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WOMEN OF DISTINCTION.
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Kruse is principal of one of these three schools. To her belongs the credit of this great work, which it has taken her years to accomplish.

Although we failed to obtain the facts we so much desired concerning the lives of the following named ladies, yet we take great pleasure in placing them upon the list of "Women of Distinction" by giving, as near as we can, their names and addresses. They deserve even more than honorable mention, but "such" as we have we "give unto" them, with the hope of doing them full justice when the facts in their history are at our command: Miss Lucy Moten, Washington, D. C.; Miss Frazelia Campbell, Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Julia Wormley, Washington, D. C.; Miss Addie Wait, Normal, Ala.; Mrs. Frances Preston, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Lucy Hereford, Montgomery, Ala.; Mrs. Mary Shadd Carey, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Carrie L. Steele, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Bertha B. Cook, Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. R. H. Long, Columbus, Mo.; Mrs. E. L. Boone, Columbus, Mo.; Mrs. Sarah Mitchell, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. M. C. Terrell, Washington, D. C.; Miss Lucy Laney, Mrs, Alice Vassar, Lynchburg, Va.


CHAPTER XCII.

MISS MARTHA B. BRIGGS.

Martha Bailev Briggs was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, March 31, 1838. She was the only child of John Briggs, of Tiverton, R. I., and Fanny (Bassett)