Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women’s rights activist. She traveled extensively in support of women’s suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year. Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley. She was named for her maternal grandmother Susanah, and for her father’s sister Susan.
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Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women’s rights activist. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities. Anthony traveled extensively in support of women’s suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year. Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley. She became the first female citizen to be depicted on U.S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin. She was named for her maternal grandmother Susanah, and for her father’s sister Susan. Anthony adopted \”B. \” as her middle initial because her namesake aunt Susan had married a man named Brownell. She never used the name Brownell herself, and did not like it. Her brothers Daniel and Merritt moved to Kansas to support the anti- slavery movement there. Daniel eventually owned a newspaper and became mayor of Leavenworth. Merritty fought with John Brown during the Bleeding Kansas crisis. Anthony’s sister Mary became a public school principal in Rochester, New York, and a woman’s rightsactivist. She also helped to bring about the World’s Congress of Representative Women at the world’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
She later became a well-known author and author of the History of Woman Suffrage, a six-volume history of the women’s movement. She died in New York City in 1913, aged 80. She is buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery in New Jersey. She had a daughter, Susan, who was born in 1847, and had a son, David, who is also a well known author and writer. Her grandson, David Anthony, is the author of The Art of War, published by Simon & Schuster, and has written a number of books on the history of American literature. He is also the co-founder of The New York Review of Books, which is published by The University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of New York Press. He died in 1998. He was buried in the family cemetery at Mount Sinai, New Jersey, where he was buried with his wife, Mary. He also has a daughter-in-law, Susan Anthony, who died in 2008, at age 89. He has a grandson, Michael, who wrote a book about his father’s life and works for the National Museum of American History and Culture. His great-granddaughter, Susan B. Anthony, died in 2011, aged 90, and is buried at Mount Vernon, New Mexico, where she also worked for the Museum of Art and Science, and also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Statesaughters of the American Civil Liberties.
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