Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of Friends, camefrom England in 16o4and settled in RhodeIsland. Her father wasborn in Adams, Mass.,and this also was theplace of her own birth,February 15, 1820, the second in a family ofeight children. Hermothers ancestors hadlived in Massachusettsfor generations; hermaternal grandfather,Daniel Read, servedwith honor through the entire War of the Revolu-tion, and was afterward a member of the Massa-chusetts Legislature, so that Miss Anthonys mar-tial and law-making qitalifications were directlyinherited. Her two brothers fought for theUnionin the Civil War. One of these, Col. D. R.Anthony, made a brilliant record, and after-ward settling in Leavenworth, Kan., was con-spictiotis in the bttsiness and political life of theState until his death, in 1904, at the age ofeighty. The father, Daniel Anthony, who wasa prosperous cotton manufacturer in Adams,removed his mills to Battenville, N. Y., in 1826.After the commercial panic of 1837-38, thefamily went, in 1845, to Rochester, N. Y., which
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Copyright, 1904, by Dudley Hoyt, Riichester^ THE LATE SUSAN B. ANTHONY. was always afterward their home. They werea most harmonious and devoted household, ofwhom but one now remains, Miss Mary, agedseventy-nine. Mr. Anthony was a progressive, public-spiritedman, deeply interested in all the reforms of theday, and seeing his own characteristics in hisdaughtei- Susan, gladly helped in their develop- 418 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REl^IEWS. iiient. The education of women in tliose dayswas mucli neglected, but he employed tlie bestof teachers in his own home, and when she wasseventeen placed her in a Friends boarding-school near Philadelphia. He believed not onlyin the equal rights of women in every respect,but also in their economic independence, so heencouraged lier, first, m her teaching, wliich shefollowed until she was thirty, and afterward inher platfoi-m work. She was principal of thegirls department m the academy at Canajo-harie, N. Y., from 1846 until the summer of1849, when

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