{"id":1102,"date":"2013-09-06T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:05:46","slug":"maud-hayes-devaughn-1848-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/2013\/09\/06\/maud-hayes-devaughn-1848-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"Maud Hayes DeVaughn, 1848-1943"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/874\/2013\/10\/maud-hayes-devaughn.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2358\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Maud Hayes DeVaughn was a leader in the fight for prohibition in Akron, Ohio, and played active roles in many other organizations during her 75 years.<\/p>\n<p>DeVaughn&#8217;s 16 years as officer of the Summit County Women&#8217;s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) displayed her strong beliefs in prohibition. She served as secretary for nine years, and she retired 1933 after seven years as president.<\/p>\n<p>After her term with the WCTU was complete, DeVaughn moved over to leadership roles at the Akron and Summit County Federation of Women&#8217;s Clubs. She served as president of that organization in 1936.<\/p>\n<p>DeVaughn was also the founder and president of the South High PTA<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>DeVaughn began a radio series in 1936 that focused on Akron women and public welfare. She was a member of the Board of Maintenance of the YWCA and the Board of Goodwill Industries.<\/p>\n<p>A member of First United Brethren Church, DeVaughn died in 1943.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Photo courtesy of The University of Akron Archives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">&#8211;Jennifer Petric<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maud Hayes DeVaughn was a leader in the fight for prohibition in Akron, Ohio, and played active roles in many other organizations during her 75 years. DeVaughn&#8217;s 16 years as officer of the Summit County Women&#8217;s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) displayed her strong beliefs in prohibition. She served as secretary for nine years, and she &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/2013\/09\/06\/maud-hayes-devaughn-1848-1943\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maud Hayes DeVaughn, 1848-1943&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23509,23502,23506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression-1930-1939","category-progressive-period-1900-1919","category-twenties-1920-1929"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}