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��WHITIXESET, Mary Beed Eastman (Mrs. Charles Wilcoxson Whittlesey), 6 Everlt St., New Haven, Conn.

Born Plantsville, Conn., May 19, 1870; dau.

William Reed and Laura E. (Barnes) Eastman;

grad. Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass., '88; Wellesley

Coll., B.S. '92; m. Albany, N.Y., Jan. 5, 1910,

„ ^, . Cnarles Wilcoxson Whittlesey; one daughter:

WHITTTEB, Cordelia Mrfrlna, 2T Myrtle Av.. Margaret Whittlesey, b. Feb. 20, 19U. Congre-»

Fltchburg, Mass. gationalist. Mem. Ass'n of (Collegiate Alumnae.

Physician; b. Boston, Apr. 29, 1872; dau. Na- jj^j^ ^^^ Haven Country Club, Wellesley Club.

thanlel Bowker and Cynthia F. (Heckler) Whit-

��Wtitten. Teacher of Latin and English m Napoleon (0.) High School, 1890-94. Interested in club work, associated charities and juvenile court work. Chairman Music Com. 111. Fed. Women's Clubs, 1910-12. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Republican. Recreation: Music. Mem. Peoria Women's Club, New Era Club.

��A_gainst woman suffrage.

WHITTREOGE, Enphemla, 22 East Tenth St. (business, 4 West Fortieth St.), N.Y. City. Interior decorator; b. N.Y. City, 1874; dau. Worthington and Kuphemia (Foot) W'hittredge; ed. private school and Bryn Mawr Coll., class of '96 (two years); studied in N.Y. School of Ap- plied Design for Women, 1895-98; Tiffany Studios, 1898-1900; pjirtner in firm of Misses Whittredge and Barrows since 1900. Favors woman suffrage. Recreations: Walking, dancing, Alpine climbing and camping. Mem. Women's Cosmopolitan torruMi\"sert'"l9il'"oT the As^^iat^d'charl'ties Club, the Alpme Club of Canada, the Bryn Mawr organization of ' Fltchburg; for several years and Club of N.Y.

now a director of the Fltchburg Soc. for Cure and -WTBOBG, Adeline M. Sherman (Mrs. Frank Control of Tuberculosis. For the past ten years wiborg), Easthampton, L.I. has been giving single lectures and courses before Daughter Hoyt Sherman (banker) and Sara girls' clubs, women's clubs and schtwls on such (^toulton) Sherman (niece of Gen. William T. tcH)ics as general hygiene, sex hygiene, care of shermiin): ed. at a seminary in Kenwood, near children, diet, ideals, meaning of marriage, of Chicago; m. Cincinnati, O., Frank Wihorg; chil- home. Had three years of settlement work and ^^en: Sara, Mary Hoyt, Olga. medical missksnary work among the rural ne-

��tler- ed. Boaton public schools and Boston Univ School of Medicine. M.D.; served two years as interne in Mass. Homeopathic Hospital, Boston (mem. Gregory Club at Boston Univ. School of Med.) Successively hospital interne; resident physician for three years of Calhoun School, Ala.- ten years general practitioner of medicine in Fltchburg, Mass. Was camp physician in a girls' camp in N.H., summer of 1912. For past nine years has been an active worker In the Fltchburg Woman's Club (400 members), pres 1910-12; for several years was one of the direc-

��groes in Alabama. Congregationalist. Mem. Worcester Co. Branch of the Mass. Homeopathic Medical Soc, Alumni Ass'n of Boston Uniy. School of Medicine; King's Daughters of the Cal- vinistic Congregational Church of Fltchburg, Mass. Recreations: Summer camping, tenms, boating, swimming, general gymnasium work, driving, walking, reading, games. WHITTIEB, Helen Augusta, Trinity Court,

Boston, Mass.

Editor lecturer, teacher of art history; b. I^owell, Mass., Dec. 7. 1846; dau. Moses and Lucindia (Blood) Whittier; ed. Lowell public school and Lasell Sem., Auburndaie, Mass. Teacher of history of art, Bradford Acad., 1902-

��WICK, Frances Gertrude, Vassar College,

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Instructor in physics; b. Butler, Pa., Oct. 2, 1875; dau. Alfred and Sarah Ann (Mechling) Wick; ed. Wilson Coll., A.B. '97; Cornell Univ., A.B. '05, A.M. '06, Ph.D. '08; graduate scholar in physics, 1906-07; graduate fellow in physics, 1907-08. Instructor in high school at Butler, Pa., 1898-1904; instructor in physics at Simmons Coll., 1908-10; instructor in physics at Vassar Coll. since 1910. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Poughkeepsie Equal Suffrage League. Author of articles In the Physical Review, including: The Absorbing Power and Fluorescence of Resorufin, and a series of articles on the electrical proper- ties of metallic silicon. Presbyterian. Fellow

��03; in 1903, in partnership with Mary Alden Ward, a.A.A.S.; associate mem. Am. Physical Soc

founded The Federation Bulletin (monthly), ^^^^^ Sigma XI Soc.

official organ of General Federation of Women s

Clubs; co-editor since 1903; editor and publisher

since 1902 of The Federation Directory of Club

Speakers (annual). Active in work of women s

clubs since 1894. Founder and pres. (1897-1900) of

��WICKHAM, Gertrude Van Bensselaer (Mrs.

Samuel Christian Wickham), 9310 Hough Av.,

Cleveland, O.

Writer; b. Huron, 0., Mar. 18, 1844; dau. San- ders and Melinda (Hayward) Rensselaer; ed.

��Katharine V. R. Wickham. First woman on staff of Cleveland Herald; second one on Cleve- land Leader. Author: Memorial to the Pioneer Women of Western Reserve (four vols.); The Pioneer Families of Cleveland, 179«-1840 (three vols.); also articles and short stories in maga- zines and newspapers. Episcopalian. Pro-

��ii-/Xi„,:r-J~'w,^Tr,An'<! Club of Lowell (600 mem- ders ana Meimaa (inaywaraj ±tensseiaer; ea Middlesex Women sClub^Loweu V Cleveland public schools; m. Aug. 1, 1864, Capt

Clubs' Ko7 mem Exiutife Board! 1896-1909; Samuel. Christian ^^Wjokham; ^one daughter

dirpct'or of New England Womb's Club, 1912.

State director of Mass. Equal Suffrage Ass n

Unitarian. Republican. Recreations- Interested

as an amateur in clay modeling and other lines

of art work. Mem. The Ex Club of Boston.

WHITTINGTON, Anna Ward Aven (Mrs. Will- ^ _^ _^ ^

iam Madison Whittlngton), 403 E. Market St., gressive. Charter mem. and first historian of

Greenwood, Miss. . . _ ,, Western Reserve Chapter D.A.R, ; charter mem.

Teacher; b. in Mississippi; ed. Mississippi Coll., j,f Cleveland Woman's Press Club. Recreation: A B '05- grad. student in Greek and Latin, Bryn pjo^er garden. Favors woman suffrage. Mawr Coll., 1906-08; m. Greenwood, Miss 1910, William Madison WhitUngton. Instructor in Latin Hellman Coll., Clinton, Miss., 1900-06; head of normal dep't, Mississippi State Coll. for Women since 1909. WHITTLE, GUberta Sinclair, 912 W. Grace St.,

Richmond, Va,

Magazine and newspaper writer; b. IB V'^-

��ginia

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��nnia dau. Commodore William Conway Whittle ■ of United States and Confederate Navies) and Elizabeth Beverley (Sinclair) Whittle; ed. m private schools. Has done almost every branch of newspaper work in Baltimore and Washing- ton with the telegraphic work for the Ph:ladel- Dhia "Hmes from Annapolis during the confine- ment of the Spanish prisoners at the Naval Academy. Since 1895 has operated a private syndicate, which has transmitted stones to rep- resentative papers from Massachusetts to Texas and as far West as California. Episcopalian. OoDOsed to woman suffrage.

��WICKS, LiUlan Mae (Mrs. E. H. Wicksn 1740 Woodward Av., Detroit, Mich. Born Flushing, Mich., Jan. 14, 1879; dau. John and Kate (Budd) Farthing; ed. Flushing High School; Univ. of Mich., 1898-1902; m. Flushing, Mich., Oct. 5, 1904, Dr. E. H. Wicks; one son: Wesley James, b. Aug. 2, 1905. Principal of Grand Ledge (Mich.) High School, 1902-03; Charlevoix (Mich.) High School, 1903-04. Thrice delegate to State Fed. of Women's Clubs of Mich. ; interested in free kindergarten and day nursery at the Florence Crittenden Home; pres. of Detroit (Mich.) New Century Club. Recrea- tions: Painting, water-color, music. Mem. Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Favors woman suffrage. WICKS, Olivia Lula, 2206 Ruskln Av., Balti- more. Md.

Educator; b. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 10, 1871; dau. Gardner Amos and Sarah Rebecca (Makinson) Wicks; ed. public schools of Baltimore; grad.

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��Western High School, 1889, receiving a gold medal. Summer sessions at Ann Arbor, Univ. of Mich, and Columbia Coll., N.Y. Teacher In School No. 61, Baltimore; was Ave years teacher of practice in Training School for Teachers, Bal- timore. Pres. Alumnae Ass'n of Western High School, Baltimore, Md. ; hon. mem. Associated Blind Women of Md.; W.C.T.U. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage Club. Mem. Bab- conk Memorial, Presbyterian Church; Order of Eastern Star, Daughters of America, Daughters of Rebecca. Recreations: Botany, genealogy. Mem. Teachers Literary Club.

WICKS, Buth Egert, 124 Jewett Av., Buffalo,

N.Y.

Born Trenton, N.Y., Oct. 5, 1884; dau. William Sidney (architect) and Emma Egert (GrifBth) Wicks; ed. Blmwood School, Buffalo; the Buffalo Sem.; Smith Coll., A.B. '08. Unitarian. .Mem. Graduate Ass'n of Buffalo Sem., Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll., Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Smith Students' Aid Soc., Peace and Arbitration Soc. of Buffalo. Recreations ; Farming, golf, tennis. Mem. Smith College Club (Buffalo), the Unity Club. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

WICKWrRE, Josephine Reeeer (Mrs. Kdwanl Giles Wlckwire), 601 W. Fifth St., Lamed, Kan.

Bom Lock Haven, Pa., Feb. 16, 1864; dau. Samuel and Mary A. (Sigmund) Reeser (direct descendant of John Reeser of Revolutionary War); grad. Lock Haven High School, 1881, and studied with private tutors; m. Larned, Kan., Bept 18, 1890, Edward GUes Wlckwire (grad. Bacon Acad., Colchester, Ck>nn., descendant of John Wlckwire, soldier in King Philip's War, and brother-in-law of John Winthrop of Conn.); children: Mary (student Washburn Coll.), b. July 6, 1891; Edward Giles (student Kansas Univ.), b. Feb. 13, 1893. Active In social, re- ligious, literary, musical and philanthropic work; 10 years choir director of Presbyterian church; pres. Seventh Dist. Kansas Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1910-12. Favors woman suf- frage. Pres'byterian. Progressive Democrat. Recreation: Auto touring. Mem. Portia Club, Clara Schumann Music Club, Cooking Club, Chautauqua Study Circle.

WLDMEB, Kate Webb (Mrs. Joseph C. Wldmerj,

265 W. Elghly-first St., N.Y. City.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 19, 1864; dau. Joseph PaJeman Webb, M.D., and Amelia Ernst (Wells) Webb; ed. Pittsburgh, Pa.; m. Pitts- burgh, Dec. 4, 1884, Joseph C. Widmer; children: George Ellis, Gertrude. Lived in Louisville, Ky., ten years. Interested in mountain schools of Kentucky. Mem. Woman's Municipal League, Soc. of Ky. Women In New York (pres. two years). Colonial Dames, Mary Washington Col- onial Chapter D.A.R. (treas.). Cavendish -Whist Club. Recreation: Whist.

WIDTSOE, Leah Eudora Ihuiford (Mrs. John A.

WIdtsoe), College Hill, Logan, Utah.

Born Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 24, 1874; dau. Dr. A. B. and Susa (Young) Dunford; ed. Univ. of Utah; grad. Normal Course (valedictorian) '96; Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, 1896-97; Brigham Young Univ., B.Pd., '98; m. Salt I>ake Temple, June 1, 1898, John A. Widtsoe; children: Anna G., b. April 2, 1899; Karl Marselius, b. Nov. 27, 1903, Leah Eudora, b. July 4, 1912. Head Domestic Science Department, Brigham Young University, 1897-98; lecturer on home economics at farm- ers' institutes, etc., under auspices of Utah Agricultural College, 1900-05 (at occasional times). Officer at various times In Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association; vice- pres. Second Internat. Congress of Farm Women. Favors woman suffrage. Author of numerous articles on domestic science and home Improve- ment subjects, chiefly In journals of Utah: Labor- Savicg Devices for the Farm Home (circular No. 8, Utah Experiment Station). Latter Day Saint (Mormon). Mem. Am. Home Economics Ass'n. Recreations: Theatre, travel, tennis, out- door camping. Mem. A^lcultural College Woman's Club, etc.

��WlKGAJfiD, Maude Cipperij (Mrs. Karl McKay

Wlegand), Wellesley, Maas.

