The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-03-13
FAMOUS WOMAN GONE
Susan B. Anthony, Suffragist
Leader, Passes Away at Her
Rochester Home.
ILL AT BALTIMORE MEETING

Dominated Recent Convention From
Her Roon--Long and Eventful Ca
reer Of Worker and Leader in Re-
form Movements - Commanded Re-
spect After calumny.
Rochester, n. Y, March 13. The long
and eventful life Of Susan B. Anthony
closed at 1910 O'clock this morning.
The end came peacefully. Miss An
thony had been unconscious practical
" all of the time for more than TWEEN
ty-four hours, and her death had been
almost momentarlly expected.
DR. M. S. Kicker, her attending ply
stefan, said Miss Anthony died of heart
failure, induced by pneumonia Of both
lungs. She had had serious valvnlar
heart trouble for the last six or seven
years. Her lungs were practically clear,
and the pneumonia had yielded to
treatment, but the weakness. of her
heart prevented her recovery.
Miss Anthony's last public appear
ance, which was at the national wom-
an suffrage convention in Baltimore a
few weeks ago, was really the begin
ming of the end of the great suffragist's
career. She was Ill when she left her
home in Rochester for the convention
city. 1t was with the greatest difficulty,
however, despite her illness that her
friends kept her away from the daily
sessions of the Baltimore convention.
She chafed under the enforced retire
ment of her room and was only half
content with the minute reports which
reached her from the convention hall.
But even in her absence it was her
mind which dominated the convention.
Interested In Many Reforms.
Until very recently Miss Anthony
was as much engrossed in reform
movements as at any time in her ca
reer and Travelled over the country and
made trip abroad last year with lit
tie appearance of fatigue. With the
exception Of Julia Ward Howe she
was the sole survivor of the early suf-
frage advocates who took part in the
movement inaugurated at the famous
convention held in Seneca Falls in
1S4S, which was the first woman's
rights convention. The laws for the
equal property rights of women were
first advocated there. Miss Anthony
has said almost every reform which
she advocated had been accomplished,
with the exception of the rights of suf-
frage. She was one of the first advo-
Gates of coedueation and dress reform.
she adopted the bloomer costume in
1852 and chung to 1t little more than
a year. She said later in life that she
found it physical comfort, but a
mental crucifxion. She also carried
her interest In the advancement of wo-
men into the practical affairs of every
day lie. She always assisted the wo-
men in business when she could. Her
photographs, sent all over the country,
were taken by a woman photographer.
She was attended throughout her ill
ness by woman physician. In her
relations with the Rochester newspa-
pers she never gave an item to man
when the paper had woman on its
staff who could be reached.
Miss Anthony was greatly beloved
and respected in this city, which had
been her home since 1916. She lived to
see decided change in sentiment from
the time, in the winter of 1861, when
she was Kissed and hooted when she
attempted to give lecture on "Aboli-
ton in Corinthian hall. That lecture
tour, which started in Buffalo, was a
series Of riots, but Miss Anthony never
finched. The insults heaped upon her
eliminated in Syracuse, where she was
rotten egged and burned in efligy Her
life for the past few years had been in
strong contrast to those stormy times.