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The Jubilee Book 
 
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 The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Graduation of the First Class 
 
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Printed for private circulation by The Alumnae Association of Rockford College 
 
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 Compiled by 
 
 Harriet Wells Hobler, B. A., ’82 
 Caroline A. Potter Brazee, M. A., ’55 
 Nellie Rose Caswell, ’80 
 
 Catharine Waugh McCulloch, M. A., LL. B., ’82 
 Mabel Walker Herrick, M. A., ’86 
 
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 5 
 
 The Alumnae Association of 
 Rockford College 
 
 Although from the older members of the Alumnae we 
 hear of dinners, receptions, and reunions, it was not until 
 1872 that an organization was formed, and weightier 
 matters were added to the social functions of earlier years. 
 
 The class of 1872—all honor to their wisdom—con¬ 
 ceived the plan of raising an endowment fund of $10,000 
 for the Principal’s chair and made the first gift towards it. 
 
 At the reunion of that year the Alumnae Association 
 was incorporated and the work of raising this fund assumed 
 by them. 
 
 The records of the first four years of this Association 
 have disappeared, but we find that on December 31, 1873, 
 a charter was received from the Secretary of State, and 
 The Alumnae Association of Rockford Seminary became 
 a legally organized corporation. 
 
 By June, 1878, the $10,000 had been raised, and turned 
 over to the trustees as a trust fund to be known as the 
 Sill Endowment Fund, the interest of which was to be 
 applied on the Principal’s salary. This is said to be the 
 first attempt ever made by the Alumnae of a woman’s 
 school to raise an endowment fund. 
 
 During those six years, while bending their energies 
 to this work, the social part of the Association was not 
 forgotten and a banquet was given each year, followed by 
 an evening reception. In those days the husbands and 
 friends joined in these reunions, but in 1880, it was decided 
 
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 that in the future invitations should be extended only to 
 members of the Association, and in 1882 the hour was 
 changed from five p. m., to noon. For several years these 
 luncheons were given in the city outside of the college 
 grounds, but in 1889, it was decided that thereafter the 
 gathering should be within the college walls. 
 
 In 1880 the Association asked that one or more of 
 their number should be placed on the Board of Trustees. 
 In 1882 the Board voted to admit some of the Alumnae as 
 honorary members, while now there are ten women on the 
 Board as active members, of whom five are Alumnae. 
 
 The material aid given to the college did not stop with 
 the Sill Endowment Fund. The association has raised 
 $558 for scientific instruments; $340 toward heating 
 fixtures; $5,000 for additional endowment of the Principal’s 
 chair; $1,000 for a monument to Miss Sill; $2,000 toward 
 Adams Hall; $2,100 toward the organ; and $5,063 as a 
 Jubilee Endowment Fund, besides some smaller gifts. 
 
 With the change of the school from a seminary to a 
 college the name of the association was changed to 
 The Alumnae Association of Rockford College. 
 
 In June, 1904, occurred a most interesting and unique 
 event. It is doubtful if it could be duplicated in any 
 educational institution of the country. 
 
 This was the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of 
 the graduation of the first class. The class numbered 
 seven, and on this June day, fifty years after they went out 
 from the school, all were living and all were present as 
 the Alumnae gathered for their annual luncheon. 
 
 Of all the events of the week this was of the greatest 
 
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 interest, and of the toasts, those to which these women 
 responded will be the ones remembered. The table at 
 which they were seated was decorated with golden ribbons 
 and flowers, and at each of the seven places was a souvenir 
 spoon, the gift of the Alumnae. 
 
 During the week they were the guests of one of their 
 number, Mrs. Adeline Potter Lathrop. Outside of college 
 festivities they were entertained at various functions, 
 among them dinners given by Mrs. Lathrop and by 
 Mrs. Abbie Spare Mead, another member of the class, 
 whose home is in Rockford. 
 
 One came from Denver, Col., and one from Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., to be present at this reunion. 
 
 Rockford College girls do not lose their interest in 
 the school when they leave its halls, and because of this 
 abiding loyalty we have six College Associations besides 
 the mother Association, which has just been sketched. 
 The oldest of these is 
 
 The Rockford College Association 
 
 of Chicago 
 
 While Miss Sill and Miss Norton were spending the 
 holidays of 1874 in Chicago, the plan of a reunion of old 
 Rockford girls was originated by Mrs. P. F. Pettibone 
 and Mrs. H. R. Hobart. These two ladies, together with 
 Mrs. H. W. Wooley and Mrs. F. C. Chamberlain, made 
 all the arrangements whereby the first banquet of the 
 Association, as well as the first womens banquet ever held 
 in Chicago, took place at the Grand Pacific Hotel. 
 
Abbie Spare Mead Jennie Palmer Buckbee Adeline Potter Lathrop Marion Silsby Walker 
 
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 9 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Humphrey was chairman of the first meeting, 
 and a partial organization was formed with Mrs. Gen. 
 Chetlain president. The organization was held together 
 for eleven years by the enthusiasm and personal efforts of 
 the leaders, until, in 1885, a permanent organization was 
 formed. The Association worked and thrived under that 
 organization until 1899, when, through the efforts of Mrs. 
 J. F. Hervey, it was incorporated under the laws of the 
 State of Illinois. 
 
 A regular meeting in the form of a oanquet or luncheon 
 has been held annually during the twenty-nine years of 
 the Association’s existence, and usually twice a year 
 informal reunions have been held at the homes of various 
 members. 
 
 In 1889, the Association numbered eighty-six, and in 
 1903 its roster included one hundred and thirty-five regular 
 and seventeen honorary members. 
 
 During these years the Association has testified its 
 loyalty to Rockford Seminary and College by yearly gifts 
 of books, apparatus, etc., and finally by its great gift of a 
 permanent scholarship. 
 
 The Rockford College Association 
 of the Northwest 
 
 On the fifteenth of March, 1882, the Minneapolis 
 morning papers gave an invitation for all former students 
 of Rockford Seminary to meet at Plymouth Church at 
 two o’clock. 
 
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 It was ascertained that in this vicinity there were 
 residing some 34 former students and graduates. On 
 April 21, 1883, an Association was formed, and May 29th 
 the constitution was adopted and the first regular meeting 
 and banquet held in Minneapolis. 
 
 Inscribed on the first membership roll is the name of 
 Miss Anna P. Sill, with the characteristic words: “Duty is 
 ours, Events are God’s." Among those active in organiz¬ 
 ing was Mrs. L. Kent, who was a member of the first 
 graduated class. 
 
 The design of the Association is to foster the interests 
 of the college, not confining the membership to graduates 
 but admitting all former students. 
 
 It was originally designed to hold the annual meetings 
 alternately at Minneapolis and St. Paul, but of late 
 years the former city has been the regular place of 
 meeting, and the early elaborate banquets at the hotels 
 have been replaced by the less ostentatious but more 
 enjoyable reunions in the homes of various members. 
 
 The Association centralized its interest in 1886 in a gift 
 to Rockford College, purchasing a portfolio of 84 fine 
 photographs of old Italian masters in Florence, for the 
 study of art history. 
 
 Gifts of money have been contributed to the Sill 
 Monument Fund, the Talcott Memorial Fund, and three 
 times for the art department. A picture of Sir Galahad, 
 which hangs in Middle Hall of the college bears on its 
 silver plate this inscription: “From the Alumnae Associa¬ 
 tion of the Northwest.” 
 
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 11 
 
 Few new members have been added to the roll, but 
 the meeting in October, 1904, revealed the interesting fact 
 that every class was represented from 1856 to 1876. 
 
 The Rockford College Association of the 
 
 Pacific Northwest 
 
 In 1892, after two or three preliminary meetings, the 
 Rockford College Association of the Pacific Northwest 
 was organized at the home of Mrs. Lavinia Norton 
 De Wolfe, of the class of 1858. 
 
 There were just enough ladies present to officer the 
 organization, which may possibly have been the reason it 
 was so enthusiastically endorsed. 
 
 A constitution was adopted and the date for the annual 
 business meeting established on “Founder’s Day,” June 11, 
 in order to make sure that the business meeting would 
 easily recur to every student’s mind. 
 
 There are in all 33 members. The four who have 
 passed on before have left and exert as vital an influence 
 as any of those remaining. 
 
 Until 1898 all the meetings were held in Tacoma, but 
 in that year the Association was entertained in Seattle. 
 Since then the annual banquets have alternated between 
 Tacoma and Seattle, but in the future it is hoped to carry 
 the mountain to Mohammed if need be, and meet 
 occasionally in Montesano, Olympia, and other places, in 
 order to cement the friendships and to extend the influence. 
 
 At our meeting in Seattle in 1903 the date of the 
 annual banquet was fixed to occur on the last Thursday in 
 
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 August, also there was adopted at that time a unique 
 arrangement, copied from the English political system, 
 that officers shall retain their seats during good behavior. 
 
 The Rockford College Association of 
 Southern California 
 
 On Thursday, April 23, 1903, a most delightful Rock¬ 
 ford College luncheon was given at the home of Mrs. 
 A. S. Lobingier, in Los Angeles. There were fifteen 
 former students and friends of Rockford College present. 
 Before the close of the afternoon the Association was 
 formally launched. 
 
 This enthusiastic little offspring of Rockford College 
 held its first regular meeting in Los Angeles on 
 January 19, 1904. 
 
 In Lebruary the first annual luncheon was held in Los 
 Angeles, at which nearly fifty former pupils and a few 
 friends were present. In March another meeting was held 
 in Pasadena, at which a constitution was adopted and 
 officers elected. The membership roll numbers sixty-one. 
 
 One of the delightful features of the meetings of this 
 Association is that former students from many parts of the 
 country, who are spending winters in California, are 
 in attendance. 
 
 There is abundant enthusiasm for the continued growth 
 and prosperity of this little band, who, more than three 
 thousand miles away, are seeking the welfare and advance¬ 
 ment of Rockford College. 
 
ROCKFORD SEMINARY, ENGRAVED ABOUT 1890 
 
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 The Rockford College Association 
 
 of Rockford 
 
 The Association was organized in May, 1903, with 
 conditions of membership broad enough to include all 
 former students in the academic department and all 
 graduates of the department of music. 
 
 The aim of the Association is “to promote the welfare 
 of Rockford College and fellowship among the members.” 
 Work was begun with a membership of eighty-five and a 
 . number of other names have since been added. 
 
 The first year was a successful one, in that it brought 
 into touch with the college for a second time many who 
 had not been closely associated with its work for a number 
 of years. It was also moderately successful financially, 
 for from membership fees alone the Association was able 
 to give fifty dollars to the college library fund. 
 
 For the second year’s work the Association was able 
 to give to the college a rare treat in the artistic, historical 
 song recitals of Mr. Vernon d’Arnalle of Chicago. 
 
 The Rockford College Association 
 
 of Wisconsin 
 
 The Rockford College Association of Wisconsin was 
 organized on March 25, 1904, at the home of Mrs. Everett 
 Smith of Milwaukee. A constitution was adopted and 
 officers elected. The time of the annual meeting is the 
 last Friday in October. 
 
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 One of the by-laws provides that after paying for 
 printing, postage and stationery, the balance from annual 
 dues shall be used for Rockford College. 
 
 The membership numbers thirty-three. 
 
 Rockford College 
 
 How familiar to all is the story of the early days of 
 Rockford College. A few even remember that June day in 
 1849 when the school for young women was opened in 
 Rockford by Miss Anna P. Sill and two associates. While 
 the first charter gave the power of conferring degrees it 
 was not exercised for many years. 
 
 Born in Burlington, N. Y., in 1816, the youngest of 
 ten children, Miss Sill's childhood was a happy one, spent 
 largely in “God’s out-of-doors." 
 
 When she was twenty years old she began teaching in 
 the East. She was deeply religious and wished very much 
 to find her life work as a foreign missionary. This was 
 not to be directly, but many girls have been led through 
 her influence to give themselves to the work she loved. 
 Then came the call to Rockford and she saw in it the 
 opportunity she had longed for to become a pioneer in 
 education on the western prairies. 
 
 The school opened on June 11, 1849, with fifty-three 
 pupils; not in any of the buildings of the present day, 
 but in a small one in the town. The school grew; the 
 ladies of Rockford raised $1,000 to purchase the beautiful 
 grounds on which the buildings now stand, and $5,000 
 was raised by citizens for buildings. 
 
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 In 1852 the corner-stone of the first building—Middle 
 Hall—was laid. Two years later Linden Hall was built, 
 for the earlier building could not shelter those who wished 
 to enter. In 1866 Chapel Hall and connecting corridors 
 followed. For twenty years no further buildings were 
 erected, then Sill Hall arose, containing the gymnasium 
 and music rooms. 
 
 How Miss Sill rejoiced in all this progress! Twice she 
 had been East to raise funds for some of these buildings, 
 with good success. During these years, while carrying 
 so much of the business responsibility, she had continued 
 her work as teacher and had taken an important part in 
 the social and church work of the town. 
 
 In 1884 she resigned her position as principal of Rock¬ 
 ford Seminary. Thirty-five years of noble, earnest, 
 consecrated life she had given to the school. During the 
 remainder of her life the title of Principal Emerita was 
 hers, the rooms she had occupied in the Seminary were 
 retained solely for her use when she wished them, and the 
 income of the Sill Endowment Fund, which had been 
 raised by the Alumnae, provided for her support. 
 
 For five years she occupied the rooms when in Rock¬ 
 ford. On June 18,1889, in the rooms where so many prayers 
 had been offered for Rockford Seminary, the child of her 
 love and care, she heard the call and passed to the greater 
 service. Who can attempt to measure the influence that 
 has gone throughout the world from this one devoted 
 woman? At the memorial meeting of the Alumnae a 
 week later Mrs. Caroline Potter Brazee said: “You may 
 throw down these walls so that not one stone shall remain 
 
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 upon another; you may scatter her art-stores, her library, 
 her furniture, to the winds; you may send her pupils far 
 and wide into other halls of learning; you may set each 
 teacher at work a thousand miles from this spot, still there 
 will exist in the world Rockford Seminary.” 
 
 In 1882 a college course was added to the curriculum 
 and the degrees of B. A. and M. A. conferred, and in 1891 
 the Seminary course was dropped. In 1892 the name of 
 the institution was legally changed to Rockford College. 
 
 When Miss Sill resigned her position in 1884 Miss 
 Martha Hillard was elected to fill the vacancy. She was 
 born in 1856, in Connecticut, the daughter of a Congre¬ 
 gational minister. A New England Academy gave her 
 her early education which was continued in Vassar College, 
 from which she was graduated in 1878. 
 
 For three years she taught in Connecticut schools, 
 and for three years was an asssistant in the department of 
 mathematics at Vassar. Then she accepted a call to the 
 Principalship of Rockford Seminary. Her work here was 
 very successful, her personal magnetism and intellectual 
 strength making her beloved by all. 
 
 At the end of four years she tendered her resignation 
 and became the wife of Mr. Andrew J. McLeish of Chicago. 
 Her home is now in Glencoe, Ill. 
 
 Although the mother of five beautiful children, her 
 interest in educational work has never waned. She is a 
 Trustee of Rockford College, a member of The Mother’s 
 Congress and a prominent member of the Chicago 
 Womans Club, having been chairman of the education 
 department. 
 
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 19 
 
 It was during- her principalship that Sill Hall was 
 erected. 
 
 Miss Anna Bordwell Gelston, a graduate of the 
 University of Michigan, was the successor of Miss Hillard. 
 Before coming to Rockford Seminary she was instructor 
 in mathematics at Wellesley and had spent some time in 
 study at Oxford University, England. She remained in 
 Rockford only two years, her frail health obliging her to 
 resign the position which she had filled with much satisfac¬ 
 tion. 
 
 Since leaving Rockford she has traveled to Europe, 
 has pursued further study at the University of Michigan, 
 taught two years in Alma College, Michigan, and is now a 
 member of the library staff of the Indiana State University. 
 
 The following year Miss Sarah Anderson, who had 
 for many years been financial secretary of the Seminary, 
 was made Acting Principal and in 1891 was elected by the 
 Board of Trustees to the Principal’s chair. She was a 
 graduate of the school, known and loved alike by alumnae 
 and pupils, and it was with keenest 
 regret that in 1896 they heard that her 
 approaching marriage with Mr. Henry 
 Ainsworth of Moline necessitated her 
 resignation. 
 
 During a trip abroad she secured 
 for the College a very fine collection of 
 photographs. 
 
 In the first year of Miss Anderson’s 
 principalship (1891) a residence building 
 known as Memorial Hall was given as j. Q . Adams 
 
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 a memorial to Ralph Emerson, Jr., and the succeeding 
 year Adams Hall was built, being largely the gift of Mr. 
 J. 0, Adams of Chicago. Adams Hall contains the 
 laboratories, the studio, and recitation rooms. 
 
 During part of Miss Anderson’s principalship Miss 
 Phoebe T. Sutliff had been a teacher in the Seminary, and 
 upon Miss Anderson’s resignation succeeded to her position. 
 Her degree of B. A. was obtained at Vassar in 1880. In 
 1885-1886 she taught in Hiram College, coming to Rockford 
 as professor of history and English literature in 1887. 
 In 1890 she received her degree of M. A. at Cornell 
 University, and the following year continued her studies at 
 the University of Zurich and the Swiss Polytechnic. From 
 1892 to 1896 she occupied the chair of history and 
 economics in Rockford College, except for some months 
 in 1895 spent in study at Chicago University. In 1896 in 
 addition to her duties as President she also was professor 
 of modern European and United States history. 
 
 Her profound scholarship and her force as a speaker 
 were enjoyed by many outside of the class room. 
 
 In 1901 she retired from the work and at present is in 
 her home in Warren, Ohio. 
 
 Miss Emily K. Reynolds was the next President and 
 began her work with enthusiasm, but after three months 
 of promising work her health failed and she was obliged 
 to leave. 
 
 Her degree of B. A. had been taken at Vassar in 1889, 
 followed by three years of teaching in Newburgh, N. Y.; 
 a fellow in English at the University of Chicago for four 
 years, and lady principal and professor in the University 
 
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 of North Dakota for three years. Her home is now in 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Again one who had been in the College as professor 
 was called to the President’s chair, Miss Julia H. Gulliver. 
 Her birthplace was Norwich, Conn. Her studies were 
 largely carried on under the direction of her father, a noted 
 educator. She received her degree of B. A. and also 
 Ph. D. at Smith College. 
 
 In 1890 she came to Rockford to take the chair of 
 philosophy and biblical literature, holding this position 
 until accepting the Presidency of the College in 1902. 
 During this time she spent one year in study at Leipzig. 
 For the past three years she has been working for the 
 highest good of the College. 
 
 While no buildings have been added since Adams 
 Hall was erected, much has been done to beautify the 
 earlier halls. The Chapel has been remodeled and a very 
 fine pipe organ placed there. The east parlors have been 
 changed into a beautiful reception hall, where often the 
 students gather around the spacious fire-place to listen to 
 helpful talks by the President and others, or here the 
 twilight hour is passed in listening to the music furnished 
 by gifted members of the music department. The dining¬ 
 room is very inviting with its round tables, which have 
 replaced the long ones of older times. 
 
 These are only a few of the many changes for 
 the better. 
 
 The social life of the school has conformed to more 
 modern ideas. 
 
TALCOTT MEMORIAL CHAPEL 
 
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 The Castalian and Vesperian societies, which will be 
 remembered by the older Alumnae, have changed their 
 names and are a large factor in the College recreation. 
 
 In the fall of 1901 the Vesperian society became the 
 Kappa Theta, and the following spring the Castalian 
 adopted the name of Chi Theta Psi. The rooms of these 
 societies are in Adams Hall and are delightful gathering 
 places for the members. For two years they gave 
 elaborate plays and the Chi Theta Psi gives the Halloween 
 and Washington parties, while the Kappa Thetas are 
 responsible for the Valentine and May parties. 
 
 In 1880 the seniors gave the first class progam. This 
 custom has been continued by succeeding classes, and for 
 a number of years has taken the form of a Shakesperean 
 play, and makes one of the greatest attractions of com¬ 
 mencement week. 
 
 Among the other social features of the college life, are 
 the glee club concerts, two promenades and numerous 
 other receptions. 
 
 Musical Department 
 
 One of the most successful features of the College has 
 been its musical department, which has graduated 265 
 students. It was organized by Prof. D. N. Hood, who 
 remained at its head for forty years. Since his retirement, 
 ten years ago, from the College he has lived in Woburn, 
 Mass., where he plays the organ and has charge of the 
 choir in the Congregational church. Prof. Hood has taken 
 several trips abroad, the most interesting being an auto 
 trip through Wales and Scotland. 
 
PROFESSOR DANIEL N. HOOD 
 
TWO VIEWS IN GYMNASIUM 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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MAIN RECEPTION HALL 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL 
 SKETCHES 
 OF ALUMNAE 
 
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 Anna Allen 
 
 Class of 1854 
 
 Anna Allen was married on commencement day, July 13, 1854, to 
 Rev. F. A. Douglass, who had been appointed to represent the Baptist 
 
 Missionary Union of Boston in India. With her 
 husband she sailed from Boston October 25 of 
 that same year. For fifteen years she labored 
 in the mission field, teaching and aiding her 
 husband in every branch of his work. To Mr. 
 and Mrs. Douglass were born nine children, 
 eight of whom are living. Nineteen grand¬ 
 children rise up and call her blessed. One 
 daughter attended the College for one year. 
 Since her return from India Mrs. Douglass has 
 resided in New York and Ohio, but for 26 years 
 her home has been in Brooklyn. Her life has 
 been full of active Christian work and now, a 
 widow at 81 years of age, she is Honorary 
 Director of Long Island Foreign Missionary Society. She has twice 
 revisited her Alma Mater — in 1867 and in the Jubilee year of 1904. 
 Address 845 Green avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Louise Farnham was first married to D. G. Griffin and after his death 
 to P. E. Kent. She has had two children, only one of whom is living, a 
 daughter, with whom she now makes her home in Colorado Springs, 
 Col. During her married life she has lived in Batavia, Ill., and North- 
 field, Minn. She has been active in the Aid 
 Society work of the Congregational Church of 
 which she is a member. She has been a devoted 
 wife, mother and home-keeper not only for her 
 own but for a stepson whom she brought up. 
 
 Address 918 East Boulder street, Colorado 
 Springs, Col. 
 
 Abby J. Palmer married the Hon. Francis 
 A. Buckbee. Their home has been chiefly in 
 Lake Geneva, Wis., but some of their winters 
 have been spent in Chicago and many of them 
 in traveling in the United States, Mexico and 
 Cuba. Much of Mrs. Buckbee’s time has been 
 spent in literary work. In her early days she 
 was a constant contributor to Frank Leslie’s publications and to u Godey’s 
 
 Abby J. Palmer 
 
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 Ladies’ Book,” to the Chicago Tribune, and various other newspapers. 
 She has been active in the various departments of the Congregational 
 Church of which she is a member, chiefly in the Sunday School. She has 
 been an active member of the Chicago Rockford Association and has 
 revisited her Alma Mater seven times. 
 
 Adeline Potter married the Hon. William Lathrop, a prominent 
 lawyer of Rockford, Ill., which city has been her constant home. Six 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop, five of whom are living, 
 and two grandchildren. One daughter attended the College for one 
 year. Mrs. Lathrop’s time has been devoted to her home, but that has 
 not hindered active work in various literary clubs, in the mission work 
 of the Second Congregational Church of Rockford, and in all matters that 
 concern the College of which her husband and daughter are Trustees. 
 She was first President of the Alumnae Association and was again Presi¬ 
 dent in 1884, always giving her time freely to the service. The family 
 home is at 408 Rockton avenue, Rockford, Ill. 
 
 J. Amanda Silsby married Milton J. T. Moore, a merchant, who died 
 in 1879. One son and two daughters were given her, the youngest 
 daughter only having been spared to her, and one grandchild. Her life 
 has been spent in teaching and home-making. Her work in the Presby¬ 
 terian Church has been as teacher and superintendent in the Sunday 
 School, both in Petersburg, Ill., and Oakford, Ill., where her homes have 
 been. She has visited the College six times since her graduation. 
 
 Marion Silsby, three years after graduation, married Albert Walker, 
 a hardware merchant of Petersburg, 111., and has made that her home all 
 these years. Seven children have been given her, two only of whom are 
 living. Before her marriage she taught in a 
 parochial school in Indiana and a girls’ seminary 
 in Petersburg. In the early years of her married 
 life she taught music, was active in W. C. T. U. 
 work and in the Woman’s Club, but on account 
 of ill health was obliged to drop most of this 
 work, preferring to devote the time and strength 
 she could spare from her home to work in the 
 Presbyterian Church. As the years have passed 
 her health has improved, so that she is now once 
 more able to take great comfort in all life can 
 bring her. 
 
 Abby Spare was married to D. R. Mead, a 
 lumber merchant of Chicago, and has made her home at various times in 
 
 Abby Spare 
 
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 Galena, Ill., Chicago, Madison, Wis., and since 1882 in Rockford, Ill. Nine 
 children have been her portion, seven of whom are living, together with 
 ten grandchildren. Three of her daughters attended the College for two 
 years each, one of whom was librarian there for three years. She has 
 been active in the aid work of the First Congregational Church in Rock¬ 
 ford and in other churches of that denomination wherever she has lived. 
 603 North Second street, Rockford, Ill., is her address. 
 
 Class of 1855 
 
 Katharine Fuller Brown was married in 1857 to Alexander Kerr, 
 professor of Greek. Three children were born to her, two of whom are 
 
 now living, and three grandchildren. Her 
 homes have been in Shirley, Mass., Naperville, 
 Ill., Rockford, Ill., La Grange, Ga., Roscoe, Ill., 
 Beloit, Wis., and Madison, Wis., where Prof. 
 Kerr is now on the Faculty of the University. 
 There she died in 1890. She was an active 
 worker in the missionary societies of the Con¬ 
 gregational churches with which she was con¬ 
 nected and various benevolent societies. She 
 was Vice President and an active member of the 
 Madison Literary Club. She was an instructor 
 in the College in the year following her gradua¬ 
 tion and visited it many times in the 60’s and 
 once in 1874. 
 
 Helen E. Brown was married in 1859 to Dr. John Carlton, to whom 
 she was spared but three short years. Previous 
 to her marriage she had been instructor two 
 years in the Seminary. Her homes were in 
 Naperville, Ill., and Shirley, Mass., where she 
 was connected with the Congregational Church. 
 
 Mrs. Carlton died June 20, 1862. 
 
 Miss Mary E. Clarke returned to the Sem¬ 
 inary in September, 1857, to take charge of the 
 Department of Music. In March following, 
 after a few days’ illness, she met a sudden 
 and lamentable death. She was a devoted 
 teacher and greatly beloved by both teachers 
 and pupils. 
 
 We have been unable to obtain any record of Marietta Cleveland. 
 
 Helen E. Brown 
 
 Katherine Fuller Brown 
 
ADAMS HALL FROM SOUTHWEST 
 
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 We know only that she married William Dewson and has since died. 
 
 Lucy A. Danley married Dr. Bingham and in 1876, several years after 
 his death, married Mr. Griffith Beynon. After her second marriage she 
 
 spent three years in La Crosse, Wis., ten years 
 in Owatonna, Minn., and Brookings, S. D., 
 where she died in 1893. She was most active 
 in the mission work of the Presbyterian and 
 Congregational Churches with which she was 
 connected. 
 
 Mary P. Green married Joseph Blount, a 
 physician. Five of her six children are 
 living and five grandchildren. One of her 
 daughters was in Rockford for one year 
 She has been a devoted home-maker, doing 
 what outside work she could in the Sunday 
 School of the Congregational Church. Her 
 Lucy A. Danley Her homes have been in Rockford, Ill., 
 
 and Byron, Ill., from which places she has 
 visited her Alma Mater nearly every year since 
 her graduation. 
 
 Carolina A. Potter is perhaps best known 
 to all the alumnae as teacher for ten years in 
 the Department of History of the College, 
 from 1872-1882. Many a student of those days 
 clusters most of her pleasant memories around 
 the name of Miss Potter. In 1884 she was 
 married to Col. C. M. Brazee, a prominent lawyer 
 of Rockford, devotedly filling the duties of 
 mother to his four children. After his death, 
 her life again turned to literary pursuits, par¬ 
 ticularly as leader of Literary Clubs, Chairman of Art and Literary 
 Departments of State and City Federations, and spending much time in 
 preparing programs for various literary organizations. She has traveled 
 extensively in Europe and the United States. Her church work has been 
 in connection with the First Congregational Church of Rockford, her only 
 permanent home. She has been President of the Alumnae Association 
 and acted on many committees. 314 South Second street, Rockford, Ill. 
 
 Mary W. Town married Isaac Claflin, a real estate dealer, and made 
 her home in Chicago and Lombard, Ill. She died in the latter place in 
 
 Mary P. Green 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 33 
 
 1900. Of her ten children five are living. And of three grandchildren 
 there are two living. Two daughters attended Rockford, one and two 
 
 years respectively. She was a member of the 
 First Congregational Church of Lombard and 
 for ten years President of the Illinois Woman’s 
 Home Missionary Union. 
 
 Class of 1856 
 
 Anna Burrell was the wife of Hon. W. M. 
 Buckley, Judge, State Senator, planter and far¬ 
 mer. She had seven children and thirteen 
 grandchildren. She was connected with the 
 Presbyterian Church and lived in Freeport, Ill., 
 on a plantation in Alabama eleven years, and 
 a farm in Marion, Ill. She died in Freeport in 
 1895. 
 
 None of Abby Gates Kendig’s classmates could give any information 
 of her. She was living in Chicago at the time of her death and was an 
 active member of the Chicago Rockford Association. 
 
 Sarah A. Grady has spent thirty years of her life teaching, mostly in 
 Rockford, Ill. She has been active in many philanthropies but chiefly in 
 W. C. T. U. She has taught in the Baptist Sunday School and has been 
 President of the Missionary and Ladies’ Aid Societies. For fourteen 
 years she was Secretary of the Women’s Home Mission Work in the Rock 
 River Baptist Association. Address 518 Walnut street, Rockford, Ill. 
 
 Celestia Johnson married Rev. D. J. Jones 
 and with him has made her home in Oberlin, 
 
 Ohio, Crete and Lincoln, Neb., and Chicago. 
 
 Five of her six children are living. Her work 
 has been active in the mission societies of the 
 Congregational Church. Twice she has visited 
 the Seminary, in 1868 and 1873. Address 164 
 Forty-second place, Chicago. 
 
 Olive Johnson married S. M. Benedict. 
 
 Three sons and one daughter were given her. 
 
 One son only is now living and the only 
 daughter died while home from her mission 
 work in South Africa. Mrs. Benedict lived in 
 
 Celestia Johnson 
 
 Mary W. Town 
 
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 Buda, Ill., and Lincoln, Neb., dying in the latter place in 1898. She was 
 active in all work of the Baptist Church. 
 
 Susan Johnson lived but four years after 
 her graduation. Meanwhile she had been 
 married to Alexander McIntosh, Clerk of the 
 Circuit Court. Her home was in Rockford and 
 then in Joliet, where she died, leaving one 
 daughter, who graduated from Wellesley College 
 and was Assistant Principal of Englewood High 
 School until her death. 
 
