Eliza Wright Osborne | |
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 Osborne in 1902 | |
| Born | Eliza Wright September 3, 1829 |
| Died | July 19, 1911 (aged 81) Auburn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Suffragist and women's rights activist |
| Spouse | David Munson Osborne (m. 1851) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Martha Coffin Wright and David Wright |
| Relatives | Lucretia Mott (aunt) |
Eliza Osborne (née Wright; September 3, 1829 – July 19, 1911) was an American suffragist and feminist, who became vice president of the New York Woman Suffrage Association.[1][2]
The niece and daughter, respectively, of prominent women's rights activists Lucretia Mott and Martha Coffin Wright, she was also a colleague of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,[3] and was credited by her contemporaries with having helped to expand the women's suffrage movement across the nation and with the founding of the Women's Education and Industrial Union in Auburn, New York.[4]
- ^ Biographical Sketch of Eliza Wright Osborne | Alexander Street Documents. (n.d.). Accessed February 24, 2024.
- ^ Wellman, Judith. The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Women's Rights Convention, University of Illinois Press, 2004; ISBN 0-252-02904-6
- ^ Eliza Wright Osborne, Suffragist, Is Dead". Brooklyn, New York: The Standard Union, July 19, 1911, p. 2 (subscription required).
- ^ "Tribute to Suffrage Leader: Memorial Services at Auburn, N.Y., to the late Eliza Wright Osborne". New York, New York: The New York Times, October 16, 1911, p. 9 (subscription required).