Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-03
ANNA HOWARD SHAW
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Veteran Suffrage Leader Passes
Away at Her Pennsylvania
Home.
MINISTER IN EARLY LIFE
During Period of Her Leadership
Franchise for Women Made
Vital Gains.
tBv Associated Press. !


PHILADELPHIA, July 2-Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw. honorary president Of the
National American Woman.s Suffrage
Ian, Pa, near here. at O'Clock this
evening. She was seyenty-one years
old.
=, DR., shay was also chairman of the
awarded the dlstinuished service
medal m for her work during the war She
with former president TAFT and Presi-
dent Lowell. Of Harvard University. in
Pneumonia developed. and for two
weeks she was confined TO her room
in Springfield hospital.
middle of June. and apparently had
entirely recovered. Last Saturday she
drove to Philadelphia in her automo-
feeling fine" She was taken sudden
ly i'll again yesterday with a recur-
renee Of the disease and grew rapidly
worse until the end.
Her secretary. Miss Lucy E. Antho-
ny, niece OF Susan b. Anthony. who
has been with DIR. Shaw for thirty
years and two nieces. Misses Lulu and
when she died
No arrangements for the funeral
haxe hay, yet been made. They probably
VIII be announced tomorrow.
early Career One OF Hnrdships.
Dr. Shaw came from England to this
country. an unknown pioneer girl of
-FOUR years. and through her own ef-
l9rts ne eventuaily BECAME the president
Association. In her girihood she lived
with her parents Immigrant family
In Michigan wilderness forty miles
from a ost,ofice and a hundred miles
from a railroad, starting her career
AS school teacher, who walked eight
miles day and received 81 week.
cabin built by her father, who was
compelled TO leave his wife and chill
dren at the mercy of Indians and wild
them.
From her Michigan home. DR.. Shaw
went TO live with one Of her married
studying at Albion College from 1879
TO 1875. she was graduated from the
ass'0n Ros'on Sch School Of Theolosy in 1878;
college by preaching and featuring.
She suffered extreme poverty, during
THIS PERIOD. living in an attic In Ros-
refused ordination by ithe New Eng
land conferences and by the general
conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
dained by the Methodist Protestant
church. In her struggles to become a
dissension and lack OF the barest ne
cessities.
Resigned from Pulpit.
preacher to a small flock at East Den.
mis-. Mass. DR.. Shaw resigned from
the pulpit to take up the fight for
temperance. for suffrage and for So
Siai sn purity Her association through
women as Mary y. 14ivermore and
Julia Ward Howe enlarged her view
Of life and aroused enthusiasm for the
cause OF suffrage and liberty.
Shaw
Association. and from 1886 to 1892 was
national superintendent Of franchise
On the resignation of DR.. Shaw's most
Intimate friend, Miss Susan B. An
thony. in 1900. the presidency of the
ton rested s between Dr.. h shsg and asS9Eia- Srs
Carrie B. Chapman, whom Miss An
thony finally chose as the moro ex-
perienced, while DR.. Shaw was made
vice president-at-large. However, In
1900 Mrs. Chapman was compelled to
resign on account of Ill health. and
OF the national association from 1904
to 1915.
Her administration was marked with
by unprecedented progress. The num-
ber of suffrage workers increased from
1900 TO 100000; one campaign In ten
the expenditures of the Association IN
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 an
nually; the number of States with full
suffrage grew from four to twelve
while the whole suffrage movement
changed from an academic stage to
tention of the entire nation.
DIR. Shaw was born at Newca astle on
Tyne. England. February Il, 1S47 She
was never married.