Lucia H. Faxon Additon

Lucia Faxon Additon ( Lucia Hatch Faxon; September 28, 1847 – January 4, 1919) was an American writer, music teacher, and Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) official. In addition to being a pioneer in WCTU work on the Pacific Coast, she was known as a leader in philanthropic, education, and religious work. Additon was also a clubwoman, being the founder and president of the Woman's Press Club of Oregon, and State chair of Industrial Relations in the Oregon Federation of Woman's Clubs.

Early life and education Lucia Hatch Faxon was born in Abington, Massachusetts, September 28, 1847. In 1880, At the 25th Annual Meeting of the WCTU, held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, November 1898, Additon reported on her Oregon state work, which included 30 lectures, 8 sermons, 6 parlor meeting, 13 woman's meetings, 18 addresses, 3 county conventions, 22 personal visits, and 3 medal presentations. She also indicated that she had organized the first WCTU among African Americans on the Pacific Coast, as far as she was informed; it was called the Lucy Thurman WCTU of Oregon.

The World's Temperance Centennial Congress was held in Saratoga Springs, New York, June 1908. Its Woman's Congress, or Round Table, held each afternoon, was under Additon's leadership. Her address on labor conditions, and their relation to the temperance reform, was heard by a large audience.

By 1912, Additon was living in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, In 1916, she made a six month trip to New York City and Boston for research into social conditions in connection with the Oregon state WCTU and the Federation of Women's Clubs. Twenty eventful years of the Oregon Woman's Christian temperance union, 1880-1900. Besides contributing frequently to temperance and other periodicals, she was the author of several books on general subjects,

Lucia Hatch Faxon Additon died of pneumonia at the East Side Sanitarium, in Portland, Oregon, January 4, 1919. "Industrial and Social Conditions" (1916)