Mildred Moody Eakin

Mildred Olivia Moody Eakin was born and raised in Wilson, New York. In 1910, after graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in English and History, she began teaching school in Wilson, New York. In 1916, she left teaching to become assistant national secretary at the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In 1919 she moved to Kansas City to work with the Methodist Episcopal Church's agency for children's education. In 1921, she moved to Chicago to become superintendent of the church's …