Susan Fessenden | |
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.jpg) Photo portrait from Thumb Nail Sketches of White Ribbon Women, 1895 | |
| Born | Susan Breese Snowden December 10, 1840 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | September 12, 1932 Northfield, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cincinnati Female Seminary |
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| Movement | temperance |
| Spouse |
John Henry Fessenden Sr.
(m. 1864; died 1922) |
| Children | 3 |
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Susan Fessenden (née, Snowden; December 10, 1840 – September 12, 1932) was an American temperance worker,[1] characterized as a progressive thinker upon all lines of reform.[2] She served as President of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), National Lecturer for the WCTU, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association. She was a leader and teacher of classes in parliamentary law. She also frequently responded to invitations to preach in Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist pulpits.[3]
- ^ Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1926). Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem. Vol. 3. American Issue Publishing Company. p. 982. Retrieved 6 August 2022 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ Chapin, Clara Christiana Morgan (1895). Thumb nail sketches of white ribbon women. Chicago : Woman's temperance publishing association. p. 83. Retrieved 6 August 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary H. (Mary Hannah); Elliott, Mary Elvira; Stimpson, Mary A.; Hoyt, Martha Seavey (1904). "Susan Breese Snowden Fessenden". Sketches of representative women of New England. Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co. pp. 391–93. Retrieved 6 August 2022 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
