Biography

Caroline Nichols Churchill was born in Pickering, Ontario

Pickering, Ontario

Pickering is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, the largest metropolitan area in Canada.- Early Period :...

, Canada

Canada

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 on December 23, 1833 to American parents. She emigrated to the United States

United States

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 to live with her grandmother in 1846. She taught in Minnesota

Minnesota

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 in 1857. Her husband died in 1862, and she moved to California

California

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 after she contracted tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

. She campaigned against misogynistic state laws there.

In 1879, she founded the first feminist newspaper in Denver

Denver, Colorado

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 called the Colorado Antelope, lately known as the Queen Bee. She supported women's suffrage, and opposed temperence and Catholicism

Catholicism

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. She later moved in with her sister in Colorado Springs until her death in 1926.

Further reading

• Willard, Frances Elizabeth American Women Volume 1. New York, 1897.