List of Woman's Christian Temperance Union people explained

This is a list of people associated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).

Presidents

The presidents of the WCTU and their terms of office are:^[1]

1. 1874-79 - Annie Turner Wittenmyer
2. 1879-98 - Frances Willard
3. 1898-14 - Lillian M. N. Stevens
4. 1914-25 - Anna Adams Gordon
5. 1925-33 - Ella A. Boole
6. 1933-44 - Ida B. Wise
7. 1944-53 - Mamie White Colvin
8. 1953-59 - Agnes Dubbs Hays
9. 1959-74 - Ruth Tibbets Tooze
10. 1974-80 - Edith Kirkendall Stanley
11. 1980-88 - Martha Greer Edgar
12. 1988-96 - Rachel Bubar Kelly
13. 1996-2006 - Sarah Frances Ward
14. 2006-14 - Rita Kaye Wert
15. 2014-19 - Sarah Frances Ward
16. 2019 - Current - Merry Lee Powell

Editors of The Union Signal

Editors of the WCTU's organ, The Union Signal and its former namesakes, The Woman's Temperance Union, and Our Union have included:^[2]

• Mary Bannister Willard (January 1883 - July 1885)
• Mary Allen West (July 1885 - 1892)
• Harriet B. Kells (1891-1894)
• Frances Willard (1892 - February 1898)
• Lillian M. N. Stevens (February 1898 - April 1914)
• Anna Adams Gordon (April 1914 - October 1926)
• Ella Boole (October 1926 - October 1933)
• Ida B. Wise Smith (October 1933 -)

Notable people

A

• Sarah C. Acheson (1844 - 1899)
• Jessie Ackermann (1857 - 1951)
• Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847 - 1919)
• Mary Osburn Adkinson (1843 - 1918)
• Mary Jane Aldrich (1833 – 1909)
• Eunice Gibbs Allyn (1847 – 1916)
• Edith Archibald (1854 – 1936)
• Ida A. T. Arms (1856 – 1931)
• Lily Atkinson (1866 – 1921)

B

• Clara Babcock (1850-1925)
• Blanche Pentecost Bagley (1858-1928)
• Lepha Eliza Bailey (1845-1924)
• Mrs. L. Dow Balliett (1847-1929)
• Helen Morton Barker (1834-1910)
• Frances Julia Barnes (1846-1920)
• Susan Hammond Barney (1834-1922)
• Emma Curtiss Bascom (1828-1916)
• Josephine Cushman Bateham (1829-1901)
• Emma Pow Bauder (1848-1932)
• Marion Babcock Baxter (1850-1910)
• Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923)
• Emma Lee Benedict (1857-1937)
• Anna Smeed Benjamin (1834-1924)
• Mary Crowell Van Benschoten (1840-1921)
• Martia L. Davis Berry (1844-1894)
• Belle G. Bigelow (1851-1925)
• Lettie S. Bigelow (1849-1906)
• Suessa Baldridge Blaine (1860-1932)
• Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837-1926)
• Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917)
• Astrid Blume (1872-1924)
• Mary Shuttleworth Boden (1840-1922)
• Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
• Caroline G. Boughton (1854-1905)
• Emma Bourne (1846-1924)
• Emma E. Bower (1852-1937)
• Euphemia Bridges Bowes (1816-1900)
• Ada Chastina Bowles (1836-1928)
• Leah Belle Kepner Boyce (1881-1960)
• Kate Parker Scott Boyd (1836-1922)
• Marie C. Brehm (1859-1926)
• Libbie Beach Brown (1858-1924)
• Caroline Brown Buell (1843-1927)
• Helen Louise Bullock (1836-1927)
• Annie Babbitt Bulyea (1863-1934)
• Adda Burch (1869-1929)
• Nelle G. Burger (1869-1957)
• Emeline S. Burlingame (1836-1923)
• Cynthia S. Burnett (1840-1932)
• Woodnut S. Burr (1861-1952)
• Mary Towne Burt (1842-1898)
• Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944)
• Lucy Wood Butler (1820-1895)
• Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855-1904)

