Letitia Humphreys Yonge Wrenshall (1845-1924)
Letitia Humphreys Yonge was born in Georgia, and was married to John C Wrenshall, who served as an engineer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war, the Wrenshalls relocated to Baltimore along with many other former Southerners, finding a receptive society in the border state. Letitia Wrenshall joined the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore in the 1890s and was elected president in 1898. She was unanimously reelected to this position for the next seventeen years. As president, she demonstrated strong organizational and leadership abilities. She had the faculty of creation and the power to inspire and guide the energy of others. She went on to become a key force in the forming of other clubs such as Maryland Folk Lore Society, and the Aubudon Society. She also founded the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association in 1907 and served as its only president. She also belonged was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of London, and contributed to its journal. In the early twentieth century, she toured the country giving magic lantern lectures of her travels to Europe, accompanied by hand-colored photographic slides taken by her daughter, Katharine H. Wrenshall. Several of these lectures were published in the Baltimore Sun between April and July 1908.
Relation
John C. Wrenshall, Katharine Humphreys Wrenshall Markland
Sources
“Local Meetings and Notices.” Journal of American Folklore 11 (Sept. 1898): 239.
Contributors
Ju’waun Morgan