Rochester Region Suffrage

1789 Ontario County, New York is established from the Phelps and Gorham land purchase.
1795 William Clough Bloss is born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on January 19.
1798 Isaac Post is born in Westbury, New York on February 26.
1802 Amy Kirby is born in Jericho, New York on December 20.
1805 Henry Selden is born in Lyme, Connecticut on October 14.
1810 Abigail Norton is born.
1814 Emily Collins is born on August 11.
1816 Rhoda Palmer is born north of Geneva, New York on June 25.
1818 Frederick Douglass is born.
1818 Sarah Kirby is born on Long Island, New York on January 16.
1820 Susan B. Anthony is born in North Adams, Massachusetts on February 15.
1821 Clara Barton is born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25.
1821 Elizabeth Blackwell is born near Bristol, England on February 3.
1821 Livingston County, New York is formed.
1821 Monroe County, New York is established.
1822 Elizabeth Smith is born near Geneseo, New York on September 20.
1823 Mary Post is born in Westbury, New York on February 20.
1823 Wayne County, New York is established.
1825 Antoinette Brown is born in Henrietta, New York on May 20.
1827 Mary Anthony is born in Battenville, New York on April 2.
1829 Sarah Read Adamson is born in Schuylkill Meeting, Pennsylvania on March 11.
1831 Cordelia Greene is born near Lyons, New York on July 5.
1840 William Channing Gannett is born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 13.
1841 Wyoming County, New York is established.
1844 Mary Seymour is born in Mt. Morris, New York.
1847 Antoinette Brown delivers a speech on woman’s rights at the Baptist church in Henrietta, New York.
1848 The first Woman’s Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls & Rochester, New York. The Declaration of Sentiments based on the Declaration of Independence is adopted.
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell receives a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York.
1853 Ella Hawley is born in Gainsville, New York on March 21.
1853 Woman’s Rights State Convention held in Rochester, New York.
1853 Antoinette Brown is ordained as the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Butler and Savannah, New York. She is the first woman minister of a recognized denomination in the United States.
1853 Cordelia Greene becomes the first student of the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to receive a medical degree.
1854 Mary Thorn Lewis is born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on February 27.
1854 Clara Barton becomes a copyist in the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. She is the first woman to hold an independent clerkship in the federal government.
1855 Fannie Barrier is born in Brockport, New York on February 12.
1856 Anne Miller is born in Peterboro, New York on March 4.
1857 Martha Matilda Harper is born in Canada.
1858 Delia C. Kenyon is born in County Line, New York on July 16.
1860 The state of New York grants married women rights over their children, rights to sue in court, and rights to retain their wages.
1861 Helen Barrett is born in Kingsville, Ohio on July 31.
1862 Emma Biddlecom is born in Macedon, New York on August 13.
1863 William Clough Bloss dies in Rochester, New York on April 18.
1863 Marion Craig is born in Churchville, New York on September 14
1863 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton convene the Woman’s National Loyal League. One goal of the group is to keep woman’s rights issues alive.
1865 Kate Gleason is born in Rochester, New York on November 25.
1868 Susan B. Anthony publishes The Revolution, a newspaper promoting woman’s rights.
1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony break from the American Equal Rights Association to form the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). It advocates for woman suffrage above all other issues.
1872 Fourteen Rochester, New York women challenge the federal constitution and vote for the President of the United States. Susan B. Anthony is arrested and tried.
1873 Rhoda DeGarmo dies.
1878 Agnes Slosson is born in Geneva, New York.
1878 National Woman Suffrage Association holds its convention in Rochester, New York on July 19 to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention.
1878 Amy Kirby Post is one of the Monroe County delegates to the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Rochester, New York.
1878 Elizabeth Smith Miller is the Ontario County delegate to Rochester’s thirtieth anniversary celebration of the first woman’s rights convention, sponsored by the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1881 Clara Barton establishes the American Association of the Red Cross and the first local chapter of the Red Cross in Dansville, New York.
