The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-03

Howard Shaw. honorary president of the National American Woman's Suf- fraEe Association, died at her home fin Moylan. Pa, near here, at O'clock last evening. She was 71 years old.
 ! Dr. Shaw also was chairman of the woman's committee of the Council | of National Defence and recently was | awarded the Distinguished Service medal for her work during the war. She was taken i'll in Springfield. | Ill. about a month ago while on | lecture tour with former President | Taft and President Lowell of Har- ! yard University, in the interest of the ! league of nations. Pneumonia de- veloped and for two weeks she was : confined to her room in a Springfield | hospital. She returned to her home 1 about the middle of June and appa- 1 rently had entirely recovered. Last | Saturday she drove to Philadelphia ! in her automobile and upon her re- : turn said she was feeling fine" She ! was taken suddenly i'll again yester- { day with a recurrence of the disease and grew rapidly worse until the end. Her secretary, Miss Lucy B. An 7 thony, a niece of Susan B. Anthony who has been with pr. shaw for so years, and two nieces. the Misses f Lulu ana trace tTTeenes were aI lltr bedside when she died.
 pr Shaw long had been promi- nently identified with the woman suf- i frage movement and was president of the National American Woman Suf- frage Association for II years. In 1915 she declined a renomination and yas then elected honorary presi- dent. She had spoken in every state in the union, before many state legis- iatures and committees of both Houses of Congress in the interest of suffrage. She was a member of the International Woman Suffrage Al , liance. the International Council of Women. the National Society for Broader Education.
 pr Shaw continued her active participation in public affairs to the last.
 For her endeavors in the interest of women at home as well as soldiers in France during the war, Dr. Shaw received letters from Queen Mary of England. Mme. Poincare. wife of the President of France: President Will son. General Pershing and other ce- lebrities.
 A fighter when fighting was hard "a suffraEist when suffrage was un- popular-Anna Howard Shaw never lost her determination nor her opti- nism, and she was rewarded at the end of her long life by seeing the triumph of nearly all the causes to which she had delicated herself.
 Few American women of these times have had so picturesque a ca reer She rose from the obscurity of a log cabin in a Michigan wilderness to one of the highest positions in the gift of the United States government ! drr hr h4 ff1a afrrf, 1ahf In If the women's Committee of the Com mittee on National Defence. and was but recently decorated by Secretary Baker for her services.
 when Dr. Shaw first became identi- fled with the suffrage movement there was but one state. Wyoming. where women voted. When she retired as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and be- came honorary president. there were az states in the suffrage fold. while to- Say the cause is practically won for the entire country.
 Was Born In England.
 Dr. Shaw was born in England. at :, Newcastle-on-Tyne. in 1s47. and was Drought to this country at the age of four years. Her parents eventually settled in Michigan. 100 miles from a railroad. where AnDa carly learned to do e mans work as wood chopper and wielder of the family firearms against 1ndians. She started her career while still in her teens by teaching school for A q week, walking four miles to reach the log school house.
 She first worked her way through Albion College. and then attended the [" Boston School of Theology. from which she was graduated in 1878. She lived in an attic room. and her only income was derived from a chance invitation to exchange with the min ister of some small parish. which was as likely to recompense her with flow CTS as with money. On account of her sex she was refused ordination by the General Conference of the Meth odist Episcopal Church, but the Meth odist Protestant Church opened fits door to hor. the first woman preacher in its membership. She served for seven years pastor of the church at East Dennis, Mass. Her lectures and writings were rich with humor- ous accounts of these years. and she never entirely broke her connection with the pulpit.
 Preached in Many Churches.
 She preached in many grea: churches fin her later life, and in 1911 was invited by Bishop von ScheeIe. of Sweden, to preach from the pulpit oi the Established Church of Sweden,
  SO honored. This was during the Con- gress of the woman's International Alliance at Stockholm.
 East Dennis would not hold her broadening interests after she be- came acquainted with Mary A. Liv. ermore. Julia Ward Howe, and other New England reform leaders. In 1886 she became lecturer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, a position she held until she became vice president of the or ganization in 1892.
 These were tho years Cf suffrage pioneering when ridicule and hard ship were the lot of its advocates. Dr Shaw's untiring energy, her keen wit and the uncomprising determination with which she lived up to all the theories of emancipation from cropped hair to tax resistance-soor made her one of the best knowr women of the country.
 She was the friend of Susan B Anthony during all these years and was with her at her death receiving from her hands the little enamelled Ouffrag0 Din. with dfan,oud otara Fou