Caroline Severance Caroline Seymour was born on January 20, 1820 in Canandaigua, New York. She met her future husband, T. C. Severance, in nearby Auburn, where he worked at her uncle’s bank. He was a good-natured bank teller who loved to sing. The Severance family had long been involved in the temperance and abolitionist movements and T. C.’s adoptive father, Dr. David Long, was the president of the Cleveland Anti-Slavery Society. Luckily for Caroline, she married into a family that appreciated intelligent women and accepted women’s participation in political activities. Caroline later credited her marriage with freeing her from “bondage to authority, dogmas, and conservative ideas.” It is believed that Caroline was drawn to the abolitionist movement because women were allowed and even encouraged to take leadership roles, unlike the temperance movement. By the time Caroline and T. C. Severance married in 1840, T. C. had taken a position with a Cleveland bank and he immediately brought his new wife to Ohio. Even though T.C. had a very good position with the City Bank of Cleveland, he was not …show more content…
Since T.C. and Caroline both loved music, they attended the performance and became immediate fans. A strong friendship grew between the couple and the four sibling group who were of a similar age and shared common beliefs. In April 1850, when Caroline heard the group would be performing in nearby Salem, she immediately planned to attend. This performance was to be at the first Woman’s Rights Convention to be held in Ohio, called because Ohio was in the process of revising its laws and the women wanted women’s rights to be on the agenda. Caroline, who had only attended for the Hutchinson’s performance, was immediately impassioned to the