Married Norris on 28 June 1865 by Rev D Skinner at Dayton, Ohio
Helped Others, Died Alone. Mrs. Sarah Norton, Philanthropist and Suffragist, Poor in Last Years.
TROY, N.Y., Jan. 8. — Mrs. Sarah F. Norton, great-granddaughter of President John Adams, who labored all her life in the cause of philanthropy, died in poverty in a little, comfortless room in this city yesterday afternoon. She left a note reading: "This is the end; friendlessness, desolation, and death.
Sarah F Norton was a traveling lecturer in upstate New York. Her adventures, including her agitation to have women admitted to Cornell University, are recounted in several letters to The Revolution during the spring of 1869.
Norton, a novelist and lecturer, often challenged gender-based economic disparities. She questioned the practice of marriage as the husband's economic ownership of the wife. As president of the Working Women's Association, she discovered that about half of New York City rag pickers were female. She wryly concluded, "This is the only business in which women have equal opportunities with men." Pointing out that children were not the property of their parents, to be denied schooling and forced to work at very young ages, she advocated compulsory education for both sexes. "If, by this means,every boy and girl could both be educated and made self-supporting...would it not be better for both parents and children? "In 1869, Norton teamed up with Susan B. Anthony to "assail that stronghold of feminine prejudice, the Cornell University," an institution quite typical in its refusal to admit women. Fortunately, Norton and Anthony won a sympathetic hearing from university founder Ezra Cornell, who began admitting women the next year.
Little is known about the life of 19th century suffragist Sarah F. Norton beyond her writings. She was a public speaker, writer for feminist publications and member of the Working Women's Association who advocated for the education of women and girls, equal opportunity in the workplace and equal pay for women. Together, Sarah Norton and Susan B. Anthony agitated for the admission of women to Cornell University, which Norton called "that stronghold of feminine prejudice," and won the support of the university's founder, Ezra Cornell. Norton wrote to Anthony's newspaper, The Revolution
Obit - The Pittsburgh Press, 09 Jan 1910, Sun, Page 4
MRS. NORTON DIES ALONE IN POVERTY "Let No One Play at Philanthropy Who Wants Peace," Her Last Warning
Troy, N. Y., January 8. Alone, friend less and surrounded by all the evidences of poverty, Sarah F. Norton, once prominent prominent as a lecturer, writer and leader in the cause of humanity, is dead here today. today. Clutched in the right hand was found a penciled note which read: "I have spent my life and nearly two fortunes working in the interest of women, and this is the end, friendless dis solution death. "Let no one play at philanthropy who wants peace. "SARAH F. NORTON.' Mrs. Norton was 72 years old and in her day she numbered among her friends many notable persons. She was the widow of N, R. Norton, for years city editor of the New York Tribune. She was one of the original advocates of a society for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, friend of Horace Greeley,- Greeley,- colleague of . Henry Ward Beecher and Susan B. Anthony, one of the first exponents of women's suffrage in America. For years she has lived on a widow s pension of 20 a month, her husband having been an officer in the Civil war.
The Troy Northern Budget - Jan 9 1910 - OBIT
Helped Others, Died Alone. Mrs. Sarah Norton, Philanthropist and Suffragist, Poor in Last Years.
TROY, N.Y., Jan. 8. — Mrs. Sarah F. Norton, great-granddaughter of President John Adams, who labored all her life in the cause of philanthropy, died in poverty in a little, comfortless room in this city yesterday afternoon. She left a note reading: "This is the end; friendlessness, desolation, and death.
Sarah F Norton was a traveling lecturer in upstate New York. Her adventures, including her agitation to have women admitted to Cornell University, are recounted in several letters to The Revolution during the spring of 1869.
