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  The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (H)
Henry was a son of William The Conqueror and King of England from 1101 to 1135.
Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart was a pretender to the English throne, and the Duke of York.
Henry VI was son of Henry V and King of England from 1422 to 1461.
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 USS Susan B Anthony
Susan B. Anthony-a passenger steamer built at Camden, N.J., for the Grace Steamship Company—was launched in March 1930 by the New York Shipbuilding Company as the SS Santa Clara.
She was acquired by the Navy on 7 August 1942; renamed Susan B. Anthony; converted at Bethlehem Steel's New York yard; and commissioned on 7 September 1942, Capt. Henry Hartley assumed command on the 29th.
Anthony approached the coast of Sicily on the 9th near the town of Scoglitti.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1878-1920 > Henry B. Anthony, "Father of the Senate"
At the height of his career, Rhode Island Republican Senator Henry B. Anthony was known to his colleagues as the “Father of the Senate”—the longest-serving member among them—a source of wisdom and stability in unsettled times.
A rough-and-tumble old-time politician, Anthony did not hesitate—in the words of one modern writer—to employ “political legerdemain and bribery” to gain his objectives.
Today, Anthony’s name is known only to a few for its association with a Senate rule designed to keep measures that have been cleared for floor action from being bottled up on the Senate calendar.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Father_of_the_Senate.htm   (465 words)

  
 Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Trials - Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Susan B. Anthony's casting of her ballot almost 50 years prior to the Nineteenth Amendment's national enfranchisement of American women was both an act of political defiance and an attempt to test whether the recently adopted Fourteenth Amendment would be interpreted as expanding or protecting women's rights.
Anthony took the written opinion with her and threatened the registrars with a lawsuit if she were turned away.
Hunt then asked Anthony, "Has the prisoner anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced?" but cut off her responses as "a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner's counsel has already consumed three hours in presenting." He then ordered the convicted Anthony to stand for sentencing.
www.galeschools.com /womens_history/trials/anthony.htm   (1257 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Henry B. Anthony: A Featured Biography
The genial Henry B. Anthony (1815-1884), a Republican Senator from Rhode Island, served for several years as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, but gave up that post when he was elected conference chairman in 1875.
As chair, Anthony acted much like the later majority leaders, giving committee assignments to members of his party, calling up bills for debate, and often speaking for his party on the issues of the day.
He was also the author of the "Anthony Rule," an early attempt to limit debate in the Senate in the days before cloture.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Anthony.htm   (168 words)

  
 Henry B. Anthony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He served as the editor and later part owner of the Providence Journal and later was the Governor of Rhode Island between 1849 and 1851, as a member of the Whig Party.
Anthony served from 1859 as a Republican Senator from Rhode Island, he served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873 and finally in 1875.
Anthony • Allen • Dimond • Hoppin • Dyer • Turner • Sprague IV • Cozzens • J.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_B._Anthony   (420 words)

  
 Mary Stafford Anthony
Anthony’s father was at various times a shopkeeper, the owner and manager of cotton mills, a farmer, and an insurance agent.
Anthony generally preferred to remain in the background, yet her tireless devotion to her sister and to the cause of women’s rights was recognized on the occasion of her seventieth birthday, in 1897.
In 1900, Anthony again proved herself both a reliable sister and worker for the cause of women’s rights, when she gave $2,000 to the University of Rochester, thereby helping to allow it to open its doors to women.
winningthevote.org /MAnthony.html   (2042 words)

  
 'Father of the Senate' =The Hill.com=   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At the height of his career, Republican Sen. Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island was known to his colleagues as the “Father of the Senate” — the longest-serving member among them and a source of wisdom and stability in unsettled times.
Anthony’s response — meaningful because it was the first to be given and because he was known to be a supporter of Johnson — echoed like a thunder clap across the tense chamber: “Guilty!”
Today, Anthony’s name is known only for its association with a Senate rule designed to keep measures that have been cleared for floor action from being bottled up on the Senate calendar.
www.hillnews.com /senate_minute/090303.aspx   (411 words)

  
 Anthony (Susan B.) Memorial, Inc.
In 1945 the Susan B. Anthony house at 17 Madison Street in Rochester was purchased and established as a memorial.
Carrie Chapman Catt, successor to Susan B. Anthony as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, was very much interested in the project, and encouraged suffragists to donate manuscripts and memorabilia to the House.
Susan B. Anthony House - letters of Martha Taylor Howard and Carrie Chapman Catt regarding the establishment of the Susan B. Anthony House as a memorial, 1944-1960.
www.library.rochester.edu /index.cfm?page=1126   (1345 words)

  
 "In Search of the Heroes": The Susan B. Anthony Story
The family influence--Susan B. Anthony was raised with Quaker discipline and austerity, but there was an independent spirit that came from both her father and mother.
Henry Seldon protested and demanded that the jury be polled, but he was cut off.
Anthony appealed to her senator and the men received a pardon from President Grant.
www.graceproducts.com /anthony/life.html   (1860 words)

