Reform-minded Congregational Friends meeting at Greensboro in Henry County in January 1851 called for a convention, and the convention held at Dublin on October 14-15, 1851 adopted resolutions for political, social, and financial rights for women. Women and men who favored abolition, temperance, and suffrage attended. The 1852 convention formed the Indiana Woman's Rights Association to promote united action for woman's rights. The association's 1853 convention demanded equality in all political rights and functions. In 1870 it voted to be auxiliary to the American Woman Suffrage Association and became the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association.