. . . Anna was born October 19, 1887. Charles and Lydia Bean Cox lived in College Park, a suburb of San Jose, California, and here their two daughters grew up in a redwood shingled house on a large comer lot. The streets, unpaved and without sidewalks, were lined with beautiful poplar trees. Yellow leaves raked into heaps in the autumn made lovely bonfires. There were few homes near them. But the little Friends’ meeting house was less than two blocks down the street. Here Anna and her younger sister, Catharine, learned to sit quietly, and listened to more or less understood words, which they felt deeply and pondered. . . .
. . . She was strong, she was competent, she was concerned. But all this would have been useless without her vision and understanding. She had a sense which told her when a break was due: a picnic, or a dance, or a party. And to such festivals she gave the same degree of commitment that she gave to the most solemn occasions. . . .
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This is the story of Anna Brinton. The nucleus of the material used in this pamphlet was dictated by Anna Brinton in 1963, and has been supplemented by her written reports to the American Friends Service Committee from Tokyo in 1952-54. To these have been added the reminiscences of her sister, Catharine Cox Miles, and of Howard Brinton.
The author is also grateful for material contributed by friends, much of which was presented at the Memorial Services held at Twelfth Street Meeting House and at Pendle Hill.
