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g camp that was Silver City and assisted at the first operation there. She saw that seed grow into the fine Silver City General Hospital, and it was there 63 years later that she was taken in her final illness to die at the age of 90 after a lifetime of accomplishments. I first met Mrs. Wright, the other member of this famous duo of pioneers in 1890. In that year I had finished the one-room school at Lordsburg, and with my sister was sent to school in Silver City, where I had been told the school superintendent was M. R. Koehler. I had expected to find a man in charge, but it was a woman who took me in hand — a most attractive woman — tall, blue eyes, brown hair, of magnetic personality, with an en- veloping interest in others. I afterwards learned that she used the mascu- line signature and adopted the masculine attitude in order to emphasize her responsibility as school superintendent. Woman’s place at that time was where man, not her abilities, put her. Elizabeth Warren and Miss Koehler refused to accept the shibboleth that it was a man’s world. They made a place for themselves — and a name for themselves — competing with men.