Edith Hamilton was 7 when her father, a Fort Wayne, Ind., wholesale grocer, introduced her to the study of Latin. Edith’s parents were disenchanted with their mid-19th-century public schools, ...
Yet the majority of northeast Indiana residents have not even heard of Alice Hamilton, Edith's younger sister who, like Edith, lived in Fort Wayne in the 1880s. She was a highly educated physician who ...