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Death Notices and Obituaries
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."
Miss Shaw said:
"On Sunday, about two hours before she became unconscious, I talked
with Miss Anthony, and she said: 'To think I have had more than sixty
years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it
seems so cruel."
Susan Brownell Anthony was a pioneer leader of the cause of woman
suffrage, and her energy was tireless in working for what she considered
to be the best interests of womankind. At home and abroad she had
innumerable friends, not only among those who sympathized with her
views, but among those who held opinions radically opposed to her. In
recent years her age made it impossible for her to continue active
participation in all the movements for the enfranchisement of women with
which she had been connected, but she was at the time of her death the
Honorary President of the National Woman Suffrage Association, the
society which she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized in 1869.
Miss Anthony possessed a figure of medium size, a firm but rather
pleasing face, clear hazel eyes, and dark hair which she always wore
combed smoothly over the ears and bound in a coil at the back. She paid
much attention to dress and advised those associated in the movement for
women suffrage to be punctilious in all matters pertaining to the
toilet. For a little over a year in the early fifties she wore a bloomer
costume, consisting of a short skirt and a pair of Turkish trousers
gathered at the ankles. So great an outcry arose against the innovation
both from the pulpit and the press that she was subjected to many
indignities, and forced to abandon it.
Miss Anthony was born at South Adams, Mass., on Feb. 15, 1820. Daniel
Anthony, her father, a liberal Quaker, was a cotton manufacturer. Susan
Anthony was first instructed by teachers at home. She was sent afterward
to finish her education at a Friends' boarding school in Philadelphia.
She continued to attend this school until, at the age of fifteen, she
was occasionally called on to help in the teaching. At seventeen she
received a dollar a week with board by teaching in a private family, and
the next summer a district school engaged her for $1.50 a week and
"boarded her round." She continued to teach until 1852, when she found
her taste for this profession entirely gone, a school in Rochester being
her last charge.
Miss Anthony had become impressed with the idea that women were
suffering great wrongs, and when she abandoned school teaching, having
saved only about $300, she determined to enter the lecture field. People
of to-day can scarcely understand the strong prejudices Miss Anthony had
to live down. In 1851 she called a temperance convention in Albany,
admittance to a previous convention having been refused to her because
it was not the custom to admit women. The Women's New York State
Temperance Society was organized the following year. Through Miss
Anthony's exertions and those of Elizabeth Cady Stanton women soon came
to be admitted to educational and other conventions, with the right to
speak, vote, and act upon committees.
Miss Anthony's active participation in the movement for woman
suffrage started in the fifties. As early as 1854 she arranged
conventions throughout the State and annually bombarded the Legislature
with messages and appeals. She was active in obtaining the passage of
the act of the New York Legislature in 1860 giving to married women the
possession of their earnings and the guardianship of their children.
During the war she was devoted to the Women's Loyal League, which
petitioned Congress in favor of the thirteenth amendment. She was also
directly interested in the fourteenth amendment, sending a petition in
favor of leaving out the word "male."
In company with Mrs. Stanton and Lucy Stone, Miss Anthony went to
Kansas in 1867, and there obtained 9,000 votes in favor of woman
suffrage. The following year, with the co-operation of Mrs. Stanton,
Parker Pillsbury, and George Francis Train, she began the publication in
this city of a weekly paper called The Revolutionist, devoted to the
emancipation of women.
In order to test the application of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments she cast ballots in the State and Congressional election in
Rochester in 1872. She was indicted and ordered to pay a fine, but the
order was never enforced.
Miss Anthony succeeded Mrs. Stanton as President of the National
Woman Suffrage Association in 1892, Mrs. Stanton having resigned because
of old age. This office she held until February, 1899, her farewell
address being delivered at a meeting of the association in Washington.
For a number of years she averaged 100 lectures a year. She engaged in
eight different State campaigns for a Constitutional amendment
enfranchising women, and hearings before committees of practically every
Congress since 1869 were granted to her.
She was the joint author with Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper,
and Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage of "The History of Woman Suffrage." She
also was a frequent contributor to magazines.
[Source: New York Times, Mar 13, 1906]
Submitted by Nancy Washell
In Williamstown, Hon. Daniel
Dewey, aged 48, lately a member
of Congress, and one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts. [The North
American Review, July 1815 - sub. by K. Torp]
EASTMAN, Mrs.
Elaine Goodale, poet, born in a country home called "Sky Farm,"
near South Egremont, Mass., 9th October, 1863. Her mother, Mrs. D. H. R.
