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100 Riverside, Cal, 1894-95; Redlands, CaL. 1898-99; Long Beach, Cal., 1902-03; State Normal School, San Diego, Cal., since 1904. Author: Guide to Middle English Metrical Romances (Yale studies in English), 1899.

BINFORD, Florence Clark (Mrs. John H. Binford), Greenfield, Ind.

Born Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 29, 1854; dau. John H. and Marion L. (Shippy) Clark; ed. Fort Wayne public schools; Fort Wayne Methodist Episcopal Coll. (now moved); grad. Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle; m. Fort Wayne, Ind., Mar. 25, 1891, John H. Binford; children: John Clark, b. May 16, 1892; Morton C., b. Oct. 26, 1893. Sec. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of North Indiana Conference. Interested in the Indiana State Audubon Soc. and in all economic questions for the uplift of humanity Mem. Cosmopolitan Club. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

BINFORD, Jessica Florence, Hull House, Chicago, Ill.

Social worker; b. Iowa; grad. Rockford Coll., B.A. 1900. Soon after graduation became a resident of Hull House and has since been interested in its activities and active in associated charities. Methodist.

BINGHAM, Amelia (Mrs. Lloyd M. Bingham), 40 E. Thirty-first St., N.Y. City.

Actress; b. Hicksville, O., 1869; dau. John B. and Marie (Hoffman) Smiley; ed. Ohio Wesleyan Univ.; m. Lloyd M. Bingham. Began stage career with McKee Rankin in a tour on the Pacific Coast; first N.Y. appearance was at the People's Theatre in the melodrama The Struggle of Life, followed consecutively by engagements at Niblo's Garden in The Power of Gold, at the 14th St. Theatre in The Village Postmaster, at the American Theatre in Captain Impudence, and other plays; at the Academy of Music in Charles Frohman's production of The White Heather; became leading woman in His Excellency the Governor at the Empire Theatre, followed by other leading roles in N.Y. City and Philadelphia productions. Organized, 1901, the Amelia Bingham Co., and has since produced her own plays, including The Climbers, A Modern Magdalen, The Frisky -rs. Johnson, A Modern Lady, and others. Methodist. Mem. Professional Woman's League; vice-pres. Twelfth Night Club; pres. American Playgoers.

BINGHAM, Lena Maud ("Helena Bingham"), 6119 Greenwood Av., Chicago, Ill.

Writer, singer, composer, publisher; b. Harvard, Ill., Feb. 19, 1870; dau. Dr. Abel Clinton and Estelle (Barnes) Bingham; ed. Harvard High School and private teachers in piano, voice and theory. Composer of songs: Beatitudes; Jes' Yo' Wait; Life; Sunset and Evening Star (Tennyson poem); It is Not Raining Rain to Me (words by Robert Loveland). Songs (book of songs): The Balloon Man and Other Songs for Children (book of 17 songs); Equality (suffrage song), and others (about 200) under pen-name of "Helena Bingham." Recitalist of original songs and stories; gives freely of talents to church societies, social settlements and other philanthropic movements. Congregationalist. Mem. Ill. State Suffrage Ass'n, Cook County Suffrage Alliance (vice-pres. for Seventh Ward of Chicago).

BINGHAM, Lucille Rutherfurd (Mrs. Theodore A. Bingham), 59 W. 45th St., N.Y. City.

Born St. Louis; dau. Thomas Scott and Lucile Tison Rutherfurd; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis, Mo.; Va. Female Inst, Staunton, Va. ; m. St. Louis. 1881, Theodore A. Bingham (now Brig.-Gen. U.S.A., retired); one son: Rutherfurd Bingham, b. 1884. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

BINGHAM, Mary Homer, 1125 W. Twenty-first St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Settlement worker; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '92. Has been connected with college settlement work and kindred activities since 1894; ass't probation officer of Juvenile Court of Los Angeles County since 1910. Pres. Smith Coll. Ass'n of Southern California.

BIRD, Anna Child (Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird), "Endean," East Walpole, Mass.