 Martha C. Lathrop has spent most of the 
 years of her life in India as missionary to the 
 women, sent out by the Presbyterian Board. 
 Her work was done in Calcutta and Allahabad. 
 Since her return to this country she resides at 
 Olive Johnson 112 North Los Robles avenue, Pasadena, Cal., 
 
 where she is a member of the Shakespeare Club and a worker in the 
 Industrial Department of the Consumers’ League. 
 
 Josephine Moffatt spent some time in New York City after her 
 graduation in studying music, for which she had a rare talent. After her 
 return to Rockford a long and severe illness resulted in her death in 
 1864. She was a member of the Second Congregational Church in 
 Rockford. 
 
 Mary E. Morrill has spent her life in teach¬ 
 ing and in the faithful performance of home 
 duties, including the care of sick and aged 
 parents and other friends. She has been active 
 in various branches of benevolent and Christian 
 work of the Presbyterian Church of which she 
 is a member. Her home has been in Peca- 
 tonica, Ill., and now is in Philadelphia, Pa., at 
 4534 Richie street. Her interests carried her 
 to the College every year until her removal 
 East in 1877 and twice since then. 
 
 Sarah E. Nichols married L. D. Collins, a 
 manufacturer, and lived in the early years of 
 her married life in Belvidere, Ill., but of late in 
 Chicago at 614 Washington Boulevard, where she has taken an active 
 
 Mary E. Morrill 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 35 
 
 part in all branches of Women’s Club work, being a member of the Irving 
 Literary Society, West End Woman’s Club and the Fortnightly. She is 
 
 a member of the Union Park Congregational 
 Church and active in the Sunday School and 
 benevolent societies. The great sorrow of her 
 life has been the recent loss of her only child, 
 a son. She has been President of the Alumnae 
 Association and has held various offices in the 
 Chicago Association. From 1864 until 1896 
 she did not visit her Alma Mater but has fre¬ 
 quently been there since. 
 
 No record could be found of Cornelia Paine 
 Thomas. 
 
 Sarah E. Nichols 
 
 Mary E. Preston 
 was active in all 
 branches of philan¬ 
 thropic work in Rockford, both city and 
 college. She was Secretary of the Monday 
 Club, Vice-Regent and Registrar of the D. A. 
 R., President of the Student’s Aid Society and 
 active in the benevolent work of the Con¬ 
 gregational Church. Her interest never wavered 
 
 in her Alma Mater. 
 
 She died 
 1903. 
 
 March 8, 
 
 Mary E. Preston 
 
 No record could 
 
 be obtained of Rosetta Price, who married 
 Capt. Jas. W. Anthony. 
 
 Lila A. Sabin was married to Dr. Benj. T. 
 Buckley, who died in 1899. One only of her 
 three sons is living but all three of her grand¬ 
 children. The chief work of her life, outside 
 of her home, has been for woman’s political 
 equality. A good deal of her time has been 
 spent in travel in the United States, while her 
 home was in Freeport, Ill., where she was active 
 in the mission work of the Presbyterian Church. She is now living in Wells- 
 
 Lila A. Sabin 
 
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 ville, Mo. She has frequently visited the College, though not since 1896. 
 
 Henrietta Topliff 
 
 Henrietta Topliff was married to C. H. Chadbourne, a banker, who 
 died in 1900. Five children have been born to her, four of whom are 
 living, and three grandchildren. Her chief work has been in the W. 
 C. T. U. and the missionary work of the 
 Congregational Church. Her homes have 
 been in Columbus, Wis., and Rochester and 
 Minneapolis, Minn., while she has traveled 
 extensively in Europe, South America and 
 this country. She has not visited her Alma 
 Mater since 1860, but has been President of the 
 Minnesota Rockford Association. Address 126 
 Oak Grove street, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Isabella Twogood married J. F. Hervey 
 and has spent most of her life since in Chicago, 
 broken with numerous trips to Europe and 
 several winters in California. She has been 
 most active in the Chicago Association as 
 President for five years. It was during her 
 presidency that the Scholarship Fund was finished and presented. She 
 has one daughter and one granddaughter. She has visited Rockford 
 many times in the past ten years. Address 2953 Michigan avenue, 
 Chicago. 
 
 Class of 1857 
 
 Marion Y. Chamberlain married John 
 Loop, and lives at 714 Douglas avenue, Elgin, 
 Ill. Her husband is not living. (Can obtain 
 no further record.) 
 
 Julia M. Clark married David Brainard 
 Brooks, a general hardware merchant. After 
 18 years of married life she was left a widow. 
 Her home is at 16 Huntington street, Hartford, 
 Conn. She has had six children—four sons and 
 two daughters—of whom three sons and one 
 daughter are living. She has two grandchildren. 
 Her life has been a domestic one except for the 
 writing of occasional literary papers. She has 
 in the church and city philanthropic interests. She has 
 
 Julia M. Clark 
 
 been active 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 37 
 
 been for 15 years on the Board of Managers of the Woman’s Aid 
 Society. Her church affiliations are Congregational and she is active in 
 all departments of church work. She has taken various trips along the 
 New England coast. Hartford has always been her home. She visited 
 her Alma Mater in 1860. 
 
 Lucy Depue married J. Baldwin Lyman, a physician, and lives at 
 92 Washington square, Salem, Mass. Mr. 
 
 Lyman is deceased. Mrs. Lyman has had eight 
 children, of whom four are living. A son, Dr. 
 
 Charles Lyman, is a very prominent physician 
 and surgeon in Denver, Col. She has five 
 grandchildren. Her life has been a domestic 
 one. She is a member of the Salem Woman’s 
 Club. Her church affiliations are Congrega¬ 
 tional and she is active in Sunday School and 
 benevolent work. She lived in Rockford and 
 Elgin, Ill., before going to Salem. She was 
 President of the Alumnae Association in 1858, 
 and has visited her Alma Mater many times. 
 
 She was “Resident Graduate” teacher in her 
 Alma Mater. 
 
 Mary Lucina Ferry was born April 16, 1837, in Ottawa county, 
 Michigan. She and her twin brother, Edward P. Ferry, were the first 
 white children born in that county. She married Galen Eastman Dec. 14, 
 1858, in Grand Haven, Mich., and died in San FYancisco June 2, 1903. 
 Her husband preceded her to the church above several years. She had 
 thirteen children, of these eight are left to mourn the loss of a good 
 mother, a faithful friend and a zealous worker in the church. She has 
 had ten grandchildren and of these seven are living. For a number of 
 years Mrs. Eastman was Secretary and Corresponding Secretary of 
 the California Home Missionary Union. Her church affiliations were 
 Congregational, and she was active in the work of the Ladies’ Aid 
 Society and the Missionary Society. She visited her Alma Mater last 
 in 1897. With a firm faith in the infinite she crossed the river after 
 patient and uncomplaining suffering, and the large number of people 
 who attended the last sad rites were witnesses of a life nobly planned 
 and lived. Her daughter Elizabeth was instructor in Rockford College 
 for ten years. 
 
 Fanny Hooker was married December 11, 1861, to G. H. Hollister, a 
 
SILL HALL MAIN HALL ADAMS HALL 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 39 
 
 money loaner and banker. She lived in Rockton, Ill., until her husband’s 
 
 death in 1890. Since then she has lived in 
 Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She has had six 
 children and all are living. She has had four 
 grandsons and six granddaughters, of these 
 there are living one grandson and five grand¬ 
 daughters. Mary, her oldest daughter, attended 
 Rockford College for three years. In regard 
 to occupation she says: “Domestic, with literary 
 sandwiched in. My philanthropies have been 
 none, unless trying to make good citizens of our 
 sons comes under that head.” Her church 
 affiliations are Congregational and she is active 
 in all departments pertaining to church work. 
 She spent two years abroad, visiting all the 
 Fanny Hooker principal places of interest in Europe, including 
 
 Ober-Ammergau. She has been an officer in the Alumnae Association 
 and visited her Alma Mater many times, the last time in 1897, the fortieth 
 anniversary of her graduation, when she and Mrs. Eastman represented 
 the class of 1857. The Rapid Transit Round Robin of this class has been 
 continuously in existence, except for an interruption of five years. 
 
 Julia J. Paine married William Hyde and 
 Diego Co., Cal. Her husband is deceased, 
 record.) 
 
 Marion A. Sackett married Samuel Skemp, 
 a leading salesman with John V. Farwell & Co., 
 after the fire with Hamlin, Hale & Co., then 
 with Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., dry goods 
 merchants in Chicago, Ill. Her husband died 
 in 1888 and she now lives in Maywood, Ill. She 
 has had eleven children and a step-daughter— 
 six boys and six girls in all. Of these there 
 are living four daughters and four sons. Most 
 of them graduated from grammar school and 
 Oak Park High School. She has had 30 grand¬ 
 children, of whom 20 are now living. “Her time 
 has been occupied in school teaching, domestic 
 duties and in trying to rear a family that would 
 be a credit to themselves, their parents and 
 
 lives at Escondido, San 
 (Can obtain no further 
 
 Marion A. Sackett 
 
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 their country.” She has had no time for clubs. Her church affiliations 
 are Baptist. She is a member of the Rockford College Association of 
 Chicago. She has traveled in England, Canada, California, Washing¬ 
 ton and many states. She has visited her Alma Mater only a few times 
 since 1857. She writes: “To Miss Anna P. Sill, the grandest woman 1 
 ever knew, I owe my chance of completing my course of study. I had 
 the desire and ambition and she gave me the opportunity , and I owe her a 
 debt of gratitude I can never forget. She certainly was and is my highest 
 ideal of a grand , noble woman , never to be forgotten. Her character 
 impressed itself upon all who came in contact with her.” 
 
 Cordelia Sherman died many years ago, is all the record that has 
 been secured. 
 
 Elizabeth Strunk married Mark Ripley. She died long ago, is the 
 only record secured. 
 
 Julia F. Wheat married in June, 1866, Martin Correll, a retired miner. 
 She died in Rockford, Ill., July 18, 1867, leaving a little son, who is now 
 married and has one child. Her life was a domestic one. She was 
 Secretary of the Rockford Ladies’ Aid Society. Her church affiliations 
 were Presbyterian, and she was much interested in church work. She 
 traveled North and visited St. Paul and the Great Lakes. Her home was 
 in Rockford, Ill., and she visited her Alma Mater every year until her 
 death. 
 
 Class of 1858 
 
 Sarah Blood married Rev. H. G. McArthur, D. D., who died Feb. 20, 
 1895, at Fort Atkinson, Wis., where his widow continues to live with her 
 
 daughter, Mrs. E. M. Wilcox. The only other 
 child she ever had was a son, Henry B. 
 McArthur, who resides in Beloit, Wis. She has 
 four grandchildren. Her life has been a 
 domestic one. She has been active in W. C. 
 T. U. work. She was a charter member of the 
 Tuesday Club (federated) of Fort Atkinson, 
 which was organized in 1881, and has retained 
 her membership continuously. Her church 
 affiliations are Congregational and she is active 
 in Sunday School, mission and other church 
 work. She has visited most of the places of 
 interest in our own country. Her home has 
 been in McGregor, Iowa, Oshkosh, Wis., Gene- 
 
 Sarah Blood 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 41 
 
 seo, Griggsville, Rockton and Rockford, Ill., and Beloit, Wis. She has 
 visited her Alma Mater very many times. 
 
 Jennie J. Gorham married Col. H. C. Forbes, a teacher, who is not 
 now living. Her home is in Urbana, Ill. She has had four children, all 
 of whom are living. One of her daughters attended Rockford College 
 for a year. Her life since leaving the Seminary has been a domestic one 
 with the exception of five years of teaching. Her church affiliations are 
 Congregational and she is active in the missionary society. She has lived 
 in Cobden, Delavan, Polo and Princeton, Ill. She visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1881. 
 
 S. Marie Montague married June 5,1861, J. M. Woodman, a clergyman 
 and author, who died December, 27, 1903. Her home is in San Leandro, 
 Cal. She has had three children. Her two daughters died in infancy. 
 Her son was educated in Chico Academy and the University of Cali¬ 
 fornia for the profession of civil engineer. She has been occupied with 
 literary and professional work, having taught from 1858 to the close of 
 1899. She has been and is very active in W. C. T. U. work as State Vice 
 President, Superintendent of State Department and State Organizer and 
 Lecturer. Her church affiliations are Congregational and she was Super¬ 
 intendent of a Sunday School for 30 years. She visited her Alma Mater 
 in 1860, 1881 and 1891. She writes: “I will say here that I traveled 
 through various Eastern and Middle States in 1861, visiting points of 
 interest to travelers at that point and in 1862 came to this State by water , 
 sailing from New Jersey January 1, 1862, and came via Panama. Since 
 then I have crossed the continent ten times by various railroad routes, 
 visiting many points of interest in the United States. In June, 1863, we 
 settled in Chico, Cal., and my husband and I founded Chico Academy, of 
 which he was principal and I vice-principal. Then we both taught con¬ 
 tinuously until 1896, when we sold out, and in 1899 came to San Leandro 
 to live. Most of my life was spent in Chico, one of the most beautiful 
 little cities of our golden state. Our special work was preparing students 
 for the State University and later for Stanford University, to which 
 institutions we sent many pupils. On my vacation trips I usually delivered 
 lectures and occupied pulpits en route. My husband was called ‘up 
 higher’ a little more than a year ago, after a long life of great usefulness 
 in the Master’s work. He published several books on scientific and 
 theological topics.” 
 
 Lavinia N. Norton married Wm. YV. DeWolf, who was a lawyer 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 43 
 
 before entering the ministry. He is not now living. She lives at 3203 
 South Seventh street, Tacoma, Wash. She has had four children and 
 three grandchildren, and all are living. One of her daughters attended 
 Rockford College for two years. She has spent her time in teaching 
 before her marriage, and in home life since. She is a member of the 
 Tacoma Bible Study Club. Her church affiliations are Episcopalian, and 
 she is active in the work of the Sunday School and guilds. She has 
 traveled extensively in this country and is now in Europe. She has made 
 her home in Richmond, Dixon and Decatur, Ill., Milwaukee, Wis., 
 Centerville, Cal., Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. She has been very active 
 in the work of the Rockford College Association of the Pacific North¬ 
 west, being its President. She has been President of the Alumnae 
 Association and visited her Alma Mater from 1858 to 1873 at commence¬ 
 ment time, and again in 1888. 
 
 Angelina I. Paine married Rev. A. Pinkerton, and lived in Wisconsin, 
 Michigan and Illinois. She never had any children. Her life was a 
 domestic one. Her church affiliations were Congregational, and she was 
 active in all church work. She is deceased. 
 
 Hannah Paine married Dwight E. Moffet, a farmer, and lives at 
 Corning, Iowa. She leads a domestic life and has one child. Her church 
 affiliations are Baptist. She has lived in Tonica and Forrest, Ill. She 
 visited her Alma Mater in 1860. 
 
 Margaret Paine married John H. Wells, who is now deceased. She 
 lives at Fairfield, Iowa. She has had three children, the only daughter 
 dying in infancy. She has one grandchild. She taught until married, 
 
 but since then has been domestic. Her phil¬ 
 anthropic work has been mostly through the 
 organizations of the Congregational Church and 
 City Improvement Society. She has belonged 
 to historical and literary clubs, Chautauqua, 
 and was Secretary and Treasurer of the Bay 
 View Reading Circle. She has traveled to the 
 Pacific Coast and in New York State. She has 
 lived in Evansville, Wis., and Clarinda, Iowa. 
 She visited her Alma Mater in 1861 and 1886. 
 
 Hattie E. Parker married John Doughty, a 
 farmer, and lives at Fayette, Iowa. She has 
 had seven children, all of whom are living, also 
 
 Hattie E. Parker 
 
44 
 
 THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 fifteen grandchildren, of whom fourteen are living. She taught for four 
 years, but since then has been domestic. Her church affiliations are 
 Methodist and she is active in Sunday School and Epworth League 
 work. She lived in Ogle county, Ill., until she moved to Fayette, Iowa, 
 in 1871. She visited her Alma Mater in 1859. 
 
 The following sketch of Sarah Price was written by one of her class¬ 
 mates. “She was the youngest of our class, 
 graduating before she was eighteen. A bright, 
 vivacious, happy girl, one of the few who did 
 not teach, but was happy and useful in her 
 father’s home until she married Mr. John Center 
 of Ottawa. They had one son, Harry Price 
 Center. The mother love developed still more 
 beautifully the lovely traits of her character. 
 She died several years ago.” 
 
 Eliza W. Rose married E. T. Cleveland 
 (retired), and lives at 701 Seminary street, 
 Rockford, Ill. Her life has been devoted to 
 home-making and good works. She has never 
 had any children. Her church affiliations are 
 Presbyterian and she is active in the work of 
 the Sunday School, Missionary Society and social departments. Her 
 home has always been in Rockford. She has been President of the 
 Alumnae Association and member of the 
 Executive Committee. She visits her Alma 
 Mater frequently. “During all these years 
 their class letter has kept on its circuit, a fact 
 of which the class is proud.” 
 
 Mary J. Southworth married A. D. South- 
 worth, a banker and real estate dealer, and 
 lives at 402 College avenue, Northfield, Minn. 
 
 Mr. Southworth is deceased. She has had three 
 children and two are living. One daughter 
 attended Rockford College for two years. She 
 was a member of a club in Wabasha, Minn., 
 and is now of the Pioneer Club of Northfield, 
 
 Minn. Her church affiliations are Congrega¬ 
 tional. She has traveled only in our own land. 
 
 She has lived in Lodi, Wis., and Wabasha, Minn. 
 
 Mater in 1888 and 1894. 
 
 Sarah Price 
 
 Mary J. Southworth 
 
 She visited her Alma 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
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 Ellen M. Abbe 
 
 Class of 1859 
 
 Ellen M. Abbe married Joel Newton Adams, a dealer in wholesale 
 produce, and lives at 889 West Adams street, Chicago, Ill. She has no 
 
 grandchildren now living. Teaching and home¬ 
 keeping have occupied her time. She is active 
 in Y. W. C. A. and charity work. Her church 
 affiliations are Congregational, and she is active 
 in the work of the Ladies’ Aid Society, the Mis¬ 
 sionary Society,the SundaySchool and theBoys’ 
 Club. Her home was in Belvidere before com¬ 
 ing to Chicago. 
 
 Mary Blodgett married James W. God¬ 
 dard, a teacher. Of herself she writes: “Since 
 my husband’s death in 1900 my daughter Mary 
 Alice and I have our home together here at 
 516 North Adams street, Ypsilanti, Mich., where 
 she has the department of botany in the State 
 Normal College. My oldest son, Edwin C., is a 
 professor in the law department and secretary 
 of the same in the University at Michigan at Ann Arbor. My son, Harry 
 Newel, is a professor in science in the Wisconsin State Normal at Osh¬ 
 kosh. All of my children living have graduated from the University of 
 Michigan. Since I was laid by with serious illness in 1890, I have not 
 recovered health and strength so as to take up active duties in church or 
 community, but I ‘lend a hand’ whenever I can in whatever way I can. 
 She buried her eldest daughter and one grandchild, having two grand¬ 
 children living. Teaching occupied her 
 time until after marriage, since which 
 domestic duties have come first. She is 
 interested in all lines of W. C. T. U. work, 
 and is a member of the D. A. R. Her church 
 affiliations are Congregational, and she has 
 worked in all departments of the church. 
 
 Her home was in Jacksonville, Ill., before 
 marriage, and since then has been in Lena 
 and Winnebago, Ill., since 1895 Ann Arbor 
 and Ypsilanti, Mich. She visited her Alma 
 Mater every year until 1890, but since then 
 only in 1903. 
 
 Theodocia Whiting Ryburn (Mrs. Thomas 
 Ryburn), of Fairbury,Neb.,has kindly sent the Urania Coe and Daughter 
 
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 following account of her mother, who was Urania Coe: “Her first husband 
 was Rev. Edward Payson Whiting (Congregationalist), a graduate of Ober- 
 lin College; second husband, Albert Guild, of Aurora, Ill., a retired mer¬ 
 chant, and third husband, Oscar Payne, a life insurance agent, general 
 agent of Illinois. She had two children, a son and a daughter, and one 
 grandson. My brother, Ellsworth D. Whiting, graduated from Rush 
 Medical, 1897, passing the best examination ever passed for Presbyterian 
 Hospital interneship. In 1898, April 26, he died. Mother died in Batavia, 
 Ill., April 3, 1903. Her church affiliations were Congregational, and she 
 was active in aid society and missionary society work. She traveled 
 Southeast, and spent two years in California and Oregon, visiting Yellow¬ 
 stone Park. She lived in Bloomingdale when she was first married; then in 
 DeWitt, la., and Aurora, Ill. I, myself, spentone year in Rockford College.” 
 
 Celia C. Culver married S. Gilbert, a clergyman and journalist, 
 and lives at 423 North State street, Chicago, Ill. She has had one child, 
 and says her time has been occupied in home-making and such other 
 duties as belong to any favored member of church and society. Her 
 church affiliations are Congregational, and she is active in all lines of 
 church work. She has spent several months in Europe and Canada and 
 various parts of our own country. Her home has been chiefly in Chicago. 
 
 Mary F. Gilbert became a teacher and died a year or two after grad¬ 
 uation. Her home was in Delavan, Wis. 
 
 Belle L. Pettigrew, 
 who lives in Sioux Falls, 
 South Dakota, sends us 
 her photograph taken 
 in December, 1903, in 
 Tokio, Japan, and the 
 following account o f 
 her life since 1859: “ I 
 
 am single. Teaching and 
 missionary work have 
 occupied much of my 
 time since I left college. 
 For twelve years I 
 represented the Wo- 
 Beiie l. Pettigrew man’s Baptist Home 
 
 Mission Society as missionary amongthe negroes,and three years as general 
 missionary in South Dakota. In the fall of 1893 I entered the University 
 of Chicago for six months, then spent seven months traveling in Europe. 
 
CHAPEL HALL 
 
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 For two years I was a member of the Columbus Chapter of the D. A. R. 
 in Washington, D. C., at the same time a member of a W. C. T. U. and 
 the Anti-Saloon League, also of a missionary society and literary club 
 connected with the Calvary Baptist Church. I have been active in the 
 Sunday School and mission work of the church. Last April (1904) I 
 returned from a two years’ trip around the world, spending several 
 months in Europe, four in India and Burma, several days in the Philip¬ 
 pines, three months in China, a short visit in Seoul, Korea, six months 
 in Japan, three weeks in Hawaii and ten weeks in California, visiting the 
 principal cities from San Francisco to San Diego. I went on my trip as 
 a tourist, but being especially interested in missions visited more than 
 one hundred mission homes of all denominations. I made some exceed¬ 
 ingly interesting trips with our missionaries in Burma, China and Japan, 
 visiting three places in Japan where no foreign woman had been. I have 
 lived in Evansville, Madison and La Crosse, Wis., Chicago, Raleigh, N. C., 
 Atlanta, Ga., Memphis and Nashville, Tenn., Washington, D. C., and Sioux 
 Falls, S. D. As nearly as I can remember I visited my Alma Mater in 
 1860, ’65,’ 70, ’74 and ’90. I have settled down in Sioux Falls in my own 
 house, with many souvenirs of my recent trip all about me. I will have 
 much leisure and hope to make good use of my time; I am one of the 
 officers of our local W. C. T. U., and also State Superintendent of Press. 
 I have been in the University of Chicago three different times for study. 
 They say one is never too old to learn.” 
 
 Harriet A. M. Reed lives at Hebron, Ill. Until 1900 her time was 
 given chiefly to teaching, since then it has been devoted to the care of a 
 home. Her church affiliations are Congregational, and she has been 
 active in Sunday School and mission work. She traveled for several 
 
 summers. She has lived at Marengo, Ill., 
 Madison and Lake Geneva, Wis. She visited 
 her Alma Mater last in 1889. 
 
 Fanny W. Rowland lives at No. 877 South 
 Leavitt street, Chicago. Most of her time 
 since graduation has been spent in the public 
 schools of Chicago, where she is still teaching. 
 She is a member of the Chicago Teachers’Club 
 and a Chautauqua Club. Her church affiliations 
 are Presbyterian, and she has taught in the 
 Sunday School. She lived in Rockford before 
 coming to Chicago. She was born and lived 
 for 17 years in Augusta, Ga. * She has been 
 
 Fanny W. Rowland 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 49 
 
 Vice President of the Alumnae Association. She visited her Alma Mater 
 in 1898 and 1903 and several times before. For a time she took charge 
 of a class reading Latin to oblige an absent teacher, Miss Caroline Bodge. 
 
 Alvira L. Stevens lives at 618 Oak street, Rockford, Ill. She 
 taught for one year, 1861, in Rockford Seminary, then went with 
 Miss Bodge and Miss Crowell (teachers in the Seminary) to Fox 
 Lake, Wis. There she taught for eight years in Downer College for 
 young women. She writes : “ In 1871 I went to Bassien, Burma, as 
 
 missionary of the Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the 
 West—Chicago. Only a year of most precious experiences in the work, 
 just a look at the work of Karen Girl’s School, and illness separated me 
 from it all, only that my heart remained, and is there still.” For 16 years 
 she was connected with the work in Chicago of the Woman’s Baptist For- 
 eign Missionary Society of the West. She lived in Chicago and Elgin, 
 Ill., before going to Rockford. She visited her Alma Mater in 1890, 1895 
 and 1904. 
 
 Clara Winter married Arthur Everett, a teacher, who died in 1873. 
 She lives at 182 East Irving street, Oshkosh, Wis. She has had two 
 children, of whom one is living, and a grandchild, who is not living. She 
 has taught in the Oshkosh High School as principal and as assistant (at 
 present teacher of Latin) since 1873 continuously; before 1873, from 1865 
 to 1870. Since 1870 she has had the care of a home, much of the time of 
 a mother and aunt, both of whom lived to a great age, and passed into 
 the higher life in 1900. She has been Vice President and Director of the 
 Twentieth Century Club. Her church affiliations are Episcopalian, and 
 she is active in the parish guild for general work. She has traveled in 
 vacation periods in the United States. She visited her Alma Mater in 1863. 
 
 Class of 1860 
 
 Very little information could be obtained of the Class of 1860. None 
 of Julia Avery Taplin and Hannah E. Parsons, who have died. No 
 answer came from Tibbie Dupue Sprague, whose address is Des Moines, 
 la., nor from Carrie Hatch Barrows, Villard, Minn., although two requests 
 were sent. The addresses of Elizabeth Earhart Anderson and Abbie S. 
 Goodrich have been lost. 
 
 Sarah Hall married George A. Pratt. To them four children were 
 given, two of whom are living, and two grandchildren. One daughter, 
 Mary, attended Rockford College for two years. Mrs. Pratt was very 
 faithful in attendance on the Alumnae meetings, and was their represent- 
 
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 ative at the dedication of Sill Hall. Her home was Fort Atkinson, Wis., 
 where she was a member of the Tuesday Club. At the time of her death, 
 1904, she was Regent of the D. A. R. 
 
 Lucy L. Heath married Henry Plant, a merchant, in 1863. Their two 
 children and two grandchildren are all living. Her home was in Minne¬ 
 apolis, Minn., where she died very suddenly December 26, 1891. She 
 was teacher for one year in the Seminary, and was always very active in 
 missionary work, being State Secretary of the W. B. M. I. for twelve 
 years. She traveled extensively in her own country. 
 
 Eliza T. Spare 
 
 Fanny C. Jones was married to W. A. Tal- 
 cott, who died in 1900. Six children were 
 given to them, one only of whom is living, a 
 son, with whom and his three children she 
 makes her home. She has been most active in 
 all branches of benevolent and philanthropic 
 work of her home city, Rockford, and, with her 
 husband, most helpful and influential in sup¬ 
 port of the College, of which she is trustee. Mr. 
 Talcott was President of theBoard of Trustees at 
 the time of his death. She has been President 
 of the Alumnae and active in all work of the 
 Association, particularly the Students’Aid. She 
 was Treasurer of the Illinois branch of the W. 
 B. M. I. and State Regent of the D. A. R. She has traveled widely in 
 Europe and this country. 
 
 Mary J. Kent married Edw. P. Thomas, a lumber merchant and 
 undertaker. Their four children and one grandchild are all living. Her 
 homes have been in Galena, Chicago and Rockford, Ill., where she has 
 been active in the Congregational Church in aid and mission work. She 
 has been Secretary and Treasurer of the Sorosis, a parliamentary-politi¬ 
 cal society. She has been Vice-President of the Alumnae and most 
 faithful in attendance on their meetings. 
 
 Eliza T. Spare married D. W. Evans, a clergyman of the Presbyterian 
 Church. She has five children, of whom one daughter attended Rock¬ 
 ford for two years, and one son studied piano for three years under 
 Professor Hood. Her only grandchild has died. Her work in literary 
 lines consisted in contributions to the press and magazines. She was 
 principal for two years of Warren Academy, and principal and teacher of 
 art of Union Academy, Los Angeles, Cal., from 1887 to 1891. In her 
 
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 early days she was instructor of mathematics and literature in the Semi¬ 
 nary, and in 1867 raised several thousand dollars for the Seminary while 
 in New England. Her home has been in Galena and Rockford, though 
 she has spent many summers at the sea shores, both Atlantic and Pacific, 
 and traveled widely in this country. 
 
 Class of 1861 
 
 As Elizabeth W. Ballard expresses it, she “ is very much married, 40 
 years of it,” to Col. H. E. Thompson, a lawyer, and they have made Grand 
 Rapids, Mich., their home until 1900, when they removed to San Francisco, 
 where they are at present. Two of her three children are living, a daughter 
 who after teaching in Rockford College, 1890-’91, married Dr. W. 
 W. Campbell, director of Lick University, and a son, instructor in 
 Yale College. Her work outside of her home has been in club and 
 literary lines. She has all her life written for journals and newspapers. 
 She has recently published a book, “Times that Were.” She was for 
 years the leader of the short story class of the Ladies’ Literary Club of 
 Grand Rapids, chairman of its Reciprocity Committee and represented it 
 at the General Federation of Clubs. As a member of St. Mark’s Church, 
 Grand Rapids, she was President of the Daughters of the King. She was 
 Vice-Regent of the D. A. R. and Vice-President of the City Federation of 
 Women’s Clubs. At her home in San Francisco she continues her 
 journalistic work on the staff of the Daily Chronicle. She has revisited 
 her Alma Mater but three times since her graduation. 
 
 Mary O. Brown was married in 1866 to 
 Moses S. Hinman. Three children and two 
 grandchildren were given them. Her homes 
 have been in Rockford and Naperville, Ill., in 
 Shirley, Mass., Beloit, Wis., and Wichita, Kan., 
 where she died in 1892. In loving tribute to 
 her work, the ladies of the Congregational 
 Church of which she was a member, placed a 
 memorial window in the new church. 
 
 No record could be obtained of Mary Clark 
 Bartlett, Lydia Evans Andrews, or Mary May 
 Halings, all deceased. Josephine B. Jordan, 
 who married the Rev. Francis A. Reed, and 
 
 Mary O. Brown , • , , , , , r 1 r 
 
 who is now a widow, could not be touncl trom 
 her last address known, P'reeport, Ill. Two letters were sent to Arabella 
 
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 Parsons Ingram to her address in Philadelphia without any response, also 
 to Jennie Parsons Murphy of the same city. 
 
