Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Elizabeth Stanton was a prominent figure in the fight for gender equality throughout her life. Stanton was born November 12, 1815 in Johnston, NY as the daughter of a judge, who sent her to Johnston Academy and Troy Female Seminary, where she got an education that bettered that of many men during the era. After school, Stanton began to study law in the office of her father, Daniel Cady, which is where she learned about the discriminatory laws that women were forced to live under. Later in 1840 she married her husband, abolitionist Henry Brewston Stanton. Together, Mr. and Ms. Stanton went to the World Anti-Slavery Convention, where she met Lucretia Mott after the two of them as well as every other woman there, were denied their seats on the ground that they were women. Stanton was also good friends with Susan. B. Anthony. Elizabeth Stanton died October 26, 1902.
Lucretia Coffin mott (1793-1880)
Lucretia Mott was a "pioneer reformer" who fought and desperately tried to get women equal treatment, for nearly 90 years. She grew up in Boston, attending public schools, but when she turned 13 she went to a quaker boarding school called "Nine Partners" in New York state. Mott first experienced true inequality when she got a job as a teacher, and learned that she was making half of the male teachers' salaries solely based on her gender. In 1811, she married James Mott, a teacher at the same school, and the two of them moved to Philadelphia. In 1840, she met Stanton at the World Anti-Slavery Convention, the two of them became friends, and eight years later, together they planned the Seneca Falls Convention. The Mott household was also a stop on the Underground Railroad, because not only did Mr. and Ms. Mott support gender equality, but they were also both abolitionists. On November 11, 1880 Lucretia Mott died a true soldier for equality.
Martha coffin Wright (1806-1875)
Martha Wright was the youngest of the Coffin siblings, sister to Lucretia Mott. Wright played a part in the Seneca Falls Convention with her sister, but she preferred more "behind the scenes" work. After she helped with organizing Seneca Falls, Wright also was secretary at the National Women's Rights Conventions in 1852 and 1856, she was officer at the National Women's Rights Conventions in 1853 and 1854, as well as presided over National Women's Rights Convention in 1855 in Ohio and the New York State's Women's Rights Convention that same year. Like her sister, Martha Wright's home was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Mary Ann Mcclintock
Born as Mary Ann Wilson, Mary Ann McClintock was born in Burlington, New Jersey to a quaker family. In 1820 she married a fellow quaker, Thomas McClintock. Both McClintock's were "active abolitionists", and in 1848 Mary Ann McClintock was one of the five women who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Jane Hunt (1812-1889)
Jane Clothier Master Hunt was born on June 26, 1812 to Mr. and Mrs. Master. In November of 1845, Jane Master married Richard Hunt. Jane Hunt was also one of the five women who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Throughout her life, Susan Brownell Anthony fought for women's rights, and closer to the end of her life she was the president of the National American Women's Suffrage Association. Born into a quaker family on February 15 in 1820, Susan B. Anthony thrived in her surroundings, learning to read and write at the age of 3, and when she was 6 years old, attending a school that her father set up himself. Later she went on to a boarding school, then taught at a female academy. After that, she moved near to Rochester New York, where she met many valued abolitionist leaders, such as William Lloyd Garrison, Parker Pillsbury, and Fredrick Douglas. Susan B. Anthony played an extremely large role in making America an equal place for all, as she became publisher of a newspaper called Revolution, organized a women's suffrage convention in DC, and became corresponding secretary for American Equal Rights Association, just to name a few. Also, Susan B. Anthony was close friends with Elizabeth Stanton. Sadly, on March 13, 1906 Susan B. Anthony died.
Sites used for all information relating to the Seneca Falls Convention and those involved:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/563303/Elizabeth-Cady-Stanton
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394412/Lucretia-Mott
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/27385/Susan-B-Anthony
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/724633/feminism/216007/The-suffrage-movement
http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/martha-c-wright.htm
http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/jane-hunt.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/seneca-falls-convention-begins
http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/jane-hunt.htm
Document that one gets when one googles "Mary Ann McClintock"
http://senecafallsconvention.org/ (not for solid information)
http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm
http://womensuffrage.org/?p=429