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Collection Blackwell Family Papers

Timeline

A chronology of key events in the life of Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950) suffragist, journalist, and author; and her parents Henry Browne Blackwell (1825-1909) and Lucy Stone (1818-1893), anti-slavery advocates and supporters of women’s rights. Key events in the life of physician Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) and her daughter and companion, Kitty Barry Blackwell (1848-1936), are also included.

Alice Stone Blackwell

Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950)

  1. 1857, Sept. 14

    Born, East Orange, N.J.

  2. 1881

    Graduated, Boston University, Boston, Mass.

  3. 1883-1909

    Assistant editor, Woman's Journal

  4. 1886-1905

    Editor, The Woman's Column

  5. 1909-1917

    Editor-in-chief, Woman's Journal

  6. 1929

    Translated Some Spanish-American Poets (New York: D. Appleton. 559 pp.)

  7. 1930

    Published Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Women's Rights (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 313 pp.)

  8. 1950, Mar. 15

    Died, Cambridge, Mass.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)

  1. 1821, Feb. 3

    Born, Bristol, England

  2. 1832

    Emigrated with her family to the United States

  3. 1849

    M.D., Geneva College Medical Institution, Geneva, N.Y.

  4. 1849-1850

    Continued medical studies in France and England

  5. 1851

    Returned to New York to practice medicine

  6. 1854

    Adopted Kitty Barry Blackwell

  7. 1857

    Founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children with her sister, Emily Blackwell, and Marie E. Zakrzewska

  8. 1869

    Settled permanently in England

  9. 1875-1907

    Professor of gynecology, London School of Medicine for Women, London, England

  10. 1910, May 3

    Died, Hastings, England

Henry Browne Blackwell

Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909)

  1. 1825, May 4

    Born, Bristol, England

  2. 1832

    Emigrated with his family to the United States

  3. 1853

    Made his first speech for woman suffrage at convention in Cleveland, Ohio

  4. 1855, May 1

    Married Lucy Stone, and on the same day published with her a joint protest against the inequalities of the nation’s marriage laws

  5. 1855-1868

    Engaged in bookselling, sugar refining, and real estate

  6. 1869-1901

    Chiefly engaged in work for the American Woman Suffrage Association (after 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association)

  7. 1872-1893

    Coeditor, Woman's Journal

  8. 1893-1909

    Editor, Woman's Journal

  9. 1909, Sept. 7

    Died, Dorchester, Mass.

Kitty Barry Blackwell

Kitty Barry Blackwell (1848-1936)

  1. Circa 1848

    Born, New York, New York, to Irish immigrant parents

  2. 1854

    Adopted by Elizabeth Blackwell

  3. 1869

    Lived with Elizabeth Blackwell in Hastings, England

  4. 1921

    Lived with Alice Stone Blackwell in Boston, Mass.

  5. 1936

    Died, Boston, Mass.

Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone (1818-1893)

  1. 1818, Aug. 13

    Born, near West Brookfield, Mass.

  2. 1847

    Graduated, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

  3. 1848

    Lectured for the American Anti-Slavery Society

  4. 1850

    Helped organize the first National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Mass.

  5. 1855

    Married Henry Browne Blackwell; retained maiden name

  6. 1856

    Member, executive committee, American Equal Rights Association

  7. 1869

    Helped organize the American Woman Suffrage Association

  8. 1872-1893

    Coeditor, Woman's Journal

  9. 1893, Oct. 18

    Died, Dorchester, Mass.