The New International Encyclopædia/Stone, Lucy

STONE, Lucy (1818-93). A pioneer American woman suffragist. She was born at West Brookfield, Mass., and graduated at Oberlin College in 1847. She went to Oberlin because she wished to learn Hebrew and Greek in order to know at first hand whether the biblical texts quoted against the equal rights of women were true translations. In 1848 she lectured on woman's rights at Gardner, Mass., and in the same year toured the New England States and Canada in behalf of the antislavery movement. She married Henry B. Blackwell, brother of Elizabeth Blackwell (q.v.), in 1855, but retained her maiden name with her husband's consent. In 1857 she removed to New Jersey, where the seizure of her property for taxes caused her to write a pungent protest, using as a logical weapon the motto of the Revolution, “no taxation without representation.” She lectured during the political campaigns for the woman's suffrage amendments (1867-82), took the most prominent part in founding the American Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869, was president thereof in 1872, and was chairman of its executive committee in 1869-89. In 1870-72 she was coeditor of the Boston Woman's Journal, and from 1872 to the year of her death she was its editor in chief, assisted by her husband and her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell (q.v.). She died at Dorchester, Mass.