Amelia
JENKS
(b.
27 May 1818
,
Homer, New York, USA
d.
30 December 1894
,
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
)
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Amelia JENKS was born 27 May 1818 in Homer, New York, USA
Amelia JENKS was the child of Ananias JENKS and Lucy WEBBSpouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
Amelia married Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER 14 April 1840 in Seneca, New York, USA . Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER was born 4 July 1816 in Scipio, New York, USA. Dexter Chamberlain died 24 February 1900 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA. Dexter Chamberlain was the child of John B BLOOMER and Tamara CHAMBERLAIN.
Amelia JENKS died 30 December 1894 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA.
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Amelia JENKS was a Women's rights and temperance advocate; publicized the idea of women wearing pants which came to be known as "Bloomers".
Amelia JENKS was a Women's rights and temperance advocate; publicized the idea of women wearing pants which came to be known as "Bloomers".
Family and Children of Amelia JENKS
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Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER-- Date: 14 April 1840 Place: Seneca, New York, USA
Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER was the child of John B BLOOMER and Tamara CHAMBERLAIN
Children of Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER and Amelia JENKS:
Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER-- Date: 14 April 1840 Place: Seneca, New York, USADexter Chamberlain BLOOMER was the child of John B BLOOMER and Tamara CHAMBERLAIN
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1818 Birth 27 May 1818
Homer, New York, USA
Biography
She wore pants to a party in 1851, and America lost its mind. Within months, her name became an insult. Today, it’s in your closet.
May 27, 1818. Amelia Jenks was born in Homer, New York, into a world where women’s clothing could literally harm them. Corsets crushed ribs. Skirts weighed 15 pounds and dragged through mud. Women fainted from tight lacing. Hoop skirts caught fire near cooking hearths. Fashion was a cage, and Amelia watched women struggle inside it.
She married Dexter Bloomer, a newspaper editor in Seneca Falls, and in 1848 attended an event that would change history: the First Women’s Rights Convention, held in her hometown. She listened as women demanded the vote, education, and basic rights—but noticed something else: every woman there was trapped in layers of fabric that made simply walking an act of endurance.
In 1849, she started The Lily—the first newspaper in America edited by and for women. She wrote about temperance, suffrage, and the radical idea that...Read MORE...
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She wore pants to a party in 1851, and America lost its mind. Within months, her name became an insult. Today, it’s in your closet.
May 27, 1818. Amelia Jenks was born in Homer, New York, into a world where women’s clothing could literally harm them. Corsets crushed ribs. Skirts weighed 15 pounds and dragged through mud. Women fainted from tight lacing. Hoop skirts caught fire near cooking hearths. Fashion was a cage, and Amelia watched women struggle inside it.
She married Dexter Bloomer, a newspaper editor in Seneca Falls, and in 1848 attended an event that would change history: the First Women’s Rights Convention, held in her hometown. She listened as women demanded the vote, education, and basic rights—but noticed something else: every woman there was trapped in layers of fabric that made simply walking an act of endurance.
In 1849, she started The Lily—the first newspaper in America edited by and for women. She wrote about temperance, suffrage, and the radical idea that...Read MORE...
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From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
1840 Marriage / PartnerAmelia JENKS and Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER 14 April 1840, Seneca, New York, USA
She was 21 years old.
1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)
1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states. 1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)
First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented
1894 Death 30 December 1894
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
She died at the age of 76.
Amelia is buried at: Fairview Cemetery Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
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