Henry Wilson, vice-president of the United States. When the statues of Gen. Greene and Roger Williams were presented to congress by the state of Rhode Island, Mr. Anthony made the addresses, and he also made a short address at the presentation of the statues of Trumbull and Sherman. One of his best efforts was when he introduced the bill providing for repairing and protecting the monument erected in Newport, R. I., to the memory of the chevalier de Tiernay, commander of the French naval forces sent out in 1780 to aid the American revolution. Mr. Anthony had a warm and affectionate nature, genial manner, a commanding figure, and was a perfect specimen of a man. In his last days, with manly courage, he calmly waited for the end. As soon as his death was known, Gov. Bourn and Mayor Doyle issued proclamations to that effect, and called upon the people to attend the funeral, which took place from the first Congregational church in Providence on Saturday, 6 Sept. It was the largest funeral ever known in Rhode Island. Mr. Anthony bequeathed a portion of his library, known as the “Harris Collection of American Poetry,” to Brown university. It consists of about 6,000 volumes, mostly small books, and many of them exceedingly rare. It was begun half a century ago by the late Albert G. Greene, continued by Caleb Fiske Harris, and, after his death, completed by his kinsman, the late senator. The Rev. Dr. J. C. Stockbridge, a member of the board of trustees of the university, is preparing an annotated catalogue of the collection.
ANTHONY, John Gould, naturalist, b. in
Providence, R. I., 17 May, 1804; d. in Cambridge,
Mass., 16 Oct., 1877. His school education was
slight, and was entirely discontinued when he
became twelve years of age. Business pursuits
then occupied his attention, and, settling in
Cincinnati, he continued there for thirty-five years,
actively engaged in commercial occupations.
Meanwhile his interest in natural history had developed,
his publications attracted the attention of Prof.
Agassiz, and in 1863 he was asked to take charge
of the conchological department of the museum of
comparative zoology, where he remained until his
death. He accompanied Agassiz on the Thayer
expedition to Brazil in 1865. His writings include
the following papers: “A New Trilobite (Ceratocephala
ceralepta)” (1838); “Fossil Encrinite”
(1838); “Description of a New Fossil (Calymene
Bucklandii)” (1839); “Descriptions of Three New
Species of Shells” (1839); “Description of Two
New Species of Anculotus” (1839); with G. Graham
and W. P. James, “Two Species of Fossil Asterias
in the Blue Limestone of Cincinnati” (1846);
“Description of New Fluviate Shells of the Genus
Melania, Lam., from the Western States of North
America” (1854); “Descriptions of New Species of American Fluviate Gasteropods” (1861); “Descriptions of Two New Species of Monocondytoca” (1865); “Description of a New Exotic Melania” (1865); “Description of a New Species of Shells” (1865); and “Descriptions of New American Fresh-Water Shells” (1866). Mr. Anthony was recognized as an authority on the American land and
fresh-water mollusca.
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ANTHONY, Susan Brownell, reformer, b. in South Adams, Mass., 15 Feb., 1820. Daniel Anthony, her father, a cotton manufacturer, was a liberal Quaker, who educated his daughters with the idea of self-support, and employed skilful teachers in his own house. After completing her education at a Friends' boarding-school in Philadelphia, she taught in New York state from 1835 to 1850. Her father removed in 1826 to Washing- ton co., N. Y., and in 1846 settled at Rochester. Miss Anthony first spoke in public in 1847, and from that time took part in the temperance movement, organizing societies and lecturing. In 1851 she called a temperance convention in Albany, after being refused admission to a previous convention on account of her sex. In 1852 the Woman's New York State Temperance Society was organized. Through her exertions, and those of Mrs. E. C. Stanton, women came to be admitted to educational and other conventions with the right to speak, vote, and serve on committees. About 1857 she became prominent among the agitators for the abolition of slavery. In 1858 she made a report, in a teachers' convention at Troy, in favor of the co-education of the sexes. Her energies have been chiefly directed to securing equal civil rights for women. In 1854-'55 she held conventions in each county of New York in the cause of female suffrage, and since then she has addressed annual appeals and petitions to the legislature. She was active in securing the passage of the act of the New York legislature of 1860, giving to married women the possession of their earnings, the guardianship of their children, etc. During the war she devoted herself to the women's loyal league, which petitioned congress in favor of the 13th amendment. In 1860 she started a petition in favor of leaving out the word “male” in the 14th amendment, and worked with the national woman suffrage association to induce congress to secure to her sex the right of voting. In 1867 she went to Kansas with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone, and there obtained 9,000 votes in favor of woman suffrage. In 1868, with the coöperation of Mrs. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, and with the assistance of George F. Train, she began, in New York city, the publication of a weekly paper called “The Revolutionist,” devoted to the emancipation of women. In 1872 Miss Anthony cast ballots at the state and congressional election in Rochester, in order to test the application of the 14th and 15th amendments of the U. S. constitution. She was indicted for illegal voting, and was fined by Justice Hunt, but, in accordance with her defiant declaration, never paid the penalty. Between 1870 and 1880 she lectured in all the northern and several of the southern states more than one hundred times a year. In 1881 she wrote, with the assistance of her co-editors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, “The History of Woman Suffrage,” in two volumes.
ANTHONY, Susanna, author, b. in Rhode Island in 1726; d. in Newport, 23 July, 1791. Extracts from her writings on religious subjects were published, with a memoir by Dr. Hopkins, in 1739.
ANTHONY, William Arnold, physicist, b. in Coventry, R. I., 17 Nov., 1835. He was educated at the Yale (now Sheffield) scientific school, and received his degree in 1860. From 1857 to 1860 he was principal of a graded school in Crompton, R. I. During 1860-'61 he taught the sciences in the Provi-
