Born September 20, 1822 to noted reformer Gerrit Smith and his second wife, Anne Carol Fitzhugh. In 1843, at the age of twenty-one, she married Charles Dudley Miller. On March 4th 1856, Anne Fitzhugh was born. Anne, and her mother spent their entire lives dedicated to the fight for human equality. In 1875, Anne Miller extended the family’s tradition of providing a comfortable and stimulating place for thoughtful people when she started Camp Fossenvue on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake. Shortly after Charles’ death in 1897, Elizabeth and daughter Anne founded the Geneva Political Equality Club. Anne was president and Elizabeth, honorary president for life. Both the Miller women were instrumental in arranging the 1897 New York State Women’s Suffrage Association convention held in Geneva. Miller also held office in the NYSWSA and participated in other statewide and national suffrage activities. Scrapbooks, now housed at the library of Congress, show that the Millers also corresponded with numerous politicians. In 1909, Anne chided Theodore Roosevelt for stating that although he supported women’s suffrage, he did "not regard it as a very important matter."

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. Educated by her father, philosopher and teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May, young Louisa developed an early passion for writing. Her imagination was rich and often she and her sisters would perform melodramas that came from those early stories. Louisa’s career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines. In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House fromMay to July 1868. The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 to Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony. Her father was a liberal Quaker and abolitionist that encouraged education for his daughters. In the early 1850s, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls. They were to become lifelong friends and partners in the fight for women’s rights. In 1851 Anthony advocated dress reform for women. She cut her hair and wore the bloomer costume originated by Elizabeth Smith Miller. In May of 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony served as a member of the executive committee and later as vice-president, while Stanton was the president and Elizabeth Smith Miller treasurer. In 1872, Anthony decided to test the constitutionality of the ban on women's suffrage. She registered to vote in Rochester, NY and then voted in the presidential election. She was arrested for this act and in 1873 she was tried in Canandaigua, New York. She was given a fine of $100, which she never paid. Prominent abolitionist, Gerrit Smith, encouraged her to pay by sending her the money. She still refused. Shortly after stated her belief that "Failure is Impossible." Anthony died of heart failure at her home in Rochester in March of 1906.

Born on November 12, 1815, Stanton knew early on that she would have a hard time making a place for herself in a man’s world. Her young summers were spent in Peterboro, NY with her cousin, Gerrit Smith and his daughter Elizabeth Smith Miller. Her biography “Eighty Years and More” is filled with experiences in the little upstate town that molded her life in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Miller would be a lifelong friend and supporter in the suffrage movement. In 1840 she even met Henry Stanton in Peterboro, who was to become her husband. While on her honeymoon in England, Henry attended an Abolition convention which Elizabeth was barred from simply because she was a woman. On the steps of the hall she met Lucritia Mott. In 1848, Stanton, along with Mott and others, held the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. Stanton’s opinion that women should seek the vote was not a popular one but it was added to the Declaration on Sentiments in the end. Stanton continued to fight for women’s equality until her death in 1902. Her writings and speeches are a testament to her life’s work.