Althea G. Quimby

Quimby taught elocution and elementary studies^[1] in Auburn and Turner, Maine, for ten years, and at the Bridgton Academy for two years.^[2]

She was a teacher and superintendent in Sunday schools, and was active in church work. For many years, she was the president of the Church Ladies' Aid.^[2] For 20 years, she served as a lay preacher (local preacher without charge)^[4] in the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[1]

Quimby was connected with various temperance reforms, especially the WCTU. She served as president of the Androscoggin County, Maine, WCTU; vice-president of the State of Maine WCTU; and, for 25 years, she served as the president of the State of Maine WCTU (1914–39). In 1927, she became a National WCTU vice president.^[1] Quimby was a delegate several times to national conventions of the WCTU. She also attended several World WCTU conventions,^[1] including the one in Tremont Temple, Boston, in 1904.^[2]

In 1922, she served as one of two Androscoggin County delegates at the Republican State Convention.^[5]

On May 18, 1884, in Auburn, she married Hon. J. Frank Quimby (died 1940). They had three sons: Israel Leroy, Clarence Paul, and Frank Brooks Quimby.^[1][2][6]

She favored woman's suffrage.^[2]

Althea G. Quimby died July 9, 1942, in Lewiston, Maine, at the age of 83.^[1]