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ttvf • K+f1F^ttS%^^**miii>^m+ ' *•* %2=£3*f^4__ljsj If Mrs. Paul B. Aex had her way, I this little sketch of behind the jj A, scenes at No. 255 Woodbine Ave nue wouldn't have been written. Comptroller's Wife Would Rathe Mrs. Aex would then equal 'X' and we should have to leave it to Talk About Her Son Than Hers the dear public to solve this per sonality problem. But it wouldn't be fair to skip the attractive wife of the new comp troller of Rochester in rounding out this series. Rochesterian Appointed Executive Yes, Mrs. Aex is quiet, demure j—she doesn't like to talk about herself. There's a seventeen-year- Director of Woman's Associatio old Paul Aex, Jr., taller than she— and Mrs. Aex could not "be called • tTteg; "the little woman"—whom she Will Assist President*' of I would much rather talk about. And there's Dic-a-doo, the pedi National Body—Founder greed Boston bull, who snaps out Of Woman's City Club a welcome—a quick little piece, in whom Mrs. Aex takes great de As executive director of the light. American Women's Association, "Do I have a pet?"—that question I Mrs. Helen Probst Abbott, one of from the photographer — brought Rochester's most active woman \ forth the most animated part of •. •workers for woman's suffrage, the the interview. City Manager Plan, and the "You bet I do!" said Mrs. Aex, Woman's City Club which she snapped fingers and "Die" pranced founded, will embark upon a new in for a romp. enterprise when she assumes her; She is charming, vivacious, this duties in New York tomorrow' wife of the new' comptroller, when morning. just the family is around, we Mrs. Abbott's apnintment to the guessed, but she is camera and re A. \V. A wis made by Miss Anne porter-shy. Morgan, pi evident of the Associa Softly waived auburn hair, dark tion, whom it is repotted became eyes, intelligent and discriminat interested in Mrs. Abbott's activi ing, this woman of poise and grace ties in Rochester. Miss Morgan who presides over the Aex house- j will sail soon for Europe where she hold. She conducts her home in a will pass five months, and in her MRS. HELEN P. ABBOTT business-like way, quite the way absence Mrs. Abbott will fill her to please a husband who gets paid place and will remain as executive Democratic ticket, her candidacy for budget-balancing. director after Miss Morgan's re Indorsed by the City Manage "Before I married I vyas in turn. ! League. business and I have carried busi Mrs. Abbott began organizing the She called together the firs ness efficiency into my house Rochester Woman's City Club in (Rochester City Manager Commir hold," Mrs. Aex admitted. 19199 and served as president until ! tee and served that body as vice May, 1923. In her work to im chairman from 1925 to 1927. Sh prove women's legal status. 191 -J also has occupied the offices o to 1918. she was president i uaayY. \v. Rochester Political Equality Club Haile; and Chairman of the II 'cut County Woman Sufrage Associa Lawrence Univf i-ity. tion. In 1927 she was candidate for councilman from " IS and 21 of th< trict, having been named on the MRS. PAUL B:AEX
Attractive Mrs. Aex, Quiet and Demure, Car ries Early Business Training Into Home Management By BERTHA ARLIDGE Who are the ladies of the new city and County Democratic administration? How do they feel about the sudden transition from private life into the public spotlight? The Rochester Evening Journal herewith presents the third of a series of interviews with these ladies in an effort to answer some of these questions. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection
In 1877, Miss Motley married Taken by Death Charles E. Angle, son of Simon ! Xedder Angle of Rochester. Mr. Angle was also associated in the milling business founded by Mr.. Motley, and at his death in 1911 was president of the concern and active in business and civic circles. For many years, Mrs. Angle was a leader in social, philanthropic, V fi V' / and religious enterprises, and was known for her many benefactions. 5PAGE TWENTY-ONE For more than thirty years she served on the board of managers of Hillside Home for Children and its predecessor, the Rochester Orphan DEATH CLAIMS Asylum. Brick Church Member For sixty years, she was an ac tive member of Brick Presbyterian JESSIE BACON Church, and was at one time a member of its board of deacon esses. She was also a member of the Third Twig, and for several AT AGE OF 64 years was interested in Mechanics Miss Jessie Bacon, 64, of Oalt Institute. She was also a member Lane, Brighton, descendant of two families prominent in the legal MRS. CHARLES E. ANGLE of the Century Club, the Genesee Valley Club, and the Rochester profession for many years, died *t Country Club. the home of her brother, Leonard Of her eight brothers and sisters, B. Bacon, 868 Park Avenue. MRSHMGLE four, George, and Albert H. Motley, Born in Rochester, Sept. 4, 1868, Mrs. Albert O. Fenn, and Miss Jes Miss Bacon was the daughter of sie Motley, are dead. She leaves Theodore and Julia Selden Bacon. four sisters, Mrs. John C. Wood Her father was a practicing attori PASSES AFTER bury, Mrs. Edward A. Webster. ney in Rochester for many years. Mrs. Albert B. Eastwood, and Miss Her maternal grandfather wa« Maude Motley. Henry Rogers Selden, former judge Mrs. Angle also leaves two chil of the New York Court of appeals, dren, Wesley M. Angle and Mrs. and her paternal grandfather was BRIEF ILLNESS Freeman C. Allen, and seven grand Leonard Bacon of New Haven, children, Charles E., Richard W., Conn. Eleanor, Janet V. V., and George She is survived by two brothers, Waisn Leader for Many Yto M. Angle, and Frederick F. and both attorneys, Leonard B. Bacon Jane Allen. of Rochester and Henry Selden anRochested Socialr CircleChurcs h Funeral services will be conduct Bacon of Paris, France; two neph ed tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock ews, and a niece. at the residence, 295 Lake Avenue. For many years Miss Bacon was Mrs. Charles E. Angle, for many Dr. Justin W. Nixon, minister of a director and secretary of th© years active in religious and social Brick Presbyterian Church, will of Rochester Female Charitable So* circles of Rochester, died early yes ficiate. ciety. For two years at one period terday morning at her home, 295 in her life she engaged in settle \ Lake Avenue, after an illness of ment work among the moun* | several weeks following a cerebral taineers of North Carolina. thrombus. Mrs. Angle would have ( Funeral services will be conduct reached her 72d birthday next Sat ed in the home of her brother tc* urday, Dec. 21. morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Angle, who, before her mar Burial will be in Mt. Hope Ceme riage, was Ida Jane Motley, was tery. born in Rochester, the daughter of George Motley, formerly of Lin colnshire, Eng., and Ann Jane Haughton of Montreal, Que., who came to Rochester in 1856, soon after their marriage. She was the oldest of the nine children born to the couple. Father Founded Milling Finn Mr. Motley, an experienced mil ler, continued in the flour milling business after coming to Roches ter and in 1862, founded the firm, of Mosely, Motley, and Chapman, which became the present Mosely dieandd Motlein 1881y .Millin g Company, iie Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection
Who are the ladies of the new city and county Democratic administration? How do they feel about the sudden transition from private life into the public spotlight? The Rochester Evening Journal herewith presents the sixth of a series~~or itizervi&ws with Husband and Family j#en About these ladies in an effort to answer some of these questions^.g~^ U». By BERTHA ARLIDGE along with her to Washington and A partner In everything the fam were broadened considerably. ily's keen about—that's the title For example, Mrs. Baker, Pi which has made Mrs. Harold W. Beta Phi, national sorority of Baker, wife of Rochester's city which she is a member, function manager, a hunter, sailor, fisher ing with 300 members, many of man, track and football enthusiast. them prominent in the affairs of A few of the things this sports- the nation. The wife of the city loving family indulges in Mrs. Bak manager is a graduate of Syracuse er admits she does by proxy, but University and a member of Syra her interest always can be countea cuse chapter. upon. The College Women's Club, in Yesterday Mrs. Baker gratefully which she was active here, had accepted the opportunity to relax an attractive program, too, with and just talk, after the confusion many celebrities in its member of unpacking a family of four and ship. all its belongings at No. 284 Can "I had my greatest thrill in terbury Road. watching the wheels go 'round With a hint of nostalgia for the in Washington, "Mrs. Baker said. [ almost permanent sunshine of "Everywhere there were impor Washington, she told of leaving tant personages, things of great their house there on a day when moment going on." all the windows and doors were About this time thirteen-year-old open and the thermometer regis Jean, who accompanies her robust tered seventy all day. father on all his fishing trips- Mrs. Baker had a national slant deep sea, trout, it doesn't matter on politics during that fifteen what kind nor how long he fishes- months' stay in Washington, while joined the circle. her husband was engineer in "She's a good marksman, too," [ charge of construction for the Dis Mrs. Baker said. Goes quail and trict of Columbia. She is back in duck hunting with her father and i Rochester with a freshened point loves it." of view and a conviction that Welles, the sixteen year old son, | women need to know more about is the track, football and swimming national affairs. expert of the Baker family. All Those private interests developed the Bakers are looking forward to here—apart from the sailing, duck- the Summer on Canadice Lake. hunting and trout fishing which she And Mrs. Baker, as usual, expects does to be a good sport—went to join in the outdoor activities.
MRS. HAROLD W. BAKER JEAN BAKER
Wife of City Manager Joins in All Sports En joyed by Kin; Sees Need for Women to Know More of Politics. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection of the community as well. She Aide service became so helpful worked out a course of training in the hospital that it was ex and she had had the satisfaction tended to the dispensary, or out of seeing her small group grow patient department as it is now into an organization of 300 active called. The aide service in the MILDRED volunteer laywomen, who do not out-patient department is divided attempt, to do the work of the into two sections, the surgical Alon BOND trained worker, nurse or em- I and medical division, which in ploye, but who relieve the profes- j cludes nine clinics. Each clinic sional worker of much routine ( has one aide or a desk aide and work and release him for work \ a messenger aide and the clinics |Hospital Aide vsroup requiring more time, skill and i operate from one to four half training. Mrs. Baker was con days a week. A desk aide in the vinced that there was a real clinic keeps charts in order, lists Mrs Baker Formed need for just such a group. patients in rotation, makes ap Mrs. Baker's group is so well | pointments for return visits and Now Numbers 300 organized that each department | takes notes for the doctors. functions automatically. Each fi department has a director who is The messenger aide in the TF war or a pestilence suddenly responsible for not only his work, orthopedic clinic sees that x-ray were to sweep down on Roch but for the training of her assist plates and reports for appoint*- ester it is comforting to know ant or substitute aide and no ment cases are on the doctor's that there is in the city a volun aide enters a department until desk and takes patients to and teer group mobilized, trained she has been trained and is ready from the x-ray department. and already in action, capable to assume her duties and carry Medical aides report daily at 8:45 and willing to serve in any use on. a. m. and expect to make ful capacity in connection with At the hospital last year end patients comfortable and carry hospital work or community ing May 1, 14,910 hours of serv out doctor's orders. service. ice, or an average of 45 hours per The library service consists of This group was mobilized and year per worker, have been four services, ambulatory, desk, captained by Mrs. William J. recorded. evening, and reading. Five aides I Baker and serves in Rochester Mrs. Baker enlists volunteers take books to the patients in the I General Hospital. from different groups of women wards and private rooms to read . To watch the group as its with whom she comes in con and see that they are returned. ; members report for duty in their tact, but so popular has the work Books are freshly covered and respective departments at the become that now she usually has regular desk work done in lend- hospital, each attired in a trim only to approve or disapprove of ing and receiving books. In the blue uniform with white collars the services of any worker. evening there is a library aide in and cuffs, a perky blue cap, Women of different types are the library to serve the nurses. white rubber heeled shoes, their attracted to the work and to Reading service is also done sleeves bearing the insignia "Hos use each one to the best ad- by the library aides. The pital Aide" and many with library contains books in Eng chevrons for service, one is like lish, Italian, French, German, ly to think of them as a large vantage demands a high grade Russian, Ukraniana, Lithuanian, family of charming daughters of executive ability. Polish and Greek. Patients are and of Mrs. Baker as their proud There are now six Aide serv encouraged to read fiction that mother. These young women ices, clinic secretary, control has stood the test of time, biog have inspired confidence and desk, x-ray messenger and raphy, history, travel, poetry and added to the hospital an atmos library service and hostess. drama books. The public library phere of genuine and efficient First came the messenger responsible for the nucleus human interest and they have service, beginning with a uni now become a definite and organ formed aide in the front office of the library, but friends of the ized part of the life of the hos who carried flowers, packages, | hospital, such as the Cover to Cover Club, contribute to the 11? I pital. mail and hospital bills to the brary books and subscriptions to The young women have patients. Now all incoming par pledged themselves "to recognize cels are registered in a book magazines. the need of regular and prompt according to the nature of the This summer college girls home attendance, of courtesy and alert packages, the time of delivery for the holidays will care for the ness, attention to dress, manner, and the nurses to whom they children, teaching them games deportment and a strict observ were delivered. The messenger' and generally keeping them ance of professional ethics. aide takes the patient to his I happy~and contented wnile lh the The Volunteer Aide Service of ward, nurse or room. She sends hospital. The Sunday crowd de the hospital was founded in 1917 telephone messages and tele mands extra aides and they are by a group of six women headed grams for the patient. In 1930 supplied from the ranks of work by Mrs. Baker. It was another ( a paid social worker was placed ing people. case of necessity being the moth in the bottom in the front office Mrs. Baker's services are by no er of invention, for volunteer to carry the responsibility perma means confined to the work of workers were sorely needed nently from 8:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. the hospital alone, for she is the amid a shortage of physicians m. There is a volunteer on duty chairman of the Volunteer De and nurses during the war and to do errands and relieve at the partment of Social Agencies, later during an influenza epi booth. This work is divided into which co-ordinates the work of demic and a large tonsil and three shifts and different volun .69 Rochester social agencies and adenoid clinic. Mrs. Baker made teers come different days. acts as interpreter to the com a careful study, not only of all Visiting rules necessitate an munity of the need for social phases of the hospital work, other member for service to di service and the type of service night and dav. but of the needs MRS. WILLIAM T. BAKER rect visiting in the wards. Two given. Any agency wanting hundred persons or more are al service may ca.ll upon her and lowed one visitor apiece at a receive information and the gerr- time and red cards are issued at ice desired. the booth. Another aide is re quired at the ward to hear com plaints, watch babies and bundles, make dressings and tour wards and change visitors at the end of visiting hours and clear the Ware* 4f Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection
