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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alice Cogswell Bemis, by Anonymous
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+Title: Alice Cogswell Bemis
+       A Sketch by a Friend
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+_ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS_
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+ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS
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+_A SKETCH BY A FRIEND_
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+[Illustration]
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+_BOSTON_
+PRIVATELY PRINTED
+1920
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+_The Merrymount Press · Boston_
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+ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS
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+
+Alice Cogswell Bemis came from a long line of good British stock. She
+was in the eighth generation from John Cogswell, who was born at
+Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, in 1592. He was a man of standing and of
+considerable inherited property. Among the latter were "The Mylls,"
+called "Ripond," situated in the parish of Fromen, Selwood, together
+with the homestead and certain personal property. He married Elizabeth
+Thompson, a daughter of the Vicar of Westbury parish. After twenty years
+of married life, during which they had lived in the family homestead and
+he had carried on his father's prosperous business, he decided to
+emigrate to America, and on May 23, 1625, leaving one married daughter
+in England, they embarked with their eight other children on the famous
+ship, _The Angel Gabriel_. We find no mention of a special reason for
+their leaving England, but it was probably the same that led many others
+of their type to begin life afresh in the new world; here the
+possibilities of the country to be developed were limitless, and
+doubtless these offered a better outlook for their children, whose
+welfare must have been uppermost in their thoughts and plans.
+
+The voyage of _The Angel Gabriel_ and its wreck off Pemaquid, on the
+coast of Maine, in the frightful gale of August 15, 1625, are told in
+the graphic story of the Rev. Richard Mather, who was a passenger on the
+ship _James_, which sailed from England on the same day. The _James_ lay
+at anchor off the Isles of Shoals while _The Angel Gabriel_ was off
+Pemaquid. She was torn from her anchors and obliged to put to sea, but
+after two days' terrible battling with storm and wave, reached Boston
+harbor with "her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if they
+had been rotten rags." Of _The Angel Gabriel_, he says: "It was burst in
+pieces and cast away." Strong winds from the northeast and great tidal
+waves made it a total wreck. John Cogswell and all his family were
+washed ashore from the broken decks of their ship, but several others
+lost their lives. Some of the many valuable possessions they had brought
+with them never came to shore, but among the articles saved was a tent
+which gave good service at once; this Mr. Cogswell pitched for a
+temporary abiding place. As soon as possible he took passage for Boston,
+where he made a contract with the captain of a small bark to sail for
+Pemaquid and transport his family to Ipswich, Massachusetts, then a
+newly settled town.
+
+The settlers of Ipswich at once appreciated these newcomers, and the
+municipal records show that liberal grants of land were made to John
+Cogswell. Among them was one spoken of as "Three hundred acres of land
+at the further Chebokoe," which later was incorporated as a part of
+Essex. Here in 1636 their permanent home was built, and here, covering a
+period of over two hundred and fifty years, their descendants cultivated
+the land. The Cogswells had brought with them several farm and household
+servants, as well as valuable furniture, farming implements, and
+considerable money. A log house was soon built, but the boxes containing
+their many valuables were unopened until it was practicable for Mr.
+Cogswell to build a frame house. A description of this remains, in which
+we are told that it stood back from the highway, and was approached
+through shrubbery and flowers. It is further said, that among the
+treasures which were taken into the new home from the boxes were
+several pieces of carved furniture, embroidered curtains, damask table
+linen, and much silver plate; that there was a Turkish carpet, an
+unusual treasure for those days, is well attested. Their descendants
+still treasure relics of their ancestors, such as articles of personal
+adornment, a quaint mirror, and an old clock.
+
+John Cogswell was the third original settler in that part of Ipswich
+which is now Essex. His piety, his intelligence, and his comparative
+wealth gave him a leading position in the town and the church. His name
+is often seen in the records of Ipswich and always with the prefix
+"Mr.," which, in those days, was a title of honor given to only a few
+who were gentlemen of distinction. He died November 29, 1669, aged
+seventy-seven years. His funeral procession traversed a distance of five
+miles to the old North graveyard of the First Church, under an escort of
+armed men as a protection against a possible attack of Indians. Three
+years later the body of Mrs. Cogswell was laid beside her husband's. The
+record that remains of her is: "She was a woman of sterling qualities
+and dearly loved by all who knew her." Their son, William Cogswell,
+seems to have had many of his father's traits and was one of the most
+influential citizens of that period. To him was due the establishment of
+the parish and church and the building of the meeting-house; and when,
+according to the quaint custom of those days, the seats in the
+meeting-house were assigned, his wife was given the place by the
+minister's wife, a mark of greatest distinction. Two of his grandsons
+were men of note. Colonel Nathaniel Wade was an officer in the
+Revolutionary army and a personal friend of Washington and Lafayette.
+Another, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, father of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, was
+a graduate of Yale, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
+Edinburgh. He was settled for many years over the First Church of
+Cambridge.
+
+[Illustration: Cogswell House, Ipswich, Mass.]
+
+One of the deeds of land made to their children was to their son William
+"on the south side of Chebacco River." The variation in the spelling of
+this proper name is one of the many we find in early New England
+records. At the same time a dwelling at Chebacco Falls was given to
+Deacon Cornelius Waldo, who had married their daughter Hannah. In
+direct line of descent from these two, and in the sixth generation from
+the first Cogswell in America, was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mrs. Bemis was
+in the eighth generation, through the son William, and from him also was
+descended Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the fifth generation. We cannot well
+follow here the descendants of the other children of John and Elizabeth
+Cogswell, but certain it is that in each of the generations to the
+present day we find many well-educated men and women of character, with
+a strong sense of their obligations as citizens, all doing good work for
+the world in various lines of activity. They have verified what one has
+written concerning John Cogswell and his family: "They were the first of
+the name to reach these shores; the lapse of two hundred and fifty years
+has given to them a numerous posterity, some of whom in each generation
+have lived in eventful periods, have risen to eminence, and fulfilled
+distinguished service in the history of the country."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration]
+
+With these rich inheritances as her birthright, with parents who
+enforced and strengthened in their children the principles that they
+themselves had been taught, Alice Cogswell was born in the family home
+of her parents, Daniel and Mary Davis Randall Cogswell, at Ipswich, on
+January 5, 1845. She was one of seven children, three of whom died very
+young, and of the seven only her sister Lucy survived her. The mother
+died when Alice was only four. Until the time of the father's death,
+when she was eighteen and her sister three years older, several
+different housekeepers were in charge of the home, and yet it appears
+that these two young girls very early and in a way most unusual for any
+so young, not only gave life and charm to the house, but directed and
+controlled all its activities to a great extent. A cousin who was very
+dear to Alice writes to her son of his memory of those days in the quiet
+country home at Ipswich, giving a charming picture that shows the spirit
+that prompted all her life to its end. He says: "Every one in Ipswich
+who remembers her would speak of her sweet, cheery and generous spirit.
+One of the very earliest of my childhood recollections is a little
+incident that occurred when I could not have been more than four or five
+years old. One day my mother let me go all by myself to Uncle
+Cogswell's to see Cousin Alice. Our homes were rather near together but
+it was to me then a journey of large proportions. At dinner I can
+remember that I sat next Cousin Alice in a chair with two big books to
+make it high enough. After dinner we went into the garden and picked a
+basket of pears which she gave me to take home. This little visit was
+like many others that followed and it is typical of all that she has
+done throughout a long and useful life. Though I was only a little
+fellow, I have a strong impression of an energetic, influential family,
+full of good deeds, and of a large house with well stocked cellars and
+larders that seemed to exist chiefly for the benefit of neighbors and
+friends. Lucy and Alice were beautiful young women. Their mother died
+when they were quite young, and while they were in their early 'teens'
+they were in charge of the Cogswell home. This they made most
+attractive. My boyhood impression is that they were always doing nice
+things for people--always sending their friends baskets from their
+larder. I have a wonderful impression of Uncle Cogswell's garden. As
+gardens go nowadays it may not have been unusual, but to me it was a
+rare spot. It contained choice varieties of currants, gooseberries,
+pears and cherries. There may have been some apple trees, but I have the
+feeling that apples were a trifle common to associate with his exotic
+varieties. From the time of my father's death, which occurred when I was
+eight years old, Cousin Alice seemed to assume a godmotherly interest in
+me and my career. Three evenings a week I went to the Lowell Institute,
+which kept me in town too late to go home to Ipswich, and she gave me a
+key to her home in Newton and had a room always ready for my use. She
+always took a generous interest in my work. Her moral support was
+everything to me. She made me feel that my profession was worthy and
+dignified." Many students whom she helped in later years would gladly
+give the same testimony of support and encouragement received from her.
+
+The sisters attended the Ipswich Seminary, one of the famous schools of
+New England in its day. Its principal, Mrs. Cowles, had an attractive
+personality, a cultivated mind, and great force of character. Her
+husband, Dr. Cowles, was a clergyman and a man of wide influence, though
+because of his blindness he was not in the active ministry for many
+years. In spite of this seemingly insurmountable obstacle he was a
+constant student, especially of Greek and Hebrew, and wrote much of
+value on the Old Testament. His presence added greatly to the household,
+whose refined and stimulating atmosphere seems to have made as strong an
+impression on the students as did the soundness of the teaching in the
+classroom. The two sisters, Lucy and Alice, took the entire course of
+study that the seminary offered. Alice graduated from it in 1864. Many
+of its pupils became women of large influence in the world, and carried
+from their life in the seminary a profound impression of the religious
+influences that had surrounded them there. Their own thought and their
+manner of life showed the lasting value of the emphasis that had been
+laid in the school on the supreme importance of right living and right
+thinking. Those who knew the sisters well recall the many times in after
+years when, as they mentioned some wise rule for life, they prefaced it
+with, "As Mrs. Cowles used to tell us," or "as Dr. Cowles said." One of
+Mrs. Cowles's daughters now living writes of Alice: "I remember that she
+was universally liked and loved." It was a happy school life and a
+happy girlhood for both of these sisters. Notwithstanding their great
+loss in having to grow to womanhood without their mother, a loss of
+which they were always conscious, they had great compensation in their
+close companionship with their father and with each other. Their father
+gave them the best of instruction in things spiritual, and unusual
+training in all practical matters, especially with regard to the value
+of money, how to care for it and how to spend it, and then gave them a
+much freer hand in the direction of many personal matters than most
+girls of their age were accustomed to have; this freedom they used
+wisely. One of them was once asked how they filled their days in times
+that often seem very dull and uninteresting to the modern girl with her
+round of engagements. The answer was, "We skated in winter and ran wild
+in summer." What was said in jest was far from being the literal truth,
+but it suggests the happy impression that their girlhood gave them of
+genuine freedom guided by the wise counsels of others and their own good
+sense.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In June of 1864 Lucy Cogswell was married to Mr. George B. Roberts, and
+their house became home to Alice. Mr. Roberts afterward built the house
+on Craigie Street, Cambridge, in which they spent the rest of their
+lives. It was here that the two generations met often while the Bemis
+family lived in the east, and later when they came on from Colorado. The
+relation between the sisters had hitherto been a particularly close one,
+and was only strengthened by the happy new family ties that came to
+each. To those who loved these sisters and saw both come to a time when
+feebleness and physical restriction might have been before them, there
+can be only rejoicing that they were spared any added weakness of body,
+and that there was no clouding of their bright and active minds, no
+abatement of interest in the life about them as long as they were here.
+Mrs. Roberts had been in such delicate health for several years that it
+did not seem possible that she would outlive her sister, but only two
+months after their last parting, the great transition came to her also.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We are given a charming glimpse into the first meeting between Mr. and
+Mrs. Bemis in some interesting reminiscences Mr. Bemis has recently
+written for his grandchildren. He had been settled in business in St.
+Louis for some years when Alice Cogswell, shortly after her sister's
+marriage, went there to visit a very dear aunt, "Aunt Lucy Smyth." The
+occasion of their meeting came through Mr. Bemis's first visit to Boston
+in 1865, which, in his own words, "resulted in an important occurrence."
+He met there a business connection, Mr. Zenas Cushing, who had become
+Alice Cogswell's guardian on the death of her father; knowing that Mr.
+Bemis was from St. Louis, Mr. Cushing gave him a letter of introduction
+to his ward and bespoke his interest in her and his help in any business
+advice she might need. Mr. Bemis tells his story thus: "Some three weeks
+after my return from Boston I gave myself the pleasure of calling one
+evening and presenting the letter. As I am writing these lines I can see
+'Miss Cogswell' coming into the parlor where I was awaiting her. She was
+dressed in the fashion of the day, having on a silk dress with a very
+full skirt held out by a hoop-skirt of large dimensions. She met me
+cordially and asked me to be seated and we talked for an hour of my
+first trip to Boston, of her guardian and others. As I was leaving and
+closing the gate I heard myself saying that I might marry that girl if I
+could win her. It was not so-called 'love at first sight,' but it
+ripened into love with a few subsequent calls. I think it was a very
+fortunate circumstance that I met Alice Cogswell when I did." And very
+fortunate for many others did this union prove. The outward condition of
+their early lives was very different, but the two families from which
+they came were alike in the standards which they held for themselves and
+instilled into their children.
+
+The story of Mr. Bemis's early years is the familiar one of that type of
+western pioneer to whom the whole country is deeply indebted. He was
+born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on May 18, 1833, of parents who had
+all the best inheritance to give their children, but few material
+possessions. When he was an infant the family moved to a small village
+in Chemung County, New York, where his mother's brother, Henry Farwell,
+lived with his family. The relation between the two families was a close
+one, and five years later it was decided that they should move together
+to Illinois. Reports of its fertile soil and what it promised for the
+future had come back to them by the slow and uncertain mails. They knew
+that it offered more for themselves, and what was far more important to
+them, for their children, than they could ever have in their present
+surroundings. When they made the great change they knew well the dangers
+and difficulties that must be met on the journey when taken under the
+most favorable conditions. They knew, too, how these would be increased
+in their case, as they were taking so many young children, eight in all;
+but the courageous band to which they belonged were men and women of
+industry and personal integrity, with a strong sense of real values,
+who, having made their decision, took no reckoning of obstacles to the
+end before them.
+
+It was a long, difficult journey. In a pleasant sketch of this that Mr.
+Bemis has given, we have only the remembrance of such incidents as stay
+in the memory of a child. There is no mention of hardships. He recalls
+the covered wagon, but knows only from others of the slow journey to
+Buffalo, thence by boat to Detroit, and the continued journey to
+Chicago, then Fort Dearborn, where they did not remain for fear of
+being eaten by mosquitoes or of having fever and ague, and so camped at
+what is now Oak Park. Thence they moved on to Lighthouse Point, Ogle
+County, Illinois, where the Bemis family found a temporary lodging in a
+log cabin and the others lived in covered wagons until they had built a
+comfortable cabin for themselves.
+
+From the beginning of the making of the new home on the empty prairie,
+the children took their full share in the work it involved. Mr. Bemis
+has told us that he was doing from one-half to two-thirds of a man's
+work on the farm when he was twelve years old, the year in which his
+wife was born into the well-established life of a fine old New England
+town, rich for her in all the inheritances that seven generations gave;
+all the way before her made as smooth as love and ample means could make
+it.
+
+At the age of nineteen Mr. Bemis left the farm and began his business
+career in Chicago as clerk to a shipping firm. After six years, with
+only his own savings for his capital, and helped by the loan of some
+machinery supplied by a cousin, he went to St. Louis and began the
+business which has borne his name for over sixty years, a name that is
+a synonym in all the business world for ability and integrity. His
+success did not come by accident, or by any so-called good fortune, but
+as the result of patience and perseverance, steadily following the
+principles and the rules he laid down for himself very early in life. He
+speaks with gratitude of the fact that he had to learn by force of
+circumstances "the blessedness of drudgery and the value of time and
+money in his long hours of work and in the closest practice of economy."
+
+We have seen how different were the outward circumstances of their early
+lives. In temperament also Mr. and Mrs. Bemis differed much; but in
+sympathy on all great matters, in their ideals of life, and their
+unfailing recognition of their own personal obligation and duty, they
+were always one. In the reminiscences he has written for his
+grandchildren, Mr. Bemis says: "Parents can lay the foundation for each
+child by their own life. They are giving daily examples by their actions
+and by word of mouth. If parents are living well-ordered and Christian
+lives, their children will be likely to follow their example. They will
+know nothing else. Good boys and girls make good men and women. An
+educated and scientific carpenter will hew and mortise the timbers to
+fit the keys that bind the frame to a complete and solid house, so that
+storm and winds pass it by unharmed. So with boys and girls; if their
+characters are moulded in truth, mortised and keyed together with
+obedience to God and man, when they become men and women they will
+withstand the environment of bad persons and escape unscathed. Hence
+their young lives, founded on the bedrock of Christian characters, are
+well qualified to work out their own destiny and make their lives
+whatever they will."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Bemis were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George B.
+Roberts, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1866, and went
+directly to their new home in St. Louis. There the oldest son, Judson
+Cogswell, was born in December of the following year; and there they
+remained until they returned to Boston in 1870, when for business
+reasons it became necessary for Mr. Bemis to have his headquarters in
+that city. After the birth of the second son, Albert Farwell, they moved
+to Newton, Massachusetts, where their three other children were born:
+Maude, now Mrs. Reginald H. Parsons, Lucy Gardner, who lived less than
+three years, and Alice, now Mrs. Frederick M. P. Taylor. Three of these
+survived their mother and had long been established in their own homes
+before she left them. To the father and mother was given the great
+happiness of seeing each of these new households controlled by the same
+standards of right and the same sense of personal and civic
+responsibility on which they had built their own united lives.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Bemis's home was in Newton for eleven years, and during
+that time it was the centre for the family connection in New England and
+for many friends. It was always rich in association for themselves and
+family, and was made rich in the same way for many others. Family cares
+that came upon Mrs. Bemis and the part she took in the life of the
+church and the community made the years spent there the most active of
+her life. After her removal to Colorado Springs, she showed in a
+practical and liberal form her interest in the First Congregational
+Church in that city, which the family attended, but she had such a
+strong sentiment about the church at Newton and the experiences that
+came to her while connected with it that she never removed her
+membership; its pastor, Dr. Calkins, and his wife were among her most
+valued friends.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In 1881 a serious throat trouble developed, and Mrs. Bemis was taken
+south for the winter. She did not gain there, and the following year was
+sent to Colorado Springs. Slight hope was then given to her family of
+her living more than a few months, but the climate and the sunshine
+effected what had seemed impossible, and within a few years she was able
+to lead a comparatively normal life in the new home where she was
+happily settled. A house was rented for the family until 1885, when the
+one at 508 North Cascade Avenue was built. This was henceforth home to
+her and to all the family as long as she was there with her welcome for
+them, and it soon became a centre for a large number of friends who are
+rich in memories of the unfailing welcome and genuine hospitality so
+freely given them. These were not restricted to a limited number with
+tastes and outward circumstances that were comparatively alike, but were
+extended to a large circle that differed widely in both of these. The
+sincerity, genuineness, and simplicity of the lives of those that made
+this home created an atmosphere that was felt as soon as one entered it.
+
+Many of the younger generation both within and without the family circle
+will have enduring memories of that house. Alan Gregg recalled in a few
+words childhood memories that were common to many; writing from his post
+in France he said: "Mrs. Bemis's death was a great surprise and shock,
+and the long time that elapsed between knowing of her illness and her
+death made me feel pretty far away. I remember her letting me play that
+music box to my heart's content, and the way she made Gregg laugh at an
+unexpected fall he took, instead of cry, better than anything else. She
+could also do nice things for you without spilling over into
+sentimentality."
