Angie F. Newman

Angie F. Newman ( Thurston; after first marriage, Kilgore; after second marriage, Newman; December 4, 1837 – April 15, 1910) was an American social reform activist who worked as a lecturer, temperance leader, and writer during the long nineteenth century. She served as Superintendent of Jails and Prisons, and also of flower mission work for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU); and as Vice-president General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was an acting member of the National Council of Women and the Woman's Relief Corps. Newman was the first woman delegate ever elected to the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). She was appointed Western Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the MEC and also worked for the MEC's National Home Missionary Society.

Early life and education Angelia Louise French Thurston, nicknamed "Angie", was born in Montpelier, Vermont on December 4, 1837

Her interest in missions, home and foreign, led to her appointment as Western Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the MEC, a position she held from December 1871, until May 1879. In this interest, she traveled and lectured in every section of the U.S. During the same period, she also served on the editorial staff of The Heathen Woman's Friend, a missionary periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts.