Mary A. Hitchcock Wakelin

Mary A. Hitchcock Wakelin
B&W portrait photo of a woman with her wavy hair in an updo, wearing a dark high-collared blouse.
Portrait photo from "A Woman of the Century"
Born
Mary Antoinette Barnes

(1834-04-28)April 28, 1834
Rodman, Jefferson county, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 25, 1900(1900-02-25) (aged 65)
Fremont, Nebraska, U.S.
Other namesMary Antoinette Hitchcock
Occupations
  • educator
  • temperance reformer
Known forPresident, Nebraska State Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Spouses
  • Alfred Hitchcock
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    (m. 1852⁠–⁠1878)​
  • Wilson Wakelin
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    (m. 1894)​

Mary A. Hitchcock Wakelin (née, Barnes; after first marriage, Hitchcock; after second marriage, Wakelin; April 28, 1834 – February 25, 1900) was a 19th-century American educator and temperance reformer.[1] In 1874, she started the movement that resulted in the Nebraska state organization of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), serving as State President for six years.[2][3][4] It had been common talk for some years that Wakelin did not get along with her second husband; in 1900, he murdered her before he committed suicide.

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "HITCHCOCK, Mrs. Mary Antoinette". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 381–82. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). "Mary Antoinette Hitchcock". The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle Publishing Company. Retrieved October 10, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1905). "WAKELIN, MARY A. HITCHCOCK". Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century ... American Publishers' Association. p. 968. Retrieved October 10, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1926). "HITCHCOCK-WAKELIN, MARY ANTOINETTE (BARNES)". Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem. Vol. 3. American Issue Publishing Company. p. 1228. Retrieved October 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.