[2] She attended the United Brethren College in Westerville, Ohio, and King's School of Oratory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[2] Hershey Misener was a feminist[3] and suffragist[4] who helped organize Indiana's League of Women Voters and for several years served as vice-president.
"[9] Hershey Misener first achieved notoriety in March 1929 when, as a freshman member of the General Assembly, she sponsored Indiana's first voter registration law[3] and blocked a Senate effort to kill it.
[2] They had two children, Dorothy Louise, who became an influential newspaperwoman, and Richard Hershey, who founded a major marine construction firm in St. Petersburg, Florida.
[14] She died October 30, 1966, in St. Petersburg[1] at age 88 and is buried in Greenwood cemetery in La Porte County, Indiana.