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Woman of the Century — Julia Colman (1893)

She is now superintendent of the health department of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, with her office in the Bible House, New York City, where it has been for years. From girlhood she has been a devout evangelical Christian, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her main object in all her philanthropic work is to aid others in attaining a physical development which shall enable them better to serve God, themselves and their fellow men.
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Woman of the Century — Julia Colman (1893)

Other engagements prevented her from Liking an active part in the uprising, but in 1875 she entered the local work and originated the first "temperance school." JULIA COLMAN, That marked a new departure in the temperance work among the children, in that it was largely intellectual, the scholars being arranged in classes, reciting to teachers and reviewed by a superintendent, aided throughout by the systematized use of text-books, tracts, charts and experiments.
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