This is a transcription of the Adelaide (Cilley) Waldron 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 243.

Adalaide (Cillley) Waldron

THE daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Plumer Cilley, Mrs. Waldron, was born in her father’s pastorate in Manchester. Early removal to Boston, Mass., caused her to be educated almost wholly in that city, through schools, private tutors, and the paternal study full of books. To descent from the well known Plumers and Cilleys, she adds that from Frosts, Sherburnes, and Pepperells of colonial note, through her mother, formerly Miss A. A. Haines, a favorite preceptress in the Parsonsfield, Me., and Strafford Academics. She is a charter member of the D. A. R., a state officer of the W. C. T. U., belongs to the club of N. H. D., the N. E. W. P. A., and the Pascataqua Congregational Club. Her marriage to John Waldron, Esq., of Farmington, took place in 1871, and of their two daughters the elder, Adelaide Cecil, survives. Since her first poem appeared, in Lippincott’s Magazine, while she lived in North Carolina, her work has been printed in many periodicals, from Harper’s Magazine to first-class daily papers, and by publishers of holiday books. Mrs. Waldron, lacking the aggressiveness of many less gifted, is a woman of unusual abilities and most versatile talent, writing well always, whether in verse for special occasion, a hymn, a strong sonnet, a story for children, letters for newspapers, or articles carefully compiled for educational and historical journals. She craves the best in everything,-—music, art, literature, life,-—yet never refuses tasks incident to a country home. With a splendid ancestry of gallant soldiers, her record is the bravest of them all, for with the exquisitely sensitive temperament of a true poet and accomplished musician, yet handicapped in many ways, she battles patiently where others would lose courage. Full of kindly thoughts and gentle humor, sincere to the core, a working club woman, a faithful friend, as a writer never lowering her standard for popularity or pay, true always to her highest ideals, she is an honor to New Hampshire, and a constant delight to those who know her best.