Mrs. Edward Woolman, 1873-1968

Mrs. Edward Woolman 1873-1968 Pr HE Genealogical Society reports with sorrow the death on 27 January 1968, of Mrs. Edward Woolman, a Life Member and an Honorary Vice President of the Society. Born Lilian Estelle Whitman on 21 May 1873, she was the daughter of Horace Franklin Whitman of Philadelphia and his wife Ida Susanna Cox, and a granddaughter of Stephen French Whitman, founder of Stephen F. Whitman and Son, Inc. Educated at Friends' Central School, she married first, at St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, West Philadelphia, on 17 October 1901, judge Henry Jefferson McCarthy, who died 21 July 1903. She married secondly, on 27 1st month 1910, Edward Woolman, born 4 12th month 1871, who died 11 March 1960. Mr. and Mrs. '37oolman are both buried at Friends' Southwestern Burying Ground, Delaware County. Elected to Life Membership in the Genealogical Society 18 October 1920, Mrs. Woolman became a member of the Society's Associate Committee of Women in 1934, and from 1935 to 1940 was its Corresponding Secretary. On 23 March 1940, she was elected Chairman of the Associate Committee, and in 1960 was its Honorary Chairman. From 1943 to 1952 she also was Corresponding Secretary of the Genealogical Society, and from 1952 until 1961 on the Society's Board of Directors. In the latter year she was made Honorary Vice President. The wide scope of her other interests is attested by the life memberships she held in many other organizations, such as the American Red Cross, the Swedish-Colonial Society (she was a descendant of Oelle Swanson), the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Academy of Natural Sciences. In addition, she was on the Board of Trustees of the White-Williams Foundation, and of the Seamens' Church Institute, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Mrs. Woolman is survived by an only daughter, Mrs. Leon Ambler Shearer, the former Lydia Rowland Woolman, to whom the Society extends its deep sympathy and regret at the passing of a valued member. =1■1•11■MIE 195