Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-03

Philadelphia, July z.-Dr Anna
 Howard Shaw, honorary president oi | the National American woman's Suf- l frase Association, died at her home in 1 Moy1an, Pa. near here, at o'clock l this evening. She was T years old. pr. Shaw was also chairman4of the i wonaen's committee of the Council of Natcinal Defense and recently was awarded the Distinguished Service
 Medal for her work during the war. | She was taken i'll in Springfield, 1 Ills, about a month ago while on a | lecture tour with Former President Taft and President Lowell, of liar ward University, in the interest of the League of Nations. Pneumonia developed and for two weeks she was hospital She returned to her home about the middle of June and apYar- entity had entirely recovered. Last Saturday she drove to Philadelphia in said she was feeling "fne." She was taken suddenly i'll again yesterday with recurrence of the disease and grew rapidly worse until the end.
 Her secretary, Miss Lucy B. An
 thony, a niece of Susan B. Anthony. who has been with Dr. Shaw for thir- ty years, and two nieces, the Misses Lulu and Grace Greene, were at her bedside when she died
 No arrangements for the funeral have yet been made. They probably will be announced tomorrow.
 Dr. Shaw long has been prominent 1y identified with the woman suffrage movement and was president of the Association consecutively for eleven years. In 1915 she declined a renom- ination and was then elected honorary president. She had spoken in every state in the union, before many state legislatures and committees of both houses of congress in the interest of suffrage. She was a member of the International Woman Suffrage Ali ance, international Council of Women. League to Enforce Peace and Nation al Society for Broader Education.
 Dr. Shaw continued her active par ticipation in public affairs to the last.
 Immediately preceding the great war, in the early summer of 1914s Dr. Shaw went to Rome as chairman of the com rnittee on suffrage and right of citizen ship at the quinquenniaf session of the international council of women.
 Immediately after hostilities had been terminated in France by the ar mistice, Dr. Shaw signed the resolu-- ton she helped draft for the National American Woman Suffrage assocfa tion, addressed to the peace conference, asking for punishment for. the Ger mans for their crimes against women and girls.
 For her endeavors in the interest of women at home well as soldiers in France during the war. pr. Shaw re- ceived letters from Queen Mary of England, Mime. Poincare. wife of. the president of France. President Wilson and General Pershing, and others.
 pr. Anna Howard Shaw came from England to this country. an unknown pioneer girl of four years and through her own efforts eventually became the president of the National Won1en'si Suffrage Association. In her girihood she lived with her parents immigrant family in Michigan wilderness for ty miles from a postoffice and a hun dred miles from a railroad. starting her career school teacher who walked eight miles a day and received four dollars a week. TT-~ home was a poverty stricken log - built by her father who was com pehed to leave his wife and children at the mercy of Indians and wild animals while he earned living for them. -'a"
 From her Michigan home, Dr. Shaw went to live with one of her married sisters. in a northern town. After