Instructor In botany, Wellesley Coll.; b. Rens- selaer Co., N.Y., Jan. 8, 1879; dau. John Vernon and Mary L. (DeForoet) Cipperley; ed. at Emma Wlllard School, Troy, N.Y.; Cornell, 19i>l: Cor- nell Univ., B.A.; university scholarship (Sigma XI, Wayside Club); m. Troy, N.Y., Aug. 21 1906. Asff-t in botany, Wellesley Coll., 1905-06; ass t In Cornell Summer School in botany, 1905; ins'.ruc- tor In botany, Wellesley Coll., 1907—. Favors woanan suffrage.

WIEK, Eva Amelia, Carrlngton, N.Dak.

Bom near Fort Dodge, la., Sept. 21, 1868- dau Adolphus William and Elizabeth (Greenside) Wier; grad. Bachelor of Didactics, Iowa State Normal School. '88; Univ. of Mich., A.B. 'b6; State life diploir.a in Lnglish (for Mich.;, Univ! of Mich. Has taught seven years in grade and high schools. Active in Christian Ehideavor and Junit-r Scxiieties, and with Women's Missionary Societies, with some travelmg work in connection with such interests; V.W.C.A. work in N.Dak ; has done public speaking before State and district conference and pitrlor meetings. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist.

WIGAXU, Adeline Albright (Mrs. Otto C.

Wlgand;, ]ii4T Broadway, N.Y. Cilv.

Artist; b. M?tiison, N.J.: dau. James and Mary (Ward) Albright: ed. Nat. Acad, of Design: Art Students' League of N.Y.; Acadfimie Julian, Paris, under Bougeurcau and Fleury; m Cedar Rapids, la., 1890, Otto C. Wigand. Awarded the Burgess prize of Woman's Art Club of N Y 1905; the Simpson pri:'.e. 1909; Watrous prize,' 1910; the Shaw memorial prize, Nat. Acad of Design, 1909; John G. Agar prize, 1912. Mem Woman'? Art Club of N.Y. Presbyterian. Favors womian suffrage.

WIGGIN, Kate Douglas (Mrs. George C. Riggs) 145 W. Fifty-eighth St., N.Y. City, and '-Quill- cote," Hollis, Me.

Author; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 28 1859- dau. Robert N. Smith, lawyer, and Helen e' (Dyer) Smith; ed. in common schools and in Abbott A.jad., Andover, Mass.; received from Dartmouth Coll., 1906, honorary degree of Lift D borne by only one other woman (Sarah Orne Jewett); m. (1st) 1880, Samuel B. Wiggiu lawyer of San Francisco (died 1889); m. (2d) 1S95, George C. Riggs of N.Y. City. Went to Calitornia to study kindergarten methods, and with her sister Nora Archibald Smith (q.v.), organized in 1.S78 the Sliver Street Kindergarten in San i^rancisco (first ffee kindergarten on the Pacific Coast), and in 1880 they organized the California Kindergar- ten Training School; after marriage gave up teaching and removed to the East. Began liter- ary work in 1878 with a short serial story, "Haif- a-Dozen Housekeepers." Author (pen-name "Kate Douglas Wiggin"): The Bird's Christmas Carol, 1888; The Story of Patsy, 18S9; A Summer In a Cafion, 1SS9; Timothy's Quest 1S90- A Cathedral Courtship, 1893; Marm Lisa 1S94- The Village Watch Tower, 1S94 ; Nine Love Songs and a Carol, 1896; Penelope's Pi ogress, 1S9S; Pe- nelope's Experiences in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1901; The Diary of a Goose-Girl, 1902; Rebecca of Sunnybro&k Farm, 1903; The Affair at the Inn (in collaboration with other writers) 1904; Rose o' the River, 1905; Chronicles of Re- becca, 1907; The Old Peabody Pew, 1907; Susunna and Sue, 1909; Polly Oliver's Problems, li)97- Mother Carey's Chickens, 1910; The Story of Waitstlll Baxter, 1913. She is also author of the successful play, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Fai-m, 1910. Joint author (with her sister, Nora Archi- bald Smith): The Story Hour, 1900; Children's Rights, 1892; Froebel's Gifts, 1895; Kindergarten Principles and Practice, 1896. Editor (with Nora Archibald Smith): Golden Numbers, a Book ol Verse for Youth, 1902; The Posy Ring, a Book of Verse for Children, 1903; Pinafore Palace Rhyme? for the Nursery. 1904; The Fairy Ring, 1906; Magic Casements, 1907; Tales of Laughter, 1908; Tales of Wonder, 1909; Arabian Nights, Their Best Known Tales, 19u9; Hours with the Fairies 1911; Talking Beasts, 1911. Mem. Pen and Brusl Club, N.Y. City.

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��WIGGINS, Inez Iconise, permanent address, Warsaw, N.Y. ; temporary, 63 MaccuUoch Av., Morristown, N.J.

Teacher; b. Warsaw, N.Y., Sept. 4, 1877; dau. John Wesley and Mary Silence (Skinner) Wig- gins; ed. Warsaw High School, Smith C!oll., A.B. '01; Cornell Univ., A.M. '07; Cornell Univ. grade work, 1909-10; Univ. of Paris, winter of 1912. Teacher of English in high school, Albion, N.Y., 1904-06; teacher in French and German in Uni- versity Preparatory School, Ithaca, N.Y., sum- mer, 1909-10. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat.

WIGHT, Hariott Barrington (Mrs. George Rich- ards Wight), Larchmont, N.T.

Born Sydney, N.S., Jan. 14, 1856; dau. John Carter and Helen (Pooley) Barrington; ed. Syd- ney, N.S., in private schools; m. Halifax, N.S., July 8, 1886, George Richards Wight; one son: Barrington Wight, b. Dec. 4, 1887. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Nat. Arts Club. Against woman suffrage. WILBER, Sarah S. (Mrs. Henry J. Wllber), San

Diego, Cal.

Born Marion, Ind. ; dau. David S. and Jane (Baldwin) Stanfield; ed. Albion (la.) Lutheran Coll.; m. Marshalltown, la., July 20, 1869, Henry J. Wilber; children: David S., John L., Myrtle M., Alvin E. Vice-pres. Needlework Guild of American (San Diego branch). Interested in civic improvements; pres. Mothers' Club of San Diego, Point Loma Assemhly. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive. WTLBOUK, Linda Olney Hathaway (Mrs.

Joshua Wilbour), Bristol, R.I.

Born Smithfield, R.I., Sept. 7, 1844; dau. Will- iam Henry and Fanny Esther (Arnold) Hatha- way; ed. high school, Pawtucket, R.I., and Canada Eastern Sem. (grad.); m. Pawtucket, R.I., Sept. 25, 1865, Joshua Wilbour (banker of Providence, R.I.; died 1902). Hon. vice-pres. D.A.R., Chapter No. 162; vice-pres. Mary Wash- ington Memorial Ass'n; mem. R.I. Soc. Colonial Dames of America, Society of Colonial Govern- ors; mem. Crown of America, No. 5; charter mem. College Women's Club of N.Y. City; Wash- ington Club, Washington, D.C.; R.I. Historical Soc, Huguenot Soc., Soc. of the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Descendants of Runymede Ancestry (Sayer de Quincy and Hugh le Bigod ancestors). Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage. WTLBUB, Frances M. (Mrs. George Browning

Wilbur), 29 Bay State Road, Boston, Mass.

Born Clinton, Me. ; dau. Charles Henry and Mary M. (Lewis) Decker; ed. Clinton (Me.) Acad.: m. Lewiston, Me., Oct. 14, 1884, George Browning Wilbur. Recreations: Motoring, yacht- ing. Unitarian. WILCOX, Alice Blythe Tncker (Mrs. George

Wilcox), Stratford, Conn.

Born Owen Sound, Can.; dau. William Henry and Mary Ann (Blythe) Tucker; ed. by private tutors and in Owen Sound High School, Toronto Univ., B.A. '96, M.A. '97; studied in Chicago Univ., Columbia Univ. and Oxford, England; m. 1907, George Wilcox; one daughter: EHzabeth. Dean of Adelphl Coll., Brooklyn; prof. English in same until marriage. Now lecturer at Brooklyn Inst, and for N.Y. Board of Education. Inter- ested in girls and talks before many girls' clubs. Contributor to current magazines. In 1912 pub- lished series of articles in Toronto Saturday Night under general heading Worth While Peo- ple I Know. Mem. N.Y. branch Toronto Univ. Alumnae Ass'n, Women's University Club, N.Y. City.

WILCOX, Alice Hard (Mrs. Asa Steams Wil- cox), 627 E. Seventeenth St., Minneapolis,

Minn.

Born Pittston, Pa., Dec. 16, 1863; dau. Bradford Campbell and Helen W. (Johnson) Hurd; ed. Watkins (N.Y.) Acad.; Central High School, Minne-apolis, Minn., and Univ. of Minn. (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma) ; m. Minneapolis, Nov. 9, 1887, Asa Stearns Wilcox, M.D. ; children: Helen Hurd (died Nov. 14, 1907); Stearns Wilcox. Char- ter mem. Woman's Club of MinnearwHs. Favors

��woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Clio Cltib (history study).

WILCOX, Alice Wilson, 56 Alumni Av., Provi- dence, R.I.

Instructor; b. Providence, R.I., June 25, 1871; dau. Charles Field and Lucy Wilson (Smith) Wilcox; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '94; Brown Univ., A.M. '09; Univ. of Chicago, fellow, 1900-02. Teacher of science in secondary schools, 1894-96; teacher of biology, Vassar, 1896-1900; Instructor in zoology, Wellesley, 1902-05; instructor in biology. Brown Univ. Women's Coll., since 1906. Mem. Am. Home EiconomicB Ass'n, Am. Ornith- ological Union, Audubon Soc. of R.I., Brown Univ. Teachers' A^n, Consumers' League ct R.I., Healtii Education League (Boston), Marine Biological Ass'n of Woods Hole, Mass. ; Soc. for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, Nantucket Maria Mitchell Asa'n, New England Home Eco- nomics Ass'n, Diet. Nursing Ass'n, Nat. Child Labor Com. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist; mem. Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Soc, Y.W.C.A. Mem. Associated Alumnae of Vassar Coll., Afis'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Sigma Xi. Author: Locomotion in Young Colonies of Pec- timatella Magnifica (Biological Bulletin).

AVILCOX, Ella Wheeler (Mrs. Robert M.

Wilcot), The Bungalow, Granite Bay, Short

Beach, Conn.

Author; b. Johnston Center, Wis., 1855; ed. Univ. of Wis.; m. 1884, Robert M. Wilcox. Edi- torial writer and contributor to N.Y. Journal and other Hearst papers and publications. Many ol hw poems have attained great popularity in the U.S. and England. Author: An Ambitious Man; A Double Life; Drops of Water; Sweet Danger: Was It Suicide?; Efvery Day Thoughts; Poems ol Passion; Maurine; Poems of Pleasure; Three Women; KingdcHn of Lore; Men, Women and Emotions; The Beautiful Land of Nod; Poems ol Power; Around the Year with Ella Wlieeler Wil- oox (birthday bock); A Woman of the World, 1904; Posms of Sentiment, 1906; New Thought Common Sense and What Life Means to Me; The Love Sonnets of Abelard and Keloise; Poems ol Progress and New Thought Pastels, 1909; Sailing Sunny Seas, 1910. WILCOX, Frances Gertrude Scott (Mrs. Walter

S. Wilcox), Bucknell Academy, Lewisburg, Pa.

Born Allenwood, Pa., Dec. 17, 1877; dau. Amoa and Hannah (Huston) Scott; ed. Bucknell Univ., Sc.B. (mem. Delta Delta Delta); m. Lewisburg, Pa., Mar. 22, 1896, Prof. Walter S. Wilcox. Bap- tist, Pres. Bucknell Alumnae Club; mem. Lewis- burg Civic Club. Favors woman suffrage. WILCOX, Grace Kumsey (Mrs. Ansley Wilcox),

641 Delaware Av., Buffalo, N.T.

Bora Buffalo, N.Y. ; m. Buffalo, N.Y., Nov. 20, 1883, Ansley Wilcox (prominent lawyer); chil- dren: Cornelia (now Mrs. Henry A. Bull), Fran- ces (now Mrs. Thomas F. Cooke. It was in their house, as guest of her husband, that Theo- dore Roosevelt, then Vice-President, took the oath of office, Sept. 14, 1901, as President of the United States, after the death of President McKinley. Mem. Twentieth Century Club. WILCOX, Marion Lawall (Mrs. W. W. Wilcox),

Walden, Orange Co., N.Y.

Born CJatasauqua, Pa., Jan. 22, 1872; dau. Jacob S. and Anna Catiierine (Buss) Lawall; ed. Cen- tenary Collegiate Ins-L, Hackettstown, N.J.; Vas- sar Coll ; Univ. of Berlin; Bryn Mawr; m. Catasauqua, November, 1897, Rev. W. W. Wil- cox; children: William, Frank, Helen, Donald. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. Woman's Club of Walden, N.Y. WILCOX, Mary DeVol (Mrs. William Craig

Wilcox), Iowa City, la.

