On verso: "Rev. Dr. George Shotwell Roudebush, deceased, Madison, Mississippi - This gentleman, friend and distant relative (tho we spell our names slightly different) has been a guest in our home when we lived in Decatur Ill - over looking the university campus on W. North St. He was about 90 yrs old but very keen mentally when last we met. He had been a College President in Miss. tho a Pa. by birth and graduated from Pa. moved south on account of his health before the Civil War and remained there most of his life - He was a Presbyterian minister and also a graduate in law - but school work was his principal life's work. He had several children who were also engaged in school work - Margaret was at the head of a girls school in Miss, later teacher in State Teachers College Boulder Col. One of his son's was state agt. for Life Ins Bank & Trust Co. another Half is head of the Missouri Valley Bank &;amp Trust Co. St. Louis Mo. During his last visit in our home he Baptized our son Franklin - He was a friend worth knowing. R. F. R."]]>