818	Frederick Douglass is born.
1818	Sarah Kirby is born on Long Island, New York on January 16.
1820	Susan B. Anthony is born in North Adams, Massachusetts on February 15.
1821	Clara Barton is born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25.
1821	Elizabeth Blackwell is born near Bristol, England on February 3.
1821	Livingston County, New York is formed.
1821	Monroe County, New York is established.
1822	Elizabeth Smith is born near Geneseo, New York on September 20.
1823	Mary Post is born in Westbury, New York on February 20.
1823	Wayne County, New York is established.
1825	Antoinette Brown is born in Henrietta, New York on May 20.
1827	Mary Anthony is born in Battenville, New York on April 2.
1829	Sarah Read Adamson is born in Schuylkill Meeting, Pennsylvania on March 11.
1831	Cordelia Greene is born near Lyons, New York on July 5.
1840	William Channing Gannett is born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 13.
1841	Wyoming County, New York is established.
1844	Mary Seymour is born in Mt. Morris, New York.
1847	Antoinette Brown delivers a speech on woman’s rights at the Baptist church in Henrietta, New York.
1848	*The first Woman’s Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls & Rochester, New York. The Declaration of Sentiments* based on the Declaration of Independence is adopted.**
1849	Elizabeth Blackwell receives a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York.
1853	Ella Hawley is born in Gainsville, New York on March 21.
1853	Woman’s Rights State Convention held in Rochester, New York.
1853	Antoinette Brown is ordained as the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Butler and Savannah, New York. She is the first woman minister of a recognized denomination in the United States.
1853	Cordelia Greene becomes the first student of the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to receive a medical degree.
1854	Mary Thorn Lewis is born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on February 27.
1854	Clara Barton becomes a copyist in the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. She is the first woman to hold an independent clerkship in the federal government.
1855	Fannie Barrier is born in Brockport, New York on February 12.
1856	Anne Miller is born in Peterboro, New York on March 4.
1857	Martha Matilda Harper is born in Canada.
1858	Delia C. Kenyon is born in County Line, New York on July 16.
1860	The state of New York grants married women rights over their children, rights to sue in court, and rights to retain their wages.
1861	Helen Barrett is born in Kingsville, Ohio on July 31.
1862	Emma Biddlecom is born in Macedon, New York on August 13.
1863	William Clough Bloss dies in Rochester, New York on April 18.
1863	Marion Craig is born in Churchville, New York on September 14
1863	Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton convene the Woman’s National Loyal League. One goal of the group is to keep woman’s rights issues alive.
1865	Kate Gleason is born in Rochester, New York on November 25.
1868	Susan B. Anthony publishes The Revolution, a newspaper promoting woman’s rights.
1869	Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony break from the American Equal Rights Association to form the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). It advocates for woman suffrage above all other issues.
1872	Fourteen Rochester, New York women challenge the federal constitution and vote for the President of the United States. Susan B. Anthony is arrested and tried.
1873	Rhoda DeGarmo dies.
1878	Agnes Slosson is born in Geneva, New York.
1878	National Woman Suffrage Association holds its convention in Rochester, New York on July 19 to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention.
1878	Amy Kirby Post is one of the Monroe County delegates to the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Rochester, New York.
1878	Elizabeth Smith Miller is the Ontario County delegate to Rochester’s thirtieth anniversary celebration of the first woman’s rights convention, sponsored by the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1881	Clara Barton establishes the American Association of the Red Cross and the first local chapter of the Red Cross in Dansville, New York.
1885	Amy Kirby Post becomes one of the founding members of Rochester’s Women’s Political Club, later known as the Political Equality Club.
1885	Henry Selden dies.
1889	Amy Kirby Post dies in Rochester, New York on January 29.
1890	Ella Hawley Crossett attends the National American Woman Suffrage convention in Washington, D.C. as a national delegate.
1891	Ella Hawley Crossett organizes a convention in Warsaw, New York at which Reverend Anna Howard Shaw and Susan B. Anthony speak.
1891	The Wyoming County Suffrage Association and the Warsaw Political Equality Club are formed. Ella Hawley Crossett is named president of both groups.
1893	Helen Barrett Montgomery, Mary Lewis Gannett, and Susan B. Anthony form the Woman’s Educational and Industrial Union of Rochester (WEIU). Montgomery becomes its first president.
1895	Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C. on February 20.
1896	Helen Barrett Montgomery serves as the president of the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs.
1897	Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Miller arrange for Geneva, NY to hold the annual convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA).
1897	Anne Miller founds the Geneva Political Equality Club in Geneva, New York.
1898	Marion Potter, M.D. becomes the first woman doctor at Rochester City Hosptial.
1899	Abigail Norton Bush dies.
1899	Helen Barrett Montgomery is elected to the Rochester School Board, the first women ever elected to public office in Rochester, New York.
1899	Cecil B. Wiener and Helen Z.M. Rogers become the first two women to graduate from the Buffalo Law School, Buffalo, New York.
1900	University of Rochester, New York admits women.
1900	Susan B. Anthony retires as the president of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and recommends Carrie Chapman Catt as her successor.
1902	Ella Hawley Crossett becomes president of the New York State Suffrage Association.
1902	Clara Barton is a speaker when women from 10 nations meet in Washington, D.C. to plan an international effort for suffrage.
1902	Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies in New York City on October 26.
1904	Clara Barton holds a reception at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland to honor Susan B. Anthony’s 84^th birthday during the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association Convention. Hundreds of convention members attended and were treated, at their request, to a display of her many medals, decorations and other memorabilia.
1905	Cordelia Greene dies in Castile, New York on January 28.
1906	Susan B. Anthony dies in Rochester, New York on March 13.
1907	Mary S. Anthony dies in Rochester, New York on February 5.
1909	Sarah Read Adamson Dolley dies in Rochester, New York on December 27.
1909	Emmeline Pankhurst, the radical suffrage advocate from England, comes to speak before the Geneva Political Equality Club, in Geneva, New York.
1909	Clara Barton serves as an honorary Advisory Member of the National Committee on the Petition to Congress for woman suffrage.
1910	Elizabeth Blackwell dies in Hastings, England on May 31.
1911	Elizabeth Smith Miller dies in Geneva, New York on May 22.
1912	Anne Miller dies in Boston, Massachusetts on March 1.
1912	Clara Barton dies in Glen Echo, Maryland on April 12.
1913	Mary Seymour Howell dies in Mt. Morris, New York in February.
1914	Sarah Kirby Hallowell Willis dies.
1919	Rhoda Palmer dies in Geneva, New York on August 9.
1920	The Nineteenth Amendment -- The Susan B. Anthony Amendment -- giving women the right to vote is passed.
1921	Antoinette Brown Blackwell dies in Elizabeth, New Jersey on November 2.
1923	William Channing Gannett dies in Rochester, New York on December 15.
1925	Ella Hawley Crossett dies on December 2.
1933	Kate Gleason dies In Rochester, New York on January 9.
1934	Helen Barrett Montgomery dies in Summit, New Jersey on October 19.
1943	Marion Craig Potter dies in Rochester, New York on March 23.
1944	Fannie Barrier Williams dies in Brockport, New York on March 4.
1945	Delia C. Kenyon dies.
1950	Martha Matilda Harper dies on August 3.
1951	Emma Biddlecom Sweet dies on November 24.
1952	Mary Lewis Gannett dies in Rochester, New York on October 26.