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of the four churches and a review of the principal charities, sketches under the title of the "Women of Cleveland." Her pen name was "Anne Hathaway". In 1884, she wrote the history of the pioneer Methodist Episcopal Churches of Cleveland. In 1890, Ingham wrote her famous "Flag Festival", the third edition being adapted to Discovery Day.
310:, as a teacher in the public schools. She served as assistant principal at Norwalk North Grammar School and Rockwell School of Cleveland. During a portion of the six years spent there, she boarded and studied in the family of Madame Pierre Gollier, learning to speak the French language fluently. Appointed professor of French and 265:. John Janes, Jr. married Hannah B. Brown, their marriage occurring in May, 1828. In time, they became parents of five children, which included Mary B.; Eliza R. (died young); Emma, was a professor in Central California, later becoming a writer and journalist in Washington, D.C.; and Frank, who went into the railroads business. 401:
in 1882 contained very accurate descriptions of natural scenery in the land of flowers. In 1880, at the request of the management of the "Leader," she began, in a series of articles covering three years' space, the "History of Woman's Work in Cleveland since 1830." She included, besides the founding
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Her husband, William, was a bookseller and the senior member of a Cleveland-based publishing business, Ingham & Bragg. It became Ingham, Clarke & Co. in 1872, and their son, P.M. Ingham, was a part of that house. She continued with her religious and missionary activities after relocation to
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crusade and was among the most active of Cleveland women in establishing inns, reading rooms, and chapels. She became chairman of the Pearl Street Inn, which for seven years did great work in the evangelization of the masses in the 9th, 10th, and 11th wards of Cleveland. She was one of the original
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On March 22, 1866, she married William A. Ingham (died 1898) and moved to Cleveland. In 1870, she was chosen to inaugurate in northern Ohio the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. She presided over and addressed the first public meeting ever held in the city of Cleveland conducted
261:. John Janes, Jr., became a Methodist preacher, traveling Detroit Circuit. Two daughters of Daniel Brown, Sr., Rebecca and Hannah B., organized the nucleus of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ann Arbor, their father and brother Daniel aiding the establishment of 268:
As a very young child, Ingham was a pupil in Lizzie T. Higgins’ School. At nine years of age, she was placed me in Latin Grammar at the SEminary, which she attended with Mary Watrous, Mary Tuttle, and Mary Beardsley. Later on, Lawyer Curtis drilled Ingham in
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Women of Cleveland and their work : philanthropic, educational, literary, medical and artistic : a history in which more than one thousand people of Cleveland's past and present are mentioned as
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John Janes, Sr. (paternal grandfather), and Daniel Brown, Sr. (maternal grandfather), lived in Vermont; each was the father of 12 children. John Janes, Sr., emigrated to
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A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life
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on the site later occupied by the Norwalk National Bank, and the Avalon Hotel. Her mother, Hannah Brown, was one of the founders of the
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Writing was always a favorite pastime with Ingham. At age 10, her first article was published in the Norwalk "Reflector." While in
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Ingham was one of the founders of the Western Reserve School of Design. She was a charter member of the order of the
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exclusively by religious women. Afterward, she addressed large audiences in the various cities of Ohio, in
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conducted exclusively by religious women; co-founded the Western Reserve School of Design (later,
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Wickham, C. P.; Gibbs, James G.; Laylin, Jno. (1918). James G. Gibbs (ed.).
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893).
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that projected in August 1874 the formation of the National
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