The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-08

err who walled eight miles 9 day and
received -four dollars week Her
home was a poverty stricken log
cabin built by her father who was
compelled to leave his wife and chill
dren at the mercy Of Indians and wild
animals while he earned living for
them.
From her Michigan home, DR.. Shaw
went to live with one of her married
sisters in a northern town. After
studying at Albion College from 1872
to 1875, she was graduated from the
Boston School of Theology in 1878
paying her way through school and
cillege by preaching and lecturing.
She suffered extreme poverty during
this period living in an attic in Bos-
| ton. On account of her sex she was
refused ordination by the New Eng
land Conference and by the General
Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, but in the same year
had the honor of being the first wo-
man ordained by the Methodist Pro
testant Church. In her struggles to be-
come a minister she fought against
ridicule, dissension and lack of the
barest necessities.
After seven years service as
preacher to small flock at East
Dennis, Mass, Dr. Shaw resigned from
the pulpit to take up the fight for
temperance, for suffrage and for So
cial purity. Her association through
her preaching, with such prominent
women as Mary A. Livermore and
and Julia Ward Howe enlarged her
view of life and aroused enthusiasm
for the cause of suffrage and liberty.
Dr. Shaw first became lecturer
for the Massachusetts Woman's SUI
! frage Association, and from 1886 to
! 1892 was national superintendent OF
| franchise. On the resignation of DR..
Shaw's most intimate friend Miss
Susan B. Anthony in 1900, the Pre-
sidency of the National Women's SUI
\ frage Association rested between DR..
Shaw and Mrs. Carrie B. Chapman,
whom Miss Anthony finally chose as
the more experienced, while Dr. Shaw
was made e-President-at-larSe
However in 1904 Mrs. Chapman was
compelled to resign on account of i'll
health, and DR.. Shaw succeeded her
as President of the National Associa-
ton from 1904 to 1915.
Her administration was marked
with unprecedented progress. The
number of suffrage workers in
creased from 1900 to 100000; one
campaign in ten years was placed
by ten in one year; the expenditures
of the Association increase from
SIS 1000 to $4,000 annually; the num-
Der of states with full suffrage grew
from four to twelve while the whole
suffrage movement changed from an
academic stage to vital political
force arousing the attention of the
entire nation.
The year 1912 was the banner year
for DR.. Shaw and the cause, when
Arizona, Kansas and Oregon received
fudd suffrage. During this year DR..
Shaw spoke in the principal cities in
each of these states making four or
five speeches a day and travelling in
any sort of conveyance from freight
cars to automobiles.
Many times during her earlier
career, Dr. Shaw gave proof OF her
courageous and determined nature.
On one occasion the free religious
group of which she was pastor, wish
ed to give a dance on the night of the
annual church fair. and the intrepid
little preacher was obliged to threaten
the whole congregation with arrest
to maintain her authority. AS coun-
try school lcacher, she preached her
first sermon at the suggestion of
friend rehearsing it to the trees and
stones in advance.
While in Boston DR.. Shaw reached
the point where she had not cent