Harriet Shetler


Harriet Jane Shetler was a founder of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Shetler was born Harriet Jane McCown in Leechburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Monmouth College in 1938 and worked in the newspaper and publishing business. She married Charles Shetler in 1943. Together with Beverly Young, Shetler founded what became the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Madison in 1977. She retired in 1982. Shetler died in Madison, Wisconsin.