Augusta Merrill Hunt | |
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| Born | Augusta Merrill Barstow June 6, 1842 Portland, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | June 15, 1932 Portland, Maine |
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George S. Hunt
(m. 1863; died 1896) |
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Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842–1932) was an American philanthropist, suffragist, and temperance leader. She was identified with many of the prominent charitable organizations of Portland, Maine, notably that of the Portland Fraternity, the Associated Charities, the Home for Aged Women, the Maine Woman's Suffrage Association (M.W.S.A.), and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She was the first president of the Portland branch of the WCTU.[1][2]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "HUNT, Mrs. Augusta Merrill". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 404.
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- ^ Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary Hannah (1904). Sketches of Representative Women of New England. New England Historical Publishing Company. pp. 450–51. Retrieved 29 December 2023 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
