1. Susan Fessenden was an American temperance worker, characterized as a progressive thinker upon all lines of reform.
15 Facts About Susan Fessenden
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Susan Fessenden served as President of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union, National Lecturer for the WCTU, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association.
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Susan Fessenden was a leader and teacher of classes in parliamentary law.
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Susan Fessenden frequently responded to invitations to preach in Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist pulpits.
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Susan Fessenden was the daughter of Jethro and Mercy Mitchell, both of well-known Quaker families.
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Susan Fessenden was educated in the Cincinnati Female Seminary, graduating in 1857, at the age of seventeen, being the youngest member of her class.
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Susan Fessenden began to teach in the seminary immediately after graduating, and continued to teach there until her marriage in 1864.
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Susan Fessenden took part during that time in church and temperance work.
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Early in life, Susan Fessenden found that she could most effectively help the causes in which she was interested by the spoken rather than the written word; her literary work was confined to articles on vital subjects and stories for children's magazines.
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In 1871, Susan Fessenden removed from Cincinnati to Sioux City, Iowa.
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In 1882, Susan Fessenden removed to Boston, Massachusetts for the college education of her children.
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In carrying out her part of this work, it became necessary for Susan Fessenden to visit New York three times, consulting with the commissioner of immigration and addressing ministers' meetings to secure their signatures to a petition to the US government to call these people "refugees" and not "immigrants".
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In 1899, Susan Fessenden had a second great loss in the death of her only son, William, who had graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in the previous year, and had entered upon his first pastorate at New Boston, Mass.
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Susan Fessenden frequently responded to invitations to preach in Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist pulpits.
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In 1903, when Susan Fessenden revisited her old home in Sioux City, the trustees of the Samaritan Hospital gave her a reception in recognition of the fact that to her efforts they were indebted for the conception of the hospital.