Louise C. Purington

Louise C. Purington ( Chamberlain; 1844–1916) was an American physician and temperance movement leader. She collaborated with Frances Willard in the early movements and efforts of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Purington served as National Superintendent of the WCTU's Department of Health and Heredity. She contributed to leading periodicals, as well as publishing manuals and leaflets, in both missionary and temperance lines.

Early life and education Mary Louise Chamberlain was born near Madison, New York, July 3, 1844. The youngest child of Isaac (1808–1853) and Harriet (Putnam) Chamberlain (1809–1847),

Although she has been afflicted for several years with lessening eyesight, she maintained her deep interest in church and missionary activities to the last. Louise C. Purington died at her home in Dorchester, Boston, October 24/26, 1916.

Selected works The Literature of Missions, 1876 Medical Missions: Teaching and Healing, 1903 (text) Our Medical Work: Woman's Board of Missions, W.B.M.I., and W.B.M.P. Physicians, Trained Nurses, Hospitals, Dispensaries, Sanitation and Hygiene on the Foreign Field, 1903 The Philosophy of Fashion: What Shall We Wear?, 1903