Daniel Read Anthony (August 22, 1824 – November 12, 1904) was an American publisher, women's suffragist, and abolitionist.

[4] Around this same time Anthony was involved with the Underground Railroad in Leavenworth, helping William Dominick Matthews, a freedman, provide refuge to escaped slaves.

[4] In 1861, rival publisher Robert C. Satterlee of the Kansas Herald accused Anthony of being a coward.

[4] During the American Civil War, in 1861 and 1862, Anthony served as a lieutenant colonel in the Union 7th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.

In 1866, he was removed as postmaster because he did not support Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson, whom he thought too accommodating of the South.

In 1875, William Embry, rival editor of the Daily Appeal, shot Anthony at the Leavenworth Opera House, seriously wounding him.

[4] After recovering from his injuries, in 1876 Anthony bought the Leavenworth Commercial, gaining a monopoly on local newspapers.

Many Leavenworth residents raised money by "nickel subscription" to pay the $100 fine for the man charged with horsewhipping.

[6] The Anthony family home in Adams, Massachusetts, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.