+
+Her grandchildren's recollections of her will be mostly in connection
+with events in their own homes, where her visits were looked for eagerly
+by those on the Atlantic coast and those on the Pacific, but happily
+some of them are old enough to remember and pass on to the others the
+impression made on them and on other children in the family connection,
+of the grandmother's great pleasure in being with them and her plans for
+their comfort and happiness. They recall the perfect housekeeping, where
+the wheels seemed to move easily and were always out of sight; the
+daintiness of all its appointments, which was shown too in the dress and
+personal adornments of her who made this home and of those who shared it
+with her. Here she welcomed many of her old friends and also new
+acquaintances with whom lasting friendships were formed; here the
+children gathered around them a fine group of congenial companions who
+became their lasting friends; here they grew to manhood and to
+womanhood; from thence they were all married, and hither they all
+returned many times, with wife, husbands, and their own sons and
+daughters for happy family reunions.
+
+In this home the saddest as well as the most joyful experiences of her
+life came to her. The former were borne with the calmness and strength
+shown only by those with great capacity for suffering and great power of
+self-control. The hardest trial that she had ever known was at a time
+when she had little physical strength to meet it. After a year with the
+family in Colorado, the eldest son, Judson, was sent to a manual
+training school at St. Louis, Missouri, where there were many family
+friends. He was a lad of much promise, a great reader, with varied gifts
+and tastes. He had a very social nature and a warm interest in people,
+was noble in character, and deep in his affections. The separation was
+very hard for his mother, but it was met with the unselfishness she
+always showed when her children's interests were to be considered. She
+herself chose it, as she wanted him to have this special kind of
+training that could not be found nearer home. In the second year of his
+absence he was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia. His parents were
+summoned at once, and his father arrived before his death, but his
+mother could not reach St. Louis till some hours later. The loss of the
+little daughter Lucy, who had died in Newton of scarlet fever, was still
+fresh in her memory when the new sorrow came. This was borne
+wonderfully, but it changed all life for her as nothing else ever did.
+In 1904 came the third break in the family circle, when Mrs. Parsons
+with her beautiful little girl, Alice Loraine, nearly three years old,
+the first granddaughter in the family, was visiting her grandparents in
+Colorado Springs. No child could have been more tenderly loved and cared
+for than she, but nothing could avert the fatal illness that developed
+soon after their arrival.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+During the years that followed her going west, Mrs. Bemis spent only one
+summer there. For several successive seasons she went with her children
+to Minnetonka in Minnesota; but it was not possible for Mr. Bemis to be
+with them there more than he was during the winter, because of its
+distance from Boston, and a happy change came to all when later Mrs.
+Bemis had gained enough to make it safe for her to spend some months of
+each year by the sea on Cape Ann, where the family had headquarters for
+many summers. Twice she went abroad with her children; first during the
+summer of 1891 and five years later for a year of study and extended
+travel for her daughters. Marjorie Gregg, who knew her well, recalling
+her many journeys, says: "Few not loving travel for its own sake could
+or would have taken so many long journeys. The trips east in the spring
+and back to Colorado in the autumn became a habit, and she carried them
+out with precision and determination that did not ignore discomforts;
+she saw these, felt them and mentioned them, but never feared or
+regarded them. She planned and packed and made all arrangements without
+confusion or mistakes; never 'took it out' on other people, but refused
+help even in late years. It would be impossible to count up the miles
+travelled, the time spent on Pullman cars, the trunks packed--all not
+because of _Wanderlust_, curiosity, or restlessness, but for love of
+family--that she and her children might be with their father half of
+each year and that she might keep close to her sister and nieces, whose
+relation to 'Aunt Alice' was as close as if the two families had lived
+in the same town. Later Grandpa and Grandma Bemis journeyed together
+indefatigably."
+
+When Mr. Bemis laid aside many of the details of his business, they
+chose Lake Mohonk, New York, for their summer home, and the last seven
+summers of her life were spent very happily there; so happily, that each
+year they engaged the same rooms for the following season and said they
+meant to do this as long as they lived. It became a real home to them.
+Mr. and Mrs. Smiley, wonderful host and hostess to all, were soon their
+warm personal friends, and many pleasant acquaintances with guests were
+renewed each year. Among their most valued friends there was Dr. Faunce,
+president of Brown University, who conducted the Sunday services year
+after year. They considered his sermons as among the best and most
+helpful they ever heard, and after each season thought and talked much
+of them, always looking forward to the coming of the summer Sundays,
+their brightest days at Mohonk. Here every condition met their tastes
+and their needs; the great beauty of the place itself, the quiet and
+peace of the house, the wise and unusual way in which it is ordered, all
+combined to give them an ideal residence for the summer. The fact that
+young people of a fine type were always there added much to Mrs. Bemis's
+pleasure. She enjoyed watching their sports and their life in the open.
+Her windows overlooked the lake, and she sat there hour after hour
+watching the parties coming and going in boats and climbing the hills.
+Her delight in the beauties of the whole picture before her, than which
+there are few to compare with it the world over, grew steadily with each
+day there. Just before leaving Mohonk for the last time, she wrote to a
+young cousin: "I wish I could transport you all here. I have always said
+that I would like to live on a beautiful estate and have no care of it;
+and here I have been for seven summers and no place by any possibility
+could be finer. Mr. Smiley did not spoil nature but kept its wonderful
+beauty and added to it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+During the last years they were together, Mr. and Mrs. Bemis made
+several interesting trips to California and to Seattle, to be with their
+daughter, Mrs. Parsons. The mere recital of all these journeyings may
+give the impression that the life in Colorado Springs was a very broken
+one, but it did not seem so to her friends there, for at each return it
+was resumed so quickly and so quietly that they think of it rather as
+continuous. No friend and no interest she had in any work that helped on
+the general welfare was ever ignored or forgotten by her wherever she
+might be.
+
+Probably there has never been any one in Colorado Springs with so many
+enforced absences and the same limitations of strength who has done as
+much as she in enriching individual lives with friendship and the
+community life with sympathy and generous material aid. Nothing that she
+counted a duty sat lightly on her mind or conscience.
+
+Miss Ellen T. Brinley, who was for many years a friend and neighbor of
+Mrs. Bemis, wrote shortly after her death: "She was a real New Englander
+of a type all too rare in these degenerate days. For many years she was
+not very strong, and yet she was one of the least self-indulgent people
+that ever lived. Wealth to her was not a reason for luxury and pleasure
+seeking, but an opportunity for helping others--with a lack of
+ostentation characteristic of her whole nature. She was truly a secret
+helper. That the young should have their chance in life and that the
+paths of the needy should be made more easy, became increasingly the
+object of her life. Colorado College and the Young Women's Christian
+Association were the two organizations in Colorado Springs whose welfare
+she had most at heart, and for them she was constantly devising liberal
+things. In the wakeful hours of the night, she planned to relieve the
+sufferings of others, and her spirit of good will came from no weak
+sentimentality. She was a woman of good judgment, an incisive mind, and
+a strong character. She was a wonderfully loyal friend and her daily
+life centred in her own family circle, in a few personal friendships,
+and in the benevolence which was her avocation."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Even her closest friends knew but little of her constant and quiet deeds
+of kindness, and that rarely from her directly. It could never be said
+of her that she was "confidential with her left hand." From the
+recipients of her generosity more is known than could have been learned
+from her. Often with an apology lest she might seem to intrude, she
+learned if friends, and sometimes mere acquaintances and even strangers,
+needed assistance at a time when she knew an emergency had come to them,
+and often asked others to be the means of meeting such needs, not
+letting it be known whence the help came. "Just tell them you have it to
+give away," she would often say. Sometimes she gave to personal friends
+a check, asking that they spend it as they thought best in ministering
+to others.
+
+This was done for many years to some who were in close touch with the
+students of Colorado College. "Don't take the trouble to give an account
+of this," she would say, "only be sure that it goes where it is really
+needed." But when the account was rendered, she wanted to hear all that
+could be told of the circumstances of each one who had been helped, and
+often arranged that certain of these should have further assistance. To
+a number this was voluntarily continued during their professional
+studies. The following, from a letter to her son in 1908, shows her
+sympathetic understanding of the students whom she helped:
+
+"I wonder if I told you that the suit that you left here I gave to Mrs.
+S---- for one of the college boys. The lining was greatly worn and so I
+pinned on an envelope with $5.00 in it and she gave it to a very needy
+fellow who is working and attending college. She had a letter from him
+and from the mother. I am going to send her letter and some other
+letters from other boys to whom the President has given a little from
+time to time from a little that I gave him early in the winter. I want
+you to read them, for I don't think that any of us realize how brave
+these poor students are, and really they are the ones whom we hear of
+later; the rich men's sons fall short in some way."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mrs. Bemis was one of a group of women who, in the spring of 1889,
+organized the Women's Education Society of Colorado College. The
+resolutions passed by its executive board at the time of her death so
+adequately express her relation to the Society that they are here quoted
+in full:
+
+"The Executive Board of the Women's Educational Society wishes to place
+on record its sense of irreparable loss in the passing of Alice Cogswell
+Bemis.
+
+"Her association with the work of the Society has extended over a long
+period of years, and her part in it has always been characterized by
+fidelity to the purpose of the organization and keen discrimination in
+the execution of the trust. She brought to the problems confronting the
+Board rare insight and judgment, and her business acumen was
+invaluable.
+
+"Many students of Colorado College are personally indebted to her for
+the removal of obstacles in the way of the successful prosecution of
+their work in which her interest was vital and perennial. A story of
+genuine need never failed to elicit her assistance. Of her general
+constructive planning for the many-sided life of the young women, Bemis
+Hall and Cogswell Theatre are enduring evidence.
+
+"The Board has lost a useful member, her friends a wise counselor, and
+philanthropic agencies a generous helper to whom worthy cause or person
+never appealed in vain."
+
+Another organization to which she contributed much pleasure and from
+which she received the same is the Art Club of Colorado Springs. A group
+of women whose personal relation to her was close and increasingly dear
+as the years passed, formed its membership. They met twice a month at
+each other's houses, read, and studied pictures, finding, as one says,
+"an alleviation not unwelcome in that life where tuberculosis and the
+gold fever of the early days alternately possessed the atmosphere." The
+Art Club owed much of its genuine life to Mrs. Bemis; her interest in
+art, her keenness to acquire and classify the knowledge that she loved,
+was as strong as her friendship and neighborliness. The utmost
+hospitality to invalid strangers was part and parcel of those Colorado
+Springs early days, and in goodness to obscure invalids and in lending a
+hand in hard times no one could tell the extent of her benefactions.
+
+All that Mrs. Bemis did will never be known, and what she gave was never
+told at the time unless it seemed best for obvious reasons that her
+identification with a good movement should be made public. The
+unsolicited gifts must have been manifold compared with those she gave
+in response to appeals. It was always easy to approach her for any good
+cause. If she gave, it was always with good will; if she declined to do
+so, a distinct reason for the refusal was stated; and she was as careful
+not to pauperize by giving as she was not to withhold where it was due,
+and was entirely free from the bitterness common to a certain type of
+persons who are wont to think that their generosity is being imposed
+upon. She often afforded amusement to her friends by the way in which
+she prefaced an offer of help with a seeming apology. She even seemed
+at times to call those who were working in a good cause to account
+because its pressing needs had not been met, and then met them herself.
+
+A notable instance of this was her gift of the gymnasium to the Young
+Women's Christian Association. When the present Association building was
+erected she gave generously to the building fund. A gymnasium was
+greatly needed then, but no money was available for it. A space was left
+on the lot that had been purchased in the hope that a building might be
+put there later. Very soon the growth of the work showed that no
+gymnasium adequate even for the present demands could be built on that
+limited space. The girls of the Association clamored for it and the
+members of the board, who even more than they knew how much it was
+needed, were heavy hearted. No one spoke of the situation to Mrs. Bemis
+until she herself broached it to one of the board in a tone that, to one
+who did not know her, might have seemed a reprimand. She prefaced what
+was on her mind thus: "I do not approve at all of your putting up a
+building on that small space. You ought to buy that lot to the north."
+The board member could but agree. The protest was again made, and the
+board member could only repeat her agreement, but knew from the manner
+of approach to the subject that something was back in Mrs. Bemis's mind
+that she would have to tell, though she wished it might be known without
+her telling it! And then it came. She would like to see that lot when no
+one would know that she was looking at it, and if it wasn't too much
+trouble, could it be arranged for her to do this? It was planned that
+she should go early one Sunday morning to the building, when very few
+were in the lower rooms. She looked out on the vacant space and said,
+"Don't you see _it will not do at all_?" Within twenty-four hours she
+asked some one to negotiate for the purchase of the lot at the north and
+gave it to the Association, adding a check that made possible the
+present beautiful gymnasium. She dismissed with no mistaken emphasis the
+proposal that this should bear her name. Her pleasure in the building
+was great, and in expressing this pleasure she always seemed only to be
+commending the Association for having it. Her part in it seemed nothing
+to her. "Others have had to do all the work," she would say if her gift
+was mentioned.
+
+When Bemis Hall, the main residence for girls at Colorado College, was
+being built, it was found that by excavating under the dining-room there
+would be space for a theatre, in which the students could give plays and
+various college meetings might be held. This was done, and the room was
+named Cogswell Theatre in her honor. It must be admitted that the latter
+was done under protest, although aided and abetted by some of her
+family. "What would my ancestors say to having a theatre bear their
+name!" she said, laughing. Among the memories of the past nine years to
+those who have enjoyed that little theatre, none is happier than that of
+seeing the faces of two very dear friends following each word and
+movement on the stage, laughing at times till the tears came, and giving
+over and over their entire approval of the existence of the theatre,
+with no further protest against its name. These two friends rarely
+missed seeing whatever was presented on that stage, though seldom
+tempted by public entertainments to give up their quiet evenings at
+home. Indeed, everything in that beautiful hall named for Mr.
+Bemis--whose generosity, to the college is there made known only in
+part--seemed to give them pleasure, and no one else will ever cross its
+threshold who can receive just the kind of welcome they always found
+awaiting them.
+
+While the number of organizations which Mrs. Bemis helped is not known,
+and it is impossible to mention those which for many years counted on
+her interest and liberal support, one must be noted as showing her
+abiding interest in all that related to her native town and the region
+about it. This is the Ipswich Historical Society, which was organized in
+1890, and of which she was the first life member. On its twenty-fifth
+anniversary, in response to what was only a printed appeal, she sent the
+first substantial gift of money it received. Within a few months of her
+death, learning that a fireproof building for the Society had been
+proposed, she wrote to Mr. T. Franklin Waters, its president, asking for
+particulars of the plan under consideration, and on receipt of his reply
+sent a check for so large a proportion of the estimated cost that she
+was asked to consent to have the building named for her. Following a
+determination made long before that her gifts should not be made
+conspicuous in any way, she would not consent to this.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mrs. Bemis was as quick, open, and generous in her recognition of what
+others did along philanthropic lines as she was reticent concerning her
+own good deeds. This was especially noticeable in her attitude toward
+all the private and public benefactions of her husband and children. Her
+quiet satisfaction in these was beautiful to see. Her children received
+all sympathy and encouragement in every good work they undertook, but
+she never assumed the right to dictate in these matters or took any
+credit to herself for anything they did, not thinking of the power of
+her example and the life-long training she had given them.
+
+Her recognition of all her husband's benefactions and her sympathy in
+his planning for them were unfailing. One of the most important and far
+reaching of these was in connection with a work along social lines in
+the town of Bemis, Tennessee, where his firm had built a cotton mill.
+From the inception of the town the need of this work was much in the
+thought of their son, who has since succeeded his father as president
+of their company, and whose practical interest in the betterment of all
+social relations, especially of those between the employer and the
+employed, is widely known. Together they carried out their ideals in the
+new town of Bemis. The operators were those known in the south as poor
+whites. The opening of the mill gave to these people an undreamed of
+opportunity to earn money. It also offered to them a great privilege and
+at the same time a possibility of great danger. The privilege was that
+of being able for the first time in their lives to command money and to
+use it so that it would make them better and happier; the danger was
+that they might use it so that moral deterioration would follow. Both
+these possibilities were foreseen in the first plans for the town, and
+provision was made for the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of the
+people that would as far as possible avert the danger. A social worker
+was engaged to live as a friend among the people, and a church, school,
+and library were provided for them. Mrs. Bemis had much pleasure in
+following every step in the development of this work, while careful to
+disclaim any credit for its success, again not thinking what her
+encouragement and coöperation meant to both husband and son. But they
+and all her children pay her full tribute for the stimulus of example
+and for the sympathy shown in every good work to which they put their
+hands.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This woman of many noble traits was especially endowed with the rare
+gift of loyal and understanding friendship. Her relation to kindred and
+personal friends brought to her and to them an unusual degree of
+happiness. This was so great a factor in her life that it may seem as if
+special mention of many of these friends should be made in even so brief
+a sketch as this. But they themselves will realize how impossible this
+would be because the circle to which they belong is so large. She was
+not blind to the failings of her friends, but was clear in her
+comprehension of their fundamental traits, and her love for them, her
+strong though often undemonstrative interest in them, never abated.
+While she added to their number many times during her stay in different
+places, no new friend or new interest ever took the place of an old one.
+Her generous heart had room for all whom she took to it.
+
+Her correspondence with friends was surprisingly large in view of the
+frequency of her letters to her own immediate circle; when the family
+became widely scattered this might easily have been made an excuse for
+dropping much of the general correspondence, but instead of that it grew
+as the circle of her interest widened. No one was neglected and all
+letters were written with her own hand. During the last years of her
+life much of her mail that was not personal became a distinct burden
+with its increasing appeals from all directions, but she conscientiously
+attended to it all herself. An abundance of good common sense helped her
+to ignore many of these, but any that could not be laid aside lightly
+she investigated in a way that took much time and strength.
+
+Her outspoken nature and uncompromising mind often made her draw hard
+and fast lines in no unmistakable way as to conduct that met her
+approval or condemnation, but she asked no one to come up to any
+standard higher than she had laid down for herself. She wanted above all
+things to be just, and few people are so essentially just as she was. To
+quote a friend, "her judgment of character was clear, just, and
+vigorous."
+
+One fixed habit of her mind must not be overlooked: this was
+unwillingness to accept any help in whatever she could possibly do
+herself. Many friends thought this a failing and frequently told her so.
+They were wont to rebel against the fact that they could not serve her,
+while she was a past master in the art of serving others. Her swift
+motions and deft hands, impelled by her quick mind, would outwit half a
+dozen people who were looking for means by which to circumvent her. No
+amount of urging could lead her to agree to be waited upon if that could
+be avoided, and she often refused to accept ministrations at times when
+it seemed to others that they were necessary to her comfort. But even at
+such times she would withhold no service for another. Whatever mention
+the Recording Angel may make of this failing, it will be very brief
+compared with what is written of the countless deeds of love and of
+kindness for others with which she filled her days.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Fortunately, many letters to the family and other friends have been
+kept. They are singularly like her; never diffuse, but with that rare
+and happy characteristic of telling concretely and clearly what was of
+most interest to those to whom they were written, and never letting
+irrelevant generalities take the place of matters of importance. In
+reading these letters consecutively we are struck by the naïve and
+unconscious way in which she reveals much of herself. They contain few
+allusions to her own discomforts, but abound in sympathy for any that
+have come to those to whom she is writing; they show how her happiness
+never depended on anything that she might obtain for herself, while she
+magnifies whatever others do for her. Social gatherings that brought old
+friends and new together she enjoyed in a simple, whole-hearted way; she
+cordially approved of fun and encouraged it by giving and taking it, but
+never seemed to seek diversion. Her happiness came from what was close
+at hand, especially in the simple every day gifts that are bestowed on
+us all. Among her papers is found this "Line of Cheer:"
+
+    "_I love the air of hill and sea
+    That puts its crispness into me.
