a secretary of the treasury, a vice president of the United States and many senators, ministers, professors and officers of high rank.
BERTHA SEARS DORRANCE
BERTHA SEARS DORRANCE (Mrs. John Dorrance) was born in 1869 at Bucyrus, Ohio. She attended Mt. Holyoke College after graduating from Bucyrus High School. Her work as teacher began in Kamhama Girls’ School in Honolulu. She is the wife of the Rev. John Dorrance and now resides in California.
LIDA EASTON
Lida Easton was one of the first two teachers appointed to Mt. Auburn School, then a 4 room building on the present site of the Taft School of Cincinnati, about 1860. Later she married and moved to Kansas. When President William H. Taft was campaigning the West, 40 years later, her picture was held up in the crowd by her husband and the President recog- nized it as his former teacher. The other teacher was HANNAH R. COPE. Miss Cope graduated from Woodward in 1860 and was appointed as a teacher in what was then the 10th District School. She was the same year transferred to Mt. Auburn. Miss Cope was instrumental in collecting dainties from Mt. Auburn families and distributing them to the sick and wounded soldier boys at Washington Park Military Hospital, located on the lot the Music Hall now occupies. She was given permission to enter and leave the hospital when the city was under martial law. After five years of teaching, Miss Cope married Silas W. Plimpton of Providence, R. I ., and together they went as pioneers into the newly opened West. LTpon returning to Ohio later, Mrs. Plimpton became superintendent of the National Woman’s Relief Corps Home at Madison, Ohio, which housed Civil War veterans and their dependents. Mrs. Plimpton returned later to Mt. Auburn and ended her days in the shadow of Mt. Auburn School. Her daughter was a teacher for many years in Hughes High School. LOUISE DOWLING HORSLEY was born March 22, 1844 in New York City, the daughter of Burton and Theresa Dowling Horsley both of English descent. She graduated from Woodward and began teaching when 18 years old and taught continuously until she retired at age of 70, virtually all this time at Mt. Auburn. Many prominent people lived on Mt. Auburn at that time and numerous successful Cincinnati business men of today were her pupils. She, too, was a teacher of William Howard Taft by whom she was always remembered and esteemed. A very active member of 9th Baptist Church she taught Sunday-School for years. Miss Horsley was a great reader,
