ity and
country for contributions in money and goods were promptly responded to,
and on the first of June, 1864, the Fair opened in buildings expressly
erected for it in Alleghany, Diamond Square. The display in all
particulars, was admirable, but that of the Mechanical and Floral Halls
was extraordinary in its beauty, its tasteful arrangement and its great
extent. The net results of the Fair, were three hundred and thirty
thousand four hundred and ninety dollars, and eighty cents, and while it
was in progress, fifty thousand dollars were also raised in Pittsburg,
for the Christian Commission. The great Central Fair in Philadelphia,
was at the same time in progress, so that the bulk of the contributions
were drawn from the immediate vicinage of Pittsburg.

The Pittsburg Branch continued its labors to the close of the war.

After the fair, a special diet kitchen on a grand scale was established
and supplied with all necessary appliances by the Pittsburg Branch. Miss
Murdoch gave it her personal supervision for three months, and in
August, 1864, prepared sixty-two thousand dishes.

MRS. ELIZABETH S. MENDENHALL.

This lady and Mrs. George Hoadley, were the active and efficient
managers of the Soldiers' Aid Society, of Cincinnati, which bore the
same relations to the branch of the United States Sanitary Commission,
at Cincinnati, which the Woman's Central Association of Relief did to
the Sanitary Commission itself. Mrs. Mendenhall is the wife of Dr.
George Mendenhall, an eminent and public-spirited citizen of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Mendenhall was born in Philadelphia, in 1819, but her childhood and
youth were passed in Richmond, Virginia, where a sister, her only near
relative, still resides. Her relatives belonged to the society of
Friends, and though living in a slaveholding community, she grew up with
an abhorrence of slavery. On her marriage, in 1838, she removed with her
husband to Cleveland, Ohio, and subsequently to Cincinnati, where she
has since resided, and where her hatred of oppression increased in
intensity.

When the first call for troops was made in April, 1861, and
thenceforward throughout the summer and autumn of that year, and the
winter of 1861-2, she was active in organizing sewing circles and aid
societies to make the necessary clothing and comforts which the soldiers
so much needed when suddenly called to the field. She set the example of
untiring industry in these pursuits, and by her skill in