Mary Chawner Woody

Mary Chawner Woody (December 22, 1846 – December 25, 1928) was an American Quaker minister, educator, and temperance leader. For ten years, she served as president of the North Carolina branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), 1884–1894. supplemented by training in the Friends' Bloomingdale Academy (Bloomingdale, Indiana), at Albion College (Albion, Michigan), At the second State convention, held in Asheville, North Carolina in October 1884, she was chosen president, a position to which she was elected to for several years thereafter. The requirements of this office were not easily met. The unsettled conditions of society, the novelty of cooperative women's enterprises, the questionings that existed everywhere about the best ways of doing temperance wor, combined to make it unusually difficult in this State, as well as all through the South.

At the time of her election to the W.C.T.U. presidency (1884), the church at home was completing its proceedings in setting her apart for the ministry.

Later teaching positions were held at Whittier College (Whittier, California) and Friends University (Wichita, Kansas).

Death Mary C. Woody died December 25, 1928, High Point, North Carolina. Interment was at New Garden Friends Cemetery, Guilford College.