Thomas moved his family across the Atlantic to Massachusetts and eventually to a log cabin in the Michigan wilderness, 100 miles from the nearest railroad station, while he pursued a variety of impractical business schemes. He has been described by subsequent historians as everything from "irresponsible" to "restless, visionary and idealistic." Never satisfied with life as it was, he was always moving on to another place, hoping it would be better. Thomas proudly identified himself as a descendant of the "fighting Shaws of Scotland," but turned his own hand to the less rambunctious occupation of painting wallpaper. She was the sixth child of Thomas Shaw and Nicolas Stott Shaw. Valentine's Day in 1847 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Her entire career was a demonstration that women could be dynamic, forceful speakers and clear thinkers.
She affirmed Christianity, patriotism and motherhood, yet she passionately supported the right of women to vote and to speak from the pulpit and lecture platform. Shaw gave over 10,000 speeches during her career and was praised by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt as "the greatest orator among women the world has ever known." Part of Shaw's success lay in her ability to combine new ideas with old values. Anna Howard Shaw was a physician, social reformer, and Methodist cleric who spread the message of suffrage across the United States and won credibility for the movement at a crucial time through her extraordinary public-speaking skills. Her hair, worn in a pompadour, was prematurely white, but "her black eyes sparkled and her smile won an audience immediately," wrote an admirer in an early edition of the Dictionary of American Biography. Licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church (1871) became minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in East Dennis, Massachusetts (1878) ordained a clergywoman in the Methodist Protestant Church (1880) resigned pastorate (1885) to become, first, a freelance lecturer for suffrage and then a national lecturer for the Women's Christian Temperance Union became vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1892) and served as president (1904–15) began tenure as chair of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense (1917) embarked on final lecture tour for the League to Enforce Peace (1919). Born Anna Howard Shaw on February 14, 1847, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England died on July 2, 1919, of pneumonia at her home in Moylan, Pennsylvania daughter of Thomas Shaw and Nicolas (Stott) Shaw attended high school in Big Rapids, Michigan attended Albion College, Michigan, from fall of 1873 until 1876 graduated with a degree in divinity from the School of Theology, Boston University, 1878 Boston University, M.D., 1886. American social reformer, physician, and Methodist cleric whose lecture tours did much to promote women's suffrage throughout the U.S.
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