Temperance – Evanston Women's History Project

Evanston, Chautauqua, and the Summer of ’74

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Part 3 of a series / By Janet Olson, CWHL Archivist We refer to 1874, of course—a time of change, endings and beginnings, for Frances Willard and the temperance movement in Evanston. Willard Leaves NU Willard’s resignation from Northwestern came after a year of difficulties.[1] In June, 1873, when the Evanston College for Ladies (with […]

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Pledging the Town

Part 2 of a series By Janet Olson, CWHL archivist. During 2024, to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (November, 1874), we will be shining a local spotlight on the Evanston women (and men) who were “early adopters” of the temperance campaign. This joint project of the Evanston