Phebe Hathaway: Meeting the Moment on Temperance, Abolition, and Woman’s Rights
Farmington’s Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902) was positioned by time, place, family, and faith to work for the transformational reform...
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Paula Whitacre
- Mar 20, 2021
- 4 min
Harriet Jacobs: A Pivotal Time in Upstate New York
(photo used with permission) Harriet Jacobs, born around 1815, in Edenton, North Carolina, spent two years in Rochester, New York. Here,...
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Paula Whitacre
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Julia Wilbur: From a Monroe County Farm to a Fight for Equal Rights
The currents of social reform that circulated in upstate New York in the mid-1800s produced many well-known leaders in abolitionism and...
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Judith Wellman
- Mar 8, 2021
- 3 min
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Farmington
Anybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the catalyst for the first women’s rights...
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