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Margaret Prior

Philanthropist; Temperance worker; First city missionary for American Female Moral Reform Society · United States · On the map · Business Professionals · Lived 1773 to 1842 · aged 69

Margaret Prior was an American humanitarian, urban missionary, moral reform worker, and writer who established a school and a soup kitchen in New York City. She was well known in New York City as one of the most successful laborers in the cause of moral reform, between the years 1835 and 1845.

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Prior was one of the originators of the American Female Moral Reform Society. She was, for a number of years, one of its managers, and was for five years in its employment as a missionary in New York City. The reports of her visits were published posthumously in Walks of usefulness, or, Reminiscences of Mrs. Margaret Prior, in 1851.

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United States
Category
Business Professionals
Type
Business Professional
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1773 to 1842 · aged 69