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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 
Established 1875 Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1892 Incorporated. Connecticut, 1910 
Additions to Our Membership. 
Corresponding. 
Miss Irene Matthews, Louisville, 
Kentucky. 
Miss Margaret Ramsay, Boston, 
Massachusetts. 
Miss S. Crissy Brown, Stamford. 
Mr. D. C. Bartley, Zillah, Washing- 
ton. 
Sustaining. 
Mr. Lorenzo D. Armstrong, River- 
side, Connecticut. 
Mr. Pierre R. Bernard, Nyack, New 
York. 
Public School 164, Brooklyn, New 
York. 
Mr. Herman S. Piatt, New York 
City. 
Miss Constantine E. Johnston, 
Greenwich. 
Mr. W. W. Heroy, Stamford. 
Mrs. L. P. Yandell, Greenwich. 
Mrs. C. W. Parsons, New York City. 
Mrs. John Walker, Riverside. 
Mrs. Benjamin T. Brooks, Sound 
Beach. 
Mrs. G. C. St. John, Greenwich. 
Mrs. Raynal C. Bolling, Greenwich. 
Miss Mary E. Strong, Orange, New 
Jersey. 
Sustaining and Honorary. 
Mr. Theodore H. Cooper, Batavia, 
New York. 
Philanthropic People, those who care 
for the welfare of others, especially the 
young folks, are cordially invited. 
What George Washington said (in 
his farewell address) : 
“Promote, then, as an object of PRI- 
MARY IMPORTANCE, institutions 
for the general diffusion of knowledge.” 
Death of a Sustaining Member. 
Miss Elizabeth D. Ferguson, South 
Street, Stamford, Connecticut, died at 
her home in that city on Friday after- 
noon, December 30. She had been for 
several years a Sustaining Member of 
The Agassiz Association and a liberal 
contributor to our Cause. We quote 
the following from “The Daily Advo- 
cate” of Stamford: 
“Miss Ferguson has been active in 
the affairs of St. John’s Episcopal 
Church all her life and has been a fre- 
quent and generous contributor to the 
charities of the church. She was the 
youngest daughter of John Ferguson 
and Helen Grace Morewood and had 
lived in the big stone house on South 
Street the greater part of her life. She 
was the youngest of eight children. 
“Miss Ferguson has been closely as- 
sociated with all the work of St. John’s 
parish since her childhood and for a 
number of years was most active in the 
affairs of the many church societies. 
She has been deeply interested in the 
work of the chapels of the church, and 
took an exceedingly large interest in 
St. Luke’s and St. John’s church house. 
“She was a frequent contributor to 
the missionary work of the church, 
both domestic and foreign. Miss Fer- 
guson was looked upon with venera- 
tion and affection by her numerous 
younger relatives, and it was her de- 
light to have one or more of them visit- 
ing her most of the time in her big 
house. Her sister, with whom she had 
lived, died several years ago. 
“Miss Ferguson’s charitable work 
was always done in the least ostenta- 
tious way. One of her recent gifts to 
St. John’s Parish was the lot at 
Suburban Avenue and Main Street. 
She purchased the lot some years ago 
to protect the church property from 
business encroachments and deeded it 
to the church a year ago.” 
