Martha McClellan Brown

Martha McClellan Brown

Martha McClellan Brown (6 April 1838 – 31 August 1916) was a major leader in the temperance movement. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she and her husband published a temperance newspaper, she was an organizer of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and was a leader of the Prohibition Party in Ohio. She served as vice-president of the Cincinnati Wesleyan Women's College.

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