Rebecca Ballard Chambers
Rebecca Ballard Chambers was an American journalist and social reformer. She served as the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin, a Temperance movement in [the United States|temperance movement] newspaper in Pennsylvania, and as president of the state's branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Biography
Rebecca Lavinia Ballard was born in Ohio, March 29, 1858. She was educated at the Putnam Female Seminary of that state.Chambers first entered reform work during the "crusade" in 1873, being herself an "original crusader", with her mother, who was secretary of the Canton Crusaders.
In October 1900, at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, while serving as State President of the Pennsylvania WCTU, she delivered the annual address to the attending delegates. At the time, the state membership totalled 16,607, with 13,000 additional members of young women and the children's union.
She married Samuel Kemble Chambers in 1877, president of the West Grove National Bank. They had two daughters, Mary and Helen.
Death and legacy
She died at her home in West Grove, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1920. Interment was at the cemetery adjoining the West Grove Presbyterian Church, in West Grove.Her papers, including her 1875-76 Putnam Seminary book, as well as European travel diaries and ephemera of 1895 and 1900, are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Attribution
Category:1920 deaths
Category:19th-century American newspaper editors
Category:Presidents of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Category:Journalists from Ohio
Category:American women newspaper editors
Category:Editors of Pennsylvania newspapers
Category:American social reformers
Category:Temperance activists from Pennsylvania