Cynthia S. Burnett

Cynthia S. Burnett
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornCynthia Samantha Burnett
May 1, 1840
Niles, Ohio, U.S.
DiedJuly 24, 1932(1932-07-24) (aged 92)
Port Saint Lucie, Florida, U.S.
Occupation
  • educator
  • temperance reformer
  • newspaper editor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
SpouseDr. Horace J. Haney

Cynthia S. Burnett (after marriage, Cynthia Burnett-Haney;[1] May 1, 1840 - July 24, 1932) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and newspaper editor. She passed her early life in Ohio, but her first temperance movement work was done in Illinois, in 1879, later answering calls for help in Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In 1885, she was made state organizer of Ohio, and the first year of this appointment, she lectured 165 times, besides holding meetings in the daytime and organizing over 40 unions. Her voice failing, she accepted a call to Utah as teacher in the Methodist Episcopal College, in Salt Lake City. While living there, she was made territorial president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and eight unions and 15 legions were organized by her. Each month, one or more meetings were held by her and the work was further endorsed in a column of a Mormon paper which she edited. Later, she spent a year as state organizer in California and Nevada, and for these efficient services in the West she was made a national organizer in 1889. She spent later years as preceptress of her alma mater, which has become Farmington College.[2][3] In 1929, she was recognized by the Florida Newspaper News as Florida's oldest active newspaper woman.[4] Burnett died in 1932.

  1. ^ Guerrant 1910, p. 35.
  2. ^ Logan 1912, p. 672.
  3. ^ Herringshaw 1904, p. 174.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Williams2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).