Eugenia St. John Mann dating history

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Eugenia St. John Mann (1847–1932; née Shultz; after first marriage, St. John; after second marriage, Mann) was an American ordained minister, evangelist, temperance lecturer, and suffragist. She served as national evangelist of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), President of the Illinois WCTU, and national lecturer of the International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT). St. John became ordained a minister in the Kansas Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and in 1892, was elected to the General Conference, being the first woman who ever sat as delegate in the General Conference of that denomination in the U.S. Mann held pastorates in ten churches, retiring from active work in 1920. She was known as a gifted orator who also composed her own songs for her evangelistic work. Mann also served as President of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, 1885–95.