Methodist minister and author, M. Madeline Southard was born in Kansas in 1877, the daughter of James and Madeline (Rogers) Southard. She attended Southwestern College, Winfield, Kan. (A.B. 1899) and Northwestern University (M.A. 1919) and was the founder of the American Association of Women Ministers (1919). Ordained in the Methodist Church in 1924, she had pastorates in Colorado, Montana, and Kansas, and preached throughout the United States, in the Philippines (1928, 1930, 1947-1948), and India (1931-1932, 1947-1948). She was a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Church (1920, 1924) and worked tirelessly to secure equal rights for women within the church. A national field worker for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Southard was president of the International Woman-Preachers' Association, and editor of The Woman's Pulpit, the journal of the American Association of Women Ministers. Southard was also the author of The White Slave Traffic versus the American Home (1914), The Attitude of Jesus toward Women (1927) and The Christian Message on Sex (1931). She died in Topeka in 1967.
From the description of Papers, 1892-1994 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122471531
