"Miss Howland Dies Following Heart Attack - Isabel Howland, of Sherwood, member of one of Cayuga County's most distinguished families, died on Friday night at Phillips House, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following a heart attack suffered last Friday while visiting Boston. The Howland family has been traditionally one of the most respected in this part of the country and its benefactions have ranged far and near. In Freeville Howland Cottage is a gift of the family to the George Junior Republic, in Sherwood the fine rural school is named after the late Emily Howland. In Auburn the Women's Educational and Industrial Union has been aided by the Misses Howland. Other institutions have regularly received held [help?] in past years also. Isabel Howland was 83 years old and was the daughter of William and Hannah Howland. She was a graduate of Cornell University and lived all her life in Sherwood."

-- Thomas Tryniski (scan), Roger Post (transcriber), Miss Howland Dies Following Heart Attack (King Ferry, Genoa, Cayuga Co., NY, Southern Cayuga Tribune and The Genoa Tribune, Friday, 11 December 1942), Old Fulton New York Post Cards https://www.fultonhistory.com/

"Isabel Howland 'A Memorial' - A life whose radiance and sympathy had become a part of the community was commemorated in a simple service held at her home at Sherwood, N. Y., at 10:00 o'clock on Wednesday morning. The house was filled with her neighbors, with friends and relatives from Catskill and Buffalo, from Syracuse and from New York. Mr. Reyonlds [Reynolds?] of the Poplar Ridge Friends' Church read the service and the prayers, and spoke of the happy closing of 'Opendore,'--the name of Miss Isabel Howland's home--as typifying the whole spirit and expression of her life; the eager sympathy, the unfailing hospitality, the wise understanding that were the natural expression of her mind and personality. The acts of kindness, the deeds of generosity, the hours of remembered friendship are literally countless in this community. The school founded by her aunt Emily, the curio rooms, the library established by her mother and herself, the whole atmosphere of Sherwood had come to be an expression of her life interests near her home. A graduate of Cornell University in 1881, she had served on its board of trustees. She was active in all educational activities, in all forward movements. She was at one time secretary to Julia Ward Howe in the woman's suffrage leadership. She had travelled much and widely--she had seen the African deserts and had lived for some years in Paris. But through all these wider contacts with people and affairs, she never forgot the needs and the ideal of her home neighborhood. It was a beautiful life whose passing has left us with a continuing heritage of kindness, and a continuing eagerness to serve our fellow men. Nothing seems more fitting to her memory than these verses of Lowell:

'She doeth little kindnesses

Which most leave undone or despise,

For naught that sets one heart at ease,

Or bringeth happiness or peace

is low-esteemed in her eyes.'

-- Thomas Tryniski (scan), Roger Post (transcriber), Isabel Howland 'A Memorial' (King Ferry, Genoa, Cayuga Co., NY, Southern Cayuga Tribune and The Genoa Tribune, Friday, 11 December 1942), Old Fulton New York Post Cards https://www.fultonhistory.com/