Born Worcester, Mass., Jan. 13, 1856; dau. Elisha Norwin and Elizabeth Humphrey (Martin) Child, ed. public schools, Worcester; Oread private school (Miss Williams), Worcester; Miss Putnam's School, Boston; m. Worcester, Oct. 19, 1880, Charles Sumner Bird of East Walpole, Mass.; children: Frances William, b. July 4, 1881; Charles Sumner Jr., b. Sept. 29, 1884; Edith Harlan, b. May 27, 1887; Joanne, b. August 15, 1889. Mem. Episcopal Church. Pres. of Wednesday Club of East Walpole for many years (women's club devoted to civic betterment) and active in many committees; interested in social and philanthropic work; pres. Welfare Nurse's Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive in politics. Mem. Women's Municipal League, Boston; Royal Soc. of Arts, London; North British Soc., England. Mem. Chilton Club of Boston.

BIRD, Harriet Williams (Mrs. George E. Bird), Yarmouth (P.O. Yarmouthville), Me.

Born Yarmouth, Me., April 28, 1863; dau. Leonard and Mary (Pratt) Williams; ed. high school. Yarmouth, Me.; Wellesley Coll., B.S. '85; m. Yarmouth, Me., July 8, 1890, George E, Bird (now associate justice Supreme Court of Maine). Taught in Yarmouth High School, and for three years in Portland (Me.) High School (mathematics). Organizer and pres. of Yarmouth Village Improvement Soc. Mem. College Club, Country Club (Portland), Woman's Club (Yarmouth). Recreations: Travel, club work, social life. Unitarian. Against woman suffrage.

BIRD, Maria Elvy (Mrs. William Bird), Broadview, Saskatchewan, Can.

Born Gloucestershore, August, 1845; dau. Joseph and Maria (Smith) Reynolds; ed. private school and by governess; m. Therfield, Herts, England, 1868, William Bird (died 1890); children: Joseph, Percy, Ethel, Harold, Reynold, Florence, Mabel, Mattie Walter (all deceased). Farmer and author. Went to England by favor of Canadian Pacific Railway to lecture on Western Canada. Author: My Start in Canada; Some of My Neighbors; Eveline's Lament; also many other articles, journalistic and otherwise; at one time, wrote regularly for the English Christian World, Leisure Hour, etc. Congregationalist. Liberal in politics. Recreation: Whist.

BIRDSALL, Anna Palmyra, Wallkill, N.Y.,

General sec. Y.W.C.A; b. Wallkill, N.Y.; dau. Samuel A. and Marion (Blair) Birdsall; ed. Earlham Coll., Richmond, Ind., Ph.B. 1892-95; one year post-grad. work Bryn Mawr Coll., 1899-1900; summer term Univ. of Chicago, 1904. Gen. sec. Y.W.C.A., Poughkeepsie, 1900-03; Grand Rapids, 1904-07; ass't pastor Mt. Morris Baptist Church, N.Y. City, 1910; gen. sec. Y.W.C.A., Indinapolis, Ind., 1911; San Antonio, Tex., 1912. Interested in settlement and church work of all kinds. Mem. Friends Church. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Suffrage Ass'n of San Antonio, Tex.

BIRDSALL, Katharine Newbold, 18 Washington Terrace, E. Orange, N.J.

Editor, writer; b. Cornwall, N.Y., April 29, 1877; dau. James and Mariana (Townsend) Birdsail; ed. N.Y. City schools. Editor Children's Magazine. 1906-09; Over Sea and Land Magazine since 1910. Contributor to magazines. Editor The Young People's Book Shelf (20 volumes). Proprietor of Model Children's Page Newspaper Syndicate. Author: Jacks of All Trades; How to Make Money; editor Volume 1, The Foundation Library; part author of The First Seven Years.

BIRDSALL, Virginia Field (Mrs. Albert T. Birdsall), 521 Clinton Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Montreal, Canada; ed. in schools of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '99; m. June 15, 1904, Dr. Albert T. Birdsall; one son. Teacher in Girls' High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1899-1902.

BIRDSEYE, Miriam, 31 Liberty St., N.Y. City.

Teacher; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 18, 1878; dau. Clarence F. and Ada (Underwood) Birdseye;


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Rh ed. Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn; Smith Coll., A.B. '01; Pratt Inst, diploma in normal domestic science '07. Taught household economy at Hebrew Technical School for Girls, N.Y. City, and at Simmons Coll.; served for a year in the dep't of health and economics of the Nat. Electric Lamp Ass'n of Cleveland, O., investigating working conditions for the women employees in their factories; head of dep't of household economy at Bates Coll., 1911-12. Mem. Nat. Soc. for Promotion of Industrial Education, Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll. Recreations: Sailing, swimming, walking. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

BIRKS, Julia Miles (Mrs. Frederick M. Birks), 112 Roanoke Av., Peoria, Ill.

