Margaret E. Winslow

Margaret E. Winslow was an American activist, editor, and author born in New York City in 1836. Educated at the Abbot Institution and the Packer Collegiate Institute, she spent much of her life in Brooklyn and Saugerties, New York, and taught at Packer for twelve years before moving more fully into reform work.

She became deeply involved in the temperance movement in the 1870s and was present at the March 17, 1874 meeting at which the first Brooklyn Woman's Christian Temperance Union was organized. She later served, at two different times, as editor-in-chief of Our Union, the national paper of the WCTU, and is remembered as one of its longest-serving chief editors.

Alongside her activism, she wrote widely in several forms, including nonfiction, poetry, and hymns, as well as books connected to temperance and moral reform. She lived an unusually long life, dying in 1936, and her work still survives through public-domain editions and audiobook recordings.