Butler - Rochester Wiki

Town of Arcadia Butler is a town on the eastern end of Wayne County, NY to the east of Rochester.

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Antoinette Blackwell - first US woman to be ordained:
"The hamlet of South Butler ... the site of the ordination of the first woman minister in the United States — Antoinette Brown Blackwell. ... unheard of in those days. ... she graduated from Oberlin Seminary in 1850 after three years of poverty, ridicule and discrimination because of her sex. Although she graduated, she was refused a license to preach. So, she then turned to social reform and speaking tours to further the cause of women's rights. On July 4, 1853, she was the first woman ever to give an Independence Day address at South Butler, in Wayne County. The Congregational church there called her to be their pastor, and on September 15, 1853, she became the first woman in the United States to be ordained a minister." ¹

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