Goodale, educated her and her sister Dora at home. Elaine at twelve
years of age was a good Greek and Latin scholar, reading most of the
classics with ease, and she was also familiar with French and German.
She was a precocious child and never went to school, and in her isolated
mountain home she grew to maturity, after astonishing the world with her
poetical productions, written in the short-frock and mud-pie years of
her youth. In 1878 Elaine published in conjunction with her
eleven-year-old sister, Dora, a book of poems entitled "Apple Blossoms."
A second volume, entitled "In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers," soon
followed, and the fame of the Goodale sisters spread throughout the
English-speaking world. Their father, Henry Sterling Goodale, an
experimental farmer, was devoted to poetry and literature, a good
mathematician, a clever pen t and a failure as a farmer. Financial
reverses came to the family, and Elaine and her sister made an attempt
to save the homestead by their literary work. In 1881 Elaine was
attracted to the cause of the Indians, through some of the Indian
students from the Carlisle and Hampton Institutes in Pennsylvania, who
were spending the summer in the study of farming in the Berkshire Hills.
She took a position as teacher in the Carlisle school, where she taught
successfully. In 1885 she went with Senator Dawes on a trip through the
Indian reservations, where she made a close study of the condition of
the Indians. She then became a government teacher in White Pine
Camp, on the Lower Brule Indian Agency, in Dakota. In 1890 she was
appointed superintendent of all the Indian schools in South Dakota,
having her station in the Pine Ridge Agency. In that year she became
acquainted with Dr. Charles A. Eastman, a full-blood Sioux Indian, known
among the Indians as "Tawa Kanhdiota," or "Many Thunders." and became
his wife, 18th June, 1891, in New York City. Dr. Eastman is a graduate
of Dartmouth College. He is a man of marked intellectual power, and is
engaged in the practice of medicine among his people. Mrs. Eastman is
now living in the government house on the Pine Ridge Agency, devoting
herself to her family and to the welfare of the wards of the nation.
During several years past she has published little or nothing of
importance.
(American Women, Frances Elizabeth
Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897.
Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
T.B. Eldridge, age 72, died 25
June 1878 in Hancock [The
"Republican", Springfield, Mass, June 1878, sub. by K.
Torp]
Mrs Kirby, daughter of the late Col. S.
Larner, of Pittsfield, Mass., and wife of Major
Reynolds M. Kirby,
U.S. Army, died 3 June at Fortress Monroe, Va. (9 June
1830, National Intelligencer, sub. K. Torp)
John
Lindley, aged 62 yrs, 9 mos, died 9 June 1878 in Williamstown [The "Republican", Springfield, Mass, June 1878, sub. by K.
Torp]
In Savoy, Mass, Mr. J. Mason, suicide.
[The North American Review, Sep
1815 - Sub. by K. Torp]
Permelia Trowbridge
Monroe b 28 December 1785, in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Massachusetts. Her Parents were John Trowbridge and Hannah Cook.
She married Charles Monroe Sr. on 2 March 1899 in Suffield, Hartford
County. Connecticut. She died 23
November 1840 in Sheffield, Berkshire County,
Massachusetts
Charles died 29 January 1815 in
Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut. Permelia remarried Ezekiel
Osborne in 1816, after Charles died. [From the
research of John Bauer]Mrs. Mary A.
Newton, age 65, d. 21 June 1878, in Lenox [The
"Republican", Springfield, Mass, June 1878, sub. by K.
Torp]
In Stockbridge, Colonel E. Williams. Both
these venerable citizens were greatly respected. (Refers also to Dr.
John Hulbert, aged 83, who died in Allred) [The North
American Review, July 1815 - sub. by K.
Torp]
ABE
BUNTER, AGED 108.
Death of a Negro Who Was Well Known to Every Williams College
Man.
Williamstown, Mass., May 17 Abraham Pearsons, a negro
better
known as "Abe Bunter," and well known to every Williams
College man,
died at the Poor Farm in Williamstown today. His age is
a matter of
conjecture. He said he was 108 and he was generally
believed to be at least
100 years old. Alumni of the college. since
1860 remember him because of
the stories ho told of the hardness of
his head and feats of breaking plank by
using it as a battering ram.
He came to Williamstown in the middle of the
century and lived there
until his death, the last few years of his life being spent
on the
Poor Farm. He always attended the college commencement
exercises.
[Cochise Review, Bisbee Arizona Thursday Evening May
17, 1900]
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