Paulina Davis, American Abolitionist and Suffragist

Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (August 7, 1813 - August 24, 1876) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and educator. Davis married Francis Wright in 1833, who was a merchant from a prosperous family. They had similar values and both resigned from their church to protest its pro-slavery stance, and they served on the executive committee of the Central New York Anti-Slavery Society. In 1835, Davis and her husband organized an anti-slavery convention in Utica. Davis moved to New York to study medicine following her husband's death. In 1846, she gave lectures on anatomy and physiology to women only, and urging them to become physicians. In 1849, she married Thomas Davis, a Democrat from Rhode Island, and they adopted two daughters. In 1850, Davis started to focus her energies on women's rights. She stopped lecturing and helped to arrange the first National Women's Rights Convention Massachusetts, at which she presided and delivered the opening address. Davis was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. When the group splintered, she and Susan B. Anthony became involved in the National Woman Suffrage Association. She died in 1876, at the age of 63, and was eulogized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was inducted into the National WomenE??s Hall of Fame in 2002. Engraving by John Chester Buttre, undated

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