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She formed suffrage clubs in several different States and in Canada, and was repeatedly a delegate to
National councils, giving her time and money for the cause. In 1886, Fray entered into a political canvass in Rochester to put a woman upon the board of managers of the State Industrial School; with
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teacher carefully to study and compare passages in the Old and New
Testaments. That she did thoroughly, and became satisfied that Christ nowhere made any difference between the sexes. Henceforth, her work lay in the direction thus given, and she labored to promote political equality for woman and to
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During the early years of her life, while they were traveling from place to place, opportunities for education were limited so lar as books were concerned. Her father thought that it mattered little, as all that girls needed was to write and read, with a little knowledge of arithmetic added. Fray
54:, Chief Justice of England. Her father was Richard Sulley. who married Elizabeth Denman in 1827, and of their six children, Fray was the third daughter. Her father was a well-known writer upon social and economical questions, and had distinguished himself at the time of the repeal of the
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in 1870. It was a happy union, lasting for twenty years, until the death of Mr. Fray. Her two children died in childhood, leaving her alone and free to devote herself to those things which she felt were of a character to help humanity. She died in 1903.
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