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-- Frances Willard, The Autobiography of an American Woman: Glimpses of Fifty Years, 1889
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On September 28, 1922, Cagney married dancer Frances Willard " Billie " Vernon, with whom he remained for the rest of his life.
In 1879, a Methodist woman, Frances E. Willard, was voted to the presidency of the Women ’ s Christian Temperance Union, an organization which was characterized by heavy Methodist participation.
Coeducation at Syracuse traced its roots to the early days of the Genesee College where suffragists like Frances Willard and Belva Lockwood began to distinguish themselves nationally.
Frances Willard led the group under the motto " Do Everything " to protect women and children.
Its second president, Frances Willard, a noted feminist, made the greatest leaps for the group.
The second president of the WCTU, Frances Willard, demonstrated a sharp distinction from Wittenmyer in how she felt the WCTU should be involved in the temperance movement.
Stone finally yielded to pressure from Frances Willard, the New England Women's Club and some of her friends and neighbors in the Boston area, and sat while Whitney produced a bust.
In 1873 the Evanston College for Ladies merged with Northwestern, and Frances Willard, who later gained fame as a suffragette and as one of the founders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ), became the school's first dean of women.
The movement reached its peak in 1892 when the party held a convention chaired by Frances Willard ( leader of the WCTU and a friend of Powderly's ) in Omaha, Nebraska and nominated candidates for the national election.
* Frances Willard, educator and activist ( raised and first taught here )
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard ( September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898 ) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
In 1858, the Willard family moved to Illinois so that Mary and Frances could attend college and their brother Oliver could go to the Garrett Biblical Institute.
She bequeathed her Evanston home to the WCTU and in 1965 it was elevated to the status of National Historic Landmark, the Frances Willard House.
The famous portrait, " American Woman and her Political Peers ", commissioned by Henrietta Briggs-Wall in 1893, features Frances Willard at the center, surrounded by a convict, American Indian, lunatic, and an idiot.
The Frances Elizabeth Willard relief by Lorado Taft and commissioned by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1929 is in the Indiana Statehouse, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Frances Willard often came into conflict with progressive African-American journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B.
*" Frances E. Willard ," in Our famous women: an authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times ... Hartford, Conn .: A. D. Worthington, 1884.
* Gordon, Anna Adams The Beautiful Life of Frances E. Willard, Chicago, 1898
* McCorkindale, Isabel Frances E. Willard centenary book ( Adelaide, 1939 ) Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, 2nd ed.
* Strachey, Ray Frances Willard, her life and work-with an introduction by Lady Henry Somerset, New York, Fleming H. Revell ( 1913 )
* Let Something Good Be Said: Speeches and Writings of Frances E. Willard, ed.
* Frances E. Willard Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois
* Frances E. Willard Journal Transcriptions, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois
* Frances Willard House
Frances and Autobiography
She edited The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney ( 1879 ) and The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney ( 1880 ).
Frances and American
* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )
* 1914 – Frances Reid, American actress ( d. 2010 )
* 1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress ( d. 1989 )
The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.
* 1994 – Frances Heflin, American actress ( b. 1923 )
* 1907 – Frances Horwich, American educator and television host ( d. 2001 )
* 1930 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
* 1913 – Frances Farmer, American actress ( d. 1970 )
* January 29 – Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter ( b. 1890 )
* December 22 – Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American canonized as a saint ( b. 1850 )
* June 23 – Frances McDormand, American actress
* Virginia Frances Sterrett, American artist and illustrator ( b. 1900 )
* September 19 – Frances Farmer, American actress ( d. 1970 )
** Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
* December 14 – Frances Bavier, American stage and television actress ( d. 1989 )
* Virginia Frances Sterrett, American artist and illustrator ( d. 1931 )
* May 12 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter ( b. 1888 )
** Frances Bavier, American actress ( b. 1902 )
The Champ is a 1931 American film written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor.
Devlin-Glass, Frances and McCredden, Lyn, American Academy of Religion.
Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore recording Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology ( 1916 )
They drive to the villa Anita shares with Miss Frances ( Dorothy McGuire ), the longtime secretary of the American author John Frederick Shadwell, an expatriate living in Rome for the past fifteen years.
The town was the retirement home and burial location of Frances Bavier ( 1902 – 1989 ) an American actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show, a television sitcom in the 1960s set in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina.
* Frances Hodgson Burnett ( November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924 ) was an English – American playwright and author.
The complete list of 23 problems was published later, most notably in English translation in 1902 by Mary Frances Winston Newson in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
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