Mary Bannister Willard

Mary Bannister Willard

Mary H. Bannister Willard (18 September 1841 – 7 July 1912) was an American editor, temperance worker, and educator from the U.S. state of New York. She was the founder of the American Home School for Girls in Berlin, Germany, earlier having served as editor of the Post and Mail (Chicago, Illinois) and The Union Signal (Woman's Christian Temperance Union).