C

• Alice A. W. Cadwallader
• Emor L. Calkins
• Matilda Carse
• Annie Carvosso
• Jennie Casseday
• Rebecca Ballard Chambers
  • Nettie Sanford Chapin Sallie F. Chapin
• Rose Woodallen Chapman
• Fanny DuBois Chase
• Louise L. Chase
• Annetta R. Chipp
• Mamie Claflin
• Annie W. Clark
• Clara Amelia Rankin Coblentz
• Cordelia Throop Cole
  • Julia Colman Emily M. J. Cooley
• Mary Ann Mann Cornelius
• Sara Jane Crafts
• Mary Helen Peck Crane
• Ella D. Crawford
• Belle Caldwell Culbertson
• Mary S. Cummins
• Mary Ann Cunningham
• Nannie Webb Curtis

D

• Frances Brackett Damon
  • Mary R. Denman Lella A. Dillard
• Hannah P. Dodge
• Mary L. Doe
• Sara J. Dorr
  • Eva Craig Graves Doughty Alice May Douglas
  • Lavantia Densmore Douglass Cornelia M. Dow
• Sarah Jane Corson Downs
• Marion Howard Dunham
• Harriet Ball Dunlap
• Julia Knowlton Dyer

E

• Ida Horton East
• Mary G. Charlton Edholm
• Margaret Dye Ellis
• Mrs. A. Elmore
• Lelia Dromgold Emig
• Addie Garwood Estes (1868-1928)
• Sarah Lindsay Evans
• Nellie Blessing Eyster

F

• Mary J. Farnham
• Susan Frances Nelson Ferree
• Susan Fessenden
• Judith Ellen Foster
• Jessie Forsyth
• Bertha Fowler
• Susanna M. D. Fry
• Eliza Nelson Fryer (1847-1910)
• Minnie Rutherford Fuller

G

• Jane Gemmill
• Harriet E. Garrison
• Ella M. George
• Ruby I. Gilbert
• T. Adelaide Goodno
• Amelia Elizabeth Roe Gordon
• Anna Adams Gordon
• Elizabeth Putnam Gordon
• Frances W. Graham
• Charlotte A. Gray
• Eva Kinney Griffith
• Hattie Tyng Griswold
• Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb

H

• Anna M. Hammer
  • Margaret Keenan Harrais Antoinette Arnold Hawley
• Utako Hayashi
• Rebecca Naylor Hazard
• S. M. I. Henry
• Maria Hyde Hibbard
• Eliza Trask Hill
  • Mary G. Hill Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin
• Clara Cleghorn Hoffman
• Sarah Haines Smith Hoge
• Lillian Hollister
• Jennie Florella Holmes
• Mary Emma Holmes
• Annabel Morris Holvey
• Esther Housh
• Emeline Harriet Howe
• Laura E. Howey
• Adrianna Hungerford
• Augusta Merrill Hunt
• Mary Hunt

I

• Mary Bigelow Ingham
• Eliza Buckley Ingalls
• Mary E. Ireland
• Stella B. Irvine
• Hannah M. Underhill Isaac

J

• Katharine Johnson Jackson
• Mary T. Jeffries
• Frances C. Jenkins
• Therese A. Jenkins
• Georgia May Jobson
• Kristine Martine Johannessen
• Laura M. Johns
• Carrie Ashton Johnson
• Mary Coffin Johnson

K

• Ella Eaton Kellogg
• Agnes Kemp
• Jennie Murray Kemp
• Ella B. Kendrick
• Regina Khayatt
• M. Evelyn Killen
• Deborah G. King
  • Eunice D. Kinney Narcissa Edith White Kinney
• Janette Hill Knox
• Katherine Kurt

L

• Imogen LaChance
• Sarah Doan La Fetra
• Anna Matilda Larrabee
• Mary Torrans Lathrap
• Maria Elise Turner Lauder
• Louisa Lawson
• Louise M. Lawson
• Olive Moorman Leader
• Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt
• Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay
• Lilah Denton Lindsey
• Deborah Knox Livingston
• Mary Anne Lockwood
• Mary Frances Lovell
• Margaret Bright Lucas

