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Mary Stafford Anthony
Mary Stafford Anthony (April 2, 1827 – February 5, 1907) was an American suffragist who lived the suffragist’s message. She became a teacher and a women’s rights activist. She became a principal in the Rochester school district and was involved in many organizations such as: the New York Women’s Suffrage Association, the Red Cross, and the Christian Temperance League. She founded the _____________, later renamed; the Political Equality Club and served as its president for eleven years. Mary Anthony was truly a remarkable individual during a time when women were neither viewed as individuals nor capable of individual achievements on their own (source needed). Mary Anthony pursued life, liberty, and stability for herself, her family, and society as a whole, but mainly the women’s role. Mary was the youngest sister of Susan B. Anthony.

Career
Pursuing her own path of stability, she entered the private and public spheres separating women’s work done in the home and men’s work done in the marketplace. Her paid public work included her profession as a teacher, in the Rochester public school system, which eventually, earned her the title of principle (title of school) for eleven years. Her unpaid public work included her affiliations to organizations, such as a life member of The National Woman’s Suffrage Association. Her devoted unpaid private work included the occupation of homemaker, which meant that she….. Mary represented both spheres of work. Historians wrote that, “ she was a businessperson with a mind as good as her fathers” and a dutiful women with a heart cared for her sick mother.