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Anthony's sister Mary, with whom she shared a home in later years, became a public school principal in Rochester, and a woman's rights activist. Headmistress Susan B. Anthony in 1848 at age 28. Anthony's father was an abolitionist and a temperance advocate.
- Susan Anthony, February 15, 1820, Adams, Massachusetts, U.S.
- March 13, 1906 (aged 86), Rochester, New York, U.S.
- She Was Not at the 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention. At the time of that first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton later wrote in her reminiscences "History of Woman Suffrage," Anthony was teaching school in Canajoharie, in the Mohawk Valley.
- She Was for Abolition First. Susan B. Anthony was circulating anti-slavery petitions when she was 16 and 17 years old. She worked for a while as the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
- She Co-Founded the New York Women’s State Temperance Society. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott’s experience of being unable to speak at an international anti-slavery meeting led to their forming the 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls.
- She Celebrated Her 80th Birthday at the White House. By the time she was 80 years old, even though woman suffrage was far from won, Anthony was enough of a public institution that President William McKinley invited her to celebrate her birthday at the White House.
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Dec 11, 2023 · Acclaimed suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second oldest of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony’s eight children. Anthony grew up in a Quaker household, although her mother was not a member of the religion. Anthony’s parents and several of her siblings were lifelong progressives ...
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Mary O'Connell, SC (better known as Sister Anthony) (1814 – December 8, 1897) was an Irish immigrant to the United States, who became a Catholic religious sister. A Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, she served with distinction as a nurse on the front lines of the American Civil War. Her work with the wounded and in health care in general ...
- Mary Ellen O'Connell, 1814, Limerick, Ireland
- Sister Anthony
- December 8, 1897, Cincinnati, Ohio
Sister Mary Anthony was a civil war hero who made history for her innovative thinking during a turbulent period in US history. Mary O’Connell was born in Co Limerick on August 15, 1814, the ...
Being prominent Rochester residents, Susan B. Anthony and her sister Mary are included in the 1904 Rochester Blue Book. Their entry indicates that guests could visit on Monday evenings. Since Susan was often away from home, it was probably Mary who most often entertained any Monday evening callers.
1865 – Susan B. Anthony, along with her sister Mary S. Anthony and mother Lucy Read Anthony, move into 7 Madison Street with the McLeans. 1866 – Lucy Anthony purchases the House for $3,500. 1873 – Mary Anthony purchases the House from her mother in December for $4,500. 1876 – Rochester city water mains are connected to Madison Street ...
