From collection Candidates
In 1904 Lucie B. Tyng was an unsuccessful candidate for University of Illinois Trustee, polling 1.34% or 43,067, of the votes cast. She ran on the Prohibition Party ticket. Tyng had been the first woman elected to the school board of Peoria, Illinois in 1895. Lucie Brotherson married Alexander G. Tyng in 1851. They lived in Peoria and had five children. Lucie Tyng was a community leader. She was active in the temperance movement, and was a "White Ribbon Woman" profiled in Woman's Christian Temperance Union publications. Her husband, a businessman who died in 1897, also supported temperance.
