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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.
In 1920, Cagney was a member of the chorus for the show Pitter Patter, where he met Frances Willard "Billie" Vernon. They married on September 28, 1922, and the marriage lasted until his death in 1986. Frances Cagney died in 1994. [167] In 1940 they adopted a son whom they named James Francis Cagney III, and later a daughter, Cathleen "Casey ...
Frances Willard, the second WCTU president, objected to this limited focus of social issues WCTU was addressing. [11] Willard believed that it was necessary for the WCTU to be political in women’s issues for the success, expansion, and implementation of WCTU. [11] In 1879, Willard successfully became president of the WCTU until her death in ...
Frances Willard was born September 28, 1839, in New York. She was a founder of the Women's Temperance Union and President from 1879 until her death in 1898. [8] Willard was a very spiritual woman due to her upbringing and a brush with death when she was 19.
Frances Willard plaque and flower bed by the Halifax and Dartmouth Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1939), Halifax Public Gardens. In 1851 women were excluded from the vote in Nova Scotia. In 1870, Hannah Norris began to mobilize women into the public sphere through establishing the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Aid Society across the ...
The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States. [1]Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing support from Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists ...
Temperance group in 1895, back l to r. Gordon, Mary E. Sanderson, (front) Agnes Elizabeth Slack, Frances E. Willard, and Lady Henry Somerset. In 1877, Gordon met Frances E. Willard at a Dwight L. Moody revival meeting, in the building where Willard was holding temperance meetings. Gordon's younger brother Arthur had died just days before, a ...
Frances Willard: 1940: American educator, reformer, lecturer, and women's suffrage supporter Jane Addams: 1940: American social worker and reformer, the founder of Hull House in Chicago, a social welfare center Clara Barton: 1948, 1995: Founder of the American Red Cross: Juliette Gordon Low: 1948: Founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA: Moina ...