Caroline's grandfather became a rampant rebel, and shouldering his gun, marched to Bunker's Hill, and helped to "fire the shot heard round the world."

[4] The pioneer spirit also possessed the maternal ancestry, which was imported into New England in the earliest period of its history, in the Mayflower, and colonized finally in Connecticut.

Forced to struggle with adverse circumstances and conditions, she grew to early womanhood with a sound physical constitution and a gradually developed, vigorous mental character.

Burning with desire for larger intellectual culture, she embraced every means afforded her to that end, and supplemented the discipline of trial and the tuition of experience with earnest study and diligent reading as opportunity offered, both in and outside the regular curriculum of school life.

She entered at once into the work devolved upon her, and gave to the organization the benefit of her executive ability, so that speedily, the WCTU in Connecticut was put into orderly and effective shape.

[7] At an executive meeting held at the close of the WCTU's Newark Convention in 1876, a publishing committee was appointed, which included Buell, representing Connecticut, as well as Mary Towne Burt, New York; Jane M. Geddes, Michigan; Frances E. Willard, Illinois; Esther Pugh, Ohio, Harriet Maria Haven, Vermont and Zerelda G. Wallace, Indiana.

The quorum at once renamed the WCTU organ to Our Union, made Burt publisher, and Margaret Elizabeth Winslow, of Brooklyn, editor.

[9] In 1880, in the Boston convention, Buell was chosen corresponding secretary of the National WCTU, and in that position she did effective work with her writing and lecturing for the association.