Martha B. O'Donnell

Martha B. O'Donnell
B&W portrait photo of a middle aged woman with her hair in an up-do, wearing a dark, high-collared blouse, her spectacles pinned to it.
Portrait from A Woman of the Century
Born
Martha Cole

February 5, 1837
Virgil, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 24, 1925
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Other names
  • Martha Barnum
  • Martha Dickinson
Alma materNew York Central College
Occupations
  • temperance activist
  • suffragist
  • newspaper & magazine editor
  • magazine publisher
OrganizationInternational Organisation of Good Templars
Spouses
  • Charles Frederick Dickinson
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    (m. 1856; died 1871)​
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    (m. 1873; died 1899)​

Martha B. O'Donnell (née Cole; after adoption, Barnum; after first marriage, Dickinson; after second marriage, O'Donnell; 1836–1925) was an American newspaper and magazine editor as well as a temperance and suffrage activist.[1] She was associated with the International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT), serving as International Superintendent of Juvenile Work,[2] and with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), where she served as president of the Lewis County, New York branch. A pioneer suffragist, O'Donnell knew and worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.[3]

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "O'DONNELL, Mrs. Martha B.". 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. 544. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ "Our international album". The International Good Templar. Vol. 20, no. 8. B.F. Parker. August 1916. p. 150. Retrieved 2 January 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference AltonEveTel1925 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).