Born: Sept 28, 1839, Churchville, New York, U.S.
Died: Feb 18, 1898, New York, N.Y.
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was a American educator and reformer, born in Churchville, New York, and educated at Northwestern Female College. In 1874, she gave up a successful teaching career to become secretary of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). An indefatigable crusader on behalf of prohibition, she was elected president of the WCTU in 1879, founded the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1883, and was elected president of the latter organization in 1891. Willard was identified also with the movement for the woman’s suffrage and the Prohibition Party, which she helped to organize in 1882. She became president of the National Council of Women in 1890. Her writings include Woman and Temperance (1883) and Glimpses of Fifty Years (1889).
