Mary G. Charlton Edholm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary G. Charlton Edholm

American reformer and journalist

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1854

Place of Birth: Freeport, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 29-Nov-1935

Profession: writer, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mary G.
Charlton Edholm (October 28, 1854 – November 29, 1935) was an American reformer and journalist.
She worked as a journalist for twenty years.
Edholm was appointed World's Superintendent of Press work, at the Boston Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1891.
Much of her work was along Christian, temperance and philanthropic lines.
For many years, her work averaged 250 columns of original matter, in which every phase of the labors of the WCTU was depicted in thousands of papers in the English-speaking world.While editing the booklet, "Around the World with Jesus," by evangelist Charles Nelson Crittenton, she became interested in the rescue work among traffic-ed girls, and her book entitled The Traffic in Girls and Florence Crittenton Missions was the result.
Edholm became so interested in the plight of these betrayed and enslaved girls that she determined to make social purity work her specialty, and continued to speak and write in their behalf.
In 1886, Edholm removed to Oakland, California; by 1893, she was living in Chicago with her only son.