Identifier: womenofdistincti00scru (find matches)
Title: Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Scruggs, L. A. (Lawson Andrew), 1857-1914
Subjects: North Caroliniana African American women African Americans Women
Publisher: Raleigh : L. A. Scruggs
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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sof both races; for her sex and race it is a vindication;In several of the hospitals of the city she has served asresident, visiting and consulting physician. As the wifeof Rev. Matthew Anderson, pastor of the Berean Pres-byterian Church, she finds a special channel for variousother energies in that work that is doing the most tohumanize and elevate mankind. She is ardent in allChristian work, public-spirited and affectionate, and as ateacher, physician, mother and wife her life has beenrich in incident, and with a modesty equal to her talentsshe invariably ascribes the attainment of her distinctionsto persevering attention rather than to unusual mentalcapacity. CHAPTER XLIII. ST. AUGUSTINE SCHGOU, RALEIGH, N. C. St. Augustine School, Raleigh, N. C, was founded in1867 by the Rev. J. Brinton Smith, D. D., and has thusalready completed its first quarter century. It is underthe care of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which hasalways taken great interest in the support of higher X z X 2;
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WOMEN OF J)LSTIN(TION. 17!) schools for the Christian training of young men andwomen. It embraces Preparatory, Normal, Collegiateand Theological departments. At the present timeinstruction is also given in carpentry, in tinsmithing, inshoemaking, in bricklaying for the young men, and insewing, cooking and the care of the household for thegirls. It is hoped that industrial instruction may beextended in other directions very soon. The girls and young men are together in the recita-tion-room, at their meals and in occasional social reun-ions, but otherwise the girls^ department is managedseparately and in a different building. Each girl isprovided with her own dressing-room, furnished with abureau-closet, each provided with a separate lock andkey. Trunks are all kept in a trunk-room. Beds standin the dormitory just outside of each girls dressing-room.The grounds of the school are situated on an eminencejust outside the city of Raleigh and particularly wellsituated with regard to health a

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