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132 and he directed her reading, which dwelt mostly on outdoor themes and stories of golden deeds in ancient and modern history. This reading has borne fruit in the many interesting volumes to which Miss Brown's name is attached. Her mother, Elizabeth Evans, was also of English descent, but her family record shows more practical business men than scholars. She herself had great executive ability and an energetic temperament. Her parents were Artemas and Margaret (Sargent) Evans. The latter. Miss Browns grandmother, lived to be more than a hundred years old, and when she was ninety-two had four sisters living who were over ninety. Only two of the five, however, reached the century mark, and none of the later generation showed any striking longevity.

Miss Brown has made a name for herself with both pen and bush. Well-trained in the Concord schools, she was always a student at home and a keen observer a« she travelled. She is a versatile woman, and one turns with delight from her paintings to her histories, her poems, her clever illustrating.

Her magazine stories — many under the pseudonym "B. E. E." — have a grace and tenderness which are ai)t to send one back for second reading. Her biographies of Washington, Grant, Garfield, and Oliver Wendell Holmes are in steady demand. "Huldah," her book of patriotic verse, dedicated to a member of the D. A. R., is read with appreciation by lovers of graceful poetry. To change slightly the author's own lines about another, it may well be said that Miss Brown, "among New Hampshire's daughters, stanch and strong, has made her name well known, both for her story and her song."

As described by a friend. Miss Brown's personality is graceful and channing. The eyes are remarkable — deep as the. violets she so beautifully paints, with long dark lashes. Her presence diffuses sweetness and strength, and to have met her once is to always long to know her more intimately.

Not over robust. Miss Brown is unable to keep as busy as her ambition would direct. The demand for her charming water-colors exceeds the supply. At her exhibition a year ago the favorite pictures were scenes at the Azores, where Miss Brown has passed much vacation time. This year (1903) she has busily sketched along the Massachusetts coast. Few, indeed, are they who can depict life in two ways, on glowing canvas and printed page; but Miss Brown holds the secret of both arts.

ARAH CORDELIA FISHER WELLINGTON, a Massachusetts woman, better known as Mrs. Austin C. Wellington, extensively engaged in works of philanthropy and patriotism, is a native resident of Cambridge, Mass. Her father, George Fisher, who died September 12, 1898, was for many years one of the leading citizens in the University City. He was a son of Jabez" Fisher and a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of Anthony* Fisher, who came to New England in 1637 and settled at Dcdham. Some of the early Fishers at Dodham, among them Joshua,*" brother of Anthony,* iLsed a seal bearing a coat of arms described as "azure, a dolphin embowed naiant or" (Fisher Genealogy).

George Fisher was a deep thinker, strong in his anti-slavery and temperance convictions, and was an enthusiast in music. Buying the Cambridge Chronicle in 1859, he continued its editor and proprietor till 1873, when he sold it. He was a member of the Harvard Law School Association. In 1885 he represented his district in the Mtissaehusett^ Legislature. He married in 1840 Hannah Cordelia, daughter of Samuel P. and Eunice (Swan) Teele, of Charles town, and a descendant of old Middlesex County families. Mrs. P^isher also was endowed with musical talents. She was well known and loved for her kindly nature, her large philanthropic work during the Civil War, and her helpfulne-ss among the poor up to the fimo of her death,' July '3, 1894. She was a member of tjie Austin Street Unitarian Church.

Mrs. Wellington's education was received in the public schools of Cambridge, including the high school, where she was graduated, and in Professor Louis Agassiz's School for Young Ladies, of which Mrs. Agassiz was director. She subsequently continued her studies of music at home and abroad, in London being