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)
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1857, Sept. 14
Born, East Orange, N.J.
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1881
Graduated, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
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1883-1909
Assistant editor, Woman's Journal
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1886-1905
Editor, The Woman's Column
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1909-1917
Editor-in-chief, Woman's Journal
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1929
Translated Some Spanish-American Poets (New York: D. Appleton. 559 pp.)
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1930
Published Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Women's Rights (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 313 pp.)
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1950, Mar. 15
Died, Cambridge, Mass.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
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1821, Feb. 3
Born, Bristol, England
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1832
Emigrated with her family to the United States
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1849
M.D., Geneva College Medical Institution, Geneva, N.Y.
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1849-1850
Continued medical studies in France and England
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1851
Returned to New York to practice medicine
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1854
Adopted Kitty Barry Blackwell
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1857
Founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children with her sister, Emily Blackwell, and Marie E. Zakrzewska
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1869
Settled permanently in England
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1875-1907
Professor of gynecology, London School of Medicine for Women, London, England
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1910, May 3
Died, Hastings, England
Henry Browne Blackwell
Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909)
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1825, May 4
Born, Bristol, England
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1832
Emigrated with his family to the United States
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1853
Made his first speech for woman suffrage at convention in Cleveland, Ohio
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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
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1855-1868
Engaged in bookselling, sugar refining, and real estate
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1869-1901
Chiefly engaged in work for the American Woman Suffrage Association (after 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association)
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1872-1893
Coeditor, Woman's Journal
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1893-1909
Editor, Woman's Journal
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1909, Sept. 7
Died, Dorchester, Mass.
Kitty Barry Blackwell
Kitty Barry Blackwell (1848-1936)
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Circa 1848
Born, New York, New York, to Irish immigrant parents
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1854
Adopted by Elizabeth Blackwell
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1869
Lived with Elizabeth Blackwell in Hastings, England
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1921
Lived with Alice Stone Blackwell in Boston, Mass.
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1936
Died, Boston, Mass.
Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
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1818, Aug. 13
Born, near West Brookfield, Mass.
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1847
Graduated, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
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1848
Lectured for the American Anti-Slavery Society
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1850
Helped organize the first National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Mass.
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1855
Married Henry Browne Blackwell; retained maiden name
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1856
Member, executive committee, American Equal Rights Association
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1869
Helped organize the American Woman Suffrage Association
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1872-1893
Coeditor, Woman's Journal
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1893, Oct. 18
Died, Dorchester, Mass.