Show HISTORY FRANCES E. E WILLARD VILLARD BIRTH BIRTHDAY DAY September DAY September 28 The birthday birth day of Mi Miss Mis Frances E E. Willard is observed b by by the Christian Temperance Um tiff September r 28 The date fi Bl 1 eatn February February ary nry 17 is observed d as ns Memorial 1 Fund day A statute contributed by the state of or Illinois has been placed in the National Capitol in iii Washington There is also a statute in her home horne in the Hall of oi Fame in Ne university dedi dedicated dedicated in 1923 and a tablet in m hex hei home in the capitol of Indiana Her 1 home in Evanston Illinois I has been preserved as a monument to her memory Shortly after aCter her herI death on April 14 1898 the legislature legis legis- lature of Kansas passed a law directing directing di di- that in every school in the state at least one fourth of one school day on every September 28 be devoted to exercises in her memory Her birthday is also observed ob- ob observed observed ob ob- served in the public schools in the state of Delaware |