Mary Coffin Johnson | |
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Born | Mary Carol Coffin July 15, 1834 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | August 10, 1928 (aged 94) Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Earlham College |
Spouse |
Eli Johnson (m. 1858) |
Relatives | Rhoda Coffin (sister-in-law) |
Mary Coffin Johnson (née, Coffin; July 15, 1834 – August 10, 1928) was an American temperance activist and writer. She was the publisher of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union's (WCTU) first newspaper, The Union Signal. Johnson was acquainted with Abraham Lincoln, and was a friend of Henry Ward Beecher and his wife Eunice.[1]