Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-13
TO WOMAN'S HONOR
Nearly Thirty Memorials
Throughout the Country.
ONE HEROINE FORGOTTEN
No Monument to the Fishers Wife
Whose Torch Guided Columbus,
LONG ROLL OF FAME
Interesting Career Of Silas E. Bur.
rows, Who First Put Up a Stone
Over Mary Washington's Grave.
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Written for The Star and the Chicago Record

| By WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
| Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
| Herald.
| l have found twenty-eight monuments
and memorials erected to the honor of
women in the United States, and several
| women have more than one. L am quite
sure that more honors of this kind have
! been paid to wofnen in the United States
| than In any other country In the world.
| Graefn Beulow Won Dennewitz of Mu-
Mich. who is writing a book on monu-
ments to women. calls my attention to a
bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hart
! ford, a statue of Harriet Martlneau In
Boston and a pavilion on the coast OF
Long Island which was erected in honor
of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. In addition
to these have found the following:
Monument to Mary Ball Washington.
the mother of George Washington. at
Fredericksburg, Va, the second that has
been erected in her honor upon the same
| spot.
! A statue of Frances f. Willard. the
| temperance advocate and author, In stat
| uary hall of the National Capitol In
I Washington.
! Two monuments to Hannah Dustin.
heroine of early colonial times In New
| England, at Concord, n. H., and HaVer-
| hill, Mass.
A monument to, Frances Slocum. a
white woman who was captured by the
| Indians in childhood and spent her life
as the wife of chief. 1t is situated
| near where she lived. at Peru, Ind.
statue of Margaret Haugherty: a
tune to the orphans of that city.
| Catherine Te-kak-wi-tha, 1.-The savage
SAINT the first Indian nun, a Mohawk.
| who was converted to Christianity IN
1896, has a memorial cross erected IN
her honor and a statue at ST Joseph's
Seminary. at Auriesville, montgomery
| county. n. Y.
Sakajawea, called 1.-The bird woman"
who led Lewis and Clark through the
mountains on their exploring expedition
in 1sO4-5, has one monument in the city
park, Portland, Ore; another over ner
grave in the Shoshone agency cemetery
at Washakia, Wyo.. and third monu-
ment is nearly completed for the women
OF North Dakota, which will be placed
in front Of the capitol at Bismarck.
A monument to Pocahontas. intended
to be erected on jamestown Island by
| the women Of the country, is still in the
artists studio
A fountain was erected in Dubuque In
honor of Kate Shelly. a farmers daugh-
! ter in Iowa, who saved railway train
| from destruction some years ago.
At Gadsden, Ala, is q statue of Emma
Samson, a Confederate heroine, who
guided Gen Forrest over the mountains.
In Capitol Park, Birmingham, is
statue of Mary A. Callahan, who was
principal of a public school In that city
for thirty years.
In Fairview cemetery, Radford. Mont
gomery county, Va, is monument to
Mary Draper Inglis, the first white bride
married west Of the Allegheny mountains.
and one of the .bravest heroines Of pioneer
history. -,
In the Island Of Nantucket is a memorial
observatory and telescope erected in
honor of Maria Mitchell. professor Of
astronomy at Vassar College, and emf
nent in that science.
| On the battlefield of Gettysburg is
monument erecteA by the Womens Re-
| lief Corps OF Iowa as memorial to Miss
| Jennie Wade, who was killed on the
morning of July while baking bread for
/ the Union soldiers during the battle.
There is monument at Adrian, Mich,
| to Aunt Laura Haviland, Quakeress.
who did mighty things for the release Of
slaves and was eminent as nurse during
| the civil war.
Mary Ann Bickerdyke, another famous
army nurse. has monument in the pub
| lie park at Galesburg, Ill.
| In the quadrangle OF Leland Stanford
! University at Palo Alto, Cal, Is bronze
| figure of the late Mrs Stanford.
On the battle-ground of Guilford. n. c.,
is a bronze statue of Mrs. Kerenhappuck
Norman Turner, who rode on horseback
| from Maryland to Guilford. and nursed
to health her son who had been badly
wounded in the battle.
In Elmwood cemetery, Memphis, are
notable monuments erected in honor of
Matte Stephenson and Emily Sutton, two
ma gdalenes of that city, who opened
their doors to homeless victims of the
with heroic devotion until they them
selves succumbed to the epidemic.
At Arlington cemetery Is q monument
erected by the nurses of the United
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ton who died during the Spanish war.
The pupils OF Miss Clara Conway. for
merly principal of Conway Institute and
Jennie NJ. Higbee, formerly principal Of
Higbee School for Women, at Memphis,
are preparing to erect a monument in
honor OF those ladies in that city.
First to Honor Mary Washington.
year or ago / gave a description
of the monument which was erected in
| 1894 by the women of this country in
| honor Of Mary Ball Washington. the
mother OF George Washington. over her
grave near the city OF Fredericksburg,
and mentioned the fact that it is the sec
ond monument raised in her honor in the
same place. the first having been carried
away in chips by relic-hunting vandals.
Since then l have received from q friend
| a very interesting account OF the eccen--
| trio career OF the man who built the first
monument.
His name was Silas e. Burrows and at
| the time he was a young and prosperous
| merchant In the city OF New York. In
| $780, having learned that the grave of
| Washington's mother was unmarked he
own expense and President Andrew
| Jackson and the members Of his cabinet
| went to Fredericksburg with Mr. Burrows
to lay the corner stone 1t was during