SUFFRAGIST SCIENTIST

and no photo exists of her, but Eunice Newton Foote stands athwart two landmark events. Born in Goshen, Connecticut, in 1819, roughly midway between the Revolution and the Civil War, Eunice Newton was the youngest of Isaac and Thirza Newton’s 12 children. She earned a spot in history by signing the Declaration of Sentiments put forth at the 1848 convention on women’s rights in Seneca Falls, New York; she also was one of five women on the committee responsible for that document’s publication. And less than a decade later, in 1856, 36-year-old Eunice Newton Foote, using basic apparatus in a Seneca Falls home laboratory, tested