Cora F. Stoddard

(1872-1936) born near Irvington, Douglas County. Educator, social reformer, author, contributed to the compulsory temperance education program instituted in public schools about 1900, and created classroom materials that helped influence young people who later supported passage of the 18th Amendment that outlawed the production, distribution, and marketing of alcoholic beverages from 1919 to 1933, founded Scientific Temperance Federation, and authored or co-authored a dozen books and pamphlets on alcohol issues. Consult Notable American Women 1607-1950, Vol 3 (Belnap, 1971) 380-381 and American Reformers (H.W. Wilson, 1985) 773-774 and American National Biography, Vol 20 (1999) 816-817.

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