Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-13
SUSAN B. ANTHONY IS DEAD
Long and Bventful Career Closes at an
Early Hour This Morning,
UNCONSCIOUS FOR TwENN-FOUU HOURS
Death Was Due 60 Heart Failure
Induced by Double Pneumonia
Sketch OF Her
Life.

end came peacefully. Miss Anthony had |
been unconscious practically for twenty |
four hours. and her death had been mo-
mentarly expected since Sunday night. |
Only her wonderful constitution kept her I
alive.
Dr. NJ. S. Kicker. her attending physician |
said Miss Anthony died Of heart failure !
induced by double pneumonia. She had
had serious valvulary heart trouble for
the last six or seven years. Her lungs
were practically clear. and the pneumonia
had yielded To treatment. but the weak
ness of her heart prevented her recovery.
Mayor James G. Butler tonight announced
that as a mark Of respect to the memory
of Miss Anthony the flags OF the city viii
be displayed at half-mast on the day of
the funeral.
Miss Anthony was taken i'll while on her
way home from the national suffrage con-
vention in Baltimore. She stopped in New
York. where a banquet was to be given
February 20 in honor of her eighty-sixth
birthday but had an attack of neuralgia
two days before and fastened home. Pneu-
monia developed after her arrival here and
on March both lungs became affected.
After that she became unable to retain
nourishment and showed an alarming
weakness. Last week, however she seemed
to improve and her friends hoped she was
out of danger. Then came the attack of
heart failure Sunday afternoon. following
which she sank into unconsciousness. From
that time on almost the only sign of life
manifested was the feeble pulse beat and
the labored breathing Miss Anthony her
self had believed that she would recover.
sketch of Her Career.
Susan Brownell Anthony was born at the
/ .. 1T
hills of Massachusetts,, February 1b 1870.
Her father, Daniel Anthony. was mcm-
Der of a prominent and wealthy Quaker
| family and later in life Miss Anthony
identified herself with this denomination.
Her mother, Lucy Read, came from a
family of Unitarians and Baptists. Both
parents were liberal i'm their views. and
| this tendency was inculcated into all mem
bers of their family, becoming especially
marked in Miss Anthony and her brother,
the late Colonel Dan" Anthony, editor of
the Leavenworth (kan.) Times 1t is told
of Miss Anthony that she was precocious,
having learned to read and spell when 3
and years old.
In 1896 Miss Anthony was taken with the
| family to Batenville, N. Y, where her
father operated a cloth factory, and here
Miss Anthony began her first work as tenn
porary .'spooler" In her fathers factory
a place she held for short ti1ae during
the illness of the regular employe. At the
age of Is she began to teach school, much
to the disapproval Of a number of per
sons, who criticized her father for per-
mitting her to work when it was not neces-
sary for her support. He defended his
course by saying that it would teach her
independence. Two years later she at
tended a boarding school at Philadelphia
with older sister. financial crash in
1888 put end to her school days, and
she returned home to resume teaching
school. Martin Van Buren was then presl-
a dent, and Miss Anthony emphasized her
idea OF the brotherhood of man by refusing
to attend public reception in his honor.
and took occasion to declare her later we'll
known Views on the subject of total alb
stinence from intoxicating liquor. About
this time, also, she began to give evidence
of her strong abolition sentiments, much
to the chagrin of a number of the members
OF her family. who made protest on the
subject. 1t was during her career as a
teacher that she made her first public ap-
pearance as a speaker. the occasion being
a meeting of the Daughters of Temperance
Public Career starts in 1850.
! The year 1850 may be said to mark Miss
3 Anthony's debut upon public career. Al
> the home of her father she had met many
t prominent persons of liberal IDEAS includ.
E ing Mrs Stanton, Lucretia Mott. William
{ Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Chan.
g ming and Pillsbury. On the question OF
/ slavery. which about that time divided
New York Quakers, the elder Anthony
found himself out Of accord with the ma,
? jority. and became an attendant OF tn,
@ Unitarian church. Frederick Douglass
came to Rochester about this time anC
I started the North Star, an abolition news
! paper; John B. Cough was at the beginning
e OF his career as temperance orator tn,
I first of the "spiritualist" manifestatio
( were under way at Albany; egfuguitiv,
slave law was passed. and it's operation
brought dismay to the abolitionists. All O
these things agitated the liberal think
ers'' of the community. The first womani
: rights convention, which was held in 1876
was also theme for consideration. Th,
parents of Miss Anthony were early con
verts TO the womans suffrage idea, and ,
cousin was secretary of the first conven
ton In 1857 and 1858 she was a speake
with the "Garrisonians," an abolition or
ganization. In 1850 she interested herseI
= = in the. matter of having the propert!
! rights Of women extended In 1Ss1-62 sh
arranged a series of abolition meetings an,
was the victim of mobs in a number o
New York towns. In 1865 she attempted L
have the fourteenth constitutional amend
!, ment abolish sex as a qualification for tn
elective franchise. In 1866 the America
. Equal Rights association was formed, wit
I Lucrstia Mott as president, and Miss An
!, thony as one OF the corresponding secre
taries. In 1869 the first national eonventio
Of the society was held at Washington
: In 1879 Miss Anthony voted under the -four
- teenth amendment, arrested for ile
gal voting and was hned for her act. A
- every national convention of the politics
: parties from 1865 10 1880 attempts were mad
to have woman suffrage planks inserted
+ In 1883 she attempted to have suffrae
"a amendment submitted 10 the states. bu
u was again unsuccessful although IL r.
y oeived the approval OF committee OF III
! house OF representatives.
ir Campaign In Nebraska.
te In 1882 came the campaign for woman
N suffrage in the state OF Nebraska TT
d legislature had submitted an amendmen
and the national organization raised $50
p 10 carry on the campaign in the state. Ml'
~ Anthony devoted her time and 81 600 Of hs