Mary Louise Booth: Yaphank’s Favorite Daughter

Mary Louise Booth was born in 1831 on Main Street in Yaphank,  the eldest of 4 children of William Chatfield and Nancy Monsell Booth. She was an historian, author, editor, translator, suffragist, abolitionist; the author of the first History of the City of New York, Founding Editor of Harper’s Bazaar, and was in the forefront of the women’s rights movement, working alongside Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  She was also instrumental in bringing the Statue of Liberty to America.  She started in a little shingled house in rural Long Island and ended her days in 1889 in a townhouse at 59th & Park in New York City, the highest paid woman of her time, beloved by her many friends and colleagues. Tricia Foley, author of her upcoming biography, will tell us all about her extraordinary life.