Background
Barnes, Frances Julia was born on April 14, 1846 in Skaneateles, New York, United States. Daughter of C. W. and Letitia (Willets) Allis.
Barnes, Frances Julia was born on April 14, 1846 in Skaneateles, New York, United States. Daughter of C. W. and Letitia (Willets) Allis.
Educated Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn.
Worked with Frances East. Willard, president Women's Christian Temperance Union, and with Chicago Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1879. Appointed superintendent National Branch Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1880. Fraternal delegate to British Woman’s Temperance Association, London, 1890.
Became world’s secretary Y.W.C.T.U., 1891.
President Loyal Legion Temperance Society of New York, 20 years. Edited the “Y” Almanac (of Women's Christian Temperance Union).
Member National Woman’s Sabbath Alliance, Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society Elder Orthodox Society of Friends, New New New York
Married Willis A. Barnes, of New York, September 21, 1871.