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Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) |
On completion of her theological studies at Oberlin College in 1850 Antoinette, the first woman to seek ordination, was denied both ordination and graduation because she was a woman. She earned her living as an itinerant preacher and lecturer for three years until she was ordained by a single Congregational church in South Butler, New York. She became the first woman formally appointed pastor in the country. After a year of conflict, her health broken, she left her parish to work in numerous reform movements; temperance, abolition and women’s rights.
She married into the Blackwell family acquiring as she did sisters-in-law of considerable achievement, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Emily Blackwell. After her marriage she engaged in the study in the physical and social sciences publishing "The Making of the Universe" and The Social Side of Mind and Action." On November 20, 1920 Antoinette cast her ballot in the first nationwide federal election open to women. She did so in El Mora School in Elizabeth, New Jersey at the age of 96.
Reference & Further study
Stanton, Anthony, Gage and Harper. History of Woman Suffrage.
Cazden. Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography
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