Susan Brownell Anthony
"Failure is Impossible"
Susan Brownell AnthonyBirth: February 15, 1820 near Adams, Massachusetts.Parents: Daniel and Lucy Anthony.Education: Susan was home-schooled by her father, and by the time she was sixteen she was teaching school herself.Death: March 13, 1906Honors or Awards: Susan organized the Women's Rights Convention, the Woman's State Temperance Society in New York, and also published a newspaper promoting women's rights called The Revolution.I chose Susan B. Anthony because my sister had told me about her and why she was famous, that made me very interested in her. I had heard of her accomplishments and some of the things she had achieved, so I decided to do a report and a webpage on her. I hope you enjoy what I found out!
Susan Brownell Anthony was an intelligent child, learning to read and write at the age of three. When she turned six, her family moved to Battensville, New York. Here she attended the district school which her father established for his children and his neighbors’ children.Nearing her thirties, Susan decided that she probably wouldn’t care to be married. Later, her views of life broadened and she lightened up, yet she refused to get married, and never did. By 1850 she became acquainted with Amelia Bloomer, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with whom she formed a life-long alliance with.Susan and others organized the Woman’s State Temperance Society of New York, the first ever formed. Susan died in Rochester, New York, one month after turning eighty-six; she left behind a small fortune of $10,000 for the cause to which she had given her life, the Woman’s State Temperance Society of New York.Some of her greatest accomplishments were organizing the Women’s State Temperance Society of New York, her speeches, her work with the Civil War, and her anti-slavery movements.1) Susan Brownell Anthony, http://winningthevote.org/SBAnthony.html, ©20002) Famous Women, http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/exploration/women.html, March 29, 20013) Dictionary of American Biography, Allen Johnson, pages 318-320, ©1936 by The American Council of Learned Society4) World Book Encyclopedia, Scott Fetzer, pages 544-545, ©1992
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