Willard
Willard names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Willard FRANCES ELIZABETH, an American temperance reformer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCES ELIZABETH, an American temperance reformer; born in Churchville, near Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1839. Her early education was received at Oberlin College, and her parents removing to Illinois she was graduated at the Northwestern Female College at Evanston, Ill., in 1859. After some years spent in teaching she became Professor of Esthetics in the Northwestern University, and was made dean of the Women's College in February, 1871. She began her active temperance work in 1874, and was made secretary of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1879 she was made president of that organization and held the office till her death. She was chosen as president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1888, and in 1892 visited England as the guest of Lady Henry Somerset, the well-known temperance worker. During her visit in London she addressed a mass meeting at Exeter Hall which was said to be the largest and most intensely interesting assemblage ever held in its walls. She was an untiring worker and for 10 years averaged one public meeting a day, besides writing letters and articles, es, and planning work while in transit between towns at which she spoke. She was editor-in-chief of the "Union Signal" from 1892, and a frequent contributor to other periodicals and newspapers, being an admirable writer and a journalist of rare tact, quickness and force. She was an orator of great eloquence, humor, and power. Her executive ability and genius for organization were wonderful and her work for temperance and social purity will live in the history of her country. She died in New York City, Feb. 18, 1898.
Willard DANIEL, an American railway official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL, an American railway official, born at North Hartland, Vt., in 1861. He was educated at the Windsor (Vt.) High School and at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. In 1879 he entered the railway service, occupying various offices with different c railway companies until 1899. From 1899 to 1901 he was assistant general manager of the B. & O. railroad; from 1901 to 1904, assistant to the president; and later 3d and 1st vice-president esident and general manager of the Erie railroad; from 1904 to 1910, 2d vice-president of the C. B. & Q. railroad; and since 1910, president of the B. & O. railroad. In 1914 he became a member of the board . of trustees of Johns Hopkins University During the World War he served as a member and later as the chairman of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, becoming, in November 1917, chairman of the War Industries Board, which office he resigned in 1918.
Willard EMMA (HART), an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EMMA (HART), an American educator; born in Berlin, Conn., Feb. 23, 1787. She did much for bettering the education of women. Her books, educational and general, include: "A Plan for Improving Female Educa- History of the United tion" (1819); "A His States" (1828); "Poems" (1830); containing the popular song "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep"; "Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain" (1833); "Universal History" (1) (1835); "Respiration and Its Effects"; and "Morals for the Young" (1857). She 1870. died in Troy, N. Y., April 15,
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 it could not know how each story would end. Frances Willard's temperance crusade reached its goal with national Prohibition in 1920, twenty-two years after her death, only to see it repealed in 1933; her WCTU survives as a small organization, while her Evanston house is a museum and her statue stands in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall, the first there of an American woman. Daniel Willard, described as B&O president "since 1910," stayed in the job until 1941, one of the longest presidencies in American railroading; the Baltimore & Ohio itself was absorbed into the Chessie System and its name retired in 1987, the line now part of CSX. Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary was renamed the Emma Willard School in her honor and still operates in Troy as a girls' school, though her once-standard "Universal History" and "History of the United States" are read now only by historians of education.
Written for this edition, 2026.