Mary Osburn Adkinson | |
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| Born | Mary Almira Osburn July 28, 1843 Rush County, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | 1918 Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | social reformer |
| Employer | New Orleans University |
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Lewis Gould Adkinson
(m. 1863; died 1906) |
Mary Osburn Adkinson (July 28, 1843 – 1918) was an American social reformer active in the temperance movement.[1] She took a leading part in the organization of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Madison, Wisconsin, serving four times as its elected president. In Louisiana, she held the position of superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and matron in the New Orleans University.[2]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "ADKINSON. Mrs. Mary Osburn". 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. 8–9.
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- ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1905). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century ... American Publishers' Association. p. 26. Retrieved 15 July 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
