Ellen A. Dayton Blair

In 1885, she was elected to her position as national organizer and "chalk talker" of the juvenile department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

As superintendent of the Demorest Medal Contests, which occupied much of her time and that of several assistants, under her supervision, Nebraska lead the world in that line of temperance work.

[2] At the Ninth Convention of the World's WCTU, held in Brooklyn, New York, October 23–28, 1913, she was a U.S. delegate from Southern California.

[3] Blair's greatest influence as a temperance worker lay in her illustrative talks, by which she interested young and old.

She was a natural artist and, when not engaged in public duties, devoted herself to teaching oil painting, drawing and crayon work.