Elizabeth Cady Stanton celebrated on Women's Equality Day

JOHNSTOWN — As the sun stooped low at Sir William Johnson Park in Johnstown, local residents paid tribute to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s legacy on Women’s Equality Day on Friday, marking the 105th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that finally gave women the right to vote in 1920.

Cady Stanton, who was born in Johnstown in 1815, was a pioneer for the suffrage movement and co-founded the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. She helped lay the groundwork for women obtaining the right to vote, and put her hometown of Johnstown on the map.