Age 81 years.
Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight by Linda V. Carlisle, published in 2010 by the University of Illinois, states her parents are Rev. Samuel Ware and Mary Tirrill Ware [Mary Tirrill was the mother of her husband, Theophilus Packard]. She was their fifth child and the first to survive infancy.
According to Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, her parents were Rev. Samuel Ware and Lucy Ware.
On May 21, 1839 as Elizabeth P. Ware, she married Theophilus Packard at Deerfield, Massachusetts.
They were the parents of six children.
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday, July 27, 1897
Death Of A Friend Of The Insane
Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard Passes Away in Chicago After a Trip From California
Chicago, July 26. Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard died at the Hahnemann Hospital this morning after an illness of several days. She had been in California three years visiting her son and returned to Chicago Tuesday. En route she was taken ill. After undergoing an operation, she died from intestinal paralysis.
Mrs. Packard was 81 years old. She married Theophilus Packard at Shelburne, Massachusetts in 1839. After twenty-one years of married life she was taken to the insane asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois, where she remained three years. Her mind being fully restored, she determined to devote the rest of her life to working for corrective legislation for the insane. While in the asylum she wrote Modern Persecution: Inane Asylum Invaded, Mystic Key and Great Drama, all along the same line.
Her first work for the insane was found in the law passed in this State allowing the insane to communicate by letter with friends and relatives and providing a trial jury for all insane persons before commitment to the asylum. These two laws she succeeded in having passed by forty-four States. She was also the author of thirty-two other bills in the interest of the insane. Mrs. Packard had lived in Chicago more than twenty years.
Samuel W. Packard (died 1937), an attorney of Chicago, is a son. Theophilus Packard, another son, resides in Pasadena, California, where he is the pastor of the Congregational Church. Another son, Isaac Packard, resides in San Diego, California and still another son, Arthur Packard (died 1937), lives in Avoca, Illinois; Mrs. H.G.C. Gordon of Pasadena is the only daughter.
Politics and Politicians
A Remarkable Incident
Illustrative of the progress of thought and to preserve the record of a most remarkable event in the history of this State, we give place to the following:
In the year 1859 there was living in the town of Manteno, Kankakee County, the Rev. Theophilus Packard, who was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that village. His wife, Elizabeth P. W. Packard, was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Ware, also a Presbyterian clergyman, of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Packard were the parents of six children, all living at home. Up to this time it would appear that peace and harmony had always reigned in the Packard family. But in the winter of 1859 to 1860, Mrs. Packard became a member of the Bible Class of the church and being a lady of culture and education and of strong will, she soon found herself in conflict with other members of the class upon religious doctrines and this conflict at last developed between herself and her husband. It soon became apparent that a total change had taken place in her religious opinions and her husband became fully persuaded that her mind was diseased. At length two physicians from his church were called in, who, after a brief examination of her mental condition, gave their certificates that she was insane and on the morning of the 18th of June 1860, she was taken to the Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville where she was confined for the space of three years. Her eldest son, Theophilus, upon attaining his majority, applied for her release and she was discharged as incurably insane. Upon reaching her home at Manteno, her husband still regarding her as insane, she was locked up in a room and kept a prisoner for several weeks. At length she discovered that a movement was on foot among the friends of her husband to have her removed to an asylum for the insane in Massachusetts, her native State. She managed to communicate with some friends in the neighborhood and requested them to undertake some legal means to protect her from her husband. Accordingly, legal proceedings were commenced by filing a petition before Judge Starr.
The case was on trial from January 11 to January 18, 1864. At 10 o'clock PM of that day the jury retired for consultation and after an absence of seven minutes, returned into Court. The Court then ordered the Clerk to enter the following order: It is hereby ordered that Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard be relieved from all restraint incompatible with her condition as a sane woman.
Mrs. Packard's subsequent career justified this verdict. In the winter of 1807 she visited the Illinois Legislature and succeeded in securing important legislation upon the subject of the treatment of the insane. One feature of the law was that no person should be confined in an asylum for the insane, except upon the verdict of a jury and this feature of the law remains to this day, although some efforts have been made to repeal it. Mrs. Packard subsequently visited other States and has been very successful in securing remedial legislation for this unhappy class of our fellow beings. She never lived with her husband afterward, but refused to apply for a divorce. Rev. Mr. Packard is still living at Manteno, with relatives, enfeebled in body and mind. The affair here narrated destroyed his usefulness and ended his career as a pastor.
