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Cornelia Hussey Biography

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HUSSEY, Cornelia Collins, suffragist, was born July 7, 1827, in New York city. She was the founder of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children; and has been trustee of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum. She is a member of the Association for Advancement of Women; a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of he state of New Jersey; vice-president of the National Woman's Suffrage society; and a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; and of Dumb Animals.

Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 515.