STONE, (1818-93). A pioneer American
woman suffragist. She was born at West
Brookfield, Mass., and graduated at Oberlin
College in 1847. She went to Oberlin because she
wished to learn Hebrew and Greek in order to
know at first hand whether the biblical texts
quoted against the equal rights of women were
true translations. In 1848 she lectured on
woman's rights at Gardner, Mass., and in the
same year toured the New England States and
Canada in behalf of the antislavery movement. She married Henry B. Blackwell, brother of Elizabeth Blackwell (q.v.), in 1855, but retained her maiden name with her husband's consent. In 1857 she removed to New Jersey, where the seizure of her property for taxes caused her
to write a pungent protest, using as a logical
weapon the motto of the Revolution, “no taxation
without representation.” She lectured during
the political campaigns for the woman's
suffrage amendments (1867-82), took the most
prominent part in founding the American
Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869, was president
thereof in 1872, and was chairman of its
executive committee in 1869-89. In 1870-72
she was coeditor of the Boston Woman's Journal, and from 1872 to the year of her death she was its editor in chief, assisted by her husband and her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell (q.v.). She died at Dorchester, Mass.