[1] Like her sister Katherine, she spent most of her life taking care of their aging mother.
[2] After the death of her father in 1895, together with her sister Agnes attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1898 to 1900 studying under Cecilia Beaux.
[2] She then went back living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and focused on portraits in pastel, landscapes in watercolor, as well as etchings.
Her work was also displayed at the travelling Society of Western Artists Annual Exhibition.
[1] She died on May 3, 1960, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and is buried with her family at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne.