Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
DR. SHAW, LEADER
IN SUFFRAGE, DIES
Succumbs to Pneumonia Con-
tracted on Lecture Tour for
League of Nations
n YEARS OLD; WON D. S. M.

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. honorary
president of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association, one of the fore
most woman orators Of the dav and 4
leader Of women in politics, theology,
medicine and sociology, is dead.
Death, which came at her home at
Moylan. near this city. a. o'clock
last night. closed career OF seventy
one years which in many respects par
sllels that of Abraham Lincoln in its
rise from poverty and rrivation TO
& intellectual leadership. The death WAS
caused by pneumonia contracted on q
lecture tour while she was campaigning
for the league Of nations.
Although funeral arrangements are
not complete. in accordance with her
wish Doctor Shaw's body will be
cremated.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. prcsi-
dent of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, tclephonod her
message of coincidence this morning.
The completion of funeral arrange
mpf1tS awaits worn IIulli i'N'N' ''""N =
brother. who is believed to be on tn"
way from Michigan.
Amanda, ,,.s,,
althouEh s'EeniN -un' t;, St;",S
,,oftors nof ,'f nf n,bIic int"rest nm 70 the be-
ginning Of ber illness. For her scrv-
ices with the government during the
war she was nwdr1,I the Distinguished
service Mccall hec'htlH' Mhen ,ne
umrase ricI"as W. tra Too,,'o ,e or
t;ans doroting bor tino and rfforts to
that cause 1t was while making a
lecture tour under the auspices of eX-
President Taft that she was stricken.
Ihat Doctor ShaW nad P'ann'" sum
mer OF n'tVltF' ueSpl'' h'r yours was
evident rom III" S'u''''l''"'S VI 'r'''"S
tbev could this morning and went away.
1t had been Doctor Shaw : original in
tent TO sail with VI. Carey Thomas.
president of Bryn Mawr College, for
Europe last Monday.
Her weakness forbade this, SO she
was preparing to go ahead with the
writing of a biography pf Susan r.
Ahthonv' also WIN various 'reu'lS'S On
huiioer OIL aspe'IS oI tue sro"'" Vi
women III poli'lSs'
inree years ago an atta'h OF Pn'u
i'ionla S"ppe" 'he Ei'alltS M"l'" H''Sn'
nave carried ner 'nrough Tue summer
"o,N' an" e'e ""u sun w '''''' wa"
spel's a' various uii's. ~ sun
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"eIlve, noMeNe'' .u.
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nelu i''' anu spent 'Mo "''Ns III
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anu "'- ''''''i'S ""U'u i"Pi"'E'
Miss Anthony Present
Al tba bodsido last NIGHT ,,.oro ,t;.s
Iucr = An+borr a rioco or S,ao
Anthony. the famous SUFFRAGE leoJor
who has been with Doctor Shaw for
thirty years; the Misses Lola and Groce
Green, nieces of Doctor Shaw. and Miss
Caroline r. Reilly.
Doo+ou Sho,, hoJ ao,.,u ::
70 nf ba Diop hnFo,o ,,,or-
Ton;s,o+,,ros .nd oo,,,,,;ttoa, ,.I
houses of Congress for the cause of
suHrage' She was member OF the In
ternatlonal woman SuHrage Alliance
international Council OF Women,
League TO enforce Peace and National
society 1or broader Edu'aton.
Inul the end or her long hte Doctor
shaw continued her active participation
IN pupllc ahairs. In the summer OF l9l4