s. Chauncey I. Filley, wife of Mayor
Filley, Mrs. Robert Anderson, wife of General Anderson, Mrs. Jessie B.
Fremont, wife of General Fremont, Mrs. Clinton B. Fisk, wife of General
Fisk, Mrs. E. M. Webber, Mrs. A. M. Clark, Mrs. John Campbell, Mrs.
W. F. Cozzens, Mrs. E. W. Davis, Miss S. F. McCracken, Miss Anna M.
Debenham, since deceased, Miss Susan Bell, Miss Charlotte Ledergerber,
Mrs. S. C. Davis, Mrs. Hazard, Mrs. T. D. Edgar, Mrs. George Partridge,
Miss E. A. Hart, since deceased, Mrs. H. A. Nelson, Mrs. F. A. Holden,
Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Baily, Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, Mrs. C. V. Barker, Miss
Bettie Broadhead, Mrs. T. M. Post, Mrs. E. J. Page, Miss Jane Patrick,
since deceased, Mrs. R. H. Stone, Mrs. C. P. Coolidge, Mrs. S. R. Ward,
Mrs. Washington King, Mrs. Wyllys King, Miss Fales, since deceased.
The following were among the noble women at Springfield, Ill., who were
most devoted in their labors for the soldier in forwarding sanitary
supplies, in visiting the hospitals in and near Springfield, in
sustaining the Soldiers' Home in that city, and in aiding the families
of soldiers. Mrs. Lucretia Jane Tilton, Miss Catharine Tilton, Mrs.
Lucretia P. Wood, Mrs. P. C. Latham, Mrs. M. E. Halbert, Mrs. Zimmerman,
Mrs. J. D. B. Salter, Mrs. John Ives, Mrs. Mary Engleman, Mrs. Paul
Selby, Mrs. S. H. Melvin, Mrs. Stoneberger, Mrs. Schaums, Mrs. E.
Curtiss, Mrs. L. Snell, Mrs. J. Nutt and Mrs. J. P. Reynolds. Mrs. R. H.
Bennison, of Quincy, Ill., was also a faithful hospital visitor and
friend of the soldier. Mrs. Dr. Ely, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, efficient in
every good work throughout the war, and at its close the active promoter
and superintendent of a Home for Soldiers' Orphans, near Davenport,
Iowa, is deserving of all honor.
Miss Georgiana Willets, of Jersey City, N. J., a faithful and earnest
helper at the front from 1864 to the end of the war, deserves especial
mention, as do also Miss Molineux, sister of General Molineux and Miss
McCabe, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who were, throughout the war, active in
aiding the soldiers by all the means in their power. Miss Sophronia
Bucklin, of Auburn, N. Y., an untiring and patient worker among the
soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, also deserves a place in our
record.
Cincinnati had a large band of noble hospital workers, women who gave
freely of their own property as well as their personal services for the
care and comfort of the soldier. Among these were, Mrs. Crafts J.
Wright, wi
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