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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er-color, are well knownand admired by all who see them. A short while agoMiss Daly, her last teacher, attested her high regard forMiss Spencer as an artist by appointing her as her (MissDalys) assistant at her studio. Unfortunately herhealth, which has never been robust, failed her, and a 234 WOMEN OF DISTINCTION. trusted physician told her she would have to relax herlabor else serious consequences would follow. Aboutthat time her mother purchased a commodious dwellingin Flushing, Long Island, a pretty rural town sevenmiles out of New York, and after a short rest she is fastregaining her health. Not yet in the prime of life, andjudging by the work already accomplished, there is noreason that the race at large should not expect manybrilliant things from her. She expects to have somework represented at the Worlds Fair. WOMEN OF J)ISTIN(;TIOx\. 235 CHAPTER LVIIL MRS. ULUAN MAY THOMAS. Lillian May Thomas was born in the city of Chicago,111., in 1857, and was the oldest child of Rev. Byrd
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MRS. i.ILLIAN MAY THOMAS. and Jane Jeanetta Parker. When but nine months ofage her parents removed to the city of Oshkosh, Wis- 23G WOMEN OF DISTINCTION. cousin. Her father was a man of great native abilityand a historic character in the story of Negro Method-ism in America, being pastor to Quinn Chapel,Chicago, many years ago, followed by pastorates atSt. Pauls, St. Louis, and Bethel, Indianapolis. Hermother was a graduate of the well-known Quaker insti-tution of learning, Spiceland University, of Indiana,and long before the public school system of Indiana wascreated became the first pay-teacher of the coloredyouth in Indianapolis, afterwards teacher in St. Louisand other cities. Lillian inlierited to a marked degree her fathers con-trolling traits of mind and at a very early age gavesigns that she was the worthy offspring of a superiorparentage. Her school-days were spent in her adoptedcity of Oshkosh, but she was not permitted to finishwhat from the beginning gave abundant promise

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