Arizona republican., 1919-07-03
NOTED SUFFRAGE
 LEADER RI5CALLED. ID HER REWARD
Death Comes Unexpectedly to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Who Had Recently Recovered from Pneumo- nia-Career Was One of Great Personal Achieve ment
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PHILADELPHIA, July 2.--Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president ol the National Womens Suffrage asso- citation, died at her home in Moylan, Penn near here, at : o'clock this eve ming. She was n years old.
 Dr. Shaw also was chairman of the women's committee on the council of national defense and recently was awarded the distinguished service medal for her work during the war. She was taken ill in Springfield, Illi- nois, several weeks ago while on lecture tour with former President Taft and President Lowell 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 appar- enty had entirely recovered. She was taken suddenly i'll again yesterday with a recurrence Of the disease and grew worse rapidly until inc end. No arrangement for the funeral has yet been made
 Dr. Shaw had long been prominently identified with the woman suffrage movement and was president of the National American Woman Suffrage association consecutively for II years. In 1915 she declined a re-nomination and was then elected honorary presi- dent She had spoken on suffrage in every state in the uuioF before many state legislatures and before both houses of congress-
 Dr. Shaw was born in Newcastle -on-Tyne England, and came to this country, an unknown pioneer girl of four years and through her own eff forts eventually became the president of the National WOman's Suffrage as sociation. In her girlhood she lived with her parents immigrant family in a Michigan wilderness 40 miles from a post office and 100 miles from a railroad, starting her career as a school teacher who walked eight miles a day and received S4 a week. Her home was a poverty stricken log cabin built by her father who was compelled 10 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 northern town. After studying at Albion college from 1872 10 1875, she was graduated from the Boston School of Theology in 1878, paying her way through school and college by preaching and featuring, She suffered extreme pVerty 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 genera conference of the Methodist Episcopa church but in the same year had the honor of being the first woman or daincd by the Methodist Protestant .hr-gb Tn her. gfvrtperIau to booo,v,., s minister she fought against ridicule dissension and lack of the barest ne cessties.
 After seven years service as preach CT to a smay flock at East Dennis Mass. Dr. Shaw resigned from tn, pulpit to take up the fight for tenn perance, for suffrage and for socia purity. Her association through he preaching, with such prominent womel 9s Mary A. Livermore and Julia War, Howe enlarged her view of life an, aroused enthusiasm for the cause o suffrage and liberty.
 Dr. Shaw first became a lecturer fo the Massachusetts Women's Suffrag association, and from 1886 to 1892 wa national superintendent of franchise on the resignation of Dr. Shaw most intimate friend, Miss Susan [ Anthony, in 1900. the presidency of tn National WOmen's Suffrage associa ton rested between Dr. Shaw an Mrs. Carrie B. Chapman, whom Mis- Anthony finally chose as the more ex perienced, while Dr. Shaw was mad vice. presidential large However. i 1904 Mrs. Chapman was compelled t resign on account of i'll health. an Dr. Shaw succeeded her as presider of the national association from 19O 10 1915.
 Her administration was marked b unprecedented progress. The numbe of suffrage workers increased fror l7.000 to 100000; one campaign in l years was replaced by 10 in one year the expenditures of the association in creased from S15, ,00O to S50,00O annu ally; the number of states with flu suffrage grew from four to l2. whf the whole suffrage movement change fEom an academic stage to a wit; political force, arousing the attentio of the entire nation