M

• Mary L. Mallett
• Eugenia St. John Mann
• Nellie V. Mark
• Abbie K. Mason
• Lena B. Mathes
• Asa Matsuoka
• Harriet Calista Clark McCabe
• Mary A. McCurdy
• Elizabeth McCracken
• Olive Dickerson McHugh
• Alice Cary McKinney
• Margaret McLean
  • Georgie A. Hulse McLeod Esther Lord McNeill
• Luella F. McWhirter
• Jeanette DuBois Meech
• Caroline Elizabeth Merrick
• Mary E. Metzgar
• Elizabeth Smith Middleton
• Lillian M. Mitchner
  • Henrietta G. Moore Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots
• Mary L. Moreland
• Amy Kellogg Morse
• Margaret Cairns Munns

N

• Carrie Nation
• Minnie E. Neal
  • A. Viola Neblett Angelia Thurston Newman
• Josephine R. Nichols
• Della Whitney Norton

O

• Martha B. O'Donnell
• Marie Augusta Oldham
• Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir

P

• Hannah Borden Palmer
• Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins
• Alice E. Heckler Peters
• Belle L. Pettigrew
• Levancia Holcomb Plumb
• Anna Weed Prosser
• Esther Pugh
  • Louise C. Purington Jennie Phelps Purvis

Q

• Althea G. Quimby (1858-1942)
• H. Anna Quinby (1871-1931)

R

• Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan
• Rachel Beasley Ray
• Mary Bynon Reese
• Anna Rankin Riggs
• Mary A. Ripley
• Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse
• Amber E. Robinson
  • Ellen Sergeant Rude Elizabeth Augusta Russell
• Elizabeth Lownes Rust

S

• Susanna M. Salter
• Mary McKay Scott
• Semane Setlhoko Khama
• Kate Sheppard
• Jane E. Sibley
• Jennie Hart Sibley
• Katherine Call Simonds
  • Henrietta Skelton Elizabeth J. Smith
  • Eva Munson Smith Mary Bell Smith
• Olive White Smith
• Georgiana Solomon
• Dorcas James Spencer (1841–1933)
• Ruth Hinshaw Spray
  • Amelia Minerva Starkweather Susan J. Swift Steele
• Emily Pitts Stevens
• Lillian M. N. Stevens
• Katharine Lente Stevenson
• Eliza Daniel Stewart
• Jane Agnes Stewart
• Mary Ingram Stille
• Missouri H. Stokes
• Maria Straub
• Flora E. Strout
• Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet (1840-1921)
  • Margaret Ashmore Sudduth Frances L. Swift (1837-1916), church and temperance leader
• Lucy Robbins Messer Switzer

T

• Hannah E. Taylor
• Eva Griffith Thompson
• Mandana Coleman Thorp
• Lydia H. Tilton
• Frances E. Townsley
• Anna Augusta Truitt
• Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner

W

• Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait
• Anne Ward
• Elizabeth Jane Ward
• Lala Fay Watts
• Mary Allen West
• M. Ella Whipple
• Reah Whitehead
• Sophronia Wilson Wagoner
• Mary A. Hitchcock Wakelin
• Adelaide Cilley Waldron
• Mary Evalin Warren
• Lucy Hall Washington
• Laura Moore Westbrook
• Agnes Weston
• Mary Sparkes Wheeler
• Dora V. Wheelock
• Laura Rosamond White
• Hannah Tyler Wilcox
• Margaret Ray Wickens
• Jennie Fowler Willing
• Drusilla Wilson
• Ella B. Ensor Wilson
• Zara A. Wilson
• Ida B. Wise
• Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge
• Caroline M. Clark Woodward
• Mary Chawner Woody

Y

• Lenna Lowe Yost

Notes and References

1. Web site: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) . Alcohol Problems & Solutions . 3 October 2018 . 2014-02-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170505061727/https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/Controversies/Womans-Christian-Temperance-Union.html . 2017-05-05 . live .
2. Book: Jimerson . Randall C. . Blouin . Francis X. . Isetts . Charles A. . Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers . 1977 . University of Michigan . 368–69 . en.