Memorial Addresses. 
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ALICE MARIAN (AIKENS) BREMER. 
(From article in the Evening Wisconsin, September 10,1898.) 
Alice Marian Aikens was born at Milwaukee, October 3, 1858. 
She was the eldest child of Andrew J. and Amanda S. Aikens. 
She was educated in Milwaukee at the Wheelock school for girls 
until the age of eighteen when she went to Paris with her 
mother and a sister and studied modern languages, art, and lit¬ 
erature, six months of the time at the Academy of Design. 
After her return to this country she worked at water color 
painting with George Smilie of New York, with notable results, 
but she finally devoted herself especially to the study of as¬ 
tronomy and biology. She was married in 1884 to Hugo Bre¬ 
mer, of Milwaukee, and had one child, who died in infancy. 
Mrs. Bremer was a woman of high ambition in her chosen 
line, and of a sensitive, sympathetic spirit towards the objects 
of nature, so that the flowers of garden and field were to her as 
cherished pets. She was an earnest member of the Milwaukee 
Woman’s club, and showed unusual aptitude for original inves¬ 
tigation and devotion to its pursuit in connection with her 
work in the study classes. She also conducted a class in as¬ 
tronomy in the College Endowment association. She read all 
the good publications relating to her special lines of interest 
and became an expert herseif in the use of the microscope and 
collected a considerable private museum of biological specimens. 
Later she gave special attention to algae and spent six months 
in Woods Holl in the study of that class, and when she went to 
California in January, 1898, primarily for the sake of her health, 
it was also that she might study the algae of that coast. But 
her physical strength was not equal to her ambition, and her 
life ended at San Diego, August 25, 1898. 
In her will Mrs. Bremer provided that her collection of algae 
and other specimens be presented to the Milwaukee public 
museum, and that her microscope and other scientific appara¬ 
tus be presented to some scientific worker unable himself to pro¬ 
cure such aids. 
