Catharine (Frazee) Lindsay (1848-1922) was the wife of Dr. Vachel Thomas Lindsay and the mother of Olive Catharine (Lindsay) Wakefield, a missionary in China; poet Vachel Lindsay; Joy (Lindsay) Blair; and three daughters who died in childhood. A graduate of Glendale Female College in Glendale, Ohio, she taught there and at Hocker Female College in Lexington, Ky., before marrying in 1876 and moving to Springfield, Ill. A leading figure in the religious, literary, and intellectual life of Springfield, she was active in many women's clubs, and, for many years, was president of the Woman's Missionary Society of her church. In 1892 she organized the Woman's Missionary Social Union, an organization uniting the efforts of evangelical missionary societies throughout the city. A delegate to the World Missionary Congress held in Scotland in 1910, Lindsay also wrote for a number of religious papers and lectured widely. Her interests were wide-ranging, however, with her speeches and essays on such varied topics as the equal education of men and women, woman's right to preach publicly, and Jews in the United States. She took a number of trips abroad, to Europe, China, and Japan, and, in 1920, to England with her son Vachel where they met many leading literary figures.
From the description of Papers, 1855-1993 (inclusive), 1855-1941 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122387567
