FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD
Title: A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people / by John Newton Boucher ; illustrated. Vol. 2.
Author: Boucher, John Newton, 1854-1933.
Pg. 437
FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD, born near Rochester, New York, September 28, 1839, died Feb. 17, 1898.The Methodist College of Pittsburgh, proud to mention among its teachers in 1861-1862, the name of MISS FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD, who afterward became famous as a temperance worker and author.Her most active work was done near Chicago, where she had been President of the Evanston College.In 1874 she resigned to join the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.In 1879 she was elected president, which position she held under her death.Among her literary productions are “Glimpses of Fifty Years,” “Woman and Temperance,” with one of Abraham Lincoln, a statue of MISS WILLARD was placed by Illinois in Statue Hall in Washington and she is the only woman who is thus distinguished.
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