Margaret Ashmore Sudduth | |
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Born | Margaret Ashmore June 29, 1859 Mason County, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | September 21, 1957 Los Angeles County, California, U.S. | (aged 98)
Resting place | Olivewood Memorial Park, Riverside, California, U.S. |
Occupation | educator, editor, temperance advocate |
Alma mater | Illinois Wesleyan University, Wellesley College |
Margaret Ashmore Sudduth (June 29, 1859 – September 21, 1957) was an American educator, editor, and temperance advocate. She was the senior editor upon the staff of the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, overseeing The Union Signal.
Sudduth was called in July 1887 to a position as editor of Oak and Ivy Leaf, organ of the Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Y. W. C. T. U.), and soon became associate editor of The Union Signal also. In 1892, on her appointment as managing editor of The Union Signal, she resigned her connection with the young woman's paper.[1]