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Susan B. Anthony Biography

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ANTHONY, Susan Brownell (1820-1906). An American reformer, born in South Adams, Mass., the daughter of a Quaker. She taught school for 15 years; was active in the total abstinence and anti-slavery movements; advanced a belief in the coeducation of the sexes; and from the Civil War devoted herself entirely to the woman suffrage movement. It was largely the result of her effort that married women in New York State were given the guardianship of their children and the control of their own earnings as early as 1860. She founded (1868) and for three years published The Revolution, a woman's rights paper. She was arrested, tried, and fined for voting at the election of 1872. An eloquent speaker, she lectured extensively in England and throughout the United States, and took part in many State campaigns and appeared before many Congressional committees. In 1899 Miss Anthony was a delegate to the International Council of Women, held in London. Two years later she retired from an office she had held for many years, the presidency of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She contributed to leading magazines and (with Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage) published an extensive History of Woman Suffrage (3 vols., New York, 1881-87).

The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. I (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 696.