+    I love the smiling of the sky
+    That sets its twinkle in mine eye.
+    I love the vigor of the gale
+    That lends me strength where mine doth fail.
+    I love the golden light of day
+    That makes my jaded spirit gay.
+    I love the dark of night whose guest
+    I find myself when I would rest.
+    And gratitude doth hold me thrall
+    Unto the Giver of them all._"
+
+A few sentences taken at random from the letters show that this
+expressed what was in her mind: "The day has been beautiful. You know
+this is the rainless season and the hills, as we came along, were all
+brown, no green grass anywhere, but the trees are beautiful with very
+full leafage, showing that the air is very moist.... I wish that you
+could see 'The Springs' now it is so very beautiful.... I have some dear
+little finches building in their evergreen trees. I think that there are
+several pairs. Tell Gregg that I can look from my chamber window
+directly into a robin's nest."
+
+In one of her letters to her grandchildren she says: "I went down to the
+Young Women's Christian Association rooms yesterday afternoon to take
+tea and hear the report of those who have been raising money to support
+the work there. Some little girls were having their gymnastic lessons
+and were having a very jolly time. At last the leaves are all off of the
+trees and I think the little wayside flowers must have had their noses
+pinched last night by Jack Frost."
+
+Her interest not only in the beauty of the world about her but in what
+others are doing to make it bring forth and bud for the good of mankind
+is shown over and over: "Alice is happy," she writes, "to have the
+weather warmer for her garden. She thinks that her vegetables have had
+too much hail and cold weather, but the last two days have been fine.
+The country here responds very quickly to showers, the trees and grass
+now are in perfection and the whole town is beautifully dressed. I have
+never seen it looking better notwithstanding the dandelions."
+
+The family letters abound in allusions to the grandchildren and touch
+upon all the varied interests of her children; many were written
+directly to the grandchildren. It was beautiful to see the joy those
+little people brought to her, and it was characteristic of her that,
+never thinking of what might be considered as due her, she was surprised
+when a second grandchild was given her name.
+
+On March 5, 1909, she writes: "I was so pleased this morning to have a
+telegram about the new little girl, and you were fooling Farwell about
+the name; I can't believe that she is named already and for me. If she
+really has the name of Alice, I hope that she will be a better woman
+than I have been. I am crazy to see her and am wondering if she looks as
+little Faith did and has as much hair. Oh dear! the distance is
+tremendous sometimes. I do wish that I had a home nearer my family.
+
+"What did 'Sister' say? What did Alan say and do?... My best love and
+congratulations to each. I am so glad to have another granddaughter."
+
+Each one of the grandchildren had a special place in her thought and
+affections, and was beautiful to her. "The children are well and really
+pretty,--but not in pictures," she writes once.
+
+The strength of her hands was largely used in knitting dainty garments
+for the children and their mothers. During her last summer she spoke of
+this to a friend, as if apologizing for not working solely for our
+soldiers, instead of indulging herself in doing what she did for her
+own, who "seemed to like what she made for them." This is the only
+self-indulgence that is mentioned in all the letters that have been read
+in preparing this sketch. Remembering how large were her gifts to war
+relief compared to what she ever spent for herself, one can think only
+with delight that she had the pleasure of weaving so many loving
+thoughts for those dearest to her into her last gifts to them.
+
+The following shows a tact that often wins where criticism would lose:
+"It was Maude's birthday yesterday ... two friends came to dinner. The
+second maid had the misfortune to fall down, or rather turn her ankle
+standing up, and she had to be put to bed. The cook is a good-natured
+girl and she thought that she could wait on the table. I did not think
+much of her ability, but thanked her, gave her a few instructions, and
+told her to put on a white waist and wear a good white apron. Well I was
+repaid for not showing any doubt to her, for she waited very well
+indeed, and all went merry as a _birthday_ bell."
+
+She does not hesitate to criticize herself, even to the point of placing
+herself in a ridiculous light, one of the hallmarks never found on
+small souls. For instance, she once wrote: "You will be interested in my
+yesterday afternoon exploits. I started to crochet a white hand-bag,
+like one that Mrs. S---- is making, and after I had done quite a lot, I
+found a mistake away back and so went to work and took it out. Then I
+thought I would fill one of my fountain pens, and when I thought that I
+had been unusually expeditious and neat, I looked in the glass and found
+my best white waist splashed up with the ink. Wasn't I a very
+low-spirited woman! This morning I am trying to reduce the brilliant
+color of the spots by putting on salt and lemon and putting in the sun,
+but I know not if they will go, _but I consider them a disgrace to Alice
+Cogswell Bemis_."
+
+The letters give glimpses of many personal gifts that were so well
+concealed from all except those to whom they were made. It is shown that
+these were not given impulsively, but were carefully thought out and
+almost invariably planned to meet what seemed to her a definite need.
+For example: "I have told Mrs. Gregg about my plan for a trip for Gregg
+and herself and offered to pay all the expense.... I will enclose a
+check which you can fill out as I have no idea how much it will cost. At
+any rate please use it and send Gregg away for a while; it will be a
+benefit to him to travel and be away from servants. Let him look after
+himself."
+
+She rarely gives advice, but frequently makes friendly suggestions
+backed by the material wherewithal necessary to carry them out. "I have
+been sorry to know that Gregg has been having so much cold; it came to
+me one night that perhaps it would do him good to take a trip down to
+Hampton. I remember that Mrs. B---- had a son with General Armstrong at
+Hampton, teaching typesetting, and she went down to see him. She told me
+of some people who went down there every year to avoid the snows because
+they never had catarrhal troubles at Hampton. She said that it was a
+fine climate, so I wondered ... if it would not do Gregg good to go down
+there and live in the open air of that lovely region for several weeks."
+
+In writing to her son in February, 1907, of the laying of the
+corner-stone of Bemis Hall, at Colorado College, she makes no allusion
+to the gift that made this building possible, and says only: "I suppose
+Gregg wrote you or Sister that I helped lay the corner-stone of the new
+hall yesterday morning. Mrs. S., one of the 1908 Class, and myself
+patted on the cement. Gregg remarked if Daddy and Alan had been there,
+there would have been a lot more put on. The wind was very chilly
+yesterday, but we were not there very long and we were fairly well
+wrapped."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mrs. Bemis had an attack of appendicitis while in Boston in the autumn
+of 1910, which made an immediate operation necessary. When she was able
+to be moved, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor took her to Asheville for the winter,
+as she was not strong enough for the longer trip to Colorado; but the
+weather there that year was very unfortunate for an invalid, and later
+they went to Atlantic City. Here Mr. Bemis joined them; he now was able
+to make business arrangements that relieved him of the many details he
+had long carried, and a new era in the family life was begun--the
+happiest of all.
+
+From that time all enforced separations were over, and he was with his
+wife continuously wherever it was best for her to be. When, after a
+year, she was able to return to Colorado Springs, she was very happy to
+be again in her home, and the old life among friends was resumed as
+always, quickly and happily.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Birthdays and wedding anniversaries were gala days in the family,
+especially Mr. Bemis's birthday, when there was always a large dinner
+party with intimate friends added to the family group. Fun and abounding
+cheer were invariably among the good things provided. As these days came
+around there was no abatement of interest in them and of cheerful
+outward observance.
+
+For many years very definite plans were made by the children for the
+golden wedding of their father and mother, on November 21, 1916. That
+was to be the crowning day of all the family days, and though Mrs. Bemis
+sometimes protested against planning for it, saying that she couldn't
+expect to see that day, as it approached she took much pleasure in the
+plans her children made for it. They were all to come home, each
+bringing one or more of the grandchildren. Their mother was to have no
+care whatever in connection with the celebration. Mrs. Taylor, the only
+one whose home was in Colorado Springs, made arrangements to have the
+family dinner in her own house and later in the evening a reception for
+friends.
+
+The summer of 1916 was passed as usual at Mohonk, and was followed by
+the stay of some weeks in Boston that Mr. and Mrs. Bemis made each
+autumn. While there, Mrs. Bemis had a fall, which later proved to have
+serious effects. This was barely a month before the golden wedding, and
+though she tried to treat it lightly and took the journey to Colorado
+Springs, on arriving there she consulted her physician, who said that a
+surgical operation was necessary. She wanted to postpone it until after
+the golden wedding celebration, but he was not willing to risk any
+delay, and on November 16 she went through the ordeal. The convalescence
+was more rapid than the family had dared to hope, but they knew that the
+situation was still serious when the wedding day came. To them fell the
+delicate task of planning to observe it so that Mrs. Bemis would not
+know it was done with anxious hearts, and of making it only a time of
+rejoicing, and withal to do this in a way that would not tax her in the
+least.
+
+There was an early dinner for old and young, with one vacant place, in
+the family home. Letters, telegrams, and whatever else had been written
+for the occasion were read, and then all went to the hospital for a
+short call. Five grandchildren were there, representing each of the
+three families; with Mr. Bemis and their parents they entered the
+invalid's room in procession. Each child carried a long-stemmed golden
+chrysanthemum, the girls dressed in white with yellow ribbon bows on
+their hair, the boys wearing yellow neckties; the older ones each gave
+her a few words of greeting as cheerfully as if they had come with light
+hearts from a feast where there was no shadow. "Just like the Bemises,"
+it was said.
+
+She was able to listen to a number of letters and telegrams and to enjoy
+some of the flowers that had been sent in great abundance to the house.
+In writing of that day, one of her children says: "I shall never forget
+her face looking so thin and delicate but so beaming with happiness and
+the humorous twinkle of her eyes behind her spectacles. Grandpa walked
+at the head of the procession looking very proud and happy and making a
+great tramping and show at keeping time. Dorée Taylor's golden curls
+were like sunshine, and we were all so happy to think that in spite of
+all our fears Mama Bemis was still with us. How glad we all are that we
+had that happy time together!"
+
+All her good pluck and its continuance in the days that followed had its
+good result. At first the convalescence was surprisingly rapid, and in a
+few weeks she was able to leave the hospital and begin the climb back to
+her old strength. It was a trying winter, but a trip to California
+helped her much, so that when she reached Mohonk for her last stay there
+the gain was marked and she moved about with ease. One of her friends
+who spent the summer near her states that she spoke often of this gain,
+and showed her old cheer and interest in all that affected her friends
+and in the stirring events throughout the world and especially in the
+great war into which we had entered; and that she talked more often than
+was her wont of the inner life and of the inevitable change--the great
+adventure--and the revelations it would bring. She spoke as if she
+thought it might come to her in the near future, but always with a quiet
+acceptance of it as one experience in the continuous life.
+
+For one reason only she would have it delayed, that her husband might
+not have to take the rest of his journey alone. This wish was not
+fulfilled, for the transition came quickly. She was spared what would
+have been difficult for one with her independent spirit--a long time of
+physical dependence on others. On October 9 she left Boston with her
+husband for Colorado. A slight cold which she had seemed better on
+reaching Chicago, but on arriving home it increased, and though she
+tried to ignore it for a day or two, she was obliged to call her
+physician. It soon proved very serious; double pneumonia developed
+rapidly, and on the 18th, with her husband and all her children around
+her, she passed peacefully and without pain into the fuller life.
+
+A brief service was held in the First Congregational Church of Colorado
+Springs on the afternoon of the following day, and in the evening Mr.
+Bemis and all his family left for the east with the body which, on
+October 23, was laid in the Newton Cemetery beside those of her two
+children. The funeral was held at two o'clock on the afternoon of that
+day in the chapel of the Newton Cemetery. Friends and relatives from
+many directions were gathered there, and the chancel was filled with
+flowers sent from far and near.
+
+It was one of New England's most glorious autumn days. Though there was
+no wind, the bright leaves fell in abundance quietly and steadily in the
+warm sunshine.
+
+The service was conducted by the Rev. James B. Gregg, D.D., for over
+thirty years a personal friend of the family, and bound to Mr. and Mrs.
+Bemis by a very close and tender tie in the marriage of their son to his
+daughter Faith. He was also their pastor in Colorado Springs for
+twenty-seven years. The service was very simple, consisting only of
+wisely chosen selections from the Bible, full of tenderness and of joy
+and faith in the eternal, followed by an uplifting and strengthening
+prayer that Dr. Gregg had written for that special service.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This brief sketch of one into whose life came far more than the
+ordinary measure of happiness, and who had the heart and the will to
+bring all the happiness she could to others, is all too inadequate; the
+only justification for its existence lies in the hope that it may, in
+some degree, suggest to her children's children and to those who come
+after them, the personality that was so dear and so human to those who
+knew her, so unselfish and so thoughtful for others, so mindful of the
+fact that this life of ours is only a stewardship.
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Alice Cogswell Bemis
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+<h1><i>ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS</i></h1>
+
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+<h2>ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS</h2>
+
+<h3><i>A SKETCH BY A FRIEND</i></h3>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 172px;">
+<img src="images/i003.jpg" width="172" height="124" alt="" title="" />
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+<p class="center">
+<i>BOSTON</i><br />
+PRIVATELY PRINTED<br />
+1920<br />
+</p>
+
+<h4>
+<i>The Merrymount Press &middot; Boston</i></h4>
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 429px;">
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+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS</h2>
+
+
+<p>Alice Cogswell Bemis came from a long line of good British stock. She
+was in the eighth generation from John Cogswell, who was born at
+Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, in 1592. He was a man of standing and of
+considerable inherited property. Among the latter were "The Mylls,"
+called "Ripond," situated in the parish of Fromen, Selwood, together
+with the homestead and certain personal property. He married Elizabeth
+Thompson, a daughter of the Vicar of Westbury parish. After twenty years
+of married life, during which they had lived in the family homestead and
+he had carried on his father's prosperous business, he decided to
+emigrate to America, and on May 23, 1625, leaving one married daughter
+in England, they embarked with their eight other children on the famous
+ship, <i>The Angel Gabriel</i>. We find no mention of a special reason for
+their leaving England, but it was probably the same that led many others
+of their type to begin life afresh in the new world; here the
+possibilities of the country to be developed were limitless, and
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span>doubtless these offered a better outlook for their children, whose
+welfare must have been uppermost in their thoughts and plans.</p>
+
+<p>The voyage of <i>The Angel Gabriel</i> and its wreck off Pemaquid, on the
+coast of Maine, in the frightful gale of August 15, 1625, are told in
+the graphic story of the Rev. Richard Mather, who was a passenger on the
+ship <i>James</i>, which sailed from England on the same day. The <i>James</i> lay
+at anchor off the Isles of Shoals while <i>The Angel Gabriel</i> was off
+Pemaquid. She was torn from her anchors and obliged to put to sea, but
+after two days' terrible battling with storm and wave, reached Boston
+harbor with "her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if they
+had been rotten rags." Of <i>The Angel Gabriel</i>, he says: "It was burst in
+pieces and cast away." Strong winds from the northeast and great tidal
+waves made it a total wreck. John Cogswell and all his family were
+washed ashore from the broken decks of their ship, but several others
+lost their lives. Some of the many valuable possessions they had brought
+with them never came to shore, but among the articles saved was a tent
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>which gave good service at once; this Mr. Cogswell pitched for a
+temporary abiding place. As soon as possible he took passage for Boston,
+where he made a contract with the captain of a small bark to sail for
+Pemaquid and transport his family to Ipswich, Massachusetts, then a
+newly settled town.</p>
+
+<p>The settlers of Ipswich at once appreciated these newcomers, and the
+municipal records show that liberal grants of land were made to John
+Cogswell. Among them was one spoken of as "Three hundred acres of land
+at the further Chebokoe," which later was incorporated as a part of
+Essex. Here in 1636 their permanent home was built, and here, covering a
+period of over two hundred and fifty years, their descendants cultivated
+the land. The Cogswells had brought with them several farm and household
+servants, as well as valuable furniture, farming implements, and
+considerable money. A log house was soon built, but the boxes containing
+their many valuables were unopened until it was practicable for Mr.
+Cogswell to build a frame house. A description of this remains, in which
+we are told that it stood back from the highway, and was approached
+through shrubbery and flowers. It is further said, that among the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>treasures which were taken into the new home from the boxes were
+several pieces of carved furniture, embroidered curtains, damask table
+linen, and much silver plate; that there was a Turkish carpet, an
+unusual treasure for those days, is well attested. Their descendants
+still treasure relics of their ancestors, such as articles of personal
+adornment, a quaint mirror, and an old clock.</p>
+
+<p>John Cogswell was the third original settler in that part of Ipswich
+which is now Essex. His piety, his intelligence, and his comparative
+wealth gave him a leading position in the town and the church. His name
+is often seen in the records of Ipswich and always with the prefix
+"Mr.," which, in those days, was a title of honor given to only a few
+who were gentlemen of distinction. He died November 29, 1669, aged
+seventy-seven years. His funeral procession traversed a distance of five
+miles to the old North graveyard of the First Church, under an escort of
+armed men as a protection against a possible attack of Indians. Three
+years later the body of Mrs. Cogswell was laid beside her husband's. The
+record that remains of her is: "She was a woman of sterling qualities
+and dearly loved by all who knew her." Their son, William Cogswell,
+seems to have had many of his father's traits and was one of the most
+influential citizens of that period. To him was due the establishment of
+the parish and church and the building of the meeting-house; and when,
+according to the quaint custom of those days, the seats in the
+meeting-house were assigned, his wife was given the place by the
+minister's wife, a mark of greatest distinction. Two of his grandsons
+were men of note. Colonel Nathaniel Wade was an officer in the
+Revolutionary army and a personal friend of Washington and Lafayette.
+Another, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, father of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, was
+a graduate of Yale, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
+Edinburgh. He was settled for many years over the First Church of
+Cambridge.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i011.jpg" width="650" height="424" alt="Cogswell House, Ipswich, Mass." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Cogswell House, Ipswich, Mass.</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>One of the deeds of land made to their children was to their son William
+"on the south side of Chebacco River." The variation in the spelling of
+this proper name is one of the many we find in early New England
+records. At the same time a dwelling at Chebacco Falls was given to
+Deacon Cornelius Waldo, who had married<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> their daughter Hannah. In
+direct line of descent from these two, and in the sixth generation from
+the first Cogswell in America, was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mrs. Bemis was
+in the eighth generation, through the son William, and from him also was
+descended Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the fifth generation. We cannot well
+follow here the descendants of the other children of John and Elizabeth
+Cogswell, but certain it is that in each of the generations to the
+present day we find many well-educated men and women of character, with
+a strong sense of their obligations as citizens, all doing good work for
+the world in various lines of activity. They have verified what one has
+written concerning John Cogswell and his family: "They were the first of
+the name to reach these shores; the lapse of two hundred and fifty years
+has given to them a numerous posterity, some of whom in each generation
+have lived in eventful periods, have risen to eminence, and fulfilled
+distinguished service in the history of the country."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 472px;">
+<img src="images/i016.jpg" width="472" height="600" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>With these rich inheritances as her birthright, with parents who
+enforced and strengthened in their children the principles that they
+themselves had been taught, Alice Cogswell was born in the family home
+of her parents, Daniel and Mary Davis Randall Cogswell, at Ipswich, on
+January 5, 1845. She was one of seven children, three of whom died very
+young, and of the seven only her sister Lucy survived her. The mother
+died when Alice was only four. Until the time of the father's death,
+when she was eighteen and her sister three years older, several
+different housekeepers were in charge of the home, and yet it appears
+that these two young girls very early and in a way most unusual for any
+so young, not only gave life and charm to the house, but directed and
+controlled all its activities to a great extent. A cousin who was very
+dear to Alice writes to her son of his memory of those days in the quiet
+country home at Ipswich, giving a charming picture that shows the spirit
+that prompted all her life to its end. He says: "Every one in Ipswich
+who remembers her would speak of her sweet, cheery and generous spirit.
