erm of officers, Mrs.
Terrell could not be re-elected president, she was made
Honorary President.

She has twice been invited to address the National Woman
Suffrage Association at its annual convention in Washington.
Her public utterances have always made a profound impression
on her hearers and no speakers associated with her have
received more applause from audiences or higher praise from
the public press than herself. Not many years ago when
Congress, by resolution granted power to the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia to appoint two women on the
Board of Education for the public schools, Mrs. Terrell was
one of the women appointed. She served in the board for five
years with great success and signal ability.

Mrs. Terrell is the only woman who has ever held the office
of President of the Bethel Literary and Historical
Association at Washington, the foremost and oldest Lyceum
established and controlled by colored people in America. Her
splendid work as presiding officer of this organization had
much to do with her other subsequent success in attaining
similar positions in other bodies of deliberation.

Mrs. Terrell's life has been an interesting one. She was
born in Memphis, Tenn., of well-to-do parents.

She graduated at Oberlin College in 1884 with the degree of
A. B. In 1888 she received the degree of A. M. from Oberlin.
She was for a while a teacher at Wilberforce University at
Xenia, Ohio. In 1887 she was appointed teacher of languages
in the Colored High School at Washington. She went abroad
for further study and travel in 1888 and remained in Europe
two years, spending the time in France, Switzerland, Germany
and Italy. She resumed her work in Washington in 1890. In
1891 she was offered the registrarship of Oberlin College,
being the first woman of her race to whom such a position
was ever tendered by an institution so widely known and of
such high standard. This place was declined because of her
approaching marriage. In 1891 she was married to Mr. Robert
H. Terrell, who is a graduate of Howard College and who was
recently appointed by President Roosevelt to a Federal
Judgeship in the District of Columbia, being one of the two
colored men first to receive this high distinction. Mrs.
Terrell has a da