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^ 351 ings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, Held at Longwood, Chester County, Pa., 1900 [Kennett Square, Pa., n.d.].) 8. To begin at Philadelphia on 19 June 1900. SBA chaired a committee of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association that appealed to the national nominating conventions for a plank stating, “That we favor the submission by Congress to the various State Legislatures, of an Amendment to the Federal Constitution forbidding disfranchisement of the United States citizens on account of Sex.” (Memorial. To the National Presidential Convention of 1900, Film, 41:268–70, 314.) 9. Emma Jemima Welchman Bartol (1821–1908) was a charter member of Philadelphia ’s New Century Club, founded in 1876; a donor to many of the city’s charities; and a world traveler who published books about her trips.Her husband, Barnabas Henry Bartol, an engineer who died in 1888, took over the Southwark Foundry in Philadelphia in the 1850s and extended his business into Cuban sugar refineries, for which the foundry made equipment. Bartol probably came to know SBA and ECS through her friendship with Rachel Avery’s mother. (Emma J. Bartol, Recollections of a Traveller [Philadelphia, 1906]; Anthony, 2:548; records of West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.) 10. SBA kept this engagement when she returned from Kansas. See SBA diary, 30 June 1900. 11. SBA canceled this visit when she learned of Merritt Anthony’s death. Dansville ,New York,was the site of the Jackson Sanatorium,formerly Our Home on the Hillside, the premier water-cure of the time. SBA and ECS had both rested there and lectured there as well. (American National Red Cross, Clara Barton Chapter No. 1, Clara Barton and Dansville, Together with Supplementary Materials [Dansville , N.Y, 1966], 440.) 12. Eastern newspapers reported a defeat in Oregon long before the votes were all counted after the election on 4 June 1900. In the final tally, the woman suffrage amendment lost 26,265 to 28,402. (With assistance of Jerry Curry, Oregon State Library.) ••••••••• 158 • SBA to Anna O. Anthony1 Rochester, N.Y. June 7, 1900— Dear Niece Anna O. Your nice letter of yesterday came this a.m— I read it to Aunt Mary— and we both give you our blessing—and wish that only the best results may come to both you & Mr Bacon in your marriage co-partnership. We shall surely welcome him into our circle of nephews most heartily; and we most earnestly hope he will find pleasure all the days of his life not only with 5 june 1900 352 & nthep one member of the Anthony family—but with nallp of us— And we hope,too,that our Niece Anna O.may not only find joy in the one member of the Bacon family but also in all of them—and they in her—to the end. So my dear—all from without is & will be right—the within must be the great source of help to each & all of us— With dearest love your trusting Aunt U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, on NAWSA letterhead, SBA Papers, MCR-S. 1. Anna Osborne Anthony (1874–1959) was a daughter of Merritt Anthony. Like her sister and cousins, she spent time living with her aunts to pursue her education in Rochester and then found work in Philadelphia. On 24 July 1900 in Philadelphia, she married Leon Brooks Bacon (1870–1952). Bacon graduated from Williams College in 1893, lived abroad for two years, read law in Syracuse, and earned a law degree from Syracuse University. After a few years in New York State, he and Anna settled in Cleveland. (Anthony, Anthony Genealogy, 189, 191; Frederick A. Virkus, The Compendium of American Genealogy [Baltimore, 1968], 1:44; William B.Neff,ed.,Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio: History and Biography [Cleveland, Ohio, 1921], 274–75; New York Times, 26 September 1952; Louisville Times, 14 November 1959.) ••••••••• 159 • SBA to ECS Rochester, N.Y. June 11, 1900. 1 My Dear Friend,— Mrs. Harper has just read me your letter. I wonder whom you are going to visit at West Hampton, 2 and after that you say you are to be at the beautiful old home of Sarah Hallock 3 at Milton-on-the-Hudson. I hope Mrs. Helen Bright Clark 4 will be able to find you when she goes to New York. Their son is to marry a New York girl on June 18th, and after that they are to make a trip to Niagara Falls.They sail for...

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