+One of the very earliest of my childhood recollections is a little
+incident that occurred when I could not have been more than four or five
+years old. One day my mother let me go all by myself to Uncle
+Cogswell's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> to see Cousin Alice. Our homes were rather near together but
+it was to me then a journey of large proportions. At dinner I can
+remember that I sat next Cousin Alice in a chair with two big books to
+make it high enough. After dinner we went into the garden and picked a
+basket of pears which she gave me to take home. This little visit was
+like many others that followed and it is typical of all that she has
+done throughout a long and useful life. Though I was only a little
+fellow, I have a strong impression of an energetic, influential family,
+full of good deeds, and of a large house with well stocked cellars and
+larders that seemed to exist chiefly for the benefit of neighbors and
+friends. Lucy and Alice were beautiful young women. Their mother died
+when they were quite young, and while they were in their early 'teens'
+they were in charge of the Cogswell home. This they made most
+attractive. My boyhood impression is that they were always doing nice
+things for people&mdash;always sending their friends baskets from their
+larder. I have a wonderful impression of Uncle Cogswell's garden. As
+gardens go nowadays it may not have been unusual, but to me it was a
+rare spot. It<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> contained choice varieties of currants, gooseberries,
+pears and cherries. There may have been some apple trees, but I have the
+feeling that apples were a trifle common to associate with his exotic
+varieties. From the time of my father's death, which occurred when I was
+eight years old, Cousin Alice seemed to assume a godmotherly interest in
+me and my career. Three evenings a week I went to the Lowell Institute,
+which kept me in town too late to go home to Ipswich, and she gave me a
+key to her home in Newton and had a room always ready for my use. She
+always took a generous interest in my work. Her moral support was
+everything to me. She made me feel that my profession was worthy and
+dignified." Many students whom she helped in later years would gladly
+give the same testimony of support and encouragement received from her.</p>
+
+<p>The sisters attended the Ipswich Seminary, one of the famous schools of
+New England in its day. Its principal, Mrs. Cowles, had an attractive
+personality, a cultivated mind, and great force of character. Her
+husband, Dr. Cowles, was a clergyman and a man of wide influence, though
+because of his blindness he was not in the active<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> ministry for many
+years. In spite of this seemingly insurmountable obstacle he was a
+constant student, especially of Greek and Hebrew, and wrote much of
+value on the Old Testament. His presence added greatly to the household,
+whose refined and stimulating atmosphere seems to have made as strong an
+impression on the students as did the soundness of the teaching in the
+classroom. The two sisters, Lucy and Alice, took the entire course of
+study that the seminary offered. Alice graduated from it in 1864. Many
+of its pupils became women of large influence in the world, and carried
+from their life in the seminary a profound impression of the religious
+influences that had surrounded them there. Their own thought and their
+manner of life showed the lasting value of the emphasis that had been
+laid in the school on the supreme importance of right living and right
+thinking. Those who knew the sisters well recall the many times in after
+years when, as they mentioned some wise rule for life, they prefaced it
+with, "As Mrs. Cowles used to tell us," or "as Dr. Cowles said." One of
+Mrs. Cowles's daughters now living writes of Alice: "I remember that she
+was universally<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> liked and loved." It was a happy school life and a
+happy girlhood for both of these sisters. Notwithstanding their great
+loss in having to grow to womanhood without their mother, a loss of
+which they were always conscious, they had great compensation in their
+close companionship with their father and with each other. Their father
+gave them the best of instruction in things spiritual, and unusual
+training in all practical matters, especially with regard to the value
+of money, how to care for it and how to spend it, and then gave them a
+much freer hand in the direction of many personal matters than most
+girls of their age were accustomed to have; this freedom they used
+wisely. One of them was once asked how they filled their days in times
+that often seem very dull and uninteresting to the modern girl with her
+round of engagements. The answer was, "We skated in winter and ran wild
+in summer." What was said in jest was far from being the literal truth,
+but it suggests the happy impression that their girlhood gave them of
+genuine freedom guided by the wise counsels of others and their own good
+sense.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 429px;">
+<img src="images/i021.jpg" width="429" height="600" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>In June of 1864 Lucy Cogswell was married<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> to Mr. George B. Roberts, and
+their house became home to Alice. Mr. Roberts afterward built the house
+on Craigie Street, Cambridge, in which they spent the rest of their
+lives. It was here that the two generations met often while the Bemis
+family lived in the east, and later when they came on from Colorado. The
+relation between the sisters had hitherto been a particularly close one,
+and was only strengthened by the happy new family ties that came to
+each. To those who loved these sisters and saw both come to a time when
+feebleness and physical restriction might have been before them, there
+can be only rejoicing that they were spared any added weakness of body,
+and that there was no clouding of their bright and active minds, no
+abatement of interest in the life about them as long as they were here.
+Mrs. Roberts had been in such delicate health for several years that it
+did not seem possible that she would outlive her sister, but only two
+months after their last parting, the great transition came to her also.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>We are given a charming glimpse into the first meeting between Mr. and
+Mrs. Bemis in some<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> interesting reminiscences Mr. Bemis has recently
+written for his grandchildren. He had been settled in business in St.
+Louis for some years when Alice Cogswell, shortly after her sister's
+marriage, went there to visit a very dear aunt, "Aunt Lucy Smyth." The
+occasion of their meeting came through Mr. Bemis's first visit to Boston
+in 1865, which, in his own words, "resulted in an important occurrence."
+He met there a business connection, Mr. Zenas Cushing, who had become
+Alice Cogswell's guardian on the death of her father; knowing that Mr.
+Bemis was from St. Louis, Mr. Cushing gave him a letter of introduction
+to his ward and bespoke his interest in her and his help in any business
+advice she might need. Mr. Bemis tells his story thus: "Some three weeks
+after my return from Boston I gave myself the pleasure of calling one
+evening and presenting the letter. As I am writing these lines I can see
+'Miss Cogswell' coming into the parlor where I was awaiting her. She was
+dressed in the fashion of the day, having on a silk dress with a very
+full skirt held out by a hoop-skirt of large dimensions. She met me
+cordially and asked me to be seated and we talked for an hour of my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>
+first trip to Boston, of her guardian and others. As I was leaving and
+closing the gate I heard myself saying that I might marry that girl if I
+could win her. It was not so-called 'love at first sight,' but it
+ripened into love with a few subsequent calls. I think it was a very
+fortunate circumstance that I met Alice Cogswell when I did." And very
+fortunate for many others did this union prove. The outward condition of
+their early lives was very different, but the two families from which
+they came were alike in the standards which they held for themselves and
+instilled into their children.</p>
+
+<p>The story of Mr. Bemis's early years is the familiar one of that type of
+western pioneer to whom the whole country is deeply indebted. He was
+born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on May 18, 1833, of parents who had
+all the best inheritance to give their children, but few material
+possessions. When he was an infant the family moved to a small village
+in Chemung County, New York, where his mother's brother, Henry Farwell,
+lived with his family. The relation between the two families was a close
+one, and five years later it was decided that they should move together
+to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> Illinois. Reports of its fertile soil and what it promised for the
+future had come back to them by the slow and uncertain mails. They knew
+that it offered more for themselves, and what was far more important to
+them, for their children, than they could ever have in their present
+surroundings. When they made the great change they knew well the dangers
+and difficulties that must be met on the journey when taken under the
+most favorable conditions. They knew, too, how these would be increased
+in their case, as they were taking so many young children, eight in all;
+but the courageous band to which they belonged were men and women of
+industry and personal integrity, with a strong sense of real values,
+who, having made their decision, took no reckoning of obstacles to the
+end before them.</p>
+
+<p>It was a long, difficult journey. In a pleasant sketch of this that Mr.
+Bemis has given, we have only the remembrance of such incidents as stay
+in the memory of a child. There is no mention of hardships. He recalls
+the covered wagon, but knows only from others of the slow journey to
+Buffalo, thence by boat to Detroit, and the continued journey to
+Chicago, then Fort Dearborn,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> where they did not remain for fear of
+being eaten by mosquitoes or of having fever and ague, and so camped at
+what is now Oak Park. Thence they moved on to Lighthouse Point, Ogle
+County, Illinois, where the Bemis family found a temporary lodging in a
+log cabin and the others lived in covered wagons until they had built a
+comfortable cabin for themselves.</p>
+
+<p>From the beginning of the making of the new home on the empty prairie,
+the children took their full share in the work it involved. Mr. Bemis
+has told us that he was doing from one-half to two-thirds of a man's
+work on the farm when he was twelve years old, the year in which his
+wife was born into the well-established life of a fine old New England
+town, rich for her in all the inheritances that seven generations gave;
+all the way before her made as smooth as love and ample means could make
+it.</p>
+
+<p>At the age of nineteen Mr. Bemis left the farm and began his business
+career in Chicago as clerk to a shipping firm. After six years, with
+only his own savings for his capital, and helped by the loan of some
+machinery supplied by a cousin, he went to St. Louis and began the
+business<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> which has borne his name for over sixty years, a name that is
+a synonym in all the business world for ability and integrity. His
+success did not come by accident, or by any so-called good fortune, but
+as the result of patience and perseverance, steadily following the
+principles and the rules he laid down for himself very early in life. He
+speaks with gratitude of the fact that he had to learn by force of
+circumstances "the blessedness of drudgery and the value of time and
+money in his long hours of work and in the closest practice of economy."</p>
+
+<p>We have seen how different were the outward circumstances of their early
+lives. In temperament also Mr. and Mrs. Bemis differed much; but in
+sympathy on all great matters, in their ideals of life, and their
+unfailing recognition of their own personal obligation and duty, they
+were always one. In the reminiscences he has written for his
+grandchildren, Mr. Bemis says: "Parents can lay the foundation for each
+child by their own life. They are giving daily examples by their actions
+and by word of mouth. If parents are living well-ordered and Christian
+lives, their children will be likely to follow their example. They will
+know<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> nothing else. Good boys and girls make good men and women. An
+educated and scientific carpenter will hew and mortise the timbers to
+fit the keys that bind the frame to a complete and solid house, so that
+storm and winds pass it by unharmed. So with boys and girls; if their
+characters are moulded in truth, mortised and keyed together with
+obedience to God and man, when they become men and women they will
+withstand the environment of bad persons and escape unscathed. Hence
+their young lives, founded on the bedrock of Christian characters, are
+well qualified to work out their own destiny and make their lives
+whatever they will."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;">
+<img src="images/i031.jpg" width="370" height="600" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mr. and Mrs. Bemis were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George B.
+Roberts, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1866, and went
+directly to their new home in St. Louis. There the oldest son, Judson
+Cogswell, was born in December of the following year; and there they
+remained until they returned to Boston in 1870, when for business
+reasons it became necessary for Mr. Bemis to have his headquarters in
+that city. After the birth of the second son, Albert Farwell, they moved
+to Newton, Massachusetts, where their three other children were born:
+Maude, now Mrs. Reginald H. Parsons, Lucy Gardner, who lived less than
+three years, and Alice, now Mrs. Frederick M. P. Taylor. Three of these
+survived their mother and had long been established in their own homes
+before she left them. To the father and mother was given the great
+happiness of seeing each of these new households controlled by the same
+standards of right and the same sense of personal and civic
+responsibility on which they had built their own united lives.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. and Mrs. Bemis's home was in Newton for eleven years, and during
+that time it was the centre for the family connection in New England and
+for many friends. It was always rich in association for themselves and
+family, and was made rich in the same way for many others. Family cares
+that came upon Mrs. Bemis and the part she took in the life of the
+church and the community made the years spent there the most active of
+her life. After her removal to Colorado Springs, she showed in a
+practical and liberal form her interest in the First Congregational<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>
+Church in that city, which the family attended, but she had such a
+strong sentiment about the church at Newton and the experiences that
+came to her while connected with it that she never removed her
+membership; its pastor, Dr. Calkins, and his wife were among her most
+valued friends.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>In 1881 a serious throat trouble developed, and Mrs. Bemis was taken
+south for the winter. She did not gain there, and the following year was
+sent to Colorado Springs. Slight hope was then given to her family of
+her living more than a few months, but the climate and the sunshine
+effected what had seemed impossible, and within a few years she was able
+to lead a comparatively normal life in the new home where she was
+happily settled. A house was rented for the family until 1885, when the
+one at 508 North Cascade Avenue was built. This was henceforth home to
+her and to all the family as long as she was there with her welcome for
+them, and it soon became a centre for a large number of friends who are
+rich in memories of the unfailing welcome and genuine hospitality so
+freely given them. These were not restricted to a limited number with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>
+tastes and outward circumstances that were comparatively alike, but were
+extended to a large circle that differed widely in both of these. The
+sincerity, genuineness, and simplicity of the lives of those that made
+this home created an atmosphere that was felt as soon as one entered it.</p>
+
+<p>Many of the younger generation both within and without the family circle
+will have enduring memories of that house. Alan Gregg recalled in a few
+words childhood memories that were common to many; writing from his post
+in France he said: "Mrs. Bemis's death was a great surprise and shock,
+and the long time that elapsed between knowing of her illness and her
+death made me feel pretty far away. I remember her letting me play that
+music box to my heart's content, and the way she made Gregg laugh at an
+unexpected fall he took, instead of cry, better than anything else. She
+could also do nice things for you without spilling over into
+sentimentality."</p>
+
+<p>Her grandchildren's recollections of her will be mostly in connection
+with events in their own homes, where her visits were looked for eagerly
+by those on the Atlantic coast and those on the Pacific, but happily
+some of them are old enough<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> to remember and pass on to the others the
+impression made on them and on other children in the family connection,
+of the grandmother's great pleasure in being with them and her plans for
+their comfort and happiness. They recall the perfect housekeeping, where
+the wheels seemed to move easily and were always out of sight; the
+daintiness of all its appointments, which was shown too in the dress and
+personal adornments of her who made this home and of those who shared it
+with her. Here she welcomed many of her old friends and also new
+acquaintances with whom lasting friendships were formed; here the
+children gathered around them a fine group of congenial companions who
+became their lasting friends; here they grew to manhood and to
+womanhood; from thence they were all married, and hither they all
+returned many times, with wife, husbands, and their own sons and
+daughters for happy family reunions.</p>
+
+<p>In this home the saddest as well as the most joyful experiences of her
+life came to her. The former were borne with the calmness and strength
+shown only by those with great capacity for suffering and great power of
+self-control. The hardest<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> trial that she had ever known was at a time
+when she had little physical strength to meet it. After a year with the
+family in Colorado, the eldest son, Judson, was sent to a manual
+training school at St. Louis, Missouri, where there were many family
+friends. He was a lad of much promise, a great reader, with varied gifts
+and tastes. He had a very social nature and a warm interest in people,
+was noble in character, and deep in his affections. The separation was
+very hard for his mother, but it was met with the unselfishness she
+always showed when her children's interests were to be considered. She
+herself chose it, as she wanted him to have this special kind of
+training that could not be found nearer home. In the second year of his
+absence he was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia. His parents were
+summoned at once, and his father arrived before his death, but his
+mother could not reach St. Louis till some hours later. The loss of the
+little daughter Lucy, who had died in Newton of scarlet fever, was still
+fresh in her memory when the new sorrow came. This was borne
+wonderfully, but it changed all life for her as nothing else ever did.
+In 1904 came the third break in the family circle, when Mrs. Par<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>sons
+with her beautiful little girl, Alice Loraine, nearly three years old,
+the first granddaughter in the family, was visiting her grandparents in
+Colorado Springs. No child could have been more tenderly loved and cared
+for than she, but nothing could avert the fatal illness that developed
+soon after their arrival.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>During the years that followed her going west, Mrs. Bemis spent only one
+summer there. For several successive seasons she went with her children
+to Minnetonka in Minnesota; but it was not possible for Mr. Bemis to be
+with them there more than he was during the winter, because of its
+distance from Boston, and a happy change came to all when later Mrs.
+Bemis had gained enough to make it safe for her to spend some months of
+each year by the sea on Cape Ann, where the family had headquarters for
+many summers. Twice she went abroad with her children; first during the
+summer of 1891 and five years later for a year of study and extended
+travel for her daughters. Marjorie Gregg, who knew her well, recalling
+her many journeys, says: "Few not loving travel for its own sake could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>
+or would have taken so many long journeys. The trips east in the spring
+and back to Colorado in the autumn became a habit, and she carried them
+out with precision and determination that did not ignore discomforts;
+she saw these, felt them and mentioned them, but never feared or
+regarded them. She planned and packed and made all arrangements without
+confusion or mistakes; never 'took it out' on other people, but refused
+help even in late years. It would be impossible to count up the miles
+travelled, the time spent on Pullman cars, the trunks packed&mdash;all not
+because of <i>Wanderlust</i>, curiosity, or restlessness, but for love of
+family&mdash;that she and her children might be with their father half of
+each year and that she might keep close to her sister and nieces, whose
+relation to 'Aunt Alice' was as close as if the two families had lived
+in the same town. Later Grandpa and Grandma Bemis journeyed together
+indefatigably."</p>
+
+<p>When Mr. Bemis laid aside many of the details of his business, they
+chose Lake Mohonk, New York, for their summer home, and the last seven
+summers of her life were spent very happily there; so happily, that each
+year they engaged<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> the same rooms for the following season and said they
+meant to do this as long as they lived. It became a real home to them.
+Mr. and Mrs. Smiley, wonderful host and hostess to all, were soon their
+warm personal friends, and many pleasant acquaintances with guests were
+renewed each year. Among their most valued friends there was Dr. Faunce,
+president of Brown University, who conducted the Sunday services year
+after year. They considered his sermons as among the best and most
+helpful they ever heard, and after each season thought and talked much
+of them, always looking forward to the coming of the summer Sundays,
+their brightest days at Mohonk. Here every condition met their tastes
+and their needs; the great beauty of the place itself, the quiet and
+peace of the house, the wise and unusual way in which it is ordered, all
+combined to give them an ideal residence for the summer. The fact that
+young people of a fine type were always there added much to Mrs. Bemis's
+pleasure. She enjoyed watching their sports and their life in the open.
+Her windows overlooked the lake, and she sat there hour after hour
+watching the parties coming and going in boats and climbing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> the hills.