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ROCHESTER'S representative actrees, Miss Roberta Beatty, Rochester Aviatrix S< taking a long look into the future finds it hard to determine whether the movies can ever t0 take the. place in her life the stag3 with its living actors has had. &9# f^l^M^mi Holding a contract with War p.i-i W77J 54 court St. ner Brothers and contemplating a venture into the films in the late Boston, July 28— OLDEST TEMPI BERITH K0DES3 ducation fc*AC The oldest mernber of Temple iBerith Kodesh, Mrs. Sarah Sloman Benjamin, died yesterday morning i at the age of 97 years at her home I at 228 Westminster Road. She was the widow of Solomon M. Benja min. Coming to America when 15 Genesee Wesleyan Seminary Site to finish a course including Lat [years old, with her parents from in and other advanced subjects London, she was wont to recall how then rarely incuded in the edu [cows used to roam in the streets cation of women in any sphere jof Rochester, and the absence of Given bWOMEy Noted Attorney of Last N of life. Amanda Bennett be (buildings on the Main Street Bridge. came Mrs. J. B. Whitbeck of Among other things that she Century Whose Legal Successes Rochester, active in philan /ould draw from her long life to thropic work and mistress of a lescribe was the fair which was home that dispensed oldtime iucted by the General Hospital And Final Strange Disappearance hospitality. | to aid in caring for the sick and After Mrs. Whitbeck's two [wounded soldiers of the Civil War, Lincoln's visit to Rochester and Cast About His Name a Clamor daughters were married and she other phases m Rochester, of the had become a grandmother, she Civil War. entered the lumber firm of Foley, She was born In London in De That Was Slow to Fade. Whitbeck * Duncan. Owing to cember. 1836. and her trip to this her training, exceptional for a country required six weeks. <>n the sight Had Advanced Ideas i young woman for her generation, She is survived by two sons. Mot- ly hill at Lima where Augustus Bennett thought be! she gave much time in the com TIS H.. of Rochester, and Marcus Genr yond his time in the education! pany's office, working on its G. of Atlantic City; two daughter*. innry stands were Fanny of Rochester, and Mrs. Flora of women. He said that his' books and attending to details wars never anything three daughters should have the much as young women of today Rich of Atlantic City, and one but that school's cam brother, SelUm Sloman of Roches same advantages as his three do after completing their edu pus, within the memory of per ter. sons. Institutions for coeduca cation. She was accomplished in Funeral services will he con sons who this year celebrated tion were uncommon then; music, painting and the fine ducted Monday morning at the seminary's 100th anniversary. and when the seminary at Lima needlework in which women in O'clock at the he Many years ago, in another cen admitted both men and women her youth took pride. [in Mt. Hope Ce tury, they were given by Augus it was an exceptional school tus A. Bennett, a well-known both on account of this fact and Admired Miss Anthony r of Western New York. the courses it provided. Years This woman appreciated Susan But this is nmv rarely recalled, ago the college now at Syracuse B Anthony when many others save by his descendants. Ev^n was on the grounds of the sem did not tniptate her. Some men they never aaw the man, but the inary, but in 1871 it was moved disapproved of their daughters Story of things he did and a -come a part of Syracuse even hearing Miss Anthony, so mystery which ever hung dense University. At Lima it was Gen- keen w-as the prejudice against ly nvrr his end made tales of a woman who dared to take the "Grandpa" Bennett sound lik* platform and lure her sisters into oldest daughter, the affairs of state and nation. Amanda. was on* of the Amanda Bennett had a differ- >men i n New York S — Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection A record of this trial, bound ent father. On one occasion of Livingston County. He was a told a granddaughter. Al separately, is preserved in the nett's oldest son, George, went when the equal suffragist had powerful and indefatigable pub though she married young, her library of the city historion at to the Middle West, then known been detained and was late for lic prosecutor and stood high at name is in an early catalog at Edgerton Park. The speech/ as "the wilds" of Michigan. If a meeting where she was to the bar." the seminary as an assistant Bennett made at this trial did members of the i family heard speak, the graduate of Genesee teacher. not save Baron from the pen In another place in the same years afterward of an aged man Wesleyan jumped onto the plat College professors taught there book, is this: by the name of Bennett living form and held the audience until alty of his crime, but it enhanced "At the age of 21, Gov. John and all departments were open the reputation of the attorney, as a recluse, or anything which Miss Anthony arrived. to women. Even in the old cata Long entered the office of A. might point to the probability With all these progressive logs the department of languages already wider than his home Bennett, then a prominent lawyer that Bennett had suffered a tendencies, Mrs. Whitbeck was community. Years after all these practicing at East Avon." offered Hebrew, Greek and s distinctly feminine in both man events were dimmed, except on Latin, as well as French, Ger lapse of memory, they took hope. ner and appearance. She had Mr. Bennet lived at one time The horse may haye witnesesd printed pages, Mrs. Whitbeck, man and Spanish. Philosophy, in Avon and at another in Lima a tragedy; perhaps its master's feminine delight in fine logic, chemistry and higher formerly Omanda Bennett, heard and practiced law in several sudden loss of recollection, but clothing «nd tasteful surround mathematics had their places in the late Judge James Lansing towns in this neighborhood. the secret was its own. So far the courses. Mrs. Martha Hol- ings such as her own workman Angle of Rochester say that The first secretary and treas- • as human knowledge was con lister Barnard of Lima, who was ship that adorned her home. this plea made him decided to urer of the seminary's first board j cerned, every trace seemed ob graduated 75 years ago, said re She made and presented to her become a lawyer. Five years of trustees, Mr. Bennett remained literated. cently that she studied theology married daughters many such after the trial, in 1843, the "fu a member for three years. After in this seminary. She is, so far Never Lost Hope articles. She gained some knowl ture judge was admitted to the 1833 has name was absent from as is known, the second oldest Mrs. Bennett lived with a sus edge of law while at times stay bar. the list until 1836, when it again living alumna. She knew well pense that seemed never to merge ing with her father in his of An account of the trial in an appeared, and is found in*1836- Mary, the second daughter of into despair. After she was a fice, and years later drafted her other volume, also in the city 1838. This school had trustees Mr. Bennett. grandmother, she still believed own will. historian's library, refers to for a year or more before it was she would see her husband again. Mr. Bennett, her father, al Bennett as "a man of fine pres opened. Strange Disappearance Sha lived to be 80 years old. though not of Rochester, had an ence, large and commanding fig Back in 1818 Mr. Bennett had Almost on the date of Mr. and active part in the life of this sec ure." His plea at the close of married Maria Pierson, sister of Mrs. Whitbe^k's marriage, in §>he had a widow's pension be tion. He was counsel for the de- the trial, the writer says, was Frederick Pierson, formerly well- September, 1839, Mr. Bennett cause her husband had served I fense in the first murder trial "one of great force, brilliancy and known in Livingston County and left home on horseback for a in the war of 1812. She stood conducted in Monroe County, that excellence." This trial was said to have had the best farm business trip. He stopped in erect and bore herself as one of Octavius Baron. The case opened on May 28, 1838, and con there, near to Avon. A thread of Dansville and drew a large sum whom life had never really van was tried in Rochester and, his tinued 10 days. When Bennett the unusual seemed every now of money—thousands of dollars torians say, stirred the young city rose to make the final appeal and then to appear in the* life of quished. With a poise uncom —from the bank with which