Frances Willard visited every state during this tour in 1883 and every city whose population was over 10,000 people. ... This was the beginning of her speaking career.

Each September, the Frances Willard House Museum marks Frances Willard’s birthday, Sept. 28, with special programs and tours that examine her model of leadership. In honor of the 150th ...

(The Conversation) — A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 22. -- The House to-day passed the Senate bill appropriating $9,000 for a statue of Frances Willard to be placed in Statuary Hall, in Washington.

Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard household. Photo: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images.

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