Norton, a novelist and lecturer, often challenged gender-based economic disparities. She questioned the practice of marriage as the husband's economic ownership of the wife. As president of the Working Women's Association, she discovered that about half of New York City rag pickers were female. She wryly concluded, "This is the only business in which women have equal opportunities with men." Pointing out that children were not the property of their parents, to be denied schooling and forced to work at very young ages, she advocated compulsory education for both sexes. "If, by this means,every boy and girl could both be educated and made self-supporting...would it not be better for both parents and children? "In 1869, Norton teamed up with Susan B. Anthony to "assail that stronghold of feminine prejudice, the Cornell University," an institution quite typical in its refusal to admit women. Fortunately, Norton and Anthony won a sympathetic hearing from university founder Ezra Cornell, who began admitting women the next year.
Little is known about the life of 19th century suffragist Sarah F. Norton beyond her writings. She was a public speaker, writer for feminist publications and member of the Working Women's Association who advocated for the education of women and girls, equal opportunity in the workplace and equal pay for women. Together, Sarah Norton and Susan B. Anthony agitated for the admission of women to Cornell University, which Norton called "that stronghold of feminine prejudice," and won the support of the university's founder, Ezra Cornell. Norton wrote to Anthony's newspaper, The Revolution
Obit - The Pittsburgh Press, 09 Jan 1910, Sun, Page 4
MRS. NORTON DIES ALONE IN POVERTY "Let No One Play at Philanthropy Who Wants Peace," Her Last Warning
Troy, N. Y., January 8. Alone, friend less and surrounded by all the evidences of poverty, Sarah F. Norton, once prominent prominent as a lecturer, writer and leader in the cause of humanity, is dead here today. today. Clutched in the right hand was found a penciled note which read: "I have spent my life and nearly two fortunes working in the interest of women, and this is the end, friendless dis solution death. "Let no one play at philanthropy who wants peace. "SARAH F. NORTON.' Mrs. Norton was 72 years old and in her day she numbered among her friends many notable persons. She was the widow of N, R. Norton, for years city editor of the New York Tribune. She was one of the original advocates of a society for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, friend of Horace Greeley,- Greeley,- colleague of . Henry Ward Beecher and Susan B. Anthony, one of the first exponents of women's suffrage in America. For years she has lived on a widow s pension of 20 a month, her husband having been an officer in the Civil war.
The Troy Northern Budget - Jan 9 1910 - OBIT
Married Norris on 28 June 1865 by Rev D Skinner at Dayton, Ohio
Helped Others, Died Alone. Mrs. Sarah Norton, Philanthropist and Suffragist, Poor in Last Years.
TROY, N.Y., Jan. 8. — Mrs. Sarah F. Norton, great-granddaughter of President John Adams, who labored all her life in the cause of philanthropy, died in poverty in a little, comfortless room in this city yesterday afternoon. She left a note reading: "This is the end; friendlessness, desolation, and death.
Sarah F Norton was a traveling lecturer in upstate New York. Her adventures, including her agitation to have women admitted to Cornell University, are recounted in several letters to The Revolution during the spring of 1869.
Norton, a novelist and lecturer, often challenged gender-based economic disparities. She questioned the practice of marriage as the husband's economic ownership of the wife. As president of the Working Women's Association, she discovered that about half of New York City rag pickers were female. She wryly concluded, "This is the only business in which women have equal opportunities with men." Pointing out that children were not the property of their parents, to be denied schooling and forced to work at very young ages, she advocated compulsory education for both sexes. "If, by this means,every boy and girl could both be educated and made self-supporting...would it not be better for both parents and children? "In 1869, Norton teamed up with Susan B. Anthony to "assail that stronghold of feminine prejudice, the Cornell University," an institution quite typical in its refusal to admit women. Fortunately, Norton and Anthony won a sympathetic hearing from university founder Ezra Cornell, who began admitting women the next year.