Bora Canandaigua, N.Y., Aug. 12, 1866; dau. Allen Potter and Sarah Frances (Bullard) DeVol; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '88; graduate study Univ. of Iowa; m. Glens Falls, N.Y., July 1, 1895, Will- lam Craig Wilcox (now dean Ck)!!. of Liberal Arts, Univ. of Iowa); children: Blaise DeVol, b. Apr. 24, 1896 (died June 28, 1899) ; Albert Craig, b. Oct. 14, 1898. Taught seven years; Glens Falls (N.Y-.1 Acad., 1888-89; Hornell (N.Y.) High School, 1889-93; Omaha (Neb.) High School, 1893-95. Vice-

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 began to take notice. The elderly stranger—for he was both gaunt and elderly—nay, as he looked at him longer he saw he was old—oh so very old! And one long white tuft of hair hung down on his wrinkled forehead from under his top hat,—the stranger squatted on the seat opposite him, produced a note-book and a pencil—a blue pencil too!—and leaning forward, with a fiendish grin, said, "Now I'm going to tick off all you fellows—all you Secretaries—right back from the days of Henry the Seventh! "

The Secretary fell back helplessly in his seat. Terror-stricken, he strove to close his ears against the raucous voice that was already rattling off those quaint old Tudor names he remembered having read on yellowing parchment; but all was of no avail. The stranger went steadily on, and each name as read was ruthlessly scored out by the unerring blue pencil. The pace was tremendous. Already they were in the Commonwealth; past flew the Restoration like a racehorse—the blue pencil wagged steadily like a nightmare—Queen Anne and her coffee-houses,—in a second they were left far behind; and as they turned the corner and sped down the straight of the Georgian era, the Secretary sweated, a doomed man. The gracious reign of Victoria was full in sight—nay, on the stranger s lips was hovering the very name of Fladgate—Fladgate whom the Secretary could himself just remember, a doddering old pensioner—when the train shivered and squealed into St. James s Park Station. The Secretary flung the door open and fled like a hare, though it was not his right station. He ran as far as the Park itself, and there on the bridge over the water he halted, mopped his brow, and gradually recovered his peace of mind. The evening was pleasant, full of light and laughter and the sound of distant barrel-organs. Before him, calm and cool, rose the walls of the India Office, which in his simple way he had always considered a dream in stone. Beneath his feet a whole family of ducks circled

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��pres. Icrwa branch Ass'n of Ollegiate Aiumnae, 1906-08; interested and active in local cliarlty work. Mem. King's Daughters. Congregational Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (pres. Iowa Branch since 1907), N.N. Club (local literary club). Congregatlonalist.

WILCOX, Mary Xaul (Mrs. Paul Wilcox), Sun- set Av.. Montclalr, N.J.

Bom Omaha, Neb., June 25, 1862; dau. William Garrison and Ella A. (Dare) Maul; ed. private schools in Chicago; m. Omaha, Neb., 1884, Paul Wilcox (now deceased); children: Harold. Gladys, Paul Jr. Interested in local charities. Mem. Civic Soc. Mountainside Hospital Auxiliary, Po- rosis (N.Y. City), Interrogation Club (h local llteraiy club). Congregatlonallst. Opposed to w&niaa suffrage.

WrLDE, Laura Haldah, Lake Erie College, PalnesvUle, Ohio.

Minister, college professor; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '93; Hartford Theological Sem., B.D. '96. Sec. Y.W.C.A., Lincoln, Neb., 1896-97, nat. sec., 1897-1900; sec. Toledo (Ohio) Y.W.C.A., 1900-01; licensed, 1897, ordained, 1901, minister of Con- gregational Churc-h; pastor Congregational Church, Lincoln, Neb., 1901-05. Prof. Biblical literature, Doane Coll., Crete, Neb., 1905-10; teacher at large Univ. of Neb. ; prof. Lake Erie Coll., Painesville, Ohio, since 1910. Mem. Smith College Alumnse Ass'n. AVILDEB, Charlotte Frances (Mrs. Georee

Carter Wllderl, Manhattaji, Karu Author; b. Templeton, Worcester Co., Mass.; dau. Elijah Felt and Hannah (La-wrence) Felt; granddaughter of Lieut. Samuel Felt (Minute Man at Lexington, afterward under Gen. Stark at Bennington); grad. from high srfiool in Mass.; m. Lancaster, Mass., (Seorge Carter Wilder, lawyer arnl Judge of Probate; children: George Francis (died 1870); Adelaide Frances (Mrs. Sawdon), b. 1877, now of Ithaca, N.Y. ; Josephine Hannah (Mrs. McCallough), b. 1879, now of Delavan, Kan. For several years taught private classes in English literature. Has serveu as pres. of Dorcas Society; has been active in the Topeka Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc., and was Its pres. 1895-1902; mem. Woman's Kansas Day Soc, Domestic Science Club of Manhattan, Kan. (pres. 1907-08); Nat. Household Economic Ass'n (v. -p. for Kan. 1892-1902); served seven terms as sec. Social Science Club of Kansas and Missouri; has served as vice-pres. and chairman Literature Com. Kan. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Author: Land of the Rising Sun, 1877; Sister Ridenour's Sacrifice, 1883; Polly Button's New Year ("Worth While" series), 1892; Entertain- ments (with Elizabeth Ciampney), 1879; CJhrist- mas Cheer in All Lands, 1905; Mission Ships, 1904; Easter Gladness, 1905; The Child's Own Book, 1910; The Wonderful Story of Jesus, IMl; contributor to Youth's Companion, Philadelphia Press, Christian Union (Outlook), New York Independent, Methodist Review, etc.; editorial work on the Central Christian Advocate. Metho- dist (many years teacher of large Bible class). Mem. Authors' League, Kansas; Woman's Press Ass'n, Kansas State Historleal Society. WILDER, Eaia Caroline Abbot (Mrs. Artlrur

Silas Wilder), Box 70, K.F.D., Sterling Juao-

tlon, Mass.

Former school principal; grad. Smith Coll. B.A. '89; m. Aug. 9, 1908, Arthur Silas Wilder; children: Florence Caroline, b. Aug. 3, 1&J9; Katharine Abbot, b. Aug. 9, 1901; Frank Harris, b. Apr. 26, 1903; Edrwin Arthur, b. Mar. 13, 1906; Anna Hale, b. Jan. 14, 1909. Principal of Br»wer (Me.) High School, 1889-90; siibstitute teacher of chemistry, Mt. Holyoke, 1891; principal Peters- boro (N.H.) High School, 1891-95; ass't in Eng- lish and modern languages, Sanborn Sem., King- ston, N.H., 1896-96; principal Sterling (Mass.) High School, 1896-98. Mem. Smith College Alumnae Ass'n. Wn.DER, Inpz Whtpple (Mrs. Harris H.

Wilder), Smith College. Northampton, Mass.

Teacher and Investigator In zoology; b. Dia- mond Hill, R.I., 1871; dau. Eliab D. and Sarah (Wheaton) Whipple; grad. Brown Univ., Ph.B.

��1900; Smith Coll., A.M. '04; m. Boaton, Mass., 190«, Prof. Harris H. Wilder. Instructor In zoology. Smith Coll., since 1905. Has written various articles in anatomical and zoological pertodlc&ls on The Mammalian Chirldium and on ArrKphibian Life History and Anatomy, also book: Laboratory Studies in Mammalian Anatomy, also various reviews. Mem. Am. Soc. of Zoologists. Recreations: Canaping, traveling. Unitarian.

WILDEB, Kate Selby (Mrs. Frederic H.

Wilder), 1119 Fourth Av., South, Fargo, N.D.

Born MeadvUle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1876; dau. William A. and Adella (Wat£on) Selby; ed. Grand Forks (N.Dak.) High School (class pros.); m. Grand Forks, Oct. 8, 1501, Frederic H. Wilder. Taught school for one year; chief clerk in Reigister of Deeds offloe In (Jrand Forks Co.; mem. Board of Florence Orittenton Home; pres. Fortnightly for two years; pres. School Center at Longfellow School, Fargo, N.Dak.; woman State chaiiiu.-in for Progressive Party; pres. 15th Dist. W.C.T.U. of N.Dak.; press sup't for State W.C.T.U.; mem. Y.W.C.A., Woman's Union of the Congregational Church, Young Woman's Guild, Order of Eastern Star (past matron). Fortnightly Club. Congrega- tlonallst. Favors woman suffrage; sec. N.Dak. Votes for Women League.

WILDEB, Mary Field (Mrs. Burt Green Wilder),

Sl£isconset, Mass.

Born WeJlesley, Mass., 1852; dau. Lucius and Mary B. (Thomas) Field; ed. Wellesley High School, Framlngham Normal, Mt. Holyoke Coll.; m. June 11, 1906, Prof. Burt Green Wilder of Cornell Univ. Teacher in public and private schools; private teacher. Interested in settlement work, peace arbitration. Mem. Peace Soc, Eimer- College Club, Washington Club (Washington, D.C.). Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. of Suffrage Club. Republican. WILDEB, Mrs. 8. Fannie Gerry, 2 Everett St.,

Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Writer; b. Standish, Me.; dau. Rev. Edwin Jerome Gerry (pastor for 25 years of Hanover St. Chapel, Boston) and Sophia Jane Gerry; ed. Bowdoln Grammar School, Cambridge (Mass.) High School and Charlestown High School, Boston. For several years on reportorial staff of the Jamaica Plain News; writer of short stories ptibllshed in various magazines. Author: Story of a Useful Life, 1887 (memoir of her fathert; Boston Girls at Home and Abroad, 1890. Mem. Jamaica Plain Woman's Alliance. Mem. Womaji's Club, Tuesday Club (Jamaica Plain). WILDES, Mary (Mrs. Mark Langdon Wildes),

3$29 Colfax Av., South, Minneapolis, Minn.

Former teacher; b. St. Peter, Minn., May 10, 187C; dau. E. S. and Elizabeth S. (Hughes) Petti- john; ed. public schools of St Peter, Minn.; grad. high school and Univ. of Minn., A.B. '04; m. St. Paul, Nov. 6, 1907, Mark Langdon Wildes. Int: rested in Minneapolis Boys' Club in civic work and in some philanthropic work; pres. Woman's Auxiliary to Railway Mail Ass'n (pur- pose to promote social enjoyments and mutual advancement of families of railway postal clerks. Mem. Order of Eastern Star and one church society, Entre Nous Study Club. Recreations: Reading, concerts, outings. Presbyterian. WILDMAJf, Jennie Gray (Mrs. James Francis

Wndman), 62 Heart St., B., Toronto, Can.

Physician^ sargeon ; b. Dundas, Ont. ; dau. John and Jane (Head) Gray; ed. Toronto Model School Jarvis Collegiate Inst., Wompji's Med. Coll. Toronto; Trinity Univ., M.D.C.M. Took class prize at Women's Coll. and a certificate of honor In university; m. Toronto, 1908, James Francis Wlldman. Appointed demonstrator in anatomy In Women's Med. Coll. and later ass't prof, gynecology and head of gj-necologlcal service. Woman's Dispensary. Later one of those to open the Woman's College Hospital and Dispensary, Toronto. Dropped general practice and took only diseases of women and consulting work, 1908. One of the originators of a dispensary for women and children to be attended by women pkyslclans. One of five to originate Canadian Purity Educa- tion Ass'n. Has taught a Bible class. Favors woman suffrage. Writer of a small booklet for girls on purely edtwational lines: Spring Flowers.

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��Baptist. Mem. Zetl Phi (medical), Toronto Women's Medical Ass'n, Toronto University Alumnae Ass'n. Recreations: Driving, motoring.

mLDMAX, Marian Warner, Norwalli, Ohio.

Writer; b. Norwallt, O.; dau. Samael A. and Ellen E. (HoVe) Wildman; ed. Western Reserve Univ. B.A. (Plii BeU Kappa) 'S8. Books: A Hill Prayer and Otlier Poems; Loyalty Island; Theodore and Theodora; Wiat Rohin Did Then; also worls in many periodicals, including Har- per's Monthly, The Century, Atlantic Monthly, St. Nichi;Iiis, The liidependent. The Outlook; in 1899 poem, A Hill rrayea-, won Century Magazine prize for best poem by college graduate of pre- ceding year having degree of B.A. Mem. Ohio Woman's Press Club. Favors woman suffrage.

WrLES, Cora Youngr (Mrs. Joseph Bentley Wiles), 2338 Talbott Av., Indianapolis, Ind. Born Ripley, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1864; dau. William Davidson and Virginia (Johnson) Young; ed. Ripley Schools, Cincinnati Coll. of Music; m. Ripley, Ohio, June 16, 1885, Joseph Bentley Wiles; children: Eva Young, Ernst Hathaway, J'oseph Baker, Estella Virginia, Albert Donald. Active in literary, social and musical interests, in clubs, churches, society and Sunday-school work. Writer of poems, stories and newspaper articles in Cincinnati and Indianapolis papers; child poems in American Boy and other periodicals. Has published songs and music, including cen- tennial song with music for Ripley (Ohio) Cen- tennial, 1912. Presbyterian. Mem. Woman's Press Club (Cincinnati, Ohio), the Woman's Re- search Club, Woman's Department Club, Quest Club, Thursday Afternoon Reading Circle, Franchise League of Indiana, Woman's Press Club of Indiana, and Progress Club, Ripley, Ohio. Interested in music as pianist, pipe organ- ist and writer of songs, especially for children and used in the kindergarten and primary grades. Favors woman suffrage.

WrLEY, Anna Srftea (Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley),

1S4S Biltmore St., Washington, D.C.

