Catherine Anne Warfield at the age of sixteen, Catherine married Robert Elisha Warfield, a son of the prominent Lexington, Kentucky physician and Thoroughbred breeder, Elisha Warfield. The couple settled in his Kentucky home, where they had six children together. After their mother's death, the sisters next suffered the death in 1844 of their half-sister Mary Jane Ellis LaRoche (who appeared to have suffered from post-partum depression and lingering mental illness for several years) and later their half-brother Thomas Ellis. After Eleanor died of yellow fever in 1849, Warfield ceased writing for several years, as she was stricken with depression. In the 1830s, Catherine
Jane Anne Russell Jane Anne Russell Jane Anne Russell (also called Jane Anne Russell Wilhelmi, 1911–1967) was an endocrinologist. She researched pituitary extract. Russell graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, California, in 1928, as the second best student in her class. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree at University of California Berkeley, and graduated in 1932 as first in her class. She was awarded the California Fellowship in Biochemistry in 1934 and the Rosenburg Fellowship in 1935. Russell's PhD studies were at the Institute of Experimental Biology at the University of California, focusing on the study of pituitary hormones in carbohydrate