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Susan B. Anthony

by Sabrina from Burlingame

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Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her parents were Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony. Susan was the second child born out of seven. Her father was a cotton mill owner. While the children grew up, the father taught the children to help others to show God their love. Before she turned sixteen, she started to teach. In 1837 her father decided to send her to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to go to Deborah Moulson's Female Seminary which was a boarding school because he they believed she did not get her full education. Susan did not like the boarding school. She soon moved back home due to family financial issues.

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Susan B. Anthony on a coin (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/1999_SBA_Obv_P.png/220px-1999_SBA_Obv_P.png (none))

The family then moved to Handscrabble, New York. During this time Susan left to go and teach to help pay the family bills. She started working at Eunice Kenyon's Friends' Seminary in New Rochelle, New York and later started teaching at Canajoharie Academy. There she became a headmistress of the Female Department. Her father then moved her family again to Gates, West of Rochester, New York. In 1848 Susan joined the Daughters of Temperance. During her time at the Daughters of Temperance she became very interested in woman rights. She wanted to spread woman's rights so she incorporated it in education, labor, and temperance. She then joined the Woman's New York State Temperance Society. After a couple years of going to woman's right convention, she then created one in New York City called Whole Worlds Temperance Convention. Later, Susan and her friend Stanton created the National Woman's Suffrage Association. 

Susan B. Anthony is a woman of faith due to many reasons. One reason is that she tried to make a world change. She tried doing this by going door to door getting people's signature to end woman's suffrage that she was going to show the legislature. She and her friend Stanton dedicated all their work to this and tried to make a world difference and did. Susan made an amendment and gained all the woman today the right to vote. She gave all woman a voice. Another reason is that she fought for every woman in the world. She gained woman the rights they needed to be equal to men. Susan is a hero and a woman of faith that people look up to today.

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Last edited 3/29/2012 12:00:00 AM

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