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Rh in all charitable work, were instrumental, with their brothers, in founding McGill Institute, in Mobile, and also the McGill Burse, in the American College in Rome, a fund for the education of students for the priesthood, in the Mobile diocese, and a fund for the building of churches. Associated with them in this splendid charity was their brother, Felix McGill. The McGill crypt, beneath the Chapel of the Visitation Convent, is a work of art.

One of the founders of the Visiting Nurses' Association, a charitable organization, which works among the poor sick of Omaha. She is the wife of Felix J. McShane, a nephew of the distinguished philanthropist, Count Creighton, the benefactor of Creighton University.

Is president of the graduate chapter of the Visitation Convent Alumnae Association, treasurer of the Catholic Guild of Women, and prominently identified with the charitable and social clubs of St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the daughter of the late P. H. Kelly, and in 1907 married John B. Meagher.

Is the daughter of Richard T. Merrick, a prominent lawyer of Washington, D. C, whose father, William Duhurst Merrick, was a member of the Maryland state legislature, and United States Senator from Maryland from 1838 to 1845. Miss Merrick was the founder of the Christ Child Society of Washington. She began her work by interesting her friends in the preparation of infants' outfits, to be given to the poor on Christmas Day, and in 1900 this little circle was formed into a society. Sewing classes, children's libraries, Sunday school classes were gradually added to the work of relief among the destitute children of Washington City. Articles of incorporation were taken out for the society, and to-day there is a membership of over six hundred of the prominent Catholic women of Washington, which includes many from official and diplomatic circles and the army and navy. There are to-day branches of this society in New York City, Omaha, Worcester, Massachusetts ; Chicago, Illinois; Ellicott City, Maryland, and Davenport, Iowa. Miss Merrick is the author of a life of Christ (for children) and translator of Mme. de Segur's life of Christ, also for children.

Daughter of Henry L. and Cynthia Cowles Richards; was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1855; charter member and director of the Winchester, Massachusetts, Visiting Nurses' Association, and active in charitable matters of her home city.