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Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm, by Joel Emmons Whitney, circa 1865.
Credit: Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, S/NPG.2007.202
In the 1840s, Pittsburgh’s Jane Swisshelm emerged as a strong voice in both the abolition movement and the women's movement for property rights in Pennsylvnaia. For the next forty years she remained a compelling advocate of women’s rights.