he from end to end. The prisoner] for the prisoner, he said: Bennett. It was seen in his had been connected, to open a mon, she continued her duties. was a young Frenchman of 18 courtship. Maria Pierson thought branch bank in another village. Augustus Bennett was the son years. His victim was William Early Legal Oratory that he came to her home to see He rode his horse out of sight of the Rev. James Bennett; the Lyman, who bought grain for "Before I got up I had just an older sister. After he had and never was seen again. He the City Mills and was known to been thinking, we say that the been there repeatedly, when he Hth child in a family of 16. was gone many days before any carry at times large sums of prisoner's rights are regarded as called one. evening she rose to Father and mother were born in grave fears were aroused for his money. .sacred here and that the laws leave the room, and he rose, safety, owing to the mode of Connecticut. They came to the are administered in mercy; yet, caught her by the arm, and told travel in that period. Mails farm now known as the "Saund Hears Fatal Shot if you wilt cast your reflections were slow; many reached towns ers" farm, nearly a half mile On the evening of Oct. 23, ] on the nations of Europe, you her it was she whom he came to only by stage coach or a mount 1837, Lyman had some $6,000 on will there find that the prisoner see. After he asked her to marry from East Bethany, sometimes ed carrier. As Mr. Bennett's his person. The shot Baron has the privilege and benefit of him, she told him that she would called "Little Canada," Genesee active life often had taken him fired at Lyman's back in a va the last address to the jury. The give the answer in one year. into various places, it was not County. The Rev. Mr. Bennett cant lot in the vicinity of An-1 last words that fall upon their Fostered Education deemed peculiar for him to be had served in the Revolutionary drews Street an In The Democrat, forerunner Finally Finds Grave of The Democrat and Chronicle, The letter was from Mrs. | I dated Sept. 19, 1839, is a notice f6 Kellv of East Rethany. f of the marriage of Jeremiah B. When Mrs. Kelly found the j Whitbeck and Sarah Amanda grave, the headstone was in SUCS I Bennett. Another old paper of condition that she feared, if it {Genesee WeslexanWesleyan SenrinSeminary's first building, erected in 1S32 and destroyed by fire in 1842. Augustus Bennett was a founder ]Mrs. Maria Pierson Bennett, and first treasurer, tv.v District-Attorney of Livingston County, he tried first murder case in Monroe County. who lived 40 years in suspense over the mysterious disappear ance of her husband, Augustus A. Bennett, early advocate of higher education for women. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection FATHER ONCE In 1901-3, Mr. Carter was a mem KsRbester" ber of the Hawaiian Senate. Fol Tess lowing the stormy days in which FUNERAL RITES \1 WWFDR Of\C- p Jessie Bon^. v la the pa^smgL^'Jessie^oiftsteiie' Jessie Bonstelle, Who. whole^nealyicaPmike that of Rochester ifoU*** is closely linked, the" American stage loses Died in Detroit, to Be £^cAaJU2t.Jessi e Bonstejjg' a rare talent, not only for art of acting it Buried Feside Husband f self, but in all branches of stagecraft. in Mt. Hope Cemetery her $wmn righ^ t A anJJI//\:> actress ancT m a capacit/J' y foJr Jessie Bonstelle was more than a clever -^ developing histrionic talent in others, Jessie Bonstelle, and gifted actress. In addition she un Funeral services for Jessie Bon-; P •n right ^s an actress ancTin a'capacity for stelle Stuart, actress, who died Sat dead rDe troit at seventy-one, upheld the best tradition. derstood the theatrical business thorough urday in Detroit were to be con-1 of the stage and gave it presage- „ . ly and had an uncanny gift for recogniz ducted this afternoon at 4:301 It was in this vicinity that she was ^n Jlere xn ama ing and helping budding genius. o'clock at Mt. Hope Chapel. teur dramatics was the beginning of her brilliant career Her first venture in the production The body of Mrs. Stuart, known i on the stage by her maiden name, I Here—in the old Cook Opera House-some of her greatest field was here where she started a stock Jessie Bonstelle, arrived in Roches- | stage triumphs were won. ;- company in the old Cook Opera House. ter this afternoon. She was a na- % Rochester always claimed her as its own. Her Rochester reception as a producer so tive of Webster and lived here as i ?nL cftv waTched with pride as she made a steady as- encouraged her that she later operated a young woman. In Detroit approximately 25,0001 tentto famVafTer she left to devote her talents to the stage. stock companies in Buffalo, Providence, persons filed past the Bonstelle | ' WheTshe returned, as she did at intervals over a long Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. bier in her workshop, the Detroit f snan of years, in stock and in road companies, she was In her own theater in Detroit to which Civic Theater, as Catholic, Jew and \ her recent years have been given she was Protestant eulogized the theatrical £. ^ven the^ntfmate, friendly welcome that is associated with leader in memorial services yester-1 ^wTth^'inherent love for the theater Miss Bonstelle her own producer, often her own play day. continued to grace it close to the end of her days. Only a wright, lead, costume designe^ and press Rabbi Leo M. Franklin spoke ^ snSrttime ago she was heard in Rochester over the radio o gfpnt from the stage which once had I Although the bulk of her theatrical been his pulpit when the theater | from a Detroit station. . ._ , ._. work was in the "provinces" she had not was the Temple Beth El. He spoke I In a field for which she was exceptionally gifted, Miss lacked New York successes as well, both of the theater's founder as the pos-1 Bonstelle brought entertainment to tens of thousands who sessor of the "most extraordinary I as performer and producer. will mourn the passing of a great actress and maker of stars. courage I have ever known." The American stage today needs more Her friend, Mayor Frank Mur h ability. ~ff.T*# GUjfftfiy' phy, described her as "a magnificent I inspiration to all who knew her." "We are gathered in her work-1 shop to honor her memory," Dr.« Chester B. Emerson of North I Woodward Congregational Church, | said in opening the memorial services. The Rev. Frank G. Sayers, D. D., pastor of the Baptist Temple, was to officiate at Mt. Hope this after- non and the following were to serve as bearers: S. Rae Hickok, William R. Cor ns, William G. Kaelber, Fred, Haak, Harry McFarlane and John F. Stamp. The body will be buried beside that of her husband, Alexander H. Stuart. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection More than 2f>,000 peoplefiled past ] »er bier Sunday in the Detroit OCTOBKK IS, 10;]2 MANY FRIENDS ?ivic Theater and arrangements fori Jfc* ceeping the theater open from 11 to y^. had to be extended to 8:30 o'clock! AT RITES FOR ecause of the crowds. The stagel; Jessie Bonstelle, Actress and Maker ^ 3f the theater was banked with Sowers sent from all parts of the i world by men and women in and' NOTED ACTRESS aut of the theatrical world who Of Stars', Comes Home for Final 'Curtain' knew "Bonnie." The Sunday eve- j Continued from rage Thirteen Ping service in Detroit was parti ~TT| •W^P^*^P^f P f] ; - ;;« 'Made the Stars' cipated in by: Mayor Frank Mur-I VI.V. A& • JS "if Mr. Sayers quoted Grace George's phy of Detroit, Rabbi Leo Frank-] HI'* *•* *?s| " and reci'a'l work. Kvcntually she joined the Over-There Thea ter League and sang for the United States troops in France and for the Army of Occupa tion. In the fall after the Armistice she came to Rochester to teach and became a member of the faculty of the Eastman School. Today Miss Call, a tall, vivid per sonality of commanding speech Miss Julia CassfdyC Born and eloquent gestures, is com pletely devoted to music and' relates the adventures and mis Here 101 Years Ago, Dies adventures of her career with RITES TOMOI telling words. Asked if she th thought the radio Is proving a A4fismS,m£9y" Avenue hardship to musicians, she ex FOR MRS. C pressed the opinion that the och Dies in loift~Year Miss Julia Cassidy died this hardship was only temporary and ' . irq morning at the family home, 512 that the situation would straight Mrs. Helen S. D. South Avenue. She was in hofi en itself out. yesterday, after a brief Illness, at 101st year. "Taxing of radio sets and the home of her daughter, Mrs. Miss Cassidy passed the cen government subsidy of symphony Howard S. Thomas, 594 Harvard tury mark December 22 last, orchestras and opera companies Street, where she has made her when she received a call from would endure the musical de home for several years. Mrs. Car Bishop John Francis O'Hern and velopment of each community," ter was the widow of Lieut.