 Anna B. Sewell, as she says, has been too busy to think of getting 
 married. Pier life has been devoted to the education of young people 
 and the betterment of people in all ways that came to her. She taught 
 in Fox Lake—now Downer College—for seven years, was head of a larg-e 
 private school in Oconomowoc, Wis., seven years, and then in the High 
 School of her home town, Stoughton, Wis., for several years. For twenty 
 years she has been Secretary of the Wisconsin branch of the W. B. M. I., 
 traveling all over the state addressing and organizing branches. She has 
 revisited her Alma Mater many times and would have been instructor 
 there had she in her earlier life found the opportunity to accept the work 
 offered her. 
 
 Class of 1862 
 
 This little sketch of Julia Clark was furnished by Mrs. John Ramsey, 
 of 1803, who also furnished the information about Mesdames Toppin, Davis 
 and Doane: “ Of Julia Clark Oxnard, class of 1862, I only remember her as a 
 very bright, talented girl who married a minister, Rev. Fred Oxnard, very 
 soon after her graduation and died after a brief but very happy married life 
 of about one year, I think. She was the daughter of a minister.” 
 
 Martha P. Dana was married September 10, 1863, to Rev. Peter Mc- 
 Vickar, D. D., at that time pastor of the Congregational Church at Topeka, 
 Kan. This place has been their home ever since. She writes: “My husband 
 died June 5, 1903. Most of his life was given to educational work. He 
 served two terms as State Superintendent of Public Instruction and was 
 instrumental in saving the common school fund to the state of Kansas- 
 Afterwards he served as President of Washburn College for twenty-five 
 years.” She has had three children, of whom a son and daughter are 
 living. Her church affiliations are Congregational and she has been 
 active in all lines of church work. She has traveled much and visited 
 places on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Before marriage her home was 
 in Waukesha, Wis. She has never visited her Alma Mater. 
 
 Mary J. Davidson was married to Maj. John M. Thompson, who 
 was then serving with a Minnesota regiment. At the end of the civil 
 war they made Joliet, Ill., their home and have lived there ever since. 
 She had four children, of whom one, a daughter, is deceased. She also 
 had four grandchildren. Her church affiliations were Methodist and she 
 
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 was active in church work. . She was a member of the Rockford College 
 Association of Chicago. Mrs. Thompson died April 16, 1905, after 
 many months of severe suffering. The following is a short extract from 
 an obituary notice in the Chicago Evening Post: “Mrs. Thompson was 
 the sister of Mrs. IT. N. Higinbotham of Chicago and was well known in 
 Chicago. She was prominent in movements for the higher education of 
 women and for the betterment of society. Soon after her graduation 
 from Rockford College, an institution in which she was ever afterward 
 interested, she was married to Major Thompson. * * * Mrs. Thomp¬ 
 
 son was instrumental in founding the Silver Cross Hospital of Joliet and 
 was closely identified with its charities. * * * Her husband, a son, John D. 
 Thompson, and two daughters, Mrs. Helen E. Fish and Miss Vera 
 Thompson, survive her.” 
 
 Maggie E. Day was married to H. H. Blair, who is now retired from 
 business and lives at Elk Point, S. D., where she has resided for 36 
 years. She has had four children, of whom three are living. She also 
 has three grandchildren. Her children are all graduates of the State 
 University of South Dakota. She has led a domestic life. She has been 
 President of the W. C. T. U. and also of a literary club. Her church 
 affiliations are Congregational and she is active in all of the regular church 
 work. She has visited Colorado and Washington. She has never visited 
 her Alma Mater. 
 
 Emma S. Hall. The catalogue marks her 
 as deceased, but the committee can obtain no 
 record. 
 
 Josephine A. Miller was married September 
 16, 1868, to Marshall L. Hinman, who is how 
 retired from business and lives at 715 Central 
 avenue, Dunkirk, N. Y. She has had two chil¬ 
 dren of whom one is living. She also has two 
 grandchildren. Her life has been a domestic 
 one. Her church affiliations are Episcopalian 
 and she is active in every department of the 
 church. She has spent in travel the winter 
 months of each year since 1888. She has visited 
 Florida, many of the Southern states, California, 
 Colorado, Mexico, Nassau, N. P., Cuba, etc. 
 
 Josephine a. Miller She p as lived in Albany, N. Y., Fort Hamilton^ 
 
 N. Y., Janesville, Wis., and Brooklyn, N. Y. She is an enthusiastic and 
 
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 liberal member of the Rockford College Association of Chicago. She 
 visited her Alma Mater in 1863 and 1893. 
 
 Marie M. Miner married Charles H. Richards, D. D., a Congre¬ 
 gational clergyman, and lives at 35 Hillside 
 avenue, Mont Clair, N. J. She has had six 
 children, of whom four are living. Her life has 
 been domestic and literary. Her philanthropies 
 have been home and foreign missions and char¬ 
 ities. She was a member of the Monday After¬ 
 noon Club in Madison, Wis., and is of the 
 Wednesday Afternoon Club in Mont Clair, N. 
 J. She is active in all departments of church 
 work. She traveled in Europe in 1895, visiting 
 Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, France 
 and Belgium. She lived in Madison, Wis., for 
 22 years, Philadelphia, Pa., for 13 years and 
 Mont Clair, N. J., two years. She visited her 
 Alma Mater often from 1863 to 1890. 
 
 Harriet E. Mize married Rev. Robert McCulloch. (No further record 
 can be secured.) 
 
 “Ann A. Smith Toppin lives on a farm just out of Delavan, Wis. 
 She has four daughters and one son. Two of the daughters are trained 
 nurses. One married a prominent Y. M. C. A. worker, who was afterward 
 sent to the Klondike as a missionary. Mrs. Toppin is a home woman of 
 strong moral character, who has through much of discouragement trained 
 her children in helpful, useful ways so that they have become self-sup¬ 
 porting and a power for good in the world.” 
 
 “Siffie D. Strong spent two or three years after her graduation as a 
 teacher in the Seminary, then married a Beloit graduate, Rev. J. D. Davis, 
 and went with him to Japan. I am sure they went out under the American 
 Board. She was a most beautiful Christian character and must have 
 accomplished great things in missionary work. She with her husband 
 and children made a visit of several months in this country after an 
 absence of probably ten years. A short time after their return to Japan 
 her health failed. She went to China in hopes to recover her health with 
 no benefit. Her husband decided to bring her to her home country, 
 hoping this would restore her health, but she died very shortly after they 
 started on the home voyage. Personally, I think to-day that she was one 
 of the most lovely characters I ever knew, as consistent in her Christian 
 
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 life as anyone I have ever had the privilege of being intimately acquainted 
 with.” 
 
 “ Mrs. Clara Strong Doane was an older sister. She also spent a year 
 or two as teacher of music at the Seminary, after her graduation, then 
 left to be at the head of the music department at Fox Lake Seminary. 
 After perhaps two years there she married Rev. Doane of Micronesia and 
 went with him to that far-off station as a missionary. She entered enthusi¬ 
 astically into the work, but climate, isolation and the other trying con¬ 
 ditions proved too much for even her strong constitution and cheerful 
 spirit and she was obliged to give up the work for a time and return to 
 this country. When her health seemed somewhat restored she went to 
 Japan hoping she could help Mr. and Mrs. Davis in their work. Her 
 husband joined her there, but it was found that she was not sufficiently 
 restored to engage in the work, so she returned to this country, and her 
 husband returned to his loved field to which he had consecrated his life 
 and to which he was unselfishly devoted. He died among the people 
 whom he had served so faithfully and left a priceless legacy to the mis¬ 
 sionary cause of heroic and unselfish Christian work. Mrs. Doane’s health 
 was never fully restored, but she lived a quiet, peaceful life at Elgin, Ill., 
 near her girlhood home. She has passed within the veil within about a 
 a year, I think.” One of her classmates writes: “ Both the Strongs were 
 insane. Siffie threw herself into the ocean on the way home.” 
 
 Alice L. Thompson married V. S. Varney and lives at Idaho Springs, 
 Col. Her husband is now deceased. She has had five children, of whom 
 
 four are living. She has six grandchildren. 
 Hers has been mostly a life on the farm. She 
 writes: “Many years of feebleness followed 
 my leaving school and marriage, but my life was 
 rich in love and tender care till 1881, when my 
 husband was taken away, leaving me with the 
 care and education of my four children living. 
 My eldest daughter is married and has six chil¬ 
 dren. My two sons and other daughter have 
 resided in this beautiful mountain resort in the 
 heart of the Rockies with me. I have visited 
 in the southern part of Colorado, enjoyed the 
 wonders and pleasant places in the famous 
 Manitou and ‘ Garden of the Gods ’ and charm- 
 Aiice l. Thompson ing Colorado Springs. Our own beautiful Den- 
 
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 ver and Greeley are quite familiar home places. To my sorrow I have 
 never returned to my Alma Mater.” Mrs. Varney’s philanthropic work 
 has been with the W. C. T. U. Her church affiliations are Presbyterian 
 and she is active in the work of the Missionary Society and Sunday School. 
 She was corresponding secretary for two years of the Social Ethics Club 
 of Idaho Springs. She lived in Ohio, Mo., two and a half years and 
 in Colorado since 1871. She is a member of the Rockford College 
 Association of Chicago. 
 
 Class of 1863 
 
 Jane O. Barnes married Job Adams Cooper, a banker. Mr. Cooper, 
 who is now deceased, was Governor of Colorado in the nineties. Mrs. 
 Cooper lives at 1500 Grant avenue, Denver, Col. She has had five chil 
 dren, four of whom are living. She also has five grandchildren. Her 
 philanthropies have been many. The principal one was in forming one 
 of the earliest clubs of young people of limited means, leading them into 
 many works of philanthropies for those still more in need, such as Sun¬ 
 day morning breakfasts, etc. This club continued many years. She 
 has been President of the Denver Fortnightly and was the second treasurer 
 of the General Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Her church affiliations are 
 Congregational. She has traveled much and has been in Egypt, Pales¬ 
 tine, Greece, the most of Europe, Mexico, etc. One of her daughters 
 was in Rockford College for a short time. 
 
 Lizzie W. Barnes married Stanton Fordyce. (Can obtain no further 
 record.) 
 
 Jennie C. Blodgett married John Ramsey, a merchant, and lives at 
 204 North Plurlbut avenue, Belvidere, Ill. She has had no children. 
 Her time has been occupied in being a housekeeper or home-maker and 
 active in the musical life. She has been President of the Amateur Musical 
 Club ever since its organization twelve years ago. She is a member of 
 the Fortnightly Club (literary) and has served as President for one year. 
 Her church affiliations are Presbyterian and she is active in the various 
 departments. She has traveled for several summers, visiting Washington 
 and many of the Eastern cities, with many of the places of historic interest 
 in the East, also the Lake Superior region. She has been Vice President 
 of the Alumnae Association and has visited her Alma Mater every year 
 since graduation. She taught music for nine years in Rockford Seminary 
 after graduation. 
 
 Emma M. Brown married Joseph G. Lyford, a farmer, and lives near 
 Rockford, Ill. She has had two children, both living, a son and a 
 
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 daughter. She has one grandchild. Her life has 
 been a domestic one. She has been active in the 
 Neighborhood Aid Society. Her church affilia¬ 
 tions are Congregational and she is active in the 
 Sunday School and mission work. She has 
 traveled only in the United States. She has 
 lived in St. Louis, Mo., Philadelphia, Pa., Rock¬ 
 ford, Ill., Shirley, Mass., and Naperville, Ill. 
 She visited her Alma Mater in the sixties. 
 
 Sara A. Danford. (No record.) 
 
 Lucretia May Gardner, whose church affilia¬ 
 tions were Presbyterian, died shortly after 
 graduation, at 20 years of age, with all her life 
 hopes and promises unfulfilled. She was lovely 
 in character. 
 
 Sara C. Horne lives at 90 Wakefield street, 
 
 Rochester, N. H. For eight years her time was 
 occupiedin teaching in Fox Lake Female College, 
 now Downer, of Milwaukee, Wis. Since then she 
 has taught in various common and high schools. 
 
 She has been President of the Shakesperean 
 
 Club and is a member 
 of the Rochester Wo¬ 
 man’s Club, Chair¬ 
 man of the Art de¬ 
 partment, teacher of 
 the French depart¬ 
 ment and a member 
 of the Philanthropic 
 department. Her Sara c - Horne 
 
 church affiliations are Congregational, and she 
 is active in the social and missionary work of the 
 church. She has made her home in Berwick, 
 Me., and Dover, N. H. She has visited her 
 Alma Mater but once since graduation. 
 
 Emma Mason Emma Mason married W. S. Johnson, a 
 
 physician, and lives at 5332 Washington avenue, Chicago. She has had 
 two children and they are both living. She has led a domestic life. She 
 is a member of the travel class. Her church affiliations are I resbvteiiaiy 
 She has lived in Oberlin, Ohio, and Des Moines, Iowa. She visited her 
 
 Emma M. Brown 
 
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 Alma Mater once before her marriage. For six years she was an invalid 
 and only found relief by entering a hospital and undergoing an operation, 
 which has been most successful. 
 
 Miss Joanna P. Moore, who lives at 513 Mulberry street, Nashville, 
 Tenn., writes: “I am now in my seventy-third year. My work has been 
 
 among the colored people of the South since 
 1863, the year I graduated. I think I have 
 made but one visit to the school since, because 
 I have been too busy to take vacations. About 
 two years ago I prepared a little history of my 
 life and have ordered you a copy of that book 
 * * which I donate to the College.” From 
 
 this book we learn that Miss Moore felt her life 
 work was in the South, so shesecured the pledge 
 of the Sunday School of the Baptist Church 
 of Belvidere, Ill., to send her $4 per month and 
 from the government transportation and 
 rations. The American Baptist Home Mission 
 Society gave her, by way of endorsement, a 
 commission, at the same time stating that they 
 could not pay any salary. Her first work was at Island No. 10 and 
 Helena, Ark. In 1866-1867 she taught school in Little Rock. In April, 
 1869, she began work for the North Star Baptist Church, Chicago, Ill., 
 where she remained until February 1, 1877, when she received the first 
 commission of the Woman’s Baptist Home Mission Society and began 
 work in New Orleans. There she was instrumental in 1879 in founding 
 Faith Home. In many places in Louisiana she helped to establish Sabbath 
 schools and church services. In 1884 she started the Morgan City Read¬ 
 ing Room and from then until 1890 she was busy establishing schools. In 
 1891 she was sent to Little Rock and there originated the Sunshine Bands. 
 Since 1895 her work has been principally in Nashville, Tenn., where she 
 has had a training school, had charge of Sunshine Bands and edited 
 Hope, the organ of the Fireside Schools. She says that Hope was the 
 first paper that many of their subscribers had ever received. The closing 
 word of the book is: “Now in restful faith I give this book and all there is 
 of my poor life, past, present and future, into the hands of Him who loved 
 me and gave Himself forme. Glory be to His name, now and forever. Amen.” 
 
 Augusta C. Murtfeldt lives at Kirkwood, Mo. She has been occupied 
 in teaching in St. Louis and housekeeping with her sisters. She writes: 
 
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 “A life in which there has not been any ecstatic happiness, nor any sad 
 tragedy, is not to be judged as either useless or dull. Many and varied 
 interests, assisting to make a home in which we have entertained a circle 
 of charming friends, weeks of travel in the North and East—not abroad— 
 
 have made a full life.” Her philanthropic work 
 has been in the Flower Mission and Needle¬ 
 work Guild. She is a member of the Tuesday 
 Reading Class and Secretary of the Monday 
 Evening Club. Her church affiliations are 
 Presbyterian and she is active in the Woman’s 
 Missionary Society. She has lived in Rockford, 
 Ill., and St. Louis, Mo. She was a teacher in 
 her Alma Mater parts of two years and has 
 visited her Alma Mater but once since. 
 
 Emma F. Rockwood married A. J. Cropsey 
 and lives at 552 South Hennepin avenue, Dixon, 
 Ill. Mr. Cropsey died March 25, 1896. She 
 has never had any children. Her husband was 
 a Union soldier, a member of the State Legislatures in Illinois and 
 Nebraska, a farmer for a time and also a real estate agent. Her time 
 has been occupied with teaching, postoffice work and home-making. 
 Her work has been along the line of temperance, jails and Sunday 
 Mission at Reform School. She is a member of a Chautauqua Club. 
 Her church affiliations are Presbyterian, and she is active in the depart¬ 
 ments of missionary, Sunday School and industrial work. She has 
 traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, visiting the St. Lawrence 
 and the mountains of Colorado. She has made her home in Lincoln, 
 Neb., Texas, Utah and Illinois. She has never visited her Alma Mater 
 since she taught there for two years after graduation. 
 
 Emma F. Rockwood 
 
 Lusebin E. Seymour married Prof. E. C. Abbott. She is deceased. 
 (No further record.) 
 
 Augusta R. Scott, M. D., married Dr. Archibald Campbell, a surgeon 
 U. S. A. The following account of her life is furnished by her classmate, 
 Mrs. Seely Perry: Augusta Scott-Campbell in her early life was brilliant 
 and beautiful, was gifted as a writer and gave promise of a literary career. 
 She was an instructor in Rockford College for a year or two. Immediately 
 after the war she taught in Memphis, where Dr. Campbell was stationed. 
 After their marriage they lived at Cumberland, Md., for a time, and then 
 at various Western forts. She had one child, Gussie Bell, who became a 
 
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 young actress, but died several years ago. After Dr. Campbell’s death 
 she studied medicine, and practiced in Chicago until her last illness. 
 When practicing her profession she found but little leisure for literary 
 pursuits, and, as far as we know, never gathered her many poems into 
 published volumes. 
 
 Sophia L. Smith married Willett S. Main and is now a widow, living 
 at 511 Carroll street North, Madison, VVis. She has had six children, of 
 
 whom four are living. Three of her five grand¬ 
 children are living. She was an instructor in 
 Rockford College after graduation, but her life 
 has been principally a domestic one. She has 
 been President of the Woman’s Club of Madi¬ 
 son. Her church affiliations are Baptist, and 
 she is active in all departments, especially mis¬ 
 sionary. At present she is enjoying a trip 
 abroad. She is a member of the Rockford 
 College Association of Chicago, and also of 
 Wisconsin. She has visited her Alma Mater 
 many times. 
 
 Sarah E. P. Stephens was married August 2, 
 1864, to A. S. J. Phelps, who was a lawyer by pro¬ 
 fession, but is not practicing now. Pier home 
 is in Santa Maria, Cal. She has had six children, the ones living being 
 W. J. Phelps, of Santa Maria, Mrs. J. T. F. Blayerty, Los Angeles, and 
 Mrs.W. L. Davis,Tacoma, W T ash. She has had 
 twelve grandchildren and eleven are living. 
 
 She was a home-keeper until 1894, but since 
 that time has resided with her children. Her 
 church affiliations are Congregational, and she 
 is much interested in Home Missions. She has 
 lived in Elmwood, Ill., and Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 She visited her Alma Mater in 1865. 
 
 Sophia L. Smith 
 
 Marie PC Thompson, M. A., was married 
 to Seely Perry, a dealer in lumber and coal, who 
 died in 1900. Her home is at 633 North Main 
 street, Rockford, Ill. She has had one 
 daughter, now Mrs. Walter P'orbes, of Rock¬ 
 ford, who for three years made most excellent 
 preparation for Vassar at Rockford College. 
 
 Sarah E. P. Stephens 
 
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 Home-making has been Mrs. Perry’s occupation. Her philanthropic work 
 has been accomplished through the city aid societies, Needlework Guild, 
 Students’ Aid Association, etc. She has been President of the Rockford 
 Monday Club, The Rockford Round Table, The Federation of Clubs of 
 Rockford, The Rockford College Association of Chicago, and the Alum¬ 
 nae Association. She was Vice President at Large of the Illinois State 
 Federation of Woman’s Clubs. She is a member of the Chicago Woman’s 
 Club. Her church affiliations are Congregational, and she is active in 
 aid society work and home missions. She has spent much time in travel 
 and visited many places in Europe and America. Rockford has been her 
 home all the time except for four years after her husband’s death, when 
 she was in Chicago. She taught in her Alma Mater part of one year to 
 fill a vacancy. She has been a Trustee of Rockford College for many 
 years; was a member of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees 
 until she removed to Chicago. She visits her Alma Mater continually. 
 
 Nancy L. Ware married S. B. Farwell, a banker and merchant, and 
 lives at Osborne, Kan. She has had six children, all of whom are liv¬ 
 ing. She has had eight grandchildren, of 
 whom seven are living. She writes that she 
 has not sent any of her children out of her own 
 state to school except one daughter, who took 
 music at Oberlin College. Two daughters 
 attended college in that state. Two sons attend 
 Washburn College at Topeka, that state, and 
 one son graduated at State Normal and Agri¬ 
 cultural College, and is now a lawyer. Her 
 time has been occupied principally with domes¬ 
 tic duties. She has been President of the 
 Library Association and active in various mis¬ 
 sionary associations. She has been Treasurer 
 Nancy l. Ware G f Osborne Literary Club. Her church 
 
 affiliations are Congregational, and she is active in all departments of 
 church work. She visited the World’s Fairs at Chicago and Omaha, has 
 spent three months in California and four in Colorado. She has lived 
 thirty-four years in Osborne county, Kan., and has never visited her 
 Alma Mater. 
 
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 Class of 1864 
 
 Emma M. Allen went to New Orleans immediately after graduation, to 
 her mother, who was a nurse in the army hospitals. She married a Mr. 
 Holman, and is now deceased. 
 
 Mary Ashman after graduation taught in the West Rockford High 
 School, soon afterwards abandoning teaching to marry George Phelps. 
 A few years later she died. Her husband is also deceased. 
 
 Mary A. Bliss married Henry Dwight and is now deceased. 
 
 Laura A. Bliss is a Congregationalist, and has given much time to 
 missionary and Sunday School work. She married Langdon S. Ward, 
 now deceased, who was for years the Treasurer of the American Board of 
 Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They had eight children, seven of 
 whom are living. One daughter is in the missionary field in Turkey, 
 where Mrs. Ward is now visiting. A son will become a medical mission¬ 
 ary in two years, and another daughter will enter missionary work in a 
 few years. She has lived principally in Brookline, Newton Center and 
 Amhurst, Mass. 
 
 Sara A. Bradley lives at Richland, Mich. Since graduation has been 
 occupied a short time in teaching, and in domestic, industrial and literary 
 work. Belongs to the Ladies’ Literary Club of her city and has been 
 assistant librarian. Has traveled considerably in the United States and 
 Canada, and has been active in Sunday School and Missionary Society 
 work in connection with the Presbyterian Church. She visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1867 and 1872. Her address is Richland, Mich. 
 
 Mattie M. Caswell married James Thompson. She is deceased. 
 
 Mary Jessup was one of the class editors 
 and graduated with high honors. Is deceased. 
 
 Fannie E. Moss lived at Belvidere, Ill., 
 where she married Oscar J. Lincoln, remain¬ 
 ing there as a home-maker till she died. 
 
 Eva F. Munson for 24 years taught vocal and 
 instrumental music and elocution, and has also 
 done much literary work of note, and has pub¬ 
 lished about forty musical compositions, one of 
 them, “ Woodland Warblings,” being dedicated 
 to the Alumnae of Rockford College. Her 
 most important work, the product of twenty 
 
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 years of patient toil, is a quarto volume, “Woman in Sacred Song,’ 
 containing the best that woman has done in hymnology in all time, with 
 biographical sketches of most of the authors. In the three thousand 
 hymns in the volume, several Rockford Alumnae are represented, includ¬ 
 ing the author. She has also superintended more oratorical medal con¬ 
 tests for the W. C. T. U. than any other person, and for four years has 
 been the State (Illinois) Superintendent for the “Enforcement of Law 
 and Sabbath Observance” of that society. She has given time to the 
 Humane Society, Associated Charities and W. C. T. U. Was Vice-Presi¬ 
 dent 10 years of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Club and President of the 
 Author’s Club. Was President of the North End W. C. T. U. of Spring- 
 field, and is now serving her eighth year as President of the Central 
 W. C. T. U. Is serving third year as historian of the D. A. R. of Spring- 
 field. Has traveled much in the United States and Canada, but not 
 abroad. Belongs to the Presbyterian Church and has always been active 
 in church work. Married George C. Smith in 1869 but has no children. 
 Has lived at Rockford, Ill., Topeka, Kas., Nebraska City, Neb., and for 
 thirty years at Springfield, Ill., where her address is 910 West Edwards 
 street. She visited her Alma Mater in 1870, 1894 and 1904, and wrote 
 the Alumnae essay in 1870. 
 
 Frances S. Peck married Julius C. Burrows, former Congressman and 
 now Senator from Michigan, and has lived in Kalamazoo and Washington 
 alternately, having homes in both cities. Her time has been employed in 
 domestic and the social duties of official life, but she has given much time 
 to philanthropic and club work, such as the Garfield Hospital, Junior 
 Republic, and others. She was President of the National Relief Associa¬ 
 tion of Cuba, Vice-President General D. A. R., National President C. A. R., 
 member of Washington Club, etc. Has been active in the work of the 
 Congregational Church. Has traveled much in the United States, Europe 
 Cuba and Hawaii. She visited her Alma Mater in 1865 and twice since 
 Her address at Kalamazoo is 315 Woodward avenue. 
 
 Ellen E. Pettibone, deceased November 30, 1904. Never married, 
 but lived a busy life of helpfulness in many capacities, most notably for 
 17 years in Constantinople, as assistant and home-maker for her brother, 
 Secretary of the publishing department of the American Board of Com¬ 
 missioners for Foreign Missions in that city, and as emergency teacher in 
 the Girl’s College. After returning to America in 1893 she lived in Chi¬ 
 cago, Rockton and Rockford, Ill., and Auburndale, Mass. She belonged 
 to neighborhood clubs and reading circles and was a teacher in various 
 Congregational Sunday Schools. 
 
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 Libbie C. Watson after teaching five years married Rev. J. L. Smith, 
 D.D., Lutheran, and has given her attention to her domestic duties and 
 
 church work since in Lodi, Ill., Alliance, Erie . 
 and Ligonier, Ohio, and now in Pittsburg, Pa. 
 She visited her Alma Mater in 1868. Just 
 prior to her marriage was offered a position as 
 teacher there. She has had two sons and three 
 daughters, all now living except one daughter. 
 She was a Presbyterian before marriage. Her 
 address is 6024 Station street, East Pittsburg. 
 
 Flora Wheeler is descendant of John Alden, 
 her grandfather, Rev. Timothy Alden, being 
 the sixth in descent from John and Priscilla. 
 She married James A. Slye, lawyer, and has 
 had four children, three now living. She is 
 not a club woman, and has been engaged in 
 domestic and literary work. Is an Episcopal¬ 
 ian. Has lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Iowa, and now at 
 the Buckingham, St. Paul, Minn. Visited her Alma Mater in 1865. 
 
 Frances Wiswell never married. She taught school for more than 25 
 years. Has lived chiefly at Rockford, Ill., Afton, N. Y., and Janesville, 
 Wis., her present home. She is a Baptist, and has taught in the Sunday 
 School considerably. She visited her Alma Mater in 1867,1868 and 1869, 
 and taught history there in 1870. Of late years she has given much time 
 to the cultivation of strawberries. 
 
 Normal Class of 1864 
 
 Martha D. Anderson married H. N. Gibson. Present residence 
 unknown. 
 
 Marcia Dearborn married John Foster, a shoe manufacturer, and has 
 lived continuously at Beloit, Wis. 
 
 Julia La Framboise was the daughter of a French Canadian, 
 who moved to Minnesota about 1843 and married Sleepy-Eyes, the 
 daughter of a chief. She was made a captive by hostile Sioux in 1862, 
 and after her release her father sent her to Rockford to be educated for a 
 teacher among the Indians. After her graduation she taught the Indians 
 at Santee, Neb., until she went home in 1867 or 1868 to die of consumption. 
 
 P'rances E. Schlosser taught school three years and then married 
 O. B. Taft, a banker, and has given her time since to her domestic duties. 
 
 Libbie C. Watson 
 
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 She has three children and two grandchildren. She lived at Paxton, 
 Ill., three years, and since then in Chicago, where she is a member 
 
 of Plymouth Congregational Church. Has 
 been for 13 years Treasurer of a club of 
 22 members which support a creche, also 
 for 17 years Treasurer of the Ladies’ Aid 
 Society. Has visited most of the cities of 
 America and Europe. Has been President, 
 Secretary, Treasurer and Director of Chicago 
 Rockford Association. Has just returned 
 from her third trip abroad. 
 
 Mary V. Stevens married L. F. Babcock, 
 M. D. Lived in Omaha, Neb., and Dead- 
 wood^. D. Died in 1891. Had one son who 
 is still living. She was a Congregationalist 
 and later an Episcopalian. She traveled 
 considerably in the United States. Her time 
 was given almost solely to her domestic duties and to literary work. 
 
 Class of 1865 
 
 Gertrude Chamberlain married William E. Smith, who is western 
 agent for the Richardson Automatic Scale Co. But one of her three 
 children is living and three grandchildren. Her occupations have been 
 chiefly domestic, social and philanthropic, the latter carried on in the 
 Baptist Church, of which she is a member, and the Y. W. C. A. Her home 
 has been in New York City, and now in Chicago, at 3256 Rhodes avenue. 
 She has been an active member of the Chicago Association, having been 
 most influential in its organization and having served it in many capacities 
 since. She was in charge of the music department for some months soon 
 after graduation at the Seminary, during a temporary absence of Prof. 
 Hood. She has traveled extensively in this country and in Europe. 
 
 Alletta H. Dixon married S. F. Pomeroy, who died in 1904, and for 30 
 years has made her home in Edgar, Neb. She has one child. She was a 
 teacher before her marriage and has given her time since to domestic and 
 literary pursuits. She has been President and Secretary of the Ladies’ 
 Library Association and has given a good deal of time to that work. 
 Much time, too, has been given to the missionary and aid work of the 
 Presbyterian Church. She has visited many places of interest in this 
 country, East and West. In 1867 and 1893 she visited the College. 
 
 Frances E. Schlosser 
 
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 67 
 
 Emma Edwards is widow of H. W. Wooley and lives at 1350 Dakin 
 street, Chicago. She has always been an active member of the Chicago 
 Association, having served it in many capacities. 
 
 For some reason she failed to send a record. 
 
 Emma Fay married Rev. Stephen Gates and 
 died some years since. No further information 
 could be obtained from her classmates. 
 
 Minnie B. Fenwick has devoted her life to 
 journalistic work. For 14 years she has been on 
 the staff of the San Antonio (Texas) Daily Express. 
 
 Her work as special correspondent has carried her 
 
 generally over the 
 United States and 
 Mexico. She was one 
 
 of the Organizers and Minnie B. Fenwick 
 
 first officers of the San Antonio History Club, 
 a large and most influential woman’s club. For 
 some time now she has been chairman of the 
 Philanthropy Department. 
 
 MaryA. Finch was married in 1867 to Frank 
 W. Sapp, an editor, of Ottawa, Ill. She has had 
 four children and two grandchildren. She has 
 been President of and held various other offices 
 in the Literary Club 
 and Woman’s Relief 
 
 Mary A. Finch 
 
 Corps. She has been 
 SundaySchool teacher and fulfilled various other 
 duties in the Congregational Church. In 1871 
 and 1884 she visited the College. 
 
 Harriet Lewis is the widow of Capt. W. P. 
 
 Paff. Her address is Sedalia, Mo. She is an 
 active member of the Sorosis of that place and 
 Treasurer of its Membership Committee. 
 
