Born: Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 25, 1859.
Died: Grand Rapids, Micigan, March 23, 1941.

Anna Robison Atwater was the fourth one of the five children of Decker D. and Harriet Young Robison. Born on a farm in Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 25, 1859. Her uncle, Dr. J. P. Robison, was a prominent preacher in the early work of the Disciples of Christ in Ohio. In her childhood five families of her mother's family filled as many pews regularly in the old Bedford Church. The children all came into the church before fourteen years of age. She made the confession at thirteen, during the pastorate of Bro. Robert Moffett, in a meeting held by William Baxter.

Her father died when she was but four years old, and her mother when she was twelve. The children had been brought up to believe that they must have an education. All had some college training; four graduated at Hiram College. Anna graduated in 1882. The next six years she was principal of the high school at Bryan, Ohio. For two years, which were intended for a vacation, she did substitute teaching in Mansfield, Ohio , and some Christian Woman's Board of Missions organizing, returning to Bryan at the end of that time for two more years as high school principal.

June 30, 1892, she was married to J. M. Atwater. For five years she taught with him in Oskaloosa (Iowa ) College, and for one year in the Central Christian College, Missouri. It was in this last work that Bro. Atwater's health failed, and both had to abandon the work. The winter of 1898-99 was spent in North Carolina. The following spring they returned to Cleveland, Ohio, for medical aid, but were disappointed in this, and here Bro. Atwater died, January 17, 1900. Sister Atwater soon went to make her home with her sister, Mrs. Robinette, of Macedonia Depot, Ohio, bringing back her church letter to the old Bedford Church. She was made president of the Ohio Christian Woman's Board of Missions in 1901, and devotes much of her time to that work. She hopes some time to return to her much-loved work of teaching. Sister Atwater has a large circle of friends wherever she has been, who remember her but to love her. She is an active Christian worker, and believes that God has no place for a lazy Christian. At home in the classroom, and equal to the occasion in Christian Woman's Board of Missions work and in lecturing, as "The CoIlege Girl" abundantly proves, makes her one of the useful women of the age.

L. C. WILSON.