Born in 1820, the daughter of immigrants, Elizabeth Greer Coit grew up in the progressive village of Worthington. Elizabeth was raised by her mother who single handedly supported her family after the loss of her spouse. Elizabeth was even able to attend school at the Worthington Female Seminary, and later served as an assistant teacher at age twenty one. In 1844, Elizabeth married Harvey Coit and moved to Columbus. As a result of her upbringing, she became an ardent advocate for education and equal rights for women. As Treasurer, she and her friend, President Frances Casement from Painesville (Lake County), revitalized the moribund Ohio Woman Suffrage Association in 1884. That year, Elizabeth also founded the Columbus Equal Rights Association, the first woman suffrage group in Columbus. They met once a month in her home two blocks from the Statehouse at Third and Rich Streets. In 1894, she and the state organization lobbied and won a bill permitting women to vote in school board elections, a first step. Also during the 1890s, four states adopted woman suffrage into their constitutions: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. Elizabeth dedicated her life to the advancement of women, but she did not live to see ratification of the Federal “Susan B. Anthony” Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920, hereafter called Women's Equality Day. When Elizabeth passed in 1901, her daughter Belle Coit Kelton picked up the torch and carried it to victory.