Frances Willard

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the 18th (Prohibition) and 19th (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution in the 1920s. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898. She developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU, encouraging its membership to engage in a broad array of social reforms through lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. Her vision encompassed raising the age of consent, labor reforms such as the eight-hour work day, prison reform, scientific temperance instruction, Christian socialism, and the global expansion of women's rights.

Frances Willard in Worldwar
During the Battle of Chicago, Lt. Mutt Daniels and Sgt. Herman Muldoon took refuge in the Frances Willard House, a memorial to the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Daniels took this time to tell Muldoon of his disdain for the WCTU, and to contemplate of the similarity of Willard's personal life with that of his recently deceased friend Lucille Potter.