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Margaret McDonald Bottome was born on December 29, 1827, in New York City. She was the daughter of William and Mary (Willis) McDonald.
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Margaret McDonald Bottome was born on December 29, 1827, in New York City. She was the daughter of William and Mary (Willis) McDonald.
Margaret spent her childhood in Brooklyn and was educated at Prof. Greenleaf's school, Brooklyn Heights.
After her marriage to the Rev. Frank Bottome, a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, Margaret's interest in religious questions crystallized. For twenty-five years, she gave informal talks on Bible subjects, and was an associate editor of the Ladies' Home Journal.
This small group became the nucleus of the King's Daughters, which subsequently added men to its membership and altered its name accordingly. Each of the original ten women organized another group and each member of each succeeding group did the same until in 1907 the membership was conservatively estimated at 500, 000 in twenty-six states and five Canadian provinces.
Men and boys were admitted in 1887, in 1889 the order was incorporated under the laws of New York state, and in 1891 the term "International" was added to the name. For sixteen years, the founder of the order conducted a department in the Ladies' Home Journal called "Mrs. Bottome's Heart to Heart Talks with the King's Daughters. " The organization devoted itself chiefly to the development of character and training for Christian service. No sectarian lines were drawn.
Groups of ten met to read and pray once a month. The work, which progressed quietly and without newspaper notice, included a variety of philanthropic undertakings, including work for the aged, for seamen, home and foreign missions, outings and vacations for women and children.
In 1896, she was elected president of the Medical Missionary Society. She published A Sunshine Trip: Glimpses of the Orient in 1897, and from time to time other little books of a definite religious bent. Heart to Heart Letters, being Extracts from the Letters of Margaret Bottome to a Son (1909) was published after her death.
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In her religious denomination Margaret Bottome was a Methodist and was a leader in the Methodist Church. At some point she formed a Christian study group called King's Daughters, an outgrowth of Bottome's long-standing practice of giving informal talks on the Bible.
Margaret was well-known for her drawing room talks, Bible studies and prayer meetings. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, originator of the Lend-A-Hand movement, had planted the idea for a “sisterhood of service” before Mrs. Bottome invited several of her friends to an organizational meeting.
Margaret Bottome was a member of the Medical Missionary Society.
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“She knew in whom she believed. To her, God was her Father, Jesus was her Savior, and the Holy Spirit was her guide. She firmly believed that God was responsible for the founding of the Order and that the Holy Spirit moved and inspired its members. ”
Margaret was married to Rev. Frank Bottome, a Methodist Episcopal clergyman.