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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.
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.
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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. 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.
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 ...
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.
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. She was born in Bloomfield, New York, on August 7, 1813, the daughter of Captain Ebenezer Kellogg and Polly Saxon.
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.
