Way, Amanda M., 1828-1914

Amanda M. Way (b. July 10, 1828, Randolph, IN–d. Feb. 24, 1914, Whittier, CA) was part of the temperance and women's equal rights movements and a nurse during the Civil War. She was a schoolteacher by profession but began working as a milliner and seamstress to support her family after her father's death in 1849. She joined the Winchester Total Abstinence in 1844 and, in 1854, led a group of Winchester women in what is known as the "whiskey riots" or the "Page Liquor Case." During the Indiana women's rights convention (1851), Way served as vice-president and was a member of Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association. During the Civil War she served as a nurse in the Union Army and she received a pension for her service.