Mary Boyce Temple
Mary Boyce Temple was an American philanthropist and socialite, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the first president of the Ossoli Circle, the oldest federated womens club in the South, and published a biography of the clubs namesake, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, in 1886. She also cofounded the Tennessee Womans Press and Authors Club, the Knoxville Writers Club, and the Knox County chapter of the League of Women Voters. She represented Tennessee at various international events, including the Paris Exposition of 1900 and at the dedication of the Panama Canal in 1903.
Temple was born in Knoxville in 1856, the only child of Oliver Perry Temple and Scotia Caledonia Hume. Her father was a powerful Knoxville attorney who, at one point after the Civil War, had the highest personal income in Knox County. During Temples early years, her parents home, Melrose, was a center of the citys social life, where guests such as Governor William G. Brownlow, presidential candidate John Bell, and Civil War generals John G. Foster and Ulysses S. Grant were entertained.
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