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Caroline
Neville Pearre
"Miss Callie," as she was called in auld langsyne, began the voyage of life near Clarksville, Tenn., April 15, 1831, and in infancy was brought by her parents to Mackinaw, Ill. After Walnut Grove Academy was started she spent several terms in it as student, also as teacher.
| Then after teaching about sixteen years, chiefly in Columbia, Mo., and Harrodsburg, Ky., she was married in 1869 to Dr. S. E, Pearre, and became a most efficient associate in his ministerial work.
Hers was a strongly missionary spirit, and in 1874, while living in Iowa City,
Ia., she developed the idea of enlisting the sisterhood of the Church of Christ in systematic effort for the spread of the Gospel. With the encouragement and assistance that she received from the editors of the Christian Standard and the Christian-Evangelist, and a few others, she planned a convention to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in October of that year.
About seventy-five women responded to her call, and under her leadership organized the Christian Woman's Board of Missions, which has proved a mighty power for good in many ways.
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She always loved young people. Long she was accustomed to lead them, especially in their literary and social training. She loves them yet, but though no longer associated with them in the school-room, from her quiet home in Irvington, Ind., she still holds sweet and helpful communion with them through the Young People's Standard.
Hers is the graceful pen of a ready writer. Long may she wield it.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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