matter concerning them too trivial to receive his careful attention.
In manhood and womanhood they still had turned to him above all others
for advice and comfort, even the grandchildren receiving always the
same loving care. Between husband and wife there ever had been the
deepest, truest affection. He was far ahead of his time in his
recognition of the rights of women. Years before he had written to a
brother: "Take your family into your confidence and give your wife the
purse." He was never willing to enter into any pleasure which his wife
did not share. They tell of him that once the daughters persuaded him
to remain in town on a stormy evening and go to the Hutchinson concert.
As they were driving home he said: "Never again ask me to do such a
thing; I suffered more in thinking of your mother at home alone than
any enjoyment could possibly compensate." A short time before his death
he and his wife went to Ontario Beach one afternoon and did not return
till 10 o'clock. When asked by the daughters what detained them, the
mother answered that they had a fish supper and then strolled on the
beach by moonlight; and on their laughing at her and saying she was
worse than the girls, she replied: "Your father is more of a lover
today than he was the first year of our marriage."

He was a broad, humane, great-hearted man, always mindful of the rights
of others, always standing for liberty to every human being.
Public-spirited, benevolent and genial in disposition, his loss was
widely mourned. The family's devoted friend, Rev. Samuel J. May,
conducted the funeral services, at which Frederick Douglass and several
prominent Abolitionists paid affectionate tribute, expressing "profound
reverence for Mr. Anthony's character as a man, a friend and a
citizen." Many letters of sympathy were received by Miss Anthony, but
nothing brought consolation to her heart; her best and strongest friend
was gone. Parker Pillsbury expressed her sorrow when he wrote: "You
must be stricken sore indeed in the loss of your constant helper in the
great mission to which you are devoted, your counselor, your consoler,
your all that man could be, besides the endearing relation of father.
What or who can supply the loss?"

There had not been a day in her life which had not felt his presence.
She went forth to every duty sustained by his cheery and brave
encouragement. With her father's support she could face the opposition
and calumny of the world, and w