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Anna Rice Powell
Judith Anna Powell Rice (February 15, 1834 – March 27, 1915) was an American educator and activist in the causes of temperance, abolition, social purity, and women's suffrage. Early life and education Rice was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the daughter of Sewell Rice and Hannah Drew Washburn Rice. She trained as a teacher at the Oread Collegiate Institute. Activism Abolition and suffrage Rice was a school teacher in Utica, New York in the 1850s. She was elected president of the Ghent Anti-Slavery Society in 1861, and active in the New England Anti-Slavery Convention. She co-founded New Jersey's first women's club in 1872. She was president of the Union County Woman Suffrage Association, and both she and her husband were active in the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. In 1899, she published her late husband's memoir, ''Personal Reminiscences of the Anti-slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers.'' Social purity and temperance Powell worked with the Society of Friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Macy Powell
According to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron ( or ) was an Israelite prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Gospel of Luke, Luke, Acts, and Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews), and the Quran. The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the Land of Goshen, northeastern region of the Nile Delta. When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the Slavery in ancient Egypt, enslavement of the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman to the Pharaoh. Part of the Law given to Moses at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of Israel, High Priest of the Israelites. Levite, Levitical priests or ''Kohen, kohanim'' are traditionally believed and halakha, halakhically requ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
