St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-07-08
RECENT DEATHS.
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on the following day, was a woman Of
unusual cultivation, varied experience
and marked character. She was well
known in this community, having been a
teacher of German in the Academy from
1885 through 1892, and instructor OF
numerous private pupils, and in the
course of her long life had made many
warm friendships, often among men and
women OF ability and distinction. She
became one of the first inmates of the
Home and there spent the last ten years
of her life, in grateful appreciation of the
snug barbor afforded to her storm beat
en- barque. 1t was she who first called it
"Sunset Home, "a name so happy that
it was adopted as a legal designation.
The following accurate sketch is taken
from a book entitled, Emma Willard
and her Pupils" and is interesting for it's
gIimpses and suggestions of public life
and history, as well as for its account of
Welthea M. Glines. daughter of the
Rev. Jeremiah and Wealthea Wood
Glines, was born August 81, 1928, in
Lunenburg, VT, in small brown par
sonage that stood on the southwark
slope OF that picturesque hill-town, look
ing down into the Connecticut Valley.
Her father was a Congregational clergy
man of broad and liberal thought. Her
mother combined with scholarly tastes
and superior education, the attributes OF
a remarkable Christian character. Until
the age of sixteen the daughters oppor.
tunities had been restricted to the dis.
trict school, supplemented by the teach
ings of her mother, but with an intellect.
ual Inheritance worthy of her parents,
she desired still further advancement.
How should the exigency be met? The
salary OF country minister made no
provision for higher education or for
sending the daughter to boarding.
school.
1t was the era of the Lowell Offering"
a magazine of some literary merit, con.
'lsting of articles written by the factory
girls, and which were generally accepted
as the exponent of the mental activity of
he class employed in the mills of Lowell
melted by this example, Miss Glines
oravely resolved to join this band of self
sustaining young women, and in 1S45
ull OF courage and ambition, she began
The undertaking of working out her own
She was fortunate in secur
ng an exceptionally good place in the
carpet mill of the Lowell Company,
working from FIVE to eight in the morn
ng, and from FIVE to seven in the eve
ming. With these hours, and by taking
no holidays, she was able for more than
a year to attend school, in which she
read Virgil and Corinne in the original.
and pursued other branches of study.
Later, the carpet mandatory was en-
arged and her leisure was abridged.
Still there remained much in the way of
opportunity OF which the ambitious stu
lent could avail herself-private lessons,
books from the public library, weekly
reading of N. P. Williss Home Jour.
NAL" and "Littel's Living Age" attend
ance upon lecture courses, in which she
heard Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate,
Horace Greeley, Edwin Chaplin, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and other eloquent
speakers.
OF the high order of "Mind among
Splndles, predicated upon the Lowell
Offering" Miss Glines is not enthusiastic.
During the seven years of her Lowell
life she found the mill operatives as
class respected, sefrespecting Young
women, differing greatly in character
ana education, tor the most part 1ntelli-
gent and capable, but seldom possessing
literary taste or culture. There were ia
her time few notable exceptions of as.
Pirlng young women, who went from
Lowell to teach, or to make Themselves
proficient in art, or to marry, and some
whom fortune raised to positions of
social prominence, but the factory GIRLS.
OF whom Lucy Larcom gives such charm.
ing Sl'mpses in New England Girl"
must nearly all have sought a more con.
GENIAL lite previous to 1916, the date of
Miss Larcom's leaving the city.
In 1852 Miss GIines, under the advice
OF Richard c. Kimball, her mothers
cousin, entered Troy Seminary. Here
the majestic presence of Mrs. Emma
Willard, as well as the grace and elegance
OF Mrs. John Willard, commanded her
profound respect and affectionate admir-
alton. She remained a pupil until 1853.
when she was promoted to the corps of
teachers, and continued in the happy en-.
vironment OF her alma mater until 1857.
When she became an inmate of her kins.
mans, Mr. kimball's family, as teacher
OF his children. Later she spent two
pleasant years abroad, dividing the time
between travel, and residence in London
and Paris. After returning to Americ
she went, IN 1861, to the frontier of
Texas on the upper Brazos, where Mr..
k'mball owned large tract of land, and
had already started a village. 1t was
his wish to establish school that should
attract good class of settlers. and he
come a formative influence throughout
that region, aud Miss Glines gladly
undertook the organization of it as a
welcome opportunity OF doing mission
work in a new country. Rut eco-oaI,,