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Miss. Eleanor M. Brackenridge
An educational movement coincident with
the wonderful awakening of women to a sense of their
responsibilities characterized the last decade of the last and
the first decade of the present century. A conspicuous leader in
this movement.
Miss M. Eleanor Brackenridge, of San
Antonio, Texas, was a graduate of Anderson's Female Seminary,
New Albany, Indiana, Class of 1855. Her girlhood was silent in
Jackson County, Texas, where she devoted her energies to
ministering to family and friends, even studying medicine and
applying remedies for the diseases incident to a new country
with much sickness and few physicians. With a burning desire to
be helpful to humanity, it was not until 1898 when a club
progressive in education and altruistic in scope was planned in
San Antonio, that she found her opportunity as president,
organizer and leader along her chosen line of work. Her
enthusiasm and earnest zeal won the loyal support of her
co-workers, to whom she insists the honor of the success of the
first department club of Texas belongs.
She served as regent for the first seven
years of the State Collie of Industrial Arts for Women, and has
served on state and national educational committees of women's
clubs, Daughters of the American Revolution and Mothers'
Congress.
She has educated from three to seven
girls yearly in the all-round education, the higher education,
or in the profession of medicine. Her interest in humanity
naturally makes her an ardent advocate of woman suffrage. With a
keen realization of the possibilities of organized womanhood, in
a quiet way she has started movements that are far-reaching in
their results. A modest, home-loving, conservative, but
progressive in thought, she has used her wealth, social position
and even accepted offices to encourage the organization of women
for the betterment of humanity.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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