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Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt
American missionary and activist (1830–1912)
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Mary Clement Leavitt (1887) | |
| Born | Mary Greenleaf Clement (1830-09-22)September 22, 1830 Hopkinton, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Died | February 5, 1912(1912-02-05) (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, suffragist, women's rights activist, Temperance Evangelist Missionary |
| Spouse | Thomas Hooker Leavitt (1857-1878; divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
Mary Greenleaf Leavitt (née Clement; September 22, 1830 – February 5, 1912) was an educator and successful orator who became the first round-the-world missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Setting out on virtually non-stop worldwide tours over a decade, she "went to all continents save Antarctica,"[1] where she crusaded against alcohol and its evils including domestic violence; and advocated for women's suffrage and other equal rights such as higher e
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Lawrence N. Greenleaf
American poet
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Lawrence N. Greenleaf circa 1880 | |
| Born | Lawrence Nichols Greenleaf (1838-10-04)October 4, 1838 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | October 25, 1922(1922-10-25) (aged 84) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Resting place | Block 1, Lot 59, Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colorado), U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Peter Punever |
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| Spouse | Jennie Sophia Hammon (married March 30, 1869) |
| Children | Gardner Greenleaf, Eugene L. Greenleaf, and Rebecca Jane Greenleaf Lewis |
Lawrence Nichols Greenleaf (October 4, 1838 – October 25, 1922) was an early pioneer of Colorado. He was an entrepreneur, newspaper correspondent, comedian, poet, publisher, and Past Grand Master of Colorado Masons. He is best remembered for his poetry, especially his "The Lodge Room Over Simpkins’ Store". He has been called "poet laureate of Freemasonry"[1] and
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CHURCH HISTORY
GREENLEAF CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
When Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, stood before the Pharisees, they told Him that He could not testify on His own behalf. However, Christ said His testimony was indeed valid, “for inom know whence I came and whiter I go”, John 8:14.
Christ came down through 42 generations to be the savior for the world.
As Jesus Christ knew his history and his purposes; in ansträngande to emulate Him, we must know our own history. We know that Greenleaf Christian Church fryst vatten determined to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And another thing, we must also understand the record from whence this ministry came.
In the year of our Lord 1886, from the meager beginnings of the Sandy Plain bush shelter, what we now know as Greenleaf Christian Church by means of the servants of whom God gave a vision a bush shelter was erected in the community of Sandy Plain. After a short period of time the skyddad plats transformed from a bush