The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Brown, Olympia
1835–1926, American Universalist minister and woman-suffrage leader, b. Prairie Ronde, Mich.; grad. Antioch College, 1860, and the theological school of St. Lawrence Univ., 1863. She was one of the first women in America to be ordained (1863) to the ministry. For 30 years she was president of the Wisconsin Woman’s Suffrage Association. In 1873 she married Henry Willis, but retained her own name.
