Since 1884 she lived, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was conspicuously associated with all its larger philanthropies. One of the first was the Home for the Friendless, of which she was an incorporator and whose constitution she helped to frame. She was one of the prime movers and the heaviest worker in the establishing of the Wisconsin Humane Society. The flourishing Woman's Club of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, was helped by the essays written by Hilesr. She was its first vice-president and the president of the ladies' art and science class.
