Susan Fessenden

Susan Fessenden (, Snowden; December 10, 1840 – September 12, 1932) was an American temperance worker, characterized as a progressive thinker upon all lines of reform. She served as President of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), National Lecturer for the WCTU, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association. She was a leader and teacher of classes in parliamentary law. She also frequently responded to invitations to preach in Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist pulpits.

Early life and education Susan Breese Snowden was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10, 1840. of Concord, New Hampshire. Her three children—Cornelia Snowden (b. 1864), Elizabeth Mitchell (b. 1866), and William Chaftin (b. 1869)—were born in Cincinnati, and until they had completed their education the mother's chief interest was in them and in her home life.