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the management of public affairs. Her first public work here was in connection with the Wither's Public
Library as a trustee, and in 1894 she was elected its president, which office she filled for three years, later serving as secretary of the same. Sanders became actively interested in the Girls' Industrial home of McLean county for the care of dependent and defenseless girls, serving as president for three years. In April 1898, Sander was elected a member of the Bloomington board of education.
355:. She recommended the certificate of service for the army nurses of the Civil War, and was afterward appointed by the national president to prepare a design for the same, which was adopted and issued by the national order. She was one of the board of incorporators of the National Woman's Relief Corps Home. In 1890 and 1891, she served as national instituting and installing officer. In the national convention in
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the month before. On her return, she published a journal of her travels. In
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hanging over her desk. One day, she returned to her schoolroom to find it broken from its staff and lying upon the floor. She gathered it up and nailed it to the wall. It hung there the rest of the term. That was the first flag-raising in a public school. Ever since that day, she advocated the
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Delavan Homestead Building & Loan Association. The couple had four children: Augusta (died in infancy in 1870) Harold Pike Sanders (1871â1957), Royal Woodson Sanders (1873â1936), and Bernadine M. (1878-1894).
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Sanitary Aid Society of McLean County, from 1861 to 1866. She was a member of the board of trustees of the Deaconess Hospital, a member of the
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