Daughter of George Stoneman, Sr., and Catherine Rebecca Cheney. Both parents where of English descent. They had eight children who reached adulthood, four sons and four daughters. Catharine, called "Kate" was their seventh child and third daughter. Her eldest sibling, a brother, born twenty years her senior, was Major General George Stoneman, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point; distinguished cavalry officer in the Civil War, and afterwards Governor of the State of California. "Kate," like her two sisters before her remained single. She devoted herself to education, law and woman's movements. She was the first woman admitted to the New York State Bar and the first woman to graduate from Albany Law School. Celebrated as a pioneer trailblazer for women's rights; an activist in woman's suffrage, the temperance movement and the peace league movement; appearing many times before legislature to urge these causes. She died Tuesday, 19 May 1925, at her residence, 134 South Swan Street, Albany, Albany County, New York. Interment was at Albany Rural Cemetery, in Menands, Albany County, New York. She was posthumously honored in 1994, as Albany Law School celebrated its first Kate Stoneman Day and in 2000, established a Kate Stoneman visiting professorship. In 2009, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in Seneca Falls, New York.
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
Daughter of George Stoneman, Sr., and Catherine Rebecca Cheney. Both parents where of English descent. They had eight children who reached adulthood, four sons and four daughters. Catharine, called "Kate" was their seventh child and third daughter. Her eldest sibling, a brother, born twenty years her senior, was Major General George Stoneman, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point; distinguished cavalry officer in the Civil War, and afterwards Governor of the State of California. "Kate," like her two sisters before her remained single. She devoted herself to education, law and woman's movements. She was the first woman admitted to the New York State Bar and the first woman to graduate from Albany Law School. Celebrated as a pioneer trailblazer for women's rights; an activist in woman's suffrage, the temperance movement and the peace league movement; appearing many times before legislature to urge these causes. She died Tuesday, 19 May 1925, at her residence, 134 South Swan Street, Albany, Albany County, New York. Interment was at Albany Rural Cemetery, in Menands, Albany County, New York. She was posthumously honored in 1994, as Albany Law School celebrated its first Kate Stoneman Day and in 2000, established a Kate Stoneman visiting professorship. In 2009, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in Seneca Falls, New York.
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
Inscription
KATE STONEMAN WAS THE FIRST WOMAN ADMITTED TO PRACTICE LAW IN NEW YORK STATE. AFTER TRAINING IN A PRIVATE FIRM, HER APPLICATION TO JOIN THE BAR WAS REJECTED BECAUSE OF HER GENDER. SHE THEN SUCCESSFULLY CAMPAIGNED TO AMEND THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE TO PERMIT THE ADMISSION OF QUALIFIED APPLICANTS WITHOUT REGARD TO GENDER OR RACE. HER ADMISSION TO THE NYS BAR IN 1886 PAVED THE WAY FOR THOUSANDS OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES WHO FOLLOWED. MS. STONEMAN CONTINUED HER LEGAL EDUCATION BY ATTENDING ALBANY LAW SCHOOL AND IN 1898 BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO GRADUATE.
Gravesite Details
Interment 23 May 1925, aged 84 yrs, 1 mo, 18 days.
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