Born in Homer in 1838, Victoria Claflin-Woodhull-Martin was a woman whose visions exceeded her time. In 1870, Victoria and her sister Tennessee became the first women stockbrokers in the country. Opinions she expressed in the Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly newspaper led to her becoming the first woman invited to address Congress. Because of her unrelenting advocacy of women's suffrage, Victoria Woodhull was nominated to run for president by the Equal Rights party in 1872. Her life was a continual campaign for woman's suffrage, civil rights, and child labor reform laws. In 1879, Victoria married John Martin and lived her remaining years in British society. She died in England in 1927.