Stenographer and library training; b. Oakland, Cal. 1877; dau. John Cunninghajn and Josephine P. '(Campbell) Ksltcn; ea. Columbian Coll.; George Wasnington Untr., Washington, D.C, B.S. '97; m. Washington, Feb. 27, 19U, Dr. Har- vey W. Wiley; one child: Harvey W. Wiley Jr., b. May 16, 1912. Employed in Library of Dep't of Agriculture for t-wo \ ears, anl in Copyright Office of Library of Congress for 10 years. Pres. Consumers' League of Washington, 1911-12; mem. Com. on Civics and Sanitation of Housekeepers' Alliance of Washington; mem. of Woman's Welfare Dep't of Nat. Civic Fed., Col- lege Women's Club, Washington braoch of College Equal Suffrage Asa'n. Recreatioiis : Walking, tennis, caiaplng. Favors woman suf- frage; pres. Stanton Sufirage Club of Washing- ton, 1911-12. WTLEY, aiary Marshall (Mrs. Stephen L.

Wiley), R.R. 209 (and in winter 1665 J St.),

Fresno, Cal.

Pres. San Joaquin Valley Federation; b. Live Oak, Ky., Oct. 10, 1859; dau. Lewis Field Mar- shall (lawyer) and Mary H. M. (Foree) Mar- shall; ed. Blandville (Ky.) Coll. and Sem. for Young Ladies, A.B. '82; instructor In seminary, 1883; m. Cairo, 111., 1884, Stephen L. Wiley. Prominent in club work, church activities and literary work; now district pres. San Joaquin Valley Fed. of Women's Clubs. Mem. Baptist Church. One of organizers Ann Clark Chapter D.A.R. ; Nat. Art Ass'n, Chicago; United Daughters of the Confederacy, Woman's Civic League; vice-pres. Y.W.C.A. Favors woman suffrage. Has written many articles on cirrrent topics, art and music. Democrat. Mem. of va- rious civic and philanthropic societies. Recrea- tions: Swimming, rowing, horseiback riding, hunting, drn-ing, automobiling. Mem. Leisure Hour Club, Parlor Lecture Club, Walters Colony Woman's Club. Farmer (80 acres); received di- ploma on grapes at Portland, 1905, Lewis and Clark Exposition; had entire charge of Fresno Chamber of Commerce exhibit at PorUand Ex- position.

��WILKES, Frances Willamen, 1213 W. Lake At.,

Los Angeles, Cal.

Teacher of drama; b. Sioux Falls, S.Dak. ; dau. Abraham A. and Eliza (Tieppel) Wilkes; ed. Sioux Falls High School; Univ. of Cal. and Cum- nock School of Expression, Los Angeles (mem. P.E.O.). Director of modern plays. Recrea- tions: Swimming, riding, motoring. Christian Scientist. Favors woman suffrage. Socialist. WILKESON, Mary Juana, 26 Niagara Square,

Buffalo, N.Y.

Lawyer; b. Buffalo, N.Y., 1879; dau. S. H. and Matilda (Franks) Wilkcsqn; ed. St. Margaret's School, Buffalo; Cornell ijniv.; Univ. of N.Y. ; Univ. of Buffalo, LL.B. Since then engaged in general practice of law in Buffalo, N.Y.

■^VrLKXE, JsiEet Ormsbee (Mrs. John Elbert ^ilkle), 2233 Eighteenth St., Washington, D.C.

Born Fre^>ort, 111., 1862; dau. Talcott and Alice Adele (Casa) OrnLsbee; ed. Chicago public schools and W'est Division High School; a>. Chi- cago, 1882, John Elbert Wilkie; children: Doaald Weare, Jean Wilkie Owen. Interested in Juvcaiie Court, Court of Domestic Relations, civics and reform, social settlements, charity kindergartens. Favors w<«Qan suffrage. Author of short stories and children's books. Unitarian. Mem. D.A.R. , CkiloBiaJ Dames. Recreations: Writing, golf, automobiling, traveling. Mem. Mothers' Con- gress, League of American Pen Women. Clubs: Twentieth Century and Pro Re Nata (Washing- ton, D.C), Nineteenth Century (Oak Park, 111.). WrLKTN, Matilda Jane Campbell (Mrs. George F. Wilkin), 601 Sixth St., S.E., Minneapolis, Minn.

Teacher; b. Harrington, Me., Jan. 27, 1846; dau. Denison and Martha A. (Wakefield) Camp- bell; ed. State Normal School, Salem, Mass., 1867-69; Univ. of Minn., B.A. '87, M.L. '90 (Phi Beta Kappa '92); graduate student Univ. Coll., London, England, 1885-86; Univ. of Chicago, 1895; m. Warsaw, N.Y., June 21, 1882, George F. Wil- kin. Instructor at Univ. of Minn., 1877-93; as- sistant prof, of German, 1893-1911; studied in London and Germany, 1885-86; traveled in Eu- rope, 1899. Sent as delegate to Sunday-school Centennial in London, England, 1880. Mem. W.C.T.U. ; active mem. Y.W.C.A.; life mem. Women's Baptist Home Mission Soc. ; life mem. Foreign Mission Soc. Favors woman suffrage. Author: English-German Idioms. Baptist. Pro- hibitionist. Mem. Independent Order of Good Templars, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Lamida Alpha Psi of Univ. of Minn., Woman's College Club of Minneapolis.

WTLKINS, Lewanna, 1414 Gerard St., Washing- ton, D.C.

Teacher; b. Fairfax Co., Va., Jan. 21, 1869; dau. Charles F. and Hannah A. (Weatherby) Wllkins; ed. Wellesley Coll.,' B.S. '91. Author of Inductive Lessons in Biology.

WILKrNS, I-ydia K., 1414 Glrard St., Washing- ton, D.C. Librarian; b. Washington, D.C, Feb. 23, 1873;

dau. Charles F. and Hannah A. (Weatherby)

Wilkins; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '96. Favors

woman suffrage.

WILKIK80N, Annie Carter (Mrs. W. A. Wil- kinson), Coushatta, La.

Bom New Orleans, La.; dau. W. J. and Vic- toria (Marti) Cartar; ed. public schools of New Orleans and private tuition at home in French and English; m. Coushatta, La., 1896, W. A. Wilkinson. Taught music several years before marriage. Interested In club wryrk; was mem. of the Boaj-d of La. Federation Women's Clubs, later vice-pres. and for two terms pres.; organ- izer and pres. of Oak Leaf Club; one of vice- presidents of State Fed.; sec. of Home Club; In charge of Free Circulating Library of the parish. Has written for newspapers, principally on club matters and subjects p«-rtaining to water- way improvement and development. Mem. For- estry Ass'n; State pres. of Women's Nat. Rivers and Harbors Congress; mem. Oak Leaf Club (Coushatta), State Federation, Gen. Federation, School LmiwoTement League. Recreations: Mu-

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��sic, reading, ftrtdge, whist. CaUiolic. Favors woman suffrage, lending efforts toward creating an interest in anriending Article 210 of our State Constitution, which will give women ihe right to sit on school boards, boards of charitable insti- tutions, etc.

WILKINSON', Drusilla Dallman (Mrs. Dudley Phelps Wilkinson), 721 Rush St., Chicago, 111. Born Syracuse, N.Y. : dau. William and Eva (Mayquist) Dallman: ed. St. Mary's Hall, Bur- lington, N.J.; m. Syracuse, N.Y., 1871, Dudley Phelps Wilkin.son; one son: Dudley Phelps Wil- kinson Jr. (deceased). Mem. Board of 111. Train- ing School for Nurses, and Fortnightly Club. Episcopalian. Recreation: Travel. WILKINSON, Edith, 59 Chatham St., Pitts- burgh, Pa.

Y.W.C.A. secretary; b. Rochester, N.Y. ; dau. William Cleaver and Harriet S. (Richardson) Wilkinson; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.A. ; Univ. of Chicago Graduate School, Columbia Univ., M.A. ; New York School of Philanthropy. High and primary school teacher, Chicago, 111., and Seattle, Wash., 1890-99 and 1901-05. Special agent of U.S. Bureau of Labor in Woman and Child Labor Investigation and prepared report on special topic. Conditions Under Which Children Leave School and Go to Work, 1907-09. Educational sec. Y.W.C.A., St. Louis, Mo., 1911-12; gen. sec. Y.W.C.A., Pittsburgh, Pa., 1912—. Favors woman suffrage. WILKINSON, Florence — See Evans, Florence

Wilkinson. WILKINSON, Gwendolen Overton (Mrs. Mel- ville Wilkinson), care Eugene Overton, Wright and Calendar Bld'g, Los Angeles, Cal. Writer; b. Fort Hays, Kan., Feb. 19, 1S74 (born in the U.S. A.rmy) ; dau. Gilbert Eidmond and Jane Dyson (V/atkins) Overton; ed. public schools of U.S. and Switzerland, and by private tutors in U.S. and Paris; m. Los Angeles, Feb. 10, 1910. Melville V/ilkinson. Nove:s: Heritage of Unrest; Anne Carrcel; Golden Cham; Captains of the World; The Captain's Daughter; also short stories and articles in magazines. Recreations: Riding, walking, swimming, rowing, traveling. Episcopalian, but particularly interested in the broader Theosophical doctrines. Favors woman suffrage; writer of magazine and newspaper arti- cles on woman suffrage. Independent; believes strongly in Single Tax, but otherwise conserva- tive.

WILKINSON, Mai Scott (Mrs. John D. Wil- kinson), 624 Egan St., Shreveport, La. Born" Homer, La., Dec. 7, 1372; dau. Judge N. J. and Georgia (Tooke) Scott; ed. Mansfield Female Coll., Keatchie C-oil. (La.), and high school of '3-ainesville, Tex.; m. OcuEhatta, La., Jan. 25, 1S93, John D. Wilkinson; children: John Pugh, William Scott, Allie Mai. Sunday-school teacher; pres. Shreveport Training School for neglected, dependent girls; interested in conserva- tion of forests, birds, parka, playgrounds and public welfare work. Partial suffragist. Has spoken at State and National Convention on Vv'omen's Work in Gcns-ervation of O^ar National Resources, and has written articles for news- paper and journal on this subject, especially on the non-pollution of our streams. Baptist. Mem. Woman's Nat. Rivers and Harbors Congress, D.A.R., D.R., Am. Forestry Ass'n, Nat. Conser- vation Ass'n, La. Forestry Ass'n, Nat. Congress of Mothers, Playground Ass'n, Public Welfare Ass'n, Daughters of the Confederacy. Recrea- tions: Music, athletics, golf, swimming, dancing, rowipg, riding. Mem. Civic League, Hyrvatla Mothers' Union, Protective Travelers' A.ss'n, Training School Ass'n, Chautauqua Woman's Club of Chautauqua, N.Y.

Wn.KS, Katherine L., "Cniickston Park," Gait, Ont., Can.

Owner of stock farm; b. "Cruickston Park," Gait, Ont.; dau. Matthew W. and Eliza Astor (Langdon) Wilks; ed. in United States and Hbroad. Inherited a large estate from her father Dud has indulged her taste for raising trotting horses. Her estate at Gait contains over 1,000 lores of fertile land and is a completely equipped Stock farm, where she has bred and turned out

��many famous horses which have taken highest rank in the race meets and horse shows of Can- ada and the United States, Including some world champions. Has to her credit 1,100 ribbons won in the show ring and has raised the only Cana- dian bred 2:10 trotters. Anglican. WILLARD, Calla Scott (Mrs. Samuel Gregory

Willard), Lincoln, Neb.

Teacher; b. LaFayette, Ind. ; dau. William McKendrie and Sarah (Rose) Scott; ed. public schools of Ohio and Indiana; Jennings Acad, and Univ. of Cal., special study course; m. April 30, 1888, Samuel Gregdry Willard. Taught thirty-one years; twenty-flve years in Chicago public schools, resigned in 1900. Elected cor. sec. and field missionary under the Christian Wom- an's Board of Missions in Nebraska, 1902, which involves the keeping of State records, correspond- ence and presentations of world-wide missions from the platform. Founded, in 1880, a Bible class In Western Av. Methodist Episcopal Church of Chicago, which attained a membership of over one thousand. Author: Life, Light and Love, or Bible Facts for Busy People, 1901; contributor to a weekly State paper in Nebraska for eleven years; author of many articles printed in leaflets, magazines, papers. Mem. W.C.T.U., Christian Woman's Board of Missions. Rec- reations: Traveling, reading. WILLARD, Charlotte Richards, American School

for Girls, Marsovan, Turkey-in-Asia.

Teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '83. Teacher Lasell Sem., 1883-85; Clinton (Ky.) Coll., 1885-86; Cambridge, Mass., 1886-87; Carleton Coll., North- field, Miss., 1887-95; teacher 1895-99 and again since 1901 in the American School for Girls at Marsovan, Turkey-in-Asia. Mem. Smith College Alumnae Ass'n. WILLARD, Eleanor Withey (Mrs. Willis B.

Willard), 21 Terrace Av., S.E., Grand Rapids,

Mich.

Born Grand Raplda, Mich., June 5, 1858; dau. Solomon L. (Judge U.S. Dist. Court) and Marion L. Withey; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. 'SO; m. Grand Rapids, Nov. 17, 1887, Willis B. Willard; children: Bradley, Dorothy. Interested in pho- tography as an art; art student in drawing and painting; vice-pres. Grand Rapids Art Ass'n; I ondi>:ts cl<isse.s and talks on art subjects for Art Ass'n. Author: Children's Singing Games; The Children's Garden; Sketches Here and There; Street Life in Africa; Spanish Sketches; Children of Holland, etc. (18 books in all). Con- gregationallst. Mem. Women's University Club of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Camera Club. WILLARD, Julia Reid (Mrs. Charles Wesley

Willard), 864 Francisco St., San Francisco,

CaJ.

