Caroline severance biography

American suffragist (1820–1914)

Caroline Severance
Severance in 1910
Born	Caroline Maria Seymour (1820-01-12)January 12, 1820 Canandaigua, New York, US
Died	November 10, 1914(1914-11-10) (aged 94) Los Angeles, California, US
Other names	Caroline Maria Seymour Severance

Caroline Maria Seymour Severance (1820–1914) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and founder of women's clubs.

Early life and education

Caroline Maria Seymour was born on January 12, 1820, in Canandaigua, New York, the daughter of a banker, Orson Seymour, and his wife Caroline M. Clarke. Caroline's father died in 1824, and the family relocated to Auburn, New York.^[1] A strict Presbyterian uncle had an outsized influence over Caroline.^[2]

Caroline attended the Upham Female Seminary in Canandaigua and Miss Almira Bennett's Boarding School in Owasco Lake, New York.^[1] She graduated as valedictorian from Miss R

Severance, Caroline - Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist ...

Caroline Maria Seymour Severance (born Jan. 12, , Canandaigua, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 10, , Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American reformer and clubwoman who was especially active in woman suffrage and other women’s issues of her day.

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Carolina Seymour Severance (January 12, November 10, ), called Caroline, was for nearly seventy years an active social reformer, organizer, church woman and club woman whose varied work changed the lives of countless of people.

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Caroline Maria Seymour Severance was an American reformer and clubwoman who was especially active in woman suffrage and other women's issues.

Significant others: the defining domestic life of Caroline ...

Caroline Maria Seymour Severance (born Jan. 12, 1820, Canandaigua, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 10, 1914, Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American reformer and clubwoman who was especially active in woman suffrage and other women’s issues of her day.

Caroline Maria Seymour Severance | Women’s rights activist ...

Caroline made her first woman's rights speech at the Massilon, Ohio convention of 1852.

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SEVERANCE, CAROLINE M. (12 Jan. Nov. ), early feminist activist in Cleveland and known as America's first clubwoman, was born Caroline M. Seymour in Canandaigua, N.Y. Daughter of Orson and Caroline M. (Clarke) Seymour, she came to Cleveland with her family and at 20 married Theodoric C. Severance, a banker.

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The Severance family relocated to Boston in 1855 and to Los Angeles in 1875.