Minnie E. Neal

[1] Neal, although in business as a photographer in Jacksonville contrived to spend considerable time at Tallahassee each winter when the Legislature was in session.

The better elements of the population learned to rely on her as a shrewd and successful promoter of reform legislation.

Besides her temperance work, Neal was active in church and missionary movements; and, during World War I, took a leading part in the activities of the Florida Women's Committee of National Defense.

[1] For several years, Neal served as secretary of the Florida Christian Endeavor Union and was the editor of its State paper.

Neal was a member of the American Woman's League, Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, and the Equal Suffrage Club.