Elizabeth Putnam Gordon | |
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| Born | November 25, 1851 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 30, 1933 Castile Sanitarium, Castile, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Elizabeth P. Gordon |
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| Notable work | Women torch-bearers; the story of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
Elizabeth Putnam Gordon (November 25, 1851 – November 30, 1933) was an American temperance advocate, author, and editor.[1] She held positions of authority with the Massachusetts, National, and World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) organizations. Gordon was the author of Women torch-bearers; the story of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1924), a story-history of the W.C.T.U.'s fifty years of activity. It was the first time the entire history of the organization, records, documents and other data were gathered into one volume.
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "GORDON, Miss Elizabeth P.". 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. 326–27.
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