This article will be permanently flagged as inappropriate and made unaccessible to everyone. Are you certain this article is inappropriate? Excessive Violence Sexual Content Political / Social
Email Address:
Article Id: WHEBN0001933496 Reproduction Date:
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (August 7, 1813 – August 24, 1876) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and educator. She was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association.
Davis was born in Bloomfield, New York to Captain Ebenezer Kellogg and Polly (Saxton) Kellogg. The family moved to the frontier near Niagara Falls in 1817. Both her parents died, and in 1820 she went to live with her orthodox Presbyterian aunt in Le Roy, New York. She joined the church, although she found it hostile to outspoken women. She wanted to become a missionary but was unable to as the church did not allow single women to become missionaries.[1]
She was courted by suitor Francis Wright, a merchant from a prosperous family from Susan B. Anthony,[3] Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Ernestine Rose. During this period Davis studied women's health. Francis Wright died in 1845; the couple had no children.[4]
Following her husband's death she moved to New York to study medicine. In 1846 she gave lectures on anatomy and physiology to women only.[5] She imported a medical mannequin and toured the eastern United States teaching women and urging them to become physicians. In 1849 she married Thomas Davis, an Irish-American Democrat from Providence, Rhode Island; they adopted two daughters.[6][7]
In 1850 she started to focus her energies on women's rights. She stopped lecturing and helped to arrange the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, at which she presided and delivered the opening address.[8] Except for one year, she was president of the National Woman's Rights Central Committee from 1850 to 1858. In 1853, she began editing the women's newspaper The Una, handing over the responsibility to Caroline Wells Healey Dall in 1855.[9]
Davis was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. When the group splintered, Davis and Susan B. Anthony became involved in the National Woman Suffrage Association.[10] In 1870 she arranged the twentieth anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Movement meeting, and published The History of the National Woman's Rights Movement.[11]
Davis died on August 24, 1876, in Providence, Rhode Island. She was eulogized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[12]
She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2002.[13] In 2003, she was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, along with her husband.[14]
World War I, Portugal, Italy, San Marino, New Zealand
Barack Obama, Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States), Bill Clinton, John Kerry
American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown (abolitionist), Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad
Biology, Ecology, Skin, Evolution, Thoracic diaphragm
Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Maya Angelou, Rosalynn Carter, Willa Cather
Feminism, Feminist theory, Gender studies, Women's suffrage, Women's rights
Hillary Clinton, Piotrków Trybunalski, Congress Poland, Feminism, Atheism
Feminism, Rutgers University Press, Suffrage, Women's suffrage, Feminist theory
Feminism, Internet Archive, Farmington, Maine, LibriVox, Strong, Maine