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American newspaper editor and temperance worker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rebecca Ballard Chambers (née, Ballard; March 29, 1858 – April 14, 1920) was an American journalist and social reformer. She served as the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin, a temperance movement newspaper in Pennsylvania, and as president of the state's branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[1][2]
Rebecca Ballard Chambers | |
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Born | Rebecca Lavinia Ballard March 29, 1858 Ohio, U.S. |
Died | April 14, 1920 West Grove, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Putnam Female Seminary |
Spouse |
Samuel Kemble Chambers
(m. 1877; died 1917) |
Children | 2 daughters |
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Rebecca Lavinia Ballard was born in Ohio, March 29, 1858. She was educated at the Putnam Female Seminary of that state.[3]
Chambers first entered reform work during the "crusade" in 1873, being herself an "original crusader", with her mother, who was secretary of the Canton Crusaders.[4] In October 1900, at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, while serving as State President of the Pennsylvania WCTU, she delivered the annual address to the attending delegates.[5] At the time, the state membership totalled 16,607, with 13,000 additional members of young women and the children's union.[6]
She married Samuel Kemble Chambers (d. 1917) in 1877, president of the West Grove National Bank.[7] They had two daughters, Mary and Helen.[3]
She died at her home in West Grove, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1920.[8] Interment was at the cemetery adjoining the West Grove Presbyterian Church, in West Grove.[9]
Her papers, including her 1875-76 Putnam Seminary book, as well as European travel diaries and ephemera of 1895 and 1900, are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.[3]
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