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Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( November 12 , 1815 – October 26 , 1902 ) was a social activist, and a leading figure of the early Women's Rights movement in the United States . With her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith , Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also active in the anti-slavery Abolitionist movement. Stanton had a strong friendship with abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass . LIFE ACCOUNT Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown , New York to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady. Daniel Cady was a prominent attorney who served a term in the Congress Of The United States and later became a judge. Margaret Livingston was the daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer in the American Revolutionary War . Elizabeth Cady met Henry Brewster Stanton through her early involvement in the Temperance and the abolition movements. Henry Stanton was a journalist, an antislavery orator, and, after their marriage, became an attorney. Despite Daniel Cady's reservations, the couple were married in 1840 and had seven carefully spaced children. Cady Stanton loved motherhood and assumed primary responsibility for rearing the children. She was remembered by her daughter Margaret as ''cheerful, sunny and indulgent.'' Stanton took her husband's surname as part of her own, signing herself Elizabeth Cady Stanton or E. Cady Stanton, but refused to be addressed as Mrs. Henry B. Stanton. Asserting that women were individual persons, she stated that ''"(t)he custom of calling women Mrs. John This and Mrs. Tom That and colored men Sambo and Zip Coon, is founded on the principle that white men are lords of all."'' The Stanton marriage was not entirely without tension and disagreement. Due to employment, travel and financial considerations, husband and wife lived more often apart than together. Friends of the couple found them very similar in temperament and ambition, but quite dissimilar in their views on issues such as women's rights. In 1842, abolitionist reformer Sarah Grimke counseled Elizabeth in a letter: ''"Henry greatly needs a humble, holy companion and thou needest the same."'' However, both Stantons appeared to consider their marriage an overall success and the marriage lasted for forty-seven years, ending with Henry's death in 1887. (Baker, pp. 99-113). Stanton died in 1902 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx , New York . WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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