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I am going to do my wiki project on Marietta Stow. I plan on focusing more on her life as a whole rather than just when she was running for positions in the government. This includes her education and family life. It also includes what she went on to do after losing the presidential election. I also plan on finding out more about the barriers she faced and her attitude towards these barriers. The following are the sources I have so far:

1. “Marietta Stow.” Her Hat Was In the Ring, HISTORYIT, www.herhatwasinthering.org/biography.php?id=7740. Accessed 14 Mar. 2017.
2. Scheule, Donna C. “In Her Own Way: Marietta Stow's Crusade for Probate Law Reform Within the Nineteenth Century Women's Rights Movement.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, vol. 7, no. 2, 1 Jan. 1995, pp. 297–306. Heinonline, ll3md4hy6n.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=In+Her+Own+Way%3A+Marietta+Stow%27s+Crusade+for+Probate+Law+Reform+Within+the+Nineteenth-Century+Women%27s+Rights+Movement&rft.jtitle=Yale+Journal+of+Law+and+Feminism&rft.au=Schuele%2C+Donna+C&rft.date=1995-01-01&rft.issn=1043-9366&rft.volume=7&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=279¶mdict=en-US. Accessed 14 Mar. 2017.
3. Wagner, Sally Roesch. “A Woman's Run For President -- Before There Was a Gender Gao.”ProQuest, 31 Oct. 1996, search.proquest.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/docview/221140723?pq-origsite=summon&accountid=14169. Accessed 14 Mar. 2017.
4. “Early Statehood: 1850 – 1880s: Women's Rights.” Early Statehood: 1850 – 1880s: Women's Rights | Picture This, Oakland Museum of California, picturethis.museumca.org/timeline/early-statehood-1850-1880s/womens-rights/info. Accessed 14 Mar. 2017.

Rough Draft:

Marietta L. B. Stow (1830 or 1837–1902) was an American politician and women's rights activist. Throughout her career in law and politics, Stow advocated for women's suffrage, access to political office, and probate law reform.

Marietta Stow grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and worked as a teacher there throughout her early adulthood. It is said that Marietta Stow was married more than once. Stow got divorced in her early twenties and was known as Lizzie Bell at the time because Lizzie was her nickname and Bell was the name taken from her former husband. Then, she went on to remarry a man by the name Joseph Stow, a local elite, at the age of thirty-six after meeting him in San Francisco. After moving to San Francisco and remarrying, Stow became an active suffragette. However, before she remarried, Marietta Stow worked and financed her own causes as a teacher. With her own wealth, she became a public speaker. Stow lectured about women and young girls that worked in shops in unsafe conditions. Later in life, Stow's lectures included her thoughts on the orphaned daughters of Union soldiers.

Stow went on a tour to spread awareness of her cause by herself and this very tour is what brought her to San Francisco. Originally, Marietta Stow chose Joseph Stow to be the treasurer for her cause, but in 1866 she married him. After being married for three years, Marietta Stow went back out into the political realm. Stow replaced Elizabeth Schenck as president of the San Francisco Women's Suffrage Association after Schenck became sick in 1869. Aiming to widen the support of the movement, Stow called for a meeting in Sacramento and she gave lectures and an inaugural address to promote this idea. If they went to Sacramento, she wanted to implement a suffrage bill and many of her lectures were given in order to raise money for this cause. Unfortunately, the organization decided to reject her idea and hold a conference in San Francisco instead, causing Stow to resign from the organization and leave the movement.

Eight years into their marriage, Stow's husband passed away on August 11, 1874 at the age of forty-eight. Joseph Stow had been a wealthy business man, but because Marietta Stow had been in Europe at the time of his death the settlement of his estate began without her. The courts denied Stow her inheritance of $200,000. As a result of the settlement that lost Marietta Stow her money, she was now in a situation that allowed other men to make decisions about her quality of life materially and Stow was left feeling deeply wronged by the court system. This sparked her advocation for probate law reform, which was an area that experienced extensive gender inequality at the time. In regards to probate law, Stow proposed a bill to the legislature in the state of California in 1876 stating that the widow of a spouse would be granted control over their property and putting their affairs in order. Stow also took the matter to the northeast and met with attorney Belva Lockwood in Washington D.C. and together they came up with a bill to reform federal marital property and estate laws. In 1879, The House of Representatives were introduced to their bill but it did not get very far before it was brushed aside.

Stow wrote a book called Probate Confiscation about women's roles involving more than just their positions as wives and their rights needed to based on more than this position. in 1879, Stow gave speeches to other women about probate law injustices that were occurring while writing her book on the side. When the book was finally published, she earned close to one thousand dollars as a result of selling approximately four hundred copies and she promised this money would go towards a college for women.

Marietta Stow was nominated by the Greenback Party in 1880 to be the San Francisco School Director. A year after accepting this nomination she formed the Women's Independent Political Party. This new party allowed for women to be further involved in politics and it was a way for them to gain confidence and experience. Stow believed it was vital that women have their own party, but she was still a supporter of the Greenback Party and its candidates.

Stow ran for Governor of California in 1882, as the Women's Independent Political Party candidate. She was anti-Chinese, anti-monopoly, and anti-ring, but she was not against whiskey and tobacco. Stow campaigned these views via her own newspaper. The newspaper was also used to promote her ideas and thoughts on the philosophy of positivism, industrial education for women, and the new science and sociology while being actively against the masculinity of the government. Likewise, Stow promoted the usage of birth control, practicing eugenics, shorter work days, and preventing crime.

She and Clara S. Foltz nominated Belva Ann Lockwood for President of the United States, and Stow ultimately supported Lockwood on the National Equal Rights Party ticket as its vice presidential candidate in the 1884 United States presidential election. Stow was the first woman to run for vice president of the United States. The Equal Rights Party platform included equal rights for men and women, a curtailment of the liquor traffic, uniform marriage and divorce laws for the entire nation, and "universal peace." Lockwood was also supported the rights of the Chinese, which went against Marietta Stows anti-Chinese agenda. Stow was accused of being outspoken and was noteably against the Republican Party at the time and believed it was a dying group. The ticket won some 4,000 votes nationwide. Women's suffrage was its major focus.

In 1892 she was a vice presidential candidate again, nominated by the "National Woman Suffragists' Nominating Convention" on September 21 at Willard's hotel in Boonville, New York presided over by Anna M. Parker, President of the convention. This time Victoria Woodhull was at the top of the ticket.

She was the editor of a publication, Women's Herald of Industry and Social Science Cooperator. She created a fad diet known as "cold trucks."

Marietta Stow died of breast cancer in 1902, just nine years before women were granted the right to vote in California.