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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.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1888). Woman and Temperance: Or, The Work and Workers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Public domain ed.). Park Publishing Company.
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.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
Addressed to all rulers and nations of the world, this petition to adopt prohibition was written by the American Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) president Frances Willard in 1884. It was carried across the world by at least four World WCTU missionaries who gathered signatures of nearly eight million people in more than fifty countries.
Frances Willard sent to her the Polyglot Petition in August 1885 [2] to get signatures that would show world leaders of their people's willingness to take a stand against the alcohol traffic and opium trade. [17] Willard started the petition process that ended up with nearly 7.5 million signatures. The text of the Polyglot Petition follows:
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 ...
Originally founded in the US in 1874, [2] under the leadership of its second president, Frances Willard, the WCTU grew to become the largest women's organisation and most influential politically in the United States. In 1883, an international organisation was established, the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union.