Rebecca Ballard Chambers

Rebecca Ballard Chambers (March 29, 1858 – April 14, 1920) was an American journalist and social reformer. She served as the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin, a temperance movement newspaper in Pennsylvania, and as president of the state's branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[1][2]

Rebecca Ballard Chambers (1899)
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Biography

Rebecca Lavinia Ballard was born in Ohio, March 29, 1858. She was educated at the Putnam Female Seminary of that state. She married Samuel Kemble Chambers (d. 1917) in 1877, and they had two daughters, Mary and Helen.[3] Widowed, she died at her home in West Grove, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1920.[4] 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.[3]

References
  1. Chase 1899, p. 91, 96.
  2. Friends Intelligencer 1898, p. 778.
  3. "Chambers family papers" (PDF). Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  4. "CHAMBERS". Newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 17 April 1920. p. 17. Retrieved 30 December 2020.

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