Margaret Anderson Watts
Margaret Anderson Watts | |
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Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Margaret Mills Anderson September 3, 1832 near Danville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | April 30, 1905 (aged 72) Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Resting place | Bellevue Cemetery, Danville, Kentucky |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Metaphysical College |
| Literary movement | Women's Rights Movement of the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries |
| Spouse |
Robert Augustine Watts
(m. 1851; died 1896) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Simeon H. Anderson |
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Margaret Anderson Watts (née, Anderson; September 3, 1832 – April 30, 1905) was an American social reformer in the temperance movement, writer, and clubwoman. She was a deep thinker on the most advanced social and religious topics of her day, and occasionally published her views on woman in her political and civil relations. She was the first Kentucky woman who wrote and advocated the equal rights of woman before the law, and who argued for the higher education of woman. She served as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Kentucky, and as the National WCTU's Superintendent of police matrons.