Born 15 February 1820 in Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.[1] Daughter of Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read.[2] Worked as a governess in Easton, Washington County, New York, 1837.[3] Taught school, 1839–1849.[4] Secretary of the Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York, branch of the Daughters of Temperance.[5] Cofounder and secretary of the Women’s State Temperance Society of New York, 1852.[6] Hired as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1856.[7] Successfully campaigned to expand New York’s Married Women’s Property Act, 1860.[8] Petitioned Congress for universal suffrage, January 1866.[9] Began publishing the Revolution with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, January 1868.[10] Appointed as a delegate to the Democratic Convention, 1868.[11] Charter member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, 1869; elected chair of the executive committee that same year.[12] Lectured with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Salt Lake City, 29 June 1871.[13] Founding member of the International Council of Women, 25 March 1888, in Washington, DC.[14] Took part in the merging of the National Woman Suffrage Association with the American Woman Suffrage Association, 1890.[15] Elected vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), 1890; served as president of NAWSA, 1892–1900.[16] Returned to Utah Territory to lecture at a suffrage conference, May 1895.[17] Attended meetings of the International Council of Women in London, 1899, and in Berlin, 1904.[18] Bequeathed a gold ring to Emmeline B. Wells, 1906.[19] Died 13 March 1906 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.[20]
[1] “Family Record,” Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1837–1954, A/A628c, seq. 2, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Richard B. Morris and Jeffrey B. Morris, eds., Encyclopedia of American History, 7th ed. (HarperCollins Publishers, 1996), 980.
[2] “Family Record,” Anthony Papers, seq. 2; George Norbury Mackenzie, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America [. . .], vol. 2 (Seaforth Press, 1911), 18.
[3] Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony [. . .], vol. 1 (Bowen-Merrill, 1899), 24.
[4] Harper, Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, 1:39–44, 49, 55; Morris and Morris, Encyclopedia of American History, 980.
[5] Harper, Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, 1:53.
[6] Harper, Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, 1:66–68; Alice Felt Tyler, Freedom’s Ferment: Phases of American Social History to 1860 (University of Minnesota Press, 1944), 448.
[7] Harper, Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, 1:137–138, 148.
[8] Harper, Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, 1:186–187, 189; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds., History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (Fowler and Wells, 1881), 256, 619, 686–688.
[9] “Universal Suffrage,” Featured Congressional Documents, The Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives, reviewed 25 July 2019, archives.gov.
[10] Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds., History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2 (Susan B. Anthony, 1881), 264; “The Revolution,” Revolution (New York), 8 Jan. 1868, 1.
[11] “Tammany Hall and Susan B. Anthony,” Revolution, 18 June 1868, 1.
[12] Harper, Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, 1:326–328, 327n1; Stanton, Anthony, and Gage, History of Woman Suffrage, 2:400, 400–401n†; Ida Husted Harper, ed., The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5 (National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1922), 1.
[13] Susan B. Anthony, Letter to the Revolution, 5 July 1871, in “Susan B. Anthony at Salt Lake,” Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette, 19 July 1871, [4]; Advertisement, Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 21 June 1871, [2]; “Woman’s Suffrage,” Salt Lake Daily Herald, 30 June 1871, [3].
[14] Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, eds., The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 (Susan B. Anthony, 1902), 124–125.
[15] Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony [. . .], vol. 2 (Bowen-Merrill, 1898), 630–632; H. E. S., “Anthony, Susan Brownell,” in Allen Johnson, ed., Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 1 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928), 320.
[16] H. E. S., “Anthony, Susan Brownell,” in Johnson, Dictionary of American Biography, 320; Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, 4:viii, 188, 349.
[17] “Women Suffragists,” Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 1895, 8; “Two Famous Women,” Salt Lake Herald, 13 May 1895, 8.
[18] “The World of Women,” Salt Lake Herald, 2 Apr. 1899, 23; “Delegates to Go to London,” Salt Lake Herald, 7 June 1899, 7; Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, 4:352–353; Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, 5:87; H. E. S., “Anthony, Susan Brownell,” in Johnson, Dictionary of American Biography, 320.
[19] Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (University of Utah Press, 2017), 420, 420n5.
[20] “Anthony, Susan Brownell,” 13 Mar. 1906, certificate 10978, New York, U.S., Death Index, 1852–1956, New York Department of Health, New York State Death Index, ancestry.com; Morris and Morris, Encyclopedia of American History, 980.