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committee of this movement, and W. I. Keese, treasurer. After the twelve- 

 Sundays engagement had been fulfilled, he was re-engaged for six months. 

 Then in July, 1895, ^ more formal organization was effected. [Data not 

 furnished.] 



woman's christian temperance UNION. 



In the spring of 1883 Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the 

 National W. C. T. U., visited California, and organized a union at lyos An- 

 geles, among other places. At this time she visited Pasadena and gave a 

 lecture in Williams hall. lyater in the season Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, 

 starting on her famous around-the- world-missionary tour, which took her 

 seven years to accomplish, visited Pasadena and organized the W. C. T. U. 

 here September 8, 1883. Ten women were present at the organization, but 

 others joined soon, and up to January, 1884, the list of members were : 

 Mrs. L,. A. Fisk, whose husband was then pastor of the Baptist church ; 

 Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. T. T. Rood, Mrs. George Bancroft, Mrs. E. R. 

 Sheldon, wife of Dr. F. K. Sheldon, who started the first drug store here ; 

 Mrs. A. C. Townsend, Mrs. Mary E. Case, Mrs. S. Washburn, Mrs. Benj. 

 Rice, Mrs. O. S. Barber, Mrs. Dr. Lord, Miss Ella Bryant, Mrs. A. O. Por- 

 ter, Mrs. E. D. HolHngsworth, Mrs. M. Mullins, whose husband first opened 

 Kansas street and laid out the first recorded village plat in Pasadena ; Mrs. 

 P. M. Green, Mrs. Eouisa M. Woodin, M. D. The officers at this time 

 were : Mrs. Rev. Fisk, president ; Mrs. Dr. Sheldon, secretary and treas- 

 urer ; Mrs. O. S. Barber, financial secretary. Of these first members, some 

 have died, some have moved away, some have dropped out of the work, 

 but Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Barber and Mrs. Lord are still working members of 

 this Union — 1895. 



In April, 1884, the famous Mrs. J. Ellen Foster of Iowa, visited this 

 Union, and under its auspices gave a lecture in Williams hall, which resulted 

 in the organization of the first Prohibition Club in Pasadena, April 14. 

 [See page 229.] According to a report in the Valley Union newspaper of 

 April 26, 1884, Mrs. Foster and her husband were given free entertainment 

 by Mrs. Banta at the Eos Angeles House ; and the rival stage companies 

 then running (Vore's and Kilgore's) both offered them free transportation 

 from and to Eos Angeles. They were the "lions " of the hour. 



In April, 1886, this W. C. T. U. was visited by Mrs. Eetitia Youmans, 

 president of the Dominion W. C. T. U. of Canada, and leader of the tem- 

 perance work in that province. During her stay in Pasadena Mrs. Youmans 

 was the guest of Dr. Rachel F. Reid, and preached twice for the First Con- 

 gregational church. She was a notably large woman — weighed 250 

 pounds — and the Uiiion newspaper of April 23 said : " She has a gospel 

 power in proportion to her avoirdupois." The same paper of November 

 13, 1886, contained this historic item : 



" At the last meeting of the W. C. T. U. of Pasadena, a little episode 



