Matthews, Claude
farmer, legislator, governor, was born Dec. 14, 1845, in Bethel, Ky. He attended the schools in Maysville, Ky., afterward taking the regular course in the Centre college, from which institution he graduated in 1867. In 1868 he married Martha R. Whitcomb, daughter of James Whitcomb, twice governor and United States senator from Indiana. The same year he moved to Indiana, settling on a farm near Clinton, which is still his home. In 1890 he was elected secretary of state; and at the close of his term was elected governor, and was inaugurated Jan. 9, 1893. He had previously served with distinction as a state representative in the Indiana state legislature. He died in September, 1898. MATTHEWS, ELIZABETH KINSEY, educator, was born April 15, 1852, in Smithfield, Ohio. She has attained success in educational work as a training teacher, and was at one time principal of the Des Moines Training School for Teachers. For a period of ten years she taught in the first grade of the public schools of Des Moines, and for seven years was principal in the same schools of the training school. She has established a line of work known as pedagogy by correspondence, in which she has been eminently successful. She is prominent in the Des Moines Women's club; was one of the prime movers in the Woman's Round Table, and its first president.