 No information was obtained of Sarah E. 
 
 Madole, deceased. 
 
 Phoebe L. Pier is the widow of Marion 
 E. Woods, a hardware merchant. She has one Phoebe l. Pier 
 
 son and one daughter, having lost two daughters. With her husband she 
 
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 was a pioneer of Weeping Water, Nqb., having moved there from Labor, 
 la. Since her husband’s death, 13 years ago, she has made her home in 
 Belvidere, Ill., and in Wray, Col. She has been President of the 
 vV. C. T. U. and Secretary of a musical club. Has given a good deal of 
 time to the home and foreign missionary work of the Presbyterian 
 Church. Address Otis, Col. 
 
 Anna J. Riggs married Horace E. Warner, to whom three children 
 
 were born, whose care and education 
 have filled her time. Her homes have 
 been in Beloit, Wis., Belle Plain and 
 Vinton, la., and Oaks, S. D. Her 
 present address is 21 I Street North¬ 
 west, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Harriet J. Rosencrans married 
 Henry Wright, a mining promoter and 
 contractor. She has four boys, having 
 lost her only daughter. Her life work 
 has been in various lines—teaching, 
 literary and political. For five years 
 she has been a member of the Board of 
 Control of State Industrial School for 
 Girls, a purely philanthropic work; a 
 member of Sailor’s and Soldiers’Aid of 
 Spanish-American War. She is a mem¬ 
 ber of Woman’s Club of Denver, North 
 Side Woman’s Club, Educational Club, 
 Pioneer Ladies’ Aid of Colorado, and of 
 Colorado Equal Suffrage Society. She 
 
 Harriet J. Rosencrans has various offices in all these 
 
 clubs. She has been active in the Sunday School of the First Congrega¬ 
 tional Church of Denver. Mrs. Wright was a member of the Twelfth 
 General Assembly of Colorado, being elected to the Legislature from 
 Denver in 1899 and again in 1903. Her homes have been in Columbus, 
 Wis., Boulder, Col., and now 1421 West 29th avenue, Denver. She 
 taught in the Seminary the second year after graduation, but has never 
 been back. 
 
 Sarah E. Safford married Edw. P. Safford and has made her homes in 
 Illinois—DeKalb, Mayfield and now Sycamore. What time has been left 
 
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 from home-keeping has been given to Sunday School and missionary 
 work in the Congregational Church. Five of her six children are living 
 
 Laura Shaw married John C. Broeksmit, 
 former auditor of B., C. R. & N. R. R. Three 
 of her four children are living. Her life has 
 been given to teaching and domestic duties in 
 her homes, Maquoketa and Cedar Rapids, la. 
 
 Her philanthropies have been in the Home for 
 the Friendless Children, the Mothers’Sunshine 
 Mission and the Mending and Sewing Society. 
 
 In the Presbyterian Church she has given her 
 time to the missions and Sunday School. She 
 has traveled widely in the United States and 
 has revisited Rockford twice, in 1867 and 1882. 
 
 Matilda R. Stull married James W. Perkins, 
 a real estate dealer of Kansas City. Before 
 her marriage she had been a missionary teacher 
 in Mississippi and in Kansas City. Her work has been chiefly in the 
 missions of the Congregational Church. She has traveled throughout 
 the United States and Canada. Her present address is 1108 Forest avenue, 
 Kansas City. 
 
 Mary C. Talcott married Philo Foster Pettibone and has made her 
 home at 159 Warren avenue, Chicago, for many years. She has been 
 very prominent in club work, chiefly in Chicago Woman’s Club and West 
 End Woman’s Club. She was one of the organizers of the Chicago 
 Rockford Association and one of its most helpful members. Her interest 
 in her Alma Mater has never waned and has been expressed in all help¬ 
 ful ways. 
 
 Matilda R. Stull 
 
 Normal Class of 1865 
 
 No trace could be found of Mary L. Keep, who married Elijah Hol¬ 
 lenbeck, since deceased. 
 
 Mary M. Murray is the widow of Geo. N. Baker. She was charter 
 member of the Woman’s Club of Amsterdam, N. Y., and the Century 
 Club. Her homes have been Portage, Wis., and Amsterdam, N.Y. Her 
 present address is 320 Greenwood boulevard, Evanston, Ill. 
 
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 Gertrude A. Perkins married E. B. Newton, a lumber merchant, and 
 spent twenty years of her life in Grand Rapids, Mich., where she was 
 
 active in the various clubs of the city. She 
 was President and Secretary of the Federation 
 of Clubs, President of the “ Igdrasil ” and vari¬ 
 ous literary clubs and Shakespeare classes and 
 musical circles. Her work has been special in 
 the line of music, having given much time to 
 teaching it. She writes now from a Kansas 
 ranch, her present home. She has three chil¬ 
 dren living, having lost two. One, a daughter, 
 is with her, and of the two sons, one is in Cali¬ 
 fornia and one still in the lumber business in 
 Grand Rapids. Her life on the Kansas ranch 
 Gertrude a. Perkins is a complete change from the busy club life of 
 
 her former home. But from the delightful climate and whole-souled, 
 kind-hearted people she anticipates much pleasure and hopes for more in 
 the future. Her address is Jean Haskell County, Kansas. 
 
 No information could be obtained of Annetta Wilson, deceased. 
 
 Class of 1866 
 
 Sarah F. Fisher married Geo. Archer, a revenue collector, who died 
 in 1889. Their three children are living. Since her husband’s death Mrs. 
 Archer has resumed her profession of teaching. 
 
 She has been teacher of mathematics in the 
 Spokane High School for eleven years. She 
 has supplemented her work by contributing 
 stories and poems to various newspapers and 
 magazines. She is a member of the Congrega¬ 
 tional Church. Her homes have been in Rock¬ 
 ford, Hannibal, Mo., and Dayton, Wash. Her 
 address is 1322 Dean avenue, Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Amelia M. Hollister in 1878 married 
 Almon Chapman, a horticulturist. She lost 
 her two sons in infancy and continued ill health 
 
 has prevented her taking an active part either Sarah f. Fisher 
 
 in philanthropic or club work. Her homes have been in Oak Park, Ill., 
 Greeley, Col., and now in Fair Oaks, Cal. For six years previous to her 
 marriage she taught in the music department at the Seminary. She visited 
 there in 1883 and 1889. 
 
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 Martha C. Howard married Cyrus W. Wells, a real estate dealer, and 
 has made her home for many years in Minneapolis, Minn. Of her two 
 
 children but one is living, a daughter, who 
 graduated from Wellesley in 1902. Mrs. Wells 
 has been prominent in Sunday School work 
 of the Plymouth Congregational Church of 
 Minneapolis, having organized the primary 
 work there and founded the Primary Sunday 
 School Teachers’ Union for all denominations 
 twenty years ago. She is a D. A. R. Her 
 chief work and best known has been in arrang¬ 
 ing literary, travel and art programs for club 
 use, her work having been endorsed by the 
 Minnesota Federation of Clubs in 1898. In 
 1903 she prepared work for the clubs in eleven 
 Martha c. Howard different states. Her work has been copy¬ 
 
 righted. She was the originator of the historical memorial which was 
 presented through the Tourists’Club of Minneapolis at the General Feder¬ 
 ation of Woman’s Clubs in 1900 and, being unanimously adopted, resulted 
 in the Louisiana Purchase Woman’s Clubs in connection with the World’s 
 Fair at St. Louis in 1904. She has traveled extensively in this country 
 and with three tours in Europe has fitted herself in the best way for her 
 special work—parlor talks on travel, history, literature and art. Her 
 address is 2500 Stevens avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Mary L. Markham first married Addison M. Halbert, who died in 
 1881. In 1890 she married Rev. F. E. Sherman, a Congregational minis¬ 
 ter. Mrs. Sherman has been occupied as music 
 teacher, home-keeper and school teacher. She 
 was employed by the American Missionary 
 Society to teach in the colored settlement in 
 Topeka. Of her four children three are living, 
 one son, a dentist, one a clergyman and a daugh¬ 
 ter, private secretary to the president of Wash¬ 
 burn College, Topeka. Mrs. Sherman’s address 
 is 1271 Washburn avenue, Topeka, Kan. 
 
 No reply came from Eliza H. Meade 
 McDuffy, whose address is given as 1012 West 
 Main street, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
 
 Mary L. Markham 
 
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 No record could be obtained for Mary E. Rork Crary. 
 
 Eliza M. Thomas married Stephen Caswell, a physician of Rockford, 
 and is now deceased. 
 
 Myra G. Webster married Edmund W. Burke, a lawyer, and has 
 made her home in Rockford and Chicago. She was teacher of water 
 color painting and one year teacher of German in the Seminary. She 
 has two sons. She is a member of the West End Woman’s Club of Chi¬ 
 cago and a worker in the Sunday School Aid Society and mission work 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She has traveled extensively both 
 in this country and Europe, aggregating several years. She has revisited 
 her Alma Mater many times, but not since 1896. Her present address 
 is 759 Adams street, Chicago. 
 
 Normal Class of 1866 
 
 9 
 
 Lizzie M. Briggs married Duncan H. Ferguson, a real estate dealer, 
 of Rockford, Ill. Four children were born to them, one of whom has 
 died. One daughter attended the College for part of a year. She had 
 
 three grandchildren. Mrs. Ferguson died Sep¬ 
 tember 10, 1887. 
 
 Miss Mary E. Lyman devoted her brief life 
 to teaching, for which she had a special avoca¬ 
 tion. For a time her work was in the Semi¬ 
 nary, but after that in public schools, both in 
 Illinois and Iowa. Her permanent home was 
 in Maquoketa, la., where she was well-beloved 
 by pupils and associates. She died from con¬ 
 sumption at Colorado Springs, Col., April 23, 
 1879. 
 
 Martha S. Scoville, in 1872, married Rev. 
 Thomas Leake, who is now a farmer. The few 
 years prior to her marriage she taught school. 
 Her only daughter died in infancy, but her heart and time have been 
 filled with the care of others. One nephew and several orphan children 
 owe their chance in life to the loving care of herself and her husband. 
 Her home has been in Dixon, Ill., her address there Route 5. 
 
 Lizzie M. Briggs 
 
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 Lizzie J. Sears is the widow of F. Byron Winslow, a farmer. She has 
 two boys. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 
 always ready to do whatever work comes up to be done. She says: “I 
 live on a farm, have a fine home, many things to make me enjoy the 
 luxuries of life, two fine boys and a firm trust in God.” Her address is 
 Fountain, Minn. 
 
 Emma G. Spafford married Geo. W. Mason, a lumberman, in 1883. 
 She says, “ I have no children of my own but married five.” Two of these 
 daughters attended Rockford for three years each. She has five grand¬ 
 daughters. Her philanthropic work has been among children for the 
 Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, her church work in the Sunday 
 School and Missions of the Congregational Church. Her homes have 
 been in Rockford, Ill., and Eau Claire, Wis. She was President of the 
 Alumnae Association and visited the College constantly previous to 1883. 
 Since then in 1884, 1886 and 1904. 
 
 Class of 1867 
 
 Mary E. Earle taught in the Seminary in 1869 and 1870, leaving to 
 be married to Asa S. Hardy, a merchant. Four of her six children are 
 living. Her occupations have been domestic, industrial and literary. 
 She is connected with the Sunday School and Missions of the Congre¬ 
 gational Church. She is the author of three 
 books—“Three Singers,” “The Hall of Skulls,” 
 
 “ Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes.” Her home 
 has been in Cleveland. Her present address is 
 Unionville, Ohio. 
 
 No trace can be found of Phoebe Holmes, 
 who married Theron E. Clark. 
 
 Emma A. Horning married Lowell Damon, 
 an interior decorator. Of her four children two 
 daughters only are living, one son having died 
 at the age of five and an infant daughter. Mrs. 
 
 Damon has been active in all branches of the „ r , _ . 
 
 Mary E. Earle 
 
 work of the Plymouth Congregational Church 
 
 of Milwaukee, where she has always made her home. She is a member 
 of the College Endowment Club and the Wheelock Association. 
 
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 Agnes S. Lyman married Herbert M. Lee, a lumber merchant, and 
 her address is 2525 Benton boulevard, Kansas City, Mo., although 
 her winters are spent in Florida and her summers in the mountains of 
 Colorado. Of her four children three are living, one of them a daughter. 
 
 As she says, she never worked so hard in all 
 her married life, caring for four little ones, as 
 she did in Rockford Seminary, and, though it is 
 undoubtedly changed there, she did not dare 
 risk it for her daughter. She has always been 
 active in the charity work of the Congrega¬ 
 tional Church, but belongs to no clubs. She 
 has never revisited her Alma Mater. 
 
 Elizabeth M. Porter married Daniel Fish, a 
 lawyer, and lives at 2301 Third Avenue South, 
 Minneapolis, Minn. All of her five children 
 are living and her two grandchildren. For five 
 years previous to her marriage she was a 
 teacher, one of them being spent at the Semi¬ 
 nary. She was one of the organizers of the 
 Monday Club and a member for twenty-two years; President of Tourist 
 Club for two years and a member for eleven. She is a member of the 
 Congregational Church and a worker in the various societies. She has 
 revisited her Alma Mater once only, but Miss Sill and Miss Hillard 
 were both entertained at her home. 
 
 Elizabeth M. Porter 
 
 Caroline E. Shaw married W. H. C. Moore, M. D., and lives in 
 Essex, la. All of her six children are living and 
 one grandchild. Her life work has been home¬ 
 making. She has done work in the Missions and 
 Sunday School of the Congregational Church. Her 
 home was once in Denver, Col. 
 
 Lucy M. Smith, M. A., lives at 140 East Gor¬ 
 ham street, Madison, Wis. She was a well-beloved 
 instructor in the English department at Rockford 
 for seventeen years, then for fourteen years at Lake 
 Forest University, and has lived in Madison since 
 1898. 
 
 No record could be found for Mary A. Wood, 
 deceased, who married Rev. Alfred A. Newhall. 
 
 Lucy M. Smith 
 
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 Normal Class of 1867 
 
 Lottie A. Baldwin married George F. Dennick, a contractor, builder 
 and brick manufacturer. On his death, in 1879, at Corvallis, Ore., she 
 
 took up the latter work and carried it on for 
 fourteen years, caring for and educating 
 their two boys. Eleven years ago she moved 
 to the coast, and makes her home at New¬ 
 port, Ore., a summer resort of the West. On 
 leaving Rockford, she spent five years in 
 teaching, first in Hannibal, Mo., then in 
 Warsaw and South Bend, Ind. Her early 
 life in Oregon, ere the railroads were built, 
 furnished but few opportunities for the work 
 she had enjoyed. She assisted in the County 
 Teachers’ Institutes and was awarded two 
 life diplomas, being the first woman to 
 receive such diploma in the state of 
 Lottie A. Baldwin Oregon. 
 
 Mary E. Beattie married Geo. A. Lowman. Their three children are 
 living. She is a member of the Methodist Church, but, as she says, not a 
 “mixer.” She has traveled all over the United States, and has made 
 her homes in Louisville, Ky., Van Buren, Ark., Brooklyn, N. Y., Neosha, 
 Mo., and now in Toulon, Ill. She revisited the 
 College in 1868 and 1871. 
 
 Sarah M. Earle married E. A. Wanless, a 
 clergyman of the Methodist Church. She has 
 one stepdaughter. Her work has been in con¬ 
 nection with the Missions and different organi¬ 
 zations of the church, and her homes have 
 been in many places in Southern Wisconsin 
 and Northern Illinois. Address Bismarck, Ill. 
 
 Sarah B. Frisbie married G. W. Rohr, a 
 physician, and spent most of her married life in 
 Rockford, moving there from Mendon, Ill. She 
 had six children, three of whom died. She 
 was a member of the Second Congregational Sarah m. Earle 
 
 Church of Rockford, and devoted her time to her home and children. 
 She died in 1885. 
 
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 Ellen G. Gilbert, after having charge of the Normal Department at 
 the Seminary for three years, married Rev. Geo. McLean, a clergyman 
 
 of the Baptist Church. Since then her occupa¬ 
 tions have been domestic and such church work 
 as a clergyman’s wife is called upon to do. 
 Her five children are all living. Her homes 
 have been in Cordova, Lexington, Rochelle and 
 Princeton, Ill., and Oakland, Cal., and at present 
 in Carpenteria, Cal. She revisited the College 
 in 1886. 
 
 Emma L. Ritter has spent her life in teach¬ 
 ing until 1902, when she retired. The last 
 twenty-two years of her work were spent in the 
 High School of Norwich, N. Y. Since then she 
 has spent some time in Kansas and Oklahoma. 
 Her address is 17 Elm street, Norwich, N. Y. 
 
 Class of 1868 
 
 Martha L. Baker married Luther P. Fitch, M. D., who died in 1889. 
 Two of her three children are living, one, the only daughter, attended 
 Rockford College six years, graduating in 1901. The year after her 
 graduation she taught bookkeeping in the Seminary and acted as cashier- 
 In 1897 she again entered classes in the College for six weeks. Her occu¬ 
 pations were teaching, housekeeping and business. She was a member 
 of the Chautauqua Club of Charles City, la., of the Literary and Histori¬ 
 cal Club and Elizabeth Earl Magoun Club of Grinned, la. She was one 
 of the organizers and charter members of the Wisconsin-Rockford Asso¬ 
 ciation. The last ten years of her life were clouded by an incurable dis¬ 
 ease. In January of 1904 her daughter went with her to the Presbyterian 
 Hospital, Chicago, where she remained until her death, in September of 
 that year. “ Her long days, many of them full of pain, were character¬ 
 ized by great good cheer and unfailing courage, without sign of com¬ 
 plaint.” 
 
 Elizabeth Chynoweth is the widow of Caleb B. Sylvester. Her only 
 child, a daughter, graduated from Iowa College, Grinned. She has held 
 the office of President or Secretary in some club or society always. Her 
 church work has been in the missionary societies and temperance work. 
 She has been clerk of the Congregational Church at her home for several 
 
 Ellen G. Gilbert 
 
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 years. She visited Rockford in 1875. Her home has been continuously 
 in Ogden, la. 
 
 Elizabeth M. Griffin married Othman Abbott, a lawyer, and makes 
 her home at 705 West I street, Grand Island, Neb. She has four children. 
 She taught high school until her marriage, 
 since then she has been active in various clubs, 
 political and charitable. She was President of 
 the Woman’s Suffrage Club, and the Woman’s 
 Club, of Grand Island. She was a member of 
 Board of Charities in 1888, delegate to National 
 Convention of Charities and Corrections, in 
 Minneapolis, delegate to Unitarian National 
 Conference, at Saratoga, in 1885; has been a 
 member of city library since its foundation, 
 twenty years ago, and was member of Visiting 
 and Examining Board of Soldiers’ Home for 
 six years. 
 
 Mary E. Holmes, Ph. D., F. G. S. A., is best Elizabeth m. Griffin 
 
 known to the Alumnae as teacher of natural science for eight years in 
 the Seminary. Since then, beside post-graduate work at Ann Arbor, her 
 time has been devoted exclusively to the Mission work of the Presby¬ 
 terian Church, giving special attention to work 
 among the colored girls of the South. She 
 founded the Mary Holmes Seminary at West 
 Port, Miss., for colored girls, as a memorial to 
 her mother, which, in 1904, had 254 girls in the 
 boarding department. For ten years she has 
 edited and published “The Freedman’s Bulle¬ 
 tin, a Monthly News Letter.” She has been 
 President and Secretary of various departments 
 of the missionary work for years and a most 
 tireless worker in the cause. For thirty years 
 she was organist in the church in her home 
 city, Rockford. She is a member of various 
 clubs—Sorosis, Woman’s Club and Century. 
 
 Florence Knapp’s address has been lost and no trace of her can be 
 found. 
 
 Ella S. Nichols married James H. Lightbody, and lives at 331 
 
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 Seventh street, La Crosse, Wis. She has two children, one a daughter, 
 who entered the College this year. She taught 
 in Milwaukee Female College and in Ocono- 
 mowoc and Freeport Public Schools. Her 
 philanthropies have been in associated chari¬ 
 ties, Mission Band, and Young Woman’s Chris¬ 
 tian Association. She has been a member of a 
 club of seven ladies for twenty-two years. A 
 member of the Congregational Church of La 
 Crosse, Wis. She has been Superintendent 
 of the Primary Department of Sunday School 
 for ten years. She visited Rockford in 1871. 
 
 Laura Penfield married H. PI. Robinson, a 
 real estate dealer, of Rockford, Ill. She had 
 one son and a grandchild. She was a member 
 of the Congregational Church, of Rockford, 
 where she always lived and where she died in 1873. 
 
 Mary Price married H. W. Jones, formerly in the lumber business, 
 but of late a farmer in Illinois, and now their home is Marshalltown, la. 
 She has had two children, but has lost both. Her time has been given 
 chiefly to home-keeping, but she has been President and Secretary of 
 the Witennyemote Club and a member of the Woman’s Club of Marshall¬ 
 town. She is a member of the Episcopal Church. She has never 
 revisited the College. 
 
 Ellen R. Shepard, the widow of Daniel H. Dorsett; has been for 
 ten years Principal of Skyland Institute, a school among the mountains 
 of North Carolina, under the auspices of the A. M. A. One year she 
 worked in the Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., as girl’s manager. She lived 
 for some years in Oak Park, Ill., where she was a member of the Augusta 
 and Nineteenth Century Clubs. Her homes have been besides, in Mar¬ 
 shalltown, Des Moines, and Clinton, la., and Oberlin, Ohio. Her present 
 address is Blowing Rock, N. C. 
 
 Ellen R. Story married Robert Johnston, and lives at 2315 Grand 
 avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. She is a member of the Wisconsin Association 
 but returned no reply to two circulars sent her. 
 
 Eva E. Townsend married D. Selwyn Clark, a physician, of Rock¬ 
 ford, where she made her home until after his death, when she removed 
 to Chicago, and died at the Sanitarium, Geneva Lake, 1900. Her life 
 was devoted to her home and literary pursuits. She was interested in 
 
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 City Missions and all work of the Congregational Church. She was 
 actively connected with the College, and worked faithfully in the 
 Alumnae Association as President and Secretary, and in various other 
 capacities. She had two children, both of whom are dead. She traveled 
 extensively in Europe and America. 
 
 Normal Class of 1868 
 
 Mary C. Ballou married T. O. C. Harrison, but no response could be 
 obtained from the address at Grand Island, Neb. 
 
 Carrie G. Burge married George Rutherford, a farmer, and lives in 
 Toulon, Ill. Before her marriage she was a teacher and bookkeeper. 
 She is a member of the Presbyterian Church and works in the Sunday 
 School and Missionary Societies. She has traveled in Europe and 
 visited Rockford in 1870. She is a member of the pioneer class of the 
 C. L. S. C. 
 
 Ella L. Edwards married E. F. Cleveland, a physician, of Dundee, 
 Ill. Two of her three children are living and one grandchild. She is a 
 Daughter of the American Revolution, has been President of the 
 Woman’s Club, of Dundee, and Historian of the Woman’s Club of 
 
 Elgin. She is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church, and active in all branches of Church 
 work. She has traveled widely in the United 
 States, in Bermuda Islands, Cuba and Hawaiian 
 Islands. She has several times revisited her 
 Alma Mater. 
 
 Lucia Johnston, Ph. D., is one of the fore¬ 
 most educators of Chicago. She has been 
 Principal for years of the Douglas School there. 
 She has been President and active worker in 
 Chicago Associations. 
 
 Lucy Reynolds, deceased, married Wm. A. 
 Stoockey. She had two children. 
 
 Class of 1869 
 
 Frances H. Benson was a teacher for some years in Janesville, Wis. 
 She was last heard from in Watertown, Wis., but no response came from 
 her when addressed there. 
 
 Ella L. Edwards 
 
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 81 
 
 Sarah A. Culver died in 1903. She was a member of the Congrega¬ 
 tional Church and active in its missionary work. The following tribute 
 was given her by the Woman’s Missionary Society of Redfield, S. D.: “It 
 is impossible to put into words the spiritual blessing to our own lives 
 from one who walked among us with such sublime repression of herself, 
 ever wearing the white flower of a blameless life.” 
 
 Stella T. Lilly has spent her life in study and teaching of drawing 
 and designing. Her home has always been Whitewater, Wis. She visited 
 the Seminary in 1871, 1876 and 1883. 
 
 No reply came from Georgia M. Judd, who married Geo. F. Sabin, 
 and whose address is Oshkosh, Wis. 
 
 Anna S. Moore married Rev. Edward Barrett and has since died. 
 No further record could be obtained. 
 
 Ellen S. Richardson, in 1873, married John W. Baird, who was gradu¬ 
 ated from Beloit College the same year she graduated from Rockford. 
 The three years previous to her marriage were spent in teaching, one of 
 them in the Seminary. Her life since has been spent in home-making 
 for her husband and seven children, but spent as the wife of a missionary 
 
 in foreign lands, her husband having been sent 
 out by the A. B. C. F. M., and stationed at 
 Broosa, Turkey in Asia, Monastir and Salo- 
 nica, Turkey in Europe, Samokore, Bulgaria. 
 For the past thre years she has taught French 
 in the Young Men’s Collegiate Institute of 
 Monastir, and in the Girls’ Boarding School, 
 where her oldest daughter has taught for six 
 years. Another daughter is teaching in Stough¬ 
 ton, Wis., and still another in Young Woman’s 
 Christian Association Cooking School in Bos¬ 
 ton, Mass. She has visited many places in 
 Europe in her trips to and from her home, and 
 was at Rockford in 1885. 
 
 Ellen S. Richardson 
 
 Sarah J. Sands married Rev. J. D. Croissant, 
 a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, now retired, and lives at 1717 Q street 
 Southeast, Washington, D. C. She taught in the Wisconsin public schools 
 until her marriage. She has one son. She was Chapter Regent of the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, and District of Columbia Secretary 
 
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 of same, member of Abracadabra Club, Mt. Pleasant Art Club and Chau¬ 
 tauqua Woman’s Club. She has spent many years in traveling, visiting 
 most places in Europe,Asia, Africa and the Isles of the Seas, not neglecting 
 most places of interest on our own continent. 
 
 Carolina T. Warner married Marvin B. Har¬ 
 rison, clergyman of the Congregational faith. 
 
 She has had five children. She was a teacher 
 for ten years previous to her marriage, and 
 since then has devoted her time to home-keep¬ 
 ing and the many calls for church work that 
 come to a clergyman’s wife. Her home has 
 been in Scribner, Neb., for twenty-three years 
 or more. 
 
 Sarah F. Anderson, M. A., resigned her 
 position as President of Rockford College to 
 marry Henry A. Ainsworth, a manufacturer and 
 banker of Moline, Ill. Since her marriage she 
 has spent much time in travel, going south or west every winter and north 
 each summer. She was President of the Kindergarten Association of 
 Moline from its organization until it was made a department of the public 
 schools. She is connected with the Associated Charities of Moline, a 
 member of the Monday Club, Rockford, of the Fortnightly and of the 
 Woman’s Club, of Moline. 
 
 No reply was received from Alice F. Howell Ford, whose address is 
 672 Seventeenth street, Des Moines, la. 
 
 Foretta A. Ramsey married Geo. H. Patch, an artist, now farmer and 
 gardener, in 1875. She has one daughter and three sons. For three 
 years after leaving the Normal department she taught a private school, 
 then spent three years in Mt. Holyoke, Mass. She belonged to a Pres¬ 
 byterian Church, now federated with six other denominations. She has 
 been prominent in all departments of church work, especially as leader 
 of Bible Study Clubs. Her home was for a time in Stevens Point, Wis., 
 now in Sunnyside, Wash. 
 
 Carrie S. Woodruff is widow of John P. Fandon, M. D. She has had 
 two boys, one only of whom is living. She has lived in Colorado and 
 Illinois. She visited Rockford last in 1899. Her home now is in Polo, 
 Illinois. 
 
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 83 
 
 Class of 1870 
 
 Mary E. Brown was first married to C. A. Griswold and afterward to 
 Harlan D. Cook, a manufacturer. She had one son, and one grand¬ 
 daughter. She was connected with the Woman’s Hospital of Chicago. 
 She was a member of the Episcopal Church. She was chairman, and 
 most enthusiastic worker on the committee for raising the $5,000.00 schol¬ 
 arship of the Chicago Association. She died in New York City in 1901, 
 whither she had recently moved from her previous home in Chicago. 
 
 Emma Faris married Henry C. Wilson in 
 1873. She spent the three years previous to 
 her marriage in teaching as well as the three 
 immediately after. She has had six children, 
 all of them living except the oldest daughter, 
 who died in her infancy. The remaining 
 daughter has been married several years, and 
 has two children of her own. Mrs. Wilson’s 
 life, as she expresses it, has been a “migratory 
 one. The first home was in La Verne, Minn., 
 then at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. From there, in 
 1876, they removed to Tarkio, Mo., where three 
 children were born, and where little Lena lies 
 sleeping. Six years later they went to Kansas, 
 which has been their home for the past 22 years. 
 In 1904 one move more was made, bringing the old folks alone back to 
 the old home at Tarkio, Mo., the birdlings hav¬ 
 ing all left the nest.” She has always been a 
 staunch and active member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. Has revisited Rockford but once, 1872. 
 
 Nettie C. Foote married Hamilton H. West 
 in 1876. She had three children, two of whom 
 are living, a son and daughter. She spent much 
 time in the study of music, chiefly vocal. She 
 was a charter member of the Mendelssohn Club 
 of Rockford, her home city. She was a mem¬ 
 ber of the Congregational Church and active 
 worker in its Sunday Schools and Missions. 
 
 After twelve years of much suffering, including 
 blindness, she passed away in 1894. 
 
 Nettie C. Foote 
 
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 No record, even in diligent search, could be found of Hattie M. 
 Foote. 
 
 Anna M Keene 
 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church and devoted 
 much time to study and literary pursuits. 
 
 Catherine L. Smith was instructor for many 
 years in the Seminary and afterwards in Galena, 
 Ill., where she died in 1889. She was a mem- 
 
 Normal Class of 1870 
 
 PImma L. Godfrey married Norman S. 
 Robinson of Rockford, Ill. She was a mem¬ 
 ber of the Congregational Church, and gave her 
 time to the Sunday School and to singing in the 
 
 choir, until her death 
 in 1883. 
 
 Fannie G. Hug¬ 
 gins never married, 
 but after teaching 
 two years devoted 
 the rest of her life 
 
 Catherine L. Smith 
 
 to her home and friends, leading the just, 
 helpful life of the home-keeper. Her home 
 has been in Abingdon, Ill., Minneapolis, 
 Minn., and now in Berkeley, Cal., 2300 Durant 
 avenue. 
 
 Sarah H. Lawson married Rev. A. D. 
 Adams, a clergyman of the Congregational 
 Church. Three children have been given her. 
 
 Anna M. Keene married J. O. Stevenson, a 
 clergyman of the Congregational Church, in 
 1875. She had seven children, four of whom 
 are living, two sons and two daughters. Her 
 life was spent in teaching and homekeep¬ 
 ing. She was active in all branches of church 
 work. Her homes were in Ellsworth, Conn., 
 Shenandoah, Iowa, and in Waterloo, Iowa, 
 where she died in 1888, mourned greatly by 
 her family and a large circle of friends. She 
 was tutor in the Seminary in 1871 and 1872, 
 and visited there in 1884. 
 
