Emily Parmely Collins

Emily Parmely Peltier Collins
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Emily Parmely August 11, 1814 Bristol, New York, U.S.
Died	April 14, 1909 Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place	Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Pen name	"Justitia"
Occupation	suffragist activist writer
Language	English
Spouse	Charles Peltier ​ ​ (m. 1835, died)​ Simri Bradley Collins ​ ​ (m. 1841; died 1878)​
Children	2 sons

Emily Parmely Collins (née, Parmely; after first marriage, Peltier; after second marriage, Collins; pen name, Justitia; August 11, 1814 – April 14, 1909) was an American woman suffragist, women's rights activist, and writer of the long nineteenth century. She was the first woman in the United States to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights, in South Bristol, New York, in 1848. She was an early participant in the abolitionism movement,^[1] the temperance movement ^[2] as well as a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She believed that the full development of a woman's capacities to be of supreme importance to the well-being of humanity; and advocated through the press for woman's educational, industrial and political rights.^[2] Collins died in 1909.