Katie Kehm Smith | |
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| Born | Katie Kehm 1868 |
| Died | 18 September 1895 |
| Occupation(s) | Teacher, lecturer, organizer |
| Organization | Oregon State Secular Union |
| Known for | Founding the First Secular Church of Portland and its Secular Sunday School |
| Spouse | D.W. Smith |
Katie Kehm Smith (1868 – 18 September 1895)[1][2] was an American freethought lecturer and organizer.[3][2] In Samuel Porter Putnam's 400 Years of Freethought, published a year before her death, Putnam described Smith as "Probably the youngest prominent lecturer in the Freethought ranks".[3] She initiated the First Secular Church of Portland, followed by its Secular Sunday School.[3][4]
- ^ "Katherine "Katie" Kehm Smith (1868-1895)". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
- ^ a b Brandt, Patricia (1986). "Organized Free Thought in Oregon: The Oregon State Secular Union". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 87 (2): 167–204. ISSN 0030-4727. JSTOR 20614074.
- ^ a b c Putnam, Samuel Porter (1894). 400 Years of Freethought. New York: The Truth Seeker Company. pp. 805–807.
- ^ Schmidt, Leigh Eric (2021). The church of Saint Thomas Paine: a religious history of American secularism. Princeton (N.J.) Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-21725-3.