DescriptionReceipt to Mrs. Albert Blood for lessons in dancing for one term from February 2-April 20, 1893 from Miss Ada Louise Dow, Dr. Wyoming, NJ, P.O. Box, Millburn, NJ. Receipt contains handwritten note: Many Thanks, Ada Louise Dow. Fee for dancing lessons was $8.00. Ada Louise Dow was the sister of architect Joy Wheeler Dow. Her family moved to the Wyoming section of Millburn in 1878, when she was 16 years old, and lived at 78 Chestnut Street. Ada Louise Dow was active in the suffrage movement and served as president of the Woman’s Republican Club in the early 1920s. She started Millburn’s first dancing classes in the parish house of St. Stephen’s Church and also organized a girls’ basketball team, which played the first game of basketball in town. Ada Louise Dow lived at 83 Linden Street with Mary Louise Swift from 1912 until her death in October 1952.