Susan B. Anthony Dies in Rochester

Susan B. Anthony died at her home at 17 Madison Street in Rochester on March 13, 1906, at the age of 86, of heart failure and pneumonia. She had lived in the red brick house for forty years, and it was in a second-floor bedroom there that she took her last breath. Just a month earlier, at her 86th birthday celebration, she had told the room not to give up the fight, closing with the line that outlived her: "Failure is impossible." Thirty-four years before that, in the same city, she had walked into a Rochester barbershop turned polling place, registered, and voted in the 1872 presidential election, an act that got her arrested by a federal marshal and fined $100 she refused ever to pay. She did not live to see the 19th Amendment; American women got the vote in 1920.