Tyng, Lucie B.

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. 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.