The Women of Cornell and the Nature Study Movement, 1880-1930, by Kathleen Allen
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies with a major in HMS, September 23, 2021

Extracts from CHAPTER NINE: The Assistant—Ada Eljiva Georgia (1858-1921):

"Ada was the ninth of ten children born to Harmon S. Georgia (1812-18870[sic] and Martha A. Green (1816-1896). There were five boys and five girls, born between 1833 and 1862. Ada’s mother was quite young when she married and was only seventeen when her first child was born. ...
  Ada was born on 23 August 1858 in Newfield, Tompkins County, New York. She never lived too far away from her birthplace. Cornell University is about ten miles northeast. Elmira, where she taught school for a number of years, is around thirty miles southwest of Newfield. Her father, Harmon S. Georgia, was a stone mason and worked for a period of time at Cornell University. Anna Botsford Comstock, in her memorial for Ada, noted:

 == Ada Georgia came with her family to Ithaca at the beginning of Cornell University. Her father was a skilled stone mason, and was employed in the construction of the first buildings of the University. As a child she played on the campus. ==

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  In 1917 she finally bought a home in Ithaca at 508 Thurston Avenue. This house was in an area where a number of Cornell faculty lived. She later shared her home with her nephew, Frederick Raymond Georgia, who was a Cornell graduate, and later a chemistry instructor there. Because of her financial situation, she also took in boarders, often Cornell students or faculty. ...
  Ada had retired from her position at Cornell in 1920 when she was sixty years old. In January 1921 Ada went into the hospital with appendicitis, but right after the operation she suddenly died."