Born Newport, R.I., Aug. 10, 1871; dau. Will- iam Thomas and Julia (Reed) Reid; ed. Welles- ley Coll., A.B. (mem. Shakespeare Soc.); m. Belmont, Cal., July 21, 1897, Charles Wesley Willard. Connected with several social and philanthropic ass'ns, associated charities, settle- ment, orphan asylum, reading room for blind, Nat. Child Labor Com. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. San Francisco Centre of the Civic League. Congregation a list. Republican. Mem. Century Club of Cal., FortnighUy Club, Inter-Colleglate Alumnae Ass'n.

WILLARD, Liivia Margaret, 11 Ray St., Ja- maica, N.Y.

Physician; b. Sa-wyerville, Canada, Mar. 24, 1882; dau. Lockhart Rand and Eleanor (McDer- mott) Willard; ed. Stanstead Wesleyan Coll., Can., A. A.; McGill Normal Schcol, Montreal, Can.; Cornell Univ. Med. Coll., M.D. '09 (grad- uated mem. of honor roll) (Alpha Epsilon Iota, medical). After graduation resident physician in West Philadelphia Hospital for Women, Phila- delphia; for a year after on staff of the Long Island State Hospital, then engaged in private practice. Attending physician to Chapin Home; mem. associate staff Jamaica Hospital; ass't at- tending physician to Tuberculosis Clinic, Jamaica (Board of Health, City of N.Y.). Mem. Eastern Star, Queens-Nassau Med. Soc., Daughters of Isabella, N.Y. State Med. Soc., Am. Med. Ass'n, the Cornell Women's Club, the Jamaica Women's Club. Roman Catholic. Favors woman suffrage.

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��WILL,ABD, Mary Ella Stoner (Mrs. Arthur De- Walt Willard), Frederick, Md. Born Bannestown, Pa., July* 31, 1876; dau. Henry Young and Mary Catherine (Fritz) Stoner; ed. Convent de rAssoonption, Paris, '97; Berlin, Germany, '97; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98; prof, of higher English and German, Univ. of Chicago Correspondence School, '99; Woman's Coll., Fred- erick, Md., 1898-1900; m. Reading, Pa., Aug. 14, 1901, Arthur DeWalt Willard (State's attorney, 1903-11); children: Arthur DeWalt, Henry Ran- dolph. Mem. Exec. Com. Board of Managers Maryland Children's Aid Soc, Frederick Co. branch (of which her husband is pres.); mem. Civic Club of Frederick City, Vigilance Com. Ass'n for Censorship of Moving Pictures. Fa- vors woman suffrage; mem. Board of Directors of Just Government League of Frederick Co.; contri-butor of suffrage articles to local papers. Mem. Reformed Church.

WILLABD, Mary Frances, 1526 Fargo Av., Chi- cago, 111.

Principal of public school; b. Springfield, 111.; dau. Samuel and Harriet (Edgar) Willard; ed. Chicago public school; Smith Coll., B.A. '90; post- grad, student at Chicago Univ., 1893-96. Teacher of English In Chicago High School, West Division High School, 1890-95; Marshall High School, 1895- 1900; principal of Tennyson School, 1900-08; of Hurley School since 1908; also of Burley Evening School. Has written newspaper articles; edition of Idyls of the King (Tennyson). Author: Along Mediterranean Shores. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Consumers' League, Child Labor Com., Drama League, Chicago Woman's Club, College Club, Woman's City Club, Smith College Club, Principals' Club. Recreations: Golf, walking. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage. WLLLARD, Mary Hatch (Mrs. Henry Bradford Willard), 52 W. 39th St., N.Y. City. Born Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 15, 1855; dau. Alfredrick Smith and Theodosia (Ruggles) Hatch; ed. Mrs. E. C. Benedict's School, N.Y. City; m. Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y., June 6, 1873, Henry Bradford Willard. Mem. Board of Managers of State Charities Aid Ass'n; Board of Managers of the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children; Exec. Com. of the Woman's Dep't of the Nat. Civic Federation (N.Y. and N.J. section); mem. Board of the Woman's Dep't of the Nat. Civic Fed. Mem. Colony Club (N.Y. City), Somerset Hills Country Club (Bernardsville, N.J.). WILLAUER, Katherine Whiting (Mrs. Arthur Ebbs Willauer), Milton Road, Rye, N.Y. Born Charleston, S.C., April 12, 1880; dau. Eliot Butler and Daisy (Day) Whiting; ed. Pelham Hall, Pelham Manor and governesses; rp. Dec. 4, 1905, Arthur Ebbs Willauer (died Nov. 26, 1912); children: Whiting, Osborne, Katherine, Eliot Butler. Favors woman suffrage; auditor of Ekjual Franchise League of Rye, N.Y. Episco- palian. Republican. Recreations: Tennis, swim- ming. Mem. Apawamis Club of Rye. WILLCOX, Ella Goodenow, 80 Mountain Av. Maiden, Mass.

Lecturer; b. Kennebunk, Me., Mar. 24, 1354 dau. Rev. William H. Willcox, D.D., LL.D. and Annie Holmes (Goodenow) Willcox; grad Mt. Holyoke Sem., Univ. of Mich., L.B. '98 Radciiffe Coll., A.M. '99; post-graduate study abroad in Univ. of Zurich and Oxford. For four years connected with The Advance, Chicago, as literary editor and associate editor; college in- structor at Drury Coll., Springfield, Mo., two years, and at Wellesley Coll. over four years. Now lecturer before women's clubs and inter- ested in philanthropic and educational work. Mem. of School Committee of Maiden, Mass.; Mass. State Conference of Charities and Correc- tion, Maiden Associated Charities. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnas, New England Women.'s Press Ass'n. Mem. Twentieth Century, College and Appalachian Mountain Clubs of Boston. WILLCOX, Louise Collier (Mrs. Westmore Will- cox), 33 Warren Crescent, Norfolk, Va. Author; b. Chicago; dau. Robert Laird and Mary (Price) Collier; ed. in France, Germany and England by private tutSrs and in the Conserva- tory of Leipzig; m. 1890 Westmore Wni?ox.

��Editorial writer Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazar. On editorial staff North American Re- view; literary adviser, MacMillan Co., 1903-08. Favors woman suffrage; hon. vice-pres. Virginia Equal Suffrage League. Author: Answers of the Ages; The Human Way, 1908; Manual of Spiritual Fortification, 1909; Road to Joy, 1912. Mem. Nat. Inst, of Social Science; mem. Nat. Poetry Soc. of America, N.Y. McDowell Club. WILLCOX, Mary Alice, 80 Mountain Av., Mai- den, Mass.

College professor, zoologist; b. Kennebunk, Me., April 24, 1856; dau. Rev. William H. Will- cox, D.D., LL.D.,' and Annie Holmes (Goodenow) Willcox; grad. Salem (Mass.) State Normal School, '75; studied in Mass. Inst, of Technology and Boston Soc. of Natural History, 1878-80; Newnham Coll., England; Univ. of Zurich, 1896- »8, Ph.D. '98. Ehigaged in teaching, Frederick (Md.) Female Sem., 1875-76; Charlestown High School, Boston, 1876-78; prof, of zoology, Welles- ley Coll., 1883-1910; prof, emeritus since 1910. Author: Pocket Guide to the Common Land Birds of Nfew England, 1895; and numerous papers in zoological publications. Fellow Am. Ass'n for Advancement of Science; mem. Am. Soc. of Zoologists, Am. Soc. of Naturalists, Boston Soc. of Natural History, Sigma Xi. Interested in education and Americanization of immigrants. Favors woman suffrage. Mem Twentieth Cen- tury Club, College Club (Boston); Lyceum Club (London, England). WILLETT, Mabel Hind (Mrs. Allan H. Willett),

Glenshaw, Pa.

Born Syracuse, N.Y., Sept. 9, 1874; dau. George F. and Effie L. (Curtis) Hind; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. '95; (>)lumbia Univ., Ph.D. 1902; m. Syra- cuse, Dec. 21, 1901, Allan H. Willett; children: Hind Curtis, EMward Francis, Merrill Hosmer, Allen Herbert Jr. Teacher in charge of history dep't and civica. State Normal School, Cortland, N.Y., 1895-96; teacher in English and sociology. Dr. Sachs' School for Girls, N.Y. City, 1900-01; lecturer for Woman's Municipal League, N.Y. (Dlty, 1899-190(1; lecturer for Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1899-1901. Author: The Em- ployment of Women in the Clothing Trade, 1902. Mem. the College Club of Pittsburgh. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage. WILLIAMS, Alice Charlotte, Willink, N.Y.

Librarian; b. Buffalo, N.Y., May 5, 1878; dau. Hon. Benjamin Harris Williams (State Senator) and Charlotte (Stoneman) Williams; ed. Buffalo High School; Wellesley Coll., B.A. 1900; Simmons Coll. Engaged in library work with Newark Public Library, 1910-11; New York Public Li- brary (Bast Houston St. branch), 1911-12. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Recreations: Canoeing. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnaj, Buffalo Welles- ley Club, N.Y. Simmons Club; associate mem. Am. (3anoe Ass'n. WILLIAMS, Alice Laidlaw CMrs. Jesse Lynch

Williams), Washington Road, Princeton. N.J.

Bom Claremont, N.J. ; dau. Henry Bell and Elizabeth C. (Onderdonk) Laidlaw; ed. Veltln School, N.Y. City, 1887-92; m. N.Y. City, June 1, 1898, Jesse Lynch Williams; children: Henry Meade, Jesse Lyncli, Laidla-w Onderdonk. Vlce- pres. Village Improvement Soc.; one of the Exec. Board of N.J. Equal Franchise Soc. Author: Sunday Suppers. Episcopalian. Mem. Audubon Soc. of N.J., Soc. for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Woman's Cosmopolitan Club (N.Y. City), Present Day Club, Garden Club (Prince- ton). WILLIAMS, Anna Belles, New London, Conn.

Author; b. New London, Conn.; dau. Ebenezer and Joanna W. (Bolles) Williams; grad. high school. New Lf-Tidon, Conn. Taught in public school of SprLigfield, Mass., 1869-85. Author of a series of books for young people: Fitch Club; Birchwood; Riverside Museum; Professor Johnny Scotch Cap, Who Saved the Ship; Rolf and His Friends; The Great Dwarf. With John R. Bolles wrote the history of the Rogerenes, entitled The Rogerenes, 1904. WILLIAMS, Anna L. Csborne (Mrs. Richard

Williams), 157 Park St.. Buffalo, N.Y.

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U^I-I-IAMS, Anna Vernon Dorsey (Mrs. Alyn Williams), 222 A St., Washing-ton, D.C., end "Sunny Bank," Burgess Hill, Sussex, England. Writer, lecturer; b. Baltimore, Md. ; dau. Ver- non Dorsey (IS years ass't librarian Library of Congress) and Katherine (Costigan) Dorsey (12 years expert on heraldry and genealogy. Library of Congress); ed. private schools; m. Washing- ton, D.C.. Jan. 18, 1913, Alyn Williams of Lon- don. Mem. Exec. Board, Washington, D.C., section of Nat. Ass'n Opposed to Woman Suf- frage. Author: Betty, a Last Century Love Story, 1912 (previously as serial In Cosmopolitan Magazine), and many stories and articles ap- pearing In Harper's Bazar, Lipplncott's, Cosjno- politan Magazine, Chap Book and other publica- tions. Reader and lecturer, including a lecture on Loudon society, 1800-1830 (en costume), and recitals delineative of Southern negro songs and character monologues given for drawing rooms, clubs, churches and societies.

WILLIAMS, Annie F. (Mrs. John H. Williams), 18 W. Olive Av., Redlands, Cal. Born Salem, Mass., June 12, 1853; dau. Samuel and Abby A. (Webster) Day; ed. public schools and high schools in Salem, Mass.; m. Bridgeport, Conn., July 8, 1873, Rev. John H. Williams; chil- dren: Grace, Helen Webster, Ro'bert Day, Mabel Healy. Pres. of the Congregational Woman's Board of Foreign Missions for Southern Cal. 19 years; pres. of the Y.W.C.A. of Redlands since 1910; for 40 years head of the Woman's Work In three churches with which she has been con- nected. Sec. Board of Directors of the A. K. Smiley Public Library for seven years. Mem. Contemporary Club of Redlands, Cal. for 16 years, five years chairman of its Exec. Board and two years pres. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive Republican. WILLIAMS, Bertha Gardner (Mrs. William Hill Williams), 218 Bayley Av., PlattvlUe, Wis. Born Neenah, Wis., May 12, 1870; dau. Demp- ster E. and Etta M. (Underwood) Gardner; grad. Plattville State Normal School, 1890; student at Weilesley Coll., two years; Univ. of Wis., A.B. '97 IKappa Kappa Gamma); m. Omaha, Neb., April 28, 1903, William Hill Williams; children: Frances Elizabeth, b. July 29, 1906; David Gard- ner, b. Nov. 1, 1907. High school teacher for nine years before marriage. Vice-pres. Woman's Missionary Soc. ; vice-pres. Woman's Alliance; mem. Tourist Club, Phi Beta Kappa (Univ. of Wis. Chapter). Recreation: Music. Congre- gationalist. Favors woman suffrage. WILLIAMS, Blanche Kmily (Mis. Emlle F. Williams), 12 Reservoir St., Cambridge, Mass. Born Concord, Mass., 1870; dau. George F. and Alice (Rattray) Wheeler; ed. Concord High School: Smith Coll., B.L. '92; m. Concord, Mass., 1904, Emlle F. Williams. Teacher of classics In .Miss Wheeler's School, Providence, R.L, 1892- 1904; mem. of expedition that excavated Gournia, Crete, for Am. Exploration Soc, 1901. Mem. Archasologlca) Inst. One of authors of Excava- tions at Gournia, Crete.

