Anna Smeed Benjamin | |
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| Born | Anna Smeed November 28, 1834 near Lockport, Niagara County, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 1, 1924 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | social reformer and activist |
| Organization | Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| Movement | Temperance movement in the United States |
Anna Smeed Benjamin (née, Smeed; November 28, 1834 – June 1, 1924) was an American social reformer and activist involved in the temperance movement.[1] After being drawn into the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she joined the temperance cause, becoming one of its best known orators. A skilled parliamentarian, in 1887, she was elected National Superintendent of the department of parliamentary uses in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). In this role, she issued a series of "Parliamentary Studies".[2] The drills which she conducted in WCTU "School of Methods" and elsewhere were popular and well attended by both men and women.[3] For ten years, she served as president of the Michigan state WCTU.[2]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "BENJAMIN, Mrs. Anna Smeed". 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. 74–75.
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