Letitia Humphreys Yonge Wrenshall (????-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. Letitia Wrenshall joined the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore in the 1890s and was elected president in 1898. She was reelected year after year, until she permanently relocated to England and Harriet Lummis Smith was elected president for the 1914-1915 season. As president, she demonstrated strong organizational and leadership abilities. She went on to become a key force in the forming of other clubs such as Maryland Folk Lore Society, the Aubudon Society, the Quardriga Club, and the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association, which she served as 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
Sources
“Local Meetings and Notices.” Journal of American Folklore 11 (Sept. 1898): 239.