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In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Emily Howland. She lived from 1827 - 1929. Emily returned to Sherwood, New York, after the death of her father in 1881. She then began to run the Sherwood Select School until 1926 when it becam a public school and was renamed the Emily Howland Elementary School by the state of New York.
Emily was also active in womens' suffrage, peace and temperance movements and was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1858, she began organising women's rights lectures and meetings with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1878, she spoke at the 30th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention and in 1894 the New York State Legislature.
When the suffrage movement split into two groups, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Associaten, Emily did not take sides, but attended meetings of both groups.
In 1904, she spoke in front of Congress and attended the 1912 and 1913 suffrage parades in New York.
She has been credited with persuading Ezra Cornell that, as a Quaker, he should make Cornell University, a co-educational institution.
In 1926, she received an honoary Litt.D. degree from the University of the State of NY, in Albany, the first women to have this honour conferred upon her from this institution.
She was also the author of an historical sketch of early Quaker history in Cayuga County, New York: "Historical sketch of Friends in Cayuga County."
In 1890, Emily became one of the first female directors of a national bank in the United States, the First national Bank of Aurora in Aurora, New York. She served in that function until her death in 1929, at the age of 101.
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