EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800: MARTHA COFFIN PELHAM WRIGHT P/62

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In this post I continue to focus on a woman named Martha Coffin Pelham Wright. She lived from 1806 - 1875.

Martha's long career in the women's movement began in 1848 when she worked with Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in organising the first convention  for women's rights in the United States. The conference took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of that year. Martha continued to organise and lead women's rights conventions over the following years, serving as secretary of a convention in Syracuse in 1852, vice-president of a convention in Phildelphia in 1854, and then president of three different conventions in 1855. She also presided over the New York State Women's Rights Committee's tenth annual women's rights convention held in New York City in 1860. 

Over the years she played in important role as advisor to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, both of whom were her good friends. When the movement split after the Civil War, Martha remained loyal to both Elizabeth and Susan during those turbulent years, and helped them organise the Americal Equal Rights Association in 1866 and the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869.

In 1874, Martha was elected president of the National Women's Suffrage Association; however, she died the following year of pneumonia while on a visit to a daughter in Boston. 

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