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276 instructor in English and Greek grammar, and also acted as secretary of the faculty. She has traveled and lectured throughout the State, under the Woman's Baptist Educational Convention, as State agent and otherwise; has served several years on the Board of Directors of the Colored Orphans' Home and as assistant matron of State University She has been upon the programmes of some of the largest meetings held in the South; is a good writer; is interested in both home and foreign missions. She is president of three large organizations in the State; has several times been a representative at the National Baptist meetings. She is now a member of the senior class in the Louisville National Medical College. She has saved her earnings and owns property. She advocates the right of woman to engage in any sphere of life. She has not forgotten her mother's help when in school. She is an example of piety and good works; a lover of her race; a coming power for a long neglected people as a leader and benefactor. She has recently received the degree of A. M. in course.