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Part of In Memoriam - Rachel Lloyd, Ph.D.

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and her choice of words was excellent, She occasionally gave
public papers or addresses on subjects not chemical. I recall
one of given papers before a Browning Club and another before
the Hayden Art Club

In regard to her own life and affairs, Mrs. Lloyd was very
reticent. Few of her friends here knew as much of her life
history as Acting Chancellor Bessey gave in his chapel talk a
short time since

During the summer of ’g2 she went as the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Weeks to the Black Hills. While there she was stricken
ith paralysis from which I think she never recovered fully.
She iad an unusually strong will and was determined not to
give up. During the two years which followed she bravely
fought the physical weakness, but finally she was obliged to
succumb. She spent the first year after leaving Nebraska in
Hillside, Wisconsin, where she taught science in a small private
school. Since then she has spent most of her time with friends
in Massachusetts, New York, and near Philadelphia. She died
at the home of her friend Mrs. Scattergood in Beverly, New
Jersey, her old paralytic trouble having returned with renewed
cnerg

Dr. Lloyd was a woman of unusual ability, By means of
thorough scientific training and hard work she attained for her-
self a place in the scientific world above that ordinarily reached
by woman. She was one of the first American women to take
a Ph.D. in a foreign university. Prof. Mabery, of Harvard,
pronounced her the best woman chemist in this country at the
time of her appointment in this university. Her name, by the
way, appears with Prof. Mabery’s on the result of the * Study
of Certain Acrylic Acids.” She was a member of the German
Chem. Gesellschaft as well as of the American Chemical Society,

Above and beyond her intellectual attainments she had a
kind hand, a loving nature and a large heart. ‘To me the mem
ory of Dr. Lloyd’s life is full of valuable lessons. I am thank.
ful that it was my privilege to know her intimately.

Mrs. Lloyd was devoted to her professional and













































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