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Title	Ohio Women's Convention Proceedings
Subject	Ohio Women Presidents and Politics Civil Liberties Suffrage Women's rights
Place	Salem (Ohio) Columbiana County (Ohio)
Description	This pamphlet, published by Smead & Cowles' Press of Cleveland, documents the proceedings of the 1850 Ohio Women's Convention. The Ohio convention was held two years after the Seneca Falls, New York convention, at which women demanded the right to vote. In Salem, women of the convention declared that "We believe the whole theory of the Common Law in relation to Woman is unjust and degrading, tending to reduce her to a level with the slave." Although there is no record of their attendance, women's rights leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone sent letters of support to the convention. The pamphlet is 48 pages long and measures 5" x 7.75" (12.7 x 19.69 cm). This copy belonged to women's rights advocate Betsy Mix Cowles, who presided over the convention. Born in Connecticut, Betsy Mix Cowles (1810-1876) became one of Ohio's leading female educators. She also played a prominent role in the abolition and suffrage movements in Ohio. The Cowles family moved to Austinburg, Ohio in 1811. As a young woman, Cowles began teaching in northeastern Ohio and in New York. She studied infant schools in New York and returned to open her own infant school in Kinsman, Ohio. When Oberlin College announced its new ladies' course, Cowles enrolled. She graduated in 1840 and went to teach in Portsmouth, Ohio. From 1843-1848 Cowles was the principal of the female department. In 1858 Cowles became one of the first female superintendents of schools in Painesville, Ohio. Cowles joined the anti-slavery movement in Ashtabula County, and organized the Ashtabula County Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1835. She counted as close friends notable abolitionists such as Frederick Douglas and Abby Kelley Foster. Suffrage was also important to Cowles. She presided at the Woman's Rights Convention in Salem, Ohio in 1850, and gave a report on "Labor and Wages" at the 1851 Akron Woman's Rights Convention, where Sojourner Truth delivered her "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
Creator	Smead & Cowles
Date of Original	1850
Collection	Betsy Mix Cowles Papers
Source	Published material Box 2, folder 33
Submitting Institution	Kent State University
Type	Text

Title	Om558_1062049_359
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om558_1062049_359.tif
Image Height	3131
Image Width	2020
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Full Text	v> V If •6 pi I ^¦m 'll' V! tj'..>. ;".il PROCEEDINGS OHIO fo^)j;r!i fOHKyio '«> J( !•: f. Il A T Salem, April 19th and 20th, 1850; Address bv.1, Elizabeth Jones, CLEVELAND: ^ H V. AD i: C (• W 1. E.S " 1* l! F. '^ - i8.)0. :'«^?o

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