“ The daughter is a promising writer, who recently won £1,000 for an original story, and who is also president of the Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Cairo. Of the sons, the oldest is an electrician, the second a physician, the third a business man, the fourth a high-school boy, and all are energetic and industrious, total abstainers and free from the use of tobacco or narcotics of any kind. ”

“ Laura Jacinta, temperance worker, author and poet, Born in a pleasant home on the forest- crowned hills in Pulaski county, Ill., near the Ohio river, 30th April, LAURA JACINTA RITTENHOUSE. 1841. She is a daughter of Dr. ”