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Nov. 26, 1862 Death of Susan B. Anthony’s father
One day in early November 1862, Susan B. Anthony and her father Daniel were reading and discussing antislavery newspapers when he suddenly began suffering acute pain in

Published On: November 25, 2017Categories: The Anthony FamilyTags: antislavery, Civil War, Daniel Anthony, Daniel Read Anthony, death, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Merritt Anthony, Rochester, Susan B. Anthony, woman suffrage
All for Suffrage, Part 1
Susan B. Anthony’s family members were all for women’s suffrage, each in his or her own way. Some supported voting rights by actually casting ballots, while others supported campaigns for [...]

Published On: October 26, 2017Categories: Women's SuffrageTags: abolition, Daniel Read Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Jacob Merritt Anthony, John Brown, Susan B. Anthony, woman suffrage, women's rights
This week in History: John Brown at Harpers Ferry
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry shook the Anthony family’s roots when on this day in 1859 he broke into a federal arsenal in Virginia and was captured. Lucy and [...]

Published On: October 17, 2017Categories: American History, Contemporaries of the AnthonysTags: abolition, contemporaries of the Anthonys, Daniel Read Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Henry Selden, Jacob Merritt Anthony, John Brown, Kansas, Quakers, Rochester, Susan B. Anthony, underground railroad
The Anthonys on President Lincoln
On April 14, 1865 President Lincoln suffered a fatal gunshot wound from John Wilkes Booth. The news of his death reached D.R. Anthony, his wife Annie, and his sister Susan where [...]

Published On: April 17, 2017Categories: Civil War, The Anthony FamilyTags: Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Read Anthony, John Brown, Leavenworth KS
Posse Hunts John Brown
Why was D.R. Anthony so fiercely abolitionist? Events such as the following would have fueled his anger. Today’s post gives us a typical example of how proslavery forces treated John [...]

Published On: April 3, 2017Categories: Victorian LifeTags: abolition, Daniel Read Anthony, John Brown, Kansas, Merritt Anthony
Anthonys’ Aftermath to Harper’s Ferry
John Brown’s fiasco at Harper’s Ferry galvanized the nation.

Published On: October 19, 2014Categories: Contemporaries of the AnthonysTags: Daniel Read Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Harper's Ferry, John Brown, Kansas, Merritt Anthony, Susan B. Anthony
Behind the Scenes: Mary Brown
Part of the intent of this blog is to recognize spouses and other family members who lived in the shadow of famous people. One such person was Mary Ann Day, [...]

Published On: October 18, 2014Categories: Contemporaries of the AnthonysTags: abolition, Harper's Ferry, John Brown, Mary Brown
The Jury’s Still Out on John Brown
It’s one thing to admire someone and quite another to like him or her. This reality slapped me in the face when I visited the homestead of John Brown near [...]

Published On: October 13, 2014Categories: Contemporaries of the AnthonysTags: abolition, Gerrit Smith, Jacob Merritt Anthony, John Brown, Kansas, Mary Brown, Merritt Anthony, North Elba, Secret Six
Daring Friends of Merritt and D.R. Anthony
Merritt Anthony, like his brother Daniel Read Anthony (D.R.), put aside the pacifism that is often associated with Quakerism and took up arms to free the slaves. In doing so, [...]

Published On: October 6, 2014Categories: Contemporaries of the AnthonysTags: abolition, Charles Doy, Emigrant Aid Company, Immortal Ten, John Brown, John Doy, Kansas, Lawrence, Merritt Anthony
Casual Approach to a Wedding
Jacob Merritt Anthony’s wedding, unlike his brother’s, was anything but traditional.

Published On: September 28, 2014Categories: The Anthony FamilyTags: Florella Adair, Frederick Brown, Jacob Merritt Anthony, John Brown, Mary Luther, Osawatomie, Samuel Adair, wedding