How Did Anna C. Wait Influence Education

Anna C. Wait received her education at the Richfield Academy and also at the Twinsburg Institute. Her husband, Walter S. Wait which was Anna's husband was associated with teaching so. Therefore, he was a teacher who in 1858 took his wife to Missouri. Waits found there only danger and hardship to such a degree that they were compelled to move to Illinois. Wait engaged in teaching. Mrs. Anna C. Wait was among the members who did things in Lincoln and the whole country. Naturally, the beginning was in the schools where she was the teacher. In 1872 in a little one-roomed house the first school was opened. The house, by the way, was also Capt. Wait’s law office. Her influence was used for other teachers. With her husband, in 1877 she organized

Wait became personally known, and no bounds can ever be placed on her wholesome, uplifting influence as a teacher and a friend of teachers. She was the one that gave form to the education thought and established the educational ideas of her part of Kansas, who made history no less than Jim Lane and John Brown. In 1880 Capt.Wait purchased a newspaper, the Beacon, which for 20 years until Mr. Wait’s death, he and his wife, assisted by their son, Alfred H. Wait, educated and published. It began its career as a Republican paper with prohibition, antimonopoly and woman suffrage for its watchwords. Later when it could no longer call itself Republican and adhere to these three principles, it let go of the Republican part and for 12 years lived successfully. The Beacon office and contents were destroyed by incendiary fire in 1901. Mrs. Wait was the power behind the press in that printing-office, helping to put every issue that strong, fearless defense of the right that is one of the world’s great joys. Mrs. Wait would have her place in Kansas history within the women edition industry. Not only was Mrs. Wait for one of the first and best teachers of Kansas, and one of the able editors; she has been a leading spirit in that greatest of all women’s work, the development of women’s suffrage movement.

In seven years, the women all over Kansas had municipal suffrage. It was the women of Lincoln backed by the weekly column in the Lincoln Beacon that did more powerfully sway the affairs of stats in those memorable years of original legislation in