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Impressive Women:  Ida Matthews Iddings

Ida Matthews Iddings, shown here in 1890, grew up in Howard County and in 1891 married Dr. Charles Moore Iddings. They lived at Stone Valley House in Brookeville, where her husband practiced both as physician and dentist. There they brought up four children, Hallie Iddings, Mary Louise, Katherine Griffith, and Ruth Matthews. She died in 1942 in her Brookeville home by the mill stream.