WOODBRIDGE, Mrs. Mary A. Brayton

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Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge, born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on April 21, 1830, was a temperance reformer.  She married Frederick Wells Woodbridge when she was seventeen years old, and the couple settled in Cleveland, Ohio.  Mary became a mother, and her family eventually lived in Ravenna, Ohio.

Rev. Aaron Merritt Hills, Frances E. Willard, and others wrote about Mary's life in Life and Labors of Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge.  She was very active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and edited The Amendment Herald.  Mary's personal network included President James A. Garfield, Universalist minister and author Phebe A. Hanaford, astronomer Maria Mitchell, and educator Horace Mann.

She passed away on October 25, 1894.

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