Edith Gertrude Selene Evans
Edith Gertrude Selene Evans was a noted anthropologist, Egyptologist, photographer and owner of the house at 350 S. Main Street that is now occupied by the Freeport Historical Society. Miss Selene married Dr. Thomas H. Evans, an eminent professor of research and anatomy at New York Medical College. Mrs. Evans was a member of the Society of American Archaeology, American Association of Biology Teachers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological Association, the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Metropolitan Art Museum, the Women’s Chess Club of New York, the Nassau Historical Genealogical, and Garden City Community Club. Mrs. Evans died in 1948 and her husband lived in the house until his death at the age of 82 in 1961.
Caroline G. Atkinson
Born in Jefferson, N.H. in 1866, Caroline G. Atkinson graduated from the Albany Normal School (now University at Albany). Her teaching career began on August 30, 1885 in the four-room school on Pine Street and Guy Lombardo Avenue. She became one of four teachers in a school that had less than 200 students. After 52 years of service, Atkinson retired in 1937. She was a member of the First Baptist Church where she was elected an honorary deaconess. It is said that she knew the Bible almost by heart and spent much of her time visiting the sick and reading to children. Ms. Atkinson died at the age of 82 of a heart attack in 1949; she is buried in Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale. That same year, the Freeport School Board unanimously approved changing the name of the school on Seaman Avenue to the “Caroline G. Atkinson School” in a posthumous show of appreciation for her many contributions to the Freeport School District.