Mrs. Packard has written her experiences and published one or two books on subjects pertaining to insanity, which have had an extensive sale, whereby she has accumulated a fortune of several thousand dollars.
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When Elizabeth's paternal cousin, Angeline Ware Sylvester, lost her parents, she was reared by Elizabeth's parents. Ever after, Elizabeth referred to Angeline as her "adopted sister."
Angeline was later among the very few disbelievers of Elizabeth's purported insanity and upon her release from the state asylum, in Jacksonville, Illinois, Elizabeth resided for a time with Angeline and husband, David Field, in Granville, Illinois.
Cousin & "Sister by Adoption:"
Angeline Ware (Sylvester) Field
Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight by Linda V. Carlisle, published in 2010 by the University of Illinois, states her parents are Rev. Samuel Ware and Mary Tirrill Ware [Mary Tirrill was the mother of her husband, Theophilus Packard]. She was their fifth child and the first to survive infancy.
According to Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, her parents were Rev. Samuel Ware and Lucy Ware.
On May 21, 1839 as Elizabeth P. Ware, she married Theophilus Packard at Deerfield, Massachusetts.
They were the parents of six children.
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday, July 27, 1897
Death Of A Friend Of The Insane
Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard Passes Away in Chicago After a Trip From California
Chicago, July 26. Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard died at the Hahnemann Hospital this morning after an illness of several days. She had been in California three years visiting her son and returned to Chicago Tuesday. En route she was taken ill. After undergoing an operation, she died from intestinal paralysis.
Mrs. Packard was 81 years old. She married Theophilus Packard at Shelburne, Massachusetts in 1839. After twenty-one years of married life she was taken to the insane asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois, where she remained three years. Her mind being fully restored, she determined to devote the rest of her life to working for corrective legislation for the insane. While in the asylum she wrote Modern Persecution: Inane Asylum Invaded, Mystic Key and Great Drama, all along the same line.
Her first work for the insane was found in the law passed in this State allowing the insane to communicate by letter with friends and relatives and providing a trial jury for all insane persons before commitment to the asylum. These two laws she succeeded in having passed by forty-four States. She was also the author of thirty-two other bills in the interest of the insane. Mrs. Packard had lived in Chicago more than twenty years.
Samuel W. Packard (died 1937), an attorney of Chicago, is a son. Theophilus Packard, another son, resides in Pasadena, California, where he is the pastor of the Congregational Church. Another son, Isaac Packard, resides in San Diego, California and still another son, Arthur Packard (died 1937), lives in Avoca, Illinois; Mrs. H.G.C. Gordon of Pasadena is the only daughter.
Politics and Politicians
A Remarkable Incident
Illustrative of the progress of thought and to preserve the record of a most remarkable event in the history of this State, we give place to the following:
In the year 1859 there was living in the town of Manteno, Kankakee County, the Rev. Theophilus Packard, who was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that village. His wife, Elizabeth P. W. Packard, was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Ware, also a Presbyterian clergyman, of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Packard were the parents of six children, all living at home. Up to this time it would appear that peace and harmony had always reigned in the Packard family. But in the winter of 1859 to 1860, Mrs. Packard became a member of the Bible Class of the church and being a lady of culture and education and of strong will, she soon found herself in conflict with other members of the class upon religious doctrines and this conflict at last developed between herself and her husband. It soon became apparent that a total change had taken place in her religious opinions and her husband became fully persuaded that her mind was diseased. At length two physicians from his church were called in, who, after a brief examination of her mental condition, gave their certificates that she was insane and on the morning of the 18th of June 1860, she was taken to the Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville where she was confined for the space of three years. Her eldest son, Theophilus, upon attaining his majority, applied for her release and she was discharged as incurably insane. Upon reaching her home at Manteno, her husband still regarding her as insane, she was locked up in a room and kept a prisoner for several weeks. At length she discovered that a movement was on foot among the friends of her husband to have her removed to an asylum for the insane in Massachusetts, her native State. She managed to communicate with some friends in the neighborhood and requested them to undertake some legal means to protect her from her husband. Accordingly, legal proceedings were commenced by filing a petition before Judge Starr.