-Col Ed was hostess to many friends. Shej she said. "Such a system would ward C. Carter, who died in 1910. appeared in good health at that j do away with prohibitive prices, Colonel Carter was a member of the time and it was her proud boast furnish employment and contri Medical Corps of the U. S. Army, and that she never had been "a fret bute to the artistic growth and served in many important capaci ful old maid." pleasure of the country." ties, including service as Chief Born in 1831 in Sophia Street, Miss Call admits that Paul Staff Surgeon in the Phillippine Miss Cassidy recalled the first St Horgan, in his novel "The Fault Islands, and personal surgeon to Patrick's Church and the visits of Angels," Jn his character, President Taft, when the latter here of Bishop Timon of Buffalo. Julie Rale, drew a composite was Governor of the Phillippine Wf When Immaculate Conception picture of Miss Marion Weed and Islands. He also served with f /' ' ' Church was built she joined that herself. She recognizes in the \ ' ^JA Bishop Brent, as a member of Vi* .•4%i **. a parish. Up to a few years ago book many of her conversations the Opium Commission in 1903, K she did all her housework, includ n'.*< y*%u *^"amM with Mr. Horgan. which investigated the opium traf ft •\ *M ing the scrubbing of the kitchen Some of Miss Call's outstand fic in the far East floor. Her father was long-lived ing pupils here have been Mrs. Carter took a prominent and her mother died at the age Santina Leona, Inez Quinn and part during the war in the Red of 74. Marian Keeler, a former member Cross Work, serving overseas in Miss Cassidy made her home of the Roxy ensemble. France, and among other things with / a niece, Miss Caroline A. having charge of the care of the Whitney, who, with four other! French refugees who were evacu nieces and a nephew, are. the sur ated from the St. Mihiel Sector vivors, Mrs. James Hanna and] after the Americans recaptured this Mrs. Jennie Pauckner of Rochester, salient. Mrt, Emma Natt of New York City, j Prayer service will be held to Mrs. A. C. McNeal of Washington.] morrow afternoon at the funeral and William Cassidy. parlors of Ingmlre & Thompson, The body has been removed to 137 Chestnut Street. Services will c the Hedges & Hoffman funeral be conducted at the Fort Chapel at Miss Julia Cassidy parlors, 141 Scio Street, where the Fort Meyer, Va. Burial will be in funeral services will take place the National Cemetery mt Arling Saturday at 8:30 a. m. and at St. ton at 11 o'clock Friday, where Col. Mary's Church at 9. Burial will Carter is buried. "TfJTf.yt/'t*be in Holy SeptUche r Cemetery, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection i? Miss Julia Cassidv, Centenarian, , ,,..„,« Dies at Hpme in South Avenue \^J^^\lttp^ lftfft S f N G LE Kft.AjtcJtti/fit If you're looking for happiness and a ripe old age, stick to the path of single blessedness. 30 That's the advice of Rochester's oldest resident, Miss JuliSDCasSRdy, who celebrated her one gufldtjedth birthday today at the hoSeA>Oher niece, Miss Caroline WhgnO'i^No. 512 South Avenue, withgaObpl of blarney for each of the^jcJpm of visitors who dropped in." «•* ~ r Cheerful? Sure, she iZvCft-Qsaw anything but the bright fitdp* of life. That's why she liv Di.r MISS JULIA CASSIDY Bom in Rochester in 1831, She Had Observed Herj 100th Birthday Last Dec. 22—Among First Rochester Journal Photo 0chQtxl r Immaculate Conception Church Members MISS JULIA CASSID¥ f (y^ Rochester's oldest resident was obseK/mg *¥£-- °W®" One of Rochester's few cen late Conception Church was built [hundredth birthday today. Miss Cassidy wlS^tftHTO in* tneJj tenarians, Miss Julia Cassidy, died she joined that church. Plymouth Avenue section and spent her life in this city. She was able to do her house yesterday morning at the family Bishop O'Hern called on her today to offer his congratula- work until a few years ago. Hei home, 512 South Avenue. She cele father lived a long life and herS Itions. It is his picture that is on the table beside her. brated her 100th birthday last Dec. mother died at 74. She had many! 22. friends, among them the Rt. Rev.] The body rests at 141 Scio Street, John Francis O'Hern, Catholic! where funeral services will be bishop of Rochester, who was! conducted Saturday morning at among those who called upon her| 8:30 o'clock and at St. Mary's on her 100th birthday. Church at 9 o'clock. Burial will Miss Cassidy made her home j be in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. with her niece, Miss Caroline A. Miss Cassidy was born in Sophia Whitney. She leaves four other j Street in 1831. Among her many nieces, Mrs. James Hanna and Mrs. I memories were those of the first Jennie Pauckner of Rochester, Mrs. j | St. Patrick's Church and the visits Emma Natt of New York and Mrs. this city of the late Bishop A. C. McNeal of Washington, and Timon of Buffalo. When Immacu a nephew, William Cassidy. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection NXxa3-i*>. :,, ..°^' vwrf iy"U^ Final Tribute Accorded c_ Mrs. Jean arke, Noted For Hi Philanthropies Funeral services for Jdrs. Jean 186734334 f, Clarke, 67, widow of Sherman Marke, prominent in civic, patrio' SffSZ. r; and philanthropic affairs of rs. Marie -'•• '*& _ins Dies [Rochester, who 'iied yesterdav were conducted this morning at HP^S o'clock at ber home, 30 EusttOC Jn Visit to Long Island; (Street. The Rev. George E. Norto •T. D., rector of St. Paul's Epteco pal Church, officiated. Burial Wa? Actlye in Hospital Work in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mrsrs.. Marie Murray ^Collins, 54, brated Monday morning at 8:30 Bearers were students from th" wife of Frank J. Collins, of 244 o'clock in Sacred Heart Convent Colgate-Rochester Divinity Schoe! Grosvenor Road, red in Great chapel in Prince Street. Members I Mrs. Clarke, before her illness, Neck, L. I., Monday night. of the alumnae will attend. was active in many philanthropic She went to New York to spend Funeral services will be < I organizations. During the World the holidays with her mother, Mrs. ducted Friday morning at ; War she organized relief agencies M. S. McMahon, and continued her o'clock from her home and a^T.01 which were in full swing when th.? o'clock at Blessed Sac^frnent J order came from Washington for trip to Great Neck last Saturday, where she was the guest of a sis-j Church. Burial will be/Tn Hoiy | the co-ordination of all -mch activi Sepulcher Cemetery. ties under the Red Cross and she ter, Mrs, James Deyea. She suf was among the first to aid in thio fered a heart attack there. An co-ordination. other sister, Mrs. John F. Daily, Art Collection resides in Buffalo. In later years sha interested her Mrs. Collins, who was horn In self in aiding cultural agencies in Corning, N. Y., had for years been the city. During years of travel interested in charity work, particu abroad with her husband, the latf larly at St. Mary's Hospital. Sister Sherman Clarke, she had assem Gertrude, in charge of the hospital, bled many beautiful and rare ob pjiid this tribute to her: "St. jects of art and a few years ago Mary's has lost one of its best began the systematic distribution friend^kwhose services and loyalty of these to Rochester Institutions. can nevv^be forgotten by the Sis First editions from Mr. Clarkjs ters ofS^puALV- She excelled as book collection were given to the an organiiS^mCjjyher almost daily Rush Rheos and Rochester li presence in tw^oJpj^aJ was, by her braries; many art objects and his sunny disposition*^ nflfl(eflrnest en toric mementos of Rochester to the deavor for the suffering?