Martia L. Berry | |
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| Born | Martia L. Davis January 22, 1844 Portland, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | January 13, 1894 Cawker City, Kansas, U.S. |
| Resting place | Prairie Grove Cemetery, Cawker city |
| Occupation | social reformer |
Martia L. Davis Berry (née, Davis; January 22, 1844 – January 13, 1894) was a 19th-century American social reformer. From her childhood, she took for her life motto and work, "God and home and native land" in whatever opportunities might be available to her.[1] She organized the first Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church west of the Missouri River and the first woman's Club in Cawker City, Kansas. She served as State treasurer of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association and president of the sixth district of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[2][3]
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- ^ "PROGRAMME". The Goodland News. Goodland, Kansas. 29 August 1889. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2022 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
