EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800; FRANCES ELIZABETH CAROLINE WILLARD P/168

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In this post I will focus on a woman named Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard. She lived from 1839 - 1898. Her parents were Josiah Flint Willard and Mary Thompson Hill Willard. They lived in Churchville, near Rochester, New York. Her father was a farmer, naturaliser and legislator. Her mother was a schoolteacher. 

In 1841, the family moved to Oberlin, Ohio, where, at Oberlin College, Frances' father studied for the ministry and her mother took classes. In 1846, the famiy moved to Janesville, Wisconsin, where the family joined the Methodist Church. In 1858, the family moved to Evanston, Illinois, where Frances attended the North Western Female College.

After graduating from North Western Female College, Frances held various teaching positions throughout the country. She worked at the Pittsburgh Female College andat the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in New York. In 1871, she was appointed president of the newly founded Evanston College for Ladies, a Methodist Institution closely associated with the Northwestern Unitversity When the Evanston College for Ladies became the Woman's College of Northwestern University in 1873, Frances was named the first Dean of Women and Professor of English and Art, until her resignation in 1874.

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