page_title: Harriet Calista Clark McCabe
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Harriet Calista Clark McCabe / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Harriet Calista Clark McCabe
context_page_description: Harriet Calista Clark McCabe was a philanthropist, a pioneer in women's work for temperance and missions.
context_section_description: She taught seven years in Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
  At the age of twenty, she converted and became a Catholic. She engaged in the various women's societies in the church since that time. In April 1874, she wrote the constitution of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Ohio, which was the first union organized. That constitution was accepted by the organizing committee, which represented the State and which proposed the name, "Woman's Christian Temperance Union." The State convention met in June in Springfield, Ohio, and ratified the convention and accepted the name. The convention was held in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Springfield, but the William Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Delaware, Ohio, claims the honor of having the organizing work done and the name of the great organization given within its walls. The National Union, organized in the fall following in Cleveland, Ohio, accepted the constitution of the Ohio union, with the requisite modifications. It also accepted the name.
  After serving the Ohio union for five years, she withdrew to enjoy her home and respite from public assemblies, to which she was not inclined. After some time she yielded to earnest persuasion to aid in the National Woman's Indian Association, and then in the Woman's Home Missionary Society of her own church. She edited the Woman's Home Missions, the official organ of that society, was one of its vice-presidents, and also secretary of its Indian bureau.
caption: Harriet Calista Clark McCabe (1882)
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