Prominent member of the Beecher family; actively fought for votes for women

Isabella, the daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher and his second wife, founded the Connecticut Women's Suffrage Association and served as its president for 19 years. At her own expense she organized the 1871 suffragist convention in Washington , D.C. Annually, for seven years until its passage, she submitted to the Connecticut legislature a bill to guarantee women the same property rights as their husbands. Isabella and her husband built the first house at Nook Farm, Hartford 's 19th century literary colony.