Born Peoria, Ill., July 31, 1874; dau. Hon. Philo B. and Maria Helen (Wrenn) Miles; ed. Peoria High School and Wells Coll., A.B. '97; m. June 6, 1901, Frederick Massey Birks. Devoted to the study of history, prominent in social life in Peoria. Mem. Visiting Nurse Com. of Associated Charities, Civic Fed. of Peoria; ex-pres. College Club of Peoria; ex-pres. Western Ass'n of Wells Coll.; mem. Friday Club, Amateur Musical Club. Recreations: Golf, flower gardening, motoring. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage Club of Peoria.

BISBEE, Genevieve, 38 E. Sixtieth St., N.Y. City.

Musician and teacher of piano; b. Rockford, Ill.; dau. Horatio and Martha Florida (Flotard) Bisbee: ed. Mrs. Kirk's School, N.Y. City: Berlin and Leipzig, Germany, and Leschetizky's School in Vienna, Austria. Teacher of piano by the Leschetizky method; composer. Has written a booklet: Leschetizky and His Method. Episcopalian. Mem. United Daughters of the Confederacy.

BISHOP, Alice Lyman (Mrs. Charles Alvord Bishop), Monrovia, Cal.

Born Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 6, 1872; dau. Richard H. and Emma A. (Wiley) Lyman; grad. Wyoming High School, Wyoming, Hamilton Co., Ohio, 1890; attended Mt. Holyoke Coll. (one year), 1890-91; m. Des Moines, Iowa, June 25, 1902, Judge Charles Alvord Bishop; one daughter: Alice Roxana Bishop, b. Sept. 5, 1903. Interested in Parent-Teachers' Ass'n work. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Republican. Recreations: Gardening, motoring, outdoor life. Mem. and recording sec. Monrovia Woman's Club.

BISHOP, Elizabeth Loraine, The Western College, Oxford, O.

Teacher; b. Hannibal, Wis.; dau. William M. and Harriette A. (Warner) Bishop; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '97, A.M. '98; Univ. of Chicago, grad. study. Prof. Latin in the Western Coll. for Women, Oxford, O. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Archaeological Inst. of America, Classical Ass'n of Middle West and South. Congregationalist.

BISHOP, Emily Montague (Mrs. Coleman E. Bishop), 600 W. 192d St., N.Y. City.

Lecturer, reader, health culturlst; b. Forestville, N.Y., Nov. 3, 1858; dau. Asa L. and Ann E. (DeWitt) Mulkin; ed. in Forestville (N.Y.) High School; m. Silver Creek, N.Y., Coleman E. Bishop. Dramatic reader; lecturer and teacher at Chautauqua Assembly, Chautauqua Lake, N.Y., since 1889; joint principal and director of health culture dep't in School of Expression; writer on literary and health topics. Author: Health and Self-Expresslon; Interpretative Forms of Literature; Seventy Years Young; Daily Ways to Health.

BISHOP, Harriette Anna (Mrs. William M. Bishop), 74 Pitcher St., Detroit, Mich.

Teacher; b. Burlington, Vt., Aug. 7, 1845; dau. William and Harriet B. (Leach) Warner; ed. Detroit High School; Vassar Coll., A.B. '67; m. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 13, 1870, William M. Bishop of Hannibal, Mo. (died 1878); children: William Warner, Helen Louise, Elizabeth Loraine. Teacher Detroit High School since 1878. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Phi Beta Kappa Soc., College Club of Detroit.

BISHOP, Helen Louise, 74 Pitcher St., Detroit, Mich.

Teacher; b. Hannibal, Mo., Nov. 7, 1872; dau. William Melancthon and Harriette Anna (Warner) Bishop; grad. Detroit High School, Vassar Coll., A.B. '97; Univ. of Mich., A.M. '04; American School of Classical Studies in Rome, 1900-01. Teacher in high school, Covington, Ind., 1898-99; Rockford Coll., 1902-03; Meredith Coll., Raleigh, N.C., 1905-07; Detroit Central High School since 1908. Author: The Fountain of Juturna in the Roman Forum. Congregationalist. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Ass'n Collegiate Alumna, College Club of Detroit.

BISHOP, Nelle Smith (Mrs. Alwood Lawrence Bishop), 52 Idlewood Av., Cleveland, O.

