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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Temperance reform. (search)
ance congress in Philadelphia, Pa.......June 13-14, 1876 Department of scientific temperance in public schools created in connection with the Women's Christian Temperance Union......1880 World's Christian Temperance Union organized by Frances E. Willard......1883 John B. Gough dies in Philadelphia......Feb. 17, 1886 Law for compulsory temperance education in public schools passed by Congress for District of Columbia and the Territories......May 17, 1886 Frances E. Willard, preside Temperance Union organized by Frances E. Willard......1883 John B. Gough dies in Philadelphia......Feb. 17, 1886 Law for compulsory temperance education in public schools passed by Congress for District of Columbia and the Territories......May 17, 1886 Frances E. Willard, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and founder of the World's Christian Temperance Union, dies in New York City......Feb. 18, 1898 See Presidential elections for Prohibition candidates, 1880-1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
n......July 4, 1897 Statue of John A. Logan unveiled at Chicago......July 22, 1897 Death of George M. Pullman, president and founder of Pullman Palace Car Company......Oct. 19, 1897 Francis E. Willard, of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, dies at New York City......Feb. 17, 1898 Break in levee surrounding Shawneetown, on Ohio River, submerges entire city, drowning twenty-four; Governor Tanner sends special train with tents and supplies......April 3, 1898 Body of Miss Frances E. Willard, eminent social reformer and lecturer, cremated in Chicago......April 9, 1898 Wheat speculation engineered by Joseph Leiter collapsed......June 13, 1898 Death of John Moses, historian......July 3, 1898 Chicago daily papers suspend publication on account of a strike......July 25, 1898 Attempt of coal company to land negro miners from Southern States to take the place of striking coal-miners causes bloody fight at Virden; train bearing negroes riddled with bullets; eleven
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willard, Frances Elizabeth 1839-1898 (search)
Willard, Frances Elizabeth 1839-1898 Reformer; born in Churchville, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1839; graduated at the Northwestern Female College in 1858; was for some years a school-teacher in various Western towns, and taught the natural sciences in the Northwestern College. In 1867 she became preceptress in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, N. Y. On Feb. 14, 1871, she was elected president of the college which had recently been established in connection with the Northwestern University of the Methodist denomination, in deference to the popular idea of the co-education of the sexes. It was the first time such an honor was conferred upon a woman. On her return from an extended foreign tour in Europe, Syria, and Egypt, in 1871, Miss Willard lectured with success, in Chicago, on the Educational aspects of the woman question. She was president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1879 till her death; founded the World's Christian Temperance Union in 1883; became
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woman's Christian Temperance Union. (search)
in the republic except two have laws requiring the study of scientific temperance in the public schools, and all these laws were secured by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, also the laws forbidding the sale of tobacco to minors. The first police matrons and most industrial homes for girls were secured through the efforts of this society, as were the refuges for erring women. Laws raising the age of consent and providing for better protection for women and girls have been enacted by many legislatures through the influence of the department for the promotion of social purity. The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded through the influence of Frances E. Willard in 1883, and already has auxiliaries in more than forty countries and provinces. The white ribbon is the badge of all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union members, and is now a familiar emblem in every civilized country. The headquarters of the national organization is Rest Cottage, Evanston, Ill.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Women, Advancement of (search)
rs. Belva Lockwood admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, 1879; disability removed by an act of Congress approved......Feb. 15, 1879 [Others since admitted: Laura De Force Gordon, of Stockton, Cal.; Ada M. Bittenbender, of Lincoln, Neb.; Carrie Barnham Kilgore, of Philadelphia; Clara M. Foltz, of San Diego, Cal.; Lelia Robinson-Sawtelle, of Boston; Emma M. Gillet, of Washington, D. C.] Woman's Christian Temperance Union founded in the United States by Frances E. Willard......1883 Mrs. Belva Lockwood accepts the nomination for President of the United States from the California Woman's Suffrage Convention......September, 1884 A select committee of the United States Senate, Feb. 7, 1889, and the House judiciary committee, May 29, 1890, reported in favor of amending the Constitution to permit woman suffrage. Congress did not act upon these reports. School suffrage for women exists in some form in most of the States where asked for. Women vot