Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) was born and spent her childhood years at Paulsdale, where she grew up in a Quaker family with a tradition of activism in education and public service and a strong belief in equality. She dedicated her entire life to securing equal rights for all women, founded the National Women's Party in 1914, and led the first picketers to the White House gates for women's suffrage. After women won the right to vote in 1920, she turned her focus to the Equal Rights Amendment and, from her wheelchair in a nursing home in nearby Moorestown, lobbied Representatives to pass the ERA until her death in 1977. She worked for women's rights nationally and internationally and founded the World Women's Party in 1938 with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.