susan b anthony obituary

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March 13, 1906
OBITUARY
Miss Susan B. Anthony Died This Morning
By THE NEW YORK TIMES

ROCHESTER, March 13, -- Miss Susan B. Anthony died at 12:40 o'clock this morning. The end came peacefully. Miss Anthony had been unconscious practically all of the time for more than twenty-four hours, and her death had been almost momentarily expected since last night. Only her wonderful constitution kept her alive.

Dr. M. S. Ricker, her attending physician, said Miss Anthony died of heart disease and pneumonia of both lungs. She had had serious valvular heart trouble for the last six or seven years. Her lungs were practically clear and the pneumonia had yielded to treatment, but the weakness of her heart prevented her recovery.

Miss Anthony was taken ill while on her way home from the National Suffrage Convention in Baltimore. She stopped in New York, where a banquet was to be given Feb. 20 in honor of her eighty-sixth birthday, but she had an attack of neuralgia on Feb. 18 and hastened home. Pneumonia developed after her arrival here, and on March 5 both her lungs became affected. She rallied, but had a relapse three days ago, and the end after that never was in doubt.

Miss Anthony herself had believed that she would recover. Early in her illness she told her friends that she expected to live to be as old as her father, who was over 90 when he died. But on Wednesday she said to her sister:

"Write to Anna Shaw immediately, and tell her I desire that every cent I leave when I pass out of this life shall be given to the fund which Miss Thomas and Miss Garrett are raising for the cause. I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent. Tell Anna Shaw to see that this is done."

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http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0215.html

Obit of the Day (Historical): Susan B. Anthony (1906)



Social activist Susan B. Anthony died in her home on March 13, 1906 at the age of 86. For over 70 years Anthony had fought societal wrongs wherever she found them. The daughter of Quakers who were pro-temperance and anti-slavery, Anthony grew up demanding equal rights for those who were forbidden them. At the age of sixteen Anthony collected petitions against slavery to protest a law before the House of Representatives that prohibited such an act.

In her 30s Anthony, whose parents also signed the Declaration of Sentiments at the now-famous Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, became a champion for equality for women, specifically focusing on the right to vote. At this time she met other women’s rights pioneers: Lucy Stone, Amelia Bloomer (for whom bloomers are named), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony and Stanton became life-long friends and traveled the country speaking for women’s rights. (They are pictured together in the image above.)

On November 8, 1872, Ms. Anthony was arrested for voting in that year’s presidential election. (Note: She voted for the straight Republican ticket, headed by U.S. Grant.) She was put on trial, but not allowed to testify in her own defense. Found guilty and fined $100, Ms. Anthony vowed never to pay a dollar of it - and she never did.

Of course, Ms. Anthony died before the passage of the 19th Amendment (1920) giving women the right to vote in the United States, but her final public words, “Failure is impossible,” became a rallying cry for the movement.

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1. A remarkable person

[niyad]

2. indeed she was