Lepha Eliza Bailey
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Born | Lepha Eliza Dunton January 21, 1845 Battle Creek, Michigan,U.S. |
Died | May 1, 1924 Lake Worth, Florida,U.S. | (aged 79)
Resting place | Pinecrest Cemetery, Lake Worth |
Occupation | author, lecturer |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Battle Creek College (nowAndrews University) |
Genre | prose, verse |
Literary movement | temperance, suffrage |
Spouse |
Lewis Bailey (m.1873) |
Lepha Eliza Bailey(née,Dunton;January 21, 1845 − May 1, 1924) was an American author, lecturer, and social reformer.
Her girlhood was passed inWisconsinwhen that part of the country was a wilderness. Afterwards, she became a lecturer of national repute upontemperanceandwoman's suffrage.In 1880, she was invited to speak under the auspices of theNational Prohibition Alliance.She responded and continued to work in the eastern part of the United States until that society disbanded, and finally merged with theProhibition Party,under whose auspices she worked for years over the temperance movement.[1]
She delivered hundreds of lectures on reform subjects, and was one of the most talented leaders in the field ofprohibition.She contributed extensively to the periodical press, edited various departments in newspapers, and was the author of several works in prose and verse.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Lepha Eliza Dunton was born inBattle Creek, Michigan,January 21, 1845. Her father was of Scotch descent. Both parents were born and reared inGeorgia, Vermont,and their family consisted of nine children, all born in Georgia and Vermont, except Bailey, the youngest. From Vermont, her parents removed, with their entire family, to Battle Creek in the fall of 1840.Michiganwas at that time an unbroken wilderness.[3]
She received her education in the public schools of her native city,[4]and at Battle Creek College (which becameAndrews University).[2]
Career
[edit]Bailey became a teacher in a rural school when only fourteen years old.[4]In early life, Bailey also contributed to local papers. She was a member of many local organizations, including theWoman's Christian Temperance Union(WCTU),Sovereigns of Industry,Independent Order of Good Templars,andGrangers,and was an officer of each. When the red-ribbon movement became prominent, Bailey took an active interest in its development, and she dated her work as a speaker from her local labor for the WCTU and red-ribbon clubs.[3]
Bailey edited a department inOur Age,published at Battle Creek, continuing for three years. In 1876–77, she wrote much for theGrange Visitor,and gave talks upon the labor question before assemblies of Grangers, at that time flourishing in Michigan. In 1878, she was invited by the State amendment committee, to canvas her own county on the question of a prohibitory amendment submitted to the people. She gave 200 lectures, speaking in cities, villages, and school districts. For two years previous, Bailey had been speaking occasionally upon the temperance question and woman suffrage, but her active public work began with the amendment campaign in her own State, after which time, she was constantly in field service, having been actively engaged in every State where an amendment campaign had been inaugurated. In 1880, Bailey was invited to speak under the auspices of the National Prohibition Alliance. She responded, and worked in the field until that society disbanded, and finally merged with the Prohibition Party.[3]
Personal life
[edit]On October 21, 1873, she married Lewis Bailey, of Battle Creek. Two of their four children died in infancy.[3]
Lepha Bailey died May 1, 1924, inLake Worth, Florida,and is buried at Pinecrest Cemetery in Lake Worth.[5]
References
[edit]- ^Logan 1912,p. 670.
- ^abHerringshaw 1904,p. 66.
- ^abcdWillard & Livermore 1893,p. 45.
- ^abCherrington 1924,p. 256.
- ^"Lepha Eliza Dunton 21 January 1841 – 1 May 1924 • 97DF-QL2".ident.familysearch.org.Retrieved13 October2022.
Attribution
[edit]This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1924). "BAILEY, LEPHA ELIZA (DUNTON)".Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem.American Issue Publishing Company.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Herringshaw, Thomas William (1904)."BAILEY, LEPHA ELIZA".Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation...(Public domain ed.). American Publishers' Association.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Logan, Mrs. John A. (1912). "TEMPERANCE LEADERS. Mrs. Lepha Eliza Bailey".The Part Taken by Women in American History(Public domain ed.). Perry-Nalle publishing Company. p.670.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "BAILEY, MRS. LEPHA ELIZA".A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life(Public domain ed.). Moulton. p.45.
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