Paulina (Wright) Davis, reformer, b. in Bloomfield, N.Y., 7 Aug, 1813; d. in Providence, R.I., 24 Aug., 1876. She married Francis Wright, of Utica, N.Y., in 1833, and after his death became in 1849 the wife of Thomas Davis, of Providence, R.I., who was a member of congress in 1853-'5. For thirty-five years she labored zealously to promote the rights of women, established "The Una," the first woman-suffrage paper, wrote a history of woman-suffrage reform, and gave lectures in the principal cities of the United States. (from "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2" edited by James Grant Wilson & John Fiske; pub. by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1887)
Paulina (Wright) Davis, reformer, b. in Bloomfield, N.Y., 7 Aug, 1813; d. in Providence, R.I., 24 Aug., 1876. She married Francis Wright, of Utica, N.Y., in 1833, and after his death became in 1849 the wife of Thomas Davis, of Providence, R.I., who was a member of congress in 1853-'5. For thirty-five years she labored zealously to promote the rights of women, established "The Una," the first woman-suffrage paper, wrote a history of woman-suffrage reform, and gave lectures in the principal cities of the United States. (from "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2" edited by James Grant Wilson & John Fiske; pub. by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1887)
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