The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-12
suocHssru1 woMAN FAR1ER.
Career Of Ms. Virginia claypool
Meredith OF Indiana.

MefedlthJ OF Indiana.
indianapolis NeWs: Probably no stock
raiser in Indiana Is better known than
Mira Virginia claypool Meredith, OF
cambride City, Ind Her home. widely
known as Oakland Farm, 'ey:Ss origi-
nally owned by her husbands father,
General solomon Meredith, who
achieved fame in the civil war as leader
of the celebrated Iron brigade, In It's
charges on the first day OF the battle
OF Gettysburg.
General Meredith's only surviving
son. Henry c. Meredith, inherited with
the farm his fathers love for agrIcul-
ture and i've stock. At the time Of his
sudden and untimely death, which Oc-
curredin 1882 his wife was left to choose
between returning TO her fathers home
and stock breeding She chose the lat
ter mot" as she says, with any hope
OF success, but because work was the
only s6Iace within my horizon at that
time"
Mrs. Meredith, who was Miss Vlr-
ginia Claypool, is Ahe daughter OF pro-
gressIve Indiana farmer, Austin B. Gay
pool by name, who believed in educat-
ing his girls Just as he educated his
boys, and In giving both the best to be
had. He made companions OF Ms
children, and little Virginia he took with
him on countless drives through pas
lures and fields. He sent her to Glen.
dale College, near Cincinnati, at that
time one Of the best educational lnstl-
buttons in the west. where she was
graduated with honor.
Virginia Claypo0fs marriage WIKI
Rfr. Meredith was a singuiariy happy
one, Husband and wife were COM
rades in the highest sense of the term
With her husband Mrs. Meredith learn-
ed the difficult and Intricate business OF
pedigree, becoming familiar at the same
time with the very extensive literature
OF pure bred stock. With him, too, she
shared wide and valuable ac-
quaintance with the most influential and
advanced agriculturlsts and live stock
breeders.
II was not till she began to exhibit
her live stock at the county and state
fairs that Mrs. Meredith came conspic-
uously before the public. Last year
she sold and shipped stock to WILSON,
sin, Minnesota, mississippi, Virginia,
Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, as well as
her native state. Indiana.
So pronounced had become her sue
cess as stock-breeder that In lS92 sne
was asked by the board Of the World's
Fair managers to prepare mono-
graph OF the live stock Of the state Of
Indiana. She was also a member o.
the board Of lady managers. In lSs!
she was called by the board OF regents
Of the University Of Minnesota to or
ganlze the new feature of.admitting wo-
men to its schools Of agriculture. In
speaking Of this last departure. Mrs.
Meredith said: This consider the fin
est work have done, though far from
being as pleasant as farming, There
are now sixty young women enrolled,
with go men. The course Is unique
broad enough to embrace home science
IN ali IT'S phases. including the study OF
horticulture, gardening, elementary
agriculture poultry and breeds Of 1--we
stock. In fact, this 10 the one school
IN the world. so far as know, wherc
women are fitted for the life they VIII
In recognition OF her standing as a
farmer Mrs, Meredith has this winter
been invited to address farmers and
breedrs' conventions in New York, II
linois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Mississippi,