Amelia M. Starkweather

Amelia M. Starkweather
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornAmelia Minerva Starkweather
July 9, 1840
Starkville, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 28, 1926 (aged 85)
East Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
OccupationEducator, author
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Notable works
  • Tomtits and Other Bits
  • Leaves from the City Beautiful
Spouse
Jacob Flint Starkweather
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(m. 1910)​
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Amelia Minerva Starkweather (née Starkweather; July 9, 1840 – March 28, 1926) was an American educator and author who was a lifelong worker in philanthropic and charitable enterprises, and highly successful in evangelistic meetings.[1]

In addition to her teaching career, she worked as a traveling financial agent for Children's Home and Old People's Home, served as a superintendent of a Sunday school with 400 students, gave lectures and was engaged in evangelistic work. She was active in Sunday school, literary societies, church and prayer meetings, developing literary entertainments for church and Sunday school, and reading at such places.

She wrote many hymns which appeared in Sunday school song books and temperance songs with music by Edna G. Young. Starkweather was the author of a children's book, Tomtits and Other Bits and a volume of poems, Leaves from the City Beautiful, as well as two leaflets, Inasmuch, and His Eye Is On Me;[2][1]

  1. ^ a b Marquis 1915, p. 1013.
  2. ^ Leonard 1914, p. 774.