The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-07-04
Woman Pioneer
Finished Work
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw Who Fought
Many Years For WOman'S En-
reimbursement Dies At Philadel-
phia

she ndu lOuSul Il IlNllulS, II. NlllN'
Howard Shaw, folded her hands and
quietly passed away at Philadelphia,
July End.
DR.. 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 Women's
Suffrage Association. In her girlhood
she lived with her parents immigrant
family in a Michigan wilderness forty
miles from a railroad, starting her
miles fro ma railroad, starting her
career as a school teacher who walk
ed eight miles a day and received
four dollars a week. Her home was
a poverty stricken log cabin built by
her father who was compelled to leave
his wife and children at the mercy
of Indians and wild animals while he
earned a 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 1'72
to 1875, she was graduated from the
Boston School of Theology in 1873
paying her way through school and
college 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 Episcop-
al Church, but in the same year had
the honor of being the first woman
ordained by the Methodist Protestant
Church In her struggles to become
a minister she fought against r%idicule,
d~issension and lack of the barost
necessities.
After seven years service as preach
er to a small flock at East Dennis,
Mass, DR.. Shaw resigned from the
pulpit to take up the tight for temper
ance, for suffrage and for social puri-
ty. Her association through her
preaching, with such prominent
women as Mary A. Livermore and
Julia Ward Howe enlarged her view
of life and aroused enthusiasm for the
cause of suffrage and liberty.
Begins Suffrage Work
DR.. Shaw first became a lecturer for
the Massachusetts Women's Suffrage
Association, and from 1886 to 1892
wal national superintendent of fran
chise. On the resignation of Dr.Shaw's
most intimate friend Miss Susan B.
Anthony in 1900, the Presidency Of
the National Women's Suffrage Asso-
citation rested between Or. Shaw and
Mrs. Carrie B. Chapman, whom Miss
Anthony finally chose as the more
experienced, while Dr.. Shaw was
made Vice-President-at-large How
ever, in 1904 Mrs. Chapman was com
PEELED 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 by unprecedented progress. The
number of suffrage workers increased
from 1900 to 200, 900; one campaign
in ten years was replaced by ten in
one year; the expenditures OF the AS
ISOLATION increased from $4,000 to
$4,000 annually; the number of
states with full suffrage grew from
four to twelve while the whole stuff
rage movement changed from an
academic stage to a 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
full suffrage. During this year DR..
Shaw spoke in the principal cities in
each of these states making four OF
five speeches a day and travelling in
any sort of a conveyance from,
freight cars to automobiles.
Many times during her earlier
career, DR.. Shaw gave proof of hel
courageous and determined nature. Oh
one occasion the free religious grouI
Of which she was pastor, wished t
give a dance on the night of the an
nual church fair, and the intrepid lit
tie preacher was obliged to threaten
the whole congregation with arrest t
maintain her authority. As a coun
try school teachers, she preached he.
first sermon, at the suggestion of
friend r~ehearsing it to the trees anC
stones in advance,
While in Boston Dr.. Shaw reached
the point where she had not a cen
of money MOI the prospect OF earnin,
any. Unexpectedly she was asked t.
do a weeks revival work and decide,
that II this brougbt her enough mon