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2G6 representatives among us. But in no case has the onward march of progress been more generally marked than that of the Afro-American people.

Young men and women have sprung up and taken the lead in the affairs of this people as teachers and benefactors, whose influence and works can scarcely be estimated. Among our strong, resolute young women is Mrs. L. Hughes Brown, who was born of poor parents in the town of Mebanesville, N. C. She had but little opportunity for schooling, her mother having been taken from her by death while she was yet quite young, and leaving seven children to be cared for by this young woman.

The responsibility, though a great one, was well met, while at the same time she pursued her studies at home as best she could under the circumstances, and so advanced as to become able to teach school at a very early age.

In 1881 she entered Scotia Seminary at Concord, N. C., from which she graduated in 1885; after this devoting four years to teaching, a part of which time she taught in her Alma Mater.

In 1889 she was married to Rev. David Brown, a graduate of Biddle University at Charlotte, N. C.

In 1890 she matriculated in the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia., where she still pursues her studies.

Her progress, as can be seen at a glance, has been steadily forward. She is one of our coming female physicians from whom we are to expect great things in the future.