Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839-1898) was born in New York. She graduated from Northwestern Female College and became president of the Evanston College for Ladies. She was a leader in the labor, women's suffrage, and temperance movements, being elected national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She is famous for her "polyglot petition", a document signed by 8 million people from 51 nations asking the world to do away with opium and alcohol trafficking.