+Her delight in the beauties of the whole picture before her, than which
+there are few to compare with it the world over, grew steadily with each
+day there. Just before leaving Mohonk for the last time, she wrote to a
+young cousin: "I wish I could transport you all here. I have always said
+that I would like to live on a beautiful estate and have no care of it;
+and here I have been for seven summers and no place by any possibility
+could be finer. Mr. Smiley did not spoil nature but kept its wonderful
+beauty and added to it."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>During the last years they were together, Mr. and Mrs. Bemis made
+several interesting trips to California and to Seattle, to be with their
+daughter, Mrs. Parsons. The mere recital of all these journeyings may
+give the impression that the life in Colorado Springs was a very broken
+one, but it did not seem so to her friends there, for at each return it
+was resumed so quickly and so quietly that they think of it rather as
+continuous. No friend and no interest she had in any work that helped on
+the general welfare was ever ignored or forgotten by her wherever she
+might be.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Probably there has never been any one in Colorado Springs with so many
+enforced absences and the same limitations of strength who has done as
+much as she in enriching individual lives with friendship and the
+community life with sympathy and generous material aid. Nothing that she
+counted a duty sat lightly on her mind or conscience.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Ellen T. Brinley, who was for many years a friend and neighbor of
+Mrs. Bemis, wrote shortly after her death: "She was a real New Englander
+of a type all too rare in these degenerate days. For many years she was
+not very strong, and yet she was one of the least self-indulgent people
+that ever lived. Wealth to her was not a reason for luxury and pleasure
+seeking, but an opportunity for helping others&mdash;with a lack of
+ostentation characteristic of her whole nature. She was truly a secret
+helper. That the young should have their chance in life and that the
+paths of the needy should be made more easy, became increasingly the
+object of her life. Colorado College and the Young Women's Christian
+Association were the two organizations in Colorado Springs whose welfare
+she had most at heart, and for them she was constantly devising liberal
+things. In the wakeful hours of the night, she planned to relieve the
+sufferings of others, and her spirit of good will came from no weak
+sentimentality. She was a woman of good judgment, an incisive mind, and
+a strong character. She was a wonderfully loyal friend and her daily
+life centred in her own family circle, in a few personal friendships,
+and in the benevolence which was her avocation."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;">
+<img src="images/i043.jpg" width="445" height="600" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Even her closest friends knew but little of her constant and quiet deeds
+of kindness, and that rarely from her directly. It could never be said
+of her that she was "confidential with her left hand." From the
+recipients of her generosity more is known than could have been learned
+from her. Often with an apology lest she might seem to intrude, she
+learned if friends, and sometimes mere acquaintances and even strangers,
+needed assistance at a time when she knew an emergency had come to them,
+and often asked others to be the means of meeting such needs, not
+letting it be known whence the help came. "Just tell them you have it to
+give away," she would often say. Sometimes she gave to personal friends
+a check,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> asking that they spend it as they thought best in ministering
+to others.</p>
+
+<p>This was done for many years to some who were in close touch with the
+students of Colorado College. "Don't take the trouble to give an account
+of this," she would say, "only be sure that it goes where it is really
+needed." But when the account was rendered, she wanted to hear all that
+could be told of the circumstances of each one who had been helped, and
+often arranged that certain of these should have further assistance. To
+a number this was voluntarily continued during their professional
+studies. The following, from a letter to her son in 1908, shows her
+sympathetic understanding of the students whom she helped:</p>
+
+<p>"I wonder if I told you that the suit that you left here I gave to Mrs.
+S&mdash;&mdash; for one of the college boys. The lining was greatly worn and so I
+pinned on an envelope with $5.00 in it and she gave it to a very needy
+fellow who is working and attending college. She had a letter from him
+and from the mother. I am going to send her letter and some other
+letters from other boys to whom the President has given a little from
+time to time from a little that I gave him early in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> winter. I want
+you to read them, for I don't think that any of us realize how brave
+these poor students are, and really they are the ones whom we hear of
+later; the rich men's sons fall short in some way."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Mrs. Bemis was one of a group of women who, in the spring of 1889,
+organized the Women's Education Society of Colorado College. The
+resolutions passed by its executive board at the time of her death so
+adequately express her relation to the Society that they are here quoted
+in full:</p>
+
+<p>"The Executive Board of the Women's Educational Society wishes to place
+on record its sense of irreparable loss in the passing of Alice Cogswell
+Bemis.</p>
+
+<p>"Her association with the work of the Society has extended over a long
+period of years, and her part in it has always been characterized by
+fidelity to the purpose of the organization and keen discrimination in
+the execution of the trust. She brought to the problems confronting the
+Board rare insight and judgment, and her business acumen was
+invaluable.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Many students of Colorado College are personally indebted to her for
+the removal of obstacles in the way of the successful prosecution of
+their work in which her interest was vital and perennial. A story of
+genuine need never failed to elicit her assistance. Of her general
+constructive planning for the many-sided life of the young women, Bemis
+Hall and Cogswell Theatre are enduring evidence.</p>
+
+<p>"The Board has lost a useful member, her friends a wise counselor, and
+philanthropic agencies a generous helper to whom worthy cause or person
+never appealed in vain."</p>
+
+<p>Another organization to which she contributed much pleasure and from
+which she received the same is the Art Club of Colorado Springs. A group
+of women whose personal relation to her was close and increasingly dear
+as the years passed, formed its membership. They met twice a month at
+each other's houses, read, and studied pictures, finding, as one says,
+"an alleviation not unwelcome in that life where tuberculosis and the
+gold fever of the early days alternately possessed the atmosphere." The
+Art Club owed much of its genuine life to Mrs. Bemis; her interest in
+art,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> her keenness to acquire and classify the knowledge that she loved,
+was as strong as her friendship and neighborliness. The utmost
+hospitality to invalid strangers was part and parcel of those Colorado
+Springs early days, and in goodness to obscure invalids and in lending a
+hand in hard times no one could tell the extent of her benefactions.</p>
+
+<p>All that Mrs. Bemis did will never be known, and what she gave was never
+told at the time unless it seemed best for obvious reasons that her
+identification with a good movement should be made public. The
+unsolicited gifts must have been manifold compared with those she gave
+in response to appeals. It was always easy to approach her for any good
+cause. If she gave, it was always with good will; if she declined to do
+so, a distinct reason for the refusal was stated; and she was as careful
+not to pauperize by giving as she was not to withhold where it was due,
+and was entirely free from the bitterness common to a certain type of
+persons who are wont to think that their generosity is being imposed
+upon. She often afforded amusement to her friends by the way in which
+she prefaced an offer of help with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> a seeming apology. She even seemed
+at times to call those who were working in a good cause to account
+because its pressing needs had not been met, and then met them herself.</p>
+
+<p>A notable instance of this was her gift of the gymnasium to the Young
+Women's Christian Association. When the present Association building was
+erected she gave generously to the building fund. A gymnasium was
+greatly needed then, but no money was available for it. A space was left
+on the lot that had been purchased in the hope that a building might be
+put there later. Very soon the growth of the work showed that no
+gymnasium adequate even for the present demands could be built on that
+limited space. The girls of the Association clamored for it and the
+members of the board, who even more than they knew how much it was
+needed, were heavy hearted. No one spoke of the situation to Mrs. Bemis
+until she herself broached it to one of the board in a tone that, to one
+who did not know her, might have seemed a reprimand. She prefaced what
+was on her mind thus: "I do not approve at all of your putting up a
+building on that small space. You ought to buy that lot to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> north."
+The board member could but agree. The protest was again made, and the
+board member could only repeat her agreement, but knew from the manner
+of approach to the subject that something was back in Mrs. Bemis's mind
+that she would have to tell, though she wished it might be known without
+her telling it! And then it came. She would like to see that lot when no
+one would know that she was looking at it, and if it wasn't too much
+trouble, could it be arranged for her to do this? It was planned that
+she should go early one Sunday morning to the building, when very few
+were in the lower rooms. She looked out on the vacant space and said,
+"Don't you see <i>it will not do at all</i>?" Within twenty-four hours she
+asked some one to negotiate for the purchase of the lot at the north and
+gave it to the Association, adding a check that made possible the
+present beautiful gymnasium. She dismissed with no mistaken emphasis the
+proposal that this should bear her name. Her pleasure in the building
+was great, and in expressing this pleasure she always seemed only to be
+commending the Association for having it. Her part in it seemed nothing
+to her. "Others<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> have had to do all the work," she would say if her gift
+was mentioned.</p>
+
+<p>When Bemis Hall, the main residence for girls at Colorado College, was
+being built, it was found that by excavating under the dining-room there
+would be space for a theatre, in which the students could give plays and
+various college meetings might be held. This was done, and the room was
+named Cogswell Theatre in her honor. It must be admitted that the latter
+was done under protest, although aided and abetted by some of her
+family. "What would my ancestors say to having a theatre bear their
+name!" she said, laughing. Among the memories of the past nine years to
+those who have enjoyed that little theatre, none is happier than that of
+seeing the faces of two very dear friends following each word and
+movement on the stage, laughing at times till the tears came, and giving
+over and over their entire approval of the existence of the theatre,
+with no further protest against its name. These two friends rarely
+missed seeing whatever was presented on that stage, though seldom
+tempted by public entertainments to give up their quiet evenings at
+home. Indeed, everything in that beautiful<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> hall named for Mr.
+Bemis&mdash;whose generosity, to the college is there made known only in
+part&mdash;seemed to give them pleasure, and no one else will ever cross its
+threshold who can receive just the kind of welcome they always found
+awaiting them.</p>
+
+<p>While the number of organizations which Mrs. Bemis helped is not known,
+and it is impossible to mention those which for many years counted on
+her interest and liberal support, one must be noted as showing her
+abiding interest in all that related to her native town and the region
+about it. This is the Ipswich Historical Society, which was organized in
+1890, and of which she was the first life member. On its twenty-fifth
+anniversary, in response to what was only a printed appeal, she sent the
+first substantial gift of money it received. Within a few months of her
+death, learning that a fireproof building for the Society had been
+proposed, she wrote to Mr. T. Franklin Waters, its president, asking for
+particulars of the plan under consideration, and on receipt of his reply
+sent a check for so large a proportion of the estimated cost that she
+was asked to consent to have the building named for her. Following<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> a
+determination made long before that her gifts should not be made
+conspicuous in any way, she would not consent to this.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Mrs. Bemis was as quick, open, and generous in her recognition of what
+others did along philanthropic lines as she was reticent concerning her
+own good deeds. This was especially noticeable in her attitude toward
+all the private and public benefactions of her husband and children. Her
+quiet satisfaction in these was beautiful to see. Her children received
+all sympathy and encouragement in every good work they undertook, but
+she never assumed the right to dictate in these matters or took any
+credit to herself for anything they did, not thinking of the power of
+her example and the life-long training she had given them.</p>
+
+<p>Her recognition of all her husband's benefactions and her sympathy in
+his planning for them were unfailing. One of the most important and far
+reaching of these was in connection with a work along social lines in
+the town of Bemis, Tennessee, where his firm had built a cotton mill.
+From the inception of the town the need of this work was much in the
+thought of their son, who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> has since succeeded his father as president
+of their company, and whose practical interest in the betterment of all
+social relations, especially of those between the employer and the
+employed, is widely known. Together they carried out their ideals in the
+new town of Bemis. The operators were those known in the south as poor
+whites. The opening of the mill gave to these people an undreamed of
+opportunity to earn money. It also offered to them a great privilege and
+at the same time a possibility of great danger. The privilege was that
+of being able for the first time in their lives to command money and to
+use it so that it would make them better and happier; the danger was
+that they might use it so that moral deterioration would follow. Both
+these possibilities were foreseen in the first plans for the town, and
+provision was made for the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of the
+people that would as far as possible avert the danger. A social worker
+was engaged to live as a friend among the people, and a church, school,
+and library were provided for them. Mrs. Bemis had much pleasure in
+following every step in the development of this work, while careful to
+disclaim any credit for its success, again not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> thinking what her
+encouragement and co&ouml;peration meant to both husband and son. But they
+and all her children pay her full tribute for the stimulus of example
+and for the sympathy shown in every good work to which they put their
+hands.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>This woman of many noble traits was especially endowed with the rare
+gift of loyal and understanding friendship. Her relation to kindred and
+personal friends brought to her and to them an unusual degree of
+happiness. This was so great a factor in her life that it may seem as if
+special mention of many of these friends should be made in even so brief
+a sketch as this. But they themselves will realize how impossible this
+would be because the circle to which they belong is so large. She was
+not blind to the failings of her friends, but was clear in her
+comprehension of their fundamental traits, and her love for them, her
+strong though often undemonstrative interest in them, never abated.
+While she added to their number many times during her stay in different
+places, no new friend or new interest ever took the place of an old one.
+Her generous heart had room for all whom she took to it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Her correspondence with friends was surprisingly large in view of the
+frequency of her letters to her own immediate circle; when the family
+became widely scattered this might easily have been made an excuse for
+dropping much of the general correspondence, but instead of that it grew
+as the circle of her interest widened. No one was neglected and all
+letters were written with her own hand. During the last years of her
+life much of her mail that was not personal became a distinct burden
+with its increasing appeals from all directions, but she conscientiously
+attended to it all herself. An abundance of good common sense helped her
+to ignore many of these, but any that could not be laid aside lightly
+she investigated in a way that took much time and strength.</p>
+
+<p>Her outspoken nature and uncompromising mind often made her draw hard
+and fast lines in no unmistakable way as to conduct that met her
+approval or condemnation, but she asked no one to come up to any
+standard higher than she had laid down for herself. She wanted above all
+things to be just, and few people are so essentially just as she was. To
+quote a friend, "her judgment of character was clear, just, and
+vigorous."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>One fixed habit of her mind must not be overlooked: this was
+unwillingness to accept any help in whatever she could possibly do
+herself. Many friends thought this a failing and frequently told her so.
+They were wont to rebel against the fact that they could not serve her,
+while she was a past master in the art of serving others. Her swift
+motions and deft hands, impelled by her quick mind, would outwit half a
+dozen people who were looking for means by which to circumvent her. No
+amount of urging could lead her to agree to be waited upon if that could
+be avoided, and she often refused to accept ministrations at times when
+it seemed to others that they were necessary to her comfort. But even at
+such times she would withhold no service for another. Whatever mention
+the Recording Angel may make of this failing, it will be very brief
+compared with what is written of the countless deeds of love and of
+kindness for others with which she filled her days.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Fortunately, many letters to the family and other friends have been
+kept. They are singularly like her; never diffuse, but with that rare
+and happy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> characteristic of telling concretely and clearly what was of
+most interest to those to whom they were written, and never letting
+irrelevant generalities take the place of matters of importance. In
+reading these letters consecutively we are struck by the na&iuml;ve and
+unconscious way in which she reveals much of herself. They contain few
+allusions to her own discomforts, but abound in sympathy for any that
+have come to those to whom she is writing; they show how her happiness
+never depended on anything that she might obtain for herself, while she
+magnifies whatever others do for her. Social gatherings that brought old
+friends and new together she enjoyed in a simple, whole-hearted way; she
+cordially approved of fun and encouraged it by giving and taking it, but
+never seemed to seek diversion. Her happiness came from what was close
+at hand, especially in the simple every day gifts that are bestowed on
+us all. Among her papers is found this "Line of Cheer:"</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"<i>I love the air of hill and sea</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>That puts its crispness into me.</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>I love the smiling of the sky</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>That sets its twinkle in mine eye.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>I love the vigor of the gale</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>That lends me strength where mine doth fail.</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>I love the golden light of day</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>That makes my jaded spirit gay.</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>I love the dark of night whose guest</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>I find myself when I would rest.</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>And gratitude doth hold me thrall</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Unto the Giver of them all.</i>"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>A few sentences taken at random from the letters show that this
+expressed what was in her mind: "The day has been beautiful. You know
+this is the rainless season and the hills, as we came along, were all
+brown, no green grass anywhere, but the trees are beautiful with very
+full leafage, showing that the air is very moist.... I wish that you
+could see 'The Springs' now it is so very beautiful.... I have some dear
+little finches building in their evergreen trees. I think that there are
+several pairs. Tell Gregg that I can look from my chamber window
+directly into a robin's nest."</p>
+
+<p>In one of her letters to her grandchildren she says: "I went down to the
+Young Women's Christian Association rooms yesterday afternoon to take
+tea and hear the report of those who have been raising money to support
+the work there.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> Some little girls were having their gymnastic lessons
+and were having a very jolly time. At last the leaves are all off of the
+trees and I think the little wayside flowers must have had their noses
+pinched last night by Jack Frost."</p>
+
+<p>Her interest not only in the beauty of the world about her but in what
+others are doing to make it bring forth and bud for the good of mankind
+is shown over and over: "Alice is happy," she writes, "to have the
+weather warmer for her garden. She thinks that her vegetables have had
+too much hail and cold weather, but the last two days have been fine.
+The country here responds very quickly to showers, the trees and grass
+now are in perfection and the whole town is beautifully dressed. I have
+never seen it looking better notwithstanding the dandelions."</p>
+
+<p>The family letters abound in allusions to the grandchildren and touch
+upon all the varied interests of her children; many were written
+directly to the grandchildren. It was beautiful to see the joy those
+little people brought to her, and it was characteristic of her that,
+never thinking of what might be considered as due her, she was surprised
+when a second grandchild was given her name.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>On March 5, 1909, she writes: "I was so pleased this morning to have a
+telegram about the new little girl, and you were fooling Farwell about
+the name; I can't believe that she is named already and for me. If she
+really has the name of Alice, I hope that she will be a better woman
+than I have been. I am crazy to see her and am wondering if she looks as
+little Faith did and has as much hair. Oh dear! the distance is
+tremendous sometimes. I do wish that I had a home nearer my family.</p>
+
+<p>"What did 'Sister' say? What did Alan say and do?... My best love and
+congratulations to each. I am so glad to have another granddaughter."</p>
+
+<p>Each one of the grandchildren had a special place in her thought and
+affections, and was beautiful to her. "The children are well and really
+pretty,&mdash;but not in pictures," she writes once.</p>
+
+<p>The strength of her hands was largely used in knitting dainty garments
+for the children and their mothers. During her last summer she spoke of
+this to a friend, as if apologizing for not working solely for our
+soldiers, instead of indulging herself in doing what she did for her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>
+own, who "seemed to like what she made for them." This is the only
+self-indulgence that is mentioned in all the letters that have been read
+in preparing this sketch. Remembering how large were her gifts to war
+relief compared to what she ever spent for herself, one can think only
+with delight that she had the pleasure of weaving so many loving
+thoughts for those dearest to her into her last gifts to them.</p>
+
+<p>The following shows a tact that often wins where criticism would lose:
+"It was Maude's birthday yesterday ... two friends came to dinner. The
+second maid had the misfortune to fall down, or rather turn her ankle
+standing up, and she had to be put to bed. The cook is a good-natured
+girl and she thought that she could wait on the table. I did not think
+much of her ability, but thanked her, gave her a few instructions, and
+told her to put on a white waist and wear a good white apron. Well I was
+repaid for not showing any doubt to her, for she waited very well
+indeed, and all went merry as a <i>birthday</i> bell."</p>
+
+<p>She does not hesitate to criticize herself, even to the point of placing
+herself in a ridiculous<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> light, one of the hallmarks never found on
+small souls. For instance, she once wrote: "You will be interested in my
+yesterday afternoon exploits. I started to crochet a white hand-bag,
+like one that Mrs. S&mdash;&mdash; is making, and after I had done quite a lot, I
+found a mistake away back and so went to work and took it out. Then I
+thought I would fill one of my fountain pens, and when I thought that I
+had been unusually expeditious and neat, I looked in the glass and found
+my best white waist splashed up with the ink. Wasn't I a very
+low-spirited woman! This morning I am trying to reduce the brilliant
+color of the spots by putting on salt and lemon and putting in the sun,
+but I know not if they will go, <i>but I consider them a disgrace to Alice
+Cogswell Bemis</i>."</p>
+
+<p>The letters give glimpses of many personal gifts that were so well
+concealed from all except those to whom they were made. It is shown that
+these were not given impulsively, but were carefully thought out and
+almost invariably planned to meet what seemed to her a definite need.
