Essex County, NJ
Biographies
ALLEN, Mrs. Mary Wood, physician, author and lecturer, born in Delta, Ohio, 19th October, 1841. She is the daughter of George Wood, who emigrated from his English home when just of age, and in the wilds of southern Michigan met and married Miss Sarah Seely. The young couple settled where the village of Delta now stands, but at that time there were but two dwellings in the place. In one of these Mary was born, and there her childhood was passed. Even in those early days her future was shadowed forth, for she never played with dolls except to doctor them in severe illnesses. They often died under her treatment, and then she enjoyed having a funeral, in which she figured as chief mourner, preacher and sexton, as she had neither brother nor sister, and her playmates were few. At fourteen she had exhausted the resources of the village school. She manifested a love for study, especially of music, and before fifteen years of age had established herself in central Ohio as a music teacher with a class of twenty pupils. Her talent in music was a direct inheritance from her mother who had a remarkable voice. As a music teacher Mary earned money to begin her college course in Delaware, Ohio, where she proved an ardent student, putting four years work into three and, as a result breaking down in health. After graduation she taught music, French and German in a collegiate institute in Battle Ground, Ind., continuing there until her marriage to Chillon B Allen, a graduate of the classical department of the Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and of the Ann Arbor Law School. Her own delicate health led her into the investigation of many therapeutical measures, and after the death of her first child in infancy she, with her husband, began the study of medicine, first in her own country and then in Europe, where she spent three years, returning to graduate in medicine from Ann Arbor in 1875. In Newark, N. J., where she settled and practiced her profession, her first important literary work was done. This was the beginning of the "Man Wonderful and the House Beautiful" (New York, 1884), an allegorical physiology. The first ten chapters appeared in the "Christian Union," and received such a recognition that their expansion into a book was began, and she and her husband united in completing the volume. Dr. Allen has also been a contributor of both prose and poetry to many leading periodicals, her poem entitled "Motherhood" having won for itself immediate fame. It is, however, as a lecturer that Dr. Allen has won her brightest laurels. A paper upon heredity which she presented at the State convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Cortland, N. Y., was both eloquent and logical and aroused the interest of the whole convention, and as a result Dr. Allen was appointed national lecturer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the departments of heredity and hygiene. Since then she has received calls from various parts of the United States to lecture upon these and kindred topics. A demand soon arose for her instruction in teachers' institutes and normal colleges upon the subject of temperance physiology. Her presentation of the topic gave general satisfaction. At present Dr. Allen has her home in Toledo, Ohio, whence she goes forth into the lecture field. Glorious as has been her work for temperance, that which she has done, and is doing, for social purity is more beautiful. Upon this subject, so difficult to handle, she has spoken Sabbath evenings in many pulpits, and has received the unqualified praise of such noted clergymen as Dr. Heber Newton, Dr. Theodore Cuyler and Dr. Pentecost in the East, and Dr. McLean upon the Pacific coast. She manifests a peculiar fitness for giving wise counsel to girls, and has done acceptable work in this line in schools and colleges. During several winters, by invitation of Miss Grace Dodge, she has spoken to the Working Girl's Clubs of New York City. It is a scene of absorbing interest when, with rare tact and delicacy, she addresses large audiences of young men on the work of the White Cross. Her mission in the work of reform and philanthropy demands a peculiar talent which she possesses in an unusual degree; a scientific education which enables her to speak with authority ; a winning presence ; a musical voice which makes itself heard in the largest building with no apparent effort, and which by its sympathetic quality arrests attention and touches the heart, while her words appeal to the reason, and a gentle womanly manner which converts the most pronounced opposer of woman's public work. To those who hear her on the platform or in the pulpit, she is a living voice, alluring her hearers to lives of truth and purity, and to those who know her personally she is a sweet womanly presence, the embodiment of those graces which are the power in the home.
