Birth Date: 27 May 1818

Birth Place - Homer, New York

Death Date: 30 Dec 1894

Notes:

The author of "Lily"; a paper originated in the interest of temperance, woman's rights and ladies' dress reform. the paper received contributions from Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs. Gage, Miss Susan B. Anthony, and others who have since become widely known. This sheet gave the name "Bloomer" to a costume introduced by Mrs. Stanton as a dress for ladies. - Per History of Seneca county and Historian's notes.

"Women’s Rights" - chapter 4

"Amelia Jenks Bloomer first came to Seneca Falls on April 15, 1840, as the day-old bride of newspaper editor and budding lawyer, Dexter Bloomer. She had been born in 1818 in Homer, New York, where she passed an uneventful childhood and received a rudimentary education in the local district school. After a brief stint as a school teacher at the age of 17, she decided to relocate, and moved in with her newly married sister Elvira, then living in Waterloo. Within a year she had moved into the home of the Oren Chamberlain family to act as the live-in governess for their three youngest children.

During this time she made the acquaintance of Dexter Bloomer, the editor and co-owner of the weekly Seneca County Courier. Bloomer's home was in Seneca Falls where he was studying law in his spare time and taking an active part in local Whig politics. The first evidence of their growing affection is a sentiment which Bloomer penned in Amelia's autograph book late in 1839. "The writer of this line humbly asks that he may be numbered in the list of Amelia's favored friends." Amelia apparently granted the favor, for on April 15, they were married at the Waterloo home of John Lowden by the Presbyterian minister. The word obey was omitted from the marriage ceremony, evidence of the Bloomers' early commitment to the cause of women's rights.

Amelia Bloomer, whose ideas were always firmly anchored in the tenets of traditional Christianity. She had joined the Seneca Falls Episcopal Church along with her husband in 1843, and remained a zealous and active church woman all of her life".