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Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-
American reformer; born in South Adams, Mass., Feb. 15, 1820.
She was of Quaker parent-age, and received her education at a Friends' school in Philadelphia.
From 1835 to 1850 she taught school in New York.
In 1847 she began her efforts in behalf of the temperance movement, making speeches and organizing societies; in 1852 she assisted in organizing the Woman's New York State Temperance Society.
In 1854-55 she held conventions in each county in New York in behalf of female suffrage.
She was a leader in the anti-slavery movement, and one of the earliest advocates of the coeducation of women.
Greatly through her influence, the New York legislature, in 1860, passed the act giving married women the possession of their earnings, and the guardianship of their children.
In 1868, with Mrs. E. C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, she began the publication of the Revolutionist, a paper devoted to the emancipation of women.
In 1872 she cast test ballots at
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