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===Later life=== [[File:Susan-b-anthony-house.jpg|thumb|left|upright|The house that Susan B. Anthony shared with her sister in Rochester. She was arrested here for voting.]] Having lived for years in hotels and with friends and relatives, Anthony agreed to settle into her sister [[Mary Stafford Anthony]]'s house in Rochester in 1891, at the age of 71.<ref>Barry (1988), pp. 262, 300.</ref> Her energy and stamina, which sometimes exhausted her co-workers, continued at a remarkable level. At age 75, she toured [[Yosemite National Park]] on the back of a mule.<ref>Harper (1898β1908), Vol. 2, [https://archive.org/stream/lifeandworksusa01harpgoog#page/n369/mode/2up p. 831].</ref> She remained as leader of the NAWSA and continued to travel extensively on suffrage work. She also engaged in local projects. In 1893, she initiated the Rochester branch of the [[Women's Educational and Industrial Union]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winningthevote.org/weiu.html|title=Women's Educational and Industrial Union|work=Western New York Suffragists: Biographies and Images|year=2000|publisher=Rochester Regional Council Library|access-date=November 7, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124121716/http://winningthevote.org/weiu.html|archive-date=November 24, 2013}}</ref> In 1898, she called a meeting of 73 local women's societies to form the Rochester Council of Women. She played a key role in raising the funds required by the [[University of Rochester]] before they would admit women students, pledging her life insurance policy to close the final funding gap.<ref>McKelvey (April 1945)], [https://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v7_1945/v7i2.pdf#page=22 pp. 22β23].</ref> In 1896, she spent eight months on the California suffrage campaign, speaking as many as three times per day in more than 30 localities. In 1900, she presided over her last NAWSA convention. During the six remaining years of her life, Anthony spoke at six more NAWSA conventions and four congressional hearings, completed the fourth volume of the ''History of Woman Suffrage'', and traveled to eighteen states and to Europe.<ref>Sherr (1995), pp. 320β321, 120.</ref> As Anthony's fame grew, some politicians (certainly not all of them) were happy to be publicly associated with her. Her seventieth birthday was celebrated at a national event in Washington with prominent members of the House and Senate in attendance.<ref>Sherr (1995), pp. 265β270, 310.</ref> Her eightieth birthday was celebrated at the [[White House]] at the invitation of President [[William McKinley]].<ref>Barry (1988), pp. 331β32.</ref>
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