^ source | Rochester Historical Society. Mrs. Sherman Clarke of comfort and pleasure that few mortal Art Gallery and Municipal In the Monroe County Record of could provide." Museum. Mrs. Clarke also Inter-' the World War compiled by City Tw.. go M'-" Collins or- ested herself in purchasing ftomi Historian Edward R. Foreman, he Hospital Aid Associa young Rochester artists exampren; Mrs. Clarke contributed the chap- tion, enrolling 45 young women for of their work for Memorial Arfj ter on "Service of the Rochester work ids. at the informa Gallery. Women's Truck Corps." tion desk and in distributing flow During the World War she was! Mrs. Clarke was instrumental in ers, letters and books. She was Monroe County chairman of the; organizing child welfare work in president of the Seton Workers National Surgical Dressings Com- the state and when the local board at ion of St. Mary's Hospital. mlttee and assisted in trainingj was organized she was named a }\fv Interest in the welfare ot women In making of surgical' member by the late Justice John young Ctrl? was illustrated by her dressings In Monroe, Wayne, Or- B. M. Stevens. She was elected work in the Big Sister Council. leans, Ontario and Livingston where she wis R director and as counties and afterward continued temporary secretary until a paid a. rlirrrtor of Rarat Circle, com work under the Red Cross. She secretary was appointed, was a| posed of the Sacred Heart alumnae. was also chairman of the women's member and vicechairman at t Mrs. Collins was educated ar Tor- committee in the war loan cam time of her death. redale Convent, Order of Sacred paign. Heart, near Philadelphia. General Chairman A requiem mass will be cele- She was genera! chairman of the war relief committee of the Rochester Federation of Women's Clubs, organized the first motor truck corps for women, was a member of the registration boa'-d of District 7, 12th Ward, was a member of the speakers' organiza tion committee, covering towns. factories and schools, a member of the women's committee, Council of National Defense and assisted in the food conservation drive. Central Library ofnr Rochesternir-nnii and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection U',., j i of Monroe Junior-Senior High George E. Eddy of Washington School; Frank M. Jenner of Whit- Junior High School; A. H. Downey nev School No. 17; Squire H. Snell of Ellwanger and Barry School 24; of Concord School No. 18; Clifford- LEADERS WILL ICharle s E. Finch, director of junior Stark of Audubon School No. 33; high schools for the Board of Mark Way of Henry Lomb School! Education; Jackson Gallup of No. 20; Nathaniel G. West of Char Francis Parker School 23; William lotte High School, arid Albert H. iHSMfftACHER!E . Hawley of Monroe Junior-Senior ,st High School. High School; Frank M. Jenner of Whitney School 17; Squire H. Snelt of Concord School 18; Clifford Stark ATJ&TOQBAY of Audubon School 33; Mark Way of Henry Lomb School 20; Nathaniel G. West of Charlotte High School. and Albert H. Wilcox of East High worked for^ years in the public School. school system paid their last trib Be Conducted for Friends Express Sorrow ute today to Nellie F. Cornell, dean Grieved at the death of Miss of grade school principals. Cornell, hundreds of friends and A guard of honor representing Nellie F. Cornell former pupils called the home, the Rochester Teachers' Associa 1113 Clinton Avenue South, yes tion, all of them veterans in the Leaders in Rochester's civic, re-jterda y to express their sorrow. service, was stationed from noon Through all circles of Rochester | until 3:30 p. m. in Brick Presb ligious and educational life, as! life news of the veteran teacher's p terian Church, where the body lay well as counfless former pupils,) death came as a distinct shock. in state. will pay their last tribute to Missj Miss Cornell, who died Saturday, jj Outliving many of her former Nellie F. Cornell, veteran of 62| aged 92, after an illness of 10 days B pupils, Miss Cornell at ninety-two, years as a grade school teacher entered the school system in 1883 I died Saturday at her home, No. and principal in Rochester's public as a teacher at Andrews School 9. I 1113 Clinton Avenue South. She school system, at funeral services Before she retired from the pub- | entered the school system in 1883 i this afternoon lie school system in June, 1924 she f as teacher at Andrews School No. j 9. At the time of her retirement, j Rites will take place at 3:30 had been principal of Ellwanger & | Barry School 24 for 47 years. in June, 1924, she had been prin-, j o'clock in Brick Presbyterian cipal of Ellwanger & Barry School j Church, followed by burial in No. 24 for forty-seven years. [ Mount Hope Cemetery. The Rev. EXPRESS SORROW I Justin W. Nixon, D. D., and the Hundreds of former pupils and! Rev. Gerard B. F. Hallock, D. D„ friends called yesterday to express will afficiate. their sorrow. Probably more than Bearers Selected any other teacher and principal The honorary bearers, represent here, Miss Cornell had kept con ing the Board of Education and tacts with her former pupils. other Rochester organizations, Funeral services took place at were announced yesterday as fol 3:30 p. m. with the Rev. Dr. Justin lows: Herbert S. Weet, superin-j W. Nixon and the Rev. Dr. Gerard itendent of schools; Joseph P. B. F. Hallock officiating. | O'Hern, deputy superintendent, and Dr. Herbert S. Weet, superinten Dr. Frederick H. Zimmer, Charles dent of schools, headed the list of F. Wray, James P. B. Duffy, (honorary bearers. Others were: Mark Way, William Horshler, A.S Joseph P. O'Hern, deputy superin- H. Downey, Wesley M. Angle,] I tendent, and Dr. Frederick H. Zim j George Williams, Charles Tobey, mer, Charles F. Wray, James P. B. Charles Schlegel, the Rev. Conrad | j Duffy, Mark Way, William Horsh H. Moehlman, Ph. D ..Theodore C. ler, A. H. Downey, Wesley M. An JCazeau and William Sadden. gle, George Williams, Charles To- The active bearers, all relatives I I bey, Charles Schlegel, the Rev.» of Miss Cornell, will be Elmer] j Conrad H. Moehlman, Ph. D.. Theo Clare, Arthur Link, Clarence Bul dore C. Cazeau and William | lard, Walter Eullard, Frank Tel I Sadden. ler and Raymond Nesbitt. GUARD OF HONOR As the body lies in state at thej Active bearers, all relatives of ' (church from noon until the funeral! Miss Cornell, were Elmer Clare, ? services have been completed, a) Arthur Link, Clarence Bullard, Wal guard of honor representing the ter Bullard, Frank Teller and Ray-i Rochester Teachers' Asociation and mond Nesbitt. composed of man principals of Serving in the guard of honor jf Rochester schools and a Board of were: Education official will watch over Howard S. Bennett of Edison I the bier. These men themselves Technical High School; George W. f veterans in the service of educa Cooper of Theodore Roosevelt j tion in Rochester, will make up j School No. 43; David W. Densmore J the guard of honor: Howard S. of Kodak School No. 41; George E. | Bennett of Edison Technical High Eddy of Washington Junior High School; George W. Cooper of Theo School; A. H. Downey of Ellwanger dore Roosevelt Schl 43; David W. j and Barry School No. 24; Charles ; ore of Kodak School EschoolJacksoSchoo. Finchls n Nofo ,Gallur. directo th23e;p Boar Williaorf dFrancio fo mfjunio EducationK.s HawleParkerr highy; ; j Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection mm 10 FINAL, SINCERE Miss Nellie Cornell, Dean TRIBUTE PAID Of Teachers, Dies Aged 92 MISS CORNELL! Active in Civic. ljfea»«-ia-^SiS^*dMiaSMMflii6Mrti!!^^^ -• _ Served More than 60 ! TRIBUTE PAID Continued from Page Thirteen Through almost a century her Years in Schools life was identified with this com I MISSCQRNELL munity that we love. From small beginnings she saw it grow to its Rochester yesterday was called « HI. TAfcs* ^ present position and power in the on to mourn the passing of the ~ a~J.«rffeat TttW" world. And as our city with its dean ctf its educators, Miss Nellie gathering strength and richer life F. Cornell, who served the city Her Life art Spiring did not grow old, so- she did not for 62 years as a grade school frow old. The years came upon teacher and principal. er with their handicaps but her Miss Cornell, who was 92, died spirit remained ever young. yesterday morning ' at her home, Example, Minister. We thank Thee for this undying 1113 Clinton Avenue South, after spirit of youth which enabled her an illness of 10 days of pneumonia. to take life "tiptoe to the very Teaching, to Miss Cornell, was last." We bless Thee for that a labor of love, and from her Says at Funeral eagerness and curiosity with thousands of Rochesterians re which she never ceased to look out ceived their elementary education. upon a world which never lost for For the last 47 years of her service her its mystery and its loveliness. she was principal of Ellwanger & We praise Thee for that Independ Barry School 24, during which ence of thought which made her time she was closely associated To Nellie F. Cornell, dean of an individual who stood apart from for many years with Herbert S. Rochester's grade school principals, Krr*»,-0 ™mtfif' v,We .are grateful Weet, superintendent of Roches . -_. , ° *,. r ' for the essential happiness of her MISS NELLIE F. CORNELL ter Public Schools. Doctor Weet her friends paid grave and sincere spirit even when the physical bur- The dean of Rochester educatord last night paid to Miss Cornell this tribute yesterday as they gathered dens of life seemed great, and for and probably the oldest teacher ir around her bier at Brick Presby- f™,,^0,™"^11,1 7Lith Yhkh s,he tribute: the United States in point of serv-f • «...