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224 result was gratifying. At the thirty-fourth National Encampment of the G. A. R., held in Chicago in 1900, a resolution which was presented by John E. Oilman, Department Commander, was adopted, endorsing the order and giving to it the same official recognition as that previously accorded to the Sons of Veterans. The Soldiers' Home work under the direction of the D. of V. was perpetuated through her efforts, and has met with success. Ambitious to have the "Daughters" accomplish some work of permanent value in this line, Miss Kimball made the first donation, which resulted in establishing a Soldiers' Home fund. The convalescent ward of the Soldiers' Home is named the D. of V. Ward.

Miss Kimball was elected National President of the Daughters of veterans at the convention in Philadelphia, September, 1899. She organized many new tents, and was indefatigable in her efforts to promote the welfare of the order. During her administration the subject of official recognition by the Grand Army of the Republic was presented to all the departments of that body in States where tents existed. "Onward ever, surrender never," has been her motto; and with ever ready helpfulness she has brought the sisters of this grand organization into closer relationship. The daughters have been led to show the same fraternal spirit which actuated the "fathers whose record they proudly revere." The members of the entire order vie with each other in according to Miss Kimball thanks for the good work she has accomplished.

ULIA ANN BRAY RUSSELL, M.D., was born in Reading, Mass., March 6, 1847, daughter of John and Eliza (Holt) Russell. Her father, a native of Andover, Mass., was a pattern-maker by occupation, and noted for a phenomenal accuracy of eye. In a small way he was also an inventor. He died at the age of fifty-six years. The Doctor's mother, who was born in Reading, Mass., lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven. Her mother (the maternal grandmother) was from the north of Ireland, a devout woman of Protestant principles. Both Dr. Russell's father and mother were characterized by great gentleness of manner, and to the extent of their resources they devoted themselves to philanthropic work in their immediate neighborhood, seldom turning a deaf ear to the appeals of the unfortunate, where they could not assist with material aid, tendering a warm and ready sympathy that was often of greater value.

The subject of this sketch acquired her general education in the schools of Reading and under the instruction of Rev. Thomas J. Greenwood (Father Greenwood) with whom she studied for four years. One of the recollections of her girlhood is of falling asleep on many nights while the maiden aunt under whom she was reared read to her out of the Bible and Mr. Garrison's anti-slavery paper, the Liberator. The solemn cadences of the Scriptures doubtless neutralized the horrors of the Liberator, and, lulled by the sweet voice of her aunt, she found the well-deserved rest of the innocent and compassionate.

She early gave evidence of a taste for the profession that she subsequently adopted. When only fourteen years of age she was often called upon from all parts of the town to sit up with and care for the sick. From the work of a nurse to the calling of a physician was, for one of her bent, a natural step, and after some years of diligent application to study she received her medical diploma from Boston University. Selecting Maiden as her field of labor, she at once opened an office in that city, where she has since resided and practised. Starting with a sound theoretical knowledge of both medicine and surgery, she has since acquired that accuracy of diagnosis and skill in treatment that comes only after years of actual practice, and then only to those who are fitted by nature, inclination, and training for the healing profession. To these necessary qualities she adds an address that invites the confidence of her patients and a personal character that commands for her the respect of the community in which she lives.

Dr. Russell has a collection of anticjues that includes some specimens of rare interest and value. Among them is the old flint-lock pistol carried by General Warren at the battle of Bmiker Hill, given to her by Mr. Fred Pickering,