"My home is the center, but not the circumference of my life, just as it is the center, but not the circumference of the life of every right-living husband and father."[REF] .
During her single term in the Assembly, Van Ness served on the standing committees for Education and for Unfinished Business, and on the joint committees for the Industrial School for Girls, the School for Feeble Minded Children, and the State Library.