Free In Her Own Right : The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith Page B

then become what one wanted to be by “depressing” some that were too prominent or “elevating” others. 10 According to phrenology, mental discipline and physical exercise produced mental health.
    Although her father considered Spurzheim and his disciples “arrant humbugs,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton had her bumps read in 1853, when she was thirty-seven. † The examiner found her “social faculties” and “combativeness” large and her appetite “strong.” The report concluded that she was “adapted to the business and subjects of conversation peculiar to men . . . capable of enjoying the connubial relation in a high degree. . . . liable to act from the impulse of the moment and exhibit a boldness and energy of character. . . . afraid of nothing . . . and have more individuality and positiveness than females generally.” Stanton believed that her “phrenological character hits the nail on the head—I really did not mean to make a phrenological comparison.” It confirmed her proclivity for “idiosyncracies” and independent action. 11
    So does social learning theory.

APPENDIX A
The Livingston-Cady Family
     

     
    Children of Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston
     

     

APPENDIX B
The Cady-Stanton Family
     
    Children of Henry and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
     
1. Daniel Cady Stanton
b. 3/2/1842, Johnstown, N.Y.
d. 1/18/1891, Logan, Iowa
m./div. Fredericka L.
1 child: Florence L., b. 1885
2. Henry Brewster Stanton, Jr.
b. 3/1844, Albany, N.Y.     Columbia Law School, 1865
d. 12/5/1903, New York, N.Y.
m. 1892, Mary O’Shea
no children
3. Gerrit Smith Stanton
b. 9/18/1845, Boston, Mass.     Columbia Law School, 1865
d. 4/24/1927, Long Island, N.Y.
m. Augusta Hazelton
adopted daughter: Hazel, d. 1929
4. Theodore Weld Stanton
b. 2/10/1851, Seneca Falls, N.Y.     Cornell University, 1872,
d. 3/1/1925, New Brunswick, N.J.   M.A. 1876
m. 1881, Marguerite Berry
4 children:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton II, b. 1882
baby, d.
Robert Livingston Stanton, b. 1885
Helene, b. 1886
5. Margaret Livingston Stanton Lawrence
b. 10/20/1852, Seneca Falls, N.Y.     Vassar College, 1876,
d. 1938?                                            Columbia University, 1891
m. 10/2/1878, Frank E. Lawrence, d. 1890
no children
6. Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
b. 1/20/1856, Seneca Falls, N.Y.     Vassar College, 1878, M.A. 1891
d. 11/20/1940, Greenwich, Conn.
m. 11/12/1882, William Henry Blatch,
d. 1915
2 children:
Nora, b. 9/30/1883
Helen, b. 1892, died
7. Robert Livingston Stanton
b. 3/14/1859, Seneca Falls, N.Y.     Cornell University, 1880
d. 2/23/1920, New York, N.Y.       Columbia Law School, 1881
unmarried
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s seven children produced only six surviving grandchildren. Daniel’s daughter Florence could not be located as early as 1891, when her Uncle Henry tried to find her in Chicago after Daniel died. There are no further records for Gerrit’s adopted daughter or for the daughters of Theodore Stanton, who may have remained in France. Theodore’s son Robert was a Cornell graduate and an army officer. One source indicates that he stayed in France, near Mazamet, married a Frenchwoman, and had a son named François, who subsequently married a widow with two children.
    Harriot Blatch’s daughter Nora returned to the United States to attend Cornell. She graduated magna cum laude in 1905, the first woman there to earn a degree in civil engineering. She was married for one year, 1908–09, to Dr. Lee deForest, a prominent pioneer in radio electronics. They had a daughter Harriet. Harriet produced a daughter, Catherine Clarke Allaben, born in 1936. Harriet deForest is still alive, living in Londonderry, Vermont.
    In 1918 Nora Blatch deForest married Morgan Barney. The couple had two children, Rhoda, born in 1920, and John, born in 1922. Rhoda married Frederick Jenkins. Rhoda Barney Jenkins and John Barney live together in Greenwich,