Lepha Eliza Bailey

Lepha Eliza Bailey
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Lepha Eliza Dunton January 21, 1845 Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S.
Died	May 1, 1924(1924-05-01) (aged 79) Lake Worth, Florida, U.S.
Resting place	Pinecrest Cemetery, Lake Worth
Occupation	author, lecturer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Battle Creek College (now Andrews University)
Genre	prose, verse
Literary movement	temperance, suffrage
Spouse	Lewis Bailey ​ (m. 1873)​

Lepha Eliza Bailey (née, Dunton; January 21, 1845 − May 1, 1924) was an American author, lecturer, and social reformer.

Her girlhood was passed in Wisconsin when that part of the country was a wilderness. Afterwards, she became a lecturer of national repute upon temperance and woman's suffrage. In 1880, she was invited to speak under the auspices of the National Prohibition Alliance. She responded and continued to work in the eastern part of the United States until that society disbanded, and finally merged with the Prohibition Party, under whose auspices she worked for years over the temperance movement.^[1]

She delivered hundreds of lectures on reform subjects, and was one of the most talented leaders in the field of prohibition. She contributed extensively to the periodical press, edited various departments in newspapers, and was the author of several works in prose and verse.^[2]