Euphemia Wilson Pitblado

Euphemia Wilson Pitblado
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Euphemia Wilson 1849 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	June 17, 1928 (aged 78-79)
Resting place	Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Nickname	Effie
Occupation	activist social reformer writer
Language	English
Alma mater	Winnington Hall
Subject	temperance suffrage missions education religion
Spouse	Charles Bruce Pitblado ​ ​ (m. 1866)​
Children	5

Euphemia Wilson Pitblado (née, Wilson; 1849 – June 17, 1928) was a Scottish-born American women's activist, social reformer, and writer. She traveled in Europe, Canada, and in the United States, crossing the Atlantic five times. Pitblado was a delegate to the National Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Washington, D.C., the New England Woman's Suffrage Association Conventions, the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Conventions in New York City, Denver, and Chicago, and to the annual Woman's Foreign Missionary Conventions in Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts. Her principal literary works were addresses upon temperance, suffrage, missions, education, and religion.^[1]