Around this time, Anthony was sent to study at a Quaker school near Philadelphia.Īfter her father’s business failed in the late 1830s, Anthony returned home to help her family make ends meet. In 1826, the Anthony family moved to Battenville, New York. One child was stillborn, and another died at age 2.Īnthony was able to read by age 3 and viewed her parents as loving and supporting of her eagerness to learn. Only five of Anthony’s siblings lived to be adults. She was the second oldest of eight children to a local cotton mill owner Daniel Anthony and his wife, Lucy Read Anthony. Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. Quick FactsįULL NAME: Susan Brownell Anthony BORN: FebruDIED: MaBIRTHPLACE: Adams, Massachusetts ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius The work of Anthony and other suffragists eventually lead to the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting all women the right to vote, in 1920, which 14 years after her death. She later partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Raised in a Quaker household, Anthony went on to work as a teacher. Anthony was an American writer, lecturer, and abolitionist who was a leading figure in the women’s voting rights movement.
