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In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Hannah Maria Conant Tracy. She lived from 1815- 1896. While Hannah lived on the farm, she got involved in various activities such as spinning, weaving, knitting, tailoring, baking, dairying, basket weaving, shoe-making and hat-braiding. She, furthermore, homeschooled her children and wrote what would become a famous article, "The Una," which focused on differences between men and women and examined how these differences created a rationale for giving women the right to vote, as differences create a more diverse voting outcome.
Although Hannah did not attend the first three National Women's Rights Conventions, she did attend the 1853 convention, held in Cleveland as well as the 1854 convention, in Philadelphia, where she was a speaker. She served as the president of the American Women's Suffrage Association (AWSA) from 1870- 1871.
After her second husband died in 1886, she remained active in the American Women's Suffrage Association (AWSA). In 1887, she was appointed to lead the task force charged with merging the American Women's Suffrage Association (AWSA) and the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). That merger took place in 1890.
After serving the NAWSA for 6 years, Hannah died in 1896 at 80 years old while on a trip to Ocean Springs, Missouri.
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