Page:Sketches of representative women of New England.djvu/598

Rh Ladies' Aid Association of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts.

In 1891 Mrs. Wetherell became a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, uniting with Benjamin Stone, Jr., Corps, No. 68, auxiliary to Post No. 68, G. A. R., of Dorchester. She has held various positions of honor in the corps, and was its President in 1899. She attended the National Convention at Louisville, Ky., as a delegate in 1895 and the convention at Washington, D.C., in 1902. She has travelled extensively in the South and West, having made six trips to Colorado and visited many Southern battle-fields. She has performed faithful service as Department and National Aide in the Woman's Relief Corps, and has been a liberal contributor to its various funds. For several years she has been a member of the Department Relief Committee, a position requiring a thorough knowledge of relief methods and a love for the cause, and one which Mrs. Wetherell is admirably adapted to fill, being systematic, kind-hearted, and a woman of excellent judgment. She was a member of the Executive Committee of Arrangements for the National Convention held in Boston in August, 1904, and of other committees.

UE STUART WADSWORTH was born in Springfield, Cal., July 21, 1857, daughter of Samuel H. and Margaret P. (Turner) Stuart. Her parents moved to Boston in 1869, and she received her education in the schools of that city. As Lue Stuart, she was married April 30, 1881, to Captain Edward B. Wadsworth, of Connecticut.

Mrs. Wadsworth is a descendant of seven Revolutionary soldiers, and through their services is an active member of John Adams Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and an associate member of Paul Jones Chapter in the same organization.

Being greatly interested in patriotic work, she joined Dahlgren Woman's Relief Corps, No. 20, of South Boston, in 1887, and since that time has been one of the most active workers in the order. She served as President of Corps No. 20 three years, and as its Patriotic Instructor for ten years. She was the first Patriotic Instructor to place flags in the Boston schools; and, through her efforts, flags, copies of the Declaration of Independence, and oleographs of the origin and history of the stars and stripes have been placed in all South Boston schools, both public and parochial.

In 1903 she was National Patriotic Instructor of the Woman's Relief Corps, and by her efforts succeeded in obtaining an appropriation of six hundred dollars for the promotion of patriotic education in the schools of the South.

Inheriting the patriotic blood of her ancestors, she is constantly striving to create an increased devotion to flag and country among the younger generation. She is a ready speaker, and her services are in constant demand at patriotic gatherings. Mrs. Wadsworth is a charter member of the George Washington Memorial Association, a life patron of the National Council of Women of the United States, an active member of the National Education Association of the United States, Patriotic Councillor of the Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society, also a member of the Ladies' Aid Association of the Soldiers' Home and the Order of the Eastern Star, Rathbone Sisters, and Odd Ladies.

She has been a prominent club woman for many years, holding memborship in the Woman's Charity Club, Mattapanock Woman's Club, Pansy Club, and .several others.

AROLINE ASENATH BEMIS, matron of the Herbert Hall Asylum, founded by her husband. Dr. Merrick Bemis, in Worcester, Mass., has been officially associated with philanthropic work in that city for half a century.

Born in Brookfield, Mass., March 11, 1832, she is a daughter of the late Henry Gillmore, M.D., and Caroline Rice Gillmore, of Brookfield, and on the maternal side grand-daughter of Peter and Caroline Rice.

She was educated in the public schools and also at a private school in her native town. The ceremony which united her (Caroline A. Gillmore) in marriage with Dr. Merrick Bemis,