Margaret Ray Wickens

Margaret Ray Wickens
Photo portrait from A Woman of the Century
Born
Margaret Ray Wickens

(1843-08-03)3 August 1843
Died24 November 1918(1918-11-24) (aged 75)
Organizations
Known forNational President, Woman's Relief Corps
SpouseThomas Wiley Wickens
Children5
Parent(s)Thomas Brown and Judith Bennett

Margaret Ray Wickens (August 3, 1843 – November 24, 1918) was an American public affairs organizer, social reformer, and charitable organization leader who served as tenth National President of the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC). Eloquent, Wickins was called the "Golden-tongued orator of the Woman's Relief Corps". Her executive abilities during the years that she was actively engaged in WRC advanced the organization's patriotic work. As an orator, philanthropist and industrial worker, Wickens had no peer.[1] She served as president of the Kansas State Assembly of Rebekahs, and was active in the temperance movement, filling the role of district president of her Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for several years. She was a teacher, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and a prominent Good Templar.[1] In her later life, she held a number of state positions in Illinois.[2]

  1. ^ a b Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). National Convention 1919, pp. 194–96.
  2. ^ "Sabetha". The Kansas Democrat. 5 December 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 31 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.