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Willard, Allie Capitola

journalist, temperance worker, was born April 13, 1860, near Nauvoo, Ill. For five years she was postmaster of Loup City, Neb.; and in 1889 was a clerk in the Nebraska senate. She then engaged in journalistic work, and in 1893 went to Europe for study and travel.

For eighteen months she was manager of the business office of Lady Henry Somerset's newspaper, The Woman's Signal, at Memorial Hall, London, England; in which city she also edited for a year The Woman's Signal Budget, the organ of the British Women's Temperance association.