susan b. anthony obituary (nyt and lengthy)

[niyad]

Susan B. Anthony Obituary
Originally published in The New York Times

March 13, 1906
OBITUARY
Miss Susan B. Anthony Died This Morning

End Came to the Famous Woman Suffragist in Rochester
Enthusiastic To The Last
Wished All Her Estate to Go to the Cause for Which She Labored -- Her Deathbed Regret
By THE NEW YORK TIMES

ROCHESTER, March 13, -- Miss Susan B. Anthony died at 12:40 o'clock this morning. The end came peacefully. Miss Anthony had been unconscious practically all of the time for more than twenty-four hours, and her death had been almost momentarily expected since last night. Only her wonderful constitution kept her alive.

Dr. M. S. Ricker, her attending physician, said Miss Anthony died of heart disease and pneumonia of both lungs. She had had serious valvular heart trouble for the last six or seven years. Her lungs were practically clear and the pneumonia had yielded to treatment, but the weakness of her heart prevented her recovery.

Miss Anthony was taken ill while on her way home from the National Suffrage Convention in Baltimore. She stopped in New York, where a banquet was to be given Feb. 20 in honor of her eighty-sixth birthday, but she had an attack of neuralgia on Feb. 18 and hastened home. Pneumonia developed after her arrival here, and on March 5 both her lungs became affected. She rallied, but had a relapse three days ago, and the end after that never was in doubt.

Miss Anthony herself had believed that she would recover. Early in her illness she told her friends that she expected to live to be as old as her father, who was over 90 when he died. But on Wednesday she said to her sister:

"Write to Anna Shaw immediately, and tell her I desire that every cent I leave when I pass out of this life shall be given to the fund which Miss Thomas and Miss Garrett are raising for the cause. I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent. Tell Anna Shaw to see that this is done."
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http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_anthony_obit.htm

[Bluenorthwest]

1. I visited her home in Rochester. Frederick Douglass lived on the same street. Imagine that.

about her home there:
http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/index.php

I loved the statue of Anthony and Douglass sitting together in Susan B Anthony Square Park.

[niyad]

2. how wonderful that you got to see that, and thank you for the link.

I remember amy goodman talking about being in rochester, and needing to find something at the airport. whoever she was talking to asked, "are you in the susan b. anthony wing or the frederick douglass wing?"