 Emma L. Godfrey 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 85 
 
 Her homes have been in South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and 
 Minnesota. She visited her Alma Mater in 1880. 
 
 Julia D. Van Steenburg married Albert Durham, a journalist, to whom 
 three children were born. She has been occupied in domestic, club and 
 church work. She is a member of the Board of Education of Evanston, 
 District 76; of the Board of Managers of the Evanston Woman’s Club, 
 and of all such societies of the Presbyterian Church “as they could get 
 her to be.” Her address is 1119 Wilson avenue, Chicago. 
 
 Class of 1871 
 
 Carmelite S. Brewer married Thos. D. 
 Christie, D. D., LL. D., President of St. Paul’s 
 Institute, Tarsus, Turkey. They have had 
 seven children, six of whom are living. They 
 are members of the First Congregational 
 Church of Beloit, Wis. Her home has been in 
 Beloit and Madison, Wis., Andover, Mass., 
 Marash, Andama and Tarsus, Turkey in Asia. 
 She has visited principal points of interest in 
 Europe and Western Asia. One son gradu¬ 
 ated from Yale in 1901, and is ethnologist in 
 Philippine Islands, another son is junior at 
 Harvard. One daughter is in Theological 
 Seminary at Hartford, Conn., preparing for 
 missionary work, another, after three years’ 
 study in Europe, is in high school in Hartford, and one daughter lives in 
 Boston. The youngest is in school at Andama, to leave soon for foreign 
 study. 
 
 Louise Frisbie taught school for some years, but for some time now 
 has devoted her time to the care of an invalid and aged mother at her 
 home in Mendon, Ill. 
 
 Mary A. Marston married Michael Kew, an attorney, and makes her 
 home in San Diego, Cal. She has had three children. She is a member 
 of the Wednesday Club, and of the Amphion (musical); of the latter she 
 was President two years. 
 
 Mary J. Morrison married Geo. H. White and died in California in 
 1894. She lived in Fort Atkinson for many years, where she was an 
 important member of the Tuesday Club and of the Congregational 
 
 Carmelite S. Brewer 
 
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 Church. She moved from there to Holly Springs, Miss., in 1888, and in 
 1891 to Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Mary P. Wright has spent her life in teaching, most of the time in 
 Iowa, Kansas and Illinois. In 1874 she was elected County Superintend¬ 
 ent of Schools in Coffey county, Kansas. The 
 election was contested, and the Supreme Court 
 decided that a woman could legally hold such 
 office. This was the test case for the United 
 States. In 1876 and 1877 she taught in the 
 Seminary. From 1881 to 1889 she was a mis¬ 
 sionary teacher in Harpoot and Marsovan, 
 Turkey in Asia. After a time of rest spent in 
 the United States she returned, in 1903, to take 
 charge of the Orphanage for Armenian children 
 in Marsovan, Turkey, where she now is. Be¬ 
 tween these intervals of work in Turkey she 
 spent a year and a half in missionary work in 
 Mexico, and nine years in field work for the 
 Mary p. Wright W. B. M. I., with headquarters in Chicago. As 
 
 representative of this society she gave an address before the Woman’s 
 Congress of Representative Women at the World’s Fair in 1893. She 
 gave the missionary address at the college during commencement week 
 in 1899, and has spoken many times before the missionary society 
 there. 
 
 Ida A. Youngs married Wm. T. Payzant, an accountant, in 1873. She 
 has two daughters and one son and two granddaughters. One daughter 
 is married and living in Connecticut, the other is still in school in Minne¬ 
 apolis. Mrs. Payzant’s home has been in San Francisco and Berkeley, 
 Cal., and for eight years she lived in Guatemala, C. A. She expects in a 
 short time to make her home in Mexico City, where her husband and son 
 are now in business, while she herself is in this country visiting her 
 daughter and mother. Mrs. Payzant was in the city of Quezaltenango 
 when it was so nearly destroyed by the terrible earthquake in April of 
 1902, and was also there during the eruption of the volcano of Santa 
 Maria. Both were times of exceeding peril. She had the pleasure of 
 renewing her association with Rockford women when Mrs. Fish this 
 last winter gave a reception for her in Minneapolis to the Rockford 
 Association of the Northwest. She visited Rockford in 1880, 1887 and 
 1897. 
 
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 87 
 
 Normal Class of 1871 
 
 Jennie Butler married J. M. Albrecht, a 
 farmer, and has always lived in Tiskilwa, Ill. 
 
 She has two boys. For five years she taught 
 in the public schools of Tiskilwa. She has been 
 a member of the Woman’s Club for eighteen 
 years, holding at times the offices of President 
 and Secretary. She is a charter member of Sha¬ 
 ron Chapter of the O. E. S., and was First 
 Worthy Matron, holding office for three years. 
 
 Nannie A. Hodsford married Chas. F. 
 
 Curtis, a manufacturer, of Clinton, Iowa. Three 
 of her four children are living, and two grand¬ 
 children. She was treasurer of the D. A. R. and of the Home Missions 
 of Presbyterian Church. She has traveled in Europe and Old Mexico. 
 
 L. Isabella Rose Cypert’s record is given with 1872. 
 
 Mary H. Watkins married Francis Whitcomb, a photographer, who 
 died in 1900. She has had five children. One daughter is attending 
 Milwaukee Normal. She has been Corresponding Secretary and is now 
 Recording Secretary of W. C. T. U., and is church clerk of the First 
 Baptist Church in her home, Bloomington, Wis. She formerly lived in 
 Bellevue, Iowa. 
 
 No address could be found for Harriet N. Williams, who married W. 
 Williams, M. D., and who in 1888 lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Minn. 
 
 Class of 1872 
 
 S. Alice Addams, widow of Henry W. Haldeman, M. D., a banker. 
 They have had one daughter, who attended Rockford one year and then 
 graduated from Dearborn Seminary, Chicago, in 1904. Mrs. Haldeman 
 has been President of the Public Library of Girard, Kan., her present 
 home, President of Board of Education, President and Corresponding 
 Secretary of Twentieth Century Club, District Federation President, 
 Chairman of State Charity Commission of State Federation, Trustee, 
 Treasurer and Superintendent of Sunday School of Presbyterian Church. 
 She has traveled in Europe, Canada and this country. Her homes have 
 been in Cedarsville, Ill., and Mitchellsville, Iowa. She has frequently 
 
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 visited the College. She was resident graduate and tutor in 1874 and 
 1875. 
 
 Phoebe Carmichael married John R. Kerr, station agent of Pecaton- 
 ica, Ill., where she has since lived. Three of her four children are living- 
 One daughter is in the vocal department at Rockford. Mrs. Kerr taught 
 for several years, but since her marriage has devoted her time to her home. 
 She was formerly a Baptist, but is now a Universalist, and Superintendent 
 of Sunday School. She has visited the College many times. 
 
 Mary Carson is the widow of Maj. Hugh Jocelyn McGrath, of the 
 
 regular army. She had no children of her own? 
 but has had the care of one stepson. More 
 than half her life has been spent in travel in 
 Europe, Egypt, Cuba and all over the United 
 States. Her permanent homes have been 
 made in St. Paul and Cuba, and her present 
 address is 810 Porter avenue, Eau Claire, Wis. 
 As member of the Episcopal Church she has 
 been identified in the work of the Woman’s 
 Guild. She has given time to the work of the 
 Associated Charities and the Visiting Nurse 
 Association. Maj. McGrath was wounded in 
 the Philippines during the Spanish-American 
 war, and died after a month of serious illness. 
 Fourth Cavalry in 
 
 spent a busy life, 
 filled with work for others and much travel 
 and enjoyment for herself. She has visited 
 in a leisurely way most of the points of 
 interest in this country east, south, west, 
 even to Alaska. She has made two extended 
 tours in Europe. She lived for many years 
 in Rockford, where she was a member of the 
 Argonauts and Secretary and Treasurer of the 
 Historical and Literary Club. From there 
 she went to Charles City, Iowa, and for nine 
 years has been teacher in an industrial 
 school and a member of the Elizabeth Earl 
 
 Elizabeth Fitch 
 
 Mary Carson 
 
 He was a member of the 
 the regular army. 
 
 Elizabeth P'itch has 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 89 
 
 Magoun Club. She is a member of the Congregational Church. Up to 
 1888 she visited the College almost yearly, since then but once, 1901. 
 
 M. Lillie Glasner married Enos. T. Gage. One only of her two 
 
 children is living, and one grandchild. She 
 is a member of the Fortnightly and various 
 musical organizations of her home, Belvidere. 
 She is a member of the Presbyterian Church 
 and active in all of its work. As for time 
 spent in travel she says, “ have gone every 
 chance that presented.” She has visited 
 the College nearly every year. 
 
 Alice H. Hollister married D. R. 
 Brearly, and had two children, one of whom 
 is living. She lived in Belvidere and Chicago, 
 where she died September 2, 1876. 
 
 Melissa E. Hovey is the widow of Albert 
 Melissa e. Hovey S. Kidd. Four of her five children are liv¬ 
 
 ing. Her life has been given to home-keeping; what time she has had to 
 spare outside of that she has given to work in the Methodist Church. 
 She has traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and her homes 
 have been in Rockford, Ill., and Los Angeles County, Cal. Her present 
 address is 300 Sixth street, San Bernardino, Cal. She has not revisited 
 the College since 1880. 
 
 Florence L. May married Brayton W. 
 
 Smith, a hardware merchant, and lives at 800 
 West College avenue, Jacksonville, Ill. She 
 has had no children, but has one niece in the 
 College at present. She says, “On account of 
 my deafness I have not been able to take as 
 active a part in clubs as I would wish,” still she 
 is one of the Board of Managers of the Free 
 Kindergarten, has been Treasurer of the D. A. 
 
 R., is one of the Board of Managers of the 
 Ladies’ Education Society, and also takes an 
 active interest in all church and missionary 
 work. She visited the College in 1897 and 1904. 
 
 Caroline Murray never married, and made her home in Amsterdam, 
 N. Y., until recently, when she removed to Evanston, Ill., where her 
 
 Ellen G. Rice 
 
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 address is 320 Greenwood boulevard. She has been interested in the 
 Flower Mission and Kitchen Garden Charity. She is a charter member 
 
 of the Evanston Woman’s Club. She is 
 active in all branches of church work of the 
 Congregational Church. She has visited many 
 places in the United States. She was at Rock¬ 
 ford in 1897 and 1904. 
 
 Emma R. Pearson taught for ten years and 
 since then has spent most of her time at her 
 home in Polo, Ill. She belongs to the Inde¬ 
 pendent Presbyterian Church. Has visited the 
 College frequently. 
 
 Ellen G. Rice aided in founding the library 
 in Belvidere, and acted as librarian without 
 pay until it was merged in the Ida Public 
 Library; after that she was a member of the 
 board until she married Geo. W. Wilbur, and moved to Chicago. She 
 has had two children; only one, a little girl eleven years old, is living. 
 Her home is now at 325 Superior street, Oak Park, Ill. She is a member 
 of the Sesame Art Circle of Oak Park, and of the Presbyterian Church. 
 She often visited the College in early years, but last in 1902. 
 
 L. Isabella Rose married Z. M. Cypert, a lawyer. She spent many 
 years in study, after her graduation, in kindergarten work in New York, 
 music and German at the College, doing post¬ 
 graduate work there and taking her degree in 
 1882. The next year she was married and went 
 to her new home in Powhatan, Ark. There she 
 was very active in church and social life, and 
 was organist during the two years she lived 
 there. She died in 1885. No children sur¬ 
 vived her. 
 
 Lucy J. Stockwell married John C. Lewis, 
 
 Vice-President Cooper Hose Jacket Co. She 
 was professor of music, belles-lettres and art 
 in Purdy University, Tennessee. Her benevo¬ 
 lent work has been largely in the Woman’s 
 Relief Corps, the Woman’s Christian Associa¬ 
 tion and Old Ladies’ Home. She belonged to the Literary Circle of 
 
 L. Isabella Rose 
 
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 91 
 
 Dwight, Ill., and has been President of the Rockford Association of 
 the Northwest. She is active in all branches of the Congregational 
 Church of which she is a member. Her address is 715 East Seventeenth 
 street, Minneapolis. She has not visited Rockford since 1897. 
 
 Marie P. Upson never married, but has 
 devoted her life to educational work. She is a 
 member of the Congregational Church and 
 works in the Sunday School. Her homes have 
 been in Rockford, Ill., Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 Her address is now 321 North Eighth street, 
 
 Beatrice, Neb. She was County Superintend¬ 
 ent of Schools in Nebraska. 
 
 Class of 1873 
 
 Miss Parmelia Anthony has led a quiet, 
 useful life in her home at Sterling, Ill. She 
 has helped in the work of the Presbyterian Church, in the Y. M. C. A., 
 and wherever there was work for her to do. She visited the Seminary 
 every year until 1885, then again in 1903. She is a member of the 
 Woman’s Club of Sterling. 
 
 Mary I. Beatie, “spinster,” as she usually replies to roll call at 
 Alumnae meeting, has spent her home life in Rockford, and so has 
 been active in all of the interests of the College and all the good 
 works of the city. She taught in the Preparatory Department of 
 the Seminary for a time, and has substituted in other departments 
 when teachers were sick or absent for other reasons. She has been 
 Secretary, Treasurer, and, to the regret of the Memorial Committee 
 which she appointed, President of the Alumnae Association in 1903. 
 She is a member of the Second Congregational Church, active in all the 
 societies and charities of that organization. She spent two years at 
 Wellesley College and one year abroad. 
 
 Sarah A. Dean married Frank D. Hinckley, chief grain inspector. 
 She has four daughters, one son and one grandchild. Her life has been 
 spent in home-keeping. She has visited many places in the United States, 
 but her Alma Mater but once, in 1887. Her home is 249 Fourteenth 
 street, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Marie P. Upson 
 
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 Marie L. Gardiner married Chas. H. Giffin, a wholesale dry goods 
 merchant. Four of her six children are living. She has given much 
 time to music and literature. Her work has been chiefly in the work of 
 
 the International Sunshine Society, acting as 
 President of the branch in her home, Upper 
 Mont Clair, N. J. She has traveled much in 
 this country and has lived in New York, Chi¬ 
 cago, St. Paul and Boston. 
 
 Louise L. Hinckley married Alex. W. Thorn- 
 ley, a customs broker, and has lived in La 
 Crosse, Wis., Long Prairie, Minn., and in 
 Tacoma, Wash., where her address is 2516 
 Ash street. She has had two children, one of 
 whom is now a junior at the College. She 
 taught Latin at Rockford for two years and 
 has given much time to the study of literature. 
 She was a member of La Coterie of La Crosse, 
 Nisika and Woman’s Club of Tacoma. She spent seven months in Europe 
 and visited the World’s Fair in 1893. 
 
 Marie L. Gardiner 
 
 Fannie A. Thompson married Dr. N. J. Quintero, and made her home 
 in Lyons, France, 2, Ave. Du Quesne. During the last year she has lost one 
 of her three children, a son, who was attending 
 school in this country. She has been active in 
 the various charities of Lyons, chiefly for the 
 children of the poor. She is a French Protest¬ 
 ant. She visited Rockford in 1881,1887,1894 
 and 1903. 
 
 Marie E. Tichenor married Thos. W. Wat¬ 
 son, merchant, and finisher of kodak work for 
 amateurs. She spent some time in teaching 
 and works in the Sunday School and Missions 
 of the Congregational Church. She was a 
 member of the North Side Woman’s Club while 
 her home was in Denver. Her address now is 
 117 Broadway, Waukesha, Wis. Her husband’s Marie e. Tichenor 
 
 work brings to her interesting pictures and 
 
 descriptions of all parts of this country and the old. She visited Rock¬ 
 ford in 1874, 1879, 1887, 1898 and 1903. 
 
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 Class of 1874 
 
 Emelie A. Anderson married W. A. Bickel, a merchant of Geneseo, 
 
 Ill. Her six children are all living. She 
 belongs to the Study Class of the D. A. R. 
 She is a member of the Congregational Church. 
 
 Carrie G. Brown married Geo. M. Blake, 
 attorney, of Rockford, Ill. She has two sons, 
 but no daughters to send to Rockford, as she 
 no doubt would have done, as her active inter¬ 
 est in the College has never ceased. She has 
 served in all capaci¬ 
 ties and constantly 
 in the Alumnae Asso- 
 ciation. She has 
 spent much time in 
 Emelie A. Anderson travel. 
 
 Margaret Edwards married Frank Duncan, 
 a physician. Her married life was from 1887 
 to 1897, since which time she has been a book¬ 
 keeper. She has one son 14 years of age. She 
 is an active member of the Presbyterian Church 
 
 of Dallas, Texas. 
 
 Her home has been Chioe j. johnsen 
 
 in Des Moines, Iowa, Mendota, Ill., and now 
 447 Commerce street, Dallas, Texas. 
 
 Carrie D. Horn married Frank A. Early. 
 She died in 1889, leaving one son. Her home 
 was in Chicago and Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Chioe J. Johnsen married A. Swearingen, 
 a druggist in Leon, Iowa, now retired. Until 
 her marriage she spent her time in teaching. 
 In 1878 and 1879 she was librarian and taught 
 in the Seminary. At other times she was 
 teaching music and also in the public schools. 
 After her marriage she lived for several years 
 on a farm in Missouri. On account of her husband’s health they have 
 spent some winters on the Gulf coast. She is a member-of the Presbyte- 
 
 Margaret L. Watson 
 
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 rian Church and an active worker in the Missions and Sunday School. 
 She was in Rockford in 1879. 
 
 Margaret L. Watson spent about ten years as artist and organist. In 
 her profession as artist she was especially successful in portraiture in 
 crayon and water color. She was organist for nine years at the First 
 Baptist Church of Peoria and one year in the Universalist. Since then 
 her time has been devoted to making a home for her aged mother and 
 two older brothers. Her address is 909 North Jefferson avenue, 
 Peoria, Ill. 
 
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 Class of 1875 
 
 Gertrude E. Chapin for several years was occupied in teaching, and 
 since her marriage to Albert F. Foster, an attorney at law, has been 
 engaged in home-making. She has two sons. The elder, 19 years of age, 
 is now at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., and the second one is to 
 be graduated from the home High School this year. Mrs. Foster has 
 visited the College but once, in 1880, having lived since her marriage in 
 Minneapolis and Fitchfield, Minn. She is active in the work of the 
 Women’s Relief Corps, has served several years as President of the 
 Fiterary Club of Fitchfield and is now President of the Alumnae Asso¬ 
 ciation of the Northwest. Mrs. Foster is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and actively engages in its missionary work. 
 
 Mary E. Greenleaf since her marriage to James C. Plant, architect, 
 has lived in Minneapolis, Minn., and Washington, D. C. She has lost 
 but one of her six children, and devotes her whole time to her family. 
 She is a member of the Congregational Church. Mrs. Plant has never 
 visited the College since graduating. Her present address is Glen Carlyn, 
 Virginia. 
 
 Mary E. Pomeroy visited the College in 1876, but has never been in 
 Rockford since. She taught school a short time after graduating, and in 
 1879 married Henry M. Wright, a farmer, and removed to Massachusetts, 
 near Springfield. She has also resided in Fee Center, Ill., and now is in 
 Glenwood, Volusia Co., Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have lost one of 
 their three daughters, but the home circle is enlarged by her parents. 
 She holds her membership in the Congregational Church of Fee Center, 
 Illinois. 
 
 Mary H. Siddle, who married Andrew Dunlap, taught school a year 
 in Illinois and two years in New York. She has never visited in Rockford 
 except during vacation periods, when the College was closed. Mr. 
 Dunlap is a farmer, and they have three children, one of whom is likely 
 to attend Rockford College some day. They are active in the “Farmers’ 
 Clubs” and in the branches of work of the Congregational Church. Mrs. 
 Dunlap is a member of several literary clubs. Present address South 
 Egremont, Mass. 
 
 When Mrs. Van Hook went to Rockford she was a widow, having 
 lost her husband and only child in 1872. She began then to prepare for 
 mission work and went to Tabriz, Persia, under the Presbyterian Board. 
 She established there a boarding school for girls, modeled after Rockford. 
 
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 She has had students from all over Persia, and her graduates scattered 
 over the land are changing harems into homes. Mrs. Van Hook has 
 
 done much evangelistic work in Persia and has 
 lectured extensively in this country on return 
 trips. She visited Rockford in 1876, 1883, 1896 
 and two or three other times. She has made 
 five journeys to the homeland from Persia, and 
 on each trip visited different places of interest 
 in Europe. Her contributions to church and 
 missionary journals have been valuable. Present 
 address Tabriz, Persia. 
 
 It has been impossible to secure any in¬ 
 formation concerning Frances Windsor Harris, 
 except that she married Bert J. Harris, and 
 that she is not now living. 
 
 Alice Wood since graduation has engaged 
 in teaching, stenographic work and home-keeping. Since her marriage 
 to W. H. Bender, a merchant, she has resided 
 in Ligonier, Ind., and Sturgis and Detroit, 
 
 Mich. Mrs. Bender has not visited the College 
 since 1877. She is a member of the Presby¬ 
 terian Church and works in its Auxiliary Aid 
 Society. She is a member of various literary 
 clubs, and was President of the local Bay View 
 Assembly one year. Present address Ligonier, 
 
 Indiana. 
 
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 Class of 1876 
 
 Addie L. Brewer has visited her Alma 
 Mater twice, once in 1889 and again in 1896. 
 
 For several years she gave her attention to 
 teaching, then the death of her mother made 
 it necessary for her to keep up the home for her father. She has lived 
 in Amboy, Ill., Gladbrook, Iowa, Hartland, Wis., and now resides in 
 Wheaton, Ill., where she is a member of the College Church, and an 
 active worker in its Sunday School and missionary societies. She is also 
 a member of the Ladies’ History Club of Wheaton. 
 
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 Julia Clark took second honors upon graduation. Her family then 
 moved from Rockford to Portland, Ore., where she taught school for 
 several years. Her health began to fail and she died October 31, 1882. 
 
 Katharine E. Fuller married T. F. Rhinehart, and they reside in 
 Belvidere, Ill. Of their three children only two are living. One daughter 
 has attended Rockford College. Mrs. Rhinehart is a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Jessie F. Hubbard married George K. Barton, a merchant. They 
 had two children but both are dead. Before Mrs. Barton’s death her 
 homes were in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Fos Angeles, Cal. After her 
 marriage she devoted herself to the home and the Episcopal Church, of 
 which she was a member. 
 
 Florence E. Hyde’s girlhood home was in Topeka, Kan. After 
 her graduation with the first honors of her class, she married Prof. Edwin 
 A. Popenoe, and went with him to Manhattan, Kan., where he was 
 professor of entomology in the Kansas Agricultural College. She died 
 in the early eighties, leaving no children. 
 
 Fittle information concerning Nellie Ford has come to the editors 
 of this book. One of her classmates says her old home was in Elgin, 
 Ill., but that after her parents’ death she went to live with two aunts in 
 Chicago, and devoted much of her time to painting. 
 
 Salome A. Pierson 
 
 Salome A. Pierson 
 
 taught school a couple of years in Kansas, also 
 assisting in the Normal Teachers’ Institutes of 
 that state. In 1880 she was married to Albert 
 Houston Blair, a lawyer of the United States 
 Fand Office, who was also Clerk of the District 
 Court. Two daughters of their three children 
 are living and attend school in Findsborg, but 
 the family home is at Wa-Keeney, Kan., 
 where the family are members of the Presby¬ 
 terian Church and engage in all its lines of 
 work. Since her marriage Mrs. Blair studied 
 law, but devotes her whole energy to domestic 
 affairs, and such philanthrophies as come into 
 frontier life. She is also interested in art 
 studies. 
 
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 Class of 1877 
 
 Myra F. Baker spent fifteen years teaching in the public schools of 
 Rockford, visiting her Alma Mater nearly every year. She served 
 
 as Secretary of the Alumnae Association one 
 year. Since giving up teaching she has been a 
 clerk for four years. Miss Baker has always 
 attended the Congregational Church; and for 
 several years has been a member of the Argo¬ 
 nauts, and the German Club of Rockford. She 
 has visited the principal points of interest in 
 California and spent some time in the South; 
 her present address is 814 Sanford street, 
 Peoria, Ill. 
 
 Sarah B. Clapp taught for two years in 
 Rockford Seminary. In the early fall of 1879 
 she left for missionary work in China. She 
 went to Kalgan, and was there married to the 
 in 1880. They went to Fungchou, four miles 
 from Peking, where later Rev. Goodrich became Dean of the Theological 
 College. His title of Doctor of Divinity had 
 previously been bestowed because of his work 
 as a translator of the Bible and a writer of 
 hymns. Of their four children two are living, 
 one daughter at school in Milwaukee, Wis., and 
 one son, a boy of ten, attending the Fungchou 
 schools. The schools, churches and homes of 
 the missionaries were all swept away during 
 the siege of Peking in 1900, but several societies 
 united in rebuilding a union college—Medical, 
 
 Theological and Woman’s College. In addition 
 to the various channels of missionary work, 
 
 Mrs. Goodrich is active in the “Anti-Foot¬ 
 binding” philanthropy. Mrs. Goodrich 
 returned to the United States in 1886, 1896 and 1901, visiting her Alma 
 Mater each time; in crossing the Pacific six times she had glimpses of 
 Canada, Honolulu and Japan; also London, Paris, Naples, Suez, Ceylon 
 and on to Peking. She has lived in Wauwatosa, Wis., Oberlin, Ohio, 
 Rockford, Ill., Kalgan and Fungchou, China. 
 
 Sarah B. Clapp 
 
 Myra F. Baker 
 
 Rev. Chauncey Goodrich 
 
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 Mary O. Earle visited the Seminary in 1878 and 1879. She married 
 Frank H. Payne, a physician and surgeon, and has spent her time in 
 teaching and home-making. She also took an active interest in her 
 husband’s work. She is a member of the Congregational Church, taking 
 an active part in the musical work of the services. Her various homes 
 have been Fremont, and Chicago, Ill., and since her husband’s death 
 Berkeley, Cal. 
 
 Imogene S. Pierce has divided her time between teaching and 
 decorative art in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, with intervals 
 of travel about the United States, passing two interesting winters in 
 Washington during Congress. She is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church and identified with its Sunday School. She has been a member 
 and officer of many clubs, among them the Chicago Woman’s Club, 
 New York Society for Political Study, Kindergarten Association of 
 Washington, D. C., Woman’s Sanitary Feague of Philadelphia, Shake¬ 
 speare Club and Alternate Club of Chicago, President of Association for 
 Promoting the Higher Education of Women, and founder of the Town 
 and Country Club of Prince William County, Virginia. She is now at 
 320 East Fifty-seventh street, Chicago. She has delivered courses of 
 lectures on Shakespeare before Chautauqua Assemblies and in New York 
 and Philadelphia. She established a school for girls, which now has 
 several hundred pupils. She visited Rockford in 1878, 1887 and 1904. 
 
 Caroline Smith visited the Seminary in 1879 and again in 1892. She 
 has spent several years teaching, and is also an accountant. Miss Smith 
 is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Belvidere, Ill. For the 
 past five years she has lived in Clifton Springs, N. Y. 
 
 Class of 1878 
 
 Fillian Beekman has devoted her time since leaving College to 
 teaching in the Academy of the New Church at Bryn Athyn, Pa., her 
 church affiliations being the General Church of the New Jerusalem. Her 
 places of residence have been Romeo, Mich., Chicago, Ill., Bryn Athyn, 
 Pa. At this latter place she resides, and is one of the faculty of the 
 Normal Department of the Academy. 
 
 Kate A. Carnefix visited the College in 1882 and 1891. She married 
 David F. Graham, a banker, has two children, and has devoted her whole 
 attention to her family. Their homes have been in Rock City and 
 Freeport, Ill. She is an active worker in the Sunday School and Chris- 
 
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 tian Endeavor of the Presbyterian Church and is a member of the Free¬ 
 port Culture Club. 
 
 Carrie Carpenter visited the College in 
 1880, 1883 and 1884. She taught school for 
 several years in Illinois, and in January, 1882, 
 resigned her position in the Rockford school 
 to accept a position in the schools of Gol¬ 
 den, Col. On the 23d of June, 1885, she 
 was married to Robert E. Jones of Golden, 
 Col., where they expected to live. In 
 August she was taken with a severe illness and 
 died September 2, and was buried in the West 
 Side Cemetery at Rockford, Ill. Although not 
 a member of any church, she always took an 
 active part in church services wherever she 
 lived. She was a member of the Relief Corps in Golden, Col. 
 
 Kate A. Carnefix 
 
 Cora Carpenter visited the College in 1879, 
 
 ’80, ’81, ’83, ’84, ’88, ’89, ’90, ’92 and 1897, and 
 has been member of various committees in the 
 Alumnae Association. She has been engaged 
 in teaching since leaving College. Her homes 
 have been in Rockford and Lena, Ill., and in 
 Golden, Col. She has traveled in Canada and 
 the Atlantic States. Is a member of the Chau¬ 
 tauqua Club and the German and Unity Clubs. 
 Address 320 Douglas avenue, Rockford. 
 
 Carrie Carpenter 
 
 A. Lillian Clark several times visited her 
 Alma Mater. July 31, 1884, she married C. H. 
 
 Kelley, Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District 
 at Forrest City, Iowa, where they live. They 
 have lost one of their two daughters. Aside 
 from the domestic interests, Mrs. Kelley is active in the Woman’s Relief 
 Corps and the work of the Congregational Church, where she is organist, 
 and a worker in the Ladies’ Aid Society. She has held offices in a number 
 of clubs—the Chautauqua Class, University Extension Club, Tourist 
 Study Club, and the L. S. F. Club. 
 
 Stella E. Foote visited the College in 1881, ’88, ’89, ’98 and 1904. 
 She married Edwin A. Warren and they have made their home a mile 
 
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 and a half north of Belvidere on a farm. Her husband and their four 
 boys absorb much of her time. She is active in the Missionary Society 
 and Sunday School of the Presbyterian Church; and is a member of the 
 Fortnightly Club of Belvidere, Ill. 
 
 Lizzie V. Ide married Lorenzo A. Knox, a 
 boot and shoe merchant of Leavenworth, 
 Kan., where they have always lived. Mr. 
 Knox died about five years ago. Mrs. Knox 
 devotes her time to her three children, but 
 gives some attention to hospital, city relief 
 work and other philanthropies. She is active 
 in the missionary and Sunday School work of 
 the Congregational Church, and an officer in 
 the “The Saturday Club.” She has traveled 
 through the principal places of interest in the 
 United States. 
 
 Julia E. Officer has devoted her time to 
 teaching music, rising to a high rank in her 
 profession. She had a studio in Fine Arts 
 Building, Chicago, for several years, but is in 
 Omaha, Neb., in the Karbach Block, now. (No 
 further information could be obtained.) 
 
 Carrie A. Longley visited the College in 
 1888 and 1904. She taught school for several 
 years, being principal of the Belvidere High 
 School for twelve years and taught for one 
 year in Elkhart, Inch She married Mr. 
 
 Frederick Jones, a farmer, and they have 
 resided at Bloomington and Belvidere, Ill. 
 
 She has been active in the work of the Congre¬ 
 gational Church, and is a member of the Ladies’ 
 
 Amateur Musical. 
 
