Mary Bynon Reese | |
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.jpg) Photo portrait from A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Mary Ann Bynon June 27, 1832 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | February 8, 1908 (aged 75) Everett, Washington, U.S. |
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| Organization | Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
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John G. Reese
(m. 1853; died 1900) |
Mary Bynon Reese (July 27, 1832 – February 8, 1908) was a leader in the U.S. temperance movement, serving as lecturer, organizer and evangelist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Ohio, Washington state, and at the national level. She was the national WCTU superintendent of the Department of Narcotics and the World WCTU's Missionary to Japan. Reese was the poet laureate of Steubenville, Ohio.[1]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "REESE, Mrs. Mary Bynon". 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. pp. 602–03.
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