Frances Willard, a pioneer in the Temperance Movement, was born on September 28, 1839. I know that’s tomorrow, but I have a time sensitive message for then.

This statue of her was place in the Hall of Statues of the U.S. Capitol by the State of Illinois.

As a child she grew up in my college town, Oberlin, Ohio, the first college to admit women and blacks.

She became associated with Dwight Moody, who found the Moody Bible Institute, and became President of the National Women’s Temperance Movement.

The notes I found says hers was the first statue of a woman to be placed in the National Statuary Hall Collection.

I took this picture during our visit to the Capitol in June of 2006.