Elizabeth Cady Stanton was 26 years old when her first child, a son, was born.
“I was entirely afloat, launched on the seas of doubt without chart or compass,” she wrote in her autobiography, “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815–1897.”
Stanton was one of 11 children, five of whom died as infants and small children. As she watched her mother g...