Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-03
DR.. ANNA HOWARD
SHAW LEADER Of
SUFFRACISTS IN
AMERICA IS DEAD
Was Honorary President of
National Association and
One of Foremost Women
Lecturers In the World.
WON DISTINGUISHED
SERVICE WAR MEDAL
During War With Germany
Was Head of Woman S
Council of Defense and Work
There Won Her Decoration,


Philadelphia, July 2.-Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, honorary president of
the National American Women's Suf-
frage association. died at her home in
Moylan, Pa, near here, at 7 o'clock
this evening. She>was II years old,
DR. Shaw also was chairman of the
woman's committee on the Council of
NUational Defense, and recently was
awarded the distinguished service
medal for her work during the war
She was taken i'll in Springfield,
ILL.,, several weeks ago on a lecture
tour with former President Taft and
President Lowell of Harvard unive-
rsity, in the interest of the league of
nations. Pneumonia developed and
for two weeks she was in a Spring.
field hospital. She returned to her
home about the middle of June and
apparently had entirely recovered
She was taken suddenly i'll again yes
terday with a recurrence of the dis
ease and grew rapidly worse until the
end.
No Funeral Arrangements.
No arrangements for the funeral
has yet been made.
DR. Shaw long had been prominent
ly identified with the woman suf-
frage movement and was president of
the National American Suffrage asso-
citation consecutively for eleven years.
In 1915 she declined a denomination
and wGs then elected honorary presi-
dent. She had spoken in every state
in the union before many state leg
islatures and committees of both hous-
es of congress in the interest OF suf-
frage.
Born in England in 1S47, the child
that was to become one of the great
forces of the world for ballots for
women was brought to this country
by ner parents when she was only
years old
Few women OF America or any
ether noilrtfy have ger @9s9ied sni
extensively as did MISS Howard and
later Mrs. Shaw She graduated
from Albion college, Michigan grad
uated in theology from the Theologi-
cal school of Boston university, later
graduating with the degree of medi-
cal doctor from the same university,
She was given the degree of doctor of
divinity by the University of Kansas
in 1902 and the degree of doctor of
laws was conferred in 1917.
Granted Preachers License.
She was granted a local preachers
license by the district conference of
the Methodist church and paid the
expenses of her university studies by
preaching and lecturing. She held two
pastorates in Massachusetts, but was
refused ordination by the northeast
ern conference on the ground of her
sex. She appealed the case to the
general conference, and the decision
of the lower conference was confirm
ed. She then shifted her membership
to the Methodist Protest church and
was the first woman ordained to
preach by that church.
But the work nearest to Mrs. Shaw's
heart was that of woman suffrage,
and she gave up the pulpit to become
lecturer for the Massachusetts suf-
fragists From 1885 almost to the
time of her death. she was actively
engaged in the cause of votes for
women, speaking and writing COntin-
ually, though she gave few years of
her time to the cause of the Women'S
Temperance union.
But while writing and lecturing for
suffrage and in the temperance cause,
now and then she preached sermons
of the most orthodox sort. She was
the only woman who ever preached in
Gustavus Nasa cathedral. Sweden, and
the first ordained woman to preach in
Copenhagen, Christiana, Berlin, Am
sterdam and London.
During the war she was the chair
man of the woman's committee of the
national council of defense, and called
into active service of the nation her
great abilities a sorganiZer and eXecu-
tive She was awarded the distin-
guished service medal by the United
States government.
While she lived to see congress sub
nit to the states an amendment to the
federal constitution for the enfran-
chisement of women, she did not live
to see the amendment ratified.