Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She received a formal education where she excelled academically. She enrolled in Troy Female Seminary after being denied admission to her first choice college when it became male-only. She married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840 and they had seven children together. In 1848, Stanton helped organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, where she drafted the Declaration of Sentiments advocating for women's rights. She went on to be a prominent writer and activist in the women's suffrage movement along with Susan B. Anthony. Stanton worked extensively on women's rights issues until her death in 1902.