The case was on trial from January 11 to January 18, 1864. At 10 o'clock PM of that day the jury retired for consultation and after an absence of seven minutes, returned into Court. The Court then ordered the Clerk to enter the following order: It is hereby ordered that Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard be relieved from all restraint incompatible with her condition as a sane woman.
Mrs. Packard's subsequent career justified this verdict. In the winter of 1807 she visited the Illinois Legislature and succeeded in securing important legislation upon the subject of the treatment of the insane. One feature of the law was that no person should be confined in an asylum for the insane, except upon the verdict of a jury and this feature of the law remains to this day, although some efforts have been made to repeal it. Mrs. Packard subsequently visited other States and has been very successful in securing remedial legislation for this unhappy class of our fellow beings. She never lived with her husband afterward, but refused to apply for a divorce. Rev. Mr. Packard is still living at Manteno, with relatives, enfeebled in body and mind. The affair here narrated destroyed his usefulness and ended his career as a pastor.
Mrs. Packard has written her experiences and published one or two books on subjects pertaining to insanity, which have had an extensive sale, whereby she has accumulated a fortune of several thousand dollars.
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When Elizabeth's paternal cousin, Angeline Ware Sylvester, lost her parents, she was reared by Elizabeth's parents. Ever after, Elizabeth referred to Angeline as her "adopted sister."
Angeline was later among the very few disbelievers of Elizabeth's purported insanity and upon her release from the state asylum, in Jacksonville, Illinois, Elizabeth resided for a time with Angeline and husband, David Field, in Granville, Illinois.
Cousin & "Sister by Adoption:"
Angeline Ware (Sylvester) Field
Age 81 years.
Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight by Linda V. Carlisle, published in 2010 by the University of Illinois, states her parents are Rev. Samuel Ware and Mary Tirrill Ware [Mary Tirrill was the mother of her husband, Theophilus Packard]. She was their fifth child and the first to survive infancy.
According to Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, her parents were Rev. Samuel Ware and Lucy Ware.
On May 21, 1839 as Elizabeth P. Ware, she married Theophilus Packard at Deerfield, Massachusetts.
They were the parents of six children.
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday, July 27, 1897
Death Of A Friend Of The Insane
Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard Passes Away in Chicago After a Trip From California
Chicago, July 26. Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard died at the Hahnemann Hospital this morning after an illness of several days. She had been in California three years visiting her son and returned to Chicago Tuesday. En route she was taken ill. After undergoing an operation, she died from intestinal paralysis.
Mrs. Packard was 81 years old. She married Theophilus Packard at Shelburne, Massachusetts in 1839. After twenty-one years of married life she was taken to the insane asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois, where she remained three years. Her mind being fully restored, she determined to devote the rest of her life to working for corrective legislation for the insane. While in the asylum she wrote Modern Persecution: Inane Asylum Invaded, Mystic Key and Great Drama, all along the same line.
Her first work for the insane was found in the law passed in this State allowing the insane to communicate by letter with friends and relatives and providing a trial jury for all insane persons before commitment to the asylum. These two laws she succeeded in having passed by forty-four States. She was also the author of thirty-two other bills in the interest of the insane. Mrs. Packard had lived in Chicago more than twenty years.
Samuel W. Packard (died 1937), an attorney of Chicago, is a son. Theophilus Packard, another son, resides in Pasadena, California, where he is the pastor of the Congregational Church. Another son, Isaac Packard, resides in San Diego, California and still another son, Arthur Packard (died 1937), lives in Avoca, Illinois; Mrs. H.G.C. Gordon of Pasadena is the only daughter.
