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Title: The life and work of Susan B. Anthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
Subjects: Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906.
Publisher: Indianapolis and Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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loving reverence by all the distinguished Quakerfamilies that confided their sons and daughters to his wise andtender care: Daniel Anthony has been an assistant here & we can aprise his friends thathe has faithfully discharged his duty in that particular, has been a veryagreeable companion & his conduct remarkably correct & exemplary, which,joined to his pleasant & obliging disposition, has gained him our esteem &affection. We sincerely wish his prosperity, spiritually & temporally, & shall grate-fully remember him and his services. On behalf of the sitting-room circle, R. F. Mott. Boarding School, 4 M., 1 D., 1814. The profession of teacher did not appeal to hard-headedHumphrey Anthony, and when Daniel came back with hisbrain full of ambitious projects and with a thorough distastefor farming, and his sisters, with many airs and graces and afeeling of superiority over the girls in the neighborhood.Father Anthony declared that no more children of his should
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Q< HCOW OX QO w X o H o Q z HCO w ANCESTRY, HOME AND CHILDHOOD. 9 go away to boarding-school. The fact that young Daniel wasskilled in mechanics and mathematics, able to superintendintelligently all the work on the farm and to make a finerscythe than any man in the shop, did not modify the fathersopinion. When John, the next boy, was old enough and themother began to urge that he be sent to school, the fatheroffered him his choice to go or to stay at home and work thatyear for $100. This was a large sum for those days, it out-weighed the mothers arguments, John remained at home andregretted it all the rest of his life. The Anthony and Read farms were adjoining a mile east ofAdams, and lay upon the first level or bench of the Greenmountains. From their door-yards the ascent of the moun-tains began, and only the Hoosac in a deep ravine separatedthem from the base of Old Greylock. The crops were raisedon the intervale and the cattle pastured on the mountainside. Adams was then a sleep

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