Susanna M. D. Fry | |
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| Born | Susanna Margaret Davidson February 4, 1841 Burlington, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | October 10, 1920 Bloomington, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Occupation | professor |
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| Organization | Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| Notable work | A Paradise Valley girl |
| Movement | temperance |
| Board member of | Alhambra, California school board |
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James D. Fry (m. 1868) |
Susanna M. D. Fry (née, Davidson; February 4, 1841 – October 10, 1920) was an American educator and temperance worker. Her teaching career began in the primary department of the village school, but her superior ability as a teacher led her swiftly into positions of greater responsibility.[1] Fry was a professor who held the chair of English literature at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois and at the University of Minnesota. She served as president of the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), and managing editor of The Union Signal, the organ of the National W.C.T.U. During her career as a professor and as an official of the W.C.T.U., Fry was a frequent speaker in Prohibition campaigns and at temperance conventions.[2] Fry was the only woman chosen from the Methodist church to speak before the Parliament of the World's Religions, 1893.
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