Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay Explained

Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay (Kirkpatrick; after first marriage, Douglas; after second marriage, Lindsay; 1875–1954) was an American educator and temperance reformer. She served as Dean of Women at Due West Female College (now Erskine College),[1] and President of the North Carolina State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[2]

Early life and education

Willie Amanda Kirkpatrick was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, September 27. 1875.

She was educated in the North Carolina public schools, at Due West Female College, and at Columbia University, New York City.

Career

She was engaged in the teaching profession for thirteen years, during ten of which she was Dean of Women of the Due West Female College[3] (1904–14).

Lindsay was actively associated with the temperance movement since childhood, having joined a Band of Hope when she was but ten years of age. She became affiliated with the WCTU of North Carolina, and was for two years editor of its official organ, the North Carolina White Ribbon. For a time, she served as corresponding secretary and still later, as president of the State Union.

Lindsay was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.[4]

Personal life

She married firstly, on November 3, 1897, James Calvin Douglas (1866–1900).[5] [6] They had one daughter. She married secondly, on June 25, 1913, Rev. William B. Lindsay (b. 1872), of Chester, South Carolina.

Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay resided at Charlotte, North Carolina, where she died March 12, 1954.

Notes and References

  1. News: Mrs. Lindsay, Former Erskine Dean, 79, Dies . 29 March 2024 . The State . . 13 March 1954 . 3.
  2. Book: Cherrington . Ernest Hurst . Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol IV. Kansas-Newton . 1928 . Internet Archive . American Issue Publishing Co. . Westerville, Ohio . https://archive.org/details/standardencyclop04cher/page/1559 . 1559 . 28 March 2024 . LINDSAY, WILLIE A. (KIRKPATRICK)..
  3. Encyclopedia: Hauck . Albert . Jackson . Samuel Macauley . Sherman . Charles Colebrook . Gilmore . George William . The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day . 1911 . Funk and Wagnalls Company . 6 . 29 March 2024 . en.
  4. Book: Daughters of the American Revolution . Lineage Book . 1933 . The Society . 29 March 2024 . en . Mrs. Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay. 134198..
  5. Book: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine . 1952 . National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution . 911 . 29 March 2024 . en.
  6. Web site: Willie Amanda Kirkpatrick . www.familysearch.org . 29 March 2024.