The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-07-12
REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW-AN
APPRECIATION.
February "A, 1s47-July 2, 1919,

February IA, 1s47-July 2, 1919.
BY Prof. VIM. H. Dawley.
Lord. now lettest thou thy servant
depart in peace, according to thy
word: for mine eyes nave seen thy
salvation" Simeons's words may
have been on her lips. For hardly
had the news of the ratification of the
Woman's suffrage amendment to
the Constitution by a vote of 125 to
! in the Missouri House of Represen-
tatives. when at Z o'clock p. m. We'd
nesday, July ,. 1919. Rev. DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw fell asleep in the arms
of Jesus" at her farm home, Moylan
near Philadelphia, Pa. The next day
by a vote of % to 3 the Missouri Sen
ate confirmed the Houses action,
thus making Missouri the 18th state
to ratify.
Rev. Shaw threw her whole life
into the Woman''s Equal Rights cause.
Under her administration 1904-l5 the
suffrage states increased from 4 to
70. suffrage workers from 1900 to
zoo. 900 and expenditures from $15,-
600 to $50, 900 per annum Yet DR..
Shaw was nver so absorbed in her
hobby that when occasion afforded
she did not make eloquent appeals for
and offer inspiring words to the Ne
gro. ?She was ever cheerful and
CHEEKY. Her great soul allowed no
frowns on her radiant countenance.
Petty chickering's and any kind of pre-
hidden recesses of her make up.
She never married.
DR.. Shaw was born at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, England, St. Valentines Day,
IS47. Four years later she came with
her family to this country. Her girl
hood was spent in a Michigan wilder
ness, 40 miles from a post office and
100 miles from a railroad. Here with
his own hand her father built a rude
log cabin and vas compelled to leave
his wife and children at the mercy
OF Indians and wild animals while he
earned a scant livelihood for them
Rev. Shaw entered her career as a
school teacher walking eight miles
a day and receiving 81 90 a week.
From 1925 she studied at Albior
College and in 1878 was graduated
from the Roston School of Theology
She met these expenses by lecturinE
and preaching and lived in an atti'
in Boston.
The New England Conference de
c4aned to ordain her, having no prece
dent of ordaining a mi But nav
ing met the spiritual and intellectua
requirements the Methodist Protestan
church ordained her that same veal
Now as a minister of the Gospel sh
had constantly to face ridicule' dis
sension and lack of bare necessltle'
hence after T years service to a Il
tie flock at East Dennis, Mass, sh
resigned from the pulpit and devote
her life to the cause Of Temperance
woman's suffrage and social pur1t!
When financial success came Re'
Shaw bought tho farm at MoylaI
Pa. spent all her leisure there an
recently speaking of the joys Of tarI
life said: 81 resolved that woul
NOT grow old ~unhappily and that
would keep to the end the cheerfl
disposition which has been my mai
STAY through life. That was my re
son for building a home to which
could retire when l should no long'
be able to travel. I decided, too, I'M
while still active, I would make th'
home a place rich in personal values
But she was active to the end.
the summer of 1914 she went to Ron
as chairman of the committee on su
frage and the right of citizenship
auintinnial session Of the lnternatio'
"A Council Of Women. She was chal
mar of the Woman's committee q
the Council Of National Defense an
held the distinguished service med
at the termination of hostilities.
1918 she signed the resolution 81
helped draft for the National Amer
can Woman Suffrage Association a
dressed to the Peace Conference
pgnish the Germans for their crime
against women and girls. She wa
ON a lcture tour with Mr., Taft an
presidnt Lowell of Harvard in d
fence of the League of Nations VINE
a few weeks g she a strlcke
With pneumonia a sudden recurrenc
az which malady caused her death
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