(American Women, Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
BEACH, Edward N., secretary Union Dairy Co.; born, Newark, N. J., Mar. 31, 1858; son of Henry O. and Emeline C. Beach; graduated from Wyman Institute, St. Louis; married, Chicago, 1888, Clare Evans; one daughter, Gladys (Mrs. C. R. Gray, Jr., of Portland. Ore.). Began business career with J. Weil & Bro., dry goods, as clerk, continuing for nine years; secretary E. C. Meacham Arms Co., fourteen years;, since 1899 with Union Dairy Co., of which has been secretary since 1904. Presbyterian. Mason, Knight Templar: member Royal Arcanum. Clubs: Missouri Athletic, Glen Echo Country, Liederkranz. Favorite recreation: golf. Office: 2311 Wash-ington Ave. Residence: 4618 Westminster Place.
(Source: The Book of St. Louisans, Publ. 1912. Transcribed by Charlotte Slater)
BECK, Howard C., accountant; born, Irvington, N. J., (Essex Co) Aug. 4, 1868; son of Rev. Charles A. and Sarah Amanda (Cossart) Beck; educated in public schools of Milford, N. J., Haverhill, Mass., and Kittery, Me.; graduate scientific course, Portsmouth (N. H.) High School, June 26, 1884; married at St. Clair, Mich., June 17, 1891, Flora Gray McElroy. Began active career in office Bradstreet Mercantile Agency, Detroit, Oct., 1884; held various positions in the office and resigned Sept., 1892, to became warrant clerk in office of City Controller C. A. Black; was promoted to chief clerk by Controller C. W. Moore, May, 1894, and appointed deputy controller by F. A. Blades, July 1, 1895; resigned June15, 1907, to engage in business as public accountant under title of Beck, McElroy & Bullock. Secretary National Association Comptrollers and Accounting officers; member committee on uniform accounting National Municipal League; chairman committee on Uniform Accounting League of Michigan Municipalities; director Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants. Republican. Presbyterian. Member Oriental Lodge A.F. & A. M., Sons of American Revolution. Office: McGraw Bldg. Residence: 630 Cass Av.
[Source: The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Copyright, 1908 - Contributed by Christine Walters]
BROWN, Mrs. Charlotte Emerson, president of the General Federation of Women's Literary Clubs, born in Andover, Mass., 21st April, 1838. She was the daughter of Professor Ralph Emerson, who was for twenty-five years professor of ecclesiastical history and pastoral theology in Andover Theological Seminary, in Massachusetts, and a relative of the philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Miss Emerson early showed a marked aptitude for linguistic learning. At the age of ten years she could read, write and speak French with facility. She was graduated while young from Abbott Seminary, and then began in earnest the acquirement of several other languages. For many years of her life she devoted from ten to twelve hours daily to intense study. After mastering the Latin grammar and reading carefully the first book of Virgil's AEneid, she translated the remaining eleven books in eleven consecutive week-days. Horace, Cicero and other classical authors were read with similar rapidity. She spent one year in the study of modern languages and music, and as teacher of Latin, French and mathematics in Montreal, with Miss Hannah Lyman, afterward the first woman to serve as principal of Vassar College. Subsequently she spent several years in studying music and languages in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Syria. On her return from foreign study and travel Miss Emerson was able to speak, read and write at least a half-dozen foreign tongues almost as readily as she did her native English. On reaching her home in Rockford, Ill., whither her parents had removed, she felt the need of a more thorough business education, and at once entered a commercial college
in Chicago, and was graduated after a term of six weeks. In order to complete her business knowledge and make it practical, she became for a time private secretary of her brother, Ralph Emerson, the well-known Rockford manufacturer. Subsequently she organized there two clubs that met regularly in her own house; one was a musical club, the Euterpe, and the other a French club, and both were extremely successful. She was at the same time teaching modern languages in Rockford Seminary. In 1879 she was married to Rev. William B. Brown, D.D., then of New York City. Soon after their marriage Dr. and Mrs. Brown went abroad for two or three years, and visited for study the chief art centers of Europe, passing in every country as natives. On their return to America they settled permanently in East Orange, N. J. Mrs. Brown was soon elected president of the Woman's Club of Orange, which greatly prospered under her leadership. She was also engaged in arranging plans of work for the Woman's Board of Missions and was active as a member of the advisory board for the organization and success of the General Federation of Women's Literary Clubs. At the organization convention, in the spring of 1890, Mrs. Brown was elected its first president. There were then fifty literary clubs in the federation. In less than two years that number had increased to over one-hundred-twenty, representing twenty-nine States and enrolling twenty-thousand of the intelligent, earnest women of the land. Mrs. Brown was greatly interested in the woman's club movement and gladly devoted her whole time to work for its advancement. She possessed unusual power of memory, mental concentration, energy and business ability, combined with such sweetness of disposition and deference for others as to make it easy for her to accomplish whatever she undertook.? She was enthusiastic and inspired others with her own magnetism. She combines the power of general plan with minute detail, and her motto was that what should be done at all should be done promptly and thoroughly. She was the author of many articles that have appeared in magazines and in other forms, mainly in the interests of whatever work she might at the time have had in hand. She carried on a very extensive correspondence and relied largely upon this agency for the full accomplishment of her well-considered plans. Mrs. Brown died in East Orange, N. J., 5th February, 1895.
