Willard

(wilərd)

noun

a masculine name

Origin: < the surname Willard

  1. Willard, Emma (born Emma Hart) 1787-1870; U.S. educator
  2. Willard, Frances (Elizabeth Caroline) 1839-98; U.S. temperance leader

See Willard in American Heritage Dictionary 4

American educator who was an early proponent of higher education for women.

, Frances Elizabeth Caroline 1839-1898.

American reformer. An ardent advocate of temperance and women's suffrage, she was the national president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1879-1898).
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