List of Woman's Christian Temperance Union people
This is a list of people associated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).
Presidents
[edit]The presidents of the WCTU and their terms of office are:[1]
- 1874-79 - Annie Turner Wittenmyer
- 1879-98 - Frances Willard
- 1898-14 - Lillian M. N. Stevens
- 1914-25 - Anna Adams Gordon
- 1925-33 - Ella A. Boole
- 1933-44 - Ida B. Wise
- 1944-53 - Mamie White Colvin
- 1953-59 - Agnes Dubbs Hays
- 1959-74 - Ruth Tibbets Tooze
- 1974-80 - Edith Kirkendall Stanley
- 1980-88 - Martha Greer Edgar
- 1988-96 - Rachel Bubar Kelly
- 1996-2006 - Sarah Frances Ward
- 2006-14 - Rita Kaye Wert
- 2014-19 - Sarah Frances Ward
- 2019 - Current - Merry Lee Powell
Editors of The Union Signal
[edit]Editors of the WCTU's organ, The Union Signal and its former namesakes, The Woman's Temperance Union, and Our Union have included:[2]
- Mary Bannister Willard (January 1883 - July 1885)
- Mary Allen West (July 1885 - 1892)
- Harriet B. Kells (1891-1894)
- Frances Willard (1892 - February 1898)
- Lillian M. N. Stevens (February 1898 - April 1914)
- Anna Adams Gordon (April 1914 - October 1926)
- Ella Boole (October 1926 - October 1933)
- Ida B. Wise Smith (October 1933 - )
Notable people
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[edit]- Sarah C. Acheson (1844 - 1899)
- Jessie Ackermann (1857 - 1951)
- Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847 - 1919)
- Mary Osburn Adkinson (1843 - 1918)
- Mary Jane Aldrich (1833 – 1909)
- Eunice Gibbs Allyn (1847 – 1916)
- Edith Archibald (1854 – 1936)
- Ida A. T. Arms (1856 – 1931)
- Lily Atkinson (1866 – 1921)
B
[edit]- Clara Babcock (1850-1925)
- Blanche Pentecost Bagley (1858-1928)
- Lepha Eliza Bailey (1845-1924)
- Mrs. L. Dow Balliett (1847-1929)
- Helen Morton Barker (1834-1910)
- Frances Julia Barnes (1846-1920)
- Susan Hammond Barney (1834-1922)
- Emma Curtiss Bascom (1828-1916)
- Josephine Cushman Bateham (1829-1901)
- Emma Pow Bauder (1848-1932)
- Marion Babcock Baxter (1850-1910)
- Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923)
- Emma Lee Benedict (1857-1937)
- Anna Smeed Benjamin (1834-1924)
- Mary Crowell Van Benschoten (1840-1921)
- Martia L. Davis Berry (1844-1894)
- Belle G. Bigelow (1851-1925)
- Lettie S. Bigelow (1849-1906)
- Suessa Baldridge Blaine (1860-1932)
- Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837-1926)
- Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917)
- Astrid Blume (1872-1924)
- Mary Shuttleworth Boden (1840-1922)
- Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
- Caroline G. Boughton (1854-1905)
- Emma Bourne (1846-1924)
- Emma E. Bower (1852-1937)
- Euphemia Bridges Bowes (1816-1900)
- Ada Chastina Bowles (1836-1928)
- Leah Belle Kepner Boyce (1881-1960)
- Kate Parker Scott Boyd (1836-1922)
- Marie C. Brehm (1859-1926)
- Libbie Beach Brown (1858-1924)
- Caroline Brown Buell (1843-1927)
- Helen Louise Bullock (1836-1927)
- Annie Babbitt Bulyea (1863-1934)
- Adda Burch (1869-1929)
- Nelle G. Burger (1869-1957)
- Emeline S. Burlingame (1836-1923)
- Cynthia S. Burnett (1840-1932)
- Woodnut S. Burr (1861-1952)
- Mary Towne Burt (1842-1898)
- Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944)
- Lucy Wood Butler (1820-1895)
- Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855-1904)
C
[edit]- Alice A. W. Cadwallader
- Emor L. Calkins
- Matilda Carse
- Annie Carvosso
- Jennie Casseday
- Rebecca Ballard Chambers
- Nettie Sanford Chapin
- Sallie F. Chapin
- Rose Woodallen Chapman
- Fanny DuBois Chase
- Louise L. Chase
- Annetta R. Chipp
- Mamie Claflin
- Annie W. Clark
- Clara Amelia Rankin Coblentz
- Cordelia Throop Cole
- Julia Colman
- Emily M. J. Cooley
- Mary Ann Mann Cornelius
- Sara Jane Crafts
- Mary Helen Peck Crane
- Ella D. Crawford
- Belle Caldwell Culbertson
- Mary S. Cummins
- Mary Ann Cunningham
- Nannie Webb Curtis
