“ In Cleveland her sympathetic nature and keen sense of justice soon led her into active fellowship with the earnest Ohio workers in reform movements. The impulse which first took her into public effort came from a visit with the famous Hutchinson Family, to the first Ohio convention for the discussion of the political and educational disabilities of women, held in Akron, Ohio, over which convention "Aunt Fanny" Gage presided, and in which "Sojourner Truth" silenced the callow divinity student who was imperiling the order and success of the meeting. ”

“ There her invalid mother made the acquaintance of Rev. Luther Halsey, then professor in the Theological Seminary of the place, and was persuaded by his wife to accompany them to their home on the Ohio, below Pittsburgh, Pa., where she had opened a boarding-school for girls, in which Caroline made a second essay at teaching, for which her natural shyness somewhat unfitted her. There her future husband, J. C. Severance, a banker of Cleveland, Ohio, but of New England birth, secured from her a promise of marriage. ”

“ Severance feel strongly that their length of days and unusual health, while each had inherited tendencies to nervous weakness and to lung disease, are proof, by their entire disuse of drugs or stimulants in either food or drink, that these are not essential to long life nor to high health. ”