Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1919 — DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, SUFFRAGIST HEAD, DIES. [ARTICLE]

DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, SUFFRAGIST HEAD, DIES.

Philadelphia, Pa., July 2.—-Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American Woman’s Suffrage association, died at her home in Moylan, Pa., near here, at 7 o’clock this evening. She was 71 years old- L —r Dr. Shaw also was chairman of the woman’s committee on the council of national defense and recently was awarded the distinguished service medal for her work during the war. She was taken ill in Springfield, 111., about a month ago while on a lecture tour with former President William H. Taft and President Lowell, of Harvard university, in the interest of the league of nations. Pneumonia developed, and for two weeks she was confined to her room in a Springfield hospital. She returned to her home about the middle of June and apparently had»entirely recovered. Last Saturday she drove to Philadelphia in her automobile and upon her return said she was feeling “fine.” She was taken suddenly ill again yesterday with a recurrence of the disease and grew rapidly worse until the end.