The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-13

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ROCHESTER,, March l3.-Susan II, Anthony
died at 1910 this morning without having
regained consciousness from the time she
suffered the severe relapse Sunday after
noon. At her bedside were her sister.
Mary S. Anthony, her niece, Miss Lucy
Anthony of Philadelphia, the Rev. DR.,
Anna Shaw, the physician and the two
nurses.
Susan Brownell Anthony devoted her
life to the cause of women, and "a an advo-
cate of equal suffrage and woman's rights
-he gained a worldwide reputation. She
celebrated her eighty-siNth birthday on
February 10 last and expected to be present
at that time at a luncheon given in this city
in her honor, but illness prevented her
from leaving her home in Rochester,
Miss Anthony was born in South Adams,
Mass, on February Is, 1920. Her father
was Daniel Anthony. a cotton manufacturer
He was a Quaker, with somewhat liberal
ideas, and he employed tutors to give his
daughters the best education obtainable.
Daniel Anthony moved to Washington
county, this State, and Miss Anthony was
sent to the Friends boarding school in
Philadelphia. Her teachers soon realized
that she possessed an unusual mind and
some of her ideas on education were far
ahead OF her time.
Upon her graduation she became a school
teacher-she wished to do something in the
world and in those days teaching was about
the only profession open to a woman. She
found no difficulty in getting employment,
but the pay was much smaller than men got
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argument in favor Of woman's rights.
"If / teach az we'll as a man why Mould |
not receive the salary Of a man?' she asked
a district school commissioner The ques-
ton cost her her job, but she got another
one and continued to think about woman's
rights.
Miss Anthony was by nature retiring, but
che was a strict disciplinarian and was fond
OF telling how she impressed that fact upon
one of her classes. 1t was in 1899 when she
was in charge of a school in Pennsylvania.
The sohoolboys had heard that a Quakeress
who was only 10 years old was coming to
teach them and they prepared to give her
warm reception. AS a class they had a
bad reputation, and Miss Anthony knew it.
When she appeared some of her pupils
fell in through the windows, others turned
ndIlQHpTllRR over lIe utShh' lu6 young
teacher waited until the room became mod
erately quiet. Then size called the most
boisterous boy to the platform and in q
most subdued manner told him TO remove
his coat. Then with a birch rod she gave
an example of discipline that brought about
immediate and lasting order.
Three acknowledgements, woman
suffrage and the abo lition of s~lavery-were
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1910 and they Interested Miss Anthony.
She became familiar with the sermons of
Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward
Beecher, who was at the head Of the tenn
pePanoe movement; she committed to
memory many Of the speeches OF Wendell
Phillips and other anti-slavery orators, and
her own experiences in fighting for mems
wages while teaching school prompted
her to devote part of her energies TO the
cause of woman suffrage. In 1874 she made
her first public speech and three years later
gave up teaching to take up public life.
Her ready tongue, quick mind and ex-
ecutive ability won for her a leading place
among the female reformers before the
war. She was living in Rochester then,
where her father had established a home
stead, Admission to a temperance con-
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her sex, and in 1851 she called a meeting
of her W in Albany in the interest of the
cause, which because of its success was
the foundation of her future fame. In
1880 and 1851 she established several tenn
perance societies in this State; she took
advantage of every convention Of teachers
to expound her views on reform, and she
soon had a large following.
A. nIn,,t tht, tip,n aln mn Ara EIigu-
beth Cady Stanton, who was then the best
known woman reformer in the country,
and with Mrs. Stanton she formed the
Woman's New York State Temperance
Society. In the next few years these two
women secured for women the right to
speak, vote and serve on committees at
educational conventions. They remained
friends and coworkers until Mrs. Stanton's
death.
Miss Anthony first became conspicuous
as an anti-slavery agitator in 1858, when
she became one Of the regular agents of
schools, barns, halls and churches, and if
no hall could be secured she addressed
meetings from lumber wagons or carts
in the open air. She spoke in the Columbia
River region when she had to ride in a stage
coach to get there. She took part in de-
hates with p~ro-slavery editors and agita-
tors and addressed legislative bodies and
committees and conventions.
At the same time she continued her work
in favor of woman's suffrage, which she
began actively in 1854. On this subject
she delivered about 100 lectures a year.
The question of the ballot for women at
that time did not command so much of her
attention as legislation which handicapped
women in their civil rights, 1t was due
largely TO her labors that the New FORK
Legislature in 1880 passed the act giving
to a married woman the right to her earn
ings and the guardianship of her children.
Throughout the war her home in Rochester
was the abiding place for many u fugitive
slave.
In 1850 she presented to Congress her
first petition in favor OF leaving the word
male" out Of the Fourteenth amendment,
and at the end Of the war, with Mrs. Stan
Ton and Lucy Stone, she went to Kentucky
and agtated the woman's suffrage question
so successfully that in 1857 there we're 5000
votes cast in favor Of the reform. The
following year she spent in this city man
aging, with Mrs. Stanton, Parker Pillsbury
and George Francis Train, a weekly journal
called the Rerolutionisf. devoted TO the
emancipation of women.
Miss Anthony decided to make a radical
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