Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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ABB is remembered as the first woman to be ordained in the United States. Though she published only ten works, she wrote extensively throughout her life and produced numerous speeches and essays. She took a keen interest in science and metaphysics, and her writing aims to secure a place for faith within emerging evolutionary and physics theories. The majority of her published works were written in response to the male thinkers of her time. Throughout her life ABB held significant roles within the suffrage community and devoted much of her literary career to woman's rights. She was a firm believer that equal opportunity, especially in education, would allow women to flourish in society.
  • BirthName: Antoinette Louisa Brown
  • Married: Blackwell

Milestones

20 May 1825

ABB was born as Antoinette Louisa Brown in Henrietta, Rochester, New York, in the Brown family's second farm home, a two-room log cabin.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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1869

ABB 's first book, a collection of essays titled Studies in General Science, was published.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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After 14 July 1915

ABB published her last work, The Social Side of Mind and Action. She dated her preface on this day.
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown. The Social Side of Mind and Action. Neale Publishing Co., 1915.
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November 1921

At the age of ninety-seven, ABB died peacefully in her sleep (of old age, it was said) in the home she shared with her daughter Agnes at Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Biography

Birth and Background

20 May 1825

ABB was born as Antoinette Louisa Brown in Henrietta, Rochester, New York, in the Brown family's second farm home, a two-room log cabin.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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