Mary Daisy White

According to historian Dana R. Bennett, although Daisy Allen's father “voted in 1889 for legislation that allowed women to hold school offices, he voted against woman suffrage in 1897, arguing loudly on the floor of the Assembly that Eve’s perfidy in Eden demonstrated Nevada women's inadequacy to vote.”[4][5][1][3] Shortly after the turn of the century, she was employed by the U.S. Census Bureau as an enumerator for the 1900 United States census, and was involved in collecting data about residents in multiple communities in Churchill County, including Alpine, Hot Springs, New River, St. Clair, where her family's ranch was located, and Stillwater, as well as the "American Indian population in Dixie Valley," according to Daisy White's biographers, Patti Bernard and Janice Hoke.

[3] Per the instructions that Daisy White and other enumerators received from the U.S. Census Bureau regarding how to conduct the Twelfth Decennial Census, she was responsible for maintaining "street books" to document the data she collected each day, "used individual census slips for obtaining a correct return for any person (particularly lodgers and boarders) absent at the time of the enumerator's visit," and completed "absent family schedules" to create "a complete record for any person residing within the enumeration district [who was] temporarily absent."

The information that she was required to obtain from each Native American resident of Dixie Valley included: the "name of Indian tribe; tribal affiliation of mother and father; whether of full or mixed blood; whether living in polygamy; whether taxed; year of acquiring citizenship and whether acquired by allotment; [and] whether living in a fixed or moveable dwelling."

[7] In 1906, Daisy Allen wed Edward J. Williams, and became involved with him in the operation of a hotel and other businesses in the mining town of Fairview, Nevada.

Opting not to run for another term, she returned to the business world, and operated the Allen Hotel on Fallon's Carson Street.