The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-03
ANNA HOWARD SHAW
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Succumbs Quickly to Recur-
renee of Disease Which De-
veloped a Month Ago.
LONG A SUFFRAGE LEADER
Distinguished Service Medal
Recently Awarded Her for
Services in War Period.

HILApELPHIA, July 2.-Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw. honorary president OF
he National American Woman's Suf-
lrase Association. died at her home In
Moylan, Pa, near here. at o'clock this
ucning. She was II years old.
Or. Shaw also was chairman Of the
Homan's committee Of the Council of
National Defence, and recently received
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 William II. Taft and DR.. Low
all. president of Harvard University, In
the interest Of the League OF Nations.
Pneumonia developed and for two weeks
she was In a Springfield hospital. She
returned to her home about the middle
Of June and apparently had entirely re-
rovered Last Saturday she drove to
Philadelphia In her automobile and upon
her return said she was feeling fine
She was taken suddenly Ill again yester-
day with a recurrence OF the disease ana
grew rapidly worse until the end.
Her secretary. Miss Lucy e. Anthony.
4 niece of Susan r. Anthony, who has
been with DR.. Shaw for thirty years
and two neces, the Misses Lulu and
she died. Arrangements for the funeral
have not been completed. They prob
ably will be announced tomorrow.
DR. Shaw long had been prominently
Identified with the woman suffrage move
1lent and was presidest of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association
ronsecutively for eleven years. In 1915
she declined denomination and was then
elected honorary president. She had
90 Nr, ITNtA ha.
Tore many State legislatures and COM
mittees of both houses of Congress in
the interest Of woman suffrage. She
was member of the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance, International
Council OF Women, League to Enforce
Peace and National Society for Broader
Education.
Well loved and Versatile.
Best beloved and most versatile Of the
suffrage leaders of her generation was
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. With her
great gift of oratory. with her absolute
devotion to the cause" with her ad-
illustrative ability. her superb health.
and that genial. lovable frankness which
made a party of men with whom she
was once thrown at dinner describe her
as "a good mixer'-with this combina-
tion OF qualities she made, perhaps, the
strongest force for the advancement OF
women that the age has known.
Well was IT for DR.. Shaw that her In
heritance and early life fitted her for
hardship, for she came into the work
just at the beginning OF those Western
campaigns which,, triumphant In the
outcome, spelled in their prosecution an
amount of actual physical struggle
cqualled only by the life OF the pioneer
1t,l,n hal, taa
But Anna Howard Shaw In her youth
helped 10 redeem the Michigan wilderness,
So Indians, lumbermen. icy snowdrifts
and wolves, whether the wolves OF the
forest or the wolf oH poverty, were old
acquaintances of hers She had much to
overcome in her life and she did Il
bravely, buoyantly, but perhaps nothing
was harder than TO overcome her hatred
Of war and become a part OF America
great war machine. In 1917. at Presi-
Wilson's request, she became chairman
of the Women's Section OF the Council oil
National Defence All her life she hat
proclaimed her opposition to physical
violence as a method OF settling difficul.
ties, condemning Mrs. Emmeline Pank,
hurst and the militant suffragists Of
England on that score. But when Ger
many forced war upon this country she
obeyed the Presidents call and at tht
age OF 10 took up the work In Washing
ton, leaving her pleasant home In Moy
Ian Pa, where she was enjoying a wei
earned rest between suffrage speaking
trips after yielding the presidency o.
the National Woman Suffrage Associa
ton to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Had Fighting Ancestry.
For all her love OF peace DR.. shaw
came of fighting ancestry. The Shaw.
Of ROthiemurchus were great battlers