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Anthony, Philip Frederick

patriot, statesman, was born July 2, 1730.

He held several public offices; was a member of the provincial council and of the general and state assemblies; judge of the court of common pleas; and a colonel of state militia. He was so conspicuous and ardent a patriot during the revolution that. the British offered a reward for his head. In 1776, in company with a Mr. Potts, at Warwick furnace, he successfully cast an eighteen-pounder, the first cannon ever made in America. died Sept. 20, 1801, in Lancaster, Pa.

ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL, woman suffragist, was born Feb. 15, 1820, in South Adams, Mass. Her father was a Quaker, and was proprietor of a small cotton mill, in which his daughter worked from an early age. Subsequently she attended school in Philadelphia, and taught school in the state of New York. She has participated in temperance and reformatory movements. She is chiefly known as an ardent supporter of the political enfranchisement of women. At one time she edited a paper in New York called The Revolution.