anna howard shaw

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Definition von anna howard shaw im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

born Feb. 14, 1847, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Eng. died July 2, 1919, Moylan, Pa., U.S. U.S. minister and suffragist. She arrived in the U.S. with her family in 1851. By age 15 she was a frontier schoolteacher, and in 1880 she became the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church. She took up the causes of temperance and woman suffrage in 1885 and became an important spokesperson for both. She earned a medical degree the next year and later served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904-15). She performed home-front war work during World War I, for which she received the Distinguished Service Medal in 1919. She died shortly before women gained the right to vote

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an·na How·ard shaw

Türkische aussprache

änı hauırd şô

Aussprache

/ˈanə ˈhouərd ˈsʜô/ /ˈænə ˈhaʊɜrd ˈʃɔː/