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544 & was one of the city’s busiest activists, involved with the Ethical Club, Women’s Educational and Industrial Union,and Daughters of the Revolution,to name a few of her affiliations.She also served as treasurer of the crusade for coeducation at the university. In later years, she held office in the state federation of women’s clubs. (Gilman Bigelow Howe, Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America [Worcester, Mass., 1890], 318; Peck, History of Rochester and Monroe County, N.Y., 1:464; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 4 & 6 July 1911; Mt. Hope and Riverside Cemetery Interment Records.) ••••••••• 270 • SBA to the Political Equality Club of Rochester Rochester, N.Y. February 24th, 1905. My dear Friends— You were looking out for something that would be a joy forever when you selected the Morris chair and foot-rest, and now I understand that you are to get a couch for me to lie down on, so between the easy chair and the sofa I shall be well provided for, and when my invalid friends come to visit me they shall share the pleasures of both. I am very greatly obliged to each and every member of the club. It was a very nice idea that you should ask each one to give a little and so each be a participant in the gift. I hope you are all working with might and main to get the full suffrage, but, alas, we live in the Empire State, and you might as well expect rivers to run up-hill as to expect a state, fully one-half of the population of which were born under a monarchial government,—which denies to men, even, the privilege of voting,—to grant the suffrage to women. But still we must work on to educate every man, native or foreign, black or white, to recognize woman as an individual factor in the government, so wishing you all—not rest—but work, I am Very sincerely yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Emma B. Sweet Papers, NRU. 24 february 1905 ...

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