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Anthony (SUSAN BROWNELL an American)

SUSAN BROWNELL, an American reformer, born in South Adams, Mass., Feb. 15, 1820, of Quaker parentage, taught school in New York in 1835- 1850. In 1847 she first spoke in public, taking part in the temperance movement and organizing societies. In 1852 she assisted in organizing the Woman's New York State Temperance Society; in 1854- 1855 she held conventions, in each county in New York, in behalf of female suffrage. In 1857 she became a leader in the anti-slavery movement, and in 1858 advocated the coeducation of the sexes. She was influential in securing the passage by the New York Legisthe passage by the New York Legiswomen the possession of their earnings, and guardianship of their children. In Pille Pillsbury, she began the publication of the "Revolution," a paper devoted to the emancipation of woman. Her last public appearance of note was as a delegate to the International Council of Women, in London, England, in 1899. In 1900 ing popular demonstration in Washington, D. C. She died March 13, 1906. ton, D. C. She died March 13, 1906. in the distillation of coal-tar. Although long known to chemists, it is as the gives rise to a large number of compounds, formed by replacing part of the hydrogen which it contains with chlo- rine, alcohol radicals, etc., and accordanthracene, and so on.