Euphemia Wilson Pitblado

31: 653: 307:. She had previously become a member of that church and was greatly interested in its services, especially those in which women might speak, having been deprived of that privilege in the Presbyterian Church, the church of her father. She engaged with her husband in evangelistic work, and has led his meetings and supplied his pulpit. She helped in the inquiry meetings of the Boston Tabernacle, in response to a call from Rev. 615: 594: 573: 552: 531: 668: 338:, with about sixty members. She always believed in the right of a woman with a man to equal opportunities for education and work, and to that end she advocated the advancement of women in every area of life. In their behalf, she spoke before conventions of the WCTU, woman's suffrage associations, woman's foreign missionary societies, and before the 315: 357:

She contributed articles from time to time to several papers on suffrage, temperance, missions, education, and religion. She also gave addresses before clubs and societies. She was a member of the executive committee of the New England Woman Suffrage Association and an honorary member of the

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branch of the WCTU. Pitblado was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was a charter member of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of

200:; 1849 – June 17, 1928) was a Scottish-born American women's activist, social reformer, and writer. She traveled in Europe, Canada, and in the United States, crossing the 30: 657: 326:

was inaugurated, she was ready to work with the WCTU, and was an active member ever since of that organization. While her husband was pastor of a church in

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The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893, with Portraits, Biographies and Addresses

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Her home in Edinburgh having been broken up after the death of her father, Pitblado came to the U.S. to live with her oldest sister, the wife of a

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A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life

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In the U.S., Pitblado often participated in concerts, and at one time, was leader of a choir. In religions faith, she was a Methodist.

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Minutes of the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Official Journal, Fifty-ninth Session, April 10-16, 1907

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She had two daughter and three sons, two of whom survived her, Guthrie, a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in

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school for several years. She also studied drawing and painting, but did not have much time for developing that talent.

709: 334:, and Mrs. Pitblado was invited to give temperance addresses in many towns and villages, and she organized the WCTU of 635: 714: 265: 339: 588:(in French). Vol. 1 (Public domain ed.). Au siége social de l'Union française antialcoolique. 304: 343: 327: 367: 562: 359: 273: 192: 36: 625: 604: 541: 392:

Euphemia Wilson Pitblado died June 17, 1928, and was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford.

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five times. Pitblado was a delegate to the National Woman Suffrage Association Convention in

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VII Congres International Contre l'Abus des Boissons Alcooliques, Session de Paris 1899

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League, of which she was the first president. She was also the president of the

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minister. Here, in 1866, she married Rev. Charles Bruce Pitblado, D.D., of the

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The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography

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Scottish-American women's activist and social reformer (1849–1928)

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