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178  as she was resolute, the young physician by her unaided efforts built up a practice which was of several fold importance to her, to her sex and to her race; important to her not only from its pecuniary standpoint, but also in her deservedly receiving the respect and high esteem of her brother and sister practitioners of both races; for her sex and race it is a vindication; In several of the hospitals of the city she has served as resident, visiting and consulting physician. As the wife of Rev. Matthew Anderson, pastor of the Berean Presbyterian Church, she finds a special channel for various other energies in that work that is doing the most to humanize and elevate mankind. She is ardent in all Christian work, public-spirited and affectionate, and as a teacher, physician, mother and wife her life has been rich in incident, and with a modesty equal to her talents she invariably ascribes the attainment of her distinctions to persevering attention rather than to unusual mental capacity.

St. Augustine School, Raleigh, N. C, was founded in 1867 by the Rev. J. Brinton Smith, D. D., and has thus already completed its first quarter century. It is under the care of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which has always taken great interest in the support of higher