Politics and Politicians
A Remarkable Incident
Illustrative of the progress of thought and to preserve the record of a most remarkable event in the history of this State, we give place to the following:
In the year 1859 there was living in the town of Manteno, Kankakee County, the Rev. Theophilus Packard, who was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that village. His wife, Elizabeth P. W. Packard, was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Ware, also a Presbyterian clergyman, of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Packard were the parents of six children, all living at home. Up to this time it would appear that peace and harmony had always reigned in the Packard family. But in the winter of 1859 to 1860, Mrs. Packard became a member of the Bible Class of the church and being a lady of culture and education and of strong will, she soon found herself in conflict with other members of the class upon religious doctrines and this conflict at last developed between herself and her husband. It soon became apparent that a total change had taken place in her religious opinions and her husband became fully persuaded that her mind was diseased. At length two physicians from his church were called in, who, after a brief examination of her mental condition, gave their certificates that she was insane and on the morning of the 18th of June 1860, she was taken to the Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville where she was confined for the space of three years. Her eldest son, Theophilus, upon attaining his majority, applied for her release and she was discharged as incurably insane. Upon reaching her home at Manteno, her husband still regarding her as insane, she was locked up in a room and kept a prisoner for several weeks. At length she discovered that a movement was on foot among the friends of her husband to have her removed to an asylum for the insane in Massachusetts, her native State. She managed to communicate with some friends in the neighborhood and requested them to undertake some legal means to protect her from her husband. Accordingly, legal proceedings were commenced by filing a petition before Judge Starr.
The case was on trial from January 11 to January 18, 1864. At 10 o'clock PM of that day the jury retired for consultation and after an absence of seven minutes, returned into Court. The Court then ordered the Clerk to enter the following order: It is hereby ordered that Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard be relieved from all restraint incompatible with her condition as a sane woman.
Mrs. Packard's subsequent career justified this verdict. In the winter of 1807 she visited the Illinois Legislature and succeeded in securing important legislation upon the subject of the treatment of the insane. One feature of the law was that no person should be confined in an asylum for the insane, except upon the verdict of a jury and this feature of the law remains to this day, although some efforts have been made to repeal it. Mrs. Packard subsequently visited other States and has been very successful in securing remedial legislation for this unhappy class of our fellow beings. She never lived with her husband afterward, but refused to apply for a divorce. Rev. Mr. Packard is still living at Manteno, with relatives, enfeebled in body and mind. The affair here narrated destroyed his usefulness and ended his career as a pastor.
Mrs. Packard has written her experiences and published one or two books on subjects pertaining to insanity, which have had an extensive sale, whereby she has accumulated a fortune of several thousand dollars.
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When Elizabeth's paternal cousin, Angeline Ware Sylvester, lost her parents, she was reared by Elizabeth's parents. Ever after, Elizabeth referred to Angeline as her "adopted sister."
Angeline was later among the very few disbelievers of Elizabeth's purported insanity and upon her release from the state asylum, in Jacksonville, Illinois, Elizabeth resided for a time with Angeline and husband, David Field, in Granville, Illinois.
Cousin & "Sister by Adoption:"
Angeline Ware (Sylvester) Field
Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight by Linda V. Carlisle, published in 2010 by the University of Illinois, states her parents are Rev. Samuel Ware and Mary Tirrill Ware [Mary Tirrill was the mother of her husband, Theophilus Packard]. She was their fifth child and the first to survive infancy.
According to Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, her parents were Rev. Samuel Ware and Lucy Ware.
On May 21, 1839 as Elizabeth P. Ware, she married Theophilus Packard at Deerfield, Massachusetts.
They were the parents of six children.
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday, July 27, 1897
Death Of A Friend Of The Insane
Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard Passes Away in Chicago After a Trip From California
Chicago, July 26. Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard died at the Hahnemann Hospital this morning after an illness of several days. She had been in California three years visiting her son and returned to Chicago Tuesday. En route she was taken ill. After undergoing an operation, she died from intestinal paralysis.
Mrs. Packard was 81 years old. She married Theophilus Packard at Shelburne, Massachusetts in 1839. After twenty-one years of married life she was taken to the insane asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois, where she remained three years. Her mind being fully restored, she determined to devote the rest of her life to working for corrective legislation for the insane. While in the asylum she wrote Modern Persecution: Inane Asylum Invaded, Mystic Key and Great Drama, all along the same line.