Born Des Moines, la.. May 21, 1877; dau. Lewis C. and Ida (Clapp) Smith; ed. West Des Moines High School and Rachel Clark's School for Girls, Des Moines; m. Des Moines, 1902, A. L. Bishop; one son: Alwood Lawrence Bishon Jr., b. 1903. Interested in women's departmental clubs and federation of clubs. Episcopalian. Recreation; Social life. Mem. Cleveland Olia Podvida Club, Cleveland Woman's Club (pres. three years, now resigned). Cor. sec. Cleveland Fed. Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage.

BISHOP, Susan Washburne (Mrs. William D. Bishop), 199 Courtland Hill, Bridgeport, Conn.

Born Raynham, Mass.; dau. Hon. Elihu B. Washburne (U.S. Senator, U.S. Minister to France, etc.) and Adele (Gratiot) Washburne; ed. in Europe; m. William D. Bishop; children: Natalie B. Reyburn, William D. Bishop Jr. Mem. Soc. of Colonial Dames, Huguenot Soc., Soc. of Mayflower Descendants.

BISPHAM, Caroline Russell (Mrs. David S. Bispham), 150 E. Thirty-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Daughter of late Gen. Charles S. and Anna Elizabeth (Fletcher) Russell; ed. Washington, D.C., and lived abroad for 23 years; m. St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, April 28, 1885, David S. Bispham; children: Vida, b. Florence, Italy; Leonie A. F. Carnegie, b. London; David, b. London, Eng. Composer of songs and author of short stories and poems. Roman Catholic. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Gardening, driving. Clubs: York (N.Y. City), West Chester Country (West Chester, Pa.).

BISSELL, Bertha Abby Nichols (Mrs. Horace G. Bissell), East Greenwich, R.I.

Born East Greenwich, R.I., 1870; dau. John Champlin and Phebe A. (Rice) Nichols; ed. East Greenwich Acad., 1891; Smith Coll., 1891-92; Brown Univ., Ph.B. 1892-95 (Alpha Beta, charter mem.); m. East Greenwich, R.I., Nov. 8, 1905, Horace G. Bissell. Treas. East Greenwich branch of the Woman's Auxiliary (Episcopal Church); mem. District Nurse Ass'n of East Greenwich, Bethesda Circle of King's Daughters of East Greenwich. Mem. R.I. Soc. for the Collegiate Education of Women, R.I. branch Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Alumnae Ass'n of Brown Univ.; pres. Providence Fortnightly Club. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BISSELL, Mary Taylor (Mrs. Willard Parker Bissell), Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Physician; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Rev. E. E. L. and Mary J. (Perkins) Taylor; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '75; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '81; m. Willard Parker Bissell (deceased); one son: Philip Bissell (deceased). Practised medicine in N.Y. City; medical director physical training for 10 years of Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Club, N.Y. City; prof. hygiene, N.Y. Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, five years; exec. sec. N.Y. State Consumers' League, 1908-11, Investigating health of working women, etc., in factories and stores. Established a Rest House for Semi-Invalids at Marlborough, N.Y., 1912. Author: Physical Exercise for Women; Manual of Hygiene, and various papers in Popular Science Monthly. Mem. State Med. Soc, Ulster County Med. Soc, Woman's Med. Soc. of N.Y. and vicinity. Woman's University Club, Vassar Alumnae Ass'n.

BISSELL, Marie Truesdale (Mrs. Richard M. Bissell), 351 Farmington Av., Hartford, Conn.

Born Terre Haute, Ind., Sept 14, 1879; dau.

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102 William Haynes and Annie (Topping) Truesdale; ed. Chicago private schools; Miss Dana's School, Morristown, N.J.; m. Greenwich, Conn., June 25, 1901, Richard M. Bissell; children: William, Anne Carolyn, Richard Mervin. Actively interested in various Hartford charitable organizations. Against woman suffrage. Mem. Conn. Anti-Suffrage Organization. Mem. Hartford Golf Club, Farmington Country Club.

BITTINGER, Lucy Forney, 55 Thorn St., Sewickley, Pa.

