Celia Parker Woolley
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social reformer. She also served as a president of the Chicago Woman's Club and the founder of the Frederick Douglass Woman's Club.[1][2]
BiographyShe was born Celia Parker on June 14, 1848, in Toledo, Ohio. She moved to Coldwater, Michigan when she was young.[3] She later graduated from Coldwater Female Seminary and, in 1868, she was married to dentist J. H. Woolley, and in 1876 moved to Chicago. The couple had one child who died in adolescence.[4] Woolley began studies for the ministry, and became pastor of the Unitarian Church of Geneva, Illinois, 1893–1896, being ordained in 1894. She was then pastor of the Independent Liberal Church, Chicago, 1896–98. In 1904 she moved with her husband to 'Abdu'l-Bahá , then leader of the Bahá'í Faith, at the Center in September during his
journeys in the West.[8]
She was active as a lecturer and in the work of women's clubs. Some of this work emphasized literature and related biography.[4] George Eliot and Robert Browning were two interests.[4] She died in Chicago's South Side on March 9, 1918.[5] Selected works
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