Mary Torrans Lathrap

Mary Lathrap
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Mary Torrans April 25, 1838 Jackson, Michigan, U.S.
Died	January 3, 1895(1895-01-03) (aged 56) Jackson, Michigan, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Michigan
Pen name	Lena
Occupation	author preacher suffragist social reformer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Spouse	Carnett C. Lathrap ​ (m. 1864)​

Mary Lathrap (née Torrans; April 25, 1838 - January 3, 1895), pen name: Lena; known as "The Daniel Webster of Prohibition", was a 19th-century American author, preacher, suffragist, and temperance reformer. For 20 years, she was identified with the progressive women of Michigan who had temperance, purity, and prohibition as their watchwords, and the white ribbon as their badge.^[1] A licensed preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church (1871), she served as president of Michigan's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1882), co-founded the state's suffrage organization (1870), and worked on the amendment campaign (1874). She died in 1895, aged 56.^[2]