Seneca County Law Library, Seneca Falls Library
Seneca County Law Library, Seneca Falls Library is a Public Access Law Library.
Seneca County Law Library, Seneca Falls Library is a Public Access Law Library.
(1833-1902) Journalist, writer. Born in Seneca Falls, N.Y. In 1861 he became war correspondent for the New York Tribune but was taken prisoner by the Confederate army. He was kept in various prisons for a year and a half, eventually escaped from Salisbury, N.C., and traveled 400 miles through hostile country to reach Union lines. … Continued
(1838-1915) Author, professor. He was born in Ovid, NY. His name was associated with Yale University for many years. He wrote “A History of the English Language” (1879), “Life of James Fenimore Cooper” (1882), and edited a volume of writings by Charles Dudley Warner (1904).
Reformer, writer, leader of the women’s suffrage movement, diarist, editor. Eighty Years and More. She was born on Main and North Market Streets in Johnstown, N.Y. By special arrangement she was allowed to study at Johnstown Academy, open only to boys, where she studied Greek, Latin, and mathematics. She went on to attend Emma Willard’s … Continued
The National Women’s Hall of Fame houses literature from women who were significant in the suffrage movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, was the home of the activist.