Catharine A. F. Stebbins

[1] The family moved to Rochester, New York when Stebbins was five and her parents started an abolitionist group in the city.

[1] Stebbins was involved as young as age twelve, collecting names for anti-slavery petitions.

[2][3] She assisted her family in operating one of the first waystations of the Underground Railroad in the city of Rochester, New York.

[2] Her husband was an abolitionist as well, and together, they lectured and were involved in peaceful demonstrations for women's suffrage and the end of slavery.

[2] When the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was founded in 1861, she joined.