Eliza Rice Hanson

Eliza Rice Hanson, born Eliza Rice Holbrook in Norridgewock, Maine, in 1825, married the Universalist minister and author John Wesley Hanson in 1846. Writing as Mrs. E. R. Hanson, she compiled Our Woman Workers (1882), a collection of biographical sketches of women noted in the Universalist church for literary, philanthropic, and religious work, based on an extensive correspondence she conducted with her subjects. The book was issued from the Chicago office of the denominational paper her husband edited, and she died at Blue Island, Illinois.

Biographical sketches of more than two hundred women 'eminent in the Universalist church for literary, philanthropic and Christian work' — preachers, writers, editors, missionaries, and reformers — compiled by Eliza Rice Hanson, wife of J. W. Hanson. The denomination ordained women earlier than any other American church of its size, and this volume is the fullest contemporary record of that female leadership: Olympia Brown, Phebe Hanaford, Mary Livermore, and scores now otherwise forgotten.

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