Mary Leggett Cooke

Rev.
Mary Leggett Cooke
19th-century B&W portrait photo of a woman with her hair in an up-do, wearing a dark, high-collared blouse.
Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century
Personal
Born
Mary Lydia Leggett

April 23, 1852
Cayuga County, New York
DiedAugust 17, 1938(1938-08-17) (aged 86)
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse
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(m. 1923; died 1923)​
Parent
  • Rev. William Leggett (father)
DenominationUnitarian
Alma materHarvard Divinity School
Known forMember of the Iowa Sisterhood
ProfessionMinister
Senior posting
Ordination1887
ProfessionMinister

Mary Leggett Cooke (1852–1938) was an American Unitarian minister.[1][2][3] She was a member of the Iowa Sisterhood,[4] a group of women ministers who organized eighteen Unitarian societies in several Midwestern states in the late 19th century and early 20th century.[5]

  1. ^ UUDB Admin (28 October 2000). "Cooke, George Willis". Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  2. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "LEGGETT, Miss Mary Lydia". 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. p. 456. Retrieved 24 April 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Leonard, John W. (1914). "LEGGETT, Mary Lydia". Woman's Who's who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 485. Retrieved 25 April 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ "Remembering the Iowa Sisterhood". UUA.org. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  5. ^ Hepokoski, Carol. "Women Ministers in the Prairie Star District". Bring, O Past, Your Honor. The Ministers Association of the Prairie Star District of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Retrieved April 17, 2011.