Elizabeth G. Watson
Quaker minister, curator and theologian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Grill Watson was an American Quaker minister, curator, and feminist theologian. Personal life Elizabeth Grill Watson was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on January 7, 1914. Watson grew up in Lakewood, Ohio. Women were not permitted to be ministers at her childhood Methodist church. However, she wanted to become a minister regardless. She graduated from Miami University in Ohio in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts in Greek and literature. She then studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago Divinity School. There she met George H. Watson, who she married in 1937. While the couple were attending a graduate school in Chicago, they joined the Society of Friends in 1938.
