Lorraine J. Pitkin

[2] At the age of eleven she was sent to Rutland, to attend a young ladies' seminary at that place, where she remained until 1861, when she returned to Illinois.

[2][1] When her widowed mother needed her assistance, she took a position as a clerk in a store, her earnings going towards the maintenance of the family.

He entered the service when the first guns were fired on Fort Sumter, and was appointed colonel and chief Quartermaster of the defense of New Orleans.

An escort brought the remains to the bereaved young widow, and they were taken to the family burying plot in Cleveland, Ohio.

[2] Her report at the session of 1883 held in San Francisco, California, showed the same energy and wise legislation that had characterized her previous work.

Six years passed, and at the Sixth Triennial Session in the city of Indianapolis, in 1889, she was again elected Right Worthy Grand Secretary, which position she filled so efficiently as to receive a re-election in 1892.

In connection with Jennie E. Mathews, Past Most Worthy Grand Matron, she compiled and published a collection of music for chapter use, Gems of Song.

[4][1] On behalf of the O.E.S., she was involved in the World's Congress of Representative Women,[4] which accorded to Pitkin a day given wholly to an O. E. S. program, May 16, 1893.

In 1902, Pitkin was honored by an appointment on the Board of Directors of the World's Fair Fraternal Building Association held in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, and her experience and judgment aided greatly in this work.

She was asked again to lend her aid and presence at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in 1905, where her large acquaintance and Eastern Star knowledge added to its success.

She was also an earnest and devoted member of the Woman's Relief Corps, serving as president of the Illinois organization.