Who is Anna Howard Shaw?

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       As a child,Anna Howard Shaw grew up in New Castle, England and immigrated to America at age 4(1851) where she and her family would travel from New England to Big Rapids, Michigan by wagon. The trip was relentless and when her family got to their home near the woods, they had to build their own house. Anna's father wasn't a great man either letting their family down 7 times, leaving Anna to take care of her 7 other siblings and her mother. This event was what shaped Anna career making her have a low opinion of men. Anna also educated herself and her first job was a a school teacher, where she got paid $2 a week to teach, but had to walk miles to get to the school house that also provided her with shelter and food.
    Anna Howard Shaw was a very successful,talented women who's main focus was being a women's suffragist supporter. Unlike many other women at the time, Miss Shaw went to college, actually attending two colleges, at Boston College and Albion college. After completing a degree at Albion College , She attended Boston University School of Theology (where she paid for school by giving speeches) where she gained a degree for medicine-although she never practiced it. Anna was the only graduating women in her class and after completing college she was ordained by the methodist church and preached in many places, living up to her dream.
    From 1904-1915, Anna also took part in NAWSA(National American Women Suffrage Association) where she was president for 11 years. As Anna's career progressed she'd gained a reputation as an excellent speaker and spoke anywhere she could to make her dream of getting her own rights as a women and excelling in a man's world possible. 
    In 1920 congress finally added the 19th Amendment of the United States to the Constitution, but Anna Shaw never got to see what all her efforts led up to because she died in 1919 at age 72 of pneumonia. Anna Howard Shaw will always be remembered as a hero that changed the lives for all women today and she is still honored today by a statue in Big Rapids,Michigan.

This is a picture of Anna Howard Shaw in her later years.
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