 Lizzie V. Ide 
 
 Laura J. Rezner was a frequent visitor at 
 the College, the last visit in 1886. She resided four miles north of Free¬ 
 port, and taught school several terms in the vicinity of her home. She 
 was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church until her death, 
 which occurred April 5, 1886. 
 
 Cora W. Shepherd visited the College in 1881 and 1893, and since 
 
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 graduation has been engaged principally in teaching. She is a member 
 of the Presbyterian Church, active in its Sunday School and missionary 
 
 work. She is also interested in various philan¬ 
 thropies relating to homes for orphans and a 
 Working Girl’s Home. Her present address is 
 Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 
 Kate L. Smith married Fred S. Prentice. 
 They have lived in South Bend, Ind., and 
 Du Quoin, Ill. Address 427 South Lafayette 
 street, South Bend, Ind. 
 
 Class of 1879 
 
 Susan Wheat Benedict married Prof. 
 Henry Evarts Gordon of the Iowa University. 
 Three of their four children are living. Their 
 homes have been Trinidad and Colorado 
 Springs, Col., Auburndale, Mass. They now reside in Iowa City, Iowa. 
 She taught school a couple years, spent two years in travel and study, 
 has been an officer in various clubs, and is an active worker in the Con¬ 
 gregational Church. 
 
 Katherine Foote, a daughter of Rev. Hiram Foote, one of the 
 founders of Rockford Seminary, after her college work, graduated in 
 music in 1884, and spent several years teaching music. She has since 
 then been engaged, in stenography and bookkeeping. Since 1874 she 
 has lived in Rockford and frequently visited her Alma Mater, and served 
 the Alumnae Association as Secretary and Treasurer. She is a member 
 of the Congregational Church, and is active in all forms of temperance 
 work, being Superintendent of the Rockford Temperance Guards for 
 twelve years, and an officer in the Rockford Non-Partisan Alliance. She 
 is also a member of the Rockford Mendelssohn Club. 
 
 The other five members of this class have either preferred not to be 
 immortalized in this book or have been forgetful of the many requests 
 for information sent them. 
 
 Cora W. Shepherd 
 
 Class of 1880 
 
 Emma Frances Goodale married Rev. James F. Garvin in 1884. 
 They went then to Valparaiso, Chili, as missionaries. Their present 
 
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 home is in Copiapo, Chili. They have returned to the United States 
 in 1893 and 1904. Seven sons and two daughters have blessed their 
 
 home. One son, Herbert, is dead. The three 
 elder sons are in a university at Wooster, Ohio, 
 one at the mission boarding school in Santiago, 
 and the rest with their mother. Mrs. Garvin 
 has spent most of her time in church and home 
 work. 
 
 Sarah Ellen Hodge—Berty Hodge, as her 
 school friends called her—taught German and 
 vocal music in Hopkinton Institute, Hopkinton, 
 Iowa, until her death in 1883. 
 
 Emma F. Merrill’s home has always been 
 in DeWitt, Iowa, where she was the solace of 
 her parents during their last years. She has 
 spent considerable time in travel in this 
 country, and in study, and is a member of two literary clubs, being an 
 officer in each. 
 
 Maria G. Nutting 
 
 Maria G. Nutting taught Latin and served as librarian in the College 
 during 1882, 1883 and 1884. In spite of constitutionally poor health 
 her life has been very full of service for others. In Foreign Mission¬ 
 ary work she had charge of a Girls’ Boarding 
 School, where, besides intellectual and spiritual 
 training, she taught them practical living. She 
 is a member of the Congregational Church. 
 
 Miss Nutting spent half a year traveling 
 through England, France, Italy and Germany. 
 
 Her fields of missionary labor have been largely 
 in Turkey in Asia, and her various places of 
 residence have been Randolph, Rochester and 
 Steven’s Point, Wis., Berkeley, Cal., Stillwater, 
 
 Minn., Rockford, Ill., and Marden, Turkey. Ill 
 health has compelled her to rest since 1902. 
 
 Miss Nutting is the author of several books— 
 
 “Baby Helen,” “Joy,” and “Cordelia,” all 
 bearing on the necessity of showing forth 
 Christ in daily living. Miss Nutting’s present address is Rochester, Wis. 
 
 Nellie M. Rose 
 
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 Nellie M. Rose has visited the College nearly every year since 
 graduation, and has served the Alumnae Association as Corresponding 
 and Recording Secretary and as Treasurer. For nine years she assisted 
 
 in the work of Rockford library. In 1896 she 
 married Mr. A. M. Waugh, who died five 
 years later. She has always been active in 
 the work of the Congregational Church, and 
 is a member of the Century Club and 
 Rockford Woman’s Club. She was married 
 in May, 1905, to Mr. Stephen Caswell of 
 Rockford. 
 
 Harriet A. M. Smith engaged in teaching 
 music for several years. She married Edward 
 D. Etnyre, a manufacturer, and devotes her 
 whole time to her six children. They have 
 lived in San Diego and Sacramento, Cal., and 
 Oregon, Ill. She was president for several 
 years of the “Victoria,” a literary club. 
 
 Corinne Williams visited the College in 1884 and 1890. After teach¬ 
 ing a few years she married Hamilton Douglas, a lawyer, and their 
 home is at 456 Jackson street, Atlanta, Ga., where they are members 
 of the Unitarian Church. She studied law at 
 the University of Michigan, receiving her 
 degree of LL. B. in 1887. She was admitted 
 to the bar the same year. Although much 
 engrossed by her home and five children, she 
 is interested in all efforts looking towards the 
 betterment of conditions for working women 
 and children, and is an officer in the Business 
 Woman’s Club, an organization of working girls. 
 
 She is also a member of the Atlanta Woman’s 
 Club. 
 
 Class of 1881 
 
 Jane Addams, B. A., visits the College almost 
 yearly, being one of the Trustees. She received 
 the degree of B. A. in 1882, and the University J ane Addams 
 
 of Wisconsin conferred the title of LL. D. in June, 1904. She is a 
 member of the Congregational Church, and is a member of Chicago 
 
 Corinne Williams 
 
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 Woman’s Club, The Fortnightly and Hull House Woman’s Club. She 
 founded Hull House Settlement in 1889. Miss Addams devotes her 
 whole time to sociological reforms, and is a well known writer and 
 lecturer along these lines. She has been active in securing factory 
 legislation, civil service laws, and investigation and amelioration of 
 tuberculosis conditions. Miss Addams has traveled abroad extensively, 
 having spent two years at one time, six months at another and three 
 months the last trip abroad. While in Russia it was her pleasure to 
 have had a visit with Count Tolstoi. Address 335 South Halsted street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 Alice Atkinson married Clark W. Sprague, whose business is ship¬ 
 loading. Their homes have been Tacoma, Port Townsend and Seattle, 
 Wash. Mrs. Sprague is Corresponding Secretary of the “Queen Anne Fort¬ 
 nightly” of Seattle. Address 1215 Fourth Avenue West, Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Ella M. Browning has visited the College in 1882, ’83, ’92 and 1902. 
 She was engaged in teaching for several years, then married Mr. A. S. 
 Tucker, general assistant storekeeper, Chicago & North-Western Railway. 
 They have had four children, three of whom are living. Their homes 
 have been Missouri Valley and Clinton, la., and at present 309 South 
 Pmclid avenue, Oak Park, Ill., where Mrs. Tucker is a member of the 
 Nineteenth Century Club. She is also active in the missionary work of 
 the Presbyterian Church to which she belongs, and President of the 
 Woman’s Benevolent Society. She speaks before church and missionary 
 societies. 
 
 Mary Elwood visited her Alma Mater several times. She married 
 John H. Lewis, a banker, and their home was in DeKalb, Ill., where they 
 were members of the Congregational Church. While Mrs. Lewis devoted 
 her time to her home and two children, she was interested in club work, 
 and was at one time President of the DeKalb Ladies’ Club. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lewis made several trips abroad, visiting places of interest, and spent 
 many winters in the South and West. Mrs. Lewis died December 20, 
 1903. 
 
 Annie J. Ellers was graduated from the training school for nurses 
 connected with the Boston City Hospital in 1884, and then studied 
 medicine. She went as a medical missionary under the auspices of the 
 Presbyterian Board to work among the women of Korea. She married 
 Rev. D. A. Bunker, of the Royal College, in 1887, and their home has 
 continued to be in Seoul, Korea. Soon after going to Korea she won the 
 
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 confidence of the queen, and was her medical attendant and friend until 
 the tragic murder of the queen in 1885. Mrs. Bunker has been back to 
 
 America three times, once taking a ten months’ 
 trip by way of the Red Sea, Egypt, Palestine, 
 Constantinople, and the principal cities of 
 Europe. Once she returned by way of Siberia, 
 Finland, Norway, Sweden and Scotland. 
 
 Laura E. Ely visited the College in 1882, 
 ’83, ’84 and 1898. She married Edwin L. 
 Curtis, Ph. D., professor of theology in Yale 
 University, and with their four children they 
 have lived in Chicago, but now reside at (31 
 Trumbull street, New Haven, Conn., where they 
 are active in all the work of the Congregational 
 Church. Mrs. Curtis spent nearly a year and a 
 half abroad, visiting the principal places of 
 interest in Europe. She is Vice President of 
 the Study Club of New Haven. 
 
 Annie J. Ellers 
 
 Eleanor Frothingham visited the College in 1886 and 1893. She 
 married the Rev. B. C. Haworth, D. D., a 
 Foreign Missionary of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 With their five children they live in Tokyo, 
 
 Japan. Her various places of residence have 
 been Lansing, Mich., Manchester, Vinton and 
 Corning, la., Waukegan, Morrison and Chicago, 
 
 Ill., Kanazawa, Kobe, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. 
 
 Since graduating, Mrs. Haworth’s time has 
 been occupied in teaching in America, home¬ 
 making, studying and teaching Japanese in 
 school in Japan, and at present she is principal 
 of the “Tokyo School for Foreign Children,” 
 which has 101 pupils divided into classes rang¬ 
 ing from the kindergarten to first year aca- Laura e. Ely 
 
 demic. Mrs. Haworth has made five trips across the Pacific to Honolulu 
 and Japan. 
 
 Kate E. Huey visited the College once, ten years after graduating. 
 She married J. E. Whiteselle, a merchant, and they have made their home 
 at Corsicana, Texas, where she is an active member of the Literary Club, 
 
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 serving as President several times. She is also interested in art, working 
 in water colors and china decorating. Mrs. Whiteselle has traveled all 
 over the United States and visited places of note in Canada and Mexico. 
 
 Eleanor Frothingham 
 
 S. Campbell, a grain and 
 homes have been in Rockford, Ill., and Monte 
 Vista, Col. She is a member of the Presby¬ 
 terian Church, active in Sunday School and 
 Missionary work. She is also a member of the 
 Chautauqua club. Since marriage Mrs. Camp¬ 
 bell has devoted most of her time to her home 
 and son. 
 
 Mary E. Huey visited her Alma Mater in 
 1891. She married Joel Ashford Hughes, a 
 retired merchant, and devotes her time to her 
 home and two sons. She is a member of the 
 Episcopal Church and is interested in general 
 charitable work. She has resided in Denver, 
 Col., Ogden, Utah, and at present is at 215 Poca¬ 
 hontas street, Dallas, Texas. 
 
 Phila D. Pope 
 visited the College 
 in 1882. She was 
 occupied in teaching 
 for four years and 
 then married James 
 coal merchant. Her 
 
 Kate E. Huey 
 
 Mary E. Huey 
 
 Anna W. Sidwell visited the College in 
 1882, ’83 and 1887. Her time has been occu¬ 
 pied in teaching in various places in Illinois 
 and Iowa; at present she is engaged in teaching 
 in the Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City, 
 Neb. She is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church and is interested in club work. She 
 has visited places of interest in the United 
 States and Canada. 
 
 Adele M. Smith has not failed to visit her 
 Alma Mater every year. She has served the 
 Alumnae Association as President, and is a 
 Trustee of the College. One of her two chil- 
 
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 Anna W. Sidwell 
 
 dren has spent three years at Rockford College. She married Joseph H. 
 Strong, a broker, of Chicago, where they have always since lived. Mrs. 
 
 Strong is a member of the Christian Science 
 Church, and of the Chicago Woman’s Club. 
 She devotes her time to her home and literary 
 pursuits, and has traveled in the United States 
 and Canada. Address 2925 Indiana avenue, 
 Chicago. 
 
 Elizabeth Smith visited the College in 1884 
 and 1891. Her time, aside from home duties, 
 has been largely occupied in promoting and 
 sustaining the town public library. She was 
 for many years Secretary of the Library Board 
 and, as the city appropriation was too small 
 to pay a trained librarian, Miss Smith took the 
 library scientific course at the University of 
 Wisconsin, and served as librarian for three years, when she resigned, in 
 favor of her assistant. The Shakespeare Club of Green Bay, Wis., con¬ 
 ferred honorary membership on her. Miss 
 Smith has resided in De Pere, Wis., and has 
 visited principal places of interest in the United 
 States and Canada. 
 
 Kate L. Tanner has visited her Alma Mater 
 several times. She is a member of the Univer- 
 salist Church, and a member of the Barnard 
 Club of New York, and of the New Century 
 Club of London. She married Prof. Lranklin 
 P. Risk, Principal of one of the Chicago high 
 schools. Mrs. Lisk has devoted a great deal 
 of time to the study of music in this country 
 and abroad. She made her debut in “The 
 Messiah” at one of the concerts of the Chicago 
 Apollo Club, and has sung in many cities of 
 America with great success. In 1892 she filled an engagement with the 
 Royal Amateur Orchestral Society in Queen’s Hall, London, and was 
 conceded to be an artist of high merit. In addition to the Royal Choral 
 Society she filled engagements with the London Philharmonic Club. 
 Her repertoire includes German, Lrench, Italian, English and American 
 composers. Mrs. Risk has proved a very popular dramatic contralto with 
 
 Kate L. Tanner 
 
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 the concert public. Address Hotel Netherland, New York City. 
 
 Martha Thomas visited the College several times, and was a teacher 
 there for one year, and also taught in other places. She married Dr. J. 
 H. Green, and with their three children they have resided at Dubuque, 
 Iowa. Mrs. Green is active in the missionary work of the Presbyterian 
 Church; she is corresponding secretary of the Dubuque Woman’s Club. 
 Has visited points of interest in the South. 
 
 From two members of this class has come no response. 
 
 Emma L. Briggs married W. V. A. Dodds of Beatrice, Neb., and is 
 probably living there still. 
 
 Helen M. Harrington, B. A., married W. M. Alderson, after several 
 years spent in teaching, and their home has been in Elgin, Neb., but is 
 now in Omaha, Neb. 
 
 Class of 1882 
 
 Mary A. Baker visited the Seminary frequently up to 1892. She has 
 occupied her time with home affairs in winter, and spent the summers in 
 the various coast resorts of the East. She has resided in Harvard and 
 Rockford, Ill., and present address is 1429 Detroit street, Denver, Col., 
 where she takes an active part in work among children of the Plymouth 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 Camilla W. Fitch resided in Rockford until the opening of the 
 present year. On the 12th of January she was united in marriage to 
 
 Mr. Wm. Elliot Hamlin of New York City. 
 Mrs. Hamlin has traveled in the west and 
 south of the United States and spent a short 
 time in Europe. She is a member of the 
 Second Congregational Church of Rockford 
 and always active and generous in the various 
 parts of the church work. She was a member 
 of several literary clubs in Rockford. Address 
 The Marie Antoinette, New York. 
 
 Julia E. Gardner, B. A., lived in Boston and 
 Rockford. She died at Nashua, N. H., August 
 26, 1883, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, 
 Sag Harbor, L. I. Miss Gardner was a member 
 Camilla w. Fitch of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
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 Minnie May Marks visited theCollege in 1886,1892,1902, and on later 
 occasions. She married Carlos J. Ward, a lawyer, and with their three 
 
 children resides at 110 South Grove street, Oak 
 Park, Ill. Mrs. Ward attends the Baptist 
 Church and is active in the Associated Charities 
 of Oak Park. She is a member of the Nine¬ 
 teenth Century Club of Oak Park and the 
 Woman’s Club of Chicago. She was elected 
 to serve three years on the Oak Park Board of 
 Education. Mrs. Ward has traveled east and 
 west in the United States. 
 
 Sarah G. N Sperry visited the College in 
 1902. She married T. W. Snow, manager of 
 the Otto Gas Engine 
 Co., of Chicago. They 
 have resided in Har- 
 
 Julia E. Gardner . 
 
 risburg, Pa., and now 
 live in Batavia, Ill. Mrs. Snow is a member of 
 the PqTscopal Church. She devotes her time to 
 her home and six living children, two having 
 died in infancy. 
 
 Abbie Mae Warner after leaving College 
 taught school until 1896, when failing health 
 required her to move to Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Her trips to and 
 from Chicago 
 have included 
 all the principal 
 points of in¬ 
 terest en route. Miss Warner is a mem¬ 
 ber of the Congregational Church, and 
 active in the literary work of the various 
 places where she has resided. 
 
 Catharine GougerWaugh, M.A.,LL.B. 
 was graduated from the Union College of 
 Law, in 1886, and was admitted to the bar 
 of Illinois that year. She practiced law 
 four years in Rockford, and since then in 
 Chicago. She was admitted to practice 
 
 Abbie Mae Warner 
 
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 113 
 
 Catharine Gouger Waugh 
 
 before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1898. In 1890 she 
 married Frank H. McCulloch, a lawyer, of Chicago, and has since been 
 
 associated with him in practice under the firm 
 name of McCulloch & McCulloch. They have 
 two sons and one daughter, and have resided in 
 Evanston, Ill., since 1894. Mrs. McCulloch is a 
 member of the Congregational Church, Chicago 
 Woman’s Club, Evanston Woman’s Club, 
 Noyes Street Mother’s Club, and Evanston 
 Political Equality League. Address 1104 
 Merchants Loan and Trust Building, Chicago. 
 
 Harriet E.Wells, B. A., has visited the Col¬ 
 lege nearly every year. She was instructor in 
 Latin in the College in 1885,1886 and 1887. She 
 has served theAlumnae Association as Secretary 
 and Vice President. She is at present leader 
 of classes in History of Art at Batavia, Ill., 
 her home. She married Edward C. Hobler, a 
 manufacturer, and has one boy living, having 
 lost one. Her homes have been Geneva, 
 
 Chicago and Batavia, Ill. She is a member of 
 the Episcopal Church, active in its departments 
 of work as director of the Altar Guild and 
 choir mother. She is chairman of the scholar¬ 
 ship committee of the Chicago Rockford Asso¬ 
 ciation. 
 
 After Carrie Strong taught school for a 
 few years she took a course as trained nurse, 
 and then had a position in a hospital in New 
 Haven, Conn. Later she studied massage 
 under Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and settled in 
 Waterbury, Conn., at 42 State street, in her 
 own home, from w r hich she goes out to her professional dates. 
 
 Carrie Strong 
 
 Class of 1883 
 
 Mary C. Brown has visited the College every year to date; she has 
 served the Alumnae Association as President and Secretary at various 
 times. She has always resided in Rockford, where she is an active worker 
 in the Methodist Church. She is a member of the Outlook Club, and the 
 
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 King’s Daughters. She married Mr. H. W. Buckbee, a seedsman and 
 florist of Rockford. Address 326 South Third street, Rockford. 
 
 Helen M. Gregory visited the College 
 every year up to 1888, when her work as teacher 
 in other cities made it impossible to attend the 
 Alumnae meetings. She served the Associa¬ 
 tion as Secretary at one time. Miss Gregory 
 studied at the Chicago University, and has 
 attended several courses of the University 
 Extension lectures. She has devoted her time 
 to teaching in the following places, Onarga, Ill., 
 Charles City, Iowa, 
 and for seven years 
 has taught history in 
 the High School at 
 Manistee, Mich. She is a member of the Con¬ 
 gregational Church, interested in the Sunday 
 School and missionary work. Has been a 
 member of several study clubs and Shake¬ 
 speare Clubs. Her summers have been spent 
 visiting points of interest throughout the United 
 States. Address 603 North Horsman street, 
 
 Rockford. 
 
 Elizabeth L. Stanbridge visited the College 
 in 1884, 1903 and several times in later years. Helen m. Gregory 
 
 She married Louis M. Thiers, a photographer, 
 and they have lived at Winona, Minn., and 
 now reside at Kenosha, Wis. Mrs. Thiers is an 
 active member of the Congregational Church; 
 she is also a member of the Woman’s Club of 
 Kenosha. 
 
 Mary J. Waddell visited the College in 
 1899. She married Frank Hamilton Crombie, 
 a lumber merchant, and lived in Atlantic, Iowa, 
 until 1903; since then their residence has been 
 2209 Pacific avenue, Spokane, Wash. She 
 attends the Congregational Church. Mrs. Crom¬ 
 bie has traveled in this country and also abroad. 
 
 Mary C. Brown 
 
 Elizabeth L. Stanbridge 
 
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 Class of 1884 
 
 Lillian E. Bacon visited the College in 1889 and in 1904. Her homes 
 have been in Fond du Lac, Elkhorn and Milwaukee, Wis. Since gradu¬ 
 ating she has devoted most of her time to teach¬ 
 ing. June 28, 1903, she was married to Mr. A. 
 T. Van Scoy, of the International Harvester 
 Company of America, at Fond du Lac. She is 
 a member of the Plymouth Congregational 
 Church at Milwaukee, and belongs to the Wis¬ 
 consin Alumnae Association. Mrs. Van Scoy 
 has been principal of the Boys’ Academy in 
 Milwaukee since 1886. Address 545 Terrace 
 avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Mabel Clark visited the College in 1896, 
 ’98 and 1905. She served the Alumnae Asso¬ 
 ciation as corresponding secretary for a year. 
 She married Perry C. Wadsworth, a chemist, 
 
 Lillian E. Bacon .... ' ' 
 
 and their homes have been Rockford, Ill., and 
 Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Wadsworth devotes her time to her home and 
 one child. She is a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. 
 
 Carrie E. Cleveland has visited the College 
 almost every year to date. She married H. W. 
 Gardner, a merchant of Rockford, where they 
 have always lived. Mrs. Gardner devotes her 
 time to her home and three boys. She is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. Address 
 543 South Third street, Rockford. 
 
 Mary F. Crane visited the College at inter¬ 
 vals of ten years, namely in 1894 and 1904. 
 
 She married Richard A. Mathews of the 
 Mathews Advertising Agency, and they have 
 made Chicago their home. Mrs. Mathews is 
 active in the Sunday School and missionary 
 work of the Congregational Church; she is a 
 member of the Woodlawn Study Club and the Fortnightly Club. 
 Address 5819 West Randolph street, Chicago. 
 
 Carrie E. Cleveland 
 
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 Carrie A. Hewitt has frequently visited her Alma Mater. She taught 
 school four years after graduating, and then engaged in stenographic 
 work for six years. She married Irvin J. Heckman, a physician and 
 surgeon. Her homes have been at various times Pecatonica, Rockford, 
 Chicago and Belvidere, Ill., present address Hinckley, Ill. She was a 
 Congregationalist, but there being no church of that denomination where 
 she lived she united with the Methodist Church. Mrs. Heckman has 
 always been active in clubs wherever she has resided, and was founder of 
 the Hinckley Woman’s Club, serving as its President the first two years. 
 She was First Vice President of the Rockford Alumnae in 1898-99. 
 
 Mary P. Hubbard visited the College in 1885, ’87, ’88, ’89, ’91, ’94 
 
 and 1904. For seventeen years she taught 
 school in North Carolina as a matter of philan- 
 throphy. Since then has given her time to 
 domestic affairs. She is active in the Sunday 
 School and Young People’s Society of Christian 
 Endeavor of the Congregational Church. Her 
 present address is Plymouth, Wis. 
 
 Mary A. Ives married Wm. Wynee Jones, 
 a farmer. They live at Myrtle, Ill. Mrs. Jones 
 devotes her time to her home and children, of 
 whom nine are living; two have died. Mrs. 
 Jones attends the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Alice C. Morehouse visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1888. She married PYederick H. Guenther, auditor. Their homes 
 have been Sedalia, Mo., St. Louis and Chicago. Before her marriage 
 she taught music and other studies in a private family. She is a member 
 of the Presbyterian Church, serving as President of the Aid Society 
 several years. She is also active in club work and held various official 
 positions in the Sorosis of Sedalia during thirteen years’ residence there. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Guenther have one son. 
 
 Mary P. Warner was graduated with the highest honors of her class. 
 She lived a quiet, studious life at home until her death, which occurred 
 in 1887. 
 
 Mae M. West visited her Alma Mater in 1885, 1888 and 1898. She was 
 engaged in teaching until her marriage to Mr. G. E. Newman, a lawyer 
 and banker. Their homes have been Kearney and Omaha, Neb., Chicago, 
 Ill., and Ladysmith, Wis. She is active in the Sunday School work of 
 
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 the Congregational Church; also in Settlement work. Mrs. Newman was 
 a member of the Kearney Nineteenth Century Club, the South Side Club 
 of Chicago, and Rochester (Wis.) Woman’s Club. They have one 
 daughter. 
 
 Class of 1886 
 
 Emily S. Barber has spent her time in domestic duties principally. 
 
 She is a pleasing story writer and an enter¬ 
 taining speaker in Christian Endeavor work. 
 Her homes have been Jeansville, Pa., and Pack- 
 waukee, Wis. She is a member of the Metho¬ 
 dist Church. 
 
 Florence E. Helm, B. A., has visited the 
 College nearly every year since graduation. She 
 served the Alumnae Association as President and 
 also on its Executive committees. She was 
 engaged in teaching two and a half years. In 1903 
 she married Chas. G. McGlashan, a merchant, of 
 Rockford, where they have always lived. Was 
 teacher of art in one of the schools there. Mrs. 
 McGlashan was raised in the Congregational 
 Church, but united with the Presbyterian on 
 her marriage, and is active in the work of the Sunday School. She is a 
 member of the Century and the Magazine Clubs of Rockford. Address 
 628 Mulberry street, Rockford. 
 
 Emily S. Barber 
 
 Mary E. Lowry, B. A., has visited the Col¬ 
 lege nearly every year; has served the Alumnae 
 Association as Secretary and Vice President 
 and also on the Executive Committee. She has 
 been assistant librarian in Rockford for eight 
 years, and finds time to actively assist various 
 philanthropies. She is a member of the Con¬ 
 gregational Church, and President of the Maga¬ 
 zine Club. Her home has always been 625 
 Peach street, Rockford, Ill. 
 
 Anna E. Nicholes lives at 1224 West 
 Sixty-seventh street, Chicago, Ill. She has 
 visited the College several times since gradua- 
 
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 tion. She served the Alumnae Association as President and for six 
 years was member of the Board of the Chicago Rockford College Asso¬ 
 ciation. Miss Nicholes devotes her whole time 
 to charitable and philanthropic work; for six 
 years she has been connected with the Neigh¬ 
 borhood House Settlement; is editor of the 
 Woman’s Department of “The Union Labor 
 Advocate,” Secretary of the Woman’s Trades 
 Union Leagues, Treasurer of the Consumers’ 
 League, member of the Chicago Woman’s 
 Club, South Side Suffrage Association, Engle¬ 
 wood Woman’s Club, Director of Associated 
 Charities, Englewood District, and of the 
 Neighborhood House Woman’s Club. Miss 
 Nicholes has always lived in Chicago, but has 
 traveled east and west in the United States. 
 She attends the Normal Park Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Flora A. Read, B. A. and M. D., lives at Fond du Lac, Wis. She 
 entered the Illinois Training School for Nurses in 1887, graduating in two 
 years. In 1895 she was graduated from the 
 Woman’s Medical College of Chicago, and that 
 same year commenced practicing her profes¬ 
 sion in Fond du Lac. She is the Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the Fond du Lac County Medical 
 Society, a member of the State Medical Society, 
 and also of the American Medical Society. 
 
 She visited her Alma Mater at Rockford in 
 1887, ’89, ’91 and 1903. Dr. Read is active in 
 work among young people in the Congrega¬ 
 tional Church; she was active in the Woman’s 
 Club of Fond du Lac, but was obliged to resign 
 official positions on account of claims of pro¬ 
 fessional work. 
 
 Kate C. Rising, B. A., lives at 1624 Grace 
 street, Chicago. She visited her Alma Mater in 1887,’89,’91 and 1896. She 
 attended the University of Chicago, and in 1900 received the degree of 
 B. A. from that institution. She has been engaged in teaching since 
 1891, and is now teacher of English in the Lake View High School. Miss 
 Rising is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her homes have been 
 
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THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
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 Lena, Ainsworth, Neb., Rochelle and Chicago, Ill. She was a member 
 of the Nineteenth Century Woman’s Club at Rochelle. 
 
 Mabel H. Walker, M. D., married Charles 
 E. Herrick, a banker of Rockford, Ill., where 
 they made their home until 1900, when they 
 removed to Chicago, and now live at 7621 
 Union avenue. Mr. Herrick is now an expert 
 commission broker. Mrs. Herrick has one son 
 eight years old. She has been President of the 
 Alumnae Association, and has served on the 
 Executive Committee. She is now President 
 of the Rockford College Association of 
 Chicago. She has been Corresponding Secre¬ 
 tary of the Daughters of the American Revolu¬ 
 tion, President and Director of the Students’ 
 Aid Association, Director of the Young 
 Woman’s Christian Association, and a member 
 of the Auburn Park Thirty Club. She is Vice President for the Third 
 Congressional District of the State Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Her 
 church affiliations are Congregational and she has been active in Sunday 
 School and church work. Her travels have been confined to the United 
 States and Canada. 
 
 Mabel H. Walker 
 
 May Louise Williams, B. A., lives at 647 South Wesley avenue, Oak 
 Park. Has visited the College almost every year since graduation. Her 
 homes have been Rockford,Chicagoand Oak Park, Ill. She marriedChas.R. 
 Smith, and devotes most of her time to her home and their four children. 
 She also devotes some time to music and is Secretary of the Rubenstein 
 Club of Oak Park. She is active in all the departments of work in the 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Class of 1887 
 
 Helen S. Chamberlain has frequently visited the College, the last 
 occasion being in 1904. She married Chas. G. Ives, a physician, and with 
 their four children resides in Pecatonica, Ill. She devotes her time to 
 her family, and work among young people of the Congregational Church. 
 Mrs. Ives spent a winter in Honolulu, H. I., her birthplace. 
 
 Alma S. Crouse visited the College in 1888, ’89, ’90 and 1891. She 
 married Henry M. Herrick, M. G. and Ph. D., who is principal of the 
 
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 schools of Stockton, Ill. Her homes have been Morris, Minn., Charles 
 City, Iowa, Dundee and Stockton, Ill. Mrs. Herrick is interested and 
 
 active in the missionary and social work of 
 the Congregational Church. She is Presi¬ 
 dent of the Library Association of Stockton. 
 
 Emma L. Warner, B. A., took a post¬ 
 graduate course, receiving her degree of B. A. 
 later. She completed the conservatory course 
 with honor. For a few years she served as sub¬ 
 stitute teacher in the P'reeport schools and 
 later taught in the schools of Beloit, Wis. 
 In 1897 she became a teacher at Elgin, Ill., 
 but failing health compelled her to resign, 
 and she died December 20,1897, at the home 
 of her brother in Freeport. Miss Warner 
 was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 Alma s. Crouse and during her residence in P'reeport was 
 
 organist at the First Presbyterian Church. She was also active in the 
 Young Woman’s Christian Association and the Castilian Society. 
 
