[1] She married Charles W. Mitchner, of Brookston, Indiana, in 1882, and removed to Newton, Kansas, where her husband engaged in the grocery business.

[4] As leader of the Kansas WCTU, she was a recognized power in legislative work, and rendered important service to the cause of temperance and to the State generally.

She was well known as a forceful lecturer, and addressed temperance meetings throughout the western and southern States,[1] spending three months in Oregon, Washington, California, and Colorado in 1914.

[1] In 1914, Mitchner was appointed Superintendent of the Kansas Industrial School for Girls by Governor Arthur Capper.

[8][9] She resigned in 1919 subsequent to an investigation into the management of the school occurred after two students tried to escape after an unsuccessful attempt to burn one of the buildings.