EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; ANNA ADAMS GORDON P/17

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In this story I will focus on a woman named Anna Adams Gordon. She lived from 1853 - 1931. Her parents were James M. snd Mary Clarkson Gordon, both Christian abolitionists. They lived in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was three, the family moved to Auburndale.

Anna attended Boston High School, Lasell Seminary and Mount Holyoke College. She spend a year abroad in San Sebastian with her sister Laice Gordon Gulick, who had started a school for girls there in 1871.

In 1877, Anna met Frances E. Willard at a Dwight L. Moody revival meeting, in the building where Willard was holding temperance meetings. The two became close friends. Anna eventually moved into Willard's residence as her personal secretary. She subsequentlty followed her empoyer on her travels through the US, Canade and Europe, spending a year in England.

Anna and Willard remained close friends until Willard's death in 1898, when Anna became the vice-president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. in 1914, Anna became the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

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