+For example: "I have told Mrs. Gregg about my plan for a trip for Gregg
+and herself and offered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> to pay all the expense.... I will enclose a
+check which you can fill out as I have no idea how much it will cost. At
+any rate please use it and send Gregg away for a while; it will be a
+benefit to him to travel and be away from servants. Let him look after
+himself."</p>
+
+<p>She rarely gives advice, but frequently makes friendly suggestions
+backed by the material wherewithal necessary to carry them out. "I have
+been sorry to know that Gregg has been having so much cold; it came to
+me one night that perhaps it would do him good to take a trip down to
+Hampton. I remember that Mrs. B&mdash;&mdash; had a son with General Armstrong at
+Hampton, teaching typesetting, and she went down to see him. She told me
+of some people who went down there every year to avoid the snows because
+they never had catarrhal troubles at Hampton. She said that it was a
+fine climate, so I wondered ... if it would not do Gregg good to go down
+there and live in the open air of that lovely region for several weeks."</p>
+
+<p>In writing to her son in February, 1907, of the laying of the
+corner-stone of Bemis Hall, at Colorado College, she makes no allusion
+to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> gift that made this building possible, and says only: "I suppose
+Gregg wrote you or Sister that I helped lay the corner-stone of the new
+hall yesterday morning. Mrs. S., one of the 1908 Class, and myself
+patted on the cement. Gregg remarked if Daddy and Alan had been there,
+there would have been a lot more put on. The wind was very chilly
+yesterday, but we were not there very long and we were fairly well
+wrapped."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Mrs. Bemis had an attack of appendicitis while in Boston in the autumn
+of 1910, which made an immediate operation necessary. When she was able
+to be moved, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor took her to Asheville for the winter,
+as she was not strong enough for the longer trip to Colorado; but the
+weather there that year was very unfortunate for an invalid, and later
+they went to Atlantic City. Here Mr. Bemis joined them; he now was able
+to make business arrangements that relieved him of the many details he
+had long carried, and a new era in the family life was begun&mdash;the
+happiest of all.</p>
+
+<p>From that time all enforced separations were over, and he was with his
+wife continuously<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> wherever it was best for her to be. When, after a
+year, she was able to return to Colorado Springs, she was very happy to
+be again in her home, and the old life among friends was resumed as
+always, quickly and happily.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Birthdays and wedding anniversaries were gala days in the family,
+especially Mr. Bemis's birthday, when there was always a large dinner
+party with intimate friends added to the family group. Fun and abounding
+cheer were invariably among the good things provided. As these days came
+around there was no abatement of interest in them and of cheerful
+outward observance.</p>
+
+<p>For many years very definite plans were made by the children for the
+golden wedding of their father and mother, on November 21, 1916. That
+was to be the crowning day of all the family days, and though Mrs. Bemis
+sometimes protested against planning for it, saying that she couldn't
+expect to see that day, as it approached she took much pleasure in the
+plans her children made for it. They were all to come home, each
+bringing one or more of the grandchildren. Their mother was to have no
+care whatever in connection<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> with the celebration. Mrs. Taylor, the only
+one whose home was in Colorado Springs, made arrangements to have the
+family dinner in her own house and later in the evening a reception for
+friends.</p>
+
+<p>The summer of 1916 was passed as usual at Mohonk, and was followed by
+the stay of some weeks in Boston that Mr. and Mrs. Bemis made each
+autumn. While there, Mrs. Bemis had a fall, which later proved to have
+serious effects. This was barely a month before the golden wedding, and
+though she tried to treat it lightly and took the journey to Colorado
+Springs, on arriving there she consulted her physician, who said that a
+surgical operation was necessary. She wanted to postpone it until after
+the golden wedding celebration, but he was not willing to risk any
+delay, and on November 16 she went through the ordeal. The convalescence
+was more rapid than the family had dared to hope, but they knew that the
+situation was still serious when the wedding day came. To them fell the
+delicate task of planning to observe it so that Mrs. Bemis would not
+know it was done with anxious hearts, and of making it only a time of
+rejoicing, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> withal to do this in a way that would not tax her in the
+least.</p>
+
+<p>There was an early dinner for old and young, with one vacant place, in
+the family home. Letters, telegrams, and whatever else had been written
+for the occasion were read, and then all went to the hospital for a
+short call. Five grandchildren were there, representing each of the
+three families; with Mr. Bemis and their parents they entered the
+invalid's room in procession. Each child carried a long-stemmed golden
+chrysanthemum, the girls dressed in white with yellow ribbon bows on
+their hair, the boys wearing yellow neckties; the older ones each gave
+her a few words of greeting as cheerfully as if they had come with light
+hearts from a feast where there was no shadow. "Just like the Bemises,"
+it was said.</p>
+
+<p>She was able to listen to a number of letters and telegrams and to enjoy
+some of the flowers that had been sent in great abundance to the house.
+In writing of that day, one of her children says: "I shall never forget
+her face looking so thin and delicate but so beaming with happiness and
+the humorous twinkle of her eyes behind<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> her spectacles. Grandpa walked
+at the head of the procession looking very proud and happy and making a
+great tramping and show at keeping time. Dor&eacute;e Taylor's golden curls
+were like sunshine, and we were all so happy to think that in spite of
+all our fears Mama Bemis was still with us. How glad we all are that we
+had that happy time together!"</p>
+
+<p>All her good pluck and its continuance in the days that followed had its
+good result. At first the convalescence was surprisingly rapid, and in a
+few weeks she was able to leave the hospital and begin the climb back to
+her old strength. It was a trying winter, but a trip to California
+helped her much, so that when she reached Mohonk for her last stay there
+the gain was marked and she moved about with ease. One of her friends
+who spent the summer near her states that she spoke often of this gain,
+and showed her old cheer and interest in all that affected her friends
+and in the stirring events throughout the world and especially in the
+great war into which we had entered; and that she talked more often than
+was her wont of the inner life and of the inevitable change&mdash;the great
+adventure&mdash;and the revelations<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> it would bring. She spoke as if she
+thought it might come to her in the near future, but always with a quiet
+acceptance of it as one experience in the continuous life.</p>
+
+<p>For one reason only she would have it delayed, that her husband might
+not have to take the rest of his journey alone. This wish was not
+fulfilled, for the transition came quickly. She was spared what would
+have been difficult for one with her independent spirit&mdash;a long time of
+physical dependence on others. On October 9 she left Boston with her
+husband for Colorado. A slight cold which she had seemed better on
+reaching Chicago, but on arriving home it increased, and though she
+tried to ignore it for a day or two, she was obliged to call her
+physician. It soon proved very serious; double pneumonia developed
+rapidly, and on the 18th, with her husband and all her children around
+her, she passed peacefully and without pain into the fuller life.</p>
+
+<p>A brief service was held in the First Congregational Church of Colorado
+Springs on the afternoon of the following day, and in the evening Mr.
+Bemis and all his family left for the east with the body which, on
+October 23, was laid in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> the Newton Cemetery beside those of her two
+children. The funeral was held at two o'clock on the afternoon of that
+day in the chapel of the Newton Cemetery. Friends and relatives from
+many directions were gathered there, and the chancel was filled with
+flowers sent from far and near.</p>
+
+<p>It was one of New England's most glorious autumn days. Though there was
+no wind, the bright leaves fell in abundance quietly and steadily in the
+warm sunshine.</p>
+
+<p>The service was conducted by the Rev. James B. Gregg, D.D., for over
+thirty years a personal friend of the family, and bound to Mr. and Mrs.
+Bemis by a very close and tender tie in the marriage of their son to his
+daughter Faith. He was also their pastor in Colorado Springs for
+twenty-seven years. The service was very simple, consisting only of
+wisely chosen selections from the Bible, full of tenderness and of joy
+and faith in the eternal, followed by an uplifting and strengthening
+prayer that Dr. Gregg had written for that special service.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>This brief sketch of one into whose life came far<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> more than the
+ordinary measure of happiness, and who had the heart and the will to
+bring all the happiness she could to others, is all too inadequate; the
+only justification for its existence lies in the hope that it may, in
+some degree, suggest to her children's children and to those who come
+after them, the personality that was so dear and so human to those who
+knew her, so unselfish and so thoughtful for others, so mindful of the
+fact that this life of ours is only a stewardship.</p>
+
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+Title: Alice Cogswell Bemis
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+_ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS_
+
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+
+ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS
+
+_A SKETCH BY A FRIEND_
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_BOSTON_
+PRIVATELY PRINTED
+1920
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+_The Merrymount Press . Boston_
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+[Illustration]
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+
+ALICE COGSWELL BEMIS
+
+
+Alice Cogswell Bemis came from a long line of good British stock. She
+was in the eighth generation from John Cogswell, who was born at
+Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, in 1592. He was a man of standing and of
+considerable inherited property. Among the latter were "The Mylls,"
+called "Ripond," situated in the parish of Fromen, Selwood, together
+with the homestead and certain personal property. He married Elizabeth
+Thompson, a daughter of the Vicar of Westbury parish. After twenty years
+of married life, during which they had lived in the family homestead and
+he had carried on his father's prosperous business, he decided to
+emigrate to America, and on May 23, 1625, leaving one married daughter
+in England, they embarked with their eight other children on the famous
+ship, _The Angel Gabriel_. We find no mention of a special reason for
+their leaving England, but it was probably the same that led many others
+of their type to begin life afresh in the new world; here the
+possibilities of the country to be developed were limitless, and
+doubtless these offered a better outlook for their children, whose
+welfare must have been uppermost in their thoughts and plans.
+
+The voyage of _The Angel Gabriel_ and its wreck off Pemaquid, on the
+coast of Maine, in the frightful gale of August 15, 1625, are told in
+the graphic story of the Rev. Richard Mather, who was a passenger on the
+ship _James_, which sailed from England on the same day. The _James_ lay
+at anchor off the Isles of Shoals while _The Angel Gabriel_ was off
+Pemaquid. She was torn from her anchors and obliged to put to sea, but
+after two days' terrible battling with storm and wave, reached Boston
+harbor with "her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if they
+had been rotten rags." Of _The Angel Gabriel_, he says: "It was burst in
+pieces and cast away." Strong winds from the northeast and great tidal
+waves made it a total wreck. John Cogswell and all his family were
+washed ashore from the broken decks of their ship, but several others
+lost their lives. Some of the many valuable possessions they had brought
+with them never came to shore, but among the articles saved was a tent
+which gave good service at once; this Mr. Cogswell pitched for a
+temporary abiding place. As soon as possible he took passage for Boston,
+where he made a contract with the captain of a small bark to sail for
+Pemaquid and transport his family to Ipswich, Massachusetts, then a
+newly settled town.
+
+The settlers of Ipswich at once appreciated these newcomers, and the
+municipal records show that liberal grants of land were made to John
+Cogswell. Among them was one spoken of as "Three hundred acres of land
+at the further Chebokoe," which later was incorporated as a part of
+Essex. Here in 1636 their permanent home was built, and here, covering a
+period of over two hundred and fifty years, their descendants cultivated
+the land. The Cogswells had brought with them several farm and household
+servants, as well as valuable furniture, farming implements, and
+considerable money. A log house was soon built, but the boxes containing
+their many valuables were unopened until it was practicable for Mr.
+Cogswell to build a frame house. A description of this remains, in which
+we are told that it stood back from the highway, and was approached
+through shrubbery and flowers. It is further said, that among the
+treasures which were taken into the new home from the boxes were
+several pieces of carved furniture, embroidered curtains, damask table
+linen, and much silver plate; that there was a Turkish carpet, an
+unusual treasure for those days, is well attested. Their descendants
+still treasure relics of their ancestors, such as articles of personal
+adornment, a quaint mirror, and an old clock.
+
+John Cogswell was the third original settler in that part of Ipswich
+which is now Essex. His piety, his intelligence, and his comparative
+wealth gave him a leading position in the town and the church. His name
+is often seen in the records of Ipswich and always with the prefix
+"Mr.," which, in those days, was a title of honor given to only a few
+who were gentlemen of distinction. He died November 29, 1669, aged
+seventy-seven years. His funeral procession traversed a distance of five
+miles to the old North graveyard of the First Church, under an escort of
+armed men as a protection against a possible attack of Indians. Three
+years later the body of Mrs. Cogswell was laid beside her husband's. The
+record that remains of her is: "She was a woman of sterling qualities
+and dearly loved by all who knew her." Their son, William Cogswell,
+seems to have had many of his father's traits and was one of the most
+influential citizens of that period. To him was due the establishment of
+the parish and church and the building of the meeting-house; and when,
+according to the quaint custom of those days, the seats in the
+meeting-house were assigned, his wife was given the place by the
+minister's wife, a mark of greatest distinction. Two of his grandsons
+were men of note. Colonel Nathaniel Wade was an officer in the
+Revolutionary army and a personal friend of Washington and Lafayette.
+Another, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, father of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, was
+a graduate of Yale, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
+Edinburgh. He was settled for many years over the First Church of
+Cambridge.
+
+[Illustration: Cogswell House, Ipswich, Mass.]
+
+One of the deeds of land made to their children was to their son William
+"on the south side of Chebacco River." The variation in the spelling of
+this proper name is one of the many we find in early New England
+records. At the same time a dwelling at Chebacco Falls was given to
+Deacon Cornelius Waldo, who had married their daughter Hannah. In
+direct line of descent from these two, and in the sixth generation from
+the first Cogswell in America, was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mrs. Bemis was
+in the eighth generation, through the son William, and from him also was
+descended Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the fifth generation. We cannot well
+follow here the descendants of the other children of John and Elizabeth
+Cogswell, but certain it is that in each of the generations to the
+present day we find many well-educated men and women of character, with
+a strong sense of their obligations as citizens, all doing good work for
+the world in various lines of activity. They have verified what one has
+written concerning John Cogswell and his family: "They were the first of
+the name to reach these shores; the lapse of two hundred and fifty years
+has given to them a numerous posterity, some of whom in each generation
+have lived in eventful periods, have risen to eminence, and fulfilled
+distinguished service in the history of the country."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration]
+
+With these rich inheritances as her birthright, with parents who
+enforced and strengthened in their children the principles that they
+themselves had been taught, Alice Cogswell was born in the family home
+of her parents, Daniel and Mary Davis Randall Cogswell, at Ipswich, on
+January 5, 1845. She was one of seven children, three of whom died very
+young, and of the seven only her sister Lucy survived her. The mother
+died when Alice was only four. Until the time of the father's death,
+when she was eighteen and her sister three years older, several
+different housekeepers were in charge of the home, and yet it appears
+that these two young girls very early and in a way most unusual for any
+so young, not only gave life and charm to the house, but directed and
+controlled all its activities to a great extent. A cousin who was very
+dear to Alice writes to her son of his memory of those days in the quiet
+country home at Ipswich, giving a charming picture that shows the spirit
+that prompted all her life to its end. He says: "Every one in Ipswich
+who remembers her would speak of her sweet, cheery and generous spirit.
+One of the very earliest of my childhood recollections is a little
+incident that occurred when I could not have been more than four or five
+years old. One day my mother let me go all by myself to Uncle
+Cogswell's to see Cousin Alice. Our homes were rather near together but
+it was to me then a journey of large proportions. At dinner I can
+remember that I sat next Cousin Alice in a chair with two big books to
+make it high enough. After dinner we went into the garden and picked a
+basket of pears which she gave me to take home. This little visit was
+like many others that followed and it is typical of all that she has
+done throughout a long and useful life. Though I was only a little
+fellow, I have a strong impression of an energetic, influential family,
+full of good deeds, and of a large house with well stocked cellars and
+larders that seemed to exist chiefly for the benefit of neighbors and
+friends. Lucy and Alice were beautiful young women. Their mother died
+when they were quite young, and while they were in their early 'teens'
+they were in charge of the Cogswell home. This they made most
+attractive. My boyhood impression is that they were always doing nice
+things for people--always sending their friends baskets from their
+larder. I have a wonderful impression of Uncle Cogswell's garden. As
+gardens go nowadays it may not have been unusual, but to me it was a
+rare spot. It contained choice varieties of currants, gooseberries,
+pears and cherries. There may have been some apple trees, but I have the
+feeling that apples were a trifle common to associate with his exotic
+varieties. From the time of my father's death, which occurred when I was
+eight years old, Cousin Alice seemed to assume a godmotherly interest in
+me and my career. Three evenings a week I went to the Lowell Institute,
+which kept me in town too late to go home to Ipswich, and she gave me a
+key to her home in Newton and had a room always ready for my use. She
+always took a generous interest in my work. Her moral support was
+everything to me. She made me feel that my profession was worthy and
+dignified." Many students whom she helped in later years would gladly
+give the same testimony of support and encouragement received from her.
+
+The sisters attended the Ipswich Seminary, one of the famous schools of
+New England in its day. Its principal, Mrs. Cowles, had an attractive
+personality, a cultivated mind, and great force of character. Her
+husband, Dr. Cowles, was a clergyman and a man of wide influence, though
+because of his blindness he was not in the active ministry for many
+years. In spite of this seemingly insurmountable obstacle he was a
+constant student, especially of Greek and Hebrew, and wrote much of
+value on the Old Testament. His presence added greatly to the household,
+whose refined and stimulating atmosphere seems to have made as strong an
+impression on the students as did the soundness of the teaching in the
+classroom. The two sisters, Lucy and Alice, took the entire course of
+study that the seminary offered. Alice graduated from it in 1864. Many
+of its pupils became women of large influence in the world, and carried
+from their life in the seminary a profound impression of the religious
+influences that had surrounded them there. Their own thought and their
+manner of life showed the lasting value of the emphasis that had been
+laid in the school on the supreme importance of right living and right
+thinking. Those who knew the sisters well recall the many times in after
+years when, as they mentioned some wise rule for life, they prefaced it
+with, "As Mrs. Cowles used to tell us," or "as Dr. Cowles said." One of
+Mrs. Cowles's daughters now living writes of Alice: "I remember that she
+was universally liked and loved." It was a happy school life and a
+happy girlhood for both of these sisters. Notwithstanding their great
+loss in having to grow to womanhood without their mother, a loss of
+which they were always conscious, they had great compensation in their
+close companionship with their father and with each other. Their father
+gave them the best of instruction in things spiritual, and unusual
+training in all practical matters, especially with regard to the value
+of money, how to care for it and how to spend it, and then gave them a
+much freer hand in the direction of many personal matters than most
+girls of their age were accustomed to have; this freedom they used
+wisely. One of them was once asked how they filled their days in times
+that often seem very dull and uninteresting to the modern girl with her
+round of engagements. The answer was, "We skated in winter and ran wild
+in summer." What was said in jest was far from being the literal truth,
+but it suggests the happy impression that their girlhood gave them of
+genuine freedom guided by the wise counsels of others and their own good
+sense.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In June of 1864 Lucy Cogswell was married to Mr. George B. Roberts, and
+their house became home to Alice. Mr. Roberts afterward built the house
+on Craigie Street, Cambridge, in which they spent the rest of their
+lives. It was here that the two generations met often while the Bemis
+family lived in the east, and later when they came on from Colorado. The
+relation between the sisters had hitherto been a particularly close one,
+and was only strengthened by the happy new family ties that came to
+each. To those who loved these sisters and saw both come to a time when
+feebleness and physical restriction might have been before them, there
+can be only rejoicing that they were spared any added weakness of body,
+and that there was no clouding of their bright and active minds, no
+abatement of interest in the life about them as long as they were here.
+Mrs. Roberts had been in such delicate health for several years that it
+did not seem possible that she would outlive her sister, but only two
+months after their last parting, the great transition came to her also.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We are given a charming glimpse into the first meeting between Mr. and
+Mrs. Bemis in some interesting reminiscences Mr. Bemis has recently
+written for his grandchildren. He had been settled in business in St.
+Louis for some years when Alice Cogswell, shortly after her sister's
+marriage, went there to visit a very dear aunt, "Aunt Lucy Smyth." The
+occasion of their meeting came through Mr. Bemis's first visit to Boston
+in 1865, which, in his own words, "resulted in an important occurrence."
+He met there a business connection, Mr. Zenas Cushing, who had become
+Alice Cogswell's guardian on the death of her father; knowing that Mr.
+Bemis was from St. Louis, Mr. Cushing gave him a letter of introduction
+to his ward and bespoke his interest in her and his help in any business
+advice she might need. Mr. Bemis tells his story thus: "Some three weeks
+after my return from Boston I gave myself the pleasure of calling one
+evening and presenting the letter. As I am writing these lines I can see
+'Miss Cogswell' coming into the parlor where I was awaiting her. She was
+dressed in the fashion of the day, having on a silk dress with a very
+full skirt held out by a hoop-skirt of large dimensions. She met me
+cordially and asked me to be seated and we talked for an hour of my
+first trip to Boston, of her guardian and others. As I was leaving and
+closing the gate I heard myself saying that I might marry that girl if I
+could win her. It was not so-called 'love at first sight,' but it
+ripened into love with a few subsequent calls. I think it was a very
+fortunate circumstance that I met Alice Cogswell when I did." And very
+fortunate for many others did this union prove. The outward condition of
+their early lives was very different, but the two families from which
+they came were alike in the standards which they held for themselves and
+instilled into their children.