(American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol 1 Publ. 1897 Transcribed by Marla Snow)
AARON BURR; Was born in Newark, N. J. February 16, 1756. When quite young he lost both parents, but was left in possession of considerable property, and was cared for by an uncle. He studied with a private tutor, and entered Princeton College when only eleven years of age. As a boy he was somewhat unruly, but he attended to his studies with diligence. While at college he came within the influence of a religious revival; but being imprudently advised by some of the faculty, he made a deliberate choice of infidelity, and throughout his life remained a professed atheist. He graduated in 1772, and began the study of law in Litchfield, Conn., with his sister's husband.
The brightest period of Burr's life was that in which he served his country as a soldier during the Revolution, and he was accustomed, in his last years, to look back to it with feelings of pleasure. He joined the patriot army at Boston in 1775, and accompanied Arnold in his expedition against Quebec.
It being necessary, during the terrible march through the wilderness of Maine and Canada, to communicate with General Montgomery, Burr undertook the task of carrying a dispatch through one hundred and twenty miles of the enemy's country, and successfully accomplished it by adopting the disguise of a Roman Catholic priest. He now became aide to General Montgomery, with the rank of captain, and, when his lamented commander fell in the desperate attack upon the city, Burr was fighting bravely at his side. He remained with Arnold in Canada until the spring of 1776, when he went to New York, where he obtained a staff appointment, and became a member of the military family of General Washington. The relations between Burr and Washington were never very cordial; jealousy on the part of the subordinate, and distrust on the part of the commander, subsisted almost from their first meeting. His situation growing quite unpleasant, Burr was transferred to Putnam's headquarters in July, and served as aide to that general until after the evacuation of New York.
In July, 1777, he was raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, with the command of his regiment, the colonel not being in the field. He improved the discipline of his troops, and was engaged in some skirmishes with the enemy in New Jersey. In November, he went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, and, while there, was engaged in the disgraceful cabal which sought to undermine the authority of Washington. At the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, he held the temporary command of a brigade. In January, 1779, he assumed the command of the lines in Westchester County, New York; but the task of preserving order in that lawless district so affected his health, that he was obliged to resign his commission, and he closed his connection with the army March 10, 1779.
He now resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1782. In the same year he was married to Mrs. Prevost, the widow of a British officer, and established himself at Albany, where he soon became prominent as a lawyer. Burr removed to New York after the evacuation, and for eight years continued to follow his profession, attaining great celebrity. His ample fees enabled him to live in affluence, and he gained the reputation of being a most bountiful host. His residence at Richmond Hill became the resort of some of the most famous people of the day. Among his distinguished guests were Louis Philippe and Talleyrand. Entering the arena of politics as an anti-federalist, he now became the political rival of Alexander Hamilton, as he had previously been his professional rival. In 1784 he was elected to the State Assembly, in 1789 was appointed Attorney-General of New York, and in 1791 he entered the United States Senate. His wife died in 1794, after a painful illness, leaving him a daughter to whom he was passionately attached, the talented and unfortunate Theodosia Burr.
