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62 document signed by the lamented President Garfield. Dr. Garnet arrived in Africa in December, and died in a few weeks thereafter of African fever. Then came up the question of erecting for him some fitting monument to be dedicated as a permanent memorial of this noble, race-loving man. This memorial was to be erected in Liberia. It was also decided to make it a training school for girls. This school was to reach four classes of Liberians: the Americo-Liberians, the Veys, the Mandingoes, and the Galahs. The next thing to do was to find some one who could make the project a success. That one was found in the person of our subject. To this work she joyfully consecrated her life, sailing from America in November, 1880, having married in 1866. The project was endorsed in this country by the New York State Colonization Society and by the National Afro-American Union for Home and Foreign Missions, and in Africa by the State Legislature of Liberia; in England by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, the Ladies' Negro Friend Society, the British Women's Temperance Association. As societies they took great interest in the memoriaL And many prominent individuals, such as Sir John J. Howard, Oliver Haywood, Joseph Mabins, and the Dowager Lady Kinnaird, gave also material aid to the project. The institution was called "The Garnet Memorial School," followed by this inscription: "For the Domestic, Scholastic, Artistic and Christian Training for Girls. Founded in Memory of the late Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, D. D.; a Negro Clergyman, appointed