. Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character. children, September 25, 1891, which meetsevery Saturday afternoon. The value of the instructionwhich she orives to these children will be seen in futureyears. She has often said, Oh! if I were onlyrich. I do not want money for myself, but I would liketo be rich in order to do some 2:ood in this world. Iw^ould build an institution of learning simply for thepoor colored young men and women of my race and havethem to learn everything that would enable them to viewith the Anglo-Saxon race. She is a devoted Christian, and alw
. Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character. children, September 25, 1891, which meetsevery Saturday afternoon. The value of the instructionwhich she orives to these children will be seen in futureyears. She has often said, Oh! if I were onlyrich. I do not want money for myself, but I would liketo be rich in order to do some 2:ood in this world. Iw^ould build an institution of learning simply for thepoor colored young men and women of my race and havethem to learn everything that would enable them to viewith the Anglo-Saxon race. She is a devoted Christian, and alw^ays seeking to dowhat good she can and to help others. Mrs. Page willlong be remembered by the students of Lincoln Institute,and especially the poor students, for her deeds of kind-ness to them. irx) WOMEN OF DISTINCTION. CHAPTER XXXVII. JOAN IMOGEN HOWARD, A. M. This very excellent lady, of whom the race is proud,Joan Imogen Howard, was born in the city of Boston,Mass. Her father, Edwin F. Howard, is an old andwell-known citizen of that city, and her mother, Joan JOAN IMOGEN HOWARD, A. M, Howard, now deceased, was a native of New has one sister. Miss Adeline T. Howard, the princi-pal of the Wormley School, Washington, D. C., and onebrother, E. C. Howard, M. D., a prominent physicianin the city of Philadelphia. Having a mother cultured, WOMEN OF DISTJN(;TI0N. IT)? refined and intellectual, her earliest training was receivedfrom one well qualified to guide and direct an unfoldingmind. At the age of fourteen, having completed thecourse prescribed in the Wells Grammar School, BlossomStreet, Boston, she graduated with her class and was oneof the ten honor pupils who received silver this souvenir of her girlhood is greatly parents encouraged her desire to pursue a highercourse of instruction, and consequently, after a successfulentrance examination, she became a student of the GirlsHigh and Normal School, as it was then called. Shewas the fi
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