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See also:ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906) , See also:American reformer, was See also:born at See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, See also:Massachusetts, on the 15th of See also:February 1820, the daughter of See also:Quakers. Soon after her See also:birth, her See also:family moved to the See also:state of New See also:York, and after 1845 she lived in See also:Rochester. She received her See also:early See also:education in a school maintained by her See also:father for his own and neighbours' See also:children, and from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time she was seventeen until she was See also:thirty-two she taught in various See also:schools. In the See also:decade preceding the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War she took a prominent See also:part in the See also:anti-See also:slavery and See also:temperance movements in New York, organizing in 1852 the first woman's state temperance society in See also:America, and in 1856 becoming the See also:agent for New York state of the American Anti-slavery Society. After 1854 she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for woman's rights, and became recognized as one of the ablest and most zealous See also:advocates, both as a public See also:speaker and as a writer, of the See also:complete legal equality of the two sexes. From 1868 to 187o she was the proprietor of a weekly See also:paper, The Revolution, published in New York, edited by Mrs See also:Elizabeth Cady See also:Stanton, and having for its See also:motto, " The true republic—men, their rights and nothing more; See also:women, their rights and nothing less." She was vicepresident-at-large of the See also:National Woman's See also:Suffrage Association from the date of its organization in 1869 until 1892, when she became See also:president. For casting a See also:vote in the presidential electionof 1872, as, she asserted, the Fourteenth See also:Amendment to the Federal Constitution entitled her to do, she was arrested and fined $See also:loo, but she never paid the See also:fine. In collaboration with Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs See also:Matilda Joslyn See also:Gage, and Mrs See also:Ida Husted Harper, she published The See also:History of Woman Suffrage (4 vols., New York, 1884-1887). She died at Rochester, New York, on the 13th of See also:March 1906.
See Mrs Ida Husted Harper's See also:Life and See also:Work of Susan B. Anthony (3 vols., See also:Indianapolis, 1898-1908).
End of Article: ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)
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