Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley

Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (born July 6, 1847, Newbury, Mass., U.S.—died July 11, 1929, Visingsö, Swed.) was an American theosophist, a woman of forceful personality, who introduced charitable works and educational endeavours into the mission of the Theosophical Society in America during her leadership of that group. Katherine Westcott was educated in public schools and briefly in a convent school in Montreal. In 1888 in New York City she married her third husband, Philo B....