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^ 407 ••••••••• 188 • SBA to Anna E. Dann [Rochester] Aug. 16, 1901 Dear Anna Your letter is splendid— I enjoyed your museum trip with you—& the Obeleisk & all— Well drink it all in—go to the Head quaters & see Mrs Catt—and take a look from her windows— 1 I talk as if you had nothing but to go sight-seeing— I know you wont neglect a single thing there is to do— Mrs Harper has everything in such nice order that it is a great deal easier to do the work— Yesterday was—“holyday”—and Margaret walked in the procession for the fifth time—so she will be saved from the burning flames of hell—I suppose— She makes just as good as ever—and eats just as much of it as ever—she doesn’t seem to care for much else— nSisterp Mary went and got Mutton Chops for dinner—entirely forgetting nthatp Margaret wouldn’t eat meat on Friday— Well—I think Mr Mason 2 will begin to think he won’t hold his [letters?] so [long?]— Charlotte 3 came running in this a.m. with yours to her—& to Nellie—they are all so different— Well dont waste time to write each one—a letter to one—or to all—will do just as well—but I do want you to write your thoughts about everything you see—but write it so all can see it— Sister Mary took all three letters over to Mrs Cook— 4 She is so happy reading them—she is a great sufferer & I pity her— Sister Mary went riding with Lillian Coleman 5 last night— Well be a good girl—& be happy— Affectionately— U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, on verso of printed petitions to Fifty-sixth Congress, SBA Collection, NR. On one petition, SBA wrote “For Anna E. Dann The Champion Sight Seer.” 1. Headquarters for the National-American Woman Suffrage Association were located on the twentieth floor of the American Tract Society Building at Nassau and Spruce streets in lower Manhattan. When completed in 1895, it was among the tallest buildings in the city. 2. Gilbert Turner Mason (1878–1957) was engaged to marry Anna Dann. He grew up in Albion, New York, and found work in Rochester as a bookkeeper in a 16 august 1901 408 & foundry.He later managed foundries in Rochester and Buffalo before he and Anna relocated to Santa Barbara in 1947. (Federal Census, Buffalo, N.Y., 1920; Santa Barbara News-Press,5 October 1952; Mt.Albion Cemetery,Town of Albion,N.Y., on-line transcriptions of gravestone and cemetery records,by Sharon A.Kerridge, 1997.) 3. Charlotte M. Dann (c. 1887–1938), later Beers, followed her older sister to Rochester in 1899 or 1900, and her future became an object of consultation between SBA and Anna Dann. She entered West High School, graduating in 1906 after success as a debater, writer, and editor of several school publications. In the end, nursing was her chosen profession, and she was licensed by New York State in 1911. After training in Buffalo and a job as assistant superintendent of the training school at Prospect Heights Hospital, Brooklyn, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and served in Europe during the war. By 1920, her occupation was teacher of nurses, and she had married Lloyd Y. Beers, a military dentist trained at George Washington University. (The Occident: Senior Annual of 1906, West High School, Rochester, N.Y.,on-line Yearbook Collection,Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County; New York State Education Department, Report on Higher Education in the State of New York for the School Year Ending July 31, 1911 [Albany , N.Y., 1912], 830; American Journal of Nursing 17 [July 1917]: 1026; Federal Census, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1910, Buffalo, N.Y., and Boston, 1920, and Montgomery County, Md., 1930; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Interment Records, Arlington National Cemetery.) 4. Magdalena Auer Cook (1852–1925) lived with her husband next door to the Anthonys, at 19 Madison Street. Louis C. Cook had worked for many years as a manager and superintendent of large buildings and estates in Rochester. (City directory ,1890,1895,1897,1900,1901; Mt.Hope and Riverside Cemetery Interment Records.) 5. Lillian Blanche Coleman (1870–1957) was another neighbor on Madison Street, living with her widowed mother. She studied at Cornell University as a member of the class of 1896 but did not graduate. (James Cash Coleman, The Genealogy of William Coleman of Gloucester, Mass., and Gravesend, England, 1619–1906...

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