Celebrity Ancestry
Feminist hero Susan B. Anthony was 30 years old and living with her parents when the 1850 Census was taken. She later campaigned for women's suffrage in Kansas, where her brother served as postmaster and mayor of Leavenworth. She was arrested, tried and fined for attempting to vote in 1872 -- and vowed never to pay the fine. By the 1880 Census, it was noted that she was employed as a "lecturer." Twenty years later, for the 1900 Census, she described her job as "Woman's Suffrage." She died six years later, 14 years before women gained the right to vote.
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