The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . those days, they were on terms of intimatefriendship even before the ties were made still closer by mar-riage between the two families. Both Anthonys and Laphams were Quakers as far back asthe sect was in existence. Both were families of wealth andinfluence, and when Humphrey and Hannah were marriedshe received from her parents a house and thirty acres of land,which were entailed on her children. Silver spoons are stillin the family, which were part of her dowr
The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . those days, they were on terms of intimatefriendship even before the ties were made still closer by mar-riage between the two families. Both Anthonys and Laphams were Quakers as far back asthe sect was in existence. Both were families of wealth andinfluence, and when Humphrey and Hannah were marriedshe received from her parents a house and thirty acres of land,which were entailed on her children. Silver spoons are stillin the family, which were part of her dowry more than a cen-tury ago. Hannah Lapham Anthony was a most saintly womanand, because of her beautiful religious character, was made anelder and given an exalted position on the high seat. She was a very handsome brunette and was noted for thebeauty and elegance of her Quaker attire, her bonnets alwaysbeing made in New York. Humphrey never attained thehigh seat; he was too worldly. His ambition was con-stantly to add more to his broad acres, to take a bigger drove Her oldest daiifrbter, Hannah, became a famous Quaker COCO < CO < ^ < ^- < < 2uj ^ § s o UJ o ANCESTRY, HOME AND CHILDHOOD. 7 of cattle to Boston than any of his neighbors, and to get ahigher price for his own than any other Berkshire cheesewould bring. He had a number of farms and a hundred cows,while his wife made the best cheese and was the finest house-keeper in all that part of the country. The fame of her coffeeand biscuits, apple dumplings and chicken dinners, spread farand wide. Their kitchen was forty feet long. One end wasused for the dining-room, with the table seating twenty per-sons, and in the other were the sink and the penstock,which brought water from a clear, cold spring high up in themountains. Here also were the huge fire-place, the big brickoven and the large pantry. Then there were the spacious keeping or sitting-room, with the mothers bedroom open-ing out of it, the g
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