Ellen Burritt Souther taught twenty years in the public schools in Wisconsin. She says that she always looked upon her obligation to the children under her care in regard to their morals and manners as of equal importance with their intellectual culture and saw good results. After her marriage she was President of the School Board in Mauston twelve years until failing health compelled her resignation. She was always a strenuous worker in the temperance cause. She says that her best work has been in sending out into the world two daughters with high ideals and fitted for better work for humanity than their mother (The family of Blackleach Burritt Jr.)