Susan Brownell Anthony, who devoted more than a half century to women’s suffrage and other social issues, was born in Adams, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1820. She received her education at a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia, where she trained as a teacher, an occupation she pursued for three years beginning in 1846. After the family moved to Rochester, New York, in 1845, she became active in a range of social causes, including abolition of slavery, temperance, the rights of labor, education reform, and particularly women’s rights. She signed the Declaration of Sentiments produced by the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, the first women’s rights convention held in the United States. In the early 1850s she met her lifelong friend and fellow suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton—although in later years some tension emerged between the two, with Stanton adopting a more radical approach to women’s rights and Anthony a more moderate position.