This is a transcription of the Clara Louise (Hills) Wason biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 247.
Clara Louise (Hills) Wason
CLARA LOUISE WASON was born in New Boston, and was the only daughter of Sydney and Louisa (Trull) Hills. Her early education was obtained in the country district schools, and was supplemented by a course at Appleton academy, New Ipswich. When a school girl she developed a taste for music, and after leaving the academy she was a student of music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and became an excellent singer. In September, 1863, she married Hon. George A. Wason, and lived upon a farm in her native town until 1885, when she and her husband removed to Nashua, where they have since resided. For four years Mrs. Wason was Ceres of the New Hampshire State Grange, and has always been a devoted and conscientious worker in this order, and many religious and missionary societies. She is a woman of culture, and possesses rare foresight into the future, keenly observing the problems of the day, and doing whatever she undertakes with vigor and dispatch. Her life has been one of activity, and her influence for the right. Her example and accomplishments may well be pointed out as the achievement of a self-made woman, She has three sons: Edward H. Wason, a well-known lawyer in Nashua, George B., one of the firm of Wason, Pierce & Co., Boston, Mass., and Robert S., a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.