Isabel Stevens Lathrop

[2] She studied music in New York City, in Belgium, and as a student of Jean de Reszke in Paris.

Lathrop wrote Musical Dates for Little Pates (1912), which was describes as "funny jingles and rhymes" for teaching the alphabet.

[5] During World War I, Lathrop was a founder and president of the American Fund for French Wounded in 1914, and chaired the organization's Paris depot, which was housed in a former music hall.

[6] Her written request to the American Red Cross for supplies in 1916 was reprinted in the New York Times: "We have never had such demands on us for cotton and bandages &c. The fighting at Verdun has been so fierce and so persistent we have had a veritable house cleaning.

[14] Letters written by Isabel Stevens Lathrop to a donor during her Paris work are in the American Fund for French Wounded collection, Yale University Library.