Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

LC control no.	n 81010194
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Blackwell, Lucy Stone, 1818-1893
Other standard no.	Q452281 0000000082108429 27945789
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Cincinnati (Ohio) New Jersey
Birth date	1818-08-13
Death date	1893-10-18
Place of birth	West Brookfield (Mass. : Town)
Place of death	Boston (Mass.)
Field of activity	Women--Suffrage--United States Antislavery movements
Profession or occupation	Suffragists Abolitionists Orators
Found in	Her Woman suffrage in New Jersey, 1867. Wikipedia website, viewed March 25, 2022: Lucy Stone page (born West Brookfield, Massachusetts August 13, 1818; died Boston, Massachusetts October 18, 1893; Lucy Stone was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women; in 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree; she spoke out for women's rights and against slavery; she graduated from Oberlin College in 1847; Lucy Stone spent the late 1840s and the early 1850s traveling across the United States, hoping to build support for both abolition and women's rights; On a trip to Cincinnati in 1853, she met Henry Browne Blackwell, a businessman; Stone and Blackwell married on May 1, 1855; Stone refused to take her husband's last name; she was one of the first women in the United States to retain her maiden name upon becoming married; while residing in Cincinnati, Stone testified on the behalf of Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave who murdered one of her young children to prevent her return to slavery; in 1857, Stone retired from public speaking so that she could take care of her infant daughter; in that same year, the family moved from Ohio to New Jersey) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone>
Associated language	eng