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Belle Harris Bennett
American church worker
Also known as: Isabel Harris Bennett
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History & Society
- In full:
- Isabel Harris Bennett
- Born:
- Dec. 3, 1852, Whitehall, near Richmond, Ky., U.S.
- Died:
- July 20, 1922, Richmond (aged 69)
Belle Harris Bennett (born Dec. 3, 1852, Whitehall, near Richmond, Ky., U.S.—died July 20, 1922, Richmond) American church worker whose energetic efforts on behalf of Christian education and missions culminated in the granting of full lay status to women in the Southern Methodist Church. Bennett was educated privately in Kentucky and Ohio. She became a member of the Southern Methodist Church in 1876 and soon began teaching in a Sunday school. In 1889, having obtained information from the Chicago Training School for City, Home, and Foreign Missions (founded by Lucy R. Meyer for the Northern Methodist Church a few years ...(100 of 384 words)