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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Mary Leavitt Biography LEAVITT,
Mary Greenleaf (Clement) (1830-1912). An American temperance worker
and lecturer, born at Hopkinton, N. H. After graduating from the State Normal
School at West Newton, Mass., in 1851, she taught until 1857, when she married
Thomas H. Leavitt. In 1867 she established a private school. She helped to
organize the Boston Woman's Christian Temperance Union, became a member of the
executive board of the State organization, and later was lecturer for the
national organization. From 1883 to 1891 she served as secretary of the World's
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, organizing branches of the union in Europe,
Asia, Australia, Africa, and in many islands. After 1891 she was honorary life
president of the World's Union. She wrote many tracts on temperance. The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol.
XIII
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
687.
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