Frances Willard entered the Northwestern Women's College at Evanston, and the family moved to Evanston during 1858.

The evidence

• “The only spending money they had during those three months was 50 cents, sent to both of them by their father's farmhand, Mike Carey. In the spring of 1858 Frances entered the Northwestern Women's College (Methodist), at Evanston, 111., and during the summer vacation of that year taught for six weeks the school in that little schoolhouse, near her girlhood home, which is now called by her name. In 1858 the family moved to Evanston, where both daughters graduated from the woman's college, and Frances became a teacher. There also she joined the Methodist church.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 597 / book p. 1081

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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