New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
End Comes for Honorary
President of American
Suffrage Association at
Home in Moylan, Penn.
Women's Leader Was II
Had Hoped 10 See Federal
Amendment in Force and
US. Women Enfranchised

y PHlLADELPHIA, July 2-Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, honorary president Of
the National American Woman's Suf-
!ragea Association, died at her home
IN Moylan, Penn, near here. at
O'Clock this evening. She was sevcnty-
Two years old
Or. Shaw also was chairman Of the
Womans committee of the Council of
Natlonal Defence and recently was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal for her work during the war.
She was taken i'll in Springfield, ill.,.
about month ago while on a lecture
tour with former President Taft and
President Lowell Of Harvard Univer-
slty IN the interest of the league of
nations. pneumonia developed and for
TWO weeks she was confined to her
room in Springfield hospital. She
returned to her home about the middle
OF June and apparently had entirely
recovered; r., Last Saturday she drove to
Philadelphia in her automobile and
upon her return said she was feeling,
'hne.' She was taken suddenly iii
again yesterday with a recurrence Of
the disease and grew rapidly worse
until the end.
Her secretary, Miss Lucy E. Anthony.
niece of Susan B. Anthony, who has
been with DR.. Shaw for thirty years,
~AAN WV iiiCCcS, the MISSES Lulu and
Grace Greene, were at her bedside
when she died.
DR. Shaw long had been prominently
identified with the woman suffrage
movement and was president of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association for eleven years. In 1915
she declined denomination and was
then elected honorary president. She
mad spoken in every state in the union,
ana before many state legislatures and
committees of both houses of Con-
gress in the interest of suffrage. She
was member of the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance. the Inter
national Council of Women. the
League to Enforce Peace and the
National Society for Broader Educa-
ton.
DR.. Shaw continued her active par
tlclpatlon in public affairs to the last.
For her endeavors in the interest
OF women at home as we'll as soldiers
IN France during the war DR.. Shaw
received letters from Queen Mary of
England, Nine Poincare, wife of the
President Of France; President Wilson,
General Pershing and other celebrities.
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
twelve states in the suffrage fold,
while to-day the cause is practically
Won for the entire country
Was Born in England
DR.. Shaw was born in England, at
Newcastle -on-Tyne, in 1847, and was
brought to this country at the age of
tour years. Her parents eventually
settled in Michigan, 100 miles from
railroad, where Anna early learned
to do mans work as wood chopper
and wielder Of the family firearms
against Indians She started her ca
reer while still in her teens by teach
ing school for 81 week, walking four
miles to reach the log schoolhouse.
She first worked her way through AL
bion 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 minister of some
small parish, which was as likely to
recompense her with flowers as with
money On account of her sex she was
refused ordination by the General Con-
ference OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church, but the Methodist Protestant
Shurcn opened Its door to her, the
first woman preacher in its member
ship. She served for seven wears as
pastor OF the church at East Dennis.
Mass Her lectures and writing were
rich with humorous accounts of these
years and she never entirely broke her
connection Nth the pulpit.
Preached in Many Churches
She preached in many great churches
in her later life, and in 1911 was in
ylted by Bishop Won Scheele, of
Sweden, to preach from the pulpit of
the Established Church of Sweden. the
first time woman had ever been 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 became
acquainted with Mary A. Liverrnorc
Julia Ward Howe and other New Eng
land reform leaders. In 1886 she be-
came lecturer for the National Ameri
can Woman Suffrage Association, DO
sition she held until she became y;c<.-
president Of the organization in 1892
These were the years of suffrage
pioneering, when ridicule and hard
snip were the lot of it's advocates. Dr..
Shaw's untiring energy, her keen wit
ana the uncompromising determination
with which she lived up to all the