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Eastman was a popular preacher and speaker, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. She was invited to speak at the
Congress of Women, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Her talk was entitled "The Home and Its Foundations." She gave a sermon at a session of the
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Annis Bertha Ford was born on April 24, 1852, in Peoria, Illinois. Her father, George W. Ford, was a gunsmith. Her mother, Catherine, née
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