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Rh teachers under Mary Lyon, its founder. She accompanied her husband, Cyrus T. Mills, D.D. to Ceylon, and they were both engaged in educational work in Batticotta College of that country. In 1865 they moved to California and opened as a college for girls what had been one of the oldest Protestant schools of that state, and in 1885 this was the only college for women in California, known as Mills College, of which Mrs. Susan Lincoln Mills was president.

College woman and active worker in women's club organizations, and federations, and in philanthropic work. First president of the California Federation of Women's Clubs, and first vice-president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Was the builder and donor of the Pasadena Maternity Hospital, trustee of the Polytechnic Institute of Pasadena, California, vice-president of the finance committee of the Auditorium Company, Los Angeles; member of the Social Science Society, Archaeological Institute of America, and National Geographic Society. Lectures on educational and social questions. She was born in Bloomfield, New York, July 22, 1855. Daughter of Albert H. and Laura C. Bradley. Married N. Milman Wheeler Burdett in 1878.

Author and educator. Was born in Easthampton, Long Island, September 6, 1800, and died in Elmira, New York, May 12, 1878. She was the oldest child of Lyman B. and Roxanna Foote Beecher. Her early education was received from her mother and a devoted aunt. When but nine years of age her parents removed to Litchfield, Conn. She early began to write and was a frequent contributor to the Christian Spectator under the initials C. D. D. Some of her poems interested one of the young professors of mathematics in Yale College, whom she later married. Her life was greatly saddened by his death. He perished in a storm off the Irish coast. She opened, with her sister, a select school in Hartford, Conn. Soon it became a question for the proper housing of the many students which applied for admission and her friends of Hartford assisted her in the purchase of the land and the erection of the buildings for the Hartford Female Seminary. Miss Beecher became its principal and they opened with a corps of eight assistant teachers. One of her writings "Suggestions on Education" attracted attention and brought additional interest in the Hartford Seminary. She wrote an arithmetic which she used as one of her own text-books; also a text-book, "The Mental Philosopher." Later when her health broke down, she and her sister removed to Cincinnati and opened a school. Her later years she devoted to authorship and has written quite a good many books on domestic economy and other subjects, which are used as text-books in schools.

Gertrude S. Martin occupies the novel and interesting position of "adviser of women" at Cornell University, and as such is in a measure responsible for the