Susan Hammond Barney | |
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.png) Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century | |
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| Born | Susan Hunt Hammond November 24, 1834 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 1922 (aged 87) |
| Spouse |
Joseph K. Barney (m. 1854) |
| Children | 2 |
| Denomination | Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Known for | WCTU's National Superintendent of Prison, Jail, Police, and Almshouse Visitation |
| Profession | evangelist, writer |
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| Senior posting | |
| Profession | evangelist, writer |
Susan Hammond Barney (née, Hammond; November 24, 1834 – April 29, 1922) was an American social activist and evangelist. She was the founder of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island, and due to her efforts, police matrons were secured for the station houses of large cities.[1] She worked with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and was the first president of the Rhode Island Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She was instrumental in making prohibition a constitutional enactment in Rhode Island in 1886. Barney is best remembered as the WCTU's National Superintendent of Prison, Jail, Police, and Almshouse Visitation. Her wide sympathies and ministries earned her the title of "The Prisoner's Friend."[2] It was Barney's desire to become a foreign Christian missionary, but, due to ill-health, she was not able to pursue this career; nonetheless, her first public speaking was done in the interest of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
- ^ Logan 1912, p. 669-70.
- ^ Willard 1888, p. 854-.