Read Part One HERE
In this post I continue to focus on Mary Ann Wilson McClintock. She lived from 1800 - 1884.
As for the First Women's Rights Convention, hundreds of women crowded into the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. The chapel had been the scene of many reform lectures and was considered the only large building in the area that would open its doors to a women's rights convention.
Although the convention had invited only women for the first day, men were not turned away. As a result, forty-two men were part of the 300-member assembly. On that day Elizabeth Cady Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...."
On the second day of the First Women's Rights Convention, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass made a powerful speech that unified the causes of the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Later that day, members of the convention voted on the Declaration of Sentiments. One hundred attendees signed the document making it legitimate, and the women's rights movement officially began.
Mary Ann and her husband continued to be actively involved in the movement they had helped to start. When the Second Women's Rights Convention opened in Rochester three weeks later, May Ann and her daughter Elizabeth were in attendance. Abigail Bush was chosen to be president of the meeting.
In 1856 Mary Ann and her husband returned to Philadelphia, where Mary Ann died 1884 at the age of 84.
Read Part Forty-Nine HERE
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