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Title: The life and work of Susan B. Anthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
Subjects: Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906.
Publisher: Indianapolis and Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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ch was contracted to Guelma. Susanwas the second child, born February 15, 1820, and named foran aunt, Susan Anthony Brownell. She herself adopted theinitial B when older, but never claimed or liked the fullname.^ Lucy Read Anthony was of a very timid and reticent dispo-sition and painfully modest and shrinking. Before the birthof every child she was overwhelmed with embarrassment andhumiliation, secluded herself from the outside world and would Hannab was born September 15, 1821; Daniel Eead, named for father and grand-father, was born August 22, 1824; Mary S., April 2, 1S27 ; Eliza Tefft, April 22,1882, and JacobMerritt, April 19, 1834. At the present writing, 1897, Susan, Daniel, Mary and Merritt stillsurvive, aged seventy-seven, seventy-three, seventy and sixty-three, all remarkably vigorousin mind and body; a family of few words, quiet, undemonstrative and yet knit together withbonds of steel, loyal to each other in every thought and each ready to make any sacrifice forthe others.
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CO < Q■Z o XH z < Z <CODCO O UJU< OuX CQ Qi f- ANCESTRY, HOME AND CHILDHOOD. 13 not speak of the expected little one even to her mother. Thatmother would assist her overburdened daughter by making thenecessary garments, take them to her home and lay them care-fully away in a drawer, but no word of acknowledgment everpassed between them. This was characteristic of those oldentimes, when there were seldom any confidences between mothersand daughters in regard to the deepest and most sacred con-cerns of life, which were looked upon as subjects to be rigidl)- ta-booed. Susan came into the world in a cold, dreary season. Theevent was looked forward to with dread by the mother, butwhen the little one arrived she received a warm and lovingwelcome. She was born into a staid and quiet but very comfort-able home, w^iere great respect and affection existed betweenfather and mother. William Cullen Bryant, whose birth-place was but twentymiles distant, wrote of this immediat

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