WILLIAMS. Caroline Kitchell Wythe (Mrs. Wil- bur G. Williams), home, Meadvllle, Pa.; pres- ent address, 9 Hogarth Road, Earl's Court, S.W., London, England.

Born St. Clair, Pa., May 1, 1856; dau. William Windsor and Cecilia (Pierce) Wythe; ed. high school, Erie, Pa.; Allegheny Coll., Meadvllle, Pa., A.B '77, A.M. (Kappa Alpha Theta); ra. Ocean Grove, N.J., July 28, ISSO, Rev. Wilbur G. Williams (dlfd April 16, 1897); children: Charles W., b. Sept. 18, 1881; Wilbur- H., b. July 10, 1887; David, b. July 28. 1892. Identified with sofial activilies as wife of president of Allegheny Coll. r.nd religious activities as pastor's wife in Columbus, 0., and St. Louis, Mo., until her husband's death. Jlem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Against woman suffrage. WILLIAMS, Dflia Lathrop (Mis. William G. Williams), Delaware, O. Missionary secretary; b. Syracuse, N.Y.. Oct.,

��1836; dau. Philemon and Sophia (Shurtleff) La- throp; ed. public schools, N.Y. State Normal Coll., Albany; N.Y. State Normal School, Os- wego; Ohio Weeleyan Univ., A.M.; Normal Coll., Albany, N.Y., Ped.D.; m. Syracuse, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1877, William G. Williams (prof. Greek In Ohio Wesleyan Univ.); children: George Lathrop of Cincinnati, O. ; Dr. Wright Charles of Peoria, 111. Teacher, organizer of the Worcester (Mass.) Normal School; prin. of Cincinnati Normal School nine years; teacher of English and his- tory in Ohio Wesleyan Univ. nearly 20 years. Nat. cor. sec. Woman's Home Missionary Soc. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Suggested the Ohio Teachers' Reading Circle (organized 1882), the first organization of the kind for teachers, and was pres. of its Board of Control 1882-1905. WILLIAaiS, Dora, 284 Walnut St., Brookllne.

Mass.

Teacher, writer; b. 1859; dau. Francis Charles and Mary Hancock (Gardner) Williams; ed. pri- vate schools. Boston Normal, Radcliffe Coll., Mass. Inst, of Technology. Taught in Mrs. Quincy Shaw's Private School, Roxbury High School, Boston Normal. Mem. Com. on educa- tional advancement, sec. education com. Twen- tieth Century Club. Unitarian, Favors woman suffrage; mem. Political Equality League. Author: Gardens and Their Meanings in Life and Education; writer of miscellaneous articles. Rec- reations: Walking, traveling. Mem. Technology Women's Club, Radcliffe Union, Social Educa- tional Club. WILLIAMS, Elizabeth Gidding:8 (Mrs. Fred A.

Williams), 133 Prospect St., Ashtabula, O.

Born Jefferson, O., Sept. 4, 1865; dau. Joseph Addison and Mary Ann (Curtis) Giddings; ed. Jefferson High School, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y., B.S. '78; m. Jefferson, O., Nov. 9, 1887, Fred A. Williams; one son: Edwin Giddings. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnee, Tourist Club of Ashta- bula, Cornell Woman's Club. WILLIAMS, Elizabeth Sprague, 95 RIvington

St.. N.Y. City.

Settlement worker; b. Buffalo, N.Y.. 1869; dau. Frank and OUve (French) \yilliams; ed. Smith Coll.. B.S. '91; Columbia Univ., A.M. '96. Head worker College Settlement, N.Y. City, since 189S; director Lochanamem Social Center. 1911-12. WILLIAMS. Ellen Poultney. Haverford, Pa.

Farmer, landscape gardener; b. Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1874; dau. J. Randale and Mary Rawle (Deland) V.'illiamis; ed. private school at Haver- ford, Pa. Author: A Garden Calendar. One of the promoters and directors on the board of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women, at Ambler, Pa.; promoter and pres. Main Line School Garden Com. Clubs: The Gardeners, The Weeders (pres.). Merlon Cricket, Haverford Christmas Stocking Club. Am. Forestry Ass'n. Recreations: Riding, shooting, sailing, sewing. knitting. Episcopalian. WILLIAMS, Florence L., 23 School Lane. Ard-

more. Pa.

Teacher; b. Le Roy, N.Y. ; daughter of Lucius Thatcher and Elizabeth (Clark) Williams; grad. from Le Roy High School, regent's diploma with honor. State and university scholarship; Cornell Univ., special mention in Greek, A.B. '98, A.M. '05. Teacher Le Roy High School, 1898-1903; preceptress. Spring Valley High School, 1904-05; teacher of modern languages, high school, Shamokin. Pa., 1905-12; modern languages. Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, Pa., since 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Mem. College Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia branch of Ass'n of Collegiate AlumnEB, Woman's Club of Ardmore, Pa.; former mem. History of Art Club of Le Roy, Cecilian Club of Cornell Univ., Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Traveled In Holland, Germany and Switzerland; studied lu Berlin and Dresden. WILLIAMS, Frances Scndder (Mrs. Samuel

Hubbard Williams), Glastonbury, Conn.

Born Vellore, India; dau. William and Frances Ann (Rousseau) Si-udder; ed. Brooklyn private school, Glastonbury High School, Weilesley Coll., B.A. '85; m. Ranlpettai, Madras Presidency,

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��India, Jan. 9, 1889, Samuel Hubbard Williams; children: Carol Scudder, b. May 1, 1890; Frances Rousseau, b. Nov. 22, 1891; Martha Huntington, b. Oct., 1S96: James Baker, b. July 29, 1900. In- terested and active in church and Sunday-school work, foreign missionary work. Consumers' League of Hartford (pres. eight years), child labor organizations, college settlements. Pres. Alumnaj Ass'n of Wellesley Coll., 1910-12; pres. Graduate Council of Wellesley, 1911-12; trustee of Conn. Coll. for Women; pres. Hartford College Club. Mem. Wellesley, Motherhood, Civic, Cos- mos, Art and Glee Clubs. Recreations: Travel, tennis, golf, swimming, riding. Congregation- alist. Has traveled in India, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Germany, France, England and America.

WD:.I.?XA5;S, Helen Fallowg (Mrs. Edwin Sidney Vv'illiaais), Three Oaks, Saratoga, Cal. Born Oshkosh, Wis. ; dau. Rev. (now Bishop) Samuel and Lucy Bethla (Huntington) Fallows; also special work in Engllsii and languages in Northwestern Univ.; Univ. of Mich.; graduate of Chicago Froebel Kindergarten Inst. (Mrs. Alice H. Putnam's); post-graduate kindergarten work under Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Chicago (mem. Gamma Phi Beta Soc, Mich.); m. N.Y. City, 1908, Rev. Edwin Sidney Williams, D.D. Taught kindergarten in Chicago, 111., public and private, and in Home for Crippled Children (Daisy Fields), Englewood, N.J. ; charity work in United Chari- ties, Newark, N.J. ; also Inspection work in jails for governor of N.J., and psychotherapeutics with physicians in N.Y. City. Associated in Emman- uel movement work with Bishop Samuel Fallows, Chicago. Favors woman suffrage; citizen of Cal. Writer of children's stories. Mem. Reformed Episcopal Church. Republican voter. Mem. Chicago Kindergarten Ass'n, D.A.R. (San Jose, Cal., chapter); mem. Pen and Brush Club (N.Y. City), Monday Club, San Jose, Cal., and Foothill Study Club, Saratoga, Cal.

WILI.1.\MS, Jean Stuart Brown (Mrs. Hannibal A. Williams), 61 S. Union St., Cambridge, N.Y. Interpreter of Shakespeare's plays; b. in Ont., Canada; dau. Rev. Hugh and Margaret (Walker) Brown; ed. Washington Acad., grad. with honors from N.Y. State Normal Coll.; m. Shushan, N.Y., Dec. 26, 1895, Hannibal A. Williams (distin- guished Shakespearian scholar and lecturer). Taught in Adelphi Coll., Brooklyn; prominent in the '90s in N.Y. City as Browning interpreter and scholar. Former mem. N.Y. Shakespeare Club and identified with various professional movements; writer on literary topics. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Nat. Speech Arts Ass'n, N.Y. Browning Soc; made tour around the world with her husband lasting over five years, giving the plays of Shakespeare and studying social and economic conditions. Now engaged in interpreting the Shakespearian drama from the platform in recital and lectures and numbered among lecture corps of many colleges throughout United States. UTI>LIAMS, Lizzie Annie, Public Library, Mai- den, Mass.

Librarian; b. Boston, Mass., Mar. 14, 1852; dau. Ephram Saiwyer and Elizabeth Woodman (New- march) Williams; ed. Cambridge (Mass.) High School, '65; Boston Normal School, 1869-70. Taught in school at Quincy, 1S70-77; ass't Cam- bridge Public Library, 1884-91: since 1891 librarian of the Maiden (Mass.) Public Library. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n, Mass. Library Club. Episcopalian.

WILLIAMS, Lucy White (Mrs. William Brown

Williains), Lapeer, Mich.

Born Lapeer, Mich., Nov. 26, 1858; dau. Enoch J. and Elizabeth (Gaylord) White; ed. in the Lapeer Public School, Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, 111., and Florence, Italy; m. June 17, 1879, Will- iam Brown Williams; children: Harrison Gay- lord, William Kirkwood, Oscar Wisner, Samuel Raymond, Marguerite. Interested in Interna- tional Club work; pres. of the Mich. State Fed. Women's Clubs, 1910-12, elected to Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs B'd of Directors at San Fran- cisco, appointed as treas. of same to fill vacancy. Writes occasionally for magazines. Mem. D.A.R., Colonial Dames. Recreations: Gardening, all out-door sports. Presbyterian. Favors woman

��suffrage; worked for suffrage through local organizations and also through the woman's clubs, as State pres. of Michigan Fed. Women's Clubs.

WH.LIAMS, Mrs. Lydia Adams, Forest Service,

Washing-ton, D.C.

Writer and lecturer on conservation; b. Genoa, Douglas Co., Nevada; dau. of John Quincy Adams (of the old Mass. Adams family; native of Adams Co., 111., named after his father) and Ellen Walsh (Dolan) Adams (native of Montreal) ; grad. Douglas (Nev.) Sem. ; State Normal School at San Jose, Cal. (first honors) ; attended spe- cial lectures in Univ. of Gal. ; m. Herbert Will- iams and was left a widow shortly thereafter. First woman to take up propaganda of conserva- tion of national resources; mem. Woman's Nat. Press AeG'n, in v/hich has been auditor, cor. sec. and has held other otfices; Intemat. League ot Press Clubs; twice rec. sec. D.C. Fed. of Wom- en's Clubs; first vice-pres. Woman's Nat. Rivera and Harbors Congress; nat. chairman Nat. Water- ways Com. of Conservation Dep't of Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs; State chairman of Conservation, Forestry and Waterv/ays in Dlst. of Columbia Fed. of Women's Clubs. Has addressed many conventions, congresses, and otber gatherings on conservation subjects, including Nat. Rivers and HartK>rs Congress and Nat. Irrigation Congress. Author of articles on the waste of natural re- sources and need of conservation In forestry and irrigation, and presented the cause of conserva- tion in 1907 to Dist. of Columbia Fed. and in 1908 to Gen. Fed. and secured active participation of Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, and of the Exec. Board of the D.A.R. The Dist. of Columbia was first to take up conservation. Mem. D.A.R. and Order of Rebekahs. Favors woman suffrage.

WILLIAMS, BI»rtha (Mrs. Theodore Williams),

2S0 Henry St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, Dec. 16, 1858; dau. John and Elizabeth (Mills) Rees; ed. Brooklyn, N.Y., pub- lic schools; m. June 2, 187S, Theodore Williams; children: Oreola, b. Apr. 14, 1879; Harold, b. June 20, 18S2. Interested in church, settlement work, taught in Little Mothers' Home sewing classes. Favors woman suffrage; pres. Kings County Suffrage Ass'n; pres. N.Y. County Ass'n; pres. Harlem E>qual Rights League; captain 18th election dis't, 1st Assembly dis't, Brooklyn, N.Y. Has written for various newspapers in Troy, Brooklyn and New York. Unitarian. Recrea- tions: Reading, travel, lectures, music, drama. Mem. Brooklyn Woman's Health Protective Ass'n, Debating Club of Public Good Soc, New Yorkers, N.Y. Equal Suffrage League; officer in Brooklyn Christmas Tree Soc Has made many public speeches on woman suffrage and philanthropic topics. Was chairman four years of Civic Com. of N.Y. City Fed. of Women's Clubs. WILLLIMS, Martha McCulloeh (Mrs. Thomas

McCulloch Williams), 1649 Amsterdam Av.,

N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Montgomery County, Tenn. ; dau. William B. and Fannie (Williams) (Collins; pri- vately educated; m. Thomas McCulloch Williams (now deceased). Writer of serials as well as many short stories in the leading magazines, one of which, "In Jackson's Purchase," won a prize in the McClure competition. Author: Field Far- ings; Two of a "Trade; Milre; Next to the Ground, etc.

WILLIAMS, Mary A. W. (Mrs. Walter W.

Williams), SOS Jefferson St., Bay City, Mich.

