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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1880 and died there in 1958. Educated in Edinburgh, London and graduated with her Ph.D. from Munich, she was the first woman appointed to the science staff at the University of Manchester in 1904. Jointly with her husband H.V. Roe she founded the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control in 1921. It was the first birth control clinic in the world. She also published two books, "Married Love" and "Wise Parenthood: a Book for Married People."
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- 1818-1893
Lucy Stone ,suffragette, was born August 13, 1818 on Cory's Hill Massachusetts. At the age of sixteen she began teaching at the district school and then enrolled at Quaboag Seminary and Wesleyan Academy. In 1839 she entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and in 1843 she enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio. When she graduated in 1847 she was the first woman from Massachusetts to obtain a college degree. Stone was appointed a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1848 which allowed her to meet reformers within the Garrison wing of the abolition movement. In 1849 she conducted the first petition campaign in Massachusetts for the rights of women. The first National Women's Rights Convention was held in 1850 and Stone was one of the organizers, later being appointed to the central committee of the convention. In 1851 Stone became an independent women's rights lecturer speaking at various venues throughout the United States for the next seven years.
During the course of her lecturing Stone met and married Henry Brown Blackwell, although she continued to be known by her maiden name. Stone and Blackwell's daughter Alice was born September 14, 1857 and Stone spent less time on her political activities and more time raising her daughter. Alice would later become a leader of the suffrage movement.
By 1866 Stone was involved again in politics and helped to organize, and served on the executive committee of, the American Equal Rights Association which was to press for both African American and women's rights. In 1870 Stone and Blackwell moved to Dorchester Massachusetts to organize the New England Woman Suffrage Association, and Stone founded "The Woman's Journal", a voice of the suffrage movement.
Stone gave her last public speeches in May, 1893 at the World's Congress of Representative Women. She died October 18, 1893.
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Born on January 20, 1866 in Melbourne, Australia, Oswald Stoll was a theatre entrepreneur. Stoll was known for promoting a new direction of leisure entrepreneurship. Along with theatre, Stoll dabbled in establishing distribution companies for cinema such as renovating the London Opera House into a cinema in 1919. As well, Stoll founded Stoll Picture Productions in 1920 and became one of the prominent makers and distributors in the British film industry. He died in Putney, London on January 9, 1942.
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- 1870-1902
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- 1877-1947
Rella May Sims was born January 11, 1877 to Peter Harvey and Jemima Sims. She married John Ross Stewart on November 6, 1907 and died in Hartford, CT on November 13, 1947.
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- 1914-1980
Peter Ross Stewart was born in 1914 to John Ross and Rella May Stewart. He died in 1980.
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- 1878-1940
John Ross Stewart was born ca. 1879 in Uxbridge, Ontario. He married Rella May Sims on November 7, 1907. They lived in Hartford, CT where he was in insurance. He died there August 22, 1940.
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Stewart, Elizabeth (Betty) Clement
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- 1916-1977
Elizabeth (Betty) Clement Stewart (1916-1977) was born to William Pope Clement and Muriel Alberta Kerr Clement in 1916 in Berlin (Kitchener). Betty won the Bishop Strachan Scholarship and was awarded a full scholarship the University of Toronto. In 1940 Betty wed alderman and investor Peter Ross Stewart (1915-1980) of West Hartford. Together they had children: Janet and Stewart. Betty died in 1977 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.
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- 1897-1970
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- September 12, 1921 – June 14, 2017
Born in Scott, Saskatchewan on the family farm, Stephens went into engineering and worked for Dominion Rubber (later Uniroyal). He retired in 1986 as Head Engineer.
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- 1860-1919
Rosanna Stauffer was born August 25, 1860 to John Stauffer (1824-1887) and Lucinda Stauffer (1836-1909). Rosanna died in 1919.
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Admiral Harold R. Stark was U.S. Chief of Naval Operations during World War II.
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- 1893-1993
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Stark Brothers Nurseries was founded in Louisiana, Missouri in 1816. They are known for popularizing the Golden Delicious varietal of apple and are the oldest continuously operating nursery in the United States.
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- 1923-2010
Ralph G. Stanton was a Canadian mathematician, teacher, scholar and pioneer in mathematics and computing education. He was born in 1923 in Lambeth, Ontario. Stanton was educated at the University of Western Ontario (BA in Mathematics and Physics, 1944) and then at the University of Toronto (MA, PhD, 1945 and 1948), where he taught from 1946 to 1957. In 1957 he came to the University of Waterloo as its first mathematics professor and head of the Mathematics Department; as a result of his efforts, in 1967 Waterloo became the first university in North America to have mathematics as a separate faculty. In 1967 he left Waterloo for York University to start a graduate program in mathematics. In 1970 he moved to the Department of Computing Science at the University of Manitoba, serving as Head, Professor, and since 1984, as Distinguished Professor.
