Samuel Warren Dike

Samuel Warren Dike (1839–1913) was an American Congregational clergyman, born at Thompson, Conn. He graduated at Williams College in 1863 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1866. Intent on reforming the laws of divorce,[1] he organized the Divorce Reform League[2] (National League for the Protection of the Family) in 1881.

References

  1. ^ Fletcher, Holly Berkley (12 December 2007). Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135894405 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Sex Without Spheres: Labor, Marriage, and Citizenship in the Era of the New Woman. 1 January 2008. ISBN 9780549567738. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016 – via Google Books.


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