Physician; b. Lima, Mich., 1853; dau. Charles and Laura (Beach) Whitaker; grad. in medicine and surgery, Univ. of Mich., M.D. '91 (Alpha Epsilon lata); m. Lima, Mich., 1872. Walter W. Williams. Practised in Eaton Rapids, Mich., and 15 years in Bay City, Mich. Organized the U and I Club, 1892; interested in Presbyterian Church, the Y.W.C.A., Bay City Humane Soc, Civic League and charitable work in general. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, State and County Med. societies; chairman of Public Health Com. for Bay (io., Mich., under the Am. Med. Ass'n Public Health Com. Presbyterian. Favors woman suf- frage. Republican.

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��WILIylAMS, Mary Gilmore, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley Mass. Teacher; b. Urbana, N.Y., June 9, 1863; dau. Francis Asbupy and Letitla Jane (Clarkl Will- iams; grad. Mt. Holyoke Sem., '85; Univ. of Mich., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '95; Ph.D. '97. Taught In Kerkwood Sem., 1886-89; Lake Erie Sem., 1890-94; Instructor in Greek, Mount Holyoke Coll., 1898-1902; prof. Greek since 1902. WrLLIAJIS, Mary Mayne (Mrs. Samuel Cole Williams), Johnson City, Tenn. Born Basil, O., Sept. 9, 1864; dau. W. F. Mayne, M.D., and Eliza (McNeill) Mayne; ed. Ohio Wes- leyan Univ., Delaware, 0., June, 1884, B.L. (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. July 20, 1892, Samuel Cole Williams, associate Justice of Su- preme Court of Tenn.; children: Mayne (de- ceased), Gertrude Mayne. Mem. Methodist Epis- copal Church South; chairman of City School Improvement Ass'n: regent of John Sevier Chap- ter D.A.R. ; mem. Monday Club. WILLIAMS, Mary Mildred Fancher (Mrs. Syl- vester Niles Williams), Mt. Vernon. Linn Co., Iowa.

Editor; b. Waterloo, Iowa, July 5, 1855; dau. Nelson and Elizabeth (Virden) Fancher; ed. Waterloo and Cornell Coll., Mt. Vernon, Iowa; mem. ^sthesian; m. 1876, Waterloo, Iowa, Syl- vester Niles Williams; children: Elizabetn Vivian, Sylvester Vernon, Eva Fancher. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church; mem. and worker for 30 years in W.C.T.U. (editor of State paper for five years); founded three literary clubs; be- longs to the church missionary societies (foreign and home); official mem. of State Fed. of Iowa Clubs for several years. Delegate, under ap- pointment of Governor Clark, from Iowa to the International Purity Congress, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov., 1913. Favors woman suffrage. Organizer and ex-pres. of Local Suffrage Club. Methodist. Mem. Ingleside, Sorosls and Altruria Clubs.

WIT.LIAMS, Mary Wheeler (Mrs. Benjamin Williams), Tottenvllle, Staten Island, N.Y. Born Varick, N.Y. ; dau. Jonathan and Harriet Allen (Ogden) Wheeler; ed. schools of Geneva, N.Y. ; grad. Wadsworth School, Geneseo, '93; m. Geneva, Dec. 29, 1897, Benjamin Williams. Active in the parish work of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Tottenvllle, N.Y.; also in philanthropic work of Woman's Club of Tottenville; m&m. Civic League of Staten Island. Episcopalian. Recreations: Farming, motoring. Pres. Phile- mon Club (literary and historical). Director from Staten Island to N.Y. City Fed.; mem. D.A.R.

WILLIAMS, Ruth Churchyard (Mrs. Frank F. Williams), 54 Irving PI., Buffalo, N.Y. Born Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 28, 1856; dau. Joseph and Ruth (Bartlett) Churchyard; ed. Buffalo in private, public and high schools; m. Bad-Nau- heim, Germany, June 8, 1887, Frank F. Williams of Buffalo, N.Y. ; children: Olive, Roger Church- yard. Mem. Exec. Com. of Buffalo Peace and Arbitration Soc. ; mem. Exec. Com. of Fitch Crfeche; interested In educational and philan- thropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Uni- tarian. Recreations: Music, gardening. Mem. Twentieth Century Club.

Wn.LIAMS, Theresa OUve Foster (Mrs. Felix M. Williams), 229 Stoner Av., Shreveport, La. Cotton planter; b. Shreveport, La.; dau. .1. M. and Ellen (Long) Foster; ed. Hungeton Sem., Clinton, N.Y., B.A. ; m. Shreveport, La., Jan. 29, 1904, Felix M. Williaias. In experimenting in the stiff bottom lands of La., with lettuce, grew one head 4 feet 8 inches in circumference; was asked by Gov. Sanders to write a book about it. Favors woman suffrage; spoke at Monon- gahela Club, N.Y. City, for Gov. Wilson In cam- paign of 1912. Presbyterian. Recreations: Fencing, swimming, horseback riding, ^riving. WILLIAMS, Velma Curtis (Mrs. Theodore Chickerlng Williams), 99 Mt. Vernon St., Bos- ton, Mass.

Born Medford, Mass. ; dau. Judge Edwin and Helen Maria (Curtis) Wright; ed. Boston and Mt. Holyoke Sem. ; m. Boston, 1883, Rev. Theo- dore Chickerlng Williams, LItt.D. Active three

��years in local settlement work of Boston before marriage and in London after marriage. Com- piled the Hymnal, Amore Dei, and at work on a book of the Schools of Italian Art. Unitarian. Recreation: Art. Formerly pres. N.Y. League of Unitarian Women and Wednesday Afternoon Club of N.Y. City.

WTLLJrAMS-TAyLOR, Jane Fayrer (Lady Will- iams-Taylor), Hans Court, London, S.W., Eng- land, and Fairfield, Sunninghlll, Ascot, Eng- land.

Author; b. Ste. Hyaclnthe, Quebec, Can.; dau. Joshua and Jane (Fayrer) Henshaw; ed. at home by governesses and tutors; m. Montreal, Can., June 2, 1888, Frederick Williams-Taylor (Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, now manager Bank of Montreal in London); children: Brenda, b. 1889; Travers, b. 1894. Prominent in social and liter- ary life In Canada and England; vlce-pres. of Women's Tariff Reform League in Berkshire; lecturer on Canada, French Canadian life, Ca- nadian legends, French Canadian literature. Author: Canadian Legends and Folk Lore; Ca- nadian Celebrities; By Kindness of the Cur6, and many articles and stories on Canadian sub- jects. Mem. The Council of the Victoria League. Clubs: Ladies' Empire, London Sunn^gdale Golf Club, Royal Montreal Golf Club, tadies' Country CJlub of Nice, France. Recreations: Riding, motoring, music, traveling, fishing, sail- ing. Mem. Church of England. Believes In women of property having the vote, a modified suffragist, strictly non-militant. WILLIAMSON, Josephine Gillette (Mrs. Charles Spencer Williamson), 1351 Dearborn Av., Chi- cago, 111.

Born Chicago, Nov. 19, 1868; dau. Anson Tuller and Isabella A. (Colbum) Gillette; grad. Dear- born Sem., Chicago, 1886 (hon. mem. Alpha Ep- silon Iota) ; m. (1st) Chicago, Thomas J. Stll- well (died 1897); (2d) Chicago, 1903, Dr. Charles Spvencer Williamson; children: Mary Josephine Williamson, Isabel Gillette Williamson, Elizabeth Spencer Williamson. Teacher in primary grades in the Houghteling School and Dearborn Sem., 1894-1902. Director Home for Convalescent Women and Children; associate of the Sisters of St. Mary; mem. Exec. Com. Juvenile Protective Ass'n (League No. 12). Against woman suf- frage. EJpiscopalian. Mem. the Antiquarian, The Fortnightly, Woman's City Club.

AVTLLIAMSON, Katherine Marie (Mrs. Frank Williamson), 1641 Washington St., Denver, Colo.

Proofreader; b. Litchfield, Conn.; dau. Nicholas and Margaret (Shannon) Burke; ed. Des Moines (la.) Convent of Sisters of Mercy; m. Des Moines, 1883, Frank Williamson (died 1902); one daugh- ter: Tava Margaret (Mrs. Ralph Edward Kenny); granddaughter: Virginia Williamson Kenny. In- terested In the shorter work day for men and women, child labor laws, minimum wage for un- organized, unskilled workers, equality and justice for all persons, equal wage for women. Contralto soloist In chuiches of Des Moinee; first woman factory Inspector of Colo. ; first woman pure food Inspector of Colo. Mem. Typographical Union, No. 49; Woman's Trade Union League of Denver, Jane Jefferson Democratic Club, Public Service League; vice-chairman Nat. Woodrow Wilson Club. Chairman Legislation Com. Colo. Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Board of Directors Wom- an's Club of Denver, Board of Directors Woman's Press Club of Denver. Recreations: Music, mountains during vacation; employed on Denver Post. Catholic. Favors woman suffrage. Demo- crat; mem. Board of Directors Colo. Equal Suf- frage Aas'n.

WILLIAMSON, Mary Jane Robinson (Mrs.

Chalmers Meek Williamson), 714 North State

St., Jackson, Miss.

Born Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3, lS'i7; dau. John and Mary Jane (Bradford) Robinson; ed. Fair- mont Coll. (Cumberland Mountains), Monteagle, Tenn., 1879-83; m. Jackson, Miss.. Oct. 26, 1887, Chalmers Meek Williamson; children: Chalmers Meek Jr., b. Sept. 16, 1888. Mem. Woman's Guild of Episcopal Church. Local chairman of Playground Com.; pres. Civic League. Favors

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��■woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mom. Colonial Dames, Mayflower See, D.A.R., U.S. Daughters of 1812, United Daughters of Confederacy, Hugue- not Sec, Daughters of Holland Dames. WILLIA>lSON, Mary Lynn (Mrs. M. White

Williamson), New Market St., Shenandoah

Co., Va.

Teacher 30 years; b. Midway, Albemarle Co., Va., May 4, 1850; dau. Dr. Peachy Rush and Mary FraJices (Rodes) Harrison; ed. Farmville Female Coll., 1863-65; special student in classics at Univ. of Va., under Dr. Francis H. Smith and Mary Stuart Smith, 1865-68; Richmond Fe- male Coll., Va., 1868-69; m. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2, 1874, M. White Williamson; children: Mary, Rush Harrison, Martha White, Isabel Hereford. Teacher in Georgetown Female Coll., in New Market Home School and New Market High School. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee for Children; The Life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson ("Stone- wall") for Children; The Life of Washington; The Life of Major Gen. J. E. B. Stuart for the Young; also fugitive magazine articles. Episco- palian. Mem. Woman's Memorial Soc. of the Lost Cause, New Market, Va. (pres.). WXLMS, Eola, 72 Tradd St., Charleston, S.C.

Artist; b. Dalton, Ga.; dau. Major Edward and Elizabeth Louise (Hammond) Willis; ed. Charles- ton Female Sem. (first honor), and in N.Y. City; ground work of art study at Charleston Art School, and four years in N.Y. City at Art Stu- dents' League and The Centenary; studied under William M. Chase; later also in Paris. Artist and lecturer on art; pictures have received hon- orable mention at two expositions. Pre«. Advent Guild of St. Michael's Church; pres. of Arts and Crafts; mem. Carolina Art Ass'n. Favors equal franchise. Editor two years on a Southern pub- lication. Press correspondent from Paris for local papers; contributor to Century and other magazines and newspapers. Episcopalian. Mem. Huguenot Soc, D.A.R., Governing Board of People's Forum, Century Club. WILLIS, Gwendolen Brown, 941 Lake Av., Ra- cine, Wis.

College professor; ed. Univ. of Chicago, A.B. '96- Bryn Mawr Coll., Ph.D. '06; graduate student Univ of Chicago, 1900-01; American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1901-02; fellow in Greek Bryn Mawr Coll., 1902-04; student Columbia Univ., 1910-11. Professor of Greek in Milwaukee-Downer Coll., and teacher of Latin in the Milwaukee-Downer Sem. since 1904. WIT-LIS, Mary Jasper (Mrs. Richard B. Willis),

206 North East St., Fayetteville, Ark.

Teacher, writer; b. Washington, D.C.; dau. John Holmes and Sarah M. (Komper) Bocock; ed. Ann Smith Acad., Lexington, Va. ; Mary Baldwin Sem., Staunton, Va. ; Kemper Family School, Boonville, Mo.; received at the Mary Baldwin Sem certification and graduation in Latin, French, English; m. Hampden-Sidney, Va., Dec. 15 1886 Rev. Richard B. Willis, D.D.; children: Marguerite K., b. 18S9; Richard Bocock, b. 1805. Was pres. of the Phoenix Club of Searcy, Ark., for four years; pres. of the Ark. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1906-08; State historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for nine years, now State pres. of the Ark. Division, U.D.C.; regent Marion Chapter D.A.R. in Fayetteville; chairman Historical Com. of Ark. Fed. of Wo- men's Clubs; pres. Twentieth Century Club; mem Advisory Board Y.W.C.A. of State Univ. Author: History in the South; The Poster Girl; The Old Education as Compared with the New (Arkansas Gazette); has written poems, given by the Little Rock Chapter United Daughters of Confederacy as souvenirs at the Gen. United Daughters of Confederacy Convention in l.-ilO; other poems and cl'jb papers that have been read throughout the State. Has been in ■ two notable debates in the Ark. Fed. ; was on the program of the Gen. Fed. in 1908 in Boston; has frequently addressed high school students on Southern literature and kindred subjects. Mem. D.A.R., Scholarship Club, Fayetteville, Ark.; pres. Twentieth Century Study Club. Recrea- tions: Tennis, horseback riding, Tennyson,

��Browning, George Eliot. Presbyterian. Against

woman suffrage.

