Mary Evalin Warren

Mary Evalin Warren
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Mary Evalin West March 14, 1829 Galway, New York, U.S.
Died	October 16, 1904 (aged 75) Fox Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.
Resting place	Riverside Memorial Park, Fox Lake, Wisconsin
Occupation	author lecturer social reformer
Spouse	George Warren ​ ​ (m. 1848; died 1900)​
Children	3 sons, 1 daughter

Mary Evalin Warren (née, West; March 14, 1829 – October 16, 1904) was an American author, lecturer, and social reformer, but was equally prominent as a church member and representative and officer in societies.^[1] Warren, for many years prominent in temperance reform, was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) from its first organization and she had a field of her own for propagating the work at Wayland University, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where she furnished money to erect a dormitory for girls called the "Warren Cottage.” She joined the Good Templars' order in 1878 and filled all the subordinate lodge offices to which women usually aspired, and as grand-vice-templar, she lectured to large audiences in nearly all parts of Wisconsin.^[2] For 35 years, she resided near Fox Lake, Wisconsin where she was prominently identified with various charitable and literary associations.^[3]