Willard, Charles W
lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born June 18, 1827, in Lyndon, Vt.
He was elected secretary of state in 1855, and declined a re-election. He was elected a state senator in 1860; and in 1861 became the editor of the Green Mountain Freeman. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Vermont to the fortyfirst congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second congress.
WILLARD, MRS. EMMA [HART], educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 23, 1787, in Berlin, Conn. She was a noted educator of Troy, N. Y.; and the author of Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain; History of the United States; Universal History in Perspective; Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood; Last Leaves of American History; and Poems. She wrote the well known poem, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. She died April 15, 1870, in Troy, N. Y.
WILLARD, FRANCES ELIZABETH, temperance reformer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1839, near Rochester, N. Y. In 1871 she became president of Evanston college; and in 1874 resigned to join the Woman's Christian Temperance union. In 1879 she was elected president, which position she held until her death.
In the cause of temperance she visited every state and territory in the United States, and Europe. She published eight volumes, of which the chief are Nineteen Beautiful Years; Woman and Temperance; Glimpses of Fifty Years; How to Win; Woman in the Pulpit; and A Great Mother. She died Feb. 17, 1898, in New York city.