Lucia H. Faxon Additon

Lucia H. Faxon Additon (née, Faxon; September 28, 1847 – January 4, 1919) was an American writer, music teacher, and Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) official. In addition to being a pioneer in WCTU work on the Pacific Coast, she was known as a leader in philanthropic, education, and religious work. Additon was also a clubwoman, being the founder and president of the Woman's Press Club of Oregon, and State chair of Industrial Relations in the Oregon Federation of Woman's Clubs.[1][2][3]

Lucia H. Faxon Additon
Portrait photograph of middle-aged white woman.
Born
Lucia Hatch Faxon

September 28, 1847
Abington, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 4, 1919
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Occupations
  • writer
  • teacher
  • social reformer
OrganizationWoman's Christian Temperance Union
Notable workTwenty eventful years of the Oregon Woman's Christian temperance union, 1880-1900
Political partyProhibition Party
Movementtemperance
Spouse
Otis Richmond Additon
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(m. 1867; died 1914)​
FamilyFaxon
Signature

Early life and education

Lucia Hatch Faxon was born in Abington, Massachusetts, September 28, 1847.[1] Her parents were Lucius and Harriet (Jones) Faxon, of the old Faxon family.[4] She had nine siblings.[2]

Following her common school education, she entered the academy in Abington, and after her graduation, devoted herself to the study of music.[1]

Career

She was for many years a professional teacher of music.[1]

In Abington, on June 5, 1867, she married Otis Richmond Additon (1843-1914).[5] In 1880,[6] the couple and their son, Alton Sydney Abington (1871-1914)[2] removed to Corvallis, Oregon where Mr. Additon was in the mercantile business.[4] Mrs. Additon was a young mother and a busy music teacher. "I felt I must do something," was her later explanation of her temperance activism. "There were seven saloons and a brewery in town, and I had a boy to raise."[1]

At the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the WCTU, in Nashville, Tennessee, November 1887, Additon's writing of verse and music were noted.[7] At the Twnty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the WCTU, held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, November 1898, Additon reported on her Oregon state work, which included 30 lectures, 8 sermons, 6 parlor meeting, 13 woman's meetings, 18 addresses, 3 county conventions, 22 personal visits, and 3 medal presentations. She also indicated that she had organized the first WCTU among African Americans on the Pacific Coast, as far as she was informed; it was called the Lucy Thurman WCTU of Oregon.[8]

(1904)

The World's Temperance Centennial Congress was held in Saratoga Springs, New York, June 1908. Its Woman's Congress, or Round Table, held each afternoon, was under Additon's leadership. Her address on labor conditions, and their relation to the temperance reform, was heard by a large audience.[9]

By 1912, Additon was living in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon,[2] where Mr. Additon engaged in the real estate business and where the couple held considerable property.[4] For four years, she served as president of the Oregon WCTU,[2] and it was during this time that she established the State WCTU paper. She subsequently became a National WCTU organizer, then associate superintendent of the department of Temperance and Labor, later serving as National Superintendent. She made an exhaustive study of the labor problem as correlated with the temperance problem, and her writing on this subject were recognized as valuable educational literature.[1]

(1919)

Additon was the founder and for ten years president of the Woman's Press Club of Oregon. She also served as State chair of Industrial Relations in the Oregon Federation of Woman's Clubs,[1] and was at the head of the social science department of the Woman's Club of Portland. She was named as one of the woman delegates to represent the state at the Astoria, Oregon Centennial in 1911.[2]

She was, in 1914, the Prohibition Party candidate for state representative from Multnomah County. During her campaign, she promoted herself as, for 25 years, having made a special study of economic and labor issues; she specialized in social welfare work, lecturing along the lines of social science and reform; and she favored prison reform. Her slogans for the campaign were, "Common sense in legislation" and "Efficiency in administration".[6] In 1916, she made a six month trip to New York City and Boston for research into social conditions in connection with the Oregon state WCTU and the Federation of Women's Clubs.[10]

Twenty eventful years of the Oregon Woman's Christian temperance union, 1880-1900.

Besides contributing frequently to temperance and other periodicals, she was the author of several books on general subjects,[1] as well as a history of the 20 eventful years of WCTU in Oregon.[4]

Personal life

In religion, she was a life-long member of the Swedenborgian church.[11]

Lucia Hatch Faxon Additon died of pneumonia at the East Side Sanitarium,[4] in Portland, Oregon, January 4, 1919.[1]

Selected works
  • Twenty eventful years of the Oregon Woman's Christian temperance union, 1880-1900. Statistical, historical and biographical. Portraits of prominent pioneer workers (1904)
  • The ministry of flowers
  • For the farm ... and fireside

Articles
  • "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union" (1905)[12]
  • "Industrial and Social Conditions" (1916)[13]

References
  1. Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1925). Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem. Vol. 1. American Issue Publishing Company. pp. 51–52. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. Gaston, Joseph (1912). The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912: (with Notice of Antecedent Explorations). Vol. 2. Chicago: S.J. Clarke. pp. 96, 101. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. Willard, Mary Bannister; Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Ames, Julia A.; West, Mary Allen; Stevens, Lillian M. N. Ames; Boole, Ella Alexander; Smith, Ida Belle Wise; Colvin, Mrs D. Leigh; Hays, Mrs Glenn G.; Edgar, Mrs Kermit S. (23 January 1919). "LUCIA FAXON ADDITON PROMOTED". Union Signal and World's White Ribbon. Vol. 45, no. 4. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. "MRS. L. F. ADDITON, NATIONAL OFFICER W.C.T.U., PASSES. Prominent Portland Woman Also Was President of Woman's Press Club". The Oregon Daily Journal. 5 January 1919. p. 3. Retrieved 19 July 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. "Lucia Hatch Faxon 28 September 1847 – 4 January 1919 • K4TC-ZXX". ident.familysearch.org. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  6. "Woman Candidate Is Now Preparing For An Active Campaign. Miss Lucia Additon Out for Representative on Prohibition Party Ticket". The Oregon Daily Journal. 26 September 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 19 July 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, ed. (1888). Minutes of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union at The... Annual Meeting in ... with Addresses, Reports, and Constitutions. p. cclxx. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, ed. (1898). Report of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union ... Annual Meeting. Vol. 25. Woman's Temperance Publishing Ass'n. pp. 176–77. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  9. Durkee, Jacob Hilton (1908). "XIV. Woman's Round Table Section". History of the World's Temperance Centennial Congress and Memorial of Dr. Billy J. Clark: Held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June 14-23, 1908. Press of Spinning, Davis & Steele. p. 187. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. "Problems of Child Welfare Studied in New York Mission. Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon Returns From metropolis Benefited by New Ideas". The Oregon Daily Journal. 11 December 1916. p. 11. Retrieved 19 July 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  11. "Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon". The Oregon Daily Journal. 7 January 1919. p. 4. Retrieved 19 July 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  12. Douthit, Mary Osborn (1905). "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, by Mrs. Lucia H. Faxon Additon". The Souvenir of Western Women. Presses of Anderson & Duniway Company. pp. 159–60. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  13. Additon, Lucia Faxon (July 1916). "Industrial and Social Conditions". General Federation of Women's Clubs Magazine. Vol. XV, no. 7. General Federation Magazine. p. 14. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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