Mrs. Lucia Fidelia Gillette › Tunes

Pseudonyms: Carrie Russell, Lyra, Ruth Dinsmore
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Gillette, Mrs. Lucia Woolley, was born on Ap­ril 8, 1827 in Nel­son, New York. She was minister, lecturer, author, poet. She received her education at the Casnovia seminary and the Bridgewater Academy. She was the daughter of a noted universalist minister; and was herself ordained to the ministry in 1873, becoming the first woman ordained to the Universalist ministry in the U.S. She has held the office of state missionary and of pastor; and for many years was prominent in the lecture field. In her youth she contributed to the Boston Repository and the New York Tribune. She is the author of Memoir of Rev. Edward Matt Woolley, a memoir of her Father, Pebbles From the Shore, Editorials and Other Waifs and in connection with her daughter published a volume entitle Floating Leaves. She died Oc­to­ber 14, 1905, in Stand­ing Stone, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Dianne Shapiro from Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century by Thomas William Herringshaw, published by American Publishers' Association, Chicago, 1898 and Dictionary of Universalist and Unitarian Biography by Jim Nugent (accessed online 7/25/2016 at www.uudb.org)