Mary S. Anthony, first woman principal in Rochester, accepted the position on the condition that her salary equal her male predecessor since women taught for 1/4 to 1/2 a male teacher's pay at that time. Not as famous as her sister, but nonetheless an ardent suffragist, Mary Anthony wrote on her 1901 tax bill: "Enclosed find $62.63 city tax which I pay under protest, still believing that taxation without representation is as great a tyranny today...as it was in 1776... Yours for Equal Rights...."