Inez Webster and Katharine Bagby
Katharine Bagby
Katharine Bagby's wartime service lasted from August of 1918 to September of 1919. She performed canteen work in France.
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Katharine Bagby's obituary
Katharine Bagby and Pearl Williamson
Inez Webster, a graduate of Lombard College (a local college that was incorporated into Knox College in the wake of the Great Depression) was responsible for the direction of the Polygon orphanage in Leninaken/Alexandrova, Armenia during World War I. A Chicago Tribune article on January 26, 1927 states, "At the Polygon orphanage, in the shadow of Mt. Ararat, are 6,000 waifs whose parents either were massacred by the Turks, deported by the Russians, or imprisoned or starved to death in war, Miss Webster said. These children are totally dependent on American charity." The article went on to say that the majority of the children at the Polygon orphanage were young girls under the age of eleven, and that, according to "Miss Webster," the institution's goal was to give these girls the skills required to be self-sufficient by the time they turned sixteen.
Letter from Inez Webster to Max Goodsill