Dr. Louise Chamberlain Purington | |
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| Born | Mary Louise Chamberlain July 3, 1844 Madison, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 1916 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Dillwyn Varney Purington
(m. 1866; died 1914) |
Louise C. Purington (née Chamberlain; 1844–1916) was an American physician and temperance movement leader. She collaborated with Frances Willard in the early movements and efforts of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). Purington served as National Superintendent of the W.C.T.U.'s Department of Health and Heredity. She contributed to leading periodicals, as well as publishing manuals and leaflets, in both missionary and temperance lines.[1][2]
- ^ Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary Hannah (1904). Sketches of Representative Women of New England. New England Historical Publishing Company. pp. 75–76. Retrieved 28 December 2023 – via Wikisource.
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- ^ Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American Commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 681. Retrieved 28 December 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