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THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
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 Class of 1888 
 
 Lizzie S. Blake lives at 1616 Rebecca street, Sioux City, Iowa. She 
 visited her Alma Mater in 1894, and has served as Secretary of the 
 Chicago Rockford College Association. She married George H. Rice, a 
 commercial salesman. They have one child. Her homes have been 
 Rockford, Ill., Crefeld, Germany, Chicago and Sioux City, Iowa. She 
 has devoted much time to music, and was abroad studying from 1889 to 
 1893. Mrs. Rice is a member of the Congregational Church. 
 
 Kate E. Dickerman, B. A., lives at 529 North Main street, Rockford, 
 Ill. She visits the College nearly every year. She has served the Alumnae 
 
 Association as President, Auditor, and on 
 Executive committees in various years. Home 
 duties and assisting on Saturdays at Rockford 
 library engaged her time, until recently she 
 has taken up insurance work. She is a member 
 of the Mendelssohn Club, the Century Club, 
 and active in Sunday School and missionary 
 work of the Congregational Church. Miss 
 Dickerman has always resided in Rockford, 
 but her travels take in most of the United 
 States, and six months was spent in England, 
 Germany and France. 
 
 Emily B. Hillard married J. Lincoln Fenn, 
 a lawyer of Hartford, Conn., where they have 
 always resided at 291 Collins street. They have had three children, 
 one only living. She is interested in the missionary work of the 
 Episcopal Church. Mrs. Fenn devotes most of her time to domestic 
 affairs, but is also interested in the philanthropies of the Woman’s 
 Christian Association, and is a member of various clubs. 
 
 Kate E. Dickerman 
 
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 Nettie Hough lives at 305 
 North Third street, Rockford, Ill. 
 She visits the College almost every 
 year; she has served on commit¬ 
 tees in the Alumnae Association. 
 She married Wm. S. Trescott, a 
 commercial traveler, and their 
 home has always been in Rock¬ 
 ford. They have one son. She 
 has served as President of “The 
 Hearth Club,” a literary society. 
 She is active in the Aid Society 
 and Sunday School of the Chris¬ 
 tian Church. 
 
 Bertha Anna Jackson, B. A., 
 was President and valedictorian of 
 Class of 1888, and for two years afterward was a most efficient assistant in 
 her father’s law office; then spent a year visiting points of interest and 
 relatives in the East. Her teaching began in 1891 as instructor in the 
 family of a friend in the South, but was called from there to take position 
 as instructor in Rockford College. At Christmas she was compelled to 
 resign on account of sickness, and two months later, February 14, 1893, 
 she died at her home in Janesville, Wis. A classmate bears testimony 
 that her short life was full of unselfish devotion 
 to others and loyalty to truth and right, making 
 braver and better all other lives with which she 
 came in contact. 
 
 Nettie Leonard lives in Lewiston, Maine. 
 
 She has visited the College a number of times 
 consecutively from 1888 to 1899, 1902 and again 
 in 1904. She married Arthur N. Leonard, 
 
 Ph. D., professor of German; their homes have 
 been Wichita, Kan., and Lewiston, Maine. 
 
 While in Wichita Mrs. Leonard was President 
 of the Ladies’ Library Club. She is an active 
 Sunday School worker in the Baptist Church. 
 
 Bertha Anna Jackson 
 
 Martha W. Nye 
 
THE JUBILEE BOOK 
 
 123 
 
 Martha W. Nye, B. A., for two years after graduation taught in the Con¬ 
 gregational Academy at Hull, Iowa. She then took a course at the Univer¬ 
 sity of Michigan; and has been instructor in mathematics at Rockford 
 College for a number of years. She has been an officer in the local 
 Rockford College Association and corresponding secretary of the general 
 Alumnae Association of Rockford College. 
 
 After several years spent in Berlin and Paris studying music, Mary 
 R. Wilkins, B. A., came back to Rockford College as the head of the 
 department of music. She had studied with Harrison Wild and Gleason 
 in Chicago and was a pupil of Guilmant in Paris and a pupil of Raif in 
 Berlin. She was for some years organist of the Court Street Methodist 
 Church. She has written music of great merit. She is a member of the 
 Amateur Club of Chicago, of the Rockford Mendelssohn Club and of 
 the Second Congregational Church of Rockford. She married George 
 Nelson Holt and they are temporarily in Paris, at 24 Rue de Teheran. 
 They have only one child, a little daughter. 
 
 Class of 1889 
 
 After leaving Rockford College, Maud Alma Bryant taught school, 
 and then married Harry Nott, a dealer in bonds and investments. She 
 
 has lived in Chicago, Milwaukee and Omaha. 
 Her present address is 4019 Farnam street, 
 Omaha, Neb., but she is preparing to go abroad 
 for several years’ residence. She never has had 
 any children. Her work in philanthropy has 
 been along the lines of practical sociology, i. e., 
 summer homes for poor children and Visiting 
 Nurses Association. Her church affiliations are 
 Episcopalian, and she has been active in city 
 mission and Sunday School work. She was a 
 member of the Arion Musical Club of Milwau¬ 
 kee and is now of the Omaha Woman’s Club, 
 where she has been leader of two departments, 
 Maud Alma Bryant j German History and Plistory of French 
 
 Gothic Architecture and Chairman of the House and Home Committee. 
 She has been President of the Cheofan of Omaha and a member of the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution. She has traveled at least four 
 months of each year and has been in Florida, Canada, New England and 
 the far west, in the states, also in Germany, France, Belgium and Holland, 
 
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 on the continent, and in Ireland, Scotland and England. She visited 
 her Al;na Mater in 1890,’94,’99 and 1903. 
 
 Sarah Burton was assistant vocal teacher in the musical department 
 of Rockford College in 1890 and 1891 She married Omar H. Wright, a 
 dealer in lumber and coal. Her home is in Belvidere, Ill., and she has a 
 son ten years old. Her church affiliations are Episcopalian, where she is 
 active in the Woman’s Guild and Missionary Society. She is a member 
 of the Mendelssohn Club of Rockford, Ill., the Fortnightly Club of 
 Belvidere, and is Secretary of the Amateur Musical Club of Belvidere. 
 She has been Secretary of the Alumnae Association, and has visited her 
 Alma Mater almost every year since 1889. Her home before marriage was 
 in Batavia, Ill. She has traveled west to the coast, east to the Atlantic, 
 south to New Orleans and on the Great Lakes and in Canada. 
 
 After Emma Lyman Bushnell left Rockford 
 College she was busy with housekeeping and 
 caring for an invalid, later she took up teaching. 
 
 She has lived in Beloit and Ashland,Wis., Evans¬ 
 ton, Ill., and Endeavor, Wis. Of her pres¬ 
 ent work at Endeavor Academy, she writes: 
 
 “It interests me greatly, more than any I ever 
 did before. I have tried the southern edge and 
 the northern edge of Wisconsin, but now I am 
 in the heart of the state, on what is known as 
 home missionary ground. Our school is on a 
 hilltop, overlooking the beautiful Fox River 
 Valley for miles. It is small at present, but it 
 is going to grow and vye hope it is going to give 
 to some of these country boys and girls a chance Emma Lyman Bushnell 
 
 to grow and a desire to grow.” Her church affiliations are Congrega¬ 
 tional and she is active in Christian Endeavor work and the Young Ladies’ 
 Missionary Society. She is a member of a literary club, “The Fortnightly,” 
 a music club and a choral union. She has visited various places in New 
 England and the Lake Superior region. Her last visit to her Alma Mater 
 was in June of 1902. 
 
 Cordelia M. Hills has lived in Bloomingdale, Chicago and Evanston, 
 Ill., and her present home is at Willow street, San Jose, Cal., where 
 she may be addressed, care of Mr. William Ross. She spent one year at 
 Wellesley College. Her time is occupied along domestic and club lines. 
 She was Vice President of the V. Q. Society of Chicago, a member of the 
 
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 Lookout Club of Chicago, and is now a member of the Monday Club of 
 San Jose, Cal. Her church affiliations are Congregational, and she 
 
 is active in Sunday School and Christian 
 Endeavor work and in the Missionary Societies. 
 The Forward Movement occupied much of her 
 time when she lived in Chicago. She has 
 visited the East four times and the West twice. 
 She has spent four years in California. She 
 visited her Alma Mater in 1890 and 1899. 
 
 Isflfil 
 
 Cordelia M. Hills 
 
 Katherine McQueen spent three years in 
 teaching—one year in Elgin Academy, one in 
 the High School at Delavan, Ill., and one in a 
 private Presbyterian school in North Dakota. 
 In May, 1893 she took up work in the Gail 
 Borden library at Elgin, where she has been 
 ever since, having charge of the reference 
 department. A large part of her work consists 
 in looking after the literary wants of the women’s clubs of the city and 
 in assisting teachers and students from the academy and public schools. 
 Gail Borden library is a well patronized library of 30,000 volumes, and fur¬ 
 nishes so absorbing an occupation to anyone employed in it that there is 
 little time left for any work outside. Her 
 church affiliations are Congregational,and she 
 has visited her Alma Mater once since 1889. 
 
 Adaline Morehouse was a teacher for 
 four years before she married Eugene D. 
 
 Holmes, who was also a teacher. After her 
 marriage she was Preceptress of Delaware 
 Academy, Delhi, N. Y., for four years. 
 
 She has lived at Cleveland, Ohio, and Delhi, 
 
 N. Y. Her home now is at 52 North 
 Allen street, Albany, N. Y. She has no 
 children. She has been President of the 
 Delhi (New York) Tourist Club, and First 
 Vice President of the Pine Hills Fortnightly 
 Club, Albany, N. Y., and is a member of 
 the Friday Club, Albany, N. Y. Her 
 church affiliations are Presbyterian, and she was 
 
 Katherine McQueen 
 
 Treasurer of 
 
 the 
 
 Ladies’ Aid Society and teacher in Sunday School, in Delhi, N. Y. 
 
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 She spent a summer in Europe, visiting Italy, France and England. 
 She visited her Alma Mater in 1896. 
 
 Adaline Morehouse 
 
 The following sketch of Adelaide. Marie 
 Olmsted, B. A., was sent us by her father, Z. N. 
 Olmsted, of No. 18 Suffield street, Hartford, 
 Conn.: “Adelaide Marie Olmsted was born in 
 Arlington Heights, Ill., April 7, 1866, and died in 
 Denver, Col., March 2, 1904. Her life after 
 graduation in 1889, was largely domestic. The 
 life and light of her home, always cheerful, help¬ 
 ful and unsefish, retaining an active interest in 
 literary and church work as member of woman’s 
 clubs and local Board of Education. She united 
 by letter with the Windsor Avenue Congrega¬ 
 tional Church, of Hartford, Conn., in 1892, and 
 was identified with its King’s Daughters Society 
 and was for some years Superintendent of its Primary Sunday School. 
 She spent two winters in Southern California and three in Colorado, going 
 there for health. About six months before her death she became blind 
 but until the last retained her cheerful, hopeful disposition, seeming to 
 develop a sixth sense, which took the place of sight. She was very fond 
 of music and could play new pieces on the piano after hearing them once. 
 A few days before her death she sang ‘The Holy City,’ her last song on 
 earth. She died in a full and childlike faith 
 in immortality, resigned to God’s will. She 
 visited her Alma Mater in 1890, 1893, 1895 
 and 1900.” 
 
 Stella E. Palmer married Sidney A. Sabin, 
 a dry goods merchant of Belvidere, Ill., where 
 she lived a most happy home life, and was 
 blessed with three beautiful children. Four 
 years ago her husband was compelled on 
 account of illness to seek the climate of Colo¬ 
 rado, and since then they have lived in Denver, 
 where Mr. Sabin is manager of the book depart¬ 
 ment of the Daniels & Fisher Stores Co. Their 
 
 i ^ , . Adelaide Marie Olmsted 
 
 home is at 945 Corona street. 
 
 Adda Louise Randall taught school and then married C. A. Hutchins, 
 a merchant. She has had three children, of whom two are now living. 
 
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 She has lived in Durand, Ill., Loveland, Col., and Winthrop, Minn., the 
 latter place being her present home. Of herself, she writes: “I am now 
 
 only a ‘ fireside angel.’ I have no public career 
 to boast of. My life has not been written with 
 capital letters; if it possesses any charms to pos¬ 
 terity, they must be found in the hidden spring 
 of daily life and conduct.” Her church affili¬ 
 ations are Congregational, and she has been 
 active in temperance work with children and 
 twelve young people. She visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1891 and 1898. 
 
 Mary Hopkins Royce, B. A., married 
 Charles W. Merriman, a real estate dealer, and 
 her home is in Beloit, Wis. She has five chil¬ 
 dren, the oldest being twelve?years of age. 
 She writes of herself, that she is quite decidedly 
 domestic, and is active chiefly with home 
 philanthropy. Her church affiliations are Protestant Episcopalian, and 
 the department of church work she has been active in is chiefly in raising 
 children for the Sunday School. She was a member of a whist club 
 when she was in Canada, having made her home in Brockville, Ontario, 
 for a time, but returning to Beloit three years ago. She is a member of 
 the Monday Club and Saturday Club of Beloit. She has traveled over 
 the St. Lawrence region, and has visited her Alma Mater about once 
 in every two years, since 1889. 
 
 Mary Asenath Sabin, B. A., whose home was in Belvidere, Ill., 
 married in 1904 Fred K. Houston, President of the American Heating 
 Co., of Rockford, Ill., and now resides in Rockford. Her occupation 
 since 1889 has been almost entirely professional. She was teacher of 
 history and home economics in Rockford College a^id professor of home 
 economics in the Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. She received the 
 degree of B. A. from her Alma Mater in 1896. She has been President 
 of the Alumnae Association and visits the College frequently. Her 
 church affiliations are Presbyterian and she is active in Sunday School 
 and Y. P. S. C. E. work. She has been a member of the Fortnightly 
 Club of Belvidere, the Des Moines (Iowa) Woman’s Club, the Rockford 
 Woman’s Club, and the Mendelssohn Club of Rockford. She has visited 
 the East, California, parts of the South, the Continent and England. 
 
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 Lois Ellen Smith 
 
 Lois Ellen Smith, of 3586 Utah avenue, Ogden, Utah, writes us “that 
 she has no children of her own but has mothered a large number up and 
 
 down the country and has various adopted 
 grandchildren.” Her time has been taken up 
 in housekeeping and teaching in three states. 
 She has taught in a mission school in Utah, 
 was a deaconess in Buffalo, N. Y., and a singing 
 Evangelist. Her church affiliations are Metho¬ 
 dist and she has been active in Epworth 
 League, Sunday School, Choir and Junior 
 League work. She has traveled from ocean to 
 ocean and visited a great many places of interest 
 in both the United States and Canada. She 
 has lived at Sheldon, Ill., Evansville, Wis., 
 Grantville, Utah, Gibbon, Neb., Redlands and 
 Pasadena, Cal., Buffalo, N. Y., and Murray and 
 Ogden, Utah. Writing November 9th, 1904, 
 she says: “I spent five weeks recently in Stockton, Utah, a mining camp 
 of three or four stores, half a dozen saloons and one little church. I was 
 pastor, Sunday School superintendent, janitor and all the rest of it , visited 
 the mines and sang to the men. Of all places of interest Stockton takes 
 the lead. I cast my first vote Tuesday and felt very proud. Voted the 
 straight America?i ticket for the state and ‘threw away my vote’ for,Prohi¬ 
 bition Swallow. Times are rather exciting out here just now and I never 
 found so much to do or life so well worth living. 
 
 The fight is on against the Mormons and I am 
 glad to lend a hand.” She visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1890, 1893, 1895, 1896 and 1899. * 
 
 Ama Sears Taylor lives at 739 North Church 
 street, Rockford, Ill. Her church affiliations are 
 Congregational, and she is very active in mis¬ 
 sionary and Sunday school work. She is a 
 «/ 
 
 member of the Century Club, and has been 
 treasurer of the Alumnae Association for several 
 years. She has traveled in California, Colorado, 
 
 New Mexico, New England and the South. 
 
 She has visited the College nearly ever year 
 since 1889. 
 
 Charlotte Elizabeth Wood, B. A., married Dr. John L. Montgomery 
 (physician), and lives at 637 Division street, Charleston, Ill. She has a 
 
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 little daughter and several step-children. Her time has been occupied, 
 since 1889, along professional, domestic, and literary lines. She taught 
 one year in the High School in Evansville, Wis.; two years in Fort Worth 
 University, Fort Worth, Texas; six years in Tilford Collegiate Academy, 
 Vinton, Iowa. She has had published a short story she translated from 
 the German, and has done some newspaper writing. She was President of 
 the New Century Club in Vinton, Iowa, President of Hearth Club of 
 Rockford, Ill., leader of Current News Club of Charleston, Ill., President 
 of the Charleston Shakespearean Club, and a member of the Charleston 
 Reading Circle. Her church affiliations are Presbyterian, and she is active 
 in Christian Endeavor work. She has visited the Pacific Coast, the Middle 
 West, the South and the North. She has lived in Utica, N. Y., and 
 Rockford, Ill. She visited her Alma Mater in 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 
 1894,1895 and 1902. 
 
 Eleanor Fraley Woodruff, after leaving college, was a student at 
 Smith College. In 1903 she received from her Alma Mater, the degree 
 of B. A. Her home has always been in Rockford, Ill., and her church 
 affiliations are Congregational. For several years she conducted, at her 
 own home, a private school for children, and proved a very successful 
 teacher. She visits her Alma Mater often. 
 
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 Class of 1890 
 
 Estella Dillon lives in St. Louis, Mo., where she presides over the 
 home of her brother-in-law, who is a widower and has a little son. Since 
 leaving college she has made art a profession and has taken several trips 
 abroad. She spent at least five years studying art in Paris and Dresden, 
 making herself a permanent home in each place. 
 
 Alice May Dobson, B. A., lives at 312 North Avon street, Rockford, 
 Ill., and is a teacher in the Rockford public schools. Her church 
 affiliations are Congregational, and she is active in Sunday School and 
 Christian Endeavor work. She has traveled in Colorado and New 
 England. She visits her Alma Mater often. 
 
 Alice Belle Foltz, B. A., married George T. Wilson, a dentist, and 
 lives at 1727 North Nevada avenue, Colorado Springs, Col. Her 
 church affiliations are Presbyterian and she works in the Sunday School. 
 She is very much devoted to her music, spending in study the moments 
 not taken up in the oversight of her home. She has had no children. 
 Her home was in Burlington, Wis., previous to her going to Colorado. 
 She received the degree of B. A. from her Alma Mater in 1897. 
 
 Mary Ferguson Howie, B. A., lives at 521 South Third street, 
 Rockford, Ill. Her time is taken up with being a companion for her 
 parents, and teaching or working with china painting. Her church 
 affiliations are Presbyterian, and she is active in Sunday School and 
 Christian Endeavor work. She has been on the Executive Committee 
 
 of the Alumnae Association and visits her 
 Alma Mater often. 
 
 Lura Sarah Lee, married Edwin L. 
 Waugh, a lawyer, and lives at 1080 Chase 
 avenue, Chicago. She has had two 
 children, both of whom are living. Her 
 church affiliations are Congregational and 
 she is active in local philanthrophies. She 
 is a member of the Rogers Park Woman’s 
 Club, and the French Art and Child Study 
 Clubs of Rogers Park. 
 
 Louisa Surr May, B. A. (Vassar), lives 
 at Rochelle, Ill. After leaving Rockford 
 College she studied at Vassar and took 
 the degree of B. A. there in 1894. She 
 
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 was in Europe for a year, spending most of the time in Rome, where she 
 was a member of the American School for Classical Studies. As a 
 member of that school she spent two months in Greece. On her return 
 from Europe she spent one quarter as a student at the University of 
 Chicago. She has taught in Chicago and at Ferry Hall, Lake Forest. 
 When in Chicago she was interested in the Bureau of Charities. She is 
 a member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. She has visited her 
 Alma Mater several times during vacations, but her work has usually 
 prevented visits at other times. For the last two years her health has 
 been such as to prevent her working. That circumstance, however, 
 gave her an opportunity of spending some time in the South—Tennessee 
 and Georgia. 
 
 Edith Alice Sherman, B. A., married Glenn Mark Averill, manager 
 Cedar Rapids Gas Light Co., and lives at 213 South Twelfth street, Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa. She has two boys, eleven and seven years old. She was 
 director of the gymnasium in Rockford College for two years, and since 
 then has been domestic, giving spare time to working for her degree, 
 which she received in 1902, and doing some musical work at the same 
 time. She is interested in the Young Woman’s Christian Association 
 Sunshine Mission work, and a Children’s Home. She was a member of 
 a Tourist Club (literary), and was President of Ladies’Choral Society two 
 years. She has taken trips East, North and Northwest, to the Coast, 
 and has visited her Alma Mater almost every year since 1890. She 
 writes: “ It is hard in answering a few questions, to give much idea of the 
 life one lives, but as I think over the twelve years since I left Rockford, 
 two interests stand out most plainly—my boys, and working for the 
 degree that I did not get while there. I have the usual social interests 
 of course; am very fond of automobiling, of which we have done a great 
 deal for three years now, making trips over the State; am very fond of 
 horse-back riding, and the boys and I drive, read, play games, coast, 
 skate, row, sail, and they swim (I don’t). It is a life with them—out of 
 doors all we can be summer and winter.” 
 
 The following very short sketch of Allene M. Skinner, B. A., was 
 sent in by Nellie M. Taylor, at the solicitation of the Committee, after 
 their trying to obtain more direct information: “ I have not seen Allene 
 Skinner since 1890, but I think she taught for a year or more in her 
 home town, Corry, Pa. Then the next I knew of her, she was for 
 several years teacher of English literature and history (it seems to me 
 instructor in both of these branches) in the High School at Marshalltown, 
 
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 Iowa. Then she decided to take up work with the Salvation Army in 
 New York City, but, as I remember it, was obliged directly after going 
 there to go to a hospital for an operation, from the effects of which she 
 never recovered.” 
 
 Helen May Taylor lives in Alden, Iowa. 
 For three winters she studied music in Chicago, 
 being a pupil of Emil Liebling. She had charge 
 of the music in the Academy at New Providence, 
 Iowa, for one year; taught music at Elgin, Ill., 
 two winters; has had a class in music whenever 
 at home. She has tutored two girls two years in 
 Latin and German, preparatory to entering Grin¬ 
 ned College. She has for eight years been a 
 member of a literary and social club in Alden, 
 and has just joined “ The Etude Club,” a musical 
 club at Iowa Falls. Her church affiliations are 
 Congregational, and she is active in Sunday 
 Helen May Taylor School, Christian Endeavor, and in fact all 
 
 departments of her home church, especially in 
 a musical way. She has spent three summers in the East, at the Buffalo 
 Exposition in 1901, and previously in New England and the Lake 
 Champlain region. She has also been to the Pacific Coast, visiting 
 points of interest on the way. She visited her Alma Mater in 1891,1893, 
 1895 and 1899. 
 
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 Class of 1891 
 
 Ella Eliza Bort married Dr. Clare S. Bradley, a dentist, and lives in 
 Beloit, Wis. She has four children and her church affiliations are Baptist. 
 
 Florence Lucinda Holbrook married Berent George Poucher, an 
 importer of heavy drugs, and lives at 1426 Asbury avenue, Evanston, Ill. 
 
 Her time since 1891 has been occupied as wife, 
 motherand home-keeper. She has two children, 
 a son and a daughter. She is active in many 
 philanthropies, i. e., district visitor of the Asso¬ 
 ciated Charities of Evanston, on the board of 
 directors of the Congregational Deaconesses 
 Association, and Secretary of the Evanston 
 School Art Society. She is Vice President of 
 the Woman’s Club of Evanston, Registrar of 
 the P'ort Dearborn Chapter, D. A. R., a mem¬ 
 ber of the North Evanston University Guild, 
 the Glen View Golf Club and the Thomas 
 Orchestra Study Class of Evanston. Her 
 church affiliations are Congregational. She is 
 a teacher in the Sunday School and active in the Benevolent Society and 
 Young Ladies’ Missionary Society of the hirst Congregational Church of 
 Evanston. She was born in Waukegan, Ill., raised in Waukesha and Mil¬ 
 waukee, Wis., but has lived in Evanston, Ill., since her marriage. She has 
 held the office of First Vice President in the Alumnae Association, and 
 has visited her Alma Mater every year from 1891 to 1901, except 1895. 
 
 Luella May Lewis married O. J. Leu, who is Superintendent of 
 Schools at Grand Rapids, Wis., where they live. She leads a domestic 
 life and is the mother of one child. Her church affiliations are P'ree 
 Will Baptist. 
 
 Alice J. McQueen, B. A., married Robert A. Harper, professor of 
 botany, and lives in Madison, Wis. She has had no children, and her 
 time has been occupied with teaching and housekeeping. Her church 
 affiliations are Congregational. She has visited many places in the 
 United States and British America. She has lived in Elgin, Ill., Beloit, 
 Wis., and Lake Forest, Ill. She visited her Alma Mater in 1897, when 
 she received the degree of B. A. 
 
 Florence Lucinda Holbrook 
 
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 Mabel Thomas, B. A., married in 1901 Matthew L. Whelan, a farmer, 
 and lives near Billings, Okla., on R. R. No. 2. She taught two years in 
 
 Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa; was an Assistant 
 Principal in Rockford schools for six years, 
 and studied two years. She has two sons, born 
 in 1902 and 1904. She has been Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the Woman’s Club of Salem, 
 Iowa. Her church affiliations are Congrega¬ 
 tional, and she is active in Sunday School work. 
 She visited the Rocky Mountains in 1892, and 
 the Wisconsin Dells in 1899, 1900 and 1901. 
 Her home has been in Rockford, Ill., and 
 Salem, Iowa. She has visited her Alma Mater 
 every year except 1902 and 1904 since 1891. 
 
 Grace De Witte Welty, B. A., lives in Rock¬ 
 ford, Ill., which has always been her home. 
 Since 1891 she has been busy teaching and studying. She taught for 
 three years in Clinton College, Ky., and was Principal of the High School 
 at Dunkirk, Ind. She was graduate student at 
 the University of Wisconsin in economics 
 department in 1898, 1899 and 1900. She 
 attended the International Congress of Arts 
 and Sciences at St. Louis Exposition Septem¬ 
 ber 19-25, 1904. Her church affiliations are 
 Baptist, and she has taught in the Sunday 
 School for many years. She visits her Alma 
 Mater often. 
 
 Mary Talcott Westlake married F. H. 
 
 Cooper, a merchant, and lives in Portsmouth, 
 
 Iowa. She has one child and leads a domestic 
 life. She belongs to the Order of the Eastern 
 Star. She has lived in Janesville, Wis., Neola, 
 
 Logan and Woodbury, Iowa. 
 
 Class of 1892. 
 
 Helen Lockwood Carpenter, B. A. (Chicago), lives at Monticello, 
 Iowa, where she is engrossed in the care of the home and an invalid mother. 
 She spent two winters in Chicago studying at the University, where she 
 took the degree of B. A. in 1902. She spent one summer in Europe, one 
 
 Grace De Witte Welty 
 
 Mabel Thomas 
 
GYMNASIUM 
 
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 summer in Tacoma, Wash., and a winter in St. Augustine, Florida. She is 
 a member of the Friday Club, a literary club. Her church affiliations are 
 Congregational, and she has taught a class of young people in the Sun¬ 
 day School. She has visited her Alma Mater 
 at least every two years since 1892. 
 
 Bertha Brown Early 
 
 Bertha Brown Early married Rev. Perley W. 
 Powers, and lives at Mt. Carroll, Ill. She has 
 one child, a son, and she has also a step-child. 
 Her church affiliations are Methodist Episcopal, and she is active in all 
 departments of the work, especially missionary. She is President of a 
 Mother’s Club. She has traveled west to California, and has lived in 
 Rockford and Harvey, Ill. She has been a member of the Executive 
 Committee of the Alumnae Association, and 
 visited her Alma Mater in 1893, 1895, 1896 and 
 1899. 
 
 Katherine Covell married Elmery Herbert 
 Bayley, a physician, and lives at Lake City, 
 Minn. She taught for four years in the Lake 
 City High School, and visited several places of 
 interest in our own country. She lived in 
 Maquoketa, Iowa, before going to Lake City. 
 She has two children. Her church affiliations 
 are Congregational, and she visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1904. 
 
 Gertrude Felker, B. A., M. D., had charge 
 of the gymnasium at Rockford College from 
 1891 to 1897. She studied medicine at the 
 University of Michigan 1897 to 1901, when she 
 received her degree of M. D. She was interne 
 in the New England Hospital for Women and 
 Children at Boston, Mass., 1901 to 1902, and 
 has practiced medicine in Dayton, Ohio, since 
 the winter of 1902. Her present address is 
 The Calvert, Dayton, Ohio. Her philanthropic 
 work has been with the Young Woman’s Chris¬ 
 tian Association and the Young Woman’s League. She is a member of 
 the Alpha Epsilon Iota P'raternity, Alpha Chapter, University of Mich¬ 
 igan, the Montgomery County Medical Society, Ohio State Medical 
 
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 Association, the American Medical Association, and the Ohio State Pedi¬ 
 atric Society. Her church affiliations are Presbyterian, and she is active 
 in the missionary society work. She has traveled chiefly in New Eng¬ 
 land. She has lived at the College in Rockford, Ill., Madison, Wis., Ann 
 Arbor, Mich., and Boston, Mass. She visited her Alma Mater in the 
 summer of 1900. 
 
 Rose Marie Gyles, B. A., lives at Hull House, No. 335 South Halsted 
 street, Chicago, Ill., where she has been occupied with settlement work, 
 
 having charge of the gymnasium. In 1893-’94 
 she was active in charities in the Chicago Hull 
 House district. Since 1896 she has been one 
 of the faculty of the Chicago Froebel Associa¬ 
 tion. She has traveled on the great lakes, 
 down the St. Lawrence to Quebec, spent two 
 summers in Boston, two in Colorado (Denver), 
 and this last summer visiting England, Switzer¬ 
 land, Germany and Holland. She lived in 
 Dodge City, Kan., before going to Hull House. 
 She was Secretary of the Alumnae Association 
 for two years, and has visited her Alma Mater 
 in 1894, 1897 and 1903. 
 
 Rose Marie Gyles Jennie McMillan is at present at Harris 
 
 Hall, 877 East Fiftieth street, Chicago, Ill., and conducts a private kin¬ 
 dergarten at Pullman. After leaving Rockford she remained at her home 
 in Knoxville, Iowa, keeping books for her father’s business. She has 
 been abroad and has also had a trip to Alaska. Her home in Iowa is 
 broken up, and she is uncertain where her residence will be. 
 
 The home of Nellie M. Parker, B. A., is in Newell, Iowa. After leav¬ 
 ing the College she taught in Newell, and is now teaching in a school in 
 Los Angeles, Cal. “She is a very successful teacher, a busy church 
 worker and a very much up-to-date woman.” 
 
 Estella May Stevens married M. De Witte Martin, a druggist, and 
 lives at Jasper, Minn. She has had no children. After leaving College 
 she taught one year in the Evansville, Wis., High School, and four years 
 in the High School at Redwood Falls, Minn. She lived in Waterville, 
 Minn., before going to Jasper. She has been a member of the Redwood 
 Falls University Extension Club, and the Woman’s Club of Waterville, 
 Minn. Her church affiliations are Methodist, and she is active in Sunday 
 
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 School and Epworth League work. She visited her Alma Mater in 1896. 
 
