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[[page number]] 20 [[/page number]] MRS. IDA L. GARNETT.

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MRS. IDA L. GARNETT.

Mrs. IDA L. GARNETT (DRAKE) is among the early graduates of Lincoln Institute who has had time to demonstrate the strength or weakness of the foundation laid here at the first school she ever attended. She boasts of the fact that she never attended a public school before entering Lincoln Institute.
She was graduated from this institution in 1879.
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MRS. IDA L. GARNETT. [[page number]] 21 [[/page number]]

She supplemented her training by taking studies at Oberlin College, Ohio. Since that time she has been engaged in public service. She taught at Lebanon, Missouri, for one year. The next year she was elected at Sedalia, Lebanon and Jefferson City. She preferred and accepted the latter. For several years she taught here and ceased to teach only when she accepted the position of life-mate to Prof. J.H. Garnett, whose song of love she heard at Oberlin.
Going to Seguin, Texas, where her husband was president of the Guadelupe Baptist College, and exhibiting such qualities and personality as in the judgment of the school board were necessary to make a helpful teacher, she was elected to teach instrumental and vocal music and to perform the duties of matron in that institution.
When her husband was elected president of the State Normal at Louisville, Kentucky, she was elected principal of the intermediate department of the same school.
At the Houston (Texas) Academy, where her husband was president, she was again elected to act as matron and to teach.
When in the course of events her husband was elected to teach ancient languages at Lincoln Institute, and she could not longer serve him as helpmate in the schoolroom, she gave her services to the Baptist Sunday-school and church as organist.
Mrs. Garnett has written several noteworthy articles for public audiences, among which were those written upon the following subjects: "Achievements of Wo-
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