Little is known about the life of 19th century suffragist Sarah F. Norton beyond her writings. She was a public speaker, writer for feminist publications and member of the Working Women's Association who advocated for the education of women and girls, equal opportunity in the workplace and equal pay for women. Together, Sarah Norton and Susan B. Anthony agitated for the admission of women to Cornell University, which Norton called "that stronghold of feminine prejudice," and won the support of the university's founder, Ezra Cornell. Norton wrote to Anthony's newspaper, The Revolution
Obit - The Pittsburgh Press, 09 Jan 1910, Sun, Page 4
MRS. NORTON DIES ALONE IN POVERTY "Let No One Play at Philanthropy Who Wants Peace," Her Last Warning
Troy, N. Y., January 8. Alone, friend less and surrounded by all the evidences of poverty, Sarah F. Norton, once prominent prominent as a lecturer, writer and leader in the cause of humanity, is dead here today. today. Clutched in the right hand was found a penciled note which read: "I have spent my life and nearly two fortunes working in the interest of women, and this is the end, friendless dis solution death. "Let no one play at philanthropy who wants peace. "SARAH F. NORTON.' Mrs. Norton was 72 years old and in her day she numbered among her friends many notable persons. She was the widow of N, R. Norton, for years city editor of the New York Tribune. She was one of the original advocates of a society for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, friend of Horace Greeley,- Greeley,- colleague of . Henry Ward Beecher and Susan B. Anthony, one of the first exponents of women's suffrage in America. For years she has lived on a widow s pension of 20 a month, her husband having been an officer in the Civil war.
The Troy Northern Budget - Jan 9 1910 - OBIT
Helped Others, Died Alone. Mrs. Sarah Norton, Philanthropist and Suffragist, Poor in Last Years.
TROY, N.Y., Jan. 8. — Mrs. Sarah F. Norton, great-granddaughter of President John Adams, who labored all her life in the cause of philanthropy, died in poverty in a little, comfortless room in this city yesterday afternoon. She left a note reading: "This is the end; friendlessness, desolation, and death.
Sarah F Norton was a traveling lecturer in upstate New York. Her adventures, including her agitation to have women admitted to Cornell University, are recounted in several letters to The Revolution during the spring of 1869.
Norton, a novelist and lecturer, often challenged gender-based economic disparities. She questioned the practice of marriage as the husband's economic ownership of the wife. As president of the Working Women's Association, she discovered that about half of New York City rag pickers were female. She wryly concluded, "This is the only business in which women have equal opportunities with men." Pointing out that children were not the property of their parents, to be denied schooling and forced to work at very young ages, she advocated compulsory education for both sexes. "If, by this means,every boy and girl could both be educated and made self-supporting...would it not be better for both parents and children? "In 1869, Norton teamed up with Susan B. Anthony to "assail that stronghold of feminine prejudice, the Cornell University," an institution quite typical in its refusal to admit women. Fortunately, Norton and Anthony won a sympathetic hearing from university founder Ezra Cornell, who began admitting women the next year.
Little is known about the life of 19th century suffragist Sarah F. Norton beyond her writings. She was a public speaker, writer for feminist publications and member of the Working Women's Association who advocated for the education of women and girls, equal opportunity in the workplace and equal pay for women. Together, Sarah Norton and Susan B. Anthony agitated for the admission of women to Cornell University, which Norton called "that stronghold of feminine prejudice," and won the support of the university's founder, Ezra Cornell. Norton wrote to Anthony's newspaper, The Revolution
Obit - The Pittsburgh Press, 09 Jan 1910, Sun, Page 4
MRS. NORTON DIES ALONE IN POVERTY "Let No One Play at Philanthropy Who Wants Peace," Her Last Warning
Troy, N. Y., January 8. Alone, friend less and surrounded by all the evidences of poverty, Sarah F. Norton, once prominent prominent as a lecturer, writer and leader in the cause of humanity, is dead here today. today. Clutched in the right hand was found a penciled note which read: "I have spent my life and nearly two fortunes working in the interest of women, and this is the end, friendless dis solution death. "Let no one play at philanthropy who wants peace. "SARAH F. NORTON.' Mrs. Norton was 72 years old and in her day she numbered among her friends many notable persons. She was the widow of N, R. Norton, for years city editor of the New York Tribune. She was one of the original advocates of a society for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, friend of Horace Greeley,- Greeley,- colleague of . Henry Ward Beecher and Susan B. Anthony, one of the first exponents of women's suffrage in America. For years she has lived on a widow s pension of 20 a month, her husband having been an officer in the Civil war.
The Troy Northern Budget - Jan 9 1910 - OBIT
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