{"id":515,"date":"2012-05-01T23:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T03:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/?page_id=515"},"modified":"2012-05-01T23:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T03:08:28","slug":"a-brother-a-jayhawk-a-man-with-purpose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/a-brother-a-jayhawk-a-man-with-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"A brother, a Jayhawk, a man with purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Daniel Read Anthony finds his way into the history books, he is most often mentioned as being the younger brother of famous Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. This is true, but his life\"\"<\/a>\u00a0story independent of his sister is itself compelling and his accomplishments impressive. Unfortunately, this story has been very sparsely documented by historians of the last half-century. He lacks a definitive biography and there hasn’t been a major publication to cover him extensively for nearly forty years.<\/p>\n

Born in 1824 in Adams, MA to\u00a0a Quaker father<\/a>\u00a0and non-Quaker mother, Anthony, like his sister, was marked from the beginning as a remarkable individual. His childhood was spent in\u00a0Western Massachusetts and upstate New York<\/a>\u00a0before moving to Leavenworth, KS as an adult. He\u00a0first went to Kansas<\/a>\u00a0as part of Eli Thayer’s Emigrant Aid Society in 1854, and moved there permanently\u00a0in 1857. As a prominent Leavenworth citizen, he played a\u00a0critical role<\/a>\u00a0in making Kansas a\u00a0state free of slavery<\/a>. When the Union was torn asunder by war, Anthony\u00a0fought to restore her<\/a>, bringing to the battlefield great conviction and hatred for the Confederacy, and of slavery. As a Lt. Col. in the 7th Volunteer Kansas Cavalry regiment, Anthony\u00a0took emancipation into his own hands<\/a>\u00a0well before the Emancipation Proclamation,\u00a0risking his position<\/a>\u00a0in the process.Besides his war on behalf of the African-Americans, Anthony worked\u00a0\"\"as a newspaper editor and owner. Over the course of the 1860s-1870s, he built for himself a\u00a0newspaper empire<\/a>\u00a0in Leavenworth that three subsequent generations of his family would control. One of the strongest personalities to ever put pen (or type) to paper, Anthony waged journalistic\u00a0blitzkrieg\u00a0against the everything from drunkenness to Democrats. Though a staunch Republican, he never hesitated to\u00a0apply his own harsh principles<\/a>\u00a0to fellow members of the Party of Lincoln. No wonder, after he died in 1904, it was written on his gravestone that\u00a0“He was no Hypocrite.”<\/a><\/p>\n

This website is devoted to telling some of these stories in order to document a portion of the extraordinary life D.R. Anthony led. He deserves a place in the pages of American history as force that endured and shaped nearly fifty years of Kansas affairs. His enemies, and his supporters and detractors were equal in their passion. He was a man of purpose, willing to\u00a0seize\u00a0whatever opportunity would enable him to further his goals, traits that are similar to his older sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Daniel Read Anthony finds his way into the history books, he is most often mentioned as being the younger brother of famous Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. This is true, but his life\u00a0story independent of his sister is itself compelling … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}