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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Amelia Stone Quinton Biography QUINTON,
Amelia Stone, president of the Women's National Indian association, is a
lineal descendant of Governor Bradford of the Mayflower, and was born near
Syracuse, N. Y. For many years she was engaged in educational work, at first
among prisons, reformatories and asylums in New York; but in 1874 she entered
the Women's Christian Temperance union, and was soon elected New York state
organizer. In 1877 Miss Stone went to Europe and there addressed many readings
in London and elsewhere; and the following year was married to Richard L.
Quinton, A. M., an eminent lecturer, and they settled in Philadelphia in the
spring of 1889. She organized the Women's National Indian association, which led
to the passage of the Dawes severalty bill, which in 1887 gained for the Indians
the right of holding lands in severalty. Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 768. |