He now began to indulge in aspirations for the Presidency. In 1792 he received one electoral vote; in 1796, thirty. His term in the Senate expired in 1797, and he was again chosen to the State Legislature. In 1800, Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson each received seventy-three electoral votes, and there was no choice by the people. After a long contest in the House of Representatives, Mr. Jefferson was elected President, and on March 4, 1801, Burr was inaugurated Vice-President of the United States.
It was during the last year of his term that the fatal duel occurred between Burr and Hamilton.
Hamilton, who considered Burr as the incarnation of Democracy, dreaded a repetition of the scenes of the French Revolution, should that party obtain control of the government. Burr regarded Hamilton as his personal enemy, who, on every possible occasion, did his utmost to hinder his political advancement. For many years the enmity of these two men was concealed beneath an outward show of friendship, but at length Burr's passions burst their bounds and he sent Hamilton a challenge which was accepted. The duel was fought July 11, 1804, and Hamilton, mortally wounded at the first fire, died on the following day. Burr was indicted for murder, but through the tricks of the law he escaped punishment, and after a short retirement, during the heat of the public resentment, he returned to Washington, and completed his term as Vice President.
Ruined in reputation and estate, he now planned his desperate scheme for the establishment of a new nation, west of the Mississippi, of which he was to be the head. The full details of his plan have always remained partly shrouded in mystery. He spent the summer of 1805 in making a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans, holding conferences with many of the leading citizens of the West and South. In the ensuing year he again went into the same region and began to make military preparations for his enterprise, which was now ostensibly an expedition against the Spanish in Texas and Mexico. His principal confederates were General Wilkinson, Commander of the United States Army in the West, and Governor of Louisiana; and one Blennerhassett, a wealthy Irish gentleman, who supplied a large amount of money for the enterprise. Troops and stores were gathered at Marietta on the Ohio. Burr was becoming a popular hero; his manners were so fascinating, that he persuaded even Henry Clay of the innocent nature of his scheme, and when summoned to appear before the United States Court at Frankfort, in December, 1806, on a charge of violating the neutrality laws, he was defended by that eminent lawyer, and acquitted; but, in the meanwhile, Wilkinson had become alarmed, and revealed to President Jefferson that Burr contemplated the secession of the southwestern territory of the United States and the occupation of New Orleans as the capital of his new empire. Thereupon the President issued a proclamation warning all persons against giving aid to this treasonable project, and the whole affair suddenly collapsed.
Aaron Burr had dreamed of royal state - he now awoke to find himself a fugitive with a price upon his head. After warning his little company to betake themselves to places of safety, he wandered from place to place, seeking concealment, until February 19, 1807, when he was discovered in a little Alabama hamlet, and arrested on a charge of treason. He was brought to Richmond and indicted; but after a trial which consumed the entire summer, he was found not guilty, as no overt act could be proved against him. But he was a ruined man; despised even by those who had been his political friends, and deserted by all except his faithful daughter, he left his country and sought refuge in England. He sailed from New York, in disguise, in June, 1808. He spent some nine months in London and Edinburgh, now mingling freely with the highest society, now hiding under an assumed name to avoid arrest for debt. At length he became an object of suspicion to the government, was arrested, and although he claimed to be a British subject, he was forced to leave the country. He left England in April, 1809, and lived for the next five months in Sweden. Then he wandered through Denmark and Germany, meeting with a highly romantic series of adventures, and reached Paris in February, 1810.
He now made an attempt to interest the Emperor Napoleon in his Mexican project, but without success. Closely watched by the police in Paris for about a year, he ventured to return to England where he managed to exist in poverty until the spring of 1812, when he returned to America in disguise.
After a time he ventured to resume his practice in New York, where he hived in comparative obscurity for some twenty-three years, meeting with some success as a lawyer and low politician. Soon after his return to America, his daughter, now the wife of the Governor of South Carolina was lost at sea. He was overwhelmed with debts. Sorrow and misfortune were his bitter portion for the remainder of his blasted life. At the age of seventy-eight he married Madame Juuel, the widow of a wealthy New York merchant, but they soon separated by mutual consent. At last the worn-out man of the world died in utter poverty and dependence at Port Richmond, on Staten Island, September 14, 1836, having reached his eighty-first year.
