-Co-founder of Detroit Women's Club
-Co-founder Young Woman's Home Association for working women
-Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
-Eliza Seaman Leggett School, Waterford.
Notes
Ref:
"When She Spoke, the City Jumped", Detroit Free Press, May 8, 1955 (in bio files)
"A Civic-Minded and Literary Resident of Mid-Nineteenth Century Detroit", Detroit Historical Society Bulletin, May 1955
Occupation
- Campaigned successfully for first public water fountains and troughs in Detroit and first public restrooms in stores in the city
-Frequently sheltered runaway slaves in both Pontiac and Detroit
-Hosted Sojourner Truth, Julia Ward Howe and Wendell Phillips
-Joined Susan B. Anthony in the march for equal voting rights
-Tried to interest city in building bridge to Belle Isle
-Proposed naming October 14th Columbus Day
-Quaker
Publications
Eliza Seaman Leggett papers, Burton Historical Collection, DPL.
Father
Valentine Seaman
Mother
Anna Ferris
Spouse
Augustus W. Leggett, m. 1836
Children
Mortimer (b. 1837)
Percival S. (b. 1839)
Margaret
William
Emma
Anna (b. 1846)
Elizabeth
Augusta (b. 1851)
Catherine
Henrietta
Blanche (b. 1860)
Relations
Corresponded with Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, William Cullen Bryant, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Worked with abolitionists including Mrs. Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, Theodore Parker, Lyman Beecher, Laura Smith Haviland, and Elizabeth Comstock.
