The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-07-08
DIR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW
DIED LATE WEDNESDAY
Passed Away at Her Home i'm MOy-
Ian, Pa, at Age of 71-Had
Remarkable Career.

ING >aliohdl american woman SUI
frage association, died at her home in
Moylan, Pa, near here at O'Clock
Wednesday evening. She was n
years old.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw was
leader in many lines Of endeavor, but
it is for her work in behalf of wo-
man suffrage that she will be best re-
membered. For some years she had
been honorary president of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage as
sociation. From 1904 to 1915 she
was active president of the same or
ganization, and as such won ma
tional and international reputation.
by her eloquence, power as a pole
micist and disputant, and organizer
of victory. Her formal advocacy of
the cause dated as far back as 1885,
when she was chosen lecturer of the
Massachusetts suffrage association.
DR.. Shaw was born at Newcastle
on-Tyne, England, Feb. IA, 1S47
and came of Scotch ancestry. Her
father was forced into bankruptcy
by the English corn law, and when
the future suffrage leader was an
infant of four years the family de-
cided to try their fortunes anew in
America. Their first year in the
United States was spent in New Bed
ford, Mass. from which place they
removed to Lawrence, Mass, and
there stayed seven years.
In 1859 the family removed to
northern Michigan, where Dr. Shaw,
spent her girlhood living the life of
the pioneer. At an early age she
evinced a keen and unusual interest
In various public movements. De-
spite the objections of her family
she determined to become a public
speaker and to enter the ministry.
At the age of rs she entered AL
bion college with eighteen dollars as
her total stock Of money. The presi-
dent Uf tho college found she had
never studied United States history
and had her come to his office to talk
matters over. They talked for hours.
discussing the history Of the country.
the governments OF the world, the
philosophical basis of westward
movements, and the like, and like,
and at the end he wrote a certificate
passing her in all the history of the
college course.
After two years at the Michigan
Ch
suance of her determination to study
for the ministry. She entered the
Boston University Theological school
the only woman in a class of 43. She
was graduated, and then for several
years was pastor at East Dennis on
Cape Cod. In time she became pas
tor also of the Congregational church
near there, and she managed to take
courses in medicine in Boston be-
sides.
She was refused ordination by the
New England conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church on ac-
count of her sex She appealed her
case to the general conference at
Cincinnati in 1880, and the refusal
was confirmed. Later in the same
year she was ordained by the Metho-
dist Protestant church, being the
first woman to receive ordination by
that denomination.
1t was in pioneering as a preacher
of the gospel that Miss Shaw won
her first more than local fame. Inl
1885 she resigned from the pulpit
to become lecturer for the Massa-
chusetts suffrage association. Herr
rise to prominence as worker in
the cause was rapid
As president OF the national suf-
frage organization DR.. Shaw had
spoke in every state of the Union,
before many state legislatures and |
before committees of both houses of |
congress. AS a delegate to interna-
tional conferences she had paid num-
erous visits to Europe She was the
only woman who ever preached in !
Gustav Vasa Cathedral, the state !
church of Sweden, and the first or
dained woman to preach in Berlin,
London, Christiania and
In the early part of the world
war DR.. Shaw was chosen as chair
man or the committee on women's
defense work, selected by the
United States Council OF National
Defense She had wide acuuaint-
ance with women throughout the