Excerpt from The Quaker, 1916-1917, Vol. 3: An Annual Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, oldest daughter of Dr. Nereus Mendenhall and Orianna Wilson Mendenhall, was born at jamestown, North Caro lina, in 1852. Her father, Dr. Mendenhall, was one of Guilford County's great men and a distinguished citizen of the State; her mother a woman of excellent parts and rare culture. From them and from her early training under their immediate supervision Mrs. Hobbs received those traits of gentle firmness and broad sympathies so characteristic of her in all her work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.