The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-14
DIR. MARY WALKER
COMES TO HER AID
Will Take Countess Nicholas, Formerly
of Montpelier, From Rutland To
0swego, N Y, for Treat
ment

Rutland, July l4.-Dr. Mary Walker,
the venerable and celebrated pioneer in
the fight for woman's rights before the
American public and dress reformer
who has always attracted more or less
attention by the originality Of her views
as well as her whole hearted earnest
ness, is in this city and this state for
the first time in her life, her reason for
visiting Rutland being to take back with
her to her private sanitarium at Oswego,
y. Y, the Countess Nicholas, a local
celebrity who is very i'll at her home on
West street. The two have been friends
for more than fifty years, since they
were nurses together in the Union army
during the Civil war. DR.. Walker eX-
poets to leave Tuesday with her patient
and keep her until she is better. which
result the doctor is confident of secur-
ing.
The noted exponent of woman's rights,
who was regularly licensed surgeon
five years before the Civil war broke
out, is wonderfully active both mentally
and physically for a woman who has
seen as much history in the making as
she. The mannish costume, which added
to her fame some years ago, is still in
evidence and she wears it as If she had
been poured into it," A reception was
rendered to her last night at the home
OF DIR. John d. Hanrahan of South Main
street at which Mayor Henry c. Bris-
lin and Mrs. Brislin and number of
the members of the medical fraternity
gathered to do honor to the famous
woman surgeon who had won the ad-
miration and respect of the bows in blue
on many hard fought battlefield. There
was a musical program and refresh
ments were served
Countess Nicholas, who has been a
resident of this city for about six years,
has to some extent outlived the notori-
ETY. which was hers when her story
graced the front page of the leading
newspapers of the country. An English
girl, the daughter of Sir John David
son of Liverpool. the cousin of William
+. Gladstone and an intimate friend of
many of the most powerful families in
her native country, she left that country
at comparatively early age, and com
ing to America she engaged in Red Cross
work, though it was not known as such
then, nursing the soldiers of the Civil
war. 1t was then that she met her more
famous friend, who has retained life
long admiration for her
She later married Mr. Bishop. a New
York business man, and the son of this
union, Washington Irving Bishop, be-
came one of the most famous cairvoy-
ants of any time. The manner of his
death in New York many years ago
aroused much controversy.
After the death of her first husband,
Mrs. Bishop married Count Lucas Mich
olas, Grecian nobleman, and an heir
or a pretender to the throne of Greece
He died here some years ago. The claims
of this family TO the throne to which
they were entitled were kept prominent
ly before the people for long time,
but died with the count.
The countess has been very active in
charitable enterprises all her life and
in devoting her very con.
talents as singer to worthy
causes. She has written many news
paper articles and done other literary
work. and has lectured until it became
impossible for her to do so any longer. |
the countess has said to have
devoted a fortune to charity, she is now
penniless and since coming to Rutland |
ias received help from the city and va
rious church societies.