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Walker, Harriet G

reformer, philanthropist, was born Sept. 10, 1841, in Brunswick, Ohio. More than twenty years ago she turned her attention to charitable work, and is to - day associated with many of the charities of Minneapolis, Minn. For twenty years she has been secretary of the Reformatory for Women called the Bethany Home. She is president of the Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children; and is national vice-president and state president in the Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance union. She is chairman of the police matron joint committee; and in 1892 was elected to the presidency of the woman's council, which is a delegate association representing all the organized woman's work of Minneapolis.

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