done. * * * *
"I regard Mrs. Stranahan as one of the most extraordinary of that galaxy
of women, whom the night of our country's sorrow disclosed, and whose
light will shine forever in the land they have done their part--I dare
not say, how great a part--to save."
We should do gross injustice to this efficient Association, if we
neglected to give credit to its other officers, for their faithfulness
and persevering energy during the whole period of its existence.
Especially should the services of its patient and hard-working
Corresponding Secretary, Miss Kate E. Waterbury, be acknowledged. Next
to the president, she was its most efficient officer, ever at her post,
and performing her duties with a thoroughness and heartiness which
called forth the admiration of all who witnessed her zeal and devotion.
Miss Perkins, the faithful agent in charge of the depot of supplies and
rooms of the Association, was also a quiet and persevering toiler for
the promotion of its great objects.
LADIES' UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATIONS OF BALTIMORE.
Amidst the malign influences of secession and treason, entire and
unqualified devotion to the Union, shone with additional brightness from
its contrast with surrounding darkness. In all portions of the South
were found examples of this patriotic devotion, and nowhere did it
display itself more nobly than in the distracted city of Baltimore. The
Union people were near enough to the North with its patriotic sentiment,
and sufficiently protected by the presence of Union soldiery, to be able
to act with the freedom and spontaneity denied to their compatriots of
the extreme South, and they did act nobly for the cause of their country
and its defenders.
Among the ladies of Baltimore, few were more constantly or conspicuously
employed, for the benefit of sufferers from the war, than MRS. ELIZABETH
M. STREETER. With the modesty that almost invariably accompanies great
devotion and singleness of purpose she sought no public notice; but in
the case of one so actively employed in good works, it was impossible to
avoid it.
More than one of the Associations of Ladies formed in Baltimore for the
relief of soldiers, of their families, and of refugees from secession,
owes its inception, organization, and successful career to the mind and
energies of Mrs. Streeter. It may truly be said of her that she has
refused no work which her hands could find to accomplish.
Mrs. Streeter was the wife of the
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