Annie Turner Wittenmyer

Sarah Ann Turner Wittenmyer

• American

Annie Turner Wittenmyer stood among the foremost American women of her day, known for her medical sanitation efforts during the American Civil War, charitable labors, her care for Iowa's Civil War orphans, and her long service in national reform societies. She was the first to preside over the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and later guided both the Woman's Relief Corps and the Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. - AsNotedIn