òPARA ìPAR@ ` ÑTEXT ` ùAnthony, Susan Brownell1820╨1906reformer and political writerBorn on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan Anthony grew up there and in Battenville, New York. She was reared in the Quaker tradition, received a good education for her sex and day, and began teaching school to supplement the family╒s finances. In 1839 she took a position in a Quaker seminary in New Rochelle, New York, and in 1846 she became headmistress of the female department of Canajoharie Academy. In 1849 she returned to the family farm (now near Rochester, New York), where she met many leading Abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, Wendell Phillips, William Henry Channing, and William Lloyd Garrison. Soon the cause of temperance enlisted her sympathy and then, after meeting Amelia Bloomer and through her Elizabeth Cady Stanton, so did that of woman suffrage. The rebuff of her attempt to speak at a temperance meeting in Albany in 1852 prompted her to organize the Woman╒s New York State Temperance Society, of which Stanton became president, and pushed her farther in the direction of women╒s rights advocacy. In a short time she became known as one of the cause╒s most zealous, serious advocates, a dogged and tireless worker whose personality contrasted sharply with that of her friend and coworker, E.C. Stanton. She was also a prime target of public and newspaper abuse. While campaigning for a liberalization of New York╒s laws regarding married women╒s property rights, an end attained in 1860, Anthony served from 1856 as chief New York agent of Garrison╒s American Anti-Slavery Society. Early in the Civil War she helped organize the Women╒s Loyal National League, which urged the case for emancipation. After the war she campaigned unsuccessfully to have the language of the Fourteenth Amendment altered to allow for woman as well as ╥Negro╙ suffrage, and in 1866 she became corresponding secretary of the newly formed American Equal Rights Association. An exhausting speaking and organizing tour of Kansas in 1867 failed to win passage of a state enfranchisement law. In 1868 she became publisher, and Stanton editor, of a new periodical, Revolution, originally financed by the eccentric George Francis Train. In the same year she represented the Working Women╒s Association of New York, which she had organized recently, at the National Labor Union convention. In January 1869 she organized a woman suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., and in May she and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. A portion of the organization deserted later in the year to join Lucy Stone╒s more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association, but the National remained a large and powerful group and Susan Anthony remained its principal leader and spokeswoman. In 1870 she relinquished her position on the Revolution and embarked on a series of lecture tours to pay off the paper╒s accumulated debts. As a test of the legality of the suffrage provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, she cast a vote in the 1872 presidential election in Rochester, New York. She was arrested, convicted (the judge╒s directed verdict of guilty had been written before the trial began), and fined, and although she refused to pay the fine the case was carried no further. She traveled constantly, often with Stanton, in support of efforts in various states to win the franchise for women: California in 1871, Michigan in 1874, Colorado in 1877, and elsewhere. In 1890, after lengthy discussions, the rival suffrage associations were merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and at Stanton╒s resignation in 1892 Anthony became president. Her principal lieutenant in later years was Carrie Chapman Catt. By the 1890s she had largely outlived the abuse and sarcasm that attended her early efforts, and she emerged as a national heroine. Visits to the World╒s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and to the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in 1905 were warmly received, as were her trips to London in 1899 and Berlin in 1904 as head of the U.S. delegation to the international Council of Women (which she helped found in 1888). In 1900, at the age of eighty, she retired from the presidency of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, passing it on to Catt. Principal among her written works was the History of Woman Suffrage, written with Stanton and Matilda J. Gage and published in four volumes in 1881, 1882, 1886, and 1902. (Ida Husted Harper later added two more volumes in 1922.) Susan Anthony died in Rochester, New York, on March 13, 1906. With the issue of a new dollar coin in 1979 she became the first woman to be depicted on United States currency. fstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ " 5¬ A !I !I ▐ + !I < !I ▐ R !I u 5¬ v !I C 5¬ D !I ï !I ò !I
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