About Mary Emma Macintosh
Lived 1864 – 1915 (aged 50–51). Mary Emma Macintosh was a South African temperance worker and suffragist.
Mary Emma Macintosh (31 July 1864 - 2 December 1915) was a South African suffragist. She was the first President of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union (1911–1915).
Life She studied at the Huguenot College. She married a merchant, William MacIntosh.
She was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Guild of Loyal Women, and the Empire League.
After the foundation of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union in 1911, she became the first of its two presidents.
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Who was Mary Emma Macintosh?
South African suffragist
When was Mary Emma Macintosh born?
Mary Emma Macintosh was born in 1864.
When did Mary Emma Macintosh die?
Mary Emma Macintosh died in 1915.
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Mary Emma Macintosh was a temperance worker and suffragist.
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Mary Emma Macintosh was South African.
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