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In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Anna Adams Gordon. She lived from 1853 - 1931. Anna and Frances Willard remained close friends until Frances's death in 1898, at which time Lillian M.N. Stevens became president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, with Anne as vice-president.
Anna also turned the attention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to other causes, including Americanisation of immigrants, child welfare, and the condition of women in industry.
Anna also became president of the World League Against Alcoholism, and vice-chairman of the Commission of Nineteen on the National Constitutional Prohibition Amendment.
Anna was, furthermore, deeply involved in the temperance work with the National Council of Women, the International Sunday-School Association, the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Legislative Council etc.
Anna died in 1931.
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