Mary Stafford Anthony

Mary Stafford Anthony (April 2, 1827 – February 5, 1907) was an American suffragist during the women's rights movement of the 19th century. Anthony was employed as a school teacher in Western New York, and was eventually promoted to the position of principal within the Rochester City School District, where she was the first woman known to receive equal pay with men in the same job. She grew up in a Quaker family and became involved in several suffrage and other progressive organizations, such as the New York Women's Suffrage Association, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony founded the Women's Political Club, later renamed in 1880 as the Political Equality Club. She was the youngest surviving sister of Susan B. Anthony. Early life and education Mary Stafford Anthony was born on April 2, 1827, in Battenville, New York. She was the youngest to survive of four sisters and two brothers. (Her younger sister Eliza Anthony was born in 1832 and died in 1834.) Their parents Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony had different religious backgrounds. He was a liberal Quaker and she was a Baptist; the children were raised as Quakers. The Anthony family and other families in the area were engaged in the American Friends Society's activities. The family worked together to keep up their spirits, for instance, after first moving to their farmhouse with their parents near Rochester.,