 Genevieve Leinhart Welty, B. A., lives in Rockford, Ill. She has taught 
 for several years Latin and Greek in Southern schools, in a college at Besse¬ 
 mer, Ala., and the Louisiana Lemale College 
 at Keatchie, La. Her church affiliations are 
 Baptist and she visits her Alma Mater often. 
 
 Class of 1893 
 
 Myrtle Atkins married Oliver Lunston 
 Smith, a dealer in real estate, and lives at 5606 
 Michigan avenue, Chicago, Ill. Lor several 
 years before her marriage she taught school. 
 She has no children. She visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1894. 
 
 Josephine L. Porter was a teacher until it 
 Genevieve Leinhart Welty was necessary to take care of home. At pres¬ 
 ent she has an industrial position. Lor a while she was at the University 
 of Chicago Settlement. Her home has been at Monroe Center, Ill., 
 Pittsburg, Pa., and Chicago, Ill. Her present address is 5463 Madison 
 avenue, Chicago, Ill. Her church affiliations are Congregational. She 
 visited her Alma Mater in 1895 and 1896. 
 
 Class of 1894 
 
 Susanne Orton, B. A., M. D., lives at 604 East Lorty-sixth street, 
 Chicago, Ill. Since 1894 her time has been occupied with her medical 
 course and the practice of medicine. She has been active in the work in 
 free dispensaries. She is a member of the Chicago Medical Society and 
 the American Medical Association. She visited her Alma Mater in 1896, 
 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900. 
 
 Class of 1895 
 
 At commencement time, 1901, the class of 1895, all of whom had 
 become matrons, and some mothers, were together at the home of Mrs. 
 H. Stanton Burpee for their sixth reunion. The following picture was 
 taken at that time. Reading from left to right they are Grace Sherman 
 Dorcas, Blanche Walker Burpee, Jessie Schryver Mylne, Grace McGaw 
 Lyon and Mary DuBois Davis. 
 
 They have a class letter which goes the rounds regularly. 
 
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 Mary Eunice DuBois was married on Oct. 7, 1896, to Frank M. Davis, 
 a farmer, and has had one child, a son, Erwin F. Her address is Rural 
 Route No. 4, Rockford, Ill. “ The duties of a farmer’s wife and a mother 
 have quite fully occupied my time,” she writes. Her church affiliations 
 are Presbyterian, and she is active in Sunday School and missionary 
 society work. She has lived in Belvidere township, Boone county, and 
 Guilford township, Winnebago county, Ill. She visited her Alma Mater 
 in 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902 and 1904. 
 
 Grace McGaw married D. Willard Lyon, a missionary, and lives at 
 109 Range Road, Shanghai, China. She has four children, three boys 
 and a girl. She is a member of an English literary society in Shanghai. 
 Her church affiliations are Presbyterian. She went to China for the first 
 time in the fall of 1895. Mr. Lyon is National Secretary for the Y. M. C. 
 A. in China, and is sent there by that association, consequently is under 
 no church board. He is away from home much of the time with his work, 
 traveling about from place to place, visiting different schools, establish¬ 
 ing Y. M. C. A.’s and holding revival meetings. At the time of the 
 trouble in China with the Boxers, Mr. and Mrs. Lyon lost everything 
 which they could not carry with them when they came away from Pekin— 
 Mr. Lyon’s valuable library, their clothes, furniture, etc. They were 
 taken to Corea by an English gun-boat, and thence went to Japan, and 
 from there came back to this country. That was in the spring of 1901. 
 
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 They stayed here until fall, when they returned to China and again took 
 up their work. Mrs. Lyon has taught classes in different schools in 
 China, and has been a great help to her husband in his work among 
 young men, but spends most of her time with her children and in her 
 home. In Shanghai, where they now live, she can send her children to 
 an English kindergarten, and they have a very modern home there. 
 
 Jessie L. Schryver married R. C. Mylne, a veterinary surgeon, and 
 lives at 89 Galena street, Aurora, Ill. She has two little girls, one three 
 years and the other six months old. Before she was married her time 
 was occupied in teaching. Her home was in Polo, Ill., and her church 
 affiliations Baptist. She spent the summer of 1896 in Buffalo, Philadel¬ 
 phia, Washington and Atlantic City, and the winter of 1902-’03 in Califor¬ 
 nia. She has visited her Alma Mater every year except 1902 and 1904 
 since 1895. 
 
 Grace Sherman, B. A., married Herbert C. Dorcas, Assistant Professor 
 of Education in the University of Iowa, also University Examiner and 
 Registrar. She lives at 423 Ronalds street, Iowa City, Iowa, and has two 
 children, one six years and the other six months old. She writes: “ Home¬ 
 making is my profession. In 1893 and 1894, while President of the Cas- 
 talian Society, I originated the idea of the May party, which has since 
 become an annual affair, given by this society, which now goes by another 
 name.” Her church affiliations are Methodist. She has traveled in the 
 east and visited her Alma Mater in 1897 and 1901. She was an assistant 
 in Latin and the physical laboratory for one year at Rockford College. 
 
 Myra Blanche Walker B. A., married Homer Stanton Burpee, a banker, 
 and lives at 809 North Court street, Rockford, Ill. She has one child, a 
 daughter, six years old. She is a member of the Short Story Club of 
 Rockford, and also of the Country Club. Her church affiliations are 
 Episcopalian, and she is active in all the lines of church work, especially 
 Sunday School. She has traveled north and east. She has served sev¬ 
 eral years on the Executive Committee of the Alumnae Association, and 
 has also been Secretary of the Association. She is Treasurer of the Rock¬ 
 ford College Association of Rockford. She visits her Alma Mater often. 
 
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 Class of 1896 
 
 Fanny Rebecca Jackson, B. A., remained at her home in Janesville, 
 Wis., from 1896 to 1901, when she went to Urbana, Ill., and became a 
 student at the Illinois State Library School. From this school she 
 received the degree of B. L. S. (Bachelor of Library Science) in 1903. 
 Since 1903 she has been instructor in Public Documents in the Illinois 
 State Library School, also periodical and binding assistant in the library 
 of the University of Illinois. She was Secretary of the Wisconsin Chris¬ 
 tian Endeavor Union, 1898-1901, and Secretary of the Illinois Library 
 Association, 1904-1905. Her church affiliations are Presbyterian and she 
 is active in Sunday School and Christian Endeavor work. She has taken 
 summer trips in the East. She was Recording Secretary of the Alumnae 
 Association, 1896-1897, and has visited her Alma Mater every year 
 except 1904 since 1896. 
 
 Lydia Gillingham Robinson, B. A., has pursued study in literary and 
 professional lines (Lib.). She studied French and German, and has 
 
 done occasional literary translating in those 
 languages. P"rom January, 1898, to January, 
 1905, she was in the Chicago Public Library, 
 the latter part of the time in the cataloging 
 department, where she did a great deal of 
 careful proof-reading. Since January, 1905, she 
 has been assisting Dr. Paul Carus in the edi¬ 
 torial department of the Open Court Publish¬ 
 ing Company, especially in editing The Monist 
 (quarterly) and the Open Court (monthly). 
 This new work has changed her home from 
 1231 Lawndale avenue, Chicago, to La Salle, 
 Ill. She is a member of the Rockford College 
 Association of Chicago, the Chicago Library 
 Lydia Gillingham Robinson Club, and the American Library Association. 
 Her church affiliations are Congregational and she is active in the work 
 of the Sunday School and Missionary Society. She assisted in the 
 Latin department of Rockford College during her senior year. She has 
 served on committees in the Alumnae Association and visited her Alma 
 Mater in June of 1897, 1899, 1901, June and October, 1902, June, 1903 
 and 1904. 
 
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 Class of 1897 
 
 Leila J. Blakeslee, B. A., lives at 512 Wisconsin avenue, Waukesha, 
 Wis., and teaches in the Waukesha High School. Her church affiliations 
 
 are Congregational. Her home was in Mil¬ 
 waukee before going to Waukesha. She has 
 been President of the Rockford College Asso¬ 
 ciation of Wisconsin, and has visited her 
 Alma Mater every year since 1897. 
 
 Jean Maria Newcomer, B. A., lives at 507 
 Fourth avenue, Clinton, Iowa, and teaches 
 Latin in the Clinton High School. Her home 
 was in Petersburg, Ill., before going to Clin¬ 
 ton, Iowa. 
 
 Jennie Elizabeth 
 Snider, B. A., lives 
 at Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Leila j. Blakeslee Since leaving Rock¬ 
 
 ford she has had some home duties, has done 
 some church work, studied some and traveled 
 some. She spent one summer in Europe, one 
 winter in California, several winters in the 
 South and summers in the Northern woods. 
 
 Her church affiliations are Methodist, and she 
 has visited her Alma Mater every year except 
 last year since 1897. 
 
 Class of 1898 
 
 Henrietta P. Ayers, B. A., lives at Akeley Hall, Grand Haven, 
 Mich. She taught for two years in Kalamazoo Seminary and for four 
 years has been Assistant Principal and teacher of Science in Akeley 
 Hall. Her church affiliations are Episcopalian, and she has lived in 
 Keokuk, Iowa, Tacoma, Wash., and Oak Park, Ill. 
 
 J. Florence Gantz, B. A., was married March 10, 1904, to Herbert 
 Stephen Hicks, an attorney-at-law. Mr. Hicks is a graduate of Leland 
 Stanford University, class of 1896, and a member of the Alpha Tau 
 
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 Omega Fraternity. She is a member of the Razzaza Club of Rockford, 
 Ill., where she resides. Her home before marriage was in Dixon, Ill. 
 
 Gertrude May Lautz, B. A., was married June 6, 1900, to Edward 
 Milton Sutliff, and lives at 502 West One Hundred and Forty-third 
 
 street, New York City. She has had no chil¬ 
 dren. She writes: “ I think I prefer to be 
 labeled wholly domestic, as my efforts in other 
 directions have been somewhat spasmodic.” 
 
 Ruth Murray, B. A., married Carl J. Horne, 
 an architect, and has one daughter. Her 
 home is in Logansport, Ind. She writes: 
 “ My life has been a quiet, domestic life, spent 
 in caring for my home and little daughter, and 
 in the usual social duties. My travels have 
 been chiefly brief holiday excursions and vaca¬ 
 tions.” She belongs to the Logansport Coun- 
 Gertrude May Lautz try Club and other minor clubs of a social 
 
 nature. Her church affiliations are Episco¬ 
 palian, and she is active in the Guild work. 
 
 She lived in Chicago before going to Logans¬ 
 port. 
 
 Sarah Emily Wheeler, B. A., married 
 George William Bunge, a lawyer, and lives in 
 La Crosse, Wis. She has had three children, of 
 whom two are living. She leads a very domes¬ 
 tic life. She belongs to the Homer Club and is 
 Treasurer of the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution. Her church affiliations are Con¬ 
 gregational, and she is active in missionary and 
 
 social work. She has done committee work Ruth Murray 
 
 for the Alumnae Association, and visited her Alma Mater in 1902. 
 
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 Class of 1899 
 
 Caroline Elizabeth Baker, B. A., married Bert Hamilton Biglow, a 
 dentist, and lives at 120 Lawn Place, Rockford, Ill. She has no children. 
 For two years she was a teacher in Highland University, Highland, Kan. 
 She is a member of the Winona Chautauqua Circle—literary study. Her 
 
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 church affiliations are Presbyterian, and she is active in Sunday School, 
 Christian Endeavor, missionary and general church society work. She 
 
 has traveled through the Yellowstone Park and 
 lived in Evansville, Wis., and Highland, Kan. 
 She has visited her Alma Mater every year 
 since 1899. 
 
 Pearl Biller, B. A., lives at 218 West street, 
 Rockford, Ill. She has been a member of the 
 Board of Education in Rockford since July, 
 1903. She has taken a trip around the Mediter¬ 
 ranean—visiting Egypt, Palestine, Athens and 
 Rome. Also a trip to Northern Europe, Swe¬ 
 den, Denmark, Paris, Antwerp and Rotterdam. 
 She spent a winter in Florida. She visits her 
 Alma Mater often, always attending com- 
 Pear] Biller mencement. 
 
 Isabelle Duffey, B. A., lives at 113 Auburn Park Place, Rockford, Ill. 
 She has been teacher of English in the Rockford High School since 1903. 
 She was President of the St. Mary’s Reading Circle in 1900-’01, 1903-’04, 
 and is in 1904-’05. She was Corresponding- 
 Secretary for one year and Recording- 
 Secretary for one year of the Rockford 
 Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Her 
 church affiliations are Roman Catholic. 
 
 Rockford has always been her home and 
 she always attends the commencement 
 exercises of her Alma Mater. 
 
 Faye Cleopatra Dunkle, B. A., lives 
 at Glidden, Iowa. After leaving her Alma 
 Mater she taught most of the first year in 
 the public schools of Carroll, Iowa. She 
 then went into the home of a wealthy 
 family of St. Paul, Minn., as instructress 
 to their children, spending the winter of 
 1900-’01 with them in their winter home Isabelle Duffey 
 
 at Thomasville, Ga. She entered the public schools of St. Paul Sep¬ 
 tember, 1901, and has taught there continuously to the present time. 
 Her church affiliations are Presbyterian and she visited her Alma Mater 
 in the spring of 1901. 
 
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 Claude Marie Francis, B. A., lives in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1900 
 
 she was graduated from Dr. Sargent’s Normal 
 School of Physical Education, Cambridge, 
 Mass. She taught in the Harvard Summer 
 School in 1900 and 1903. Since 1901 she has 
 been instructor in the gymnasium at Vassar 
 College. She visited her Alma Mater in June, 
 1904. 
 
 Fannie Cornelia Frisbie, B. A. (Ph. D., Chi¬ 
 cago), makes her home in Rockford, Ill. She 
 held a scholarship at the University of Chicago 
 from Rockford College, 1899-1900. She had a 
 P'ellowship in Physics 
 at the University of 
 Claude Marie Francis Chicago, 1902-1903. 
 
 In 1904 she received the degree of Ph. D. from 
 the University of Chicago. In 1900-1902 she 
 was a teacher at Dearborn Seminary, Chicago. 
 
 Since 1903 she has taught in Barnard College, 
 
 New York. She is a member of the Sigma Xi 
 Society and her church affiliations are Congre¬ 
 gational. She visits her Alma Mater when she 
 is at home. 
 
 JuliaB. Morehouse, 
 
 B. A., lives at G1 id- 
 den, Iowa., where she 
 
 is bookkeeper in a lumber and grain office. 
 She has been a member of the Ladies’ Musical 
 Club of Carroll, Iowa, also Secretary and 
 President of the Glidden Philomathean Club 
 (literary), and Secretary and Treasurer and at 
 present President of the Lyric Club (musical) 
 of Glidden. Her church affiliations are Pres¬ 
 byterian, and she is active in choir, Sunday 
 School and Christian Endeavor work. She 
 has traveled from Colorado to New York and 
 Julia b. Morehouse Boston. Before going to Glidden, Iowa, her 
 
 home was at Elkhorn, Wis., and Jefferson, Iowa. She visited her Alma 
 Mater in 1901. 
 
 Fannie Cornelia Frisbie 
 
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 Bertha Styles, B. A., married Eugene Strong Rolfe, a lawyer, and 
 lives at Minnewaukon, N. D. She has had no children, but has two step¬ 
 children, a boy seventeen years old and a girl 
 fifteen years old. She has led a domestic life, 
 keeping home for her father until June, 1903, 
 and since then in her own home. She is Vice 
 President of the Friday Club (literary). Her 
 church affiliations are Episcopalian and she 
 is active in sewing societies and sewing 
 schools. She has traveled east and south, 
 visiting Buffalo for the Exposition, New York, 
 Boston, Nantucket Island, Washington, D. C., 
 Baltimore, Md., and New Orleans. She has 
 lived in Atchison, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. 
 She visited her Alma Mater in 1900 and 1901. 
 
 Bertha styles Ruth Crawford Wilkins, B. A., lives at 1311 
 
 Sherman avenue, Denver, Col. She has spent one year in studying 
 domestic science, two years at home and two years teaching. While in 
 Chicago her philanthropic work was with settlement classes. She made 
 her home in Rockford and Rogers Park, Ill., before going to Denver. 
 She was Recording Secretary of the Alumnae Association for one year. 
 Her church affiliations are Methodist Episcopal. She has visited her 
 Alma Mater every year since 1899. 
 
 Class of 1900 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Appleton, B. A. (M. A., Cornell University), lives at 
 Tama, Iowa, where she teaches in the High School. In 1901 she received 
 the degree of M. A. from Cornell University. She has taught at Joliet, 
 Ill. She is a member of the Teachers’ Literary and Social Club and this 
 year is their President. Her church affiliations are Presbyterian. She 
 spent the last summer in Yellowstone Park, Utah and Colorado. She 
 has visited her Alma Mater during the commencements of 1903 and 1904. 
 
 Jessie Florence Binford, B. A., is a resident of Hull House, Chicago, 
 Ill., and is active in associated charities. She was a member of the 
 Marshalltown Woman’s Club and the Marshalltown Twentieth Century 
 Club when she made her home in Marshalltown, Iowa. Her church 
 affiliations are Methodist, and she has visited her Alma Mater each year 
 but one since 1900. 
 
 Mabel Eliza Dobson, B. A., married Dr. Robert Bowie, and lives at 
 
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 Table Rock, Neb. She taught Latin and Greek for two years in the 
 Rockford High School. Her church affiliations are Congregational and 
 she has been active in the Primary Department of the Sunday School. 
 
 Marjorie Jones, B. A., lives at 221 Ewing street, Chicago, Ill. She 
 taught for two years, spent one year with the Bureau of Charities and is 
 
 now a probation officer of the Juvenile Court. 
 She is Treasurer of the Jane Club, where she 
 makes her home. As a fellow, she taught 
 Latin one year in the Preparatory Department 
 of her Alma Mater. 
 
 Marjorie Jones 
 
 Mary Bodelle Kinner, B. A., married S. E. 
 Fitch, a civil engineer, and lives at Galeton, 
 Pa. For four years she taught Latin and 
 French in the High School at Westfield, N. Y. 
 Her church affiliations are Presbyterian, and 
 she is active in the work of the Christian 
 Endeavor and Ladies’ Aid Society. Her home 
 before marriage was in Westfield, N. Y. 
 
 Virginia Tarbet Long, B. A., lives in Rochester, Minn., where she has 
 taught Latin in the High School since leaving College. Her church 
 affiliations are Presbyterian. Her former home 
 was in Virden, Ill. She visited her Alma Mater 
 in 1901, 1902 and 1904. 
 
 Harriet Vincent, B. A., lives at 913 North 
 Church street, Rockford, Ill, and teaches in 
 the Rockford High School. Her church affilia¬ 
 tions are Independent Liberal. She visits her 
 Alma Mater often. 
 
 Fanny Thompson Wagner, B. A., married 
 Frank M. Fairfield, an attorney, and lives at 
 10422 Longwood avenue, Chicago, Ill. Since 
 leaving the College she has been domestic. 
 
 She has one child, a son. She is a member of 
 the Morgan Park Woman’s Club, the Round- Virginia rarbet Long 
 
 Table (a club for child study), and is Secretary of the Rockford College 
 Association of Chicago. She is a member of the Bethany Union Church 
 and a teacher in the Sunday School. She visited her Alma Mater in 
 June, 1903. 
 
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 Class of 1901 
 
 Rachel Alice Bracken 
 
 Rachel Alice Bracken, B. A., lives at Tama, Iowa. She remained at 
 home a year after commencement, doing housework and officiating as 
 
 organist in the Presbyterian Church. She 
 is now studying music at Grinned, Iowa. 
 The past summer she took a trip to Yel¬ 
 lowstone Park, and in June, 1903, visited 
 her Alma Mater. 
 
 Margaret Theresa Butler, B. A., lives 
 at “The Loring,” Minneapolis, Minn. She 
 has been occupied with literary and pro¬ 
 fessional work since leaving college. She 
 is now teaching in the department of 
 English in the Central High School of 
 Minneapolis. Her former home was at 
 445 Fulton street, Elgin, Ill. She visited 
 her Alma Mater in 1903. 
 
 Lucy Fitch, B. A., lives at Berlin, 
 Wis., and enjoys the distinction of being the only alumna who is the 
 
 daughter of an 
 alumnae, her 
 m other having 
 been Martha L. 
 
 Baker of the class 
 of 1868. Hertime 
 has been spent 
 mostly in a do¬ 
 mestic way, a 1- 
 though she taught 
 for a brief period. 
 
 She spent from 
 January to Sep- 
 Lucy Fitch tember, 19 04, in 
 
 the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, with 
 her mother, who died there September 3, 1904 
 Athena Club, a literary society of Berlin, Wis. 
 are Congregational, and she is superintendent of the primary department 
 of the Sunday School. She has visited in New England and the depo¬ 
 sitions at Buffalo and St. Louis. She was a member of the committee 
 
 Margaret Theresa Butler 
 
 She is a member of the 
 Her church affiliations 
 
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 which organized the Rockford College Association of Wisconsin in 1903- 
 1904. She has visited her Alma Mater each year since 1901. 
 
 Desdemona L. Heinrich, B. A., lives at Auburndale, Mass., where 
 she is a teacher of German in Lasell Seminary. Since leaving college 
 
 her time has been occupied as follows: 1901- 
 1902, teacher in graded school at Norwell, 
 Mass.; 1902-1904, studying German in Germany; 
 1904, teaching at Lasell Seminary. In 1901- 
 1902 she made her home in Norwell, Mass.; 
 1902-1903 in Dresden, Germany, and 1903- 
 1904 in Leipzig, Germany. She visited all 
 places of interest in Germany, Holland and 
 England. Her church affiliations are Congre¬ 
 gational. 
 
 Katherine Mabel Keith, B. A., married 
 Myron L. Burt, proprietor of the Bedford 
 Light, Heat and Power Company, and lives in 
 Bedford, Iowa. Her life is domestic. One 
 child came to bless their home, but was soon removed by death. Her 
 church affiliations are with the Christian Church. She has visited her 
 Alma Mater each year since 1901. Her home 
 before marriage was in Rockford, Ill. 
 
 Desdemona L. Heinrich 
 
 Harriet A. John¬ 
 son’s (B. A.) home is 
 in the ColumbusState 
 Hospital at Colum¬ 
 bus, Ohio. For one 
 year she was in¬ 
 structor in English in 
 the Preparatory De- 
 partmentof her Alma 
 Mater. She then went 
 
 to teach in Cam- Katherine Mabel Keith 
 bridge, Ohio, where she had a serious nervous 
 breakdown. She went to the State Hospital 
 Harriet a. Johnson for treatment and since her recovery has re¬ 
 
 named there teaching a class in physical culture as a means of liveli- 
 iood and learning to entertain and cheer the patients as a pastime. Her 
 
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 church affiliations are Episcopalian and she is active as a teacher in the 
 Sunday School and as a member of the Altar Guild. 
 
 Lucille Mathews, B. A., has taught Latin and mathematics in the 
 Armitage School at Wayne, Pa., since leaving Rockford College in 1901. 
 During the summer months she has tutored pupils for various institutions 
 
 with great success. She is a member of the 
 U. D. C. in Kentucky. Her church affilia¬ 
 tions are Presbyterian. She has lived in 
 Wapsello, Iowa, and Vevay, Ind. 
 
 Margaret Monrad, B. A., makes her 
 home at Linnisgade 14, Copenhagen, Den¬ 
 mark. She studied at Chicago University 
 1901-1902, in department of pedagogy and 
 philosophy, and has been since 1903 a stu¬ 
 dent in the department of sculpture at the 
 Royal Art Academy of Copenhagen. She 
 is also a teacher of drawing and clay model¬ 
 ing at a normal School in Copenhagen. She 
 has made her home in Chicago and New 
 
 Margaret Monrad York. 
 
 Mary Lulu Morse, B. A., makes her home in 
 Westfield, N. Y. She has been occupied since 
 leaving college by being preceptress in the Mor- 
 risville High School and in the Moravia High 
 
 School. Her philan¬ 
 thropic work has been 
 with the Y. W. C. A. 
 
 She is a member of t h e 
 Wednesday Club, 
 
 Shakespeare, Social, 
 
 Strolling. Her church 
 affiliations are Method¬ 
 ist and is engaged in 
 Sunday School work. 
 
 Caroline Lucretia Wilbur, B. A., married 
 Harry Rawson, a piano tuner and salesman, and 
 lives at 326 South Second street, Rockford, Ill. 
 She has no children. She is a member of the 
 Board of Directors of the Y. W. C. A. Her church affiliations are Bap- 
 
 Mary Lulu Morse 
 
 Caroline Lucretia Wilbur 
 
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 151 
 
 tist and she is active in Sunday School and Christian Endeavor work. 
 She was Secretary of the Rockford College Association of Rockford in 
 1904. She visits her Alma Mater often. 
 
 Class of 1902 
 
 In this picture of the class of 1902 the members are, reading from left 
 to right: The Misses Vincent, Riibel, Walker, McCartey, Jones, Hunter 
 and Clark. 
 
 
 Anna Blanche Clarke, B. S., lives at 517 College avenue, Rockford, 
 Ill. Since leaving college she has been teaching and now is teacher of 
 mathematics in the Rockford High School. Her church affiliations are 
 Congregational and she teaches in the primary department of the Sunday 
 School. 
 
 Anne S. Hunter, B. A., makes her home at Rockford, Ill. She 
 taught in Talledega College, Alabama, in 1903, studied at Radcliffe Col- 
 
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 lege, Cambridge, in 1904, and at present is Principal of the Rantoul 
 High School, Rantoul, Ill. Her church affiliations are Congregational. 
 
 Mary Pettibone Jones, B. A., lives at Fort Atkinson, Wis. She 
 taught in the High School of Napoleon, Ohio, 1902-1903, did work at the 
 University of Wisconsin 1903-1904, and now is in her father’s office at 
 home. She visited her Alma Mater at the commencements of 1903 and 
 1904. 
 
 Catherine Robbins McCartey, B. A., lives at Carthage, Mo. She has 
 been teaching in the city schools of Joplin, Mo., since 1902. Her church 
 affiliations are Methodist. 
 
 Katharina C. Riibel, B. A., lives in Mendota, Ill. She spent 27 
 months in Germany, France, Italy, England, Belgium, Holland and 
 Switzerland. Since September, 1904, she has been teaching German in 
 the Mendota High School. Her church affiliations are Baptist. 
 
 Ethel Vincent, B. A., lives at 913 North Church street, Rockford, Ill., 
 where she leads a very happy domestic life as the keeper of her mother’s 
 home. Her church affiliations are with the Independent Church. 
 
 Jennie Ada Walker, B. A., lives at 410 South Third street, Rockford, 
 Ill. She leads a very active domestic and social life. She is a member 
 of the Country Club of Rockford, of the Rockford College Association of 
 Rockford, and is Recording Secretary of the Alumnae Association. Her 
 church affiliations are Episcopalian and she is active in the work of the 
 church. She visits her Alma Mater very often. 
 
 Class of 1903 
 
 P'lora Elizabeth Eddy, B. A., lives in Rock¬ 
 ford, Ill. She taught in the High School in 
 Eaton Rapids, 1903-1904, and Rockford High 
 School, 1904. She is a member of the Chi 
 Theta Psi of the College and of the Eastern 
 Star, Rockford Chapter. Her church affilia¬ 
 tions are Methodist and she is active in Sunday 
 School and Foreign Mission work. She has 
 visited all the principal cities in the east, north 
 and west of the United States. 
 
 Leona Gail Powers, B. A., lives at Brown’s 
 Valley, Minn., where she teaches Latin in the 
 
 Flora Elizabeth Eddy 
 
STUDENT'S ROOM 
 
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 High School. She was President of the Kappa Theta in Rockford Col¬ 
 lege in 1902-1903. 
 
 Leona Gail Powers 
 
 Olive Keith Raftree, B. A., lives at 5035 Calumet avenue, Chicago, 
 Ill. Since leaving College her time has been 
 occupied in a domestic way with three 
 months of teaching English. She spent five 
 months on the Pacific coast and in the South¬ 
 west. Her homewas at Hinsdale, Ill., before 
 going to Chicago. She visited her Alma 
 Mater in November, 1903. 
 
 Cara Frances Swenson, B. A., lives at 975 
 Warren avenue, Chicago, Ill. She attended 
 the Library School at the University of 
 
 Illinois and is now 
 engaged in library 
 work at the John 
 Crerar Library, 
 
 Chicago. She is 
 
 a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Na¬ 
 tional Society. She visited her Alma Mater in 
 June, 1904. 
 
 Marcia Van Duzer, B. A., lives at 1804 
 Harlem Boulevard, Rockford, Ill. She did 
 post-graduate work 
 in history at Rock- 
 
 Cara Frances Swenson ford College, 1903- 
 
 1904, and joined the Rockford Woman’s Club. 
 
 Her church affiliations are Congregational and 
 she is a member of the Christian Endeavor 
 Society and leader of Junior Christian Endeavor. 
 
 She has served as a member of the Executive 
 Committee of the Alumnae Association, and 
 visits her Alma Mater every two or three 
 weeks. 
 
 Nellie Elizabeth Voigt has been in Ger¬ 
 many ever since her graduation, principally in Marcia Van Duzer 
 
 Elberfeld. Her address is Freya street 77, Elberfeld, Germany. She 
 has been domestic to an extent, but has spent most of her time with 
 
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 music (pianoforte). She traveled for about four months in Germany, 
 Switzerland and France. 
 
 Class of 1904 
 
 Janet M. Dobson, B. A., lives at 326 North Avon street, Rockford, 
 Ill. Her church affiliations are Congregational and she is active in the 
 primary department of the Sunday School. 
 
 Hortense Elder, B. A., married Homer R. Johnson, an agriculturist, 
 
 and lives at 502 East Walnut street, Bloom¬ 
 ington, Ill. She is domestic and literary, 
 being a member of history, discussion and 
 social clubs. She traveled for five months 
 in England, Scotland and on the Continent. 
 She is Second Vice President of the Alumnae 
 Association and visited her Alma Mater in 
 1905. 
 
 Czarina Giddings, B. A., lives at 806 Kish- 
 waukee street, Rockford, Ill. Since leaving 
 College she has been teaching and is now an 
 assistant in the Rockford High School. She 
 is a member of the Mendelssohn Club of 
 Rockford. Her church affiliations are Pres¬ 
 byterian and she is active in Sunday 
 Czarina Giddings School Work. 
 
 Mary Sarah Hunter, B. A., lives in Rock¬ 
 ford, Ill. Since she left the College she has 
 been teaching. Her church affiliations are Con¬ 
 gregational. 
 
 Minerva Agnes Hutchinson, B. A., lives in 
 Capron, Ill. She is a teacher in the Capron 
 schools. Her church affiliations are Episco¬ 
 palian. 
 
 Fanny Talcott Irwin lives in Highland, Kan. 
 She is professor of Greek and Latin in High¬ 
 land University, Kan. She is a member of the 
 Lowell Club (literary). Her church affiliations 
 are Presbyterian and she is active in Sunday 
 School and Christian Endeavor work. 
 
 Mary Sarah Hunter 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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