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Amelia Bloomer, in full Amelia Jenks Bloomer, née Amelia Jenks, (born May 27, 1818, Homer, New York, U.S.—died December 30, 1894, Council Bluffs, Iowa), American reformer who campaigned for temperance and women’s rights.
Amelia Jenks was educated in a local school and for several years thereafter taught school and was a private tutor. In 1840 she married Dexter C. Bloomer, a Quaker newspaper editor of Seneca county, through whom she became interested in public affairs. She began contributing articles to newspapers on various topics and was an early and staunch member of the local women’s Temperance Society. Bloomer attended but took no part in the Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in 1848.
Amelia Jenks was educated in a local school and for several years thereafter taught school and was a private tutor. In 1840 she married Dexter C. Bloomer, a Quaker newspaper editor of Seneca county, through whom she became interested in public affairs. She began contributing articles to newspapers on various topics and was an early and staunch member of the local women’s Temperance Society. Bloomer attended but took no part in the Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in 1848.
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