This wonder-flower of my missed destiny
Grows toward my coming, keeps its bloom for me."
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The Woman's Journal published “An Arab's story,” for a Christmas tale in 1876, which is lengthy. Among her other poems are: “In the Night,” “Genesis,” “The Sculptured Princess” and a “Romance.” When Mrs. Boyd was writing for the Journal her co-laborers were Julia Ward Howe, Louisa M. Alcott and many of the brilliant women of that day.
Mary Vickroy West, like her sister Angeline, has only been a contributor to the current periodicals and to her friends. Recently she recalled to a friend of her youth, one evening when they together had climbed the hill to see the sunset, and closed with this sentiment:
“Oh, do you ever climb that hill
Without me, friend of other days?
And do you feel my presence still
Treading the old familiar ways?
While I afar in visions see
The sun go down beyond the hills
And fancy that you walk with me.
While through our souls the music thrills,
Again the wood-thrush sings, “Good Night.
Sweet sleep, sweet dreams till morning light.”
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Cyrus Elder was a son of Clifford and Rosanna Benford Elder, of Somerset, born there June 16, 1833, the year of the great fire, by which they were burned out and removed to Licking county Ohio. Clifford Elder died there in 1847, whereupon Cyrus and his mother returned to Somerset. At the age of fifteen he went to Philadelphia and remained there until 1855, again returning to Somerset to read law with William J. Baer, subsequently judge of that district, who was in partnership with George W. Benford. He was admitted to the Somerset bar in June, '56, and the day after went to Philadelphia as a delegate without credentials to the Republican national convention which nominated Fremont, and was admitted and participated in its deliberations.
On March 22, 1859, he married Nancy Jane Swank, a daughter of George W. and Nancy Moore Swank of Johnstown. Their family was: Jessie May, who died young; George Reuben, now residing in Easton, Pa., vice-president and general manager of the Ingersoll-Rand Company; Nannie Moore, who with Mrs. Elder was lost in the great flood of 1889; Genevieve C., intermarried with James H. Jowett, residing in New York city; Emily Louise, who died in her infancy; and Cyrus Elder, Jr., residing in Colorado.
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