A Woman Warrior and...

• A member of the temperance movement

• Fighter for women’s rights

• Established safe cottages for abused and needy women and children

• Crusader against the selling of alcohol

• Destroyer of saloons by smashing them with her hatchet

• Founded rest homes for the homeless aged

 

She was a wife, mother, widow, entrepreneur (selling miniature pewter hatchet pins), actress and lecturer, in an era when women’s roles were limited she was doing it all!