The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-13
The END CAME
PEACEFULLY
Susan B. Anthony Died at an
Early Hour This Morning.
At HER HOME IN ROCHESTER
Was S6 Years Old AMI Had Dssotsa Life
10 Amusement Of Cause Of
WGmen's Rights.
At HER HOME IN ROCHESTER

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and eyentful life OF Susan p. Anthony
closed at i2:4O o'clock this morning at
her home on Madison street The end
came peace July Miss Anthony had been
unconscious practically all of the time
for more than "a hours. and her death
had been almost momentarily expected
since Saturday night Only her wonder
ful constitution X II her alive.
DIR. NJ. s. Kicker her attending physi-
clan, said Miss Anthony died Of heart
failure. induced by pneumonia OF both
lungs. She had serious valvuiar heart
trouble for the last six or seven years.
Her lungs were practically clear. and the
pneumonia had yie.aed 10 treatment. but
the weakness OF her heart prevented her
recovery.
Miss Anthony's last public appearance,
which was al the National Womans Suf-
frage convention in Baltimore a few
weeks ago. was really the beginning OF
the end OF tne great suffragist's career.
Under the weight or her Sc years and
worn by the almost constant pains of
neuralgia. she was III when she left her
home In Rochester for the convention
city.
AT Baltimore her health was little bet
ter and cold which she contracted
brought on the complications which ulti-
mately resulted in her death
II was with the greatest difficulty, de-
spite her illness, mat her friends kept
her away from the daily sessions OF the
Baltimore convention. She chafed under
the enforced confinement 10 her room and
was only content with the minute re-
ports which reached her from the conven-
tion hall
Miss Susan B. Anthony was the fore
most woman suffragist in America. For
the greater part OF her life she has been
the star that has guided the National
Woman Suffrage association through all
.ts vicissitudes until IL stands today a
livin. monument to her wonderful men
tai and physical ability
Throughout the length and breadth OF
euffragedom she was hailed as the pioneer
and leader OF the great movement. and
was afrectionately known as Aunt Su-
san.
Born Sc years ago. in the little Hickste
Quaker settlement at South Adams, she
was brought UP in the surroundings OF
q society that recognized the equality OF
the sexes and encouraged women in pub
lc speaking.
. With these ideas inculcated in her
youth IL is no small wonder that in after
years she took as her life work the fight
for the equality OF woman.
The very conditions that surrounded her
were such as to make II most natural,
that when she reached the age OF ma
turity she should adopt a public career
especially to enter the contest 10 secure
equal rights for those OF her own sex.
Her father, mother and sisters were
''high seat Quakers the latter famous
preacher. Her mothers cousin. Bettey
Dunnell White OF Stafford Hill, was noted
as the only woman I'm that locality who
could talk politics" and the men used TO
come from far and near TO get her opinion
on the political situation.
IL was from this sturdy Quaker stock
that Miss Anthony sprung. Her early life
in the peaceful Quaker colony was quiet
and uneventful. Nothing of special note
happened until she took up teaching and
went out into the world.
ENTRANCE IN PUBLIC LIFE.
It was during the early days OF the
anti-slavery agitation. when Miss An
thony. as a pretty schoolma am and
Quaker girl OF 30. first stepped into public
life as a friend OF the negro
AS her biographer says, but one thought
possessed her, what service can l ron
der humanity? What can l do TO help
right the wrongs OF society?"
The opportunity soon presented itself in
the temperance question which was the
only field opened for a woman in those
days, and Miss Anthony entered II with
a great deal OF spirit.
IL was but very few years before she
DISTINGUISHED herself in that chosen field
OF labor. A big convention of the Sons
OF Temperance was held at Albany, n.
Y The Daughters OF Temperance. TO
which Susan Anthony was affiliated, were
invited 20 be present
When the convention opened the Daugh-
ters discovered that they occupied a pure
ly honorary position.
The sons would not let them have any
thing TO say regarding the procedure OF
the meeting. and their protest was o. no
avail The womans voice could rot he
raised in the council of the men. The
men said that II was against Scripture
and against her natural sphere.
BEGINNING OF SUFFRAGE FIGHT.
II was then that Miss Anthony arose
to the occasion. Arising from her seat
I'm the convention hall. the tall young
Quaker girl walked out. followed by six
other women.
II was her first rebellion and the be-
ginning OF the fight she was 10 wage for
over half a century for the equal rights
OF women.
She began 10 preach the davrine Of
suffrage and equal rights. but II was
against great odds. No one seemed TO
grasp her message at first-not even the
women for whom she was battling. She
was caricaurcd jeered and denounced
but she kept right on preaching.
She asked that the women be given the
power TO vote. and was laughed at. even
by her own sex. But her determina-
tion could not be stifed She was bound
10 succeed against any odds
With Elizabeth Cady Stanton. she trav-
elled all over the country. In open wagons
stage coahces and on foot preaching the
gospel OF womens rights
In 1872 Miss Anthony cast n ballot. She
was arrested and fined for illegal voting
FIRST VOTE ENTERING WEDGE.
She never paid the nne. II was the en-
tering wedge. and today four states in
the Union have granted fun suffrage to
women. and % states have given them
the right To- vote at school elections.
For many years she was at the head OF
the National Suffrage association In this
country resigning the Office six years
laf sha haH fsscd