ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL Ameri can reformer, was born at Adams (Mass.), on Feb. 15, 1820. After being a school-teacher for 15 years she organized in 1852 the first woman's state temperance society in America, and in 1856 became the agent for New York state of the American Antislavery Society. After 1854 she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for woman's rights. From 1868 to 187o she was the proprietor of a weekly paper, The Revolution, published in New York, edited by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and having for its motto, "The true republic—men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." She was vice-president-at-large of the National Woman Suffrage Association from the date of its organization in 1869 until 1892, when she became president. For casting a vote in the presidential election of 1872, as, she asserted, the 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution entitled her to do, she was arrested and fined Sioo, but she never paid the fine. In collaboration with Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, she published The History of Woman Suffrage (4 vols., New York, 1884-87) . She died at Rochester (N.Y.), on March 13, 1go6.
See Mrs. Ida Husted Harper's Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Indianapolis, 1898-1908) .