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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Henry Stanton
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Elizabeth Cady met Henry Brewster Stanton through her early involvement in the temperance and the abolition movements. Henry Stanton was a journalist, an antislavery orator, and, after their marriage, became an attorney. Despite Daniel Cady's reservations, the couple were married in 1840 and had seven carefully spaced children. Cady Stanton loved motherhood and assumed primary responsibility for rearing the children.
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In 1840, Cady married anti-slavery activist Henry Stanton, refusing to use the word "obey" in the ceremony. The mother of seven children, she lectured on the subjects of family life and child rearing, abolition, temperance, and woman's rights until her death at the age of eighty-seven. Her daughter Harriet Stanton Blatch followed in her footsteps to continue the fight for women's rights.
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Elizabeth had many friends who were abolitionists, and she enjoyed spending time with them. While at the house of Gerritt Smith in 1839, she met Henry Stanton, a strong abolitionist, who hoped to go into politics. They fell in love and were soon engaged, but her fathers opposition broke up the engagement for a time. They continued to write, and in the spring of 1840, Henry told her that he had been elected as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. If they got married now, she could go to London and have Henry at the same time. If not, it would be another eight months until he got back.
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Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist together with her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed a number of issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and birth control.[2] She was ... an outspoken supporter of the 19th-century temperance movement.
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Elizabeth frequently went to court with her father, who was a distinguished lawyer. Elizabeth was quite unnerved to see the law function, since it was very unfair to women. During these observations she met Henry Stanton and in 1840 they were married.
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