Instrumental American reformer Susan Brownell Anthony in 1869 cofounded the national woman suffrage association in the passage of legislation that gave rights over children, property, and wages to the married.

This prominent civil leader played a pivotal role in the 19th century movement to secure in the United States. She traveled the United States and Europe and gave seventy to a hundred speeches per year for four decades. She died in Rochester, New York in her house at 17 Madison Street, and survivors buried her body at Mount Hope cemetery.

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