where she served for 50 years as Secretary of the Department of Massachusetts, and was also the organization's National Press Correspondent, 1908.

[2] From 1867 to 1885, she was active in temperance work, giving addresses in many places in Massachusetts and having a wide acquaintance with workers in the cause in other States.

[a] This was a so-called independent organization, conducting its work on local lines only, until May 1892, when it united with the Department of Massachusetts, and was reorganized on a broader basis.

[2] She participated in all the National Conventions since 1883, and in the performance of this duty, traveled in nearly all the States and Territories of the Union.

[2] For 20 years, she was a regular contributor to the military department of The Boston Globe, and wrote extensively upon woman's patriotic efforts.

She prepared but did not publish a book giving historical and biographical data concerning the men in whose honor the posts of the G.A.R.

[2] Elliot was an officer of the Ladies' Aid Association of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts, and her name was on its first roll of membership.

Mary E. Elliot died in Somerville, November 7, 1942,[6] and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, in Everett, Massachusetts.