Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an effective proponent of women's rights for over half a century. She was influential in organizing a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848 which is widely viewed as the beginning of the modern feminist movement. After co-writing the Declaration of Sentiments for the convention, she continued as one of the women’s rights movement’s most dynamic orators and philosophers. She lived in this house from 1847 until 1862, before moving to New York City and continuing her civil reform advocacy efforts. 