EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800; PAULINA KELLOGG WRIGHT DAVIS P/120

                                                                      Read Part One HERE

In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. She lived from 1813 - 1876. In the late 1840s Paulina met widower Thomas Davis, an anti-slavery Democrat from Providence, Rhode Island. They got married in 1849. Thomas supported many of Paulina's causes, including women's equality in marriage.

In May 1850 a meeting was held to plan for the first National Women's Rights Convention - two years after Seneca Falls- to be held on October 23-24 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Paulina became the organiser and president of the convention.

For two days, more than 1000 delegates from 11 states filled Brimley Hall to overflowing. Speakers, most of them women, demanded the right to vote, to own property, and to be admitted to higher education, medicine, the ministry and other professions. 

At the end of the convention, the participants insured annual national meetings by appointing a central committee, including Paulina, Samuel May, Lucretia Mott, to co-ordinate efforts and call conventions.

Read Part One Hundred And Twenty-One HERE