Frances E. Willard
A Memorial Volume

by Anna A. Gordon

Introduction by Lady Henry Sommerset

Front Cover:

This is a very lovely memorial to Frances E. Willard who dedicated her life to the pursuit of the Temperance movement. This book was published in 1898 by the Woman’s Temperance Publishing Association, Chicago. The book measures 7 3/8 inches by 9 5/8 inches and contains 416 pages. The gray cloth cover has a lovely gilt pictorial on the front and the title is in gilt on the front and down the spine. The cover shows signs of soiling. There is a darkened border along the fore-edge and bottom edge on both the front and back covers. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good plus to near very good.

Spine

Title Page

Title Page - Verso

Contents:

Part I – Biography

Ancestral Gifts
Childhood
Student Life
Religious Development
Teacher – Preceptress – Dean
A Traveler Abroad
The Choice of a Career
Organizer and Leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Founder of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
A Great Mother
In the Mother Country
Answering Armenia’s Cry
Old Haunts and Homes Revisited
Nearing the Heavenly Home
Translation

Part II – In Memoriam

The Commemorative Services – New York City; Churchville, N.Y.; Willard Hall, Chicago; Evanston; Rose Hill Cemetery

Character Sketches – Tributes
The General Officers of the World’s and the National W.C.T.U.
English Leaders
Dr. Edward Everett Hale
Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis
Dr. Lyman Abott
Archbishop Ireland,
Joseph Cook
John G. Woolley
Col. Geo. W. Bain
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Mary A. Livermore
Susan B. Anthony
Bishop Potter
Bishop Vincent
President Henry Wade Rogers
Julia Ward Howe
Booker T. Washington
Dr. Arthur C. Edwards
Louise Chandler-Moulton
Clara Barton
Frances E. Clark
Consul Booth-Tucker
Maud Ballington Booth
Prof. Graham Taylor
Hon. John D. Long
Dwight L. Moody
Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler
Rabbi Hirsch
Pundita Ramabai
And other distinguished persons

Frontispiece – Frances E. Willard

Excerpt - Preface:
The sending forth of a Memorial Volume at the loving insistence of the General Officers of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union is a sad and sacred privilege instructed to me because for twenty-one years God gave me that which was my highest joy, the opportunity to share the most toilsome period of Frances E. Willard’s sublime and heroic life. It is brought out thus early to meet an immediate demand and is published by the Woman’s Temperance Publishing Association, the official Publishing House of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

I could not have undertaken the work without the approval and sympathetic co-operation of Lady Henry Somerset, that loyal and great-hearted friend, who by the law of kinship among great souls was closely united to Miss Willard in endeavor, achievement and ideals. The generous assistance of tow of Chicago’s leading clergymen, Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus and Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, is also gratefully acknowledged, together with suggestions and contributions from many valued friends…
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Frontispiece – Frances E. Willard

Top: Miss Willard’s Birthplace, Churchville, N.Y.
Bottom Left: The Willard Residence, Oberlin, Ohio
Bottom Right: “Forest Home,” Janesville, Wis.

The General Officers of the National W.C.T.U.

Top Left: Lillian M.N. Stevens
Top Center: Frances E. Willard
Top Right: Katharine Lente Stevenson
Bottom Left: Helen M. Barker
Bottom Center: Frances E. Beauchamp
Bottom Right: Clara C. Hoffman