Cora Frances Stoddard (September 17, 1872 – May 13, 1936) was an American temperance activist.

Cora Frances Stoddard (1919)

Stoddard was born on September 17, 1872, in Irvington, Nebraska,[1] to Julia F. (Miller) and Emerson H. Stoddard.[2] She received an AB from Wellesley College in 1896.[2] After graduating, she worked as a teacher in Middletown, Connecticut.[3][4]

Stoddard represented the United States at the 12th International Conference on Alcoholism in London.[2] As of 1914, she was the secretary of the Scientific Temperance Foundation,[2] a successor organization to the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.[5] Stoddard had worked as a secretary to Mary Hunt when she headed the department.[3]

She died on May 13, 1936, in Oxford, Connecticut.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Koch, Barbara. "Stoddard, Cora Frances (1872–1936)". Women in World History. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 786.
  3. ^ a b Lender, Mark Edward (1984). "Stoddard, Cora Frances". Dictionary of American temperance biography. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 470–471. ISBN 0-313-22335-1. OCLC 9685500.
  4. ^ Perry, Marilyn Elizabeth (2000). "Stoddard, Cora Frances (1872-1936), temperance educator and writer". American National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500850.
  5. ^ Edgerly, Lois Stiles, ed. (1990). Give her this day : a daybook of women's words. Tilbury House. p. 267. ISBN 0-937966-35-5. OCLC 22239875.