Lulu Wightman

Born Lulu Irene Russell in Randolph, New York, in 1872, she became a prominent Seventh-day Adventist evangelist and public speaker. Sources describe her as especially active in New York, where her preaching helped establish new congregations, and later as a strong advocate for religious liberty.

She also wrote The Menace of Prohibition in 1916, a forceful argument against Prohibition and the social harms she believed it would bring. That combination of ministry and political conviction makes her an unusual and memorable voice from the era.

Wightman died in 1940. Although she is not widely known today, the records that survive show a determined speaker and organizer whose work reached beyond the church into larger public questions about law, conscience, and personal freedom.