Abby Hadassah Smith [SEP] residence
Abby Hadassah Smith
Abby Hadassah Smith (June 1, 1797 – July 23, 1879) was an early American suffragist who campaigned for property and voting rights from Glastonbury, Connecticut. She was a subject of the book "Abby Smith and Her Cows" in which her sister Julia Evelina Smith told the story of a tax resistance struggle they undertook in the suffrage cause.
Family background.
Born in 1797, Smith was the youngest of five daughters of Hannah Hadassah (Hickock) Smith and Zephaniah Hollister Smith, a
Julia Evelina Smith
Julia Evelina Smith (27 May 1792 – 6 March 1886) was an American women's suffrage activist who was the first woman to translate the Bible from its original languages into English. She was also the author of the book "Abby Smith and Her Cows", which told the story of her and her sister Abby Hadassah Smith's tax resistance struggle in the suffrage cause while the two were living at Kimberly Mansion in Connecticut.
Biography.
Smith was born into a large family of women,