a daughter, Gertrude Mary, born 14 March 1867. In Lillian Steven's later work, Michael Stevens became a partner and ally, described as "ready to sympathize with the ideas of social reform" and to support "her ideas regarding the extension of the suffrage to women." In 1899, he was given honorary life membership in the Maine W.C.T.U. The temperance movement In 1874, Stevens was in her early 30s and raising a seven-year-old daughter. As a resident of Cumberland County, her region had founded a local temperance society over forty years earlier. Francis Murphy announced a temperance camp meeting for September, 1874 at Old Orchard Beach, near Portland, Maine. Lillian Stevens learned that Frances Willard was scheduled to speak at the camp meeting, and eagerly joined the group, bringing her young daughter with her. Lillian Stevens met Frances Willard at this meeting. In her daughter's words, "These two women were drawn to one another and thus began a friendship enduring through the years." The National WCTU was organized at Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. In 1875, Maine followed with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Maine, formed at Old Orchard Beach. Leadership Stevens was described as possessing "great executive ability and [being] a convincing speaker." Her name was visible in the earliest days of women's temperance work in Maine, and she became treasurer of the Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union at its founding. She served as treasurer until her election as its president in 1878, continuing as its president the rest of her life. Stevens participated in the National W.C.T.U. conventions from 1876, becoming, sequentially, assistant recording secretary (1880), recording secretary (1893), and vice president at large (1894). Following the death of Frances Willard, Lillian Stevens was elected president of the National W.C.T.U., serving 16 years before her own death. During her term, she grappled with issues such as the potential ownership issue of the National W.C.T.U. headquarters, Temperance Temple. In 1900, she was elected vice president at large of the World W.C.T.U. 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). Accomplishments 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. Under her national presidency, membership continued to swell, and one thousand temperance unions were organized in one