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Hannah Johnston Bailey
American social reformer
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- Hannah Clark Johnston
Hannah Johnston Bailey (born July 5, 1839, Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York, U.S.—died October 23, 1923, Portland, Maine) was an American reformer who was a leading advocate of the peace movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1868 she was married to Moses Bailey, a Maine manufacturer, who died in 1882. In 1883 Bailey joined the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. From 1887 to 1916 she headed its International Department of Peace and Arbitration; she published two widely circulated monthly periodicals, the Pacific Banner and the Acorn, and also distributed hundreds of thousands of pacifist leaflets. Bailey traveled widely throughout ...(100 of 130 words)