«« rn,„™i, looked forward to the unknown fu- D*\ Weet's Tribute ice, Miss Cornell entered the public terian Church. ture. Truly this day is for her a "The death of Mis Cornell marks school system in 1863 as an instruct Several hundred attended the graduation time. Such lives by the end of quite a remarkable life. tor in Andrews School 9, and dur he fu,n their eonfi J brief services at which the Rev. %l*}* °: ^ S7fJv . - Her years of service as a teacher ing her career saw the city's sys T . <.• ,ir »!• T-. T-. i , x dence, their nobility of temper, in the public schools of Rochester tern develop to its present level| Justin W. Nixon, D. D., minister help us to look forward with hope are of course most favorably from the post-bellum stage int of Brick Presbyterian Church, and to that immortal life upon which known to every citizen. Since her which there were only a handful; 1 S H C nter the Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D., ^fJ t £f o - retirement as principal of Ellwang of elementary schools and one high) F . • • i. ... or the many services of our er & Barry School 24 in 1924, her school, the old Free Academy. former assistant minister presided, friend through a long life to the interest in the educational inter The daughter of a family promt-J There was a little company of rela- educational institutions of our city, nent in the early history of Roch-' th ar k Thee our Fathc ests of Rochester have not in any fives; officers of the Board of Edu- ,T^ „ l ' F- . Here. way lagged. There has scarcely j ester, she watched the span of j cation who recognized in Miss Cor- fcts o^thousands'wn^ha^beS been an educational gathering of nearly a century in the city's his answers to her ;nel Cornell a l greabelovet teacherd throughou; associatet thse her pupils and herelestlons we pra, yIS^^ herH any great importance in the city tory, from the days of the War of I 1 and former pupils who enjoyed her satisfactiomemory man foy r remain a precious city. Doctor Nixon spoke in his restless hunger that Miss Cornell has not attended. 1812, as heard by her from the! ,i„.,„ v,,,~,„r >,,_,. -.- *~ i-- i„ legacyfor kno, avn altar unon which future [prayer of eulogy. He saia d tin part: id experience, She was always welcome*, and her lips of her grandfather, through the j lively humor, her penetrating in- generations mav kindle the flame We thank Thee, our Father, for 1 challenge her typical manner of good cheer and years to 1932. telligence, and her kindliness. To of devotion to the Ideals for which the spirits of just men and women the unfailing optimism helped many of us Saw City Develop these mourners this friend of 92 ene ltved. made perfect, whose memories rise BearersKi n Actl She was born in Rochester Oct.! ..„„..,. ...«_ I_J«_J ,..._..__ t. _i_i* » And so it is w th a hail and a along." about us now like a cloud of wit Honorary bearers representing! 12, 1840, the daughter of Stephen ! years was Indeed young In spirit. t Funeral services for Miss Cor nesses luring us to higher planes cheer we bid rareweI] tn hi9 and Almira Palmer Cornell. Her i. xp«.„.»,„i..^, youthful spirit, confident that in nell will be conducted at Brick, of deed Tl and aspiration And the Boa;d"of Education "and other | father, a cousin of Ezra Cornell, the life oLiff The yExemplar servanty in whose £ , Presbyterian Church tomorrow af especially do we thank Thee for «„he _ne .„w „da .',..v that ia .R reariv «1 the founder of Cornell University, honoOf rth ew equalitie gathers todaywhic.h made Miss ber,nK t w abouS. tWeet her. shsuperintendene mav t ofl ternoon at 3 30 o'clock. The Rev. the life of Thv servant in whose Rochesteschools: rJosep organizationh P. O'Herns were. deputy: Her-| was a contractor and builder, and | Continued on Page Fourteen Justin Wroe Nixon, D. D., and the superintendent; Dr. Frederick H. Rev. Gerard B. F. Hallock, D. D., her mother is believed to have been Zlmmer. Charles F. Wray, James] will officiate. Representatives of the first white woman born west ofl the Genesee River. She was the P. B. Duffy, Mary Wray. William j the Board of Education and the daughter of Joel Palmer, the first Horshler, A. H. Downey, Wesley city will be the honorary bearers. M. Angle, George Williams, Charles settler at what is now Clarkson, • To Lie In State Tobey, Charles Schlegel. the Rev. who was one of the organizers of The body will rest at the home Conrad H. Moehlman, Ph. D., Theo-1 the defense of the village of Char until tomorrow noon, when It will dore C- Cazeau, William Sadden and lotte against the British during the | be taken to the church, where it Squire Snell. War of 1812. will lie in state until the hour of The active bearers, relatives of Miss Cornell was educated atl the funeral. Miss Cornell were; Elmer Clare.l Miss Phelps' Seminary, in what is She leaves two nephews, Lester Arthur Link. Clarence Bullard. now Clinton Avenue South, the I. and William C. Bullard, and a Walter Bullard. Frank Teller, and] Clarkson Academy and the old Raymond Neahtt. niece, Mrs. Nellie Bullard Hin- Free Academy. Graduated from] man. Interment was made in Mount] Continued on Pane 5B Hope Cemet Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection uisme women's affairs, public and private ; she received tributes from her as war. I was proud of them all. when between the school and the philanthropies and her home life. | sociates and admirers, culminating "There was Frank I. Semple, who " citizens whose children it. taught MISS CORNELL, When she entered the public in June, 1924, when the Board of was a very quiet boy in school. He ; there would be close understanding. school system her year's salary was Education tendered her a luncheon went away to the war. When the |jj I have lived to see them grow to $225 and as it increased to $3,600, on the occasion of her retirement captain of his company asked for gether like one great family." then the maximum salary for a • from the school system. As indica a man to carry a message across M Her relations with the mothers of DEAN OF CITY elementary school teacher, voted I tion of her devotion to and joy in No-Man's Land after three others H her pupils were always close and by special act of the Board of Edu her work is contained in a letter had been shot down in futile at- jf harmonious and she was one of the cation, much of her income went which she wrote to the board when tempts he volunteered. He did it, most zealous promoters of close to charity. Not until 1920 did she submitting her resignation: too. And he got a Croix de Guerre contacts between school and the ! TEACHERS DIESl purchase her own home, despite Letter of Resignation home. On one occasion, at a party and other decorations. her simple life in which she might "I am enclosing with this my tendered her by the Mothers' Club Continued from I'age IB Many In Great War have saved most of her salary had resignation as principal of the Ell "I had many boys who made of Ellwanger and Barry School, the last institution in 1862, she be-|not her inclinations been so chari wanger and Barry School 24 and I names for themselves in the Great Miss Cornell said: gan her teaching career in Jan table. cannot, sever the bond which has War. Lieut. Walter Bradley, you^ "I lay my success to two things: uary of the following year, and I About 30 years ago she adopted! meant so many years of joy to me H know, was cited a number ofM! first, to the love and service of without thanking you for kindness, all these women, many of whom | remained active until June, 1924. a family of four children when ', , ™ times of his daring and braveryffl encouragement and co-operation. I taught when they were young, During her first 15 years of serv- their mother died, and thereafter] in the air service. Then Lieut.H "I tried to reflect what I re who have stood nobly by me jice she taught in several elemen her interests centered in their wel Philip Ludwig and Lieut. GeorgeH ceived into the hearts and lives of through everything; secondly, I