# List of Woman's Christian Temperance Union people

This is a list of people associated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).

## Presidents

The presidents of the WCTU and their terms of office are:
* 1874-79 - Annie Turner Wittenmyer
* 1879-98 - Frances Willard
* 1898-14 - Lillian M. N. Stevens
* 1914-25 - Anna Adams Gordon
* 1925-33 - Ella A. Boole
* 1933-44 - Ida B. Wise
* 1944-53 - Mamie White Colvin
* 1953-59 - Agnes Dubbs Hays
* 1959-74 - Ruth Tibbets Tooze
* 1974-80 - Edith Kirkendall Stanley
* 1980-88 - Martha Greer Edgar
* 1988-96 - Rachel Bubar Kelly
* 1996-2006 - Sarah Frances Ward
* 2006-14 - Rita Kaye Wert
* 2014-19 - Sarah Frances Ward
* 2019 - Current - Merry Lee Powell

## Editors of The Union Signal

Editors of the WCTU's organ, The Union Signal and its former namesakes, The Woman's Temperance Union, and Our Union have included:
* Mary Bannister Willard (January 1883 - July 1885)
* Mary Allen West (July 1885 - 1892)
* Harriet B. Kells (1891-1894)
* Frances Willard (1892 - February 1898)
* Lillian M. N. Stevens (February 1898 - April 1914)
* Anna Adams Gordon (April 1914 - October 1926)
* Ella Boole (October 1926 - October 1933)
* Ida B. Wise Smith (October 1933 - )

## Notable people
### A

* Sarah C. Acheson (1844 - 1899)
* Jessie Ackermann (1857 - 1951)
* Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847 - 1919)
* Mary Osburn Adkinson (1843 - 1918)
* Mary Jane Aldrich (1833 – 1909)
* Eunice Gibbs Allyn (1847 – 1916)
* Edith Archibald (1854 – 1936)
* Ida A. T. Arms (1856 – 1931)
* Lily Atkinson (1866 – 1921)

### B

* Clara Babcock (1850-1925)
* Blanche Pentecost Bagley (1858-1928)
* Lepha Eliza Bailey (1845-1924)
* Mrs. L. Dow Balliett (1847-1929)
* Helen Morton Barker (1834-1910)
* Frances Julia Barnes (1846-1920)
* Susan Hammond Barney (1834-1922)
* Emma Curtiss Bascom (1828-1916)
* Josephine Cushman Bateham (1829-1901)
* Emma Pow Bauder (1848-1932)
* Marion Babcock Baxter (1850-1910)
* Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923)
* Emma Lee Benedict (1857-1937)
* Anna Smeed Benjamin (1834-1924)
* Mary Crowell Van Benschoten (1840-1921)
* Martia L. Davis Berry (1844-1894)
* Belle G. Bigelow (1851-1925)
* Lettie S. Bigelow (1849-1906)
* Suessa Baldridge Blaine (1860-1932)
* Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837-1926)
* Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917)
* Astrid Blume (1872-1924)
* Mary Shuttleworth Boden (1840-1922)
* Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
* Caroline G. Boughton (1854-1905)
* Emma Bourne (1846-1924)
* Emma E. Bower (1852-1937)
* Euphemia Bridges Bowes (1816-1900)
* Ada Chastina Bowles (1836-1928)
* Leah Belle Kepner Boyce (1881-1960)
* Kate Parker Scott Boyd (1836-1922)
* Ann Weaver Bradley (1834–1913)
* Marie C. Brehm (1859-1926)
* Libbie Beach Brown (1858-1924)
* Caroline Brown Buell (1843-1927)
* Helen Louise Bullock (1836-1927)
* Annie Babbitt Bulyea (1863-1934)
* Adda Burch (1869-1929)
* Nelle G. Burger (1869-1957)
* Emeline S. Burlingame (1836-1923)
* Cynthia S. Burnett (1840-1932)
* Woodnut S. Burr (1861-1952)
* Mary Towne Burt (1842-1898)
* Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944)
* Lucy Wood Butler (1820-1895)
* Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855-1904)

### C

* Alice A. W. Cadwallader
* Emor L. Calkins
* Matilda Carse
* Annie Carvosso
* Jennie Casseday
* Rebecca Ballard Chambers
* Nettie Sanford Chapin
* Sallie F. Chapin
* Rose Woodallen Chapman
* Fanny DuBois Chase
* Louise L. Chase
* Annetta R. Chipp
* Mamie Claflin
* Annie W. Clark
* Clara Amelia Rankin Coblentz
* Cordelia Throop Cole
* Julia Colman
* Emily M. J. Cooley
* Mary Ann Mann Cornelius
* Sara Jane Crafts
* Mary Helen Peck Crane
* Ella D. Crawford
* Belle Caldwell Culbertson
* Mary S. Cummins
* Mary Ann Cunningham
* Nannie Webb Curtis

### D

* Frances Brackett Damon
* Mary R. Denman
* Lella A. Dillard
* Hannah P. Dodge
* Mary L. Doe
* Sara J. Dorr
* Eva Craig Graves Doughty
* Alice May Douglas
* Lavantia Densmore Douglass
* Cornelia M. Dow
* Sarah Jane Corson Downs
* Marion Howard Dunham
* Harriet Ball Dunlap
* Julia Knowlton Dyer

### E

* Ida Horton East
* Mary G. Charlton Edholm
* Margaret Dye Ellis
* Mrs. A. Elmore
* Lelia Dromgold Emig
* Addie Garwood Estes (1868-1928)
* Sarah Lindsay Evans
* Nellie Blessing Eyster

### F

* Mary J. Farnham
* Susan Frances Nelson Ferree
* Susan Fessenden
* Judith Ellen Foster
* Jessie Forsyth
* Bertha Fowler
* Susanna M. D. Fry
* Eliza Nelson Fryer (1847-1910)
* Minnie Rutherford Fuller

### G

* Jane Gemmill
* Harriet E. Garrison
* Ella M. George
* Ruby I. Gilbert
* T. Adelaide Goodno
* Amelia Elizabeth Roe Gordon
* Anna Adams Gordon
* Elizabeth Putnam Gordon
* Frances W. Graham
* Charlotte A. Gray
* Eva Kinney Griffith
* Hattie Tyng Griswold
* Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb

### H

* Anna M. Hammer
* Jane Louisa Hardy
* Margaret Keenan Harrais
* Antoinette Arnold Hawley
* Utako Hayashi
* Rebecca Naylor Hazard
* S. M. I. Henry
* Maria Hyde Hibbard
* Eliza Trask Hill
* Mary G. Hill
* Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin
* Clara Cleghorn Hoffman
* Sarah Haines Smith Hoge
* Julia Holder
* Lillian Hollister
* Jennie Florella Holmes
* Mary Emma Holmes
* Annabel Morris Holvey
* Esther Housh
* Emeline Harriet Howe
* Laura E. Howey
* Adrianna Hungerford
* Augusta Merrill Hunt
* Mary Hunt

### I

* Mary Bigelow Ingham
* Eliza Buckley Ingalls
* Mary E. Ireland
* Stella B. Irvine
* Hannah M. Underhill Isaac

### J

* Katharine Johnson Jackson
* Mary T. Jeffries
* Frances C. Jenkins
* Therese A. Jenkins
* Georgia May Jobson
* Kristine Martine Johannessen
* Laura M. Johns
* Carrie Ashton Johnson
* Mary Coffin Johnson

### K

* Ella Eaton Kellogg
* Agnes Kemp
* Jennie Murray Kemp
* Ella B. Kendrick
* Georgina Kermode
* Regina Khayatt
* M. Evelyn Killen
* Deborah G. King
* Eunice D. Kinney
* Narcissa Edith White Kinney
* Janette Hill Knox
* Katherine Kurt

### L

* Imogen LaChance
* Sarah Doan La Fetra
* Anna Matilda Larrabee
* Mary Torrans Lathrap
* Maria Elise Turner Lauder
* Louisa Lawson
* Louise M. Lawson
* Olive Moorman Leader
* Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt
* Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay
* Lilah Denton Lindsey
* Deborah Knox Livingston
* Mary Anne Lockwood
* Mary Frances Lovell
* Margaret Bright Lucas

### M

* Mary L. Mallett
* Eugenia St. John Mann
* Nellie V. Mark
* Abbie K. Mason
* Lena B. Mathes
* Asa Matsuoka
* Harriet Calista Clark McCabe
* Mary A. McCurdy
* Elizabeth McCracken
* Olive Dickerson McHugh
* Alice Cary McKinney
* Margaret McLean
* Georgie A. Hulse McLeod
* Esther Lord McNeill
* Luella F. McWhirter
* Jeanette DuBois Meech
* Caroline Elizabeth Merrick
* Mary E. Metzgar
* Elizabeth Smith Middleton
* Lillian M. Mitchner
* Henrietta G. Moore
* Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots
* Mary L. Moreland
* Amy Kellogg Morse
* Margaret Cairns Munns

### N

* Carrie Nation
* Minnie E. Neal
* A. Viola Neblett
* Angelia Thurston Newman
* Josephine R. Nichols
* Della Whitney Norton

### O

* Martha B. O'Donnell
* Marie Augusta Oldham
* Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir

### P

* Hannah Borden Palmer
* Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins
* Alice E. Heckler Peters
* Belle L. Pettigrew
* Levancia Holcomb Plumb
* Anna Weed Prosser
* Esther Pugh
* Louise C. Purington
* Jennie Phelps Purvis

### Q

* Althea G. Quimby (1858-1942)
* H. Anna Quinby (1871-1931)

### R

* Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan
* Rachel Beasley Ray
* Mary Bynon Reese
* Anna Rankin Riggs
* Mary A. Ripley
* Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse
* Amber E. Robinson
* Jessie Rooke
* Ellen Sergeant Rude
* Elizabeth Augusta Russell
* Elizabeth Lownes Rust

### S

* Susanna M. Salter
* Mary McKay Scott
* Semane Setlhoko Khama
* Kate Sheppard
* Jane E. Sibley
* Jennie Hart Sibley
* Katherine Call Simonds
* Henrietta Skelton
* Elizabeth J. Smith
* Eva Munson Smith
* Mary Bell Smith
* Olive White Smith
* Georgiana Solomon
* Dorcas James Spencer (1841–1933)
* Ruth Hinshaw Spray
* Amelia Minerva Starkweather
* Susan J. Swift Steele
* Emily Pitts Stevens
* Lillian M. N. Stevens
* Katharine Lente Stevenson
* Eliza Daniel Stewart
* Jane Agnes Stewart
* Mary Ingram Stille
* Anna E. Stoddard
* Missouri H. Stokes
* Maria Straub
* Flora E. Strout
* Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet (1840-1921)
* Margaret Ashmore Sudduth
* Frances L. Swift (1837-1916), church and temperance leader
* Lucy Robbins Messer Switzer

### T

* Hannah E. Taylor
* Eva Griffith Thompson
* Mandana Coleman Thorp
* Lydia H. Tilton
* Frances E. Townsley
* Anna Augusta Truitt
* Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner

### U

* Augusta W. Urquhart

### W

* Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait
* Anne Ward
* Elizabeth Jane Ward
* Lala Fay Watts
* Mary Allen West
* M. Ella Whipple
* Reah Whitehead
* Sophronia Wilson Wagoner
* Mary A. Hitchcock Wakelin
* Adelaide Cilley Waldron
* Mary Evalin Warren
* Lucy Hall Washington
* Laura Moore Westbrook
* Agnes Weston
* Mary Sparkes Wheeler
* Dora V. Wheelock
* Laura Rosamond White
* Hannah Tyler Wilcox
* Margaret Ray Wickens
* Jennie Fowler Willing
* Drusilla Wilson
* Ella B. Ensor Wilson
* Zara A. Wilson
* Ida B. Wise
* Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge
* Caroline M. Clark Woodward
* Mary Chawner Woody

### Y

* Lenna Lowe Yost