Martha Coffin Pelham Wright

Boston, Massachusetts | 1806 - 1875

Father	Thomas Coffin
Mother	Anna Folger
Spouse	David Wright
Children	Marianna Pelham 1825 Eliza Wright 1830 Tallman Wright 1832 Ellen Wright 1840 William P Wright 1842 Frank Wright 1844 Charles Wright 1848
Siblings	Sarah Coffin 1790 Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793 Eliza Coffin Yarnall 1794 Thomas Mayhew Coffin 1798 Mary Coffin Temple 1800
Education	Quaker Elementary Schools in Philadelphia Westtown Boarding School 1821-22
Employment	1827-29 Teacher, Brier Cliff School, Aurora, New York
Affiliations	American Anti-Slavery Society National Woman Suffrage Association
Societal Contributions	One of five women who planned the first women's right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. Presided over numerous women's rights and anti-slavery conventions. In 1874, was elected president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Additional Comments	Martha Wright was six months pregnant with her seventh child when she worked in 1848 to plan the world's Women's Rights Convention, which is commemorated at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls by her life-size statue, which shows her pregnant. In October 2007, she was into the National Women's Hall of Fame, represented at the ceremonies by her great-great-grandson, James Duane Livingston.