📍17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY 14608, USA
1866 – 1906“I was raised in a Quaker family in Massachusetts and upstate New York, where my father, a cotton mill owner and abolitionist, taught that men and women were equal before God. My family moved to a farm near Rochester in 1845, and our home became a meeting place for abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass. In 1866 my sister Mary and I made our home in a red-brick house at 17 Madison Street in Rochester, and it was my base for the rest of my life. The house was modest and comfortable, and its front parlour became the heart of a movement. There I met and planned with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and many other campaigners, wrote speeches and letters, and edited the History of Woman Suffrage. Mary, a teacher, kept the household running while I travelled the country speaking, often for months at a time. The house served as headquarters for the National Woman Suffrage Association, and later for the local Political Equality Club. In November 1872 I went with a group of Rochester women to vote in the presidential election. Two weeks later, a United States marshal came to our house and arrested me in my own parlour. At my trial I was fined a hundred dollars, which I never paid. I spent my life working for women's right to vote, which was finally won in 1920 with the Nineteenth Amendment, often called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. The house on Madison Street is now the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House, where visitors can stand in the parlour where I was arrested.”
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