About Lucy Wood Butler
Lived 1820 – 1895 (aged 75). Lucy Wood Butler was an American temperance worker and executive.
Lucy Wood Butler (also known as Mrs. Allen Butler; February 18, 1820 – March 17, 1895) was a 19th-century American pioneer temperance leader. She was the first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) of New York. Butler's financial means enabled her to give her time to charitable works.
Biography Lucy Wood was born in Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York, February 18, 1820. she was president of the Presbyterian Woman's Society of Syracuse, of the Old Ladies' Home Association, and of the Foreign Missionary Society. She led a large infant class in Sunday-school for 20 years.
Lucy Wood Butler died March 17, 1895.
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American temperance leader (1820-1895)
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