Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Descendants
1st Generation:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(b. November 12, 1815 d. October 26, 1902)
- Parents
- Daniel Cady (1773-1859)
- Margaret Livingston Cady (1785-1871)
Graduated from Johnstown Academy
1830 Attended Troy Female Seminary, Troy, NY, founded by Emma Willard
1840 Married Henry Brewster Stanton, whom she had met through their mutual interests in the abolition movement
- Children
- Daniel Cady Stanton (1842-1891)
- Henry Brewster Stanton, Jr. (1844-1903)
- Gerrit Smith Stanton (1845-1927)
- Theodore Weld Stanton (1851-1925)
- Margaret Livingston Stanton Lawrence (1852-1930)
- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)
- Robert Livingston Stanton (1859-1920)
2nd Generation:
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
(b. January 20, 1856 d. November 20, 1940)
1878 Graduated from Vassar College with a degree in mathematics
Achieved Masters degree from Vassar
1881 Worked with her mother and Susan B Anthony on 2nd volume of History of Woman Suffrage
1882 Married William Henry Blatch
- Moved to England- two decades of work in progressive movements
- Children
- Nora, b. 1883
- Helen, who died at age 4 years old
1902 Returned to USA- launched into women’s rights and suffrage causes
1907 Founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women
Founded and led Woman’s Political Union
1910 Organized and led the New York Suffrage Parade
1913-1915 Led Votes for Women referendum campaign in New York State
1916 Cofounded the National Women’s Party
1918 Wrote Mobilizing Woman Power that provided a feminist view of equal work for women during WWI
1920 Wrote A Woman’s Point of View
1920 Joined National Woman’s Party and worked on behalf of the League of Nations
1940 Published memoir Challenging Years
3rd Generation:
Nora Stanton Blatch De Forest Barney
(b. September 30, 1883 d. January 18, 1971)
1905 Graduated from Cornell University, first woman in university’s history to earn degree in civil engineering
Occupation: civil engineer, architect, real-estate developer and political activist
1908 Married Lee De Forest, Inventor
- Children
1911 Divorced Lee De Forest
1917 Married Morgan Barney, MIT naval architect
- Children
- Rhoda Barney Jenkins, b. 1920
- John Barney
4th Generation:
Rhoda Barney Jenkins
(b. July 12, 1920 d. August 25, 2007)
1941 Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture
Occupation: architect and political activist
Please google “Rhoda Barney Jenkins” obituary
- Children
- Morgan Jenkins, b. 1949
- Coline Jenkins, b. 1951
5th Generation:
Coline Jenkins
(b. 1951)
Legislator, and President of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust
- Children
- Elizabeth Jenkins-Sahlin, b. 1984
- Eric Jenkins-Sahlin, b. 1987