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3 unusual facts about Adelaide Johnson


Adelaide Johnson

She exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, showing busts of prominent suffragettes Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Born Sarah Adeline Johnson to a farm family of modest means in Plymouth, Illinois, she attended rural school and then took classes at the St. Louis School of Design.

They were wed by a woman minister, and her bridesmaids were the busts she did of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; however, the marriage ended after twelve years.



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