In November 1884, at the age of three, Edith arrived in Beirut, Syria (today Lebanon) with her parents. Her father taught medicine at the Syrian Protestant College there for the next five years, although the family recrossed the ocean to visit the U.S. at intervals. While living in Beirut Edith contracted smallpox and another serious illness (diphtheria? typhoid?) from which she suffered the effects for the rest of her life.
After returning to the U.S. for good, the family settled in Dr. Fisher's hometown of Warsaw, New York. They lived there from 1890 to 1896, then in Healdsburg, California 1896-1897; then Edith and her parents and brother lived in Elmira, New York at the Gleason Sanitarium located at 1019 East Avenue. Edith and her parents would remain based there until the late 1920's.
Edith attended Elmira College for three years followed by a senior year at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she graduated with an A.B. degree on June 23, 1903. She did graduate work at the University of Chicago (1903-1904) and then earned a B.S. degree in agriculture from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1913. Perhaps having been inspired by her Uncle Albert Shaw's experimental farm in Loudon County, Virginia, Edith had hoped at that point to become a farmer, but never realized her ambition.
She remained unmarried all of her life. She lived with her parents and was a comfort to them in their old age. She moved with them in their retirement, first to Ithaca, New York, and then to Claremont, California. In California she was a patron of the student artists at the local colleges and was a benefactor of her church, The Claremont Church, at 233 West Fifth Street. After her parents died, "Aunt E" moved to 1755 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio to be near her brother and his family. She died in a Columbus hospital not long after suffering a stroke in her apartment.
After returning to the U.S. for good, the family settled in Dr. Fisher's hometown of Warsaw, New York. They lived there from 1890 to 1896, then in Healdsburg, California 1896-1897; then Edith and her parents and brother lived in Elmira, New York at the Gleason Sanitarium located at 1019 East Avenue. Edith and her parents would remain based there until the late 1920's.
Edith attended Elmira College for three years followed by a senior year at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she graduated with an A.B. degree on June 23, 1903. She did graduate work at the University of Chicago (1903-1904) and then earned a B.S. degree in agriculture from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1913. Perhaps having been inspired by her Uncle Albert Shaw's experimental farm in Loudon County, Virginia, Edith had hoped at that point to become a farmer, but never realized her ambition.
She remained unmarried all of her life. She lived with her parents and was a comfort to them in their old age. She moved with them in their retirement, first to Ithaca, New York, and then to Claremont, California. In California she was a patron of the student artists at the local colleges and was a benefactor of her church, The Claremont Church, at 233 West Fifth Street. After her parents died, "Aunt E" moved to 1755 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio to be near her brother and his family. She died in a Columbus hospital not long after suffering a stroke in her apartment.
In November 1884, at the age of three, Edith arrived in Beirut, Syria (today Lebanon) with her parents. Her father taught medicine at the Syrian Protestant College there for the next five years, although the family recrossed the ocean to visit the U.S. at intervals. While living in Beirut Edith contracted smallpox and another serious illness (diphtheria? typhoid?) from which she suffered the effects for the rest of her life.
After returning to the U.S. for good, the family settled in Dr. Fisher's hometown of Warsaw, New York. They lived there from 1890 to 1896, then in Healdsburg, California 1896-1897; then Edith and her parents and brother lived in Elmira, New York at the Gleason Sanitarium located at 1019 East Avenue. Edith and her parents would remain based there until the late 1920's.
Edith attended Elmira College for three years followed by a senior year at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she graduated with an A.B. degree on June 23, 1903. She did graduate work at the University of Chicago (1903-1904) and then earned a B.S. degree in agriculture from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1913. Perhaps having been inspired by her Uncle Albert Shaw's experimental farm in Loudon County, Virginia, Edith had hoped at that point to become a farmer, but never realized her ambition.
She remained unmarried all of her life. She lived with her parents and was a comfort to them in their old age. She moved with them in their retirement, first to Ithaca, New York, and then to Claremont, California. In California she was a patron of the student artists at the local colleges and was a benefactor of her church, The Claremont Church, at 233 West Fifth Street. After her parents died, "Aunt E" moved to 1755 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio to be near her brother and his family. She died in a Columbus hospital not long after suffering a stroke in her apartment.
After returning to the U.S. for good, the family settled in Dr. Fisher's hometown of Warsaw, New York. They lived there from 1890 to 1896, then in Healdsburg, California 1896-1897; then Edith and her parents and brother lived in Elmira, New York at the Gleason Sanitarium located at 1019 East Avenue. Edith and her parents would remain based there until the late 1920's.
Edith attended Elmira College for three years followed by a senior year at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she graduated with an A.B. degree on June 23, 1903. She did graduate work at the University of Chicago (1903-1904) and then earned a B.S. degree in agriculture from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1913. Perhaps having been inspired by her Uncle Albert Shaw's experimental farm in Loudon County, Virginia, Edith had hoped at that point to become a farmer, but never realized her ambition.
She remained unmarried all of her life. She lived with her parents and was a comfort to them in their old age. She moved with them in their retirement, first to Ithaca, New York, and then to Claremont, California. In California she was a patron of the student artists at the local colleges and was a benefactor of her church, The Claremont Church, at 233 West Fifth Street. After her parents died, "Aunt E" moved to 1755 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio to be near her brother and his family. She died in a Columbus hospital not long after suffering a stroke in her apartment.
