MARY B. HOPKINS.

By W. T. NORTON.

In the passing of Mrs. Mary B., widow of the late George K. Hopkins, whose death occurred Saturday, January 12th, 1924, a link was severed in the chain binding the present to the past. As the daughter of the late Cyrus Edwards and the niece of Ninian Edwards, Territorial and third State Governor of Illinois, she occupied the unique position of one living in today and yet through her family name and antecedents leading back to the formative period of Illinois. Ninian Edwards became Governor of Illinois Territory in 1809, a date 115 years ago, and yet the span of these two lives, uncle and niece, covers the entire State and Territorial existence of Illinois. And still Mrs. Hopkins was not old except in years prolonged a decade

or more beyond the scriptural limit. She was young in

thought and feeling to the last with vivid interest in both the present and the past. Her personal recollections of statesmen and heroes of Illinois, and of leading incidents and events of other days, were always of rare interest.

Mrs. Hopkins was a lady of marked scholastic attainments and delightful personality. Here was a lovely christian character, an embodiment of gracious and cultured womanhood. Her many graces of mind and heart won the love and esteem of a host of relatives and friends and these chords of affection and devotion were never broken in life. They are not broken now, for love can never die. A life devoted to service to others goes on forever in the lives of those who were its beneficiaries.

Higher education had ever a prominent place in her thoughts. She had a special interest in her alma mater, Monticello, and regarded with pride its successful activities. Shurtleff College had likewise a warm place in her affections both for its intrinsic merit and as a matter of inheritance. Her father, her uncle, Dr. B. F. Edwards, and her maternal

grandfather, Rev. Hubbel Loomis, having been among the founders of the College-then Alton Seminary-in 1832, and its generous benefactors. Rev. Loomis was the first principal of the institution and piloted it through its pioneer days. As a matter, also, perhaps, of inheritance she was always interested in public affairs, both state and national affairs, her father having been a State Senator and Representative for many years, and the Whig candidate for Governor in 1838, while her uncle, Ninian Edwards, represented the State as U. S. Senator at Washington for two terms. She was vitally patriotic and followed with attention the movements of armies and the careers of leaders from the time of the Civil War on through the years, to the late World War. Of near relatives her brother, William Wirt Edwards, and her uncle, the late D. Burt Loomis, served in the Civil War. Mr. Loomis, in his early manhood, was one of the defenders of the Lovejoy press back in 1837. Some fourteen members of the Edwards family connection were enrolled in the World War, among them Mrs. Hopkins' two grandsons, J. A. Ryrie of Alton, and Kendall Hopkins of St. Louis. Of Mrs. Hopkins it can be truly said that she was not only worthy of her distinguished inheritance but added to its record of strength the achievement the adornments of beauty and grace of life in perennial flowing.

She was, naturally, much interested in the annals of the past, especially in events relating to Illinois. She was long a member of the State Historical Society and was enrolled as a charter member of the newly-formed County Society in the future success of which she expressed much interest.

Mrs. Hopkins' ecclesiastical connection was with the First Baptist Church of Alton to the activities of which she gave freely of her time and labor during her years of strength. None will miss her more than her co-laborers of old.

A part of her married life was spent in what, in old times, was known as the "Edwards Mansion" on Liberty street, built by her father in 1838, and where she was born, but after her widowhood in 1901, she spent the evening of her days

adjacent to or in the home of her daughter, Mrs. George M. Ryrie, where everything that love and devotion could suggest was done for her comfort and happiness until she passed through the door ajar, into "the other room."

GEORGE MANIERRE, 1845-1924.

George Manierre, pioneer native of Chicago, died suddenly, January 29, 1924, at his residence 100 Bellevue place. Mr. Manierre was within a few days of being 79 years of age. George Manierre was born February 5, 1845, in a residence which had been built by his father, an early settler on the Michigan and Jackson boulevards site, where now the new Straus office building is being erected.

He was graduated from Lake Forest academy in 1863 and from Yale in 1868, then from Columbia Law School in 1869.

In 1886 Mr. Manierre formed a realty partnership with the late Henry Dibblee under the name of Dibblee and Manierre. He still was active in the firm, which has offices at 112 West Adams Street at the time of his death.

Mr. Manierre was married on Feb. 9, 1876, to Miss Ann Eliza Edgerton of Fort Wayne, Ind. Her father, Alfred P. Edgerton was a Democratic nominee for the vice-presidency in 1872. Mr. Manierre is survived by three sons, Alfred E. Manierre, Louis Manierre, and Francis E. Manierre, the two latter were associated with him in the realty business, a fourth son, Arthur, died in 1912.

Mr. Manierre was a trustee of the Field Museum and of the Newberry Library. He was a member of the Mid-Day, and Saddle and Cycle Clubs and of the Chicago Historical Society and Illinois State Historical Society.

Funeral services were held at St. James Episcopal church and interment was made at Graceland cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were Chauncey Keep, Arthur B. Jones, Edward E. Ayer, Dr. James Murray Washburn, Francis C. Brown, A. A. Sprague, Stanley Field, Jesse L. Mass and William J. Chalmers.

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MRS. STUART BROWN.

KATE HAY BROWN.

By ELIZABETH B. IDE.

Kate Hay Brown was born in Springfield, Illinois, on March 21, 1864. She was the daughter of Milton Hay, a distinguished lawyer, and of Mary Logan Hay, whose father, Judge Stephen T. Logan, was also distinguished in the early law courts of Illinois.

Her mother died when she was ten years old, and for some years she and her brother, Logan Hay, lived with their mother's sister, Mrs. Louis H. Coleman. The loss of her mother and the feeling of responsibility for her young brother undoubtedly hastened the development of an independent character, which was so marked in her in later years.

At eighteen years of age, after graduating at Monticello Seminary, she took her place as mistress of her father's household. In 1886 she married Stuart Brown, and to them three children were born: Milton Hay Brown, Christine Brown, now the wife of Dushane Penniman, and Jane Logan Brown. The virtue of hospitality was hers and her home was always open to her friends; to the Woman's Club; the church and to functions, civil and social, of all sorts.

To her immediate family and to her friends she was the center of the home. In the life of the community she was a moving spirit. Family and friends sought her advice in many problems and her keen intellect seized at once the salient points and gave valuable help. Her interest was just as active in solving the problems of the community. It was always the constructive side that appealed to her, and through her influence and financial help the first step in many enterprises was taken.

A director for years in the Springfield Home for the Friendless, she was instrumental in improving the method of placing out children in foster homes; and through her aid the