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[edit]H
[edit]- Anna M. Hammer
- Jane Louisa Hardy
- Margaret Keenan Harrais
- Antoinette Arnold Hawley
- Utako Hayashi
- Rebecca Naylor Hazard
- S. M. I. Henry
- Maria Hyde Hibbard
- Eliza Trask Hill
- Mary G. Hill
- Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin
- Clara Cleghorn Hoffman
- Sarah Haines Smith Hoge
- Julia Holder
- Lillian Hollister
- Jennie Florella Holmes
- Mary Emma Holmes
- Annabel Morris Holvey
- Esther Housh
- Emeline Harriet Howe
- Laura E. Howey
- Adrianna Hungerford
- Augusta Merrill Hunt
- Mary Hunt
I
[edit]- Mary Bigelow Ingham
- Eliza Buckley Ingalls
- Mary E. Ireland
- Stella B. Irvine
- Hannah M. Underhill Isaac
J
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[edit]L
[edit]- Imogen LaChance
- Sarah Doan La Fetra
- Anna Matilda Larrabee
- Mary Torrans Lathrap
- Maria Elise Turner Lauder
- Louisa Lawson
- Louise M. Lawson
- Olive Moorman Leader
- Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt
- Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay
- Lilah Denton Lindsey
- Deborah Knox Livingston
- Mary Anne Lockwood
- Mary Frances Lovell
- Margaret Bright Lucas
M
[edit]- Mary L. Mallett
- Eugenia St. John Mann
- Nellie V. Mark
- Abbie K. Mason
- Lena B. Mathes
- Asa Matsuoka
- Harriet Calista Clark McCabe
- Mary A. McCurdy
- Elizabeth McCracken
- Olive Dickerson McHugh
- Alice Cary McKinney
- Margaret McLean
- Georgie A. Hulse McLeod
- Esther Lord McNeill
- Luella F. McWhirter
- Jeanette DuBois Meech
- Caroline Elizabeth Merrick
- Mary E. Metzgar
- Elizabeth Smith Middleton
- Lillian M. Mitchner
- Henrietta G. Moore
- Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots
- Mary L. Moreland
- Amy Kellogg Morse
- Margaret Cairns Munns
N
[edit]- Carrie Nation
- Minnie E. Neal
- A. Viola Neblett
- Angelia Thurston Newman
- Josephine R. Nichols
- Della Whitney Norton
O
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[edit]Q
[edit]- Althea G. Quimby (1858-1942)
- H. Anna Quinby (1871-1931)
R
[edit]S
[edit]- Susanna M. Salter
- Mary McKay Scott
- Semane Setlhoko Khama
- Kate Sheppard
- Jane E. Sibley
- Jennie Hart Sibley
- Katherine Call Simonds
- Henrietta Skelton
- Elizabeth J. Smith
- Eva Munson Smith
- Mary Bell Smith
- Olive White Smith
- Georgiana Solomon
- Dorcas James Spencer (1841–1933)
- Ruth Hinshaw Spray
- Amelia Minerva Starkweather
- Susan J. Swift Steele
- Emily Pitts Stevens
- Lillian M. N. Stevens
- Katharine Lente Stevenson
- Eliza Daniel Stewart
- Jane Agnes Stewart
- Mary Ingram Stille
- Anna E. Stoddard
- Missouri H. Stokes
- Maria Straub
- Flora E. Strout
- Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet (1840-1921)
- Margaret Ashmore Sudduth
- Frances L. Swift (1837-1916), church and temperance leader
- Lucy Robbins Messer Switzer
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[edit]- Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait
- Anne Ward
- Elizabeth Jane Ward
- Lala Fay Watts
- Mary Allen West
- M. Ella Whipple
- Reah Whitehead
- Sophronia Wilson Wagoner
- Mary A. Hitchcock Wakelin
- Adelaide Cilley Waldron
- Mary Evalin Warren
- Lucy Hall Washington
- Laura Moore Westbrook
- Agnes Weston
- Mary Sparkes Wheeler
- Dora V. Wheelock
- Laura Rosamond White
- Hannah Tyler Wilcox
- Margaret Ray Wickens
- Jennie Fowler Willing
- Drusilla Wilson
- Ella B. Ensor Wilson
- Zara A. Wilson
- Ida B. Wise
- Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge
- Caroline M. Clark Woodward
- Mary Chawner Woody
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)". Alcohol Problems & Solutions. 2014-02-19. Archived from the original on 2017-05-05. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ Jimerson, Randall C.; Blouin, Francis X.; Isetts, Charles A. (1977). Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers. University of Michigan. pp. 368–69.