[Source: Biographical Sketches of Preeminent Americans, Volume 1; By Frederick G. Harrison; Publ. 1892; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
DOUGLAS, Miss Amanda Minnie, author, born in New York City, 14th July, 1838. She was educated in the City Institute in New York. In 1853 she removed to Newark, N. J., where she took a course in reading with a private tutor. In childhood she was noted for her powers of story-telling, when she would tell her friends long tales, regular serials, that would continue for weeks. Much of her girlhood was taken up by sickness and family occupations. She was inventive, and one of her inventions, patented by herself, was a folding frame for a mosquito-net. She had no early dreams of becoming a great author. She knew Edgar Allen Poe and other conspicuous literary persons. After she had reached maturity, she began to write stories for publication, and she was immediately successful. Among her published books are "In Trust" (1866), "Claudia" (1867), "Stephan Dane" (1867), "Sydnie Adriance" (1868), "With Fate Against Him " (1870), " Kathie's Stories for Young People" (6 vols., 1870, and 1871), "Lucia, Her Problem" (1871), "Santa Claus Land" (1873), "Home Nook" (1873), "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" and "Seven Daughters " (1874) "Drifted Asunder" (1875), "Nelly Kinnaird's Kingdom" (1876), " From Hand to Mouth" (1877 ) "Hope Mills" (1870), "Lost in a Creat City" (1880), "Whom Kathie Married" (1883), "Floyd Grandon's Honor" (1883), "Out of the Wreck" (1884), "A Woman's Inheritance" (1885), "Foes of Her Household" (1886), "The Fortunes of the Faradays (1887), "Modern Adam and Eve" (1888), "Osborne of the Arrochar " (1889), and "Heroes of the Crusade (1889). Miss Douglas has suffered much from long illness, but she keeps up courage and refuses to be borne down by fate. She is a fluent talker and well informed on current events. She has done but little work for magazines and newspapers. Her works have beer, very popular. Her first book, "In Trust," sold 20,000 copies in a short time, but she had sold the copyright, and others reaped the benefit. She holds the copyrights of all her other books.
("American Women", Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
FAIRCHILD, Miss Maria Augusta, doctor of medicine, born in Newark, N. J., 7th June, 1834. Orphaned at the age of six years, she was left to the guardianship and care of her uncle, Dr. Stephen Fairchild, widely known as a philanthropist and temperance and medical reformer. He was surgeon in the army during the war of 1812, practiced allopathy a number of years and later adopted homeopathy, being foremost in its introduction into New Jersey. Augusta very early showed a strong preference for the study of anatomy, physiology, materia medica and even pathology. Both her uncle and his son, Dr. Van Wyck Fairchild, were amused and not a little pleased to observe the strong likings of the child, and they gave much encouragement in the directions so welcome to her. She unfolded rapidly under their instruction. She was often permitted to visit both their hospital and private patients, and there she learned to diagnose and prescribe with accuracy and skill. When she was sent to school, she found the work and surroundings distasteful, but she persevered in her studies and left school fitted to teach. For three years she forced herself to faithfulness in a work for which she had no liking beyond that of filling her position in the best possible way. Longing to become a physician, she read the names of a small band of women, medical pioneers, and encouragement came to her. At length the way was opened. Her health failed, and she was ill for months. In the very early stage of convalescence she felt the uprising of her unconquerable desire. With restored health she resolved to carry out her long-cherished plan, and soon she found herself in the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College, New York City, from which in 1860, three years later, she was graduated. To be a woman doctor meant a great deal in those days. Immediately upon leaving college, Dr. Fairchild became associated with the late Dr. Trall, of New York, in both infirmary and outside practice. From the first she has given much attention to measures which elevate the standard of health among women. She was one of the earliest practitioners of the hygienic medical school, and probably there is no physician of that school now living who bears such unwavering testimony to the truths of its principles. During her thirty-two years of practice, in both acute and chronic ailments, she has never administered either alcohol or drugs. She is enthusiastic in whatever goes to make humanity better. In religion she is New Church, or Swedenborgian. As an author she has published "How to be Well" (New York, 1879), and her later work, entitled "'Woman and Health" (1890). She contributes to various health journals and magazines, and has during all the years of her professional life occupied the lecture field as a champion for women, claiming that emancipation lies in the direction of obedience to the laws of health and total extinction of disease. She has lived in the West about twenty years, and is known as a leading physician, and proprietor of her own Health Institution in Quincy, Ill. She is a careful hygienist, eats no meat, drinks only water, eats but one meal a day and wears neither corsets nor weighty clothing.
