Frances Willard
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Christianity, Christians, Churches, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Elections, Voting
- Curriculum: Women’s History, American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Advocating a “do everything” policy for reformers in the late nineteenth century, Willard helped advance the causes of temperance and women’s rights as president and the most famous and symbolic leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
Early Life
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, born on September 28, 1839, in Churchville, New York, was the fourth of five children, three of whom survived infancy. Her mother, Mary Thompson (Hill) Willard, traced her ancestry back to early New Englanders of English origin. Her father,...
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