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300:(vol. I, 1889), calling her the "mother of 'The Woman Suffrage Association' in Indiana." Other sources on the woman's suffrage movement describe some of the details of her early leadership in Indiana's women's rights movement and as a founding member of the Indiana Woman's Rights Association, later renamed the Indiana Women's Suffrage Association. Way is best known for her work as a "pioneer" in the women's rights movement in Indiana, whose efforts "laid the groundwork for women's suffrage."
189:, she proposed that a women's rights convention be held in Indiana. Way, along with Joel Davis and Lydia Davis were appointed to organize it. Way's initial involvement in women's rights was not for the goal of obtaining the vote, but rather to "correct injustices." Way's call for equality of the sexes was also a result of her faith; the Society of Friends (Quakers) believed that "everyone should have an equal opportunity."
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Methodist Episcopal Church and moved in 1872 to Kansas, where she continued to remain active in the temperance and women's suffrage movements. Way was a founder and first president of the
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