1885 Amy Kirby Post becomes one of the founding members of Rochester’s Women’s Political Club, later known as the Political Equality Club.
1885 Henry Selden dies.
1889 Amy Kirby Post dies in Rochester, New York on January 29.
1890 Ella Hawley Crossett attends the National American Woman Suffrage convention in Washington, D.C. as a national delegate.
1891 Ella Hawley Crossett organizes a convention in Warsaw, New York at which Reverend Anna Howard Shaw and Susan B. Anthony speak.
1891 The Wyoming County Suffrage Association and the Warsaw Political Equality Club are formed. Ella Hawley Crossett is named president of both groups.
1893 Helen Barrett Montgomery, Mary Lewis Gannett, and Susan B. Anthony form the Woman’s Educational and Industrial Union of Rochester (WEIU). Montgomery becomes its first president.
1895 Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C. on February 20.
1896 Helen Barrett Montgomery serves as the president of the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs.
1897 Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Miller arrange for Geneva, NY to hold the annual convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA).
1897 Anne Miller founds the Geneva Political Equality Club in Geneva, New York.
1898 Marion Potter, M.D. becomes the first woman doctor at Rochester City Hosptial.
1899 Abigail Norton Bush dies.
1899 Helen Barrett Montgomery is elected to the Rochester School Board, the first women ever elected to public office in Rochester, New York.
1899 Cecil B. Wiener and Helen Z.M. Rogers become the first two women to graduate from the Buffalo Law School, Buffalo, New York.
1900 University of Rochester, New York admits women.
1900 Susan B. Anthony retires as the president of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and recommends Carrie Chapman Catt as her successor.
1902 Ella Hawley Crossett becomes president of the New York State Suffrage Association.
1902 Clara Barton is a speaker when women from 10 nations meet in Washington, D.C. to plan an international effort for suffrage.
1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies in New York City on October 26.
1904 Clara Barton holds a reception at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland to honor Susan B. Anthony’s 84th birthday during the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association Convention. Hundreds of convention members attended and were treated, at their request, to a display of her many medals, decorations and other memorabilia.
1905 Cordelia Greene dies in Castile, New York on January 28.
1906 Susan B. Anthony dies in Rochester, New York on March 13.
1907 Mary S. Anthony dies in Rochester, New York on February 5.
1909 Sarah Read Adamson Dolley dies in Rochester, New York on December 27.
1909 Emmeline Pankhurst, the radical suffrage advocate from England, comes to speak before the Geneva Political Equality Club, in Geneva, New York.
1909 Clara Barton serves as an honorary Advisory Member of the National Committee on the Petition to Congress for woman suffrage.
1910 Elizabeth Blackwell dies in Hastings, England on May 31.
1911 Elizabeth Smith Miller dies in Geneva, New York on May 22.
1912 Anne Miller dies in Boston, Massachusetts on March 1.
1912 Clara Barton dies in Glen Echo, Maryland on April 12.
1913 Mary Seymour Howell dies in Mt. Morris, New York in February.
1914 Sarah Kirby Hallowell Willis dies.
1919 Rhoda Palmer dies in Geneva, New York on August 9.
1920 The Nineteenth Amendment — The Susan B. Anthony Amendment — giving women the right to vote is passed.
1921 Antoinette Brown Blackwell dies in Elizabeth, New Jersey on November 2.
1923 William Channing Gannett dies in Rochester, New York on December 15.
1925 Ella Hawley Crossett dies on December 2.
1933 Kate Gleason dies In Rochester, New York on January 9.
1934 Helen Barrett Montgomery dies in Summit, New Jersey on October 19.
1943 Marion Craig Potter dies in Rochester, New York on March 23.
1944 Fannie Barrier Williams dies in Brockport, New York on March 4.
1945 Delia C. Kenyon dies.
1950 Martha Matilda Harper dies on August 3.
1951 Emma Biddlecom Sweet dies on November 24.
1952 Mary Lewis Gannett dies in Rochester, New York on October 26.