Marion Howard Dunham | |
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| Born | Marion H. Howard December 6, 1842 Burton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | December 27, 1921 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Organization | Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
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Charles A. Dunham (m. 1873) |
Marion Howard Dunham (née, Howard; December 6, 1842 – December 27, 1921) was an American teacher, temperance activist, and suffragist.[1] She entered upon the temperance field in 1877 with the inauguration of the red ribbon movement in her state of Iowa, but believing in more permanent effort, she was the prime agitator in the organization of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). In 1883, she was elected state superintendent of the Department of Scientific Temperance and held the office for four years lecturing to institutes and general audiences on that subject most of the time. She procured the "Prohibitory law of the state of Iowa",[2] in February 1886. When the Iowa State Temperance Union began to display its opposition to the national W.C.T.U., she came to be considered a leader on the side of the minority who adhered to the national and when the majority in the state union seceded from the national union October 16, 1890, she was elected president of those remaining auxiliary to that body. She spent a large part of her time in the field lecturing on temperance.[3]
In addition to her temperance work, she was always a radical equal suffragist, who spoke and wrote much on that subject.[4] A Christian socialist and an outspoken militant, Dunhan was an asset to the Socialist women's movement.[5]
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- ^ General Assembly of the State of Iowa (1888). Legislative Documents Submitted to the General Assembly of the State of Iowa. p. 82. Retrieved 5 August 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle publishing Company. p. 675. Retrieved 5 August 2022 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "DUNHAM, Mrs. Marion Howard". 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. 263. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Buhle, Mari Jo (1983). Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01045-3. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