Born Cleveland, O., Aug. 29, 1859; dau. Joseph Baugher and Catharine N. (Forney) Bittinger; ed. Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn. Pres. Union Aid Soc. of Sewickley; was pres. Emergency Soc. of Sewickley, to aid the soldiers of the Spanish War. Author: Memorials of Rev. J. B. Bittinger; Forney Family of Hanover, Pa.; Bittinger and Bedinger Families; The Germans in Colonial Times; German Religious Life in Colonial Times; Prayers and Thoughts for the Use of the Sick; various magazine articles. Vice-regent Pittsburgh Chapter D.A.R.; mem. Twentieth Century Club, Pittsburgh. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage. Has arranged to give up her home in Sewickley to enter the Presbyterian Order of Deaconesses, afterward going out to India as an "honorary" missionary.

BIXBY, Maritje V. P. (Mrs. George Stephenson Bixby): Winter, 154 W. Fifty-seventh St., N.Y. City; spring, summer and autumn, The Gardenette, Plattsburgh, N.Y.; studio, Carnegie Hall.

Singer and writer; b. Cayuga, N.Y.; dau. Rev. Joseph Jerome and Maritje (Felthousen) Parcells; ed. high school; private tutors (languages and philosophy); Berlin Music Conservatory; music masters in Paris and Milan; N.Y. Univ. (grad. woman's law class); tutors in India and England; courses of lectures at Columbia Coll., N.Y.; m. Amherst, Mass., July 17, 1900, George Stephenson Bixby, lawyer and journalist. Made debut as concert contralto in Paris at age of 20; gave recitals in English colonies in many Oriental countries, also in England, France and America; professional name, "Marie Parcello." For 12 years mem. board of managers Convalescent Home for Women, N.Y. City; interested in playgrounds, concerts for working people, municipal art, public education, anti-tuberculosis movement and landscape gardening. Author: The Persian Caravan (book); also a few songs, newspaper letters for Am. and European journals; stories: A Ragged Rose; Turkish Delight; In an Algerian Garden; The Song of Poll-na-phuca, The Long Irish Lady, and other tales. Mem. State Charities Aid Ass'n, Daughters of Holland Dames, the Navy League, Am. Scenic and Historic Preservation Soc, Woman's Municipal League (N.Y. City), Peace Soc, Mary Washington Colonial Chapter D.A.R., and the MacDowell Club of N.Y. City. Recreations: Gardening, dancing, skating, walking tours, writing music and poetry, traveling by water. Protestant Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Political Union, N.Y. City.

BJORKMAN, Frances Maule (Mrs. Edwin Bjorkman, 505 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.

Editor; b. Fairmount, Neb., Oct. 24, 1879; dau. John P. and Mary (Finnigan) Maule; ed. St Mary's Acad.. Notre Dame, Md., and Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; m. N.Y. City, Jan. 4, 1906, Edwin Bjorkman. Became mem. staff of Denver Republican, Oct., 1899. Thereafter worked on Denver Post and Times, Colorado Springs Telegraph, Chicago American, 1901; N.Y. American, 1903; magazine writer, 1905-11. Editor now of literary dep't Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Socialist and active in feminist movements. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Women's Political Union and Woman Suffrage Party. Has written magazine articles in Collier's, Review of Reviews, World's Work, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Scrap-Book, the New Idea, and others.

BLACK, Belinda Miles Bogardus (Mrs. William Thomas Black), Hillcrest, R.R. No. 1, Fairmont, W.Va.

Born Mt. Vernon. 0. Jan. 12, 1874; dau. William Penn and Elizabeth (Sperry) Bogardus; ed. Harcourt Place Sem., Gambier, O., 1891-92; Wellesley Coll., A.B. '96 (mem. the Agora); m. Mt. Vernon, O., June 22, 1904, William Thomas Black; children: Mary Elizabeth, William Bogardus. Presbyterial and synodical sec of Young People of Zanesville Presbytery in Ohio, 1902-04; teacher in Sunday-school; mem. of choir, and of Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. Mem. D.A.R. Presbyterian.

BLACK, Etta Roe (Mrs. Willis Lyman Black), 770 Highland Av., Elgin, Ill.

Born in La Porte, Ind., May 4, 1862; dau. George and Marietta (Drummond) Roe; grad. La Porte High School, '80; Univ. of Mich., A.B. '83; m. Sept. 4, 1884, Willis Lyman Black of Elgin, Ill; children: Lyman Foster, Mareta Virginie Black. Gives illustrated talks on foreign travel, viz.: Hawaii and the Pacific; Japan-China; Burmah; India; Swea Dagon Pagoda; Crossing the Equator; Ceylon and Kandy; Benares and the Ganges; Borneo, etc.; has traveled extensively in Alaska, Mexico and around the world. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. Every Wednesday Literary Club (pres.), Elgin Woman's Club, Travel Class and Coffee Club, also Chicago Woman's Club; active in educational and civics dep't of Woman's Club; for many years leader in charity work and active in giving an annual charity ball; one of promoters and organizers of United Charities in Elgin.

