Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
See "Timeline of women's suffrage"; [Wikipedia]
"Defending himself against critics of women's public participation, Finney declared, 'I had no agency in introducing the practice,' when it first appeared in Utica. This rings true: The Christian women of western New York took the initiative, and Finney accepted it. His wife, Lydia Finney (from Whitestown near Utica), encouraged the women to organize and assert themselves. In the western New York town of Seneca Falls the women's suffrage movement would be born in 1848." [Howe: What Hath God Wrought, p. 172-3]