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The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized on November 18, 1874, in Cleveland, Ohio. [3] It quickly became the largest women's organization in the United States. The women in the movement were inspired by the serious drinking problem in the United States and the disproportionate ills that befell women whose husbands were drunkards. It ...
Pauline Morton Sabin (April 23, 1887 – December 27, 1955) was an American prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official. Born in Chicago, she was a New Yorker who founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR).
Rev. Stella B. Irvine (née, Blanchard; 1859–1926) was a pioneer in the American temperance and prohibition movements. She served as President of the Southern California Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), as well as National and World WCTU Director of the Sunday School Department. She wrote a great deal of literature on behalf of ...
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898.
Georgia Hopley was born April 29, 1858, in Bucyrus, Ohio. [1] Her father, John P. Hopley (1821–1904), was longtime editor of the Bucyrus Evening Journal, and her mother, Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley was active in the temperance movement of the 1870s.
The Newfoundland branch played an important part in campaigning for women's suffrage on the grounds that women were vital in the struggle for prohibition. [53] In 1885 Letitia Youmans founded an organization which was to become the leading women's society in the national temperance movement.
The first female prohibition agent was Georgia Hopley. [37] In early 1922, Hopley was sworn in as a general agent, serving under Federal Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes. Her appointment made news around the country. [38] Her hiring encouraged local law enforcement agencies to hire more women to investigate women bootleggers. [39]
Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, [1] Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, [2] [3] was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.