Sarah Jane Corson Downs

Sarah Jane Corson Downs (, Corson; also known as "Mother Downs"; December 19, 1822 – November 10/11, 1891) was a 19th-century American temperance activist and social reformer. She was one of the best-known temperance advocates in the U.S., and was the state organizer in New Jersey of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Since the organization of the State union, she served as its president. She was also an active worker in the church. Central in her life was Evangelical Methodism. Downs traveled thousands of miles up and down the State of New Jersey, wrote voluminously, and spoke at hundreds of gatherings. She always took an active part in the services of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Her parents were Ann Somers (Addis) Corson (1782–1867) and James Corson (1784–1827). Sarah's siblings were Thomas, John, and Elizabeth. Her ancestry is traced to Dutch (Neswinger, White, and Corson) and English (Addis and Taylor) forebears. Interment was in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey.

Her biographer, Jacob Bentley Graw, published Life of Mrs. S. J. C. Downs: Or, Ten Years at the Head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New Jersey in the following year.