was an American philanthropist, Christian women's community organizer, and newspaper editor.
Thurgood was the organizer of the first Christian Endeavor Society in Australasia at Geelong, Victoria, February 1883.
[1] Thurgood served as a member of the Board of the Union Missionary Societies of Allegheny County, as representative of the Christian Church, 1907–1908; a member of the Board of Managers of the Bethesda Home, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; life member of the Christian Women's Board of Missions, Indianapolis, Indiana; life member of the American Christian Missionary Society, Cincinnati, Ohio; honorary president of the Women's Conference of the Associated Churches of Christ, Victoria.
Australia; organizer of the Christion Women's Florida Missionary Society at Ocoee, Florida; and Pennsylvania State secretary of the Christian Women's Board of Missions for nine years.
She also served as associate editor of the White Ribbon Signal, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and editor of the women's page of the Australian Christian in Melbourne.