Abby Fisher Leavitt | |
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| Born | Abby Fisher 1836 Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | May 23, 1897 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | temperance |
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Samuel K. Leavitt
(m. 1866; died 1894) |
Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836 – May 23, 1897) was an American social reformer and one of the prominent figures of the Ohio Women's Crusade.[1] Leavitt also served as Secretary of the Baptist Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Ohio and Treasurer of the Women's Crusade Temperance Union. She was the leader of the "Praying Band", who, in the spring of 1874, daily marched down to the esplanade of Cincinnati, visiting saloons, and holding meetings inside or outside of liquor saloons, and on one occasion, was arrested and temporarily imprisoned for her temerity.[2] She was a co-publisher of the newspaper of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). In 1891, as the "Round the World Missionary of the WCTU", the World's WCTU elected Leavitt its life president.[3]
- ^ Chapin 1895, p. 93.
- ^ DePuy 1887, p. 1044.
- ^ Cherrington 1925, p. 1525.