Harriet B. Kells | |
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_(Thumb_nail_sketches,_1895).jpg) Portrait from Thumb nail sketches (1895) | |
| Born | Harriet Barfield Coulson April 19, 1842 Natchez, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | December 26, 1913 |
| Other names | nickname, "Hattie" |
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| Known for | President, Mississippi State Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| Spouse |
William Henry Kells
(m. 1864, divorced) |
Harriet B. Kells (née Coulson; 1842–1913) was an American educator and temperance activist, who served as President of the Mississippi State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and edited the National WCTU's organ. She was also a suffragist affiliated with the Mississippi Equal Rights Association,[1] and a Reconstruction feminist.[2]
- ^ Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1928). "KELLS, HARRIET BARFIELD (COULSON).". Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol IV. Kansas-Newton. Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Publishing Co. p. 1448. Retrieved 29 January 2024 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ Bond, Beverly Greene; Freeman, Sarah Wilkerson (1 July 2015). Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times—Volume 2. University of Georgia Press. pp. 194–95. ISBN 978-0-8203-4755-4. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
