Elizabeth Lownes Rust

Elizabeth Lownes Rust
Born	Elizabeth Lownes 1835 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died	3 Oct 1899 (aged 63–64) Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Resting place	Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Artist, philanthropist, letter writer
Spouse	Richard S. Rust ​ (m. 1875)​
Children	Richard Hubbard Rust
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Elizabeth Lownes Rust (née, Lownes; 1835 – October 3, 1899) was a 19th-century American philanthropist, humanitarian, and Christian missionary. She conceived the idea of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,^[1] and as its corresponding secretary for nearly twenty years, she helped to shape its policies.^[2] Rust is remembered as a woman of vision. Rust died in 1899.