Stanton's impact on mathematical education, particularly in computer science, has been substantial. He introduced computing in the classroom at the University of Waterloo in 1960, introduced co-operative programs in applied mathematics and in computer science and served as Graduate Dean from 1960 to 1966. He encouraged teaching of computing science and mathematics at the secondary school level. He served as editor of two high school mathematical journals, on provincial (Ontario) curriculum committees and was actively involved in developing what is now the Canadian Mathematics Competition. He introduced graduate work in mathematics at York University and at the University of Manitoba built up the Computing Science Department with an emphasis on applied computer science. He has also produced a large body of scholarly contributions in algebra, applied statistics, mathematical biology and combinatorics. He has received honourary degrees from the University of Queensland (D.Sc., hon. causa, 1989), the University of Natal (D.Sc., hon. causa, 1997) and the University of Waterloo (D.Math, hon. causa, 1997).
In 1985 he was awarded the Killam prize in Mathematics.
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- November 12, 1815-October 26, 1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social reformer, abolitionist and women's rights activist. Born to a prominent New York family, Elizabeth learned law from her father and was educated at Johnstown Academy and later the Troy Female Seminary, although she had wanted to attend Union College like her male peers but was kept out because of her gender. In 1840 she married abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-1887) removing the line "promise to obey" from her wedding vows. The pair had seven children and it is speculated that they used birth control methods to control the spacing of the births.
Stanton was friends with many prominent activists, abolitionists and writers of the day and kept social circles with some of the elite of Boston, where the family settled after their marriage, and later in Seneca Falls.
While traveling in Europe in 1840 on her honeymoon, Stanton met Lucretia Mott with whom she bonded after the two were told they were not allowed to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention on account of their gender. Back in Seneca Falls, in 1848, Stanton, Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Jane Hunt, and others organized the Seneca Falls Convention on July 19th and 20th. Stanton wrote and read the Declaration of Sentiments proclaiming that men and women are created equal. This declaration is credited with initiating the first organized women's suffrage movement in the United States and solidified Stanton as a major voice in the women's rights movement. In 1851 Stanton met Susan B. Anthony for whom she wrote many speeches when she was unable to travel to speak due to family obligations.
In the post-Civil War era, Stanton went against her former abolitionist leanings and lobbied against the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, arguing that expanding the number of men granted the right to vote would increase the number of voters prepared to vote against women's suffrage and that more men should not be given the right to vote without women being included. She frequently use racist language including stating that giving wealthy, refined, educated women the right to vote would help counteract the votes of men who were former slaves or immigrants and who exhibited the characteristics of pauperism and ignorance. Her stance on race lead to a split between her and many of her former abolitionist friends, as well as between her and other suffragists. The schism was so great that by 1869 the woman's suffrage movement had split into two separate groups. Stanton and Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), opposing the Fifteenth Amendment, and Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell and Julia Ward Howe founded the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), supporting the Fifteenth Amendment.
Increasingly, Stanton became more at odds with other suffragists as she began to advocate for more women's rights beyond suffrage, and began to speak out against what she felt were the dangers of Christianity to the women's rights movement, describing it as patriarchal and oppressive. However, in 1890 both the NWSA and the AWSA merged back into one organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and Stanton became the first president.
In 1892 Stanton, along with Anthony, Stone and Isabella Hooker spoke before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary on suffrage. In 1895 she published the first volume of "The Woman's Bible" which argues against Christianity, as well as all organized religion. Although it was highly criticized by many both outside and inside of the suffrage movement, it was a best seller and was reprinted twice in the year following its publication.
By the time she published the second volume of "The Woman's Bible" in 1898, Stanton was aging and was unable to attend public events. She died of heart failure at her home in 1902.
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- 1903-1997
Grace Eveyln Kolb was born June 7, 1903 in Waterloo, Ontario to Oliver Stauffer and Mary Ann (nee Montgomery) Kolb. She married Lloyd Howard Stahle in Goshen, Indiana on June 17, 1941. Grace Evelyn died August 27, 1997 in Bancroft, Ontario and was buried there, alongside Lloyd, in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
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- 1882-1973
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- 1885-1942
Walter Bishop Spelman was born in New York State on June 20, 1885 to Amasa Bishop and Nancy Agnes Spelman. He and Ruth Schantz married on December 23, 1912 and together they had six children: Walter, Margery, Dorothy, John, Constance, and Richard. Spelman joined what would become Morton Community College as an English teacher in 1912. He was named dean of men when the school became a junior college in 1924, a position he held until his death. Spelman died July 4, 1941 of a heart attack while in Montreal with his wife, where he was recovering from a hernia operation. He was buried in Champlain, New York at the Glenwood Cemetery.
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Ruth Schantz was born September 30, 1892 in Morton Park, Illinois to Orpheus Moyer Schantz and Cornelia (Carrie) Caroline Flagler. She married Walter Bishop Spelman on December 23, 1912 and together they had six children: Walter, Margery, Dorothy, John, Constance, and Richard. Ruth died July 27, 1976 and was buried at the Glenwood Cemetery in Champlain New York.
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