Matilda Joslyn Gage 1826-1896 Fayetteville, NY
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N 43° 01.583 W 076° 00.087
18T E 418408 N 4764231
"Her lifelong motto appears on her gravestone in Fayetteville: “There is a word sweeter than Mother, Home or Heaven; that word is Liberty.”"
Waymark Code: WMRFFG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/19/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member T0SHEA
Views: 5

Matilda Joslyn Gage was active in several rights fights in the 1800s. She was an operator on the Underground Railroad, she was active in the Women's Rights Movement, she was active in the rights for Native Americans.
Description:
"Gage, along with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a founding member of the National Woman Suffrage Association and served in various offices of that organization (1869-1889). She helped organize the Virginia and New York state suffrage associations, and was an officer in the New York association for twenty years. From 1878 to 1881 she published the National Citizen and Ballot Box, the official newspaper of the NWSA. In 1871 Gage was one of the many women nationwide who unsuccessfully tried to test the law by attempting to vote. When Susan B. Anthony successfully voted in the 1872 presidential election and was arrested, Gage came to her aid and supported her during her trial. In 1880 Gage led 102 Fayetteville women to the polls in 1880 when New York State allowed women to vote in school districts where they paid their taxes. During the 1870s Gage spoke out against the brutal and unfair treatment of Native Americans. She was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk nation and given the name Ka-ron-ien-ha-wi (Sky Carrier). Inspired by the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy’s form of government, where “the power between the sexes was nearly equal,” this indigenous practice of woman’s rights became her vision. Gage coedited with Stanton and Anthony the first three volumes of the six-volume The History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1887). She also authored the influential pamphlets Woman as Inventor (1870), Woman’s Rights Catechism (1871), and Who Planned the Tennessee Campaign of 1862? (1880). Discouraged with the slow pace of suffrage efforts in the 1880s, and alarmed by the conservative religious movement that had as its goal the establishment of a Christian state, Gage formed the Women’s National Liberal Union in 1890, to fight moves to unite church and state. Her book Woman, Church and State (1893) articulates her views." Source: Website provided below.


Date of birth: 03/24/1826

Date of death: 03/18/1898

Area of notoriety: Politics

Marker Type: Headstone

Setting: Outdoor

Fee required?: No

Web site: [Web Link]

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