WILLISTON, Constance Bigelow, 15 Berkeley

St., Cambridge, Mass.

Teacher; b. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 18, 1873; dau. Lyman Richards and Annie E. (Gale) Wil- liston; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. Teacher in Miss Ingols' School, Cambridge, 1896-1905; principal ol Berkeley St. School, Cambridge, 1905-12; head of Lower School, Cambridge School for Girls, Inc., 1912 — . Interested in societies in connection with church, single tax, suffrage. Mem. Smith College Alumnffi Ass'n, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnee, Rad- cliffe Union. 'Tliursday Club and various church clubs. Recreations: Photography, walking, thea- tre, music. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Cambridge Political Equality Ass'n. WIIXITS, Mary, 144 East Thirty-seventh St., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Syosset, Long Island, N.Y., 1863; dau. William S. and Fannie N. (Hewlett) Willits; grad. Swarthmore Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '84 (valedictorian of class); med. course at Wom- an's Med. Coll., N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children, M.D. '98. Since graduation engaged in general practice of medicine in N.Y. City. Fa- vors woman suffrage.

WILLOUGHBY, Edythe Fuller (Mrs. Hugh de Laussat Wllloughby, Jr.), Mandalay, Sewall's Point, Fla., and 269 Kent Road, Wynnewood, Pa.

Born Milwaukee, Wis., July 22, 1883; dau. Oliver Clyde and Kate Fitzhugh (Caswell) Ful- ler; ed. Milwaukee-Downer Coll. and Misses Ely's School in N.Y. City; m. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 6, 1906, Hugh de Laussat Willoughby Jr.; one son: Hugh de Laussat Willoughby 3d. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recrea- tions. Golf, motor boating. Mem. St. Augus- tine (Fla.) Golf Club.

WILLSON, Almyra Henderson (Mrs. Howard T. Wlllson), Goodland Place, Virden, 111. Born Virden, 111.; dau. John Provine and Maxie Z. (Bronaugh) Henderson; ed. Mt. Vernon Sem., Washington, D.C. ; New England Conserva- tory of Music, Boston, and Paris, France; m. Goodland Place, Virden, 111.; Sept. 28, 1898, How- ard T. Willson. Mem. Art Com. of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; ex-chairman Art Dep't III. Fed. Women's Clubs; chairman Educational Dep't Vir- den Woman's Clubs. Mem. Christian Church. Mem. Am. Fed. of Arts, Washington, D.C; Va. Historical Soc, Chicago Soc. of Etchers. Active in Amateur Musical Club and the Country Club (Springfield, 111.), Virden Women's Club and Clio Club (Virden). Favors woman suffrage. WILMABTH, Mary J. Hawes (Mrs. Henry M. Wilmarth), Congress Hotel, Chicago, III. (sum- mer. Lake Geneva, Wis.).

Born New Bedford, Mass., 1837; dau. Shubael and Nancy B. (Smith) Hawes; ed. Friends Acad, and other schools in New Bedford; grad. Kimball Union Acad., Meridian, N.H., and pursued later studies in France and Italy; m. Meriden, Conn., May 21, 1861, Henry M. Wilmarth; children: Fanny, Stella, Anna. Was one of the first board of trustees of Hull House; delegate to the Nat. Convention of the Progres-sive Party, 1S12; chair- man of the Woman's General Cora, on the Edu- cational Congress of the World's Columbian Ex- position, Chicago, 1893. Favors v/oraan suflrage. Congregationalist. Progressive in politics. Mem. Consumers' League of 111., Political Equality League. Recreation: Reading. Mem. Fortnightly, Women's, Woman's City (honorary pres.). Wo- man's Athletic and Twentieth Century Clubs of Chicago.

WILMEB, Margaret Elizabeth, 354 E. Eigh- teenth St., Flatbush, L.I., N.Y. Writer; dau. Lambert A. Wiler (judge, author and journalist) and Sidney A. Wilmer. Contrib- utor of articles, stories and poems to various magazines and periodicals; has done editorial work for several newspapers. Author: The Glass Cable; The Nine Prizes; The Lestrange Family; Eva's Engagement Ring; The Dumb Traitor; Haunted Islands; Little Girl in Black; Prince of Good Fellows; Sliver Castle; for several years on regular staff of writers for the Nat. Temperance

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Soc. and for Presbyterian Board of Publication, suffrage. Has written a book of travel for

Has been actively engaged in temperance work, children: In Eastern Wonderlands; also travel

Presbyterian. Mem. W.C.T.U. articles in magazines. Episcopalian. Favors

WILMERDING. Georgiana L. (Mra. John C. 'Vlv^infli^rpn*?"'^ "^"""^^ ^^° ^'^^ '*= ''"^°°"

WUmertUng), 19 W. Thirty-flrst St., N.Y. City. ^"^ 'oainerent.

Born N.Y. City: dau. Charles A. and Georgiana WILSON, Ella Calister (Mrs. Daniel Munro

L. (Coster) Heckscher; ed. in N.Y. City by Wilson), Kennebunk, Me.

governesses and professors; m. N.Y. City, John Born Boston, Mar. 22, 1851; dau. George and

C Wilmerding (died 1903); children: Georgiana Lucy (Guernsey) Handy; ed. Boston Girls' High

(Mrs. Ansel Phelps), Edward Coster. Against and Normal School and some private teaching;

woman suffrage. Episcopalian. ni- Boston, 1873, Rev. Daniel Munro Wilson;

.^., ^.^™, ... »^ ,r ^, ^x J. nnc childrcn: Helen C, Marjorie, Ronald Munro.

WLLMOT. Alta E.. Van Dyck Studios, 939 Taught school in Boston until marriage. Spe-

Elghth Av., N.Y. City. .. . „• i, cially interested in educational matters. Favors

Miniaturist an(J portrait painter; b. in Mich.; woman suffrage. Author: A Royal Hunt; Peda-

dau. Charles Tracy and Catherine (North) Wil- gogues and Parents; and several smaller things

mot; ed. New York and Paris, receiving medals ^nd short stories Unitarian

P.rf/^Miw^v.'iv Ph1f,'J,-.,nh,^.lH!H°rh\°n.i;°'^°°' VVILSON. Ellen Axscn (Mrs. Woodrow Wilson),

Pans, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. ^,^^ .^^1^^ ^^^^^^ Washington, D.C.

WILSHIRE, Mary (Mrs. Gaylord Wilshire), Born Savannah, Ga. ; dau. Rev. Edward and Heathslde, Hampstead Heath, London, Eng- Margaret J. (Hoyt) Axson; ed. private schools land. in Ga., and Art Students' League, N.Y. City; Writer; b. N.Y. City, May 1, 1880; dau. Judge m. Savannah, Ga., June 24, 1885, Woodrow Wil- W. E. McReynolds and Jane (Washington) Me- son; children: Margaret Woodrow, Jessie Wood- Reynolds; ed. schools of N.Y. City; m. April row, Eleanor Randolph. Interested as member 10, 1904, Gaylord Wilshire; one son, Logan Gay- in various religious and philanthropic acsocia- lord, b. Aug. 29, 1907. Active in Socialist organ- tions. State and local. Presbyterian. Mem. izations in N.Y. City and more recently in N.J. Soc. of Colonial Dames of America and London, where she is identified with the Syndi- thf> Artists' Guild of Philadelphia. Recreation: calist movement. Favors woman suffrage. Con- Landscape painting. Mem. Present Day Club, tributor to Wilshire's Magazine and other pub- Princeton.

lications. Syndicalist. Recreations: Golf, moun- vFiLgoN, Elmina. 452 W. 149th St., N.Y. City,

taineenng. Structural engineer; b. Harper, la., Sept. 29,

WILSON, Alda Heaton, 452 W. 149th St., N.Y. 1870; dau. John C. and Olive (Eaton) Wilson;

City. ed. public school, Iowa State Coll., grad. B.C.E.

Architect; b. Harper, la., Sept. 20, 1873; dau. '92, C.E. '94; special work at Cornell and Mass.

John C. and Olive (Eaton) Wilson; ed. public Inst, of Technology and two years in Europe

school, Iowa State Coll., grad. B.C.E., '94; special (mem. PI Beta Phi). Ass't prof, of civil engi-

Btudent in architecture, Mass. Inst, of Technol- neering at la. State Coll.; now designing struc-

ogy; two years' travel and study in Europe tural steel frame work of tall buildings in N.Y.

(mem. Pi Beta Phi). Favors woman suffrage. City. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Woman's

Mem. College Equal Suffrage League, Woman Suffrage Party, Coll. Equal Suffrage League,

Suffrage Party, Woman's Political Union. Rec- Woman's Political Union. Recreations: Tennis,

reatlons: Tennis, horseback riding. Mem. N.Y. golf, horseback riding. Mem. N.Y. Alumnae Club

Alumnae Club, Pi Beta Phi, Iowa New Yorkers of Pi Beta Phi, Iowa New Yorkers, Round Table

Club, Round Table Club. Club.

WILSON, Bird M., Goldfleld and Indian AVILSON, Emily Rambo Anderson (Mrs. C. Springs, Nev. Colket Wilson), Malvern, Pa, Lawyer; h. Sandoval, 111., May 20, 1874; dau. Bom Morristown, Pa., May 11, 1863; dau. A. Hazen and Susan (Dean) Wilson; ed. high school, Jackson and Helen S. (Rambo) Anderson; ed. Fort Madison, la.; Univ. of Cal., LL.B. First Miss Hayman's private school, Morristown, and woman admitted to practice in U.S. Courts of Woman's Med. Coll., Philadelphia; m. Bridge- California. Active in securing legislation for port. Conn., Oct. 12, 1887, C. Colket Wilson; betterment of women and children and conserva- children: Helen Colket Jr., Winfield Jackson, tlon of forests and waters. Favors woman suf- Emily, Dana. Pres. local branch Home and trage. Vice-pres. State Equal Franchise Soc. of School Ass'n. Episcopalian. Vice-pres. Woman's Nevada. Pres. Esmeralda Co. Franchise Soc; Gyild of Washington Memorial Chapter, Valley organizer of suffrage clubs and active worker. Forge.

Btate regent D A.R. Recreations: Ranching re- WILSON, Ethel Brown (Mrs. Guy Wilson),

claiming desert, music. Unitarian. Mem. Call- Laurel Neb

rornla (31ub (San I^ancisco) GoMfleld Woman'^ ^^^^ Adell,' la., Dec. 1, 1879; dau. Milliard T.

S"'^'in'^r?'n^;.^v.fin^ ri^ ■ ^^ ^ancy Isabell (Ross) Brown; ed. Neb. State

Tamalpals Conservation Club. Univ. two years, Univ. of Washington, A.B., cum

WILSON, Caroline Hardy (Mrs. Henry P. WU- laude, 1909; also normal diploma; m. Camas,

son), 152 William St., New Bedford, Mass. Wash., July, 1910, Guy Wilson. Teacher, prin.

Bom Dedham, Mass., July 19, 1867; dau. Am- of Ward School. Pressor, Wash.; ass't prin. and

brose and Mary (Macy) Hardy; ed. New Bedford teacher of English, Waterville, Wash. Presby-

High School and Swain School, New Bedford; terian. Active in Sunday-school and missionary

m. New Bedford, Jan. 22, 1886, Henry P. Wilson; society. Mem. P.E.O. Sisterhood, Y.W.C.A.,

children: Edna, Elsie, Henry, Mary, Edward, Alumni Ass'n of Univ. of Washington. Mem.

Gertrude, Caroline, Elliot, Olive. Teacher of il- Laurel Tuesday Club.

literate Immigrant Portuguese women; one of WILSON, Flora, The Portland, Washington,

the six on the new limited school board. Inter- DC

ested in the education, physical, mental and professional singer; b. Cedar Rapids, la.,

moral welfare of children Pres^ New Bedfo^^^^ 1877 ^^^ j^^^^ (Secretary of Agriculture) and

Womans Cluh. Recreations: Gardening, fruit Esther (Wilbur) Wilson; grad. Iowa State Coll.

culture. Episcopalian. g^ -g^. studied music In Chicago Conserva-

WILSON, Charlotte Cliafifee (Mrs. John Cham- tory and in N.Y. City, and five years in Paris;

berlaln Wilson), Cosmos Club, Washington, Instructors in Paris, Julian and Jean de Reszke;

D.C. sang in concert in London, Paris, Lucerne,

Born Rutland, Vt., July 12, 1876; dau. Col. Monte Carlo and all principal cities of U.S. tor

William R. Gibson, U.S.A., and Frances L. three years. Interested in helping blind of

(Thrall) Gibson; ed. public and private schools Washington, and has frequently read to them

In Leavenworth, Kan.; San Antonio, Tex. and In the pavilion at the Congressional Library.

Philadelphia, Pa.; m. London, Jan. 31, 1908, Favors woman suffrage. Made several sulTrago

John Chamberlain Wilson; one daughter: Eliza- speeches In Cal. prior to vote that resulted in

beth, b. Nov. 20, 1909. Children's librarian, franchise Oct. 10, 1911. Author: Out of the

Washington Co. Free Library, Hagerstown, Storm; also articles on the Monticello contro-

Md., Oct 1902, to Dec, 1907. Favors woman versy. Presbyterian. Recreations: Horseback

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