Edith Smith Davis
Edith Smith Davis (January 20, 1869 – 1918) was a major leader in the temperance movement. Born on a farm near Janesville, Wisconsin, she served as Superintendent of the Bureau of Scientific Investigation and the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of both the U.S and the international Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Smith also edited The Temperance Education Quarterly (1910–1917). In 1884 she married Rev. J. S. Davis and began her work in the WCTU. In 1907, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D) degree from Lawrence University. Her book Whether White or Black a Man—a critique of racist attitudes in the Jim Crow Era—was published in 1898 by the Fleming H. Revell religious publishers. She considered it to be in the footsteps of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. References

Sources
 The Temperance Educational Quarterly
 International Women's Periodicals

1869 births
1918 deaths
Temperance activists from Wisconsin
People from Janesville, Wisconsin
Woman's Christian Temperance Union people
American magazine editors
19th-century American non-fiction writers
19th-century American women writers