Elizabeth J. Smith | |
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.jpg) Portrait from A Woman of the Century. Photo by J. J. Ryder Co. Providence, Rhode Island. | |
| Born | Eliza Jane Corscaden 1842 Suburb of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Died | July 6, 1900 Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Genre | Newspaper |
| Subject | Temperance |
| Literary movement | temperance movement |
| Notable works | Home Guard |
| Spouse |
Ransom L. Smith
(m. 1861; died 1863) |
Elizabeth J. Smith (née, Corscaden; 1842 – July 6, 1900) was a Canadian-born American social reformer and newspaper editor and publisher in Rhode Island, involved in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). She was particularly engaged with the youth of the temperance movement through the Loyal Temperance Legion, serving as editor and publisher of its organ, the Home Guard.[1]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "CORNELIUS, Mrs. Mary A.". 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. pp. 207–08.
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