ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.
Was born May 16, 1804, in Billerica, Mass. Her sister, Sophia, became the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and her sister Mary, the wife of Horace Mann. She succeeded Margaret Fuller as a teacher of history in Mr. Olcott's school. She was among the earliest advocates of female suffrage and higher education for women and aided Horace Mann in founding a Deaf Mute School. Among her personal acquaintances were Emerson, Thoreau and other prominent men of the day. Her literary productions include "Aesthetic Papers," "Crimes of the House of Austria," several works on kindergarten study and circulars on education, "Reminiscences of Dr. Channing," "Last evening with Alston" and other papers. The latter years of her life she was partially blind; during these years she wrote a little, but the loss of her sight and increasing infirmities made all literary effort difficult. She was one of the most conspicuous persons in the famous literary and educational circles of Boston. Miss Peabody's death occurred in Jamaica Plains, Boston, June 3, 1894.
HELENA THERESA FRANCESCA GOESSMANN.
Daughter of Charles Anthony Goessmann, the well-known scientist. Was born at Syracuse, New York. Received degrees from the Ohio University. Was the organizer and first president of the Woman's Auxiliary Catholic Summer School, Cliff Haven, New York. Head of the department of history, Notre Dame College, Baltimore, from 1897 to 1899; head of the department of Catholic higher education, New York, from 1904 to 1907. Has lectured in the United School of New Orleans and the Summer Catholic Schools, and lectured before non-sectarian organizations on education and culture in New England. She has written a number of songs and books on philanthropic Christianity. Contributor to the press and magazines of the United States, but is known principally through her lectures. After her father's death, she was elected professor of English in the State College of Massachusetts, at Amherst.
LIDA ROSE McCABE.
Was born in Columbus, Ohio. Was at one time at the Sorbonne in Paris; also at Columbia University and Oxford University. She has written a number of books, "Occupation and Compensation of Women," etc. Was the author of the second act of the "Vanderbilt Cup," and is a contributor to the Popular Science Monthly, Lippincott's McClure's, Cosmopolitan, St. Nicholas, Outlook, Bookman, and Town and Country. Paris correspondent of the American Press Association and the New York Tribune. Has written extensively of Alaska, spending several months along the Siberian coast and visiting points of this far Northland. Made an extensive study of the life of General Lafayette. Is a lecturer on art and travel and was the second woman to lecture before the New York Historical Society on a most interesting subject to American women, Mme. De Lafayette, America's half-forgotten friend. Opened an ethical lecture course to women at St. Xavier's College.
