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SOME FACTS ABOUT ADELAIDE HOODLESS AND ERLAND LEE ‘0 Adelaide Hunter Headless was born on February 27, 1857 at what is new the Adelaide Headless Homestead, at St. George, Ontario. She attended school in St. George. On September 15, 1881 she married John Headless, of Hamilton. Mr. Headless manufactured and sold furniture, so Hrs. Hoodless's home from the time of her marriage on was in a large, comfortable house called "Eastwood", in Hamilton. There were four children in the Headless home: Edna. Clerksm, who married a Mr. Bostvdck; Joseph Bernard; Muriel Adelaide; and John Harold, who died at the age of eighteen months. Mrs. Headless died on February 28, 1910 while making a speech in Toronto Soon after her marriage, Mrs. Headless became interested in the Hamilton Young Women‘s Christian Association and through it started classes for teaching Household Science for girls. She was active in helping to found the National Council of Women. the Victorian Order of Nurses, and the Lillian Massey Sch001 for Home Economics at the University of Toronto. She persuaded Sir William Macdonald, a millionaire tobacco manufacturer from Montreal, to give money for the erection of Ilacdonald Institute at Guelph University. In 1897, Mrs. Hoodless was invited by l-Lr. Erlend Lee, secretary of the South Mentworth Farmer's Institute, to speak at a Ladies' Night meeting of the Farmer‘s Institute at St ey Greek. In the course of her address, Mrs. Headless suggested that it would ‘vc tfierful for women to haVe an organization through which they could study things pertaining to hamemaking. Mr. Lee was interested in this idea and a meeting was arranged for February 19, 1897. At this meeting the First Women's Institute was organized. Mrs. Headless was a brilliant Speaker and travelled widely, promoting the teacl‘xii'n; of Home Economics, not only in Canada but in the United States and Great iritain. Mr. Erland Lee was born Mav 3, 1861+ and died June 29, 1926. He lived all of his life on the farm now lmown as the Lee Homestead, about two wiles east of Stoney Creek. Mr. Lee attended the lee school which had been built on the Lee farm, the I'Jaterdmm High School, and the Hamilton Collegiate Institute. He made a living by farming and was particularly interested in a special line of Jersey cattle. fancy dairy butter, maple. syrup and fruit. He was secretaryâ€"treasurer for Saltfleet [agricultural Society for twelve years and Clerk and Treasurer of Saltfleet Township for many years. he secretary of the Farmer99 Institute of South Wentworth County he attended a meeting of the Ebcperimcntal Union at the Ontario Agricultural COJlege at Guelph. Here Mr.. Lee heard Mrs. Headless of Hamilton address an almost entirely male audience. He was so impressed by Mrs. Headless and her plea. for theteaching of Household Science to girls in schools that he invited her to speak at the Ladies' Night of the Farmer‘s Institute at Stoney Creek. Erland Lee married Janet Chisholm, a school teacher from Hamilton, and they had fiVe children - Marjorie, Hilda, Gordon, Frank, and Alice. «9 Oct. 2h/68/EF'