Correspondence, 1888-1917.
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Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898
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Best known for her leadership (1879-1898) of the influential Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Willard also supported and often spearheaded a wide variety of social reforms, including woman suffrage, economic equality, and fair labor laws. Willard gained an international reputation through her speeches and publications. She was the first woman to be honored with a statue in the U.S Capitol building, and her Evanston home was one of the first house museums to in the country. ...
Woman's christian temperance union
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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...
Pancoast, Laura Lippincott, 1860-1927
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Resident of Moorestown, N.J. From the description of Recipe collection, [18--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971179 Laura Lippincott Pancoast was a Quaker, the daughter of Charles C. and Elizabeth M. Lippincott. In 1879 she married Franklin Pancoast. She died in 1927. From the description of Correspondence, 1888-1917. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31492282 ...
Foster, J. Ellen (Judith Ellen), 1840-
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Judith Ellen Horton Foster, 1840-1910, temperance leader, lawyer, and Republican organizer, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. The wife of lawyer Elijah Foster, she moved to Iowa, where she studied law and became the first woman to appear before the Supreme Court of Iowa. She became the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's legal adviser and superintendent of Legislation and Petitions, and later the president of the Iowa WCTU. Foster organized the Woman's National Republican Association, a group ...
Gordon, Anna A. (Anna Adams), 1853-1931
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Gordon was a social reformer, writer of songs for children, biographer of Frances Willard, and president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. From the description of Invitation, April 1895. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 436775739 ...
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
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Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Born in northern England in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1847, her family left England and immigrated to the United States. In their new country, the Shaws made several moves. After settling in the bustling port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, they uprooted again, this time ...
