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The Scotia cemetery referred to by Stanford is no doubt Park Cemetery, where several Clossons and other relatives are buried. Below is one of the gravestones they probably went to visit, of Stillman's parents, Charles Closson and Catherine Cramer:
Stanford says his sister, Ruth Closson, returned home by train, but though there's no mention of where she had been, it was likely she was returning from Potsdam, where she studied music education at the Normal School there. Soon after, she began using her education to teach music in the Schenectady public schools.
Potsdam Normal School is now State University of New York at Potsdam. It has a well known music school, Crane School of Music, which was named after Julia Crane, who was the first teacher hired in the Music Department there in 1884. According to SUNY Potsdam's website, Ms. Crane "founded the first normal training course for public school music teachers in the United States." Read about the history of the school here: SUNY-P.
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