Harriet C. McCabe

Harriet Calista Clark McCabe (January 19, 1827 – September 25, 1919) was an American pioneer in women's work for temperance and home missions.

She took a responsible position in the formation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in the period immediately following the Women's Crusade.

[1] Following addresses of Dr. Dio Lewis at Hillsboro and Washington Court House, in the latter part of December 1873. the women of both communities effected an organization to visit the saloons in their respective towns, to hold religious services, and to plead with the saloon-keepers to sign the pledge and abandon the liquor-selling business.

That constitution was accepted by the organizing committee, which represented the State and which proposed the name, "Woman's Christian Temperance Union".

[1] McCabe retired from serving as President of the Ohio WCTU in order to give more time to responsibilities which had been laid upon her in connection with the missionary enterprises of the MEC.

An address was delivered by former Governor Frank B. Willis, and then, by request of the assembled company, McCabe told once more the familiar story of the founding of the WCTU.