Emma Bourne

Emma Bourne (September 5, 1846 – October 5, 1924) was an American temperance activist and social reformer. She was a teacher in the Newark Public Schools for seven years, and for ten years later, was engaged in the life insurance business. Her subsequent activities were devoted to the promotion of the temperance cause in connection with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Since 1891, Her father, John Hill, was of English parentage. Her mother, Mary Gordon Barnett Hill, known among the temperance workers since the early days of the WCTU as "Mother Hill," was of Scotch-Huguenot ancestry. Bourne's grandmother was a Covenanter.

The New Jersey state organization of the WCTU came into being in 1874, and Bourne served as the Recording Secretary for ten years.

Emma Bourne died October 5, 1924, in Morristown, New Jersey, after two years of failing health. Interment was in Rosedale Cemetery in Orange, New Jersey.