lay tary schools, and in 1876 was ap fare. Her interest in her children! Johnson were graduates of myH children and to carry to the com my success to my faith in God. I pointed principal of what is now and other relatives and former] school. I had heard form neitherH munity every suggestion for the have tried to serve Him and in Hawthorne School 25. The follow pupils has always been deep and of these two boys * since theirgfj betterment of home life that could my difficulties I have called upon ing year, 1877, No. 24 School, which I warm and for years her birthdays graduation until I picked up thejwj possibly build and help. Him. To my knowledge, there is now bears the name Ellwanger and and other festive occasions have j paper one day and saw- the gal-j^' "Believeing every child in my nc other receipe, outside of love J Barry in recognition of the gen been enlivened by tributes and mes lant part they were taking in the |, care a personal trust. I have tried and service, for success." erosity of the nursery firm to the sages from a wide variety of big fight. Oh, I've had a lot of to instill the love divine into every Following her retirement Miss Institution, was opened, and Miss friends and admirers. boys who were in the war. If litle soul, and the work has been Cornell lived quietly in her Clinton Cornell began a 47-year term as Active Despite Years I remember rightly, there were such a joy and the response eo Avenue South home, retaining her J| principal. As her term of service to chil about 160 graduates of this school \ satisfactory that I shall hardly interest in her former pupils and > Outstanding School dren of Rochester grew toward in service. the half century mark Miss Cor know how to live without these in affairs of the day. She fre When opened, the new school "It wasn't only in war service nell's kindliness, sympathy and de blessed opportunities for daily do quently visited her old school and which was replaced about 20 years that my pupils distinguished them- fj votion to her work won her in ing. almost daily welcomed visitors ago by a more modern building— selves. There's Florence Sprague, || creasing esteem, and for several |j 'With deepest regret I relinquish with whom she had been formerly was the pride of the Rochester now one of the leading physicians 1 decades she has been one of Roch- my work, yielding only to physical associated. Her health continued educational system, containing the of St. Louis. She was a bright pupil estefs outstanding citizens. She infirmities and the limitations of good until a week ago and on her Jast" word in what equipment the of ours. I knew she'd get some was active in affairs of her church, age. last birthday, her 92nd, she wel 70's provided. But it was a far where. the Brick Presbyterian, in the "Retaining, as I always must, comed scores of friends and rela cry from the school buildings of "And there's Charles Palmer, you Rochester Teachers' Association || happy memories of our years of tives at her home, which was today. know. He's vicepresident of the and in civic and women's affairs. M work together, and a deep ap packed with floral tributes sent The heating apparatus consisted Genesee Valley Trust Company of Soon after the Women's Suffrage • preciation of your consideration to mark the occasion. At that of drum stoves which warmed a this city. I never thought he'd Amendment was enacted she was If and kindnessMany Remembere, I am cordialld Hery and time she reminisced on her teach limited space in their immediate be a banker, though. Arthur made a member of the Monroe $ gratefullAfter hey ryours retiremen, t Miss Cornell ing career and expressed reluct vicinity; what light the pupils had Sadden, sales manager of the County Republican Committee, and M lived mufcNELLIh in memorE F. yCORNELL. of her wor" k ance, that' she had not been able depended largely on the weather, Yawman & Erbe Company, Is a! in 1925 she was made an honoraryl! i and of the thousands of pupils who to extend it longer. for the only source was the day graduate of our school. member of the Business and Profes had been under her charge. Some light filtering through old-fash "William Bell, a prominent cor sional AVomen's Club. She soon be | of her keenest pleasures came ioned windows. A well in the poration lawyer of Chicago, was came an active member, despite from the many remembrances sent cellar supplied water, and a tin a graduate of this school many- her advanced age, an served on a[ her by former pupils and teach cup chained to the pump was the years ago. I often have heard club committee. ing associates, not only on birth only drinking vessel. Sanitary from him. In the ministry we With increasing years came days, but'throughout the year. equipment was most primitive, and |j have a representative in the Rev. many tributes from former pupils, Some of her charges became mis the desks were of the obsolete sta- Arthur Bleisheim. Dr. Harry Blake faculty associates and the citizenry sionaries in China, Japan, India onaiy type, accommodating two of Philadelphia, Miss Helen Lucas, of Rochester. In 1920, in observ and other distant lands. Others pupils each. There were only 375 ^1 supervisor of drawing In Roch ance of her 80th birthday, Miss have entered the world of busi pupils the first year, but this num ester public schools and Werner Cornell was feted by the Mothers' ness or the professions and most ber steadily increased to twice that Spitz, a Rochester contractor, also Club of Ellwanger and Barry. of the more successful ones have total. arc graduates. There are mission School at a reception at which rep-If written to Miss Cornell assuring There were no street cars or arieLookins in varioug backwars partds oaft thhee rworl lifed, resentatives of the Board of Edu-| her of their appreciation of her other public transportation facili whMisos learneCorneldl repeatedltheir a-b-c'y tols dan odf the cation, the club and the clergy of devoted training. Many of these ties for 24 School, which was so readingjoy and, satisfactiowriting ann shd e arithmetihad founcd Rochester lauded her contributions letters came to her when the Amer far removed from the center of undein her rm ywork direction.. Mor"e praise than to the youth of the city. ican Magazine published an article the city that many citizens had falls Noto tth Affectee lot ofd mosby tPrais people e did Thousands Benefited on her unique record in teaching. ,| j protested against building a struc not affect her modesty; she spoke "At least 25,000 lives have been At Ellwanger and Barry School m ture which never would be filled, principally of the pleasures of herj touched, influenced, molded and she taught generations of children's and Miss Cornell, then a slight and work and little of her contribution I inspired by this little woman," said In many cases she had taught the! J none too strong woman of 37, to the education of so many chil | the Rev. Horace G. Ogden, D. D., grandfathers and grandmothers off traveled from her home to the dren. then minister of First Methodist some of her pupils; In one case, at school by carriage. Later she "It's a great thing to have lived! Church. "Her influence has spread least, a member of the fourth gen moved into the neighborhood and these years and to have seen one'sj | abroad Into every corner of the eration was under hei supervision. has lived near the school since. dreams come true," she said a few city. There probably is no state in Reminiscing about her career, she Dominant Figure years ago. "When I was young I| the union where there does not live said in an interview some years From the very first. Miss Cornell had ideals, of course, but I didn't { , some man or woman who received ago: was a dominant and outstanding know that they ever would be real-1 [training from Miss Cornell. The "I have seen them come and go personality in the neighborhood of ized. I then dreamed of the time! only one who can measure the from this school f^r generations. the school, and as years passed her j when the school should be the cen good which Miss Cornell has ac Many of them have taken promt-1 repute became city-wide. She ter of the community; of a timei founing lesdan sgread iinnt hehappinesr sparactivsee i timninteres heer prove teacht idn 1Itivcomplishe self.morOen "eservic simila frequend eri s occasions dretth aes winfinit Misneas, r eCornell'whic Goitsd h close Himgres ac-,w - ligionnent ,place medicines In ,th lawe ,field ansd ofman rey Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection