The Women’s Educational Aid Association (WEAA) founded the Evanston College for Ladies, offered courses, support, and housing for ECL students and later students of the Women’s College of Northwestern University, ran College Cottage (later Pearson’s Hall) and Chapin Hall for many years, and provided scholarships and financial support for female students. History The WEAA was […]
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Anna Adams Gordon (1853-1931) was born in Boston in 1853 and attended Mount Holyoke Seminary and LaSell Seminary, graduating from there in 1875. She met Frances Willard in Boston in 1877 and became Willard’s personal secretary, continuing in that role until Willard’s death in 1898. During these years, Gordon was an active promoter of the
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union promoted the understanding of the social and physicial problems alcohol can cause; advocated for women’s rights, including political, religious, personal and educational rights; and supported labor reforms for workers, including the 8 hour day (as an example, the local union was very involved with advocating for temperance in Evanston). History
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The 1890 WCE constitution declared the following purpose: “To secure better homes, better motherhood, better laws, truer citizenship and a nobler womanhood by promoting the physical, social, mental, moral and spiritual development of its members.” WCE originally divided its activities into three spheres: Art and literature, child and home, and philanthropy and sociology. Ten percent
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Marking the 150th anniversary of women’s education at Northwestern University, this exhibition uses documents, images, and artifacts from the University Archives to examine the 1869 decision to admit women students. The story of Evanston women and their community leadership really has its start with Northwestern founding the university and then becoming co-educational. In addition, Evanstonian Frances
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Speaker’s Bureau We offer speakers for your organization or club on various topics relating to Evanston women’s history. Topics include: an Evanston Women’s History overview talk; and Introducing Frances Willard: Evanston’s Pioneering 19th Century Feminist. Contact the project at (847) 475-3410 or email at [email protected] for more information regarding scheduling and fees. Women’s History Walking Tours
“Lifting as We Climb” Featured women, from left to right: Dr. Isabella Garnett Alice C.D. Riley Frances Willard Catharine Waugh McCulloch Lorraine Morton Dr. Margery Carlson Edna Dean Baker Alice Bunker Stockham Florence Walrath
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By Erin Hvizdak, EHC Intern August 2012Click here for PDF version Introduction and Getting Started Home to suffrage activists Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and Catherine Waugh McCulloch, the town of Evanston was a center of early movements and organizations that sought political and social equality for women and the community and nation’s most vulnerable. Illinois was
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Click here for PDF version I. 1850 – 1874 – Educated Women 1855 Northwestern Female College is founded by William P. Jones, Jr. and J. Wesley Jones to provide higher education for women in Evanston. 1856 Northwestern Female College opens. The institution includes a college for women and a preparatory school for boys and girls.
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Explore the revolutionary history of Evanston’s women by viewing the houses and buildings where they worked to transform our cultural landscape. In partnership with the Frances Willard House Museum. Meets in front of the Frances Willard House, 1730 Chicago Avenue. Cost: $20/$15 for Evanston History Center and Frances Willard House Museum members. When: July 21st, 11 a.m. -12:30
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