Martha McClellan Brown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Martha McClellan Brown

American educator, reformer, editor

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1838

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 31-Aug-1916

Profession: writer, politician, newspaper editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Martha McClellan Brown

  • Martha McClellan Brown (April 16, 1838 – August 31, 1916) was a lecturer, educator, reformer, newspaper editor, and major leader in the temperance movement in Ohio.In 1861, Brown joined the fraternal organization Independent Order of Good Templars, beginning her temperance career.
  • The organization promoted total abstinence and state prohibition.
  • In 1868, she was editor of a local newspaper in Alliance, Ohio, The Alliance Monitor, where she and her husband turned it into a temperance publication during their tenure until 1878.
  • She served as Grand Templar of Ohio from 1872-1873.
  • Brown helped form the Women’s Temperance Association of Ohio in 1874 by drafting a plan and called for a convention in November 1874 after realizing new supporters of the temperance movement were unwilling to join the Good Templars.
  • At the convention, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded.
  • She wanted to be president of the new organization, but the post went to Annie Turner Wittenmyer because of Brown's ties to the Good Templars.
  • In 1876, Brown was named vice president of the Prohibition Party and advocated for women’s suffrage as part of the platform.
  • She moved to New York City in 1877, leaving her family in Pittsburgh and spending her time as secretary of the National Prohibition Alliance.
  • Brown broke with the party in 1896 when the party dropped its commitment to suffrage.Brown served as vice-president of the Cincinnati Wesleyan Women's College from 1882 to 1892.
  • In Cincinnati, she became prominent in civic affairs, including organizing school mothers’ clubs; launching a summer program from the city’s poor children; and president of the Woman’s Rotary Club in 1914.
  • She was a contributor of current articles to dallies and monthlies.

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