1822

Isabella Holmes Beecher [Hooker]; Harriet Porter [Beecher]

1822, February 22 — Isabella Holmes Beecher (later Hooker) born in Litchfield, Connecticut. Isabella would become a prominent women's suffrage activist.

Source: Connecticut History, "Looking Back: Tempest Tossed, the Story of Isabella Beecher Hooker."

Quote: "Isabella Beecher was born February 22, 1822, in Litchfield, then home to a progressive girls' school, a well-known law school, and a popular church led by her father."

John Addison Porter; Addison Porter; Anne Hogeboom

• 1822, March 15 — John Addison Porter is born in Catskill, New York to Addison Porter and Anne Hogeboom.

Source: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1866–7, p. 246

Quote: "Porter was born in Catskill, New York." (p. 246)