Frances E. Willard

A pioneer in the temperance movement, Frances E. Willard is also remembered for her contributions to higher education.

• She attended the Female College of Milwaukee for one year and finished her college degree at the Woman's College of Northwestern University.
• She taught at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1866–1867 before returning to the Evanston College for Women, where she served as president from 1871 to 1874.
• Willard gained a reputation as an effective orator and social reformer.
• She became associated in the evangelist movement with Dwight Moody and was elected president of the National Women's Temperance Union in 1879.
• Her zeal sustained her fight for prohibition, and she organized the Prohibition Party in 1882. During the same year she was elected president of the National Council of Women.
• She later founded and served as president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1883.
• Her statue was the first honoring a woman to be chosen for the National Statuary Hall Collection.