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Hilda Martindale

Irish social reform activist

Carry Nation

Carry Amelia Moore Nation was a US temperance advocate famous for being so vehemently against alcohol that she would use hatchets to smash any place that sold it.

Joyce McCartan

20th century Irish community worker

Letitia Dunbar-Harrison

20th century Irish librarian and methodist activist

Judith Ellen Foster

Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”

Mary Macnab

Canadian teacher, social activist, and author

Mary Bigelow Ingham

1800s American dedicated to teaching, missionary work, and temperance reform

Dr Amelia Yeomans

Canadian physician and social reformer

Jennie Warren Prentiss

Cleveland, Ohio educator

Louise Purington

Louise Purington was an American physician who became a leader in the temperance movement.