BLACK, Fannie DeGrasse (Mrs. Samuel Edward Black), 403 Washington St., El Dorado, Kan.

Musician; b. in Canada, Nov. 21, 1856; dau. William Henry and Bedelia I. (McGuire) DeGrasse; ed. Milwaukee public schools; grad. from high school, State Normal and Dr. William Miklor's Conservatory of Music, B.M.; m. Milwaukee, Jan. 14, 1881, Judge Samuel Edward Black; one daughter: Grace Louise. Has conducted Conservatory of Music in El Dorado, Kan., for 20 years. Mem. of church societies, Ladies' Aid and Missionary; was leader of choir and pipe organist for 15 years. Mem. Shakespeare Club for 20 years (held various offices), German Club, also several social clubs. Recreations: Travel, literature. Presbyterian.

BLACK, Florence Atwood, 1018 Park Place, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Physician; b. Calais, Me.; dau. Howard Atwood and Minerva Emerson (Lowell) Black (family dates back ten generations in this country to Percival Lowell, who came to New England in 1639); ed. Girls' High School, Brooklyn; awarded Brooklyn and Univ. scholarships to Barnard, where she studied one year; grad. New York Med. Coll. and Hosp. for Women, M.D.; took general and special courses at N.Y. Post-Graduate Hospital. Engaged in practice of medicine in Brooklyn. Unitarian. Mem. Alumna Ass'n of N.Y Med. Coll., Kings County Med. Soc, Am. Med. Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage.

BLACK, Jennie Prince (Mrs. Henry Van Deventer Black), Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Song composer; b. N.Y. City, Oct. 10, 1869; dau. Dr. Christopher and Gertrude Cornell (Ditmas) Prince; ed. the Misses Masters' School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; m. N.Y. City, April 27, 1886, Henry Van Deventer Black; children: Dorothy, Katharine. Interested in literature and music. Composer of songs: Cynthia; Regrets; The Violet; Song of Loves; Slumber Song, and others. Presbyterian. Republican.

BLACK, Madeline (Mrs. Elmer Black), 512 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.

Pacifist, lecturer, publisher; b. Zanesville, Ohio; dau. Dr. F. M. and Louisa (Newton) Powell; grad. public school, Glenwood, Iowa; grad. Ill. Coll. and Athenaeum; m. April 26, 1893, Elmer Ellsworth Black; one daughter: Dorothy Powell. Founder Church Peace League of America (first vice-pres.); founder and donor of prizes for N.Y. State Oratorical Contest; founder and donor Nat. Peace Essay Contest Among Women's Colleges. Author: Civilize the Nations (brochure); Municipal Terminal Market System (treatise). Advisory mem, N.Y. City Terminal Market


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BLACK—BLACKMER Founder, director and mem. Exec Com. Am. Peace and Arbitration League; honorary vice-pres. Betterment League; chairman Ways and Means Com. of Consumers' League of City of N.Y.; exec. mem. Nat. Com. on Prison Labor; life mem. Bide-a-Wee Home for Animals; life mem. Free Industrial School for Crippled Children; mem. Am. Peace Soc, Am. Acad. Political and Social Science, Nat. Municipal League, Acad, of Political Science (Columbia Univ.), Am. Museum of Natural History, League for Political Education, Woman's Dep't Nat. Civic Federation, N.Y. Women's League for Animals, Advisory Board of Nat. Fruit, Flower and Plant Guild, Nat. Soc. of Patriotic Women of America, N.Y. Peace Soc., Advisory Board N.Y. Women's Auxiliary to Civil Service Reform, Housewives' League, Nat. Inst, of Social Sciences, Am. Ass'n for Highway Improvement, Soc. of American Women in London (London). Clubs: Eclectic, Woman's Press, Woman's Forum, Twilight, Woman's Republican, Rubinstein (N.Y. City); Chicago Woman's, Woman's Athletic (Chicago), Atlantic Union, Lyceum (London, England). Recreations: Riding, walking, tennis, skating, dancing, writing.

