e state-by-state. Concerned about NAWSA’s future leadership, Anthony spent enormous energy cultivating the most capable of its young women leaders. The most promising of these candidates were Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw, both of whom eventually served as NAWSA presidents.14Two weeks before her 87th birthday, Stanton died of heart failure on October 26, 1902. Anthony was inconsolable. “I am too crushed to speak,” 15she told a reporter. Anthony’s health was failing, too. In 1900, at age 80, she had suffered a stroke. Though her doctor had warned her to take better care of herself, she decided it would be better to “die in the harness” than to abandon her work.16 She was no longer president of NAWSA but still supervised most of its management. In February 1906, the 86-year-old Anthony, ill and weary, delivered her final speech at the annual NAWSA convention in Baltimore. She reminded NAWSA suffragists that the day of women’s enfranchisement was at hand and that they must not fail. Anthony died on March 13th. 17It wasn’t until fourteen years after Anthony’s death that the 19th amendment was passed and even though the two women were not around to see their final accomplishment. They will always be remembered for their great accomplishments that made it possible for all women to cast their votes and be considered as equ...
