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Paulina Wright Davis (née Kellogg; August 7, 1813 – August 24, 1876) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and educator. She was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association.
Apr 24, 2024 · Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (born Aug. 7, 1813, Bloomfield, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 24, 1876, Providence, R.I.) was an American feminist and social reformer, active in the early struggle for woman suffrage and the founder of an early periodical in support of that cause.
The work of Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis as a women’s rights advocate, social reformer, educator, and author extended over forty years from the late 1830s to her death in 1876.
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis was a forerunner of women’s rights, strategizing with the likes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Ernestine Rose long before the first women’s rights convention to pass the Married Women’s Property Act in New York.
Davis, Paulina Wright (1813–1876) American feminist, reformer and suffragist. Born Paulina Kellogg on August 7, 1813, in Bloomfield, New York; died on August 24, 1876, in Providence, Rhode Island; one of two daughters and three sons of Captain Ebenezer (a volunteer in the War of 1812) and Polly (Saxton) Kellogg; married Francis Wright (a ...
Dec 22, 2016 · With Paulina Wright Davis presiding and “a large number in attendance,” but not Ernestine Rose, William Lloyd Garrison presented the case for a separate women’s movement. Just like slaves, he argued, women deserved equal rights, including the right to vote.
Paulina Wright Davis was born in Bloomfield, NY., on August 7, 1813. After an unsettled childhood, she married Frances Wright, a wealthy merchant from Utica, NY., in 1883; both of them were involved in various reform movements -- antislavery, temperance, women's rights.