BLACK, Mary Grace Witherbee (Mrs. Robert Clifford Black), Pelham Manor, N.Y.

Born Port Henry, N.Y., May 18, 1852; dau. Silas Heminway and Sophie Catherine (Goff) Witherbee; ed. governesses and at Farmington, Conn., and Miss McAuley's School, N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, April 20, 1875, Robert Clifford Black; children: R. Clifford Jr., Witherbee. Interested in West Side Nursery, Jewell Day Nursery and Babies' Ward (N.Y. City), Miriam Osborn Memorial Home, Harrison, N.Y.; Pelham Summer Home for Children and several musical societies. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Republican. Recreation: Yachting. Clubs: Manor (Pelham Manor), N.Y. Yacht, Sleepy Hollow, Larohmont Yacht.

BLACK, Mignonette Bird Johnson (Mrs. D. Shuler Black), 1325 Hampton Av., Columbia, Tenn.

Born Memphis, Tenn.; ed. in schools of Memphis, Tenn., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '96; m. Feb. 5, 1897, Dr. D. Shuler Black; two sons, one daughter.

BLACK, Nellie Peters (Mrs. George Robison Black), 519 Spring St., Atlanta, Ga.

Born Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 9, 1851; dau. Richard and Mary Jane (Thompson) Peters; ed. in Atlanta and at Brooke Hall, Media, Pa. (grad. with honors): m. April 17, 1877, George Robison Black of Screven Co., Ga. (mem. of 47th Congress U.S.); children: Nita H., Louise K., Ralph Peters. Sec. Peters Land Co. Has been pres. of the Atlanta Free Kindergarten Ass'n for 16 years; mem. Exec. Board Ga Fed. of Women's Clubs; former pres. of the Woman's Auxiliary, Protestant Episcopal Church, for years; now hon. pres. Mem. Colonial Dames of Ga., D.A.R., United Daughters of the Confederacy, Pioneer Women of Atlanta (vice-pres.), Anti-Tuberculosis Soc. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Manager the Richard Peters Farm; mem. Every Saturday History Class. Recreation: Social gatherings.

BLACK, Susan Geiger (Mrs. Francis M. Black), 219 W. Armour Boul., Kansas City, Mo.

Born Dayton, O., April 23, 1843; dau. Albertus Geiger, M.D., and Katherine (Bartges) Geiger; grad. Central High School, Dayton, O., and received private instruction in music and languages; m. Dayton, O., May 22, 1867, Francis M. Black (judge ten years on Mo. Supreme bench and chief justice, and previously circuit judge and mem. Constitutional Conventions; died May, 1902); children: Helen M., Albert, Robert (all three deceased), Susan B., Francis M., Arthur G. Was charter mem. and later pres. of the first literary club formed in Kansas City; one of earliest advocates in that section of the country of manual training in the public schools (since realized); mem. and pres. Woman's Christian Ass'n, 1885, later charter mem. of Fine Arts Inst., and also of Historical Soc.; at present identified with philanthropic and church work; Protestant Episcopal. Recreations: Home and foreign travel (frequent trips to Europe), study of languages; is conversant with the modern languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German), theatre, opera.

BLACK, Winifred (Mrs. Charles A. Bonfils), 1153 Ogden St., Denver, Colo.

Journalist; b. Chilton, Wis., Oct. 14, 1869; dau. Gen. Benjamin Jeffrey Sweet, U.S.V. (and after Civil War pension agent at Chicago until his death), and Louisa (Denslow) Sweet; ed. Sacred Heart Convent, Chicago; Lake Forest (Ill.) Sem.; Miss Burnham's School, Northampton, Mass.; m. (1st) 1892, Orlow Black; (2d) 1901, Charles A. Bonfils. In journalism since 1890, and has filled many repertorial and editorial positions; best known as special writer for metropolitan papers, and as relief agent for several years in charge of large charities conducted by the Hearst papers, notably after the Galveston flood, where she was in charge of hospitals and relief work. Has conducted numerous investigations, notably into the leper colony of Molokai, Hawaii; the hospitals at San Francisco, and various other public institutions; had an important part in founding the George Junior Republic in N.Y.; has had and published interviews with many notable people; now on staff of Denver Post.

BLACKINGTON, Ada J. (Mrs. Albert T. Blackington), 56 Middle St., Rockland, Me.

