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SUSAN B. ANTHONY DEAD
The Famous Woman Suffragist Ex-
pires in Rochester, N, Y.
Began IA a School Teacher, Became
Interested In the Questions Of
Temperance and Suffrage.

Rochester. n. Y.-Miss Susan B. An
thony died at 1910 o'clock a. m. The
end came peacefully. Miss Anthony
had been unconscious practically all
of the time for more than twenty
four hours, and her death had been
almost ~momentarily expected since last
week. Only her wonderful constitu-
tiop kept her alive.
DR.. NJ. S. Kicker, her attending ply
| stefan, said Miss Anthony died OF
heart disease and pneumonia of both
lungs.
Miss Anthony was taken ill while on
her way home from the National Snf-
frage convention in Baltimore. She
stopped in New York, where an ban
| quet was to be given February ~ IN
honor of her eighty-sixth birthday.
| out she had an attack Of neuralgia on
| February Is and fastened home. Pneu-
monia developed after her arrival here,
and OH March 5 both lungs became
| affected. She rallied, but had a re-
lapse. and the end after that never
was in doubt.
Susan Brownell Anthony was q pio-
neer leader of the cause of woman
suffrage, and her energy was tireless
in working for what she considered to
be the best interests of womankind.
Miss Anthony possessed a figure Of
medium size, a firm but. rather pleas
ing face. clear hazel eyes, and dark
hair which she always wore comDed
smoothly over the ears and bound in
a coil at, the back. She paid much at
tention to dress and advised those as
ISOLATED in the movement for woman
suffrage to be .punctilious in all mat
tiers pertaining to the toilet. For a
little over a year in the early -ffties
she wore a bloomer costume, consist
ing of q short skirt and q pair of Turk
ish trousers gathered at the ankles.
So great an outcry arose against the
innovation both from the pulpit and
the press that she was subjected to
many indignities, and forced to aban-
don it.
Miss Anthony was born at South Ad-
ans, Mass, on February Is, 1920.
Daniel Anthony, her father, a liberal
Quaker, was a cotton manufacturer.
At seventeen she received a dollar a
week with board by teaching in a
private family, and the next summer
a district school engaged her for $1.50
a week and 'boarded her round" She
continued to teach until 1852, when
she found her taste for. this profession
entirely gone.
Miss Anthony's active participation
in the movement for woman suffrage
started in the ffties. AS early as
1854 she arranged conventions through
out the State and annually bombarded
the Legislature with messages and
appeals.
In company with Mrs. Stanton and
Lucy Stone, Miss Anthony went to
Kansas in 1867, and there obtained
5000 votes in favor Of woman suffrage.
In order to test the application OF
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments she cast ballots in the State and
Congressional election in Rochester in
1872. She was indicted and ordered to
pay a fine, but the order was never
enforced.
Miss Anthony succeeded Mrs. STAN
ton as President of the National Wom-
an Suffrage Association in 1892, Mrs.
Stanton having resigned because of
old age. This office she held until
February. 1899, her farewell address
being delivered IT a meeting
of the association in Washington.
For a number of years she averaged
100 lectures a year. She engaged in
eight different State campaigns for a
Constitutional amendment enfranchis-
ing women, and hearings before COM
mittees of practically every Congress
since 1869 were granted to her.