She was among the pioneering five hundred Thomasites who landed on the shores of the Philippines in August 1901 on board the United States Army Transport Thomas.
She wrote journals and letters to her relatives in the U.S. while in the Philippines, mostly to an aunt and a cousin named Katie.
Her journals, letters and photographs are now deposited at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College.
[1][2][3][4] While in the Philippines, Philinda Rand married a fellow American and another Thomasite, Thaddeus Delos Anglemyer.
She served on local welfare and education committees, worked as a substitute teacher in public schools, and was active in youth and environmental conservation organizations.