Amanda Deyo

Amanda Deyo (October 24, 1838 – November 1, 1917) was an American Universalist minister, pacifist, and correspondent.

[1] Julia Amanda Halstead was born in Clinton, Dutchess County, New York, October 24, 1838.

After teaching for some time, she attended the Poughkeepsie, New York, Collegiate Institute, from which she was graduated in 1857.

She represented the union in the Woman's Council held in Washington, D. C. in March, 1888, and signalized the occasion by calling a grand peace meeting in the Church of Our Father, where many prominent women made addresses.

However, her greatest efforts were made towards substituting peace for war and harmonizing the difficulties constantly arising in families, neighborhoods and churches.