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See also:WILLARD, FRANCES See also:ELIZABETH (1839–1898) , See also:American reformer, was See also:born at Churchville, See also:Monroe See also:county, New See also:York, on the 28th of See also:September 1839. She attended the See also:Milwaukee See also:Female See also:College in 18J7 and in 1859 graduated at the See also:North-western Female College at See also:Evanston, See also:Illinois. She then became a teacher, and in 1871–1874 she was See also:president and See also:professor of See also:aesthetics of the Woman's College at Evanston, which became See also:part of the North-Western University in 1873. In 1874 she became corresponding secretary and from 1879 until her See also:death was president of the See also:National Woman's See also:Christian See also:Temperance See also:Union, and from 1887 until her death was president of the See also:World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She first spoke in favour of woman's See also:suffrage in 1877; and in 1884 she was a member of the Executive See also:Committee of the See also:Prohibition party. In 1890 she was elected president of the Woman's National See also:Council, which represented nearly all of the See also:women's See also:societies in See also:America. She was one of the founders of Our Union, a New York publication in the interests of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and of the See also:Signal (after 1882 the Union Signal), which she edited in 1892–1898 and which was the Illinois See also:organ of the union. She died in New York See also:City on the 18th of See also:February 1898.
With See also:Mary A. See also:Livermore she edited A Woman of the See also:Century (See also:Buffalo, N.Y., 1893), which includes a See also:sketch of her See also:life; and she published Nineteen Beautiful Years (1864), a life of her See also:sister; How to Win: A See also:Book for Girls (1886), Glimpses of Fifty Years (1889), and, in collaboration with H. M. See also:Winslow, Mrs S. J. See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White and others, Occupations for Women (1897). See A. A. See also:Gordon, The Beautiful Life of Frances E. Willard (See also:Chicago, 1898), with an introduction by See also:Lady See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Somerset, and W. M. See also:Thayer, Women Who Win (New York, 1896).
' The See also:law of Ilolland will be found set out in the See also:case. See also:Ibis in See also:general accordance with that of See also:France.
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