ining knowledge which might benefit their cause.

In August, 1864, a small printing office, with a hand-press, was
attached to the rooms; the ladies learned how to set type and work the
press, and issued weekly bulletins to their auxiliaries to encourage and
stimulate their efforts. For two years from October, 1862, two columns
were contributed to a weekly city paper by these indefatigable ladies
for the benefit of their auxiliaries. These local auxiliary societies
were active and loyal, but they needed constant encouragement, and
incentives to action, to bring and keep them up to their highest
condition of patriotic effort.

The Sanitary Fair at Cleveland was not, as in many other cases,
originated and organized by outside effort, for the benefit of the
Branch of the Sanitary Commission, but had its origin, its organization
and its whole management directly from the Soldiers' Aid Society itself.

In November, 1865, the Ohio State Soldiers' Home was opened, and the
Legislature having made no preparation for its immediate wants, the
Soldiers' Aid Society made a donation of five thousand dollars for the
support of its members.

With a brief sketch of each of these ladies, we close our history of the
Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio.

Mrs. Rouse is a lady somewhat advanced in life, small and delicately
organized, and infirm in health, but of tireless energy and exhaustless
sympathy for every form of human suffering. For forty years past she has
been foremost in all benevolent movements among the ladies of Cleveland,
spending most of her time and income in the relief of the unfortunate
and suffering; yet it is the testimony of all who knew her, that she is
entirely free from all personal ambition, and all love of power or
notoriety. Though earnestly patriotic, and ready to do all in her power
for her country, there is nothing masculine, or as the phrase goes,
"strong-minded" in her demeanor. She is a descendant of Oliver Cromwell,
and has much of his energy and power of endurance, but none of his
coarseness, being remarkably unselfish, and lady-like in her manners.
During the earlier years of the war, she spent much of her time in
visiting the towns of the territory assigned to the society, and
promoting the formation of local Soldiers' Aid Societies, and it was due
to her efforts that there was not a town of any size in the region to
which the society looked for its contributions which had not its aid
society, o