women's rights activist and Unitarian minister; ordained in 1863, she was the first woman to enter the clergy of any American church; a lifelong suffrage advocate and associate of Susan B. Anthony, she lived in Wisconsin 1878-1914.

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[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960).]