l in such a quiet way that
no one seemed to feel that she was ever out of place. It was a
common remark, "Amanda can do that, but she is not like other
people." She was the first woman elected Grand Secretary of the
"Indiana Order of Good Templars," in 1856; the first State
lecturer and organizer; the first in the world to be elected
Grand Worthy Chief Templar; the first one in her State to be a
representative to the national lodge; the first one admitted as a
regular representative to the Grand Division, Sons of Temperance,
and the first to be a licensed preacher in the Methodist
Episcopal Church. What is better still, she continues in the work
she began, gaining power and influence with the experience of
years. An editor, speaking of her, said: "There is no woman more
widely and favorably known in this State than Amanda Way. Her
name is a household word, and in the hearts of the temperance
reformers her memory will ever be sacred."

In 1859, she was associated with Mrs. Underhill in editing _The
Ladies' Tribune_, and has since been connected with the press
much of the time. During the Rebellion, her time and thoughts
were given to active labors in the hospitals and the sanitary
movement. Many a soldier returned to his home who would have died
but for her care. In company with Mrs. Swank she presented a
memorial, to the Legislature in 1871, asking the elective
franchise for women, and made a very effective speech on the
occasion.

Her home-life has been equally active and faithful; a widowed
mother and a sister's orphaned children, have been her special
care, depending on her for support. Once, when asked why she
never married, she laughingly replied, "I never had time."

She has been a consistent member of the Methodist Church twenty
years, and ten years ago, unsolicited by herself, she was
licensed as a minister by the Winchester Quarterly Conference,
Rev. Milton Mahin, Presiding Elder. In her travels over the State
she preaches almost every Sunday, being invited to fill many
pulpits, both in Kansas and this State.

She is a calm, forcible, earnest speaker, and, though quiet and
reserved in manner, she is genial and warm in her affections.

She is now fifty-two years old, and though her life has been a
constant battle with w