Abigail Scott Duniway

Abigail Jane Scott was born on a frontier farm in Illinois. One of twelve children, she endured the Oregon Trail (age 17), as her family moved west, and experienced the seven painful months of great migration, in 1852. Abigail would see illness and death, as the route was unforgiving. Her mother Anne, would die of cholera, and it kindled an anger, as she realized the treatment of women in America. Her father would bring the family to live in Oregon, and Abigail would attend an academy for 5 months. She would leave home to become a teacher, shortly after marrying a rancher, named Benjamin Duniway. The newly married couple would live in a log cabin, isolated on the Oregon Territory frontier. Abigail would begin to see the cruelty of the world,…

granted the right to vote by the 15th amendment, this would make the NWSA refuse to work for its ratification and change its goal to advocate a 16th amendment which would dictate universal suffrage (Education & Resources.org). In 1872, Susan B. Anthony cast her first vote as a woman and voted for Ulysses S. Grant, this led to her being arrested on Rochester, New York. Anthony casting her vote led to fifteen other women illegally voting and being arrested (Education & Resources.org). Soon after…