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Theresa A. Riopelle Williams 1853 ~
Mrs. Theresa A. Williams, temperance
worker and philanthropist, was born September 22, 1853, in
Detroit, Michigan, and is the daughter of J. A. and Martha
Hepburn Riopelle. She is descended on her mother's side from the
Clements of New England, through whom she has common ancestry
with Frances E. Willard, and on her father's side with the
well-known French family of Riopelles, of Detroit.
She was blest with a liberal education and a broad and generous
public spirit. She was married to Henry E. Williams on November
15, 1876, residing for many years in Washington, D. C. Mr.
Williams is assistant chief of the United States weather bureau
and has always been in the fullest accord with her temperance
and philanthropic work.
Mrs. Williams is prominently connected
with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the District of
Columbia, which she joined in 1882, and is official
parliamentarian for that body. She is president of Chapin Union,
its pioneer auxiliary, and was for many years district
treasurer. She was so efficient that an article printed in the
daily papers giving a sketch of the officers who planned the
great national convention of 1900 called her the "Sherman
Financier." She served for ten years as treasurer of the
National Missionary Association of the Universalist Church of
which society she is now the president.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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