'Victoria C. Woodhull; A Biographical Sketch'   Save
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Description: Written by editor and abolitionist Theodore Tilton in 1871, this is a biography of women's rights activist Victoria Woodhull. Woodhull was born in Homer, Ohio, in Licking County, and began her career as a healer selling homemade medicines and telling fortunes. After she and her sister Tennessee Claflin moved to New York City, they starting Woodull, Claflin & Company, financed by Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull became the first woman to run a stock brokerage firm on Wall Street. Woodhull and Claflin also began their own magazine--"Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly"--which championed women's rights and free love. However, Woodhull is most famously remembered as the first woman to run for President of the United States. With Frederick Douglass as her running partner for the Equal Rights Party, Woodhull lost the 1872 election to Ulysses S. Grant. View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Homer (Ohio); Women; Presidential candidates; Presidential elections; Activists; Suffragists
Places: New York (New York)