("American Women", Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
GRAETHER, Theodore, real estate and loans; born, Newark, N.J., Dec. 17, 1851; son of Arnold Graether and Mary (Jaeger) Graether; educated in public schools, Lutheran German School, Trenton, and Bridgeport (Conn.) public schools; married at Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 30, 1879, Lillian A. Swift (now deceased); again, Rochester, Mar. 21, 1901, Alma A. Colton. Began active career in Cheveries Chain Factory, Trenton, 1864; removed to Bridgeport, Conn., and entered employ of Bridgeport Spring and Axle Co., 1866; with Aetna Spring and Axle Co., Bridgeport, 1873; removed to Rochester, N.Y., and was employed by James Cunningham & Son, coach builders, 1876-83; came to Detroit and was superintendent carriage department Detroit Steel and Spring Co., 1883-Jan., 1887; has been in real estate and building business since 1887; manager Theodore Graether & Co. since 1903. Protestant. Recreation: Travel. Office: 311 Majestic Bldg. Residence: 1283 14th Av., Detroit.
[Source: The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Copyright, 1908 - Contributed by Christine Walters]
HAMBURGER, Frank R.; born, Newark, N.J., (Essex Co) Apr. 15, 1864; son of Solomon and Mariam Hamburger; educated in public and night schools of Detroit. Came to Detroit with parents, 1866; sold newspapers on streets, 1874-80; learned carriage trimming and worked at the trade in Michigan, Kansas and Nebraska for nine years; engaged as salesman in wholesale clothing business, 1890, bought out employers' interest, 1900, since which time he has been member of the firm of Hamburger & Silberman and manager of the house. Was secretary East Side Electric Lighting Co., 1895-1900.Member Detroit Association of Credit Men (chairman legislative committee) and National Association of Credit Men (member national legislative committee). Member I.O.O.F. (grand lodge officer state of Michigan). Recreations: Study of credit law and of the classic drama. Office: 135 Jefferson Av. Residence: 21 Charlotte Avenue.
[Source: The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Copyright, 1908 - Contributed by Christine Walters]
HERRICK, Mrs. Christine Terhune, author and editor, born in Newark, N. J., 13th June, 1859, where her father was settled as pastor of a Dutch Reformed Church. Her mother is the well-known author, "Marion Harland." In 1876 she went abroad with her parents and spent two years in some of the principal cities of Europe, acquiring a knowledge of foreign languages and continuing an education which had been previously carried on under private teachers at home. After returning to this country, Miss Terhune lived for several years in Springfield, Mass., perfecting herself in English literature, Anglo-Saxon and philology. Her ambition was to teach her favorite branches, and for a time she had a class in a private school for girls. About that time she met and became the wife of James Frederick Herrick, a member of the editorial staff of the Springfield "Republican." Early in her married life Mrs. Herrick began to write on home topics, developing the talent which has made her so well known. She has contributed to many leading periodicals and newspapers, and has published five books, four of them on home topics, and the other a compilation of correspondence between the late Duke of Wellington and a young woman known as "Miss J." At present Mrs. Herrick lives in New York. She edits the woman's page of the New York "Recorder." Her husband is connected with another metropolitan daily newspaper. While kept very busy by her literary engagements, she does not neglect her household cares, the precepts which she teaches finding practical illustration in her pretty and well-regulated home. She has had four children, and two little boys survive. The rapidity and ease with which Mrs. Herrick turns off her literary work enables her to pay some attention to the obligations and pleasures of society. She is as clever a talker as she is a writer, and is an active member of Sorosis. Her health is unusually good and her activity and good spirits unfailing. She spends her summers in her country home, "Outlook," among the hills of northern New Jersey. (Source: "American Women", by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)
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