Historical Events
Book of Mormon First Criticized by Obadiah Dogberry
January 2–22, 1830
Birth of Mary Edwards Walker
November 26, 1832
Birth of Robert Green Ingersoll
August 11, 1833
First New York State Antislavery Meeting
October 21–22, 1835
Oswego County Anti-Slavery Society Annual Meeting
January 17, 1839
Meeting to Plan Establishment of the Liberty Party
January 1840
New York State Abolition Convention
January 19–20, 1842
Rise and Fall of Skaneateles Community
1843–1846
Frederick Douglass Outdoor Lecture Series at Syracuse
July 30–August 2, 1843
First Convention of the Fourier Society of Rochester
August 22–23, 1843
Rise and Fall of Sodus Bay Phalanx
1843–1846
Meeting of Fourier Society of Rochester
November 21, 1843
First Liberty League Convention
June 8, 1847
Second Liberty League Convention
January 13–14, 1848
Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
July 19–20, 1848
Follow-On Woman's Rights Convention
August 2, 1848
New York State Convention of the Liberty League and National Reform Party
September 28, 1848
Fugitive Slave Law Convention at Cazenovia
August 21–22, 1850
Fugitive Slave Law Convention at Peterboro
Late August, 1850
The Jerry Rescue
October 1, 1851
Frederick Douglass Gives "Fifth of July" Speech
July 5, 1852
Liberty Party Convention at Canastota
September 1852
Third National Woman’s Rights Convention
September 8–10, 1852
National Liberty Convention
September 30, 1852
National Liberty Party Convention
October 2, 1852
Woman's Rights Convention in Penn Yan
January 10, 1855
Radical Abolition Party Formation
June 26–28, 1855
Birth of L. Frank Baum
May 15, 1856
First National Dress Reform Association Convention
January 7–8, 1857
Rochester Antislavery Convention
February 13–14, 1857
Meeting of Mourning and Eulogy for John Brown
December 2, 1859
Early Life of L. Frank Baum
1861–1888
Mary Edwards Walker Addresses Major-Party Political Convention
October 24, 1864
Final National Dress Reform Association Convention
June 21, 1865
Death of Hezekiah Joslyn
October 30, 1865
Mid to Late Life of Mark Twain
1867–1910
Mark Twain Gives "The American Vandal" Lecture in Elmira
November 23, 1868
Susan B. Anthony Lectures at Library Hall
March 26, 1869
Mark Twain Gives Unknown Lecture in Hornellsville
January 20, 1870
Balloon Race Witnessed by Young L. Frank Baum
September 1871
Mark Twain Gives "Artemus Ward" Lecture in Auburn
December 5, 1871
Mark Twain Gives "Artemus Ward" Lecture in Syracuse
December 6, 1871
The Arrest of Susan B. Anthony
November 18, 1872
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
June 18–20, 1873
Funeral of Gerrit Smith
December 31, 1874
First National Liberal League Convention
October 26, 1877
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Ghosts" Lecture in Utica
February 20, 1878
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Individuality" Lecture in Rochester
February 21, 1878
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Ghosts" Lecture in Syracuse
February 22, 1878
1878 Woman's Rights Convention
July 19, 1878
Second New York Freethinkers' Association Convention
August 22–25, 1878
Second National Liberal League Convention
October 26–27, 1878
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Robert Burns" Lecture in Utica
October 30, 1878
Birth and Early Life of Margaret Sanger
1879–1905
Fourth New York Freethinkers Association Convention
September 2–6, 1880
Matilda Joslyn Gage Speaks on Woman's Rights at Sage College
February 26, 1881
Fifth New York Freethinkers Association Convention
August 31–September 4, 1881
Sixth New York Freethinkers' Association Convention
August 23–27, 1882
Memorial Meeting Honoring D. M. Bennett
December 1882
Seventh New York Freethinkers Association Convention
August 29, 1883
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Orthodoxy" Lecture in Utica
January 19, 1885
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Orthodoxy" Lecture in Auburn
January 21, 1885
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Orthodoxy" Lecture in Oswego
January 23, 1885
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Which Way?" Lecture in Rochester
January 26, 1885
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives "Orthodoxy" Lecture in Norwich
February 26, 1885
Emma Goldman's Rochester Years
January 1886–August 1889
Lectures by Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Reynolds in Hornellsville
March 20–21, 1886
C. B. Reynolds Gives Freethought Lecture
June 25, 1886
Ingersoll Visits His Birthplace
September 24, 1889
Only Return to His Birth County by Robert Green Ingersoll
September 24–25, 1889
Robert Green Ingersoll Gives Lecture at Yates County Fair
September 25, 1889
Emma Goldman Delivers First Rochester Lecture
January 1890
Twenty-Second NY State Suffrage Convention
December 16–18, 1890