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Harriot Stanton Blatch 1856 ~ 1940
Harriot Stanton Blatch
Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch is the
brilliant daughter of Mrs. Cady Stanton, who was one of the
founders of the Woman's Suffrage Organization. Her father's name
was Henry Brewster Stanton and her grandfather was Daniel Cady,
a noted lawyer who, after serving a term in Congress, became a
judge of the Supreme Court of New York.
Mrs. Blatch is now one of the leading spirits in the woman's
suffrage movement in this country and president of the Woman's
Political Union of 46 East Twenty-ninth Street, New York City.
She is a woman of great strength of character and marked ability
which has brought her to the front rank in this great wave of
suffrage which is sweeping over our country.
Mrs. Blatch was the organizer of the league for Self-supporting
Women which has to-day 19,350 members. It is a league of working
women of New York City and has affiliated with it such divisions
of organized labor as The Typo-graphical Union, The
Pipe-Caulkers' Union, The Painters' and the Bookbinders' Union.
For several years Mrs. Blatch has devoted much of her time to
amalgamating women workers and teaching them the value of the
franchise. The national suffragists count their greatest gain to
be the working women and the college women, who for many years
held aloof from each other in suspicion and conservatism, but in
the past few years both classes, for various reasons, now are
united against tyranny or taxation without representation and
for the advancement and rights of women.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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