Read Part One HERE
In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Hannah Maria Conant Tracy. She lived from 1815 - 1896. Hannah enrolled full time at Oberlin College and joined a women's debating society with Lucy Stone, a famous abolitionist, suffragist and orator and also the first woman in Massachusetts to receive a college degree. During her time at Oberlin College, she also ran a boarding house and continued to write for newspapers.
Following her college career, Hannah became the matron of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in Columbus, Ohio, where she met abolitionist Frances Dana Barker Gage. In 1849, Hannah became the principal of the "female department" in the Columbus public high school. In 1852, she spoke at the Free Soil Convention in Massillon, Ohio, where she was elected president of the Ohio Women's Rights Association.
That same year, Hannah, met widower Colonel Samuel Cutler, who she married soon after. They then moved to a farm in Dwight, Illinois.
Read Part One Hundred And Forty-Two HERE
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