“ In 1885 shew-as made the Iowa superintendent of White Shield and White Cross work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The new crusade against the subtle foe of impurity amused the conscience, heart and brain of the wife and mother, and she gave herself unreservedly to that work, making hundreds of public addresses, handling the subject with rare delicacy and skill, and winning the sympathy and warm appreciation of all right-thinking people. ”

“ Pleasant, Iowa, is a center of generous hospitality to all human-kind. There the outcast have been sheltered, the stricken comforted, the tempted strengthened, the sinful forgiven, the cultured and aspiring made glad. ”

“ Her mother, a young and beautiful woman, dowered with the fine instinct of the artist, died when her child Cordelia was but two years of age. In her early womanhood her father died, her nearest then of birth and kin being an only brother, two years younger than herself. ”