Susan B. Anthony (Main Character)

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15 1820 in Adams Massachusetts. She was oldest of 7 children. At the age of 6 she moved to Battenville, New York. At this new school her teacher refused to teach her long division because of her gender. Her father placed her in a group home school and taught her himself. In 1837 Anthony was sent to Deborah Moulson's Female Seminary, a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia. Because of the Panic of 1837 her family could’nt pay for her so she didn't stay to long. In 1839 her family moved to Hardscrabble, New York because of the wake of the panic and economic depression that followed. That same year she left home to teach to help pay off her father's debts. She first taught at Eunice Kenyon's Friends' Seminary in New Rochelle then Canajoharie Academy in 1846. In Canajoharie Academy she rose to headmistress of the Female Department. Her first occupation inspired her to fight for wages equivalent to male teachers, since men earned roughly four times more than women for the same duties. In 1849 she quit teaching and move to be with her family in Rochester, New York. In the decade before the American Civil War, Anthony took a prominent role in the New York anti-slavery and temperance movements. Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851. Anthony and Stanton joined in organizing the first women's state temperance society in America after being refused admission to a previous convention because of her gender. Together they traveled giving speeches and trying to persuade the government that society should treat men and women equally. In 1856, Anthony further attempted to unify the African-American and women's rights movements when, recruited by abolitionist Abby Kelley. She became an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York State. On January 1, 1868 Anthony published a weekly journal entitled "The Revolution" printed in New York City. Its motto was "The true republic — men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." Anthony worked as the publisher and business manager, while Elizabeth Cady Stanton acted as editor. On November 18, 1872, Anthony was arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal for alleged illegal voting in the 1872 Presidential Election two weeks earlier. She was tried and convicted seven months later. The sentence was a fine, but not imprisonment. In 1893 Susan joined with Helen Barrett Montgomery in forming a chapter of the Woman’s Educational and Industrial Union in Rochester, New York. In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA), an organization dedicated to gaining women's suffrage. Anthony was vice-president of the NWSA until 1892, when she became president. In 1890, Anthony orchestrated the merger of the NWSA with the more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association creating the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Susan B. Anthony died at the age of 86 on March 13th 1906.