Narcissa White Kinney

Her first relation to the WCTU was as president of the local union in her town, Grove City, and next of her own county, Mercer, where she built up the work in a systematic fashion.

Next, she was made superintendent of normal temperance instruction for her State, and did an immense amount of thorough, effective work by lecturing, writing and pledging legislators to the hygiene bill after her arguments had won them to her view of the situation.

Next to Mrs. Hunt, Kinney was probably the ablest specialist in that department, having studied it carefully and attended the school of Col. Francis Wayland Parker, of Quincy, Massachusetts, to learn the best method of teaching hygiene to the young.

Under the persuasive eloquence and wise leadership of White the most stringent scientific temperance law ever enacted was passed by a unanimous vote of both houses.

White assisted in that campaign and had the gratification of seeing prohibition approved by a majority vote of all the citizens, both men and women, of the Territory.

Her husband, who owned a popular temperance seaside resort, gave the association grounds and an auditorium that cost $2,500.00 ($2,500.00 in 1914 had the same buying power as $60,358.00 in 2017).