  
 AnthonyGarcia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Body work was done by Anthony also including welding up all the seams in the rear fenders and a custom rear roll pan.
Anthony also made the custom fenderwell headers for the car, as well as the grill.
Anthony built a 16 gallon fuel cell and ran dual fuel pumps with seperate fuel lines to each carb, pretty smart if you ever had one fail.
www.homestead.com /henryjpage/AnthonyGarcia.html   (352 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote! | Scholastic.com
The courtroom was packed for the trial of Susan B. Anthony, the foremost leader of the women's rights movement in the United States.
Anthony saw in the amendment a legal case for the right of women to vote.
He said "Your honor, gentlemen of the jury, the defense wishes to concede that Miss Susan B. Anthony is indeed a woman." Then he pointed to the defendant, who was wearing a plain back silk dress with a white lace collar.
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 The United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony
I suppose that there will be no question of fact, substantially, in the case when all of the evidence is out, and it will be for you to decide under the charge of his honor, the Judge, whether or not the defendant committed the offense of voting for a representative in Congress upon that occasion.
We don't claim in the case, gentlemen, that Miss Anthony is of that class of people who go about “repeating.” We don't claim that she went from place to place for the purpose of offering her vote.
Henry R. Selden, a witness sworn in behalf of the defendant, testified as follows: Before the last election, Miss Anthony called upon me for advice, upon the question whether she was or was not a legal voter.
www.factmonster.com /t/hist/anthony-trial/3.html   (2149 words)

  
 The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
Anthony saw that all of the legal disabilities faced by American women owed their existence to the simple fact that women lacked the vote.
Anthony testified that she had sought legal advice from Judge Henry R. Selden prior to casting her vote, but that Selden said "he had not studied the question." Van Voorhis asked: "Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?" Anthony replied, "Not a particle." Storrs adjourned the case to December 23.
Anthony saw the four months until her trial as an opportunity to educate the citizens of Rochester and surrounding counties on the issue of women suffrage.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbaaccount.html   (4418 words)

  
 Henry B. Walthall: Biography--Sweet Home Alabama
Henry Brazeale Walthall was born on March 16, 1878 on a plantation near Shelby County, Alabama, sharing with D.W. Griffith a chivalric southern culture and tradition but enjoying perhaps a more affluent family life than the director (Slide II, pg.
Henry's father, Junius Leigh Walthall, was a Virginia native who served as captain in the Confederate Army and, later, became a highly respected figure in Alabama politics (Williamson, pp.
One story describes a young Henry slaying a rare wild goose and with much pride promising the neighbors a feast on the big, fat bird for the next day only discovering that his mother had sent the goose to the wife of the local clergyman.
www.henrybwalthall.com /SweetHomeAlabama.html   (1183 words)

  
 Stanton and Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Anthony was described as the "Napoleon" of the suffragist movement.
Anthony often went to Stanton's home and helped take care of these children in order to free her fellow suffragist for the intellectual work of which the latter was so capable.
Susan B. Anthony did not live to see the consummation of her efforts to win the right to vote for women.
www.lm.liverpool.k12.ny.us /whacked/createdequal/anthony.html   (1137 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts.
In 1873, Anthony went to trial and was found guilty of the charge of illegal voting.
Susan B. Anthony died of pneumonia in Rochester, New York on March 13, 1906.
www.henry.k12.ga.us /pges/instruction/kid-pages/women/SusanAnthony.html   (264 words)

  
 American Experience | The Time of the Lincolns | A Woman's World
Anthony flourished in her relationship with the well-educated, politically astute Stanton, and the two made an indomitable team.
For the rest of her career, Anthony fought for civil rights for women and African Americans, serving as a leader of several national organizations, including the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Anthony was honored internationally for her efforts on behalf of women.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/wworld/es_antebellum.html   (783 words)

  
 The Henry Institute: Commentary
It is questionable, she argues, whether Anthony actually wrote the essay against "child murder" quoted by pro-life groups, and these groups, she concludes, never mention that the same essay opposes legislative measures against abortion.
"In her personal life Anthony was clear in her conviction that women were not preordained to motherhood, that sometimes a woman and her womb might go their separate ways.
Would Anthony's feminism have trumped her concern for the harm abortion does to women, were she living in the contemporary American context?
www.henryinstitute.org /commentary_read.php?cid=335   (240 words)

  
 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer DVD review
His preference, like most serial killers, is women, but Henry will take care of anyone who crosses him, because he is a not a man to be fucked with.
When Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is mentioned, it is more often than not followed with "loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas." And that is not fair to the movie.
Henry's rages, both internal and external, are so intense I feel physically and mentally drained every time I finish the movie.
www.horrortalk.com /reviews/HPOASK/Henry.htm   (1198 words)

