Susan Hayes, 1838-1924 Ward (Attended Wheaton 1853-1855)
biographical statement
Susan Hayes Ward was born in Abington, MA in 1838. She attended Wheaton Seminary from 1853 to 1855, and studied art in Boston, New York, Dresden and Paris. Later she studied at the Women’s Medical College in Boston. She taught at the Berwick Academy, ME; Guilford Institute, CT; and Knox Seminary, Galesburg, IL.
Susan wrote and lectured on home art. She was an art critic for the New York Independent, 1889 - 93 and office editor, 1892 - 98. She also worked in the Home Department of Foreign Missionary Work, and was vice president of the Women’s Board of Missions and was a member of the American Oriental Society. Susan was the author of Sabina Hackett; Christus Hymn; The Green Guess Book; History of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, 1901; and George Hepworth, Preacher, Journalist, Friend of the People, 1903. She edited the Lucy Larcom Memorial Edition of Rushlight in 1894.