Her first work for the insane was found in the law passed in this State allowing the insane to communicate by letter with friends and relatives and providing a trial jury for all insane persons before commitment to the asylum. These two laws she succeeded in having passed by forty-four States. She was also the author of thirty-two other bills in the interest of the insane. Mrs. Packard had lived in Chicago more than twenty years.
Samuel W. Packard (died 1937), an attorney of Chicago, is a son. Theophilus Packard, another son, resides in Pasadena, California, where he is the pastor of the Congregational Church. Another son, Isaac Packard, resides in San Diego, California and still another son, Arthur Packard (died 1937), lives in Avoca, Illinois; Mrs. H.G.C. Gordon of Pasadena is the only daughter.
Politics and Politicians
A Remarkable Incident
Illustrative of the progress of thought and to preserve the record of a most remarkable event in the history of this State, we give place to the following:
In the year 1859 there was living in the town of Manteno, Kankakee County, the Rev. Theophilus Packard, who was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that village. His wife, Elizabeth P. W. Packard, was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Ware, also a Presbyterian clergyman, of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Packard were the parents of six children, all living at home. Up to this time it would appear that peace and harmony had always reigned in the Packard family. But in the winter of 1859 to 1860, Mrs. Packard became a member of the Bible Class of the church and being a lady of culture and education and of strong will, she soon found herself in conflict with other members of the class upon religious doctrines and this conflict at last developed between herself and her husband. It soon became apparent that a total change had taken place in her religious opinions and her husband became fully persuaded that her mind was diseased. At length two physicians from his church were called in, who, after a brief examination of her mental condition, gave their certificates that she was insane and on the morning of the 18th of June 1860, she was taken to the Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville where she was confined for the space of three years. Her eldest son, Theophilus, upon attaining his majority, applied for her release and she was discharged as incurably insane. Upon reaching her home at Manteno, her husband still regarding her as insane, she was locked up in a room and kept a prisoner for several weeks. At length she discovered that a movement was on foot among the friends of her husband to have her removed to an asylum for the insane in Massachusetts, her native State. She managed to communicate with some friends in the neighborhood and requested them to undertake some legal means to protect her from her husband. Accordingly, legal proceedings were commenced by filing a petition before Judge Starr.
The case was on trial from January 11 to January 18, 1864. At 10 o'clock PM of that day the jury retired for consultation and after an absence of seven minutes, returned into Court. The Court then ordered the Clerk to enter the following order: It is hereby ordered that Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard be relieved from all restraint incompatible with her condition as a sane woman.
Mrs. Packard's subsequent career justified this verdict. In the winter of 1807 she visited the Illinois Legislature and succeeded in securing important legislation upon the subject of the treatment of the insane. One feature of the law was that no person should be confined in an asylum for the insane, except upon the verdict of a jury and this feature of the law remains to this day, although some efforts have been made to repeal it. Mrs. Packard subsequently visited other States and has been very successful in securing remedial legislation for this unhappy class of our fellow beings. She never lived with her husband afterward, but refused to apply for a divorce. Rev. Mr. Packard is still living at Manteno, with relatives, enfeebled in body and mind. The affair here narrated destroyed his usefulness and ended his career as a pastor.
Mrs. Packard has written her experiences and published one or two books on subjects pertaining to insanity, which have had an extensive sale, whereby she has accumulated a fortune of several thousand dollars.
~~~~~~~~~~~
When Elizabeth's paternal cousin, Angeline Ware Sylvester, lost her parents, she was reared by Elizabeth's parents. Ever after, Elizabeth referred to Angeline as her "adopted sister."
Angeline was later among the very few disbelievers of Elizabeth's purported insanity and upon her release from the state asylum, in Jacksonville, Illinois, Elizabeth resided for a time with Angeline and husband, David Field, in Granville, Illinois.
Cousin & "Sister by Adoption:"
Angeline Ware (Sylvester) Field
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Mother
Elizabeth P.W. Packard
Born Dec. 29. 1816.
Died July 25. 1897.
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