  
 CD Baby: BRUCE A. HENRY: Connections
Henry's musical education as a child included immersion in the work of Count Basie and Duke Ellington, favorites of Bruce's father (a pianist and Bruce's first musical mentor).
Although Henry was classically trained at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, his love for improvisation proved to be a stronger calling.
Mahmoud El-Kati, a historian, respected elder, educator and historian, observes of Henry, "At the bottom, the real genius of Bruce Henry's music is his gift for marrying life experiences to musical ideas." "Africa Cries" is a mournful and hopeful love song for a continent, framed exquisitely by the guitar work of Dean McGraw.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/brucehenry3   (1221 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony
Under the nose of Susan B. Anthony, on this junk coin, are the words "In God We Trust." Fortunately for Atheists nowhere on the coin does the identifying name appear.
Anthony objected to the "eulogies," but her own stamp of approval was on the work, and Mrs.
Daniel Anthony was born to wealth, influence and the Quaker religion—and in 1826 when that faith broke over liberal versus conservative doctrines (the divinity of Christ) the family followed the liberal camp and became known as Hicksite (after Elias Hicks) Friends.
www.atheists.org /Atheism/roots/anthony   (5176 words)

  
 Susan B
Susan B. Anthony was born at Adams, Mass., on 15 February 1820.
In 1852, after teaching school for 15 years, she organized the first women's state temperance society in America; and, in 1856, became the agent of the American Antislavery Society for New York state.
Susan B. Anthony-a passenger steamer built at Camden, N.J., for the Grace Steamship Company-was launched in March 1930 by the New York Shipbuilding Company as the SS Santa Clara.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s20/susan_b_anthony.htm   (960 words)

  
 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Collection. Treasures of the Collection
Susan B. Anthony to Senator Henry W. Blair, January 7, 1888.
In this letter, pioneering suffragist Susan B. Anthony writes to Senator Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire about bringing the women's suffrage amendment up for a vote in Congress.
Anthony would not live to see the triumph of the cause for which she fought from the 1850s until her death in 1906 at the age of eighty-six.
www.gilderlehrman.org /collection/treasures7.html   (222 words)

  
 Leaves of an Hour: The Harris Collection: The Original Collectors
Anthony had a distinguished career as a journalist and politician.
Anthony had been a collector of Americana, and asked his friend John Russell Bartlett to act as his agent in the purchase of the Harris Collection from Sidney Rider.
Thereupon ensued an argument between Rider and Anthony, for Bartlett and Anthony discovered that many of the titles listed in Harris's own copy of the Index, which contained his manuscript additions, were not present.
brown.edu /Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/leaves/harrearly.html   (1646 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony Biographical Sketch
Born in Adams, Mass., on Feb. 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony was the daughter of strong-willed and independent parents.
Through her family she became acquainted with many reformers of her day, including William Lloyd Garrison and Samuel May. In the early 1850s she formed the alliance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton that was to be of such importance in the fight for woman suffrage.
Susan Anthony was also a radical abolitionist, and the antislavery movement is the main concern of her letters from 1854-1866.
specialcollections.vassar.edu /anthony/bio.html   (222 words)

  
 The Harris Collection - Henry Bowen Anthony
Henry Bowen Anthony was a senator from Rhode Island, a graduate of Brown in the Class of 1833, a collector of poetry, and a cousin of Caleb Fiske Harris.
In May, 1882, after Harris's death, Anthony began negotiations with the bookseller Sidn ey S. Rider of Providence to purchase Harris's collection of American literature.
By the end of the year he had agreed to purchase the collection, despite the fact that it was soon evident that many titles thought to be a part of the collection were not present.
www.brown.edu /Facilities/University_Library/collections/harris/Anthony.html   (283 words)

  
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Somewhat overshadowed in popular memory by her long time colleague Susan B. Anthony, Stanton was for many years the architect and author of the movement's most important strategies and documents.
In 1851, Susan B. Anthony was staying at the home of fellow Temperance worker Amelia Bloomer, while attending an anti-slavery meeting in Seneca Falls.
At the end she took to having her resolutions introduced by others, so fully was her leadership rejected by the newer forces, many of whom saw suffrage as a step toward introduction of a conservative religious social agenda that Stanton strongly and openly opposed.
www.nps.gov /wori/ecs.htm   (942 words)

  
 Votes for Women! - Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Texas State Library
Though hundreds of women participated in the early women's suffrage movement, undoubtedly the most well known were Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) and Susan B. Anthony (standing), both of New York.
Her cousin, Gerrit Smith, was a leading abolitionist, and through him and her husband, Henry Stanton, Elizabeth became involved in anti-slavery activism.
In 1851, she met Susan B. Anthony, who was involved in both the temperance and the abolitionist movement and who quickly became a leader in the drive for women's suffrage.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/suffrage/beginnings/anthony-stanton.html   (186 words)

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