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Note: Graduate of Gorham Normal School in 1887. Taught in Buxton and Gorham, ME and was assistant to her husband when he was Principal of The West Farmington Grammar School. Was appointed Franklin County Agent for the Protection of Children in 1916, and in 1918 was Superintendent of Schools in the Monmouth-Litchfield, West Gardiner and Wales Union. She was a State Reagent of Daughters of the American Revolution and dedicated the DAR memorial at the Cathedral Pines, Eustis, Me. She was a past president of the Women's Republican Club, of the Auxillary Unit of Thaddeus Roderick Post, A. L. and of the Opportunity Circle of the Old South Church, and a Past Noble Grand of Merrill Rebekah Lodge, all Farmington organizations. She was also president of the Farmington Chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and was an adamant prohibitionist (although her husband was known to have a drink now and then). She ran her home (the old Belcher homestead) as a boarding house to make ends meet after her husband had died and the family fortune in stocks had been lost.
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