[9] Lillian's new home provided easy access to the Westbrook Seminary, which she entered for the spring term two months later.

[11] Lillian Ames was said to be one of the earliest Maine women to continue teaching during a winter season, customarily restricted to male teachers.

[22] As a resident of Cumberland County, her region had founded a local temperance society over forty years earlier.

[23] Francis Murphy announced a temperance camp meeting for September, 1874 at Old Orchard Beach, near Portland, Maine.

[24] Lillian Stevens learned that Frances Willard was scheduled to speak at the camp meeting,[25] and eagerly joined the group, bringing her young daughter with her.

[5] In this capacity she presided over four international conventions, including ones held at Geneva, Switzerland (1903), Boston, Massachusetts (1906), Glasgow, Scotland (1910), and Brooklyn, New York (1912).

[5] Working alongside Neal Dow, Lillian Stevens was recognized as a skilled organizer in 1884 when she helped to insert prohibition into the Maine State Constitution.

"[32] By the early 1900s, it was run by a private corporation and targeted "unfortunate girls, discharged prisoners, and homeless women and children.

[38] Begun under the American Social Science Association, in 1879 the organization changed its name to the National Conference of Charities and Correction, a name it bore for nearly forty years.

Lillian Stevens reported: "As a Maine woman I take great pride in saying that the first police matron in this country was appointed in Portland.

"[38] Stevens served on the standing committee on the Co-operation of Women in the Management of Charitable Reformatory and Penal Institutions.

[40][41] Stevens was active in the national branch, where she assumed the role of treasurer in 1891 and in 1895 joined its newly formed cabinet as Secretary of the Department of Moral Reform.

[40] In 1896, Hannah Bailey and Lillian Stevens advanced the motion for the American group to formally join the International Council of Women.

[40] Stevens was invited to participate in "The World's Congress of Representative Women," convened at the 1893 Columbia Exposition at Chicago.

"[42] Its purpose was to "[present] to the people of the world the wonderful progress of women in all civilized lands in the great departments of intellectual activity."

[42] Following the international crisis in Armenia, temperance workers were encouraged by Frances Willard to shelter Armenians fleeing from the Turks.

"I have ordered the flag at half staff in recognition of the respect in which I know this great woman was held by all the people of Maine.

"Mrs. Stevens has rendered a greater service to mankind than any woman who ever lived in Maine, with possibly one exception, Harriet Beecher Stowe.

[44] Designed by British sculptor George Wade for the Columbia Exposition at Chicago, this bronze copy was given to honor Lillian M. N. Stevens, 55-year-long resident of the city, and president of the Maine W.C.T.U., the National W.C.T.U., and benefactor of Portland.