consequence of a contemplated change in her life,
she resigned her position, and retired from it with the friendship and
warm appreciation of her co-workers in the useful labors of the society.
In the month of June, 1865, she was married to Morris Collins, Esq., a
citizen of St. Louis.

MRS. C. R. SPRINGER, who has labored so indefatigably at St. Louis, for
the soldiers of the Union and their families during the war, was born in
Parsonsfield, Maine. Her maiden name was Lord. Previous to her marriage
to Mr. Springer, a respectable merchant of St. Louis, she was a teacher
in New Hampshire. On the event of her marriage, she came to reside at
St. Louis, about ten years ago, and on the breaking out of the war,
espoused with patriotic ardor the cause of her country in its struggle
with the great slaveholding rebellion. To do this in St. Louis, at that
period, when wealth and fashion, and church influence were so largely on
the side of the rebellion, and every social circle was more or less
infected with treason, required a high degree of moral courage and
heroism.

From the first opening of the hospitals in St. Louis, in the autumn of
1861, Mrs. Springer became a most untiring, devoted and judicious
visiter, and by her kind and gracious manners, her words of sympathy and
encouragement, and her religious consolation, she imparted hope and
comfort to many a poor, sick, and wounded soldier, stretched upon the
bed of languishing.

Besides her useful labors in the hospitals, Mrs. Springer was an active
member of the Ladies' Union Aid Society in St. Louis, from the date of
its organization in August, 1861, to its final disbanding--October,
1865--in the deliberations of which her counsel always had great weight
and influence. During the four years of its varied and useful labors for
the soldiers and their families, she has been among its most diligent
workers. In the winter of 1862, the Society took charge of the labor of
making up hospital garments, given out by the Medical Purveyor of the
department, and she superintended the whole of this important work
during that winter, in which one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five
hundred garments were made.

Mrs. Springer is a highly educated woman, of great moral worth, devoted
to the welfare of the soldier, inspired by sincere love of country, and
a high sense of Christian duty. No one will be more gratefully
remembered by thousands of soldiers and their families, to whom she ha