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230 with the University of Minnesota, first as an instructor and later as assistant professor. She was associate author of an Old-English grammar, which was used as a text-book at the University. More recently she has compiled a book of English-German idioms, which bids fair to be used in the high schools of the State.

Mrs. Wilkin is a member of the American Philological Association and the Association of Collegiate Alumna Her daily life is spent in college work, but she keeps up an active interest in religious and philanthropic matters. She has been a member of Olivet Baptist Church, of Mimieapolis, for more than a quarter of a century, and for fifteen years was teacher of the University Bible Class in this church. She is an active member of the W. C. T. U., a life member of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, and a member of the Young Women's Christian Association. She was president of the State Board of the Minnesota Y. W. C. A. for four years. Her wider experience in this position has enabled her to be an efficient helper of the local Y. W. C. A. at the University, in which she has been greatly interested from the first. A woman of fine character, pure life, and excellent judgment, Mrs. Wilkin is very widely known throughout the State and greatly respected and loved, both by the students who have been under her instruction and by her associates in college and in society.

LIZA TRASK HILL was born in the town of Warren, Mass., May 10, 1840. Her father, George Trask, a native of Beverly, belonging to that branch of the Trask family founded by Osmond (or Osman) Trask, an English immigrant who settled there about two hundred and fifty years ago, was a son of Jeremiah Trask and one of the youngest of fourteen children, all of whom lived to adult age and were noted for their piety and sobriety. After devoting his attention for some years in his early manhood to business pursuits, Mr. Trask took up his studies at Bowdoin College, to prepare for the ministry, paying his own way. While there he became conspicuous for his advocacy of the anti-slavery cause. He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1826 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. His first pastorate was in Framingham, his next in Warren, and his third and last in Fitchburg, of the Trinitarian Church, a society that stood for the principles of anti-slavery and which disbanded as soon as the slaves were freed. The last twenty-five years of his life Mr. Trask spent in the effort tq abate the evil wrought by the use of tobacco. He suffered much persecution for his pronounced views, was forbidden the use of the churches, and ridiculed by his brethren in the ministry: but he grew more lovely in character day by day. He died in Fitchburg in January, 1875, in his seventy-ninth year.

Mrs. Hill's mother, whose maiden name was Ruth Freeman Packard, was a native of Marlboro anil daughter of the Rev. Asa and Nancy (Quincy) Packard. Mrs. Packard was born in the old Quincy mansion, Quincy, Mass., being a daughter of Josiah4 Quincy and cousin to Dorothy Quincy, wife of Governor Hancock.

The Rev. Asa Packard was a son of Jacob4 Packard, whose father, Solomon,3 was grandson of Samuel1 Packard, an early settler of West Bridgewater, Mass. Solomon^ Packard's wife, Susanna, mother of Jacob, was a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Mitchell) Kingman. Her mother was the daughter of Jacob2 Mitchell and grand-daughter of Experience Mitchell by his wife Jane, who was a daughter of Francis1 Cook, one of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims.

The Rev. Asa Packard (H. C. 1783) was for about twenty years minister of the town and church of Marlboro, being subsequently settled over the ^^'est Parish of Marlboro, where he remained till May, 1819. After his retirement he removed to Lancaster, Mass., where his daughter's marriage took place in 1831. Mrs. Trask was in complete sympathy with her husband in all his reform work, and was greatly beloved in the parishes where they lived. The Rev. George and Mrs. Trask were the parents of six children: George Kellogg Trask, now connected with the Indianapolis Journal as railroad editor: Brainerd Packard Trask, a Ignited States navy officer, who died before reaching the age of forty, from the