+
+The story of Mr. Bemis's early years is the familiar one of that type of
+western pioneer to whom the whole country is deeply indebted. He was
+born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on May 18, 1833, of parents who had
+all the best inheritance to give their children, but few material
+possessions. When he was an infant the family moved to a small village
+in Chemung County, New York, where his mother's brother, Henry Farwell,
+lived with his family. The relation between the two families was a close
+one, and five years later it was decided that they should move together
+to Illinois. Reports of its fertile soil and what it promised for the
+future had come back to them by the slow and uncertain mails. They knew
+that it offered more for themselves, and what was far more important to
+them, for their children, than they could ever have in their present
+surroundings. When they made the great change they knew well the dangers
+and difficulties that must be met on the journey when taken under the
+most favorable conditions. They knew, too, how these would be increased
+in their case, as they were taking so many young children, eight in all;
+but the courageous band to which they belonged were men and women of
+industry and personal integrity, with a strong sense of real values,
+who, having made their decision, took no reckoning of obstacles to the
+end before them.
+
+It was a long, difficult journey. In a pleasant sketch of this that Mr.
+Bemis has given, we have only the remembrance of such incidents as stay
+in the memory of a child. There is no mention of hardships. He recalls
+the covered wagon, but knows only from others of the slow journey to
+Buffalo, thence by boat to Detroit, and the continued journey to
+Chicago, then Fort Dearborn, where they did not remain for fear of
+being eaten by mosquitoes or of having fever and ague, and so camped at
+what is now Oak Park. Thence they moved on to Lighthouse Point, Ogle
+County, Illinois, where the Bemis family found a temporary lodging in a
+log cabin and the others lived in covered wagons until they had built a
+comfortable cabin for themselves.
+
+From the beginning of the making of the new home on the empty prairie,
+the children took their full share in the work it involved. Mr. Bemis
+has told us that he was doing from one-half to two-thirds of a man's
+work on the farm when he was twelve years old, the year in which his
+wife was born into the well-established life of a fine old New England
+town, rich for her in all the inheritances that seven generations gave;
+all the way before her made as smooth as love and ample means could make
+it.
+
+At the age of nineteen Mr. Bemis left the farm and began his business
+career in Chicago as clerk to a shipping firm. After six years, with
+only his own savings for his capital, and helped by the loan of some
+machinery supplied by a cousin, he went to St. Louis and began the
+business which has borne his name for over sixty years, a name that is
+a synonym in all the business world for ability and integrity. His
+success did not come by accident, or by any so-called good fortune, but
+as the result of patience and perseverance, steadily following the
+principles and the rules he laid down for himself very early in life. He
+speaks with gratitude of the fact that he had to learn by force of
+circumstances "the blessedness of drudgery and the value of time and
+money in his long hours of work and in the closest practice of economy."
+
+We have seen how different were the outward circumstances of their early
+lives. In temperament also Mr. and Mrs. Bemis differed much; but in
+sympathy on all great matters, in their ideals of life, and their
+unfailing recognition of their own personal obligation and duty, they
+were always one. In the reminiscences he has written for his
+grandchildren, Mr. Bemis says: "Parents can lay the foundation for each
+child by their own life. They are giving daily examples by their actions
+and by word of mouth. If parents are living well-ordered and Christian
+lives, their children will be likely to follow their example. They will
+know nothing else. Good boys and girls make good men and women. An
+educated and scientific carpenter will hew and mortise the timbers to
+fit the keys that bind the frame to a complete and solid house, so that
+storm and winds pass it by unharmed. So with boys and girls; if their
+characters are moulded in truth, mortised and keyed together with
+obedience to God and man, when they become men and women they will
+withstand the environment of bad persons and escape unscathed. Hence
+their young lives, founded on the bedrock of Christian characters, are
+well qualified to work out their own destiny and make their lives
+whatever they will."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Bemis were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George B.
+Roberts, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1866, and went
+directly to their new home in St. Louis. There the oldest son, Judson
+Cogswell, was born in December of the following year; and there they
+remained until they returned to Boston in 1870, when for business
+reasons it became necessary for Mr. Bemis to have his headquarters in
+that city. After the birth of the second son, Albert Farwell, they moved
+to Newton, Massachusetts, where their three other children were born:
+Maude, now Mrs. Reginald H. Parsons, Lucy Gardner, who lived less than
+three years, and Alice, now Mrs. Frederick M. P. Taylor. Three of these
+survived their mother and had long been established in their own homes
+before she left them. To the father and mother was given the great
+happiness of seeing each of these new households controlled by the same
+standards of right and the same sense of personal and civic
+responsibility on which they had built their own united lives.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Bemis's home was in Newton for eleven years, and during
+that time it was the centre for the family connection in New England and
+for many friends. It was always rich in association for themselves and
+family, and was made rich in the same way for many others. Family cares
+that came upon Mrs. Bemis and the part she took in the life of the
+church and the community made the years spent there the most active of
+her life. After her removal to Colorado Springs, she showed in a
+practical and liberal form her interest in the First Congregational
+Church in that city, which the family attended, but she had such a
+strong sentiment about the church at Newton and the experiences that
+came to her while connected with it that she never removed her
+membership; its pastor, Dr. Calkins, and his wife were among her most
+valued friends.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In 1881 a serious throat trouble developed, and Mrs. Bemis was taken
+south for the winter. She did not gain there, and the following year was
+sent to Colorado Springs. Slight hope was then given to her family of
+her living more than a few months, but the climate and the sunshine
+effected what had seemed impossible, and within a few years she was able
+to lead a comparatively normal life in the new home where she was
+happily settled. A house was rented for the family until 1885, when the
+one at 508 North Cascade Avenue was built. This was henceforth home to
+her and to all the family as long as she was there with her welcome for
+them, and it soon became a centre for a large number of friends who are
+rich in memories of the unfailing welcome and genuine hospitality so
+freely given them. These were not restricted to a limited number with
+tastes and outward circumstances that were comparatively alike, but were
+extended to a large circle that differed widely in both of these. The
+sincerity, genuineness, and simplicity of the lives of those that made
+this home created an atmosphere that was felt as soon as one entered it.
+
+Many of the younger generation both within and without the family circle
+will have enduring memories of that house. Alan Gregg recalled in a few
+words childhood memories that were common to many; writing from his post
+in France he said: "Mrs. Bemis's death was a great surprise and shock,
+and the long time that elapsed between knowing of her illness and her
+death made me feel pretty far away. I remember her letting me play that
+music box to my heart's content, and the way she made Gregg laugh at an
+unexpected fall he took, instead of cry, better than anything else. She
+could also do nice things for you without spilling over into
+sentimentality."
+
+Her grandchildren's recollections of her will be mostly in connection
+with events in their own homes, where her visits were looked for eagerly
+by those on the Atlantic coast and those on the Pacific, but happily
+some of them are old enough to remember and pass on to the others the
+impression made on them and on other children in the family connection,
+of the grandmother's great pleasure in being with them and her plans for
+their comfort and happiness. They recall the perfect housekeeping, where
+the wheels seemed to move easily and were always out of sight; the
+daintiness of all its appointments, which was shown too in the dress and
+personal adornments of her who made this home and of those who shared it
+with her. Here she welcomed many of her old friends and also new
+acquaintances with whom lasting friendships were formed; here the
+children gathered around them a fine group of congenial companions who
+became their lasting friends; here they grew to manhood and to
+womanhood; from thence they were all married, and hither they all
+returned many times, with wife, husbands, and their own sons and
+daughters for happy family reunions.
+
+In this home the saddest as well as the most joyful experiences of her
+life came to her. The former were borne with the calmness and strength
+shown only by those with great capacity for suffering and great power of
+self-control. The hardest trial that she had ever known was at a time
+when she had little physical strength to meet it. After a year with the
+family in Colorado, the eldest son, Judson, was sent to a manual
+training school at St. Louis, Missouri, where there were many family
+friends. He was a lad of much promise, a great reader, with varied gifts
+and tastes. He had a very social nature and a warm interest in people,
+was noble in character, and deep in his affections. The separation was
+very hard for his mother, but it was met with the unselfishness she
+always showed when her children's interests were to be considered. She
+herself chose it, as she wanted him to have this special kind of
+training that could not be found nearer home. In the second year of his
+absence he was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia. His parents were
+summoned at once, and his father arrived before his death, but his
+mother could not reach St. Louis till some hours later. The loss of the
+little daughter Lucy, who had died in Newton of scarlet fever, was still
+fresh in her memory when the new sorrow came. This was borne
+wonderfully, but it changed all life for her as nothing else ever did.
+In 1904 came the third break in the family circle, when Mrs. Parsons
+with her beautiful little girl, Alice Loraine, nearly three years old,
+the first granddaughter in the family, was visiting her grandparents in
+Colorado Springs. No child could have been more tenderly loved and cared
+for than she, but nothing could avert the fatal illness that developed
+soon after their arrival.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+During the years that followed her going west, Mrs. Bemis spent only one
+summer there. For several successive seasons she went with her children
+to Minnetonka in Minnesota; but it was not possible for Mr. Bemis to be
+with them there more than he was during the winter, because of its
+distance from Boston, and a happy change came to all when later Mrs.
+Bemis had gained enough to make it safe for her to spend some months of
+each year by the sea on Cape Ann, where the family had headquarters for
+many summers. Twice she went abroad with her children; first during the
+summer of 1891 and five years later for a year of study and extended
+travel for her daughters. Marjorie Gregg, who knew her well, recalling
+her many journeys, says: "Few not loving travel for its own sake could
+or would have taken so many long journeys. The trips east in the spring
+and back to Colorado in the autumn became a habit, and she carried them
+out with precision and determination that did not ignore discomforts;
+she saw these, felt them and mentioned them, but never feared or
+regarded them. She planned and packed and made all arrangements without
+confusion or mistakes; never 'took it out' on other people, but refused
+help even in late years. It would be impossible to count up the miles
+travelled, the time spent on Pullman cars, the trunks packed--all not
+because of _Wanderlust_, curiosity, or restlessness, but for love of
+family--that she and her children might be with their father half of
+each year and that she might keep close to her sister and nieces, whose
+relation to 'Aunt Alice' was as close as if the two families had lived
+in the same town. Later Grandpa and Grandma Bemis journeyed together
+indefatigably."
+
+When Mr. Bemis laid aside many of the details of his business, they
+chose Lake Mohonk, New York, for their summer home, and the last seven
+summers of her life were spent very happily there; so happily, that each
+year they engaged the same rooms for the following season and said they
+meant to do this as long as they lived. It became a real home to them.
+Mr. and Mrs. Smiley, wonderful host and hostess to all, were soon their
+warm personal friends, and many pleasant acquaintances with guests were
+renewed each year. Among their most valued friends there was Dr. Faunce,
+president of Brown University, who conducted the Sunday services year
+after year. They considered his sermons as among the best and most
+helpful they ever heard, and after each season thought and talked much
+of them, always looking forward to the coming of the summer Sundays,
+their brightest days at Mohonk. Here every condition met their tastes
+and their needs; the great beauty of the place itself, the quiet and
+peace of the house, the wise and unusual way in which it is ordered, all
+combined to give them an ideal residence for the summer. The fact that
+young people of a fine type were always there added much to Mrs. Bemis's
+pleasure. She enjoyed watching their sports and their life in the open.
+Her windows overlooked the lake, and she sat there hour after hour
+watching the parties coming and going in boats and climbing the hills.
+Her delight in the beauties of the whole picture before her, than which
+there are few to compare with it the world over, grew steadily with each
+day there. Just before leaving Mohonk for the last time, she wrote to a
+young cousin: "I wish I could transport you all here. I have always said
+that I would like to live on a beautiful estate and have no care of it;
+and here I have been for seven summers and no place by any possibility
+could be finer. Mr. Smiley did not spoil nature but kept its wonderful
+beauty and added to it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+During the last years they were together, Mr. and Mrs. Bemis made
+several interesting trips to California and to Seattle, to be with their
+daughter, Mrs. Parsons. The mere recital of all these journeyings may
+give the impression that the life in Colorado Springs was a very broken
+one, but it did not seem so to her friends there, for at each return it
+was resumed so quickly and so quietly that they think of it rather as
+continuous. No friend and no interest she had in any work that helped on
+the general welfare was ever ignored or forgotten by her wherever she
+might be.
+
+Probably there has never been any one in Colorado Springs with so many
+enforced absences and the same limitations of strength who has done as
+much as she in enriching individual lives with friendship and the
+community life with sympathy and generous material aid. Nothing that she
+counted a duty sat lightly on her mind or conscience.
+
+Miss Ellen T. Brinley, who was for many years a friend and neighbor of
+Mrs. Bemis, wrote shortly after her death: "She was a real New Englander
+of a type all too rare in these degenerate days. For many years she was
+not very strong, and yet she was one of the least self-indulgent people
+that ever lived. Wealth to her was not a reason for luxury and pleasure
+seeking, but an opportunity for helping others--with a lack of
+ostentation characteristic of her whole nature. She was truly a secret
+helper. That the young should have their chance in life and that the
+paths of the needy should be made more easy, became increasingly the
+object of her life. Colorado College and the Young Women's Christian
+Association were the two organizations in Colorado Springs whose welfare
+she had most at heart, and for them she was constantly devising liberal
+things. In the wakeful hours of the night, she planned to relieve the
+sufferings of others, and her spirit of good will came from no weak
+sentimentality. She was a woman of good judgment, an incisive mind, and
+a strong character. She was a wonderfully loyal friend and her daily
+life centred in her own family circle, in a few personal friendships,
+and in the benevolence which was her avocation."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Even her closest friends knew but little of her constant and quiet deeds
+of kindness, and that rarely from her directly. It could never be said
+of her that she was "confidential with her left hand." From the
+recipients of her generosity more is known than could have been learned
+from her. Often with an apology lest she might seem to intrude, she
+learned if friends, and sometimes mere acquaintances and even strangers,
+needed assistance at a time when she knew an emergency had come to them,
+and often asked others to be the means of meeting such needs, not
+letting it be known whence the help came. "Just tell them you have it to
+give away," she would often say. Sometimes she gave to personal friends
+a check, asking that they spend it as they thought best in ministering
+to others.
+
+This was done for many years to some who were in close touch with the
+students of Colorado College. "Don't take the trouble to give an account
+of this," she would say, "only be sure that it goes where it is really
+needed." But when the account was rendered, she wanted to hear all that
+could be told of the circumstances of each one who had been helped, and
+often arranged that certain of these should have further assistance. To
+a number this was voluntarily continued during their professional
+studies. The following, from a letter to her son in 1908, shows her
+sympathetic understanding of the students whom she helped:
+
+"I wonder if I told you that the suit that you left here I gave to Mrs.
+S---- for one of the college boys. The lining was greatly worn and so I
+pinned on an envelope with $5.00 in it and she gave it to a very needy
+fellow who is working and attending college. She had a letter from him
+and from the mother. I am going to send her letter and some other
+letters from other boys to whom the President has given a little from
+time to time from a little that I gave him early in the winter. I want
+you to read them, for I don't think that any of us realize how brave
+these poor students are, and really they are the ones whom we hear of
+later; the rich men's sons fall short in some way."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mrs. Bemis was one of a group of women who, in the spring of 1889,
+organized the Women's Education Society of Colorado College. The
+resolutions passed by its executive board at the time of her death so
+adequately express her relation to the Society that they are here quoted
+in full:
+
+"The Executive Board of the Women's Educational Society wishes to place
+on record its sense of irreparable loss in the passing of Alice Cogswell
+Bemis.
+
+"Her association with the work of the Society has extended over a long
+period of years, and her part in it has always been characterized by
+fidelity to the purpose of the organization and keen discrimination in
+the execution of the trust. She brought to the problems confronting the
+Board rare insight and judgment, and her business acumen was
+invaluable.
+
+"Many students of Colorado College are personally indebted to her for
+the removal of obstacles in the way of the successful prosecution of
+their work in which her interest was vital and perennial. A story of
+genuine need never failed to elicit her assistance. Of her general
+constructive planning for the many-sided life of the young women, Bemis
+Hall and Cogswell Theatre are enduring evidence.
+
+"The Board has lost a useful member, her friends a wise counselor, and
+philanthropic agencies a generous helper to whom worthy cause or person
+never appealed in vain."
+
+Another organization to which she contributed much pleasure and from
+which she received the same is the Art Club of Colorado Springs. A group
+of women whose personal relation to her was close and increasingly dear
+as the years passed, formed its membership. They met twice a month at
+each other's houses, read, and studied pictures, finding, as one says,
+"an alleviation not unwelcome in that life where tuberculosis and the
+gold fever of the early days alternately possessed the atmosphere." The
+Art Club owed much of its genuine life to Mrs. Bemis; her interest in
+art, her keenness to acquire and classify the knowledge that she loved,
+was as strong as her friendship and neighborliness. The utmost
+hospitality to invalid strangers was part and parcel of those Colorado
+Springs early days, and in goodness to obscure invalids and in lending a
+hand in hard times no one could tell the extent of her benefactions.
+
+All that Mrs. Bemis did will never be known, and what she gave was never
+told at the time unless it seemed best for obvious reasons that her
+identification with a good movement should be made public. The
+unsolicited gifts must have been manifold compared with those she gave
+in response to appeals. It was always easy to approach her for any good
+cause. If she gave, it was always with good will; if she declined to do
+so, a distinct reason for the refusal was stated; and she was as careful
+not to pauperize by giving as she was not to withhold where it was due,
+and was entirely free from the bitterness common to a certain type of
+persons who are wont to think that their generosity is being imposed
+upon. She often afforded amusement to her friends by the way in which
+she prefaced an offer of help with a seeming apology. She even seemed
+at times to call those who were working in a good cause to account
+because its pressing needs had not been met, and then met them herself.
+
+A notable instance of this was her gift of the gymnasium to the Young
+Women's Christian Association. When the present Association building was
+erected she gave generously to the building fund. A gymnasium was
+greatly needed then, but no money was available for it. A space was left
+on the lot that had been purchased in the hope that a building might be
+put there later. Very soon the growth of the work showed that no
+gymnasium adequate even for the present demands could be built on that
+limited space. The girls of the Association clamored for it and the
+members of the board, who even more than they knew how much it was
+needed, were heavy hearted. No one spoke of the situation to Mrs. Bemis
+until she herself broached it to one of the board in a tone that, to one
+who did not know her, might have seemed a reprimand. She prefaced what
+was on her mind thus: "I do not approve at all of your putting up a
+building on that small space. You ought to buy that lot to the north."
+The board member could but agree. The protest was again made, and the
+board member could only repeat her agreement, but knew from the manner
+of approach to the subject that something was back in Mrs. Bemis's mind
+that she would have to tell, though she wished it might be known without
+her telling it! And then it came. She would like to see that lot when no
+one would know that she was looking at it, and if it wasn't too much
+trouble, could it be arranged for her to do this? It was planned that
+she should go early one Sunday morning to the building, when very few
+were in the lower rooms. She looked out on the vacant space and said,
+"Don't you see _it will not do at all_?" Within twenty-four hours she
+asked some one to negotiate for the purchase of the lot at the north and
+gave it to the Association, adding a check that made possible the
+present beautiful gymnasium. She dismissed with no mistaken emphasis the
+proposal that this should bear her name. Her pleasure in the building
+was great, and in expressing this pleasure she always seemed only to be
+commending the Association for having it. Her part in it seemed nothing
+to her. "Others have had to do all the work," she would say if her gift
+was mentioned.
