The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1920-10-21
FANNY HAWLEY RASTALL
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Although Mrs Rastall became q
member Of our community al an age
when most people retire from active
/ life she was woman Of such forceful
personality and ready sympathy that
she was quickly recognized as one who
could be counted on 10 help in all good
causes.
During her few years with us she
was active in the church and in tenn
pelance and suffrage work; member
of the Monday Club and a most efiic-
lent helper in the Red Cross. Beside
these more public efforts she was con
stantly busted with private charities
and with work for her family, now
grown up and scattered, but still the
object OF her affectionate care.
Mrs. Rastall was born in Dalby-on-
Void in Leicestershire, England, in
1914 and was the fourth Of eight chill
drcn born to William and Elizabeth
Stubs Hawley. At two years Of age
she began to attend school and contin-
ued her education until she was H.
when, owing to the death of her faith
er, her mother brought the family to
America where her maternal grand
parents had already preceded them.
Trey landed at Quebec on their way to
Wisconsin on July 2nd, 1861, the date
of the first battle of Bull Run, and her
interest in the great struggle between
slavery and freedom was kindlcd. She
soon became an active aboltionist.
In the fall of 1862 she went to Mil
waukoe and while there was offered
the opportunity of becoming a member
Of the first class Of girl compositors In
the United States; and while AT work
in that capacity on the Milwaukee
Sentinel became indignant al the ed
itor because Of his editorials against
womens suffrage and, unknown 10
him. by the use Of a pseudonym, car
,.icd on a spirited debate with him in
his own columns.
In 1868 she was married 10 John =.
Rastall, who had served in the Civil
War rs adiutant Of the 23rd Regiment,
Wisconsin Volunteers, and who WAS
afterwards commissioned captain and
.aiscd and organized the 2nd Mary
land. The moved TO Kansas where
both became prominent in the prohibi-
ton struggle, advocating the cause
Mr. Rastall's newspaper.
For six years Mrs. Rastall was state
president Of the Kansas w. G. T. L.
She was also the founder Of the State
Industrial School for Girls, the pioneer
institution Of the kind in the country,
In 1890 at the request Of Miss Frances
+. Willard she assumed the manage
ment Of the Women's Temperance
Association with its $50
employees m Chicago and continued /
in this position until 1893, when she 1
organized a business Of her own, in /
which she remained until 1905 when
she retired.
While in Chicago she was active in
numerous reform and philanthropic /
She came to Manchester /
to make her home with her daughter
in 1912.
Mrs. Rastall was the mother Of six
children: Frances (Mrs. +. J.. Wy
mani; Ernest, a public accountant Of
Rockford, H. John f. Jr., real estate,
Lansing, Mich; Ralph Hawley, who
lied in infancy; Frank, physician in
Chicago, now deceased; and Walter,
United States Trade Commissioner 70
.ne Far East. Mrs. Rastall is also
by her husband, just retired
rom government service, and By two
sisters in Lanesboro, MINI.
Il IS not given 80 every one who ao- /
gocates a cause 10 see the triumph q
hat cause; but Mrs. Rastall lived 10
zee the enactment o. the prohibition !
ind suffrage amendments, for which /
he and her husband had labored and
Ter last thought may well have been; /
Lord now lettest thou thy servant de- +
,art in peace. for mine eyes have seen
ny salvation"