Esther T. Housh (née, Taylor; October 27, 1840 – May 7, 1898) was a 19th-century American social reformer, author, and newspaper editor.

[3] Esther Caroline Taylor was born in Ross County, Ohio, October 27, 1840.

She received a liberal education, studying Greek and Latin while busy with the work associated with home.

[3] At an early age, she married Frank Housh at her grandfather's home, near Champaign, Illinois.

[3] The Woman's Century commenced publication in Louisville, Kentucky in 1877, and was continued by Housh in Brattleboro, Vermont, until 1890.

In the national conventions in Nashville, Tennessee and New York City, she furnished a report to a thousand selected papers.

[3] In 1892, she removed again to Boston to assist on the Household, and subsequently became editor of Our message, the organ of the Massachusetts WCTU.