+
+When Bemis Hall, the main residence for girls at Colorado College, was
+being built, it was found that by excavating under the dining-room there
+would be space for a theatre, in which the students could give plays and
+various college meetings might be held. This was done, and the room was
+named Cogswell Theatre in her honor. It must be admitted that the latter
+was done under protest, although aided and abetted by some of her
+family. "What would my ancestors say to having a theatre bear their
+name!" she said, laughing. Among the memories of the past nine years to
+those who have enjoyed that little theatre, none is happier than that of
+seeing the faces of two very dear friends following each word and
+movement on the stage, laughing at times till the tears came, and giving
+over and over their entire approval of the existence of the theatre,
+with no further protest against its name. These two friends rarely
+missed seeing whatever was presented on that stage, though seldom
+tempted by public entertainments to give up their quiet evenings at
+home. Indeed, everything in that beautiful hall named for Mr.
+Bemis--whose generosity, to the college is there made known only in
+part--seemed to give them pleasure, and no one else will ever cross its
+threshold who can receive just the kind of welcome they always found
+awaiting them.
+
+While the number of organizations which Mrs. Bemis helped is not known,
+and it is impossible to mention those which for many years counted on
+her interest and liberal support, one must be noted as showing her
+abiding interest in all that related to her native town and the region
+about it. This is the Ipswich Historical Society, which was organized in
+1890, and of which she was the first life member. On its twenty-fifth
+anniversary, in response to what was only a printed appeal, she sent the
+first substantial gift of money it received. Within a few months of her
+death, learning that a fireproof building for the Society had been
+proposed, she wrote to Mr. T. Franklin Waters, its president, asking for
+particulars of the plan under consideration, and on receipt of his reply
+sent a check for so large a proportion of the estimated cost that she
+was asked to consent to have the building named for her. Following a
+determination made long before that her gifts should not be made
+conspicuous in any way, she would not consent to this.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mrs. Bemis was as quick, open, and generous in her recognition of what
+others did along philanthropic lines as she was reticent concerning her
+own good deeds. This was especially noticeable in her attitude toward
+all the private and public benefactions of her husband and children. Her
+quiet satisfaction in these was beautiful to see. Her children received
+all sympathy and encouragement in every good work they undertook, but
+she never assumed the right to dictate in these matters or took any
+credit to herself for anything they did, not thinking of the power of
+her example and the life-long training she had given them.
+
+Her recognition of all her husband's benefactions and her sympathy in
+his planning for them were unfailing. One of the most important and far
+reaching of these was in connection with a work along social lines in
+the town of Bemis, Tennessee, where his firm had built a cotton mill.
+From the inception of the town the need of this work was much in the
+thought of their son, who has since succeeded his father as president
+of their company, and whose practical interest in the betterment of all
+social relations, especially of those between the employer and the
+employed, is widely known. Together they carried out their ideals in the
+new town of Bemis. The operators were those known in the south as poor
+whites. The opening of the mill gave to these people an undreamed of
+opportunity to earn money. It also offered to them a great privilege and
+at the same time a possibility of great danger. The privilege was that
+of being able for the first time in their lives to command money and to
+use it so that it would make them better and happier; the danger was
+that they might use it so that moral deterioration would follow. Both
+these possibilities were foreseen in the first plans for the town, and
+provision was made for the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of the
+people that would as far as possible avert the danger. A social worker
+was engaged to live as a friend among the people, and a church, school,
+and library were provided for them. Mrs. Bemis had much pleasure in
+following every step in the development of this work, while careful to
+disclaim any credit for its success, again not thinking what her
+encouragement and cooeperation meant to both husband and son. But they
+and all her children pay her full tribute for the stimulus of example
+and for the sympathy shown in every good work to which they put their
+hands.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This woman of many noble traits was especially endowed with the rare
+gift of loyal and understanding friendship. Her relation to kindred and
+personal friends brought to her and to them an unusual degree of
+happiness. This was so great a factor in her life that it may seem as if
+special mention of many of these friends should be made in even so brief
+a sketch as this. But they themselves will realize how impossible this
+would be because the circle to which they belong is so large. She was
+not blind to the failings of her friends, but was clear in her
+comprehension of their fundamental traits, and her love for them, her
+strong though often undemonstrative interest in them, never abated.
+While she added to their number many times during her stay in different
+places, no new friend or new interest ever took the place of an old one.
+Her generous heart had room for all whom she took to it.
+
+Her correspondence with friends was surprisingly large in view of the
+frequency of her letters to her own immediate circle; when the family
+became widely scattered this might easily have been made an excuse for
+dropping much of the general correspondence, but instead of that it grew
+as the circle of her interest widened. No one was neglected and all
+letters were written with her own hand. During the last years of her
+life much of her mail that was not personal became a distinct burden
+with its increasing appeals from all directions, but she conscientiously
+attended to it all herself. An abundance of good common sense helped her
+to ignore many of these, but any that could not be laid aside lightly
+she investigated in a way that took much time and strength.
+
+Her outspoken nature and uncompromising mind often made her draw hard
+and fast lines in no unmistakable way as to conduct that met her
+approval or condemnation, but she asked no one to come up to any
+standard higher than she had laid down for herself. She wanted above all
+things to be just, and few people are so essentially just as she was. To
+quote a friend, "her judgment of character was clear, just, and
+vigorous."
+
+One fixed habit of her mind must not be overlooked: this was
+unwillingness to accept any help in whatever she could possibly do
+herself. Many friends thought this a failing and frequently told her so.
+They were wont to rebel against the fact that they could not serve her,
+while she was a past master in the art of serving others. Her swift
+motions and deft hands, impelled by her quick mind, would outwit half a
+dozen people who were looking for means by which to circumvent her. No
+amount of urging could lead her to agree to be waited upon if that could
+be avoided, and she often refused to accept ministrations at times when
+it seemed to others that they were necessary to her comfort. But even at
+such times she would withhold no service for another. Whatever mention
+the Recording Angel may make of this failing, it will be very brief
+compared with what is written of the countless deeds of love and of
+kindness for others with which she filled her days.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Fortunately, many letters to the family and other friends have been
+kept. They are singularly like her; never diffuse, but with that rare
+and happy characteristic of telling concretely and clearly what was of
+most interest to those to whom they were written, and never letting
+irrelevant generalities take the place of matters of importance. In
+reading these letters consecutively we are struck by the naive and
+unconscious way in which she reveals much of herself. They contain few
+allusions to her own discomforts, but abound in sympathy for any that
+have come to those to whom she is writing; they show how her happiness
+never depended on anything that she might obtain for herself, while she
+magnifies whatever others do for her. Social gatherings that brought old
+friends and new together she enjoyed in a simple, whole-hearted way; she
+cordially approved of fun and encouraged it by giving and taking it, but
+never seemed to seek diversion. Her happiness came from what was close
+at hand, especially in the simple every day gifts that are bestowed on
+us all. Among her papers is found this "Line of Cheer:"
+
+    "_I love the air of hill and sea
+    That puts its crispness into me.
+    I love the smiling of the sky
+    That sets its twinkle in mine eye.
+    I love the vigor of the gale
+    That lends me strength where mine doth fail.
+    I love the golden light of day
+    That makes my jaded spirit gay.
+    I love the dark of night whose guest
+    I find myself when I would rest.
+    And gratitude doth hold me thrall
+    Unto the Giver of them all._"
+
+A few sentences taken at random from the letters show that this
+expressed what was in her mind: "The day has been beautiful. You know
+this is the rainless season and the hills, as we came along, were all
+brown, no green grass anywhere, but the trees are beautiful with very
+full leafage, showing that the air is very moist.... I wish that you
+could see 'The Springs' now it is so very beautiful.... I have some dear
+little finches building in their evergreen trees. I think that there are
+several pairs. Tell Gregg that I can look from my chamber window
+directly into a robin's nest."
+
+In one of her letters to her grandchildren she says: "I went down to the
+Young Women's Christian Association rooms yesterday afternoon to take
+tea and hear the report of those who have been raising money to support
+the work there. Some little girls were having their gymnastic lessons
+and were having a very jolly time. At last the leaves are all off of the
+trees and I think the little wayside flowers must have had their noses
+pinched last night by Jack Frost."
+
+Her interest not only in the beauty of the world about her but in what
+others are doing to make it bring forth and bud for the good of mankind
+is shown over and over: "Alice is happy," she writes, "to have the
+weather warmer for her garden. She thinks that her vegetables have had
+too much hail and cold weather, but the last two days have been fine.
+The country here responds very quickly to showers, the trees and grass
+now are in perfection and the whole town is beautifully dressed. I have
+never seen it looking better notwithstanding the dandelions."
+
+The family letters abound in allusions to the grandchildren and touch
+upon all the varied interests of her children; many were written
+directly to the grandchildren. It was beautiful to see the joy those
+little people brought to her, and it was characteristic of her that,
+never thinking of what might be considered as due her, she was surprised
+when a second grandchild was given her name.
+
+On March 5, 1909, she writes: "I was so pleased this morning to have a
+telegram about the new little girl, and you were fooling Farwell about
+the name; I can't believe that she is named already and for me. If she
+really has the name of Alice, I hope that she will be a better woman
+than I have been. I am crazy to see her and am wondering if she looks as
+little Faith did and has as much hair. Oh dear! the distance is
+tremendous sometimes. I do wish that I had a home nearer my family.
+
+"What did 'Sister' say? What did Alan say and do?... My best love and
+congratulations to each. I am so glad to have another granddaughter."
+
+Each one of the grandchildren had a special place in her thought and
+affections, and was beautiful to her. "The children are well and really
+pretty,--but not in pictures," she writes once.
+
+The strength of her hands was largely used in knitting dainty garments
+for the children and their mothers. During her last summer she spoke of
+this to a friend, as if apologizing for not working solely for our
+soldiers, instead of indulging herself in doing what she did for her
+own, who "seemed to like what she made for them." This is the only
+self-indulgence that is mentioned in all the letters that have been read
+in preparing this sketch. Remembering how large were her gifts to war
+relief compared to what she ever spent for herself, one can think only
+with delight that she had the pleasure of weaving so many loving
+thoughts for those dearest to her into her last gifts to them.
+
+The following shows a tact that often wins where criticism would lose:
+"It was Maude's birthday yesterday ... two friends came to dinner. The
+second maid had the misfortune to fall down, or rather turn her ankle
+standing up, and she had to be put to bed. The cook is a good-natured
+girl and she thought that she could wait on the table. I did not think
+much of her ability, but thanked her, gave her a few instructions, and
+told her to put on a white waist and wear a good white apron. Well I was
+repaid for not showing any doubt to her, for she waited very well
+indeed, and all went merry as a _birthday_ bell."
+
+She does not hesitate to criticize herself, even to the point of placing
+herself in a ridiculous light, one of the hallmarks never found on
+small souls. For instance, she once wrote: "You will be interested in my
+yesterday afternoon exploits. I started to crochet a white hand-bag,
+like one that Mrs. S---- is making, and after I had done quite a lot, I
+found a mistake away back and so went to work and took it out. Then I
+thought I would fill one of my fountain pens, and when I thought that I
+had been unusually expeditious and neat, I looked in the glass and found
+my best white waist splashed up with the ink. Wasn't I a very
+low-spirited woman! This morning I am trying to reduce the brilliant
+color of the spots by putting on salt and lemon and putting in the sun,
+but I know not if they will go, _but I consider them a disgrace to Alice
+Cogswell Bemis_."
+
+The letters give glimpses of many personal gifts that were so well
+concealed from all except those to whom they were made. It is shown that
+these were not given impulsively, but were carefully thought out and
+almost invariably planned to meet what seemed to her a definite need.
+For example: "I have told Mrs. Gregg about my plan for a trip for Gregg
+and herself and offered to pay all the expense.... I will enclose a
+check which you can fill out as I have no idea how much it will cost. At
+any rate please use it and send Gregg away for a while; it will be a
+benefit to him to travel and be away from servants. Let him look after
+himself."
+
+She rarely gives advice, but frequently makes friendly suggestions
+backed by the material wherewithal necessary to carry them out. "I have
+been sorry to know that Gregg has been having so much cold; it came to
+me one night that perhaps it would do him good to take a trip down to
+Hampton. I remember that Mrs. B---- had a son with General Armstrong at
+Hampton, teaching typesetting, and she went down to see him. She told me
+of some people who went down there every year to avoid the snows because
+they never had catarrhal troubles at Hampton. She said that it was a
+fine climate, so I wondered ... if it would not do Gregg good to go down
+there and live in the open air of that lovely region for several weeks."
+
+In writing to her son in February, 1907, of the laying of the
+corner-stone of Bemis Hall, at Colorado College, she makes no allusion
+to the gift that made this building possible, and says only: "I suppose
+Gregg wrote you or Sister that I helped lay the corner-stone of the new
+hall yesterday morning. Mrs. S., one of the 1908 Class, and myself
+patted on the cement. Gregg remarked if Daddy and Alan had been there,
+there would have been a lot more put on. The wind was very chilly
+yesterday, but we were not there very long and we were fairly well
+wrapped."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mrs. Bemis had an attack of appendicitis while in Boston in the autumn
+of 1910, which made an immediate operation necessary. When she was able
+to be moved, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor took her to Asheville for the winter,
+as she was not strong enough for the longer trip to Colorado; but the
+weather there that year was very unfortunate for an invalid, and later
+they went to Atlantic City. Here Mr. Bemis joined them; he now was able
+to make business arrangements that relieved him of the many details he
+had long carried, and a new era in the family life was begun--the
+happiest of all.
+
+From that time all enforced separations were over, and he was with his
+wife continuously wherever it was best for her to be. When, after a
+year, she was able to return to Colorado Springs, she was very happy to
+be again in her home, and the old life among friends was resumed as
+always, quickly and happily.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Birthdays and wedding anniversaries were gala days in the family,
+especially Mr. Bemis's birthday, when there was always a large dinner
+party with intimate friends added to the family group. Fun and abounding
+cheer were invariably among the good things provided. As these days came
+around there was no abatement of interest in them and of cheerful
+outward observance.
+
+For many years very definite plans were made by the children for the
+golden wedding of their father and mother, on November 21, 1916. That
+was to be the crowning day of all the family days, and though Mrs. Bemis
+sometimes protested against planning for it, saying that she couldn't
+expect to see that day, as it approached she took much pleasure in the
+plans her children made for it. They were all to come home, each
+bringing one or more of the grandchildren. Their mother was to have no
+care whatever in connection with the celebration. Mrs. Taylor, the only
+one whose home was in Colorado Springs, made arrangements to have the
+family dinner in her own house and later in the evening a reception for
+friends.
+
+The summer of 1916 was passed as usual at Mohonk, and was followed by
+the stay of some weeks in Boston that Mr. and Mrs. Bemis made each
+autumn. While there, Mrs. Bemis had a fall, which later proved to have
+serious effects. This was barely a month before the golden wedding, and
+though she tried to treat it lightly and took the journey to Colorado
+Springs, on arriving there she consulted her physician, who said that a
+surgical operation was necessary. She wanted to postpone it until after
+the golden wedding celebration, but he was not willing to risk any
+delay, and on November 16 she went through the ordeal. The convalescence
+was more rapid than the family had dared to hope, but they knew that the
+situation was still serious when the wedding day came. To them fell the
+delicate task of planning to observe it so that Mrs. Bemis would not
+know it was done with anxious hearts, and of making it only a time of
+rejoicing, and withal to do this in a way that would not tax her in the
+least.
+
+There was an early dinner for old and young, with one vacant place, in
+the family home. Letters, telegrams, and whatever else had been written
+for the occasion were read, and then all went to the hospital for a
+short call. Five grandchildren were there, representing each of the
+three families; with Mr. Bemis and their parents they entered the
+invalid's room in procession. Each child carried a long-stemmed golden
+chrysanthemum, the girls dressed in white with yellow ribbon bows on
+their hair, the boys wearing yellow neckties; the older ones each gave
+her a few words of greeting as cheerfully as if they had come with light
+hearts from a feast where there was no shadow. "Just like the Bemises,"
+it was said.
+
+She was able to listen to a number of letters and telegrams and to enjoy
+some of the flowers that had been sent in great abundance to the house.
+In writing of that day, one of her children says: "I shall never forget
+her face looking so thin and delicate but so beaming with happiness and
+the humorous twinkle of her eyes behind her spectacles. Grandpa walked
+at the head of the procession looking very proud and happy and making a
+great tramping and show at keeping time. Doree Taylor's golden curls
+were like sunshine, and we were all so happy to think that in spite of
+all our fears Mama Bemis was still with us. How glad we all are that we
+had that happy time together!"
+
+All her good pluck and its continuance in the days that followed had its
+good result. At first the convalescence was surprisingly rapid, and in a
+few weeks she was able to leave the hospital and begin the climb back to
+her old strength. It was a trying winter, but a trip to California
+helped her much, so that when she reached Mohonk for her last stay there
+the gain was marked and she moved about with ease. One of her friends
+who spent the summer near her states that she spoke often of this gain,
+and showed her old cheer and interest in all that affected her friends
+and in the stirring events throughout the world and especially in the
+great war into which we had entered; and that she talked more often than
+was her wont of the inner life and of the inevitable change--the great
+adventure--and the revelations it would bring. She spoke as if she
+thought it might come to her in the near future, but always with a quiet
+acceptance of it as one experience in the continuous life.
+
+For one reason only she would have it delayed, that her husband might
+not have to take the rest of his journey alone. This wish was not
+fulfilled, for the transition came quickly. She was spared what would
+have been difficult for one with her independent spirit--a long time of
+physical dependence on others. On October 9 she left Boston with her
+husband for Colorado. A slight cold which she had seemed better on
+reaching Chicago, but on arriving home it increased, and though she
+tried to ignore it for a day or two, she was obliged to call her
+physician. It soon proved very serious; double pneumonia developed
+rapidly, and on the 18th, with her husband and all her children around
+her, she passed peacefully and without pain into the fuller life.
+
+A brief service was held in the First Congregational Church of Colorado
+Springs on the afternoon of the following day, and in the evening Mr.
+Bemis and all his family left for the east with the body which, on
+October 23, was laid in the Newton Cemetery beside those of her two
+children. The funeral was held at two o'clock on the afternoon of that
+day in the chapel of the Newton Cemetery. Friends and relatives from
+many directions were gathered there, and the chancel was filled with
+flowers sent from far and near.
+
+It was one of New England's most glorious autumn days. Though there was
+no wind, the bright leaves fell in abundance quietly and steadily in the
+warm sunshine.
+
+The service was conducted by the Rev. James B. Gregg, D.D., for over
+thirty years a personal friend of the family, and bound to Mr. and Mrs.
+Bemis by a very close and tender tie in the marriage of their son to his
+daughter Faith. He was also their pastor in Colorado Springs for
+twenty-seven years. The service was very simple, consisting only of
+wisely chosen selections from the Bible, full of tenderness and of joy
+and faith in the eternal, followed by an uplifting and strengthening
+prayer that Dr. Gregg had written for that special service.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This brief sketch of one into whose life came far more than the
+ordinary measure of happiness, and who had the heart and the will to
+bring all the happiness she could to others, is all too inadequate; the
+only justification for its existence lies in the hope that it may, in
+some degree, suggest to her children's children and to those who come
+after them, the personality that was so dear and so human to those who
+knew her, so unselfish and so thoughtful for others, so mindful of the
+fact that this life of ours is only a stewardship.
+
+
+
+
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