Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919)

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National American Woman Suffrage Convention (1912)

Woman's Peace Party (WPP)

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 13, 1906

The Campaign for Municipal Suffrage, February 17, 1907

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 05, 1908

Jane Addams to Caroline Bartlett Crane, November 8, 1911

Belle Case La Follette to Jane Addams, January 10, 1912

Jane Addams to Ella S. Stewart, March 9, 1912

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, April 17, 1912

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, May 7, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, May 30, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, July 15, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, July 23, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Marjorie Daw Johnson, July 23, 1912

Ada Lois James to Jane Addams, August 3, 1912

Ada Lois James to Jane Addams, August 19, 1912

Susan Walker FitzGerald to Jane Addams, September 7, 1912

Ida Husted Harper to Jane Addams, September 25, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 4, 1912

Jane Addams to Alice M. Sanders, November 18, 1912

The Communion of the Ballot, November 24, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, December 12, 1912

How Votes Could Help, September 27, 1913 (excerpt)

Need a Woman Over Fifty Feel Old?, October 1914

Some American Women Over Fifty Years of Age, October 1914

Anne Henrietta Martin to Jane Addams, October 3, 1914

Jane Addams to Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, November 1914

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge to Jane Addams, November 18, 1914

Jane Addams to Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, November 23, 1914

Jane Addams to Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, November 30, 1914

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge to Jane Addams, December 30, 1914

Old Glory: The Flag of Hope for World Peace, 1915

Jane Addams to Emma Ferdon Winner Rogers, January 26, 1915

Alice Hamilton to Mary Rozet Smith, May 5, 1915

Address at Carnegie Hall, July 9, 1915

The Revolt Against War, July 17, 1915

Jane Addams to Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, July 17, 1915

Address of Miss Jane Addams, Delivered at Carnegie Hall, July 9, 1915

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs to Jane Addams, September 8, 1915

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, May 12, 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Alard Charles Told, December 30, 1916

Woman's Peace Party Delegates and Alternatives, November 1918

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, December 10, 1918

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, December 17, 1918

Address on Anna Howard Shaw, November 13, 1919

Fanny Adela Wetzler Coit to Jane Addams, April 29, 1920

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, August 17, 1912

Congressional Testimony on Woman Suffrage, December 3, 1913

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, March 5, 1914

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, January 26, 1915

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, January 27, 1915

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, February 2, 1915

Jane Addams to Anna Howard Shaw, August 20, 1912

Jane Addams to Anna Howard Shaw, January 8, 1915

Jane Addams to the Delegates of the International Congress of Women, November 5, 1918

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Birth Date

1847-02-14

Death Date

1919-07-02

Birthplace

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

Biographical Text

Anna Howard Shaw was born in England, her family later immigrating to the United States when she was four years old. When she was twelve, her father sent her mother and siblings to live in a cabin in Michigan, and Shaw began to support her family by becoming a school teacher. After the Civil War, Shaw attended Big Rapids High School, and when she was twenty-four she gave her first sermon. In 1873 she attended Albion College and continued to preach, and in 1876 she attended the Boston University School of Theology. In 1886 she received her M.D. from Boston University. She was the first female minister of the Methodist Protestant Church. Shaw also served as the chair of the Franchise Department of Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and she worked as an advocate for women suffrage. She also gave lectures for the Massachusetts Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Shaw later joined the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) after meeting Susan B. Anthony. In 1904 Shaw became the president of NAWSA. During World War I, she was the head of the Women's Committee of the United States Council of National Defense and was the first woman to earn the Distinguished Service Medal.

Shaw died in 1919.

Shaw and Addams corresponded about the Progressive Movement and the struggles of Women's Suffrage. The pair updated each other on their works in their movements and worked hard to tie the Progressive Movement to Suffrage. Shaw and Addams often asked and received advice from each other.

Occupation

Clergyman

Physician

Teacher

Woman suffrage activist

Source

Picture: Anna H. Shaw, New York Pubic Library Digital Collection, Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection.

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Rights

Public domain

Contributor

Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Gender

Female

First appears

1906

Bibliography and Links

Biography.com

SNAC

Shaw, Anna Howard. The Story of a Pioneer. New York, NY: New York and London, Harper & brothers, 1918.

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“Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 26, 2023, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/525.