[4] Butler's financial means enabled her to give her time to charitable works.

[5] Lucy Wood was born in Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York, February 18, 1820.

[1] In 1841, Miss Wood married Allen Butler, and soon afterward removed, with her husband, to Syracuse, New York where she lived for more than 50 years, and was prominently identified with many charitable and benevolent institutions.

[1] Butler was always devoted to temperance work; and after organizing a local union for this purpose, which led to the first State convention of temperance women, she was elected president of the newly formed W.C.T.U., a position which she retained for five years.

After serving some years as president of the State W.C.T.U., Butler was compelled by ill-health to withdraw from active work, but always remained a member of the local union and assisted in its operations.