Lyna Metcalfe Souther

Lyna was born Oct. 14, 1880, in Alton, Illinois, daughter of Charles Dennison Chase and Grace Metcalfe. She married Latham Timothy Souther, December 8, 1903, at St. Louis, Missouri. Their children were:

Nancy Grace Souther

Mary Louise Souther

Tlizabeth Latham Souther, married Thaddeus Southwick Stevens

Howard Chase Souther

Margaret Chase (Polly) Souther

She attended Monticello Seminary at Godfrey, Illinois, 1895-98, as did her mother and grandmother before her as well as her daughter, Elizabeth.

She deserves equal credit with her husband Latham for saving the Elijah Iles House by moving it and making it their home in 1910.

She was a good friend of world-renowned Springfield poet Vachel Lindsay, and entertained him at her home at least once around 1920. The documentary evidence of this friendship is found in a note from the poet to Lyna inscribed in a volume by Ralph Adams Cram entitled Walled Towns.

She was a founding member of the Springfield Art Association and participated in the creation of Springfield's municipal flag. She was an accomplished landscape artist and the elder sibling of two important American artists, Frank Swift Chase and Edward Leigh Chase.