Hannah Tracy Cutler
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Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler (December 25, 1815[1] – February 11, 1896[2]) was an American abolitionist as well as a leader of the temperance and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Cutler served as president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).[2] Cutler helped to shape the merger of two feminist factions into the combined National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[3]
Hannah Tracy Cutler | |
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Born | Hannah Maria Conant (1815-12-25)December 25, 1815 |
Died | February 11, 1896(1896-02-11) (aged 80) |
Other names | Hannah Conant Tracy Mrs. John Tracy Mrs. Samuel Cutler Mrs. Dr. Cutler |
Occupation(s) | abolitionist, women's rights activist, suffragist, lecturer, educator, journalist, farmer, physician[1] |
Spouse(s) | John Martin Tracy (1809–1844) Colonel Samuel Cutler (1808–1873) |
Cutler wrote for newspapers and journals; she drafted laws and authored several books. She lectured on physiology and attained a medical degree at the age of 53. Cutler presented petitions to state and federal legislatures, and helped to form temperance, abolition, suffrage and women's aid societies in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Vermont.