“ Elfreda Louise attended the public schools of Muncie and was graduated from the high school in 1883. She attended normal classes and obtained a certificate for teaching, but, desiring to become an artist, she entered a photograph gallery, as an apprentice, in the fall of 1883. A stronger purpose soon sup- planted that. From her early childhood she had been deeply intent upon becoming a preacher. Her favorite pastime had been to gather the chickens into her father's workshop and to preach to them, playing at church. ”