Read about Frances Elizabeth Willard -- an American suffrage leader. Grades: 5 6 7 8 Subjects: Social Studies and History American History/U.S. History Suffrage and Women's Rights Themes: Biographies Holidays: Women's History Month Resources ADD TO FAVORITES Add to Folder creative writing children's book activities classroom tools language arts and writing vocabulary Create new folderCREATE NEW FOLDER Print Library of Congress, Prints and PhotographsFrances Elizabeth Willard 1839-1898American temperance leader and reformerBorn in Churchville, NYGraduated from Northwestern Female College in 1859 President of Evanston College for LadiesDean of women at Northwestern UniversityIn 1874 she helped organize the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and in 1879 became its president Previous Portrait Gallery Index