Notable Women (A-F)
Click on a name below to jump to that person's information.
Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906, was an abolitionist, education reformer, suffragist, woman’s rights
campaigner, temperance worker, and a labor activist. She was, by nature, aggressive and compassionate and had a phenomenal ability to inspire people. Just before her death in 1906, Susan reminded suffragists that “Failure is impossible”. Unfortunately, women’s
right to vote was still fourteen years away and true equal rights elude women still.
1820--Susan Brownwell Anthony is born in Adams, Massachusetts.
1820’s--The family moves to Battenville, New York.
1837--A depression causes her father to declare bankruptcy and they lose their home.
1838--Susan and her sister are taken out of school.
1845--The family moves to Rochester, where their home becomes a meeting place for anti-slavery activists such as Frederick Douglass.
1846--Starts teaching at Canajoharie Academy(annual salary was $110)
1849--Gives her first speech for the Daughters of Temperance and helped establish the Women’s State Temperance Society of New York.
1851--She attended a series of anti-slavery meetings at Syracuse and met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer
1852--She attends her first women’s rights convention
1854--while still devoting herself to the anti-slavery movement, she campaigned for women’s suffrage and circulated petitions for married women’s property rights.
1857--She attends the New York State Teacher’s Convention
and calls for education for women and blacks.
1863--Susan and Elizabeth C. Stanton write the “Appeal to the Women of the Republic”
1868 to 1870--she
joined with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to publish the New York Liberal Weekly, “The Revolution”, which demanded equal pay for women.
1869--Calls the first
Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington DC
1869 to 1890--joined the National Women’s Suffrage Association to campaign for women’s rights
1872--she demanded that women be given the same civil and political rights that were awarded to black men with the 14th and 15th amendments. In Rochester, NY,
Susan led a group of women to the polls to vote and was subsequently arrested. Her fight for women’s suffrage was far from over, despite her arrests.
1881--Susan, Elizabeth Stanton, and Matilda J. Gage publish the first volume of the History of Woman Suffrage. (Vol. 2, 1882; Vol. 3, 1885; Vol. 4, 1902)
1890-1906--she campaigned with the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
1897--Susan and Ida Harper begin to work on Susan’s biography.
1898--She establishes a press bureau to publicize articles on woman suffrage
to the press.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women is published
1900--Susan cashes in her life insurance to meet the financial demands of the University of Rochester for the admission of women.
1905--In Washington, DC, she meets with President Teddy Roosevelt regarding the submission of a suffrage amendment to Congress.
1906--She
gives the speech, “Failure is Impossible”, at her 86th birthday celebration.
Susan B. Anthony passed away on March 13 at her home on Madison Street.
Back to top
Clara Barton was a schoolteacher and was known as 'The Angel of the Battlefield'. In 1852, she founded a school in New Jersey that became so successful that authorities thought a man should be in charge of it. Barton resigned and moved to Washington where she worked as an unpaid nurse. She realized the serious need for first aid equipment to be delivered quickly and efficiently on the battlefield and privately advertised for donations of materials. She created an organization to find missing soldiers and succeeded in locating 13,000 of them. In 1882 she established the American Red Cross and continued to serve as it's president until 1904.
Back to top
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Back to top
Carrie Chapman Catt
Back to top
Marie Curie
Back to top
Queen Elizabeth I
Back to top
STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Click
here to go back to the Notable Women Index.
