The Ohio Women's Convention at Massillon in 1852 met on May 26, 1852 at Massillon, Ohio. At this meeting participants established the Ohio Women's Rights Association.
The Ohio Women's Convention at Massillon in 1852 met on May 26, 1852 at Massillon, Ohio. At this meeting participants established the Ohio Women's Rights Association.
The Ohio Women's Convention met at Massillon, Ohio, on May 26,1852. [1] It was the third in a series of conventions held in Ohio to promote women's rights and was preceded by the Seneca Falls Convention and the Ohio Women's Convention at Akron in 1851. [2] Attendees of the convention were able to use the Pennsylvania and Ohio toll road at half-fair prices. [3] The president of the convention was Hannah Tracy Cutler. [4] The meeting was held in Massillon Baptist Chapel. [5] Attendees came from a broad range of social and economic backgrounds. [5] The convention had been organised by a six-person standing committee which had been formed at Akron. [6] The committee included Betsy Mix Cowles and Mary Whiting. [7] Caroline Severance was one of the notable speakers at the convention. [8]
The proceedings were published in The Anti-Slavery Bugle. [9] The convention received coverage in the national press, including in the New York Tribune. [5] Attendees voted to establish the Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), which held its first meeting the following year in Ravenna. [2] [10] Participants also drafted a constitution for the association. [7]
Massillon is a city in Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio, approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of Canton, 20 miles (32 km) south of Akron, and 50 miles (80 km) south of Cleveland. The population was 32,146 at the 2020 census.
Betsy Mix Cowles was an early leader in the United States abolitionist movement. She was an active and influential Ohio-based reformer, and was a noted feminist and an educator. She counted among her friends and acquaintances people such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry C. Wright, and Abby Kelley Foster.
The Massillon Tigers were an early professional football team from Massillon, Ohio. Playing in the "Ohio League", the team was a rival to the pre-National Football League version of the Canton Bulldogs. The Tigers won Ohio League championships in 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, then merged to become "All-Massillons" to win another title in 1907. The team returned as the Tigers in 1915 but, with the reemergence of the Bulldogs, only won one more Ohio League title. Pro football was popularized in Ohio when the amateur Massillon Tigers hired four Pittsburgh pros to play in the season-ending game against Akron. At the same time, pro football declined in the Pittsburgh area, and the emphasis on the pro game moved west from Pennsylvania to Ohio.
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Caroline McCullough Everhard was an American banker and suffragist, president of the Ohio Suffrage Association.
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