Born Rockland, Me., Jan. 8, 1867; dau. Frederic J. and Flora J. (Adams) Simonton; ed. at Mrs. Hayes' School, Boston, diploma '86; m. Rockland, Me., Oct. 24, 1892, Albert T. Blackington. Deeply interested in art study, and has class in history of art every season; gives papers on that and literary and musical subjects for clubs. Episcopalian. Mem. Lady Knox Chapter, D.A.R. (has been regent for two years); mem. Methebesce Club, Shakespeare Soc. (literary), Rubinstein Club (musical), and Half Hour Reading Club.

BLACKLIDGE, Luella Larmore (Mrs. William T. Blacklidge), 401 W. 10th St., Anderson, Ind.

Designer and china decorator; b. Harrison, Ohio, May 9, 1864; dau. James and Catharine (Cann) Larmore; ed. Anderson, Ind.; m. Sept. 17, 1884, William J. Blacklidge; one son: Herbert Harvey Blacklidge, b. April 6, 1889. Specially interested in architecture and interior decoration. Pres. Anderson Art Club, which has taken active part in beautifying the city of Anderson, notably in the planting on Arbor Day, 1912, of one hundred and eighty-five trees (elms and Norway maples) on both sides of several main streets. Methodist. Republican. Mem. Anderson Art Ass'n, Visiting Nurse Ass'n, Civic Ass'n, Charity Guild, Anderson Ceramic Club. Favors woman suffrage.

BLACKMAN, Carrie Horton (Mrs. George Blackman), 5843 Bartmer Av., St. Louis, Mo.

Painter; b. Cincinnati, O., April 11, 1856; dau. Benjamin and Carrie (Hart) Horton; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis; St. Louis School of Fine Arts; art studies continued in Paris; m. George Blackman; children: Barbara Adelaide (Mrs. David O'Neill), Elsa, George Horton, Caroline Horton. Favors woman suffrage; mem. St. Louis Equal Suffrage League. Mem. Society of Western Artists, St. Louis Artists' Guild Club, the Players' Club.

BLACKMAN, Olive J. (Mrs.), Harrisburg, Ill.

Social and religious worker; b. Saline Co., Ill., July 17, 1864; dau. James K. and Sarah (Watson) Odum; ed. public schools and Southern Ill. Normal Univ.; m. Nov. 14, 1888, James Bennett Blackman; one son: Champ Odum Blackman Teacher Bible class; mem. Philanthropic Com. of Harrisburg, Ill. Baptist. Mem. Order of Eastern Star, Stonefort (Ill.) Chapter (past worthy matron), Rebekah Lodge, El Dorado, Ill., and Order of Ben Hur, Harrisburg, Ill. Mem. Woman's Culture Club, Bible Class Club. Was president of the Ill. Rebekah State Assembly, 1899-1900, I.O.O.F.

BLACKMER, Anna Wood, Cortland. N.Y.

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104 Blackmer; ed. State Normal School, Cortland, N.Y., 1891-94; Wellesley Coll., 1897-1901, A.B. '01. Supervisor seventh grade training dep't State Normal Coll., Ypsilanti, Mich., 1901-02; dep't of methods State Normal School, Geneseo, N.Y., 1902-05; methods and supervision of training dep't State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis., since 1905. Baptist. Mem. Shakespeare Soc., Wellesley College.

BLACKSTONE, Harriet, 755 Grove St., Glencoe, Ill.

Artist, painter; b. New Hartford, N.Y.; dau. Mills Case and Mary (Ladd) Blackstone; ed. New Hartford private schools; Mrs. Poster's School for Young Ladies; studied painting in N.Y. City and at Pratt Inst, of Brooklyn; in Paris at Académie Julien, under Laurens; summer school with William Chase. Exhibited in Paris Salon and in all leading galleries in U.S. since 1906. Mem. Am. Women's Art Ass'n, Soc. of Chicago Artists, Internat. Société des Beaux Arts et Lettres. While studying, compiled books now in use in high schools and colleges.

BLACKWELDER, Gertrude Boughton (Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder), Morgan Park, Ill.

Clubwoman; b. Sempronius, Cayuga Co., N.Y., Dec. 5, 1853; dau. Alanson and Hannah (Squier) Boughton; ed. Univ. of Kansas, A.B. '75, A.M. '90 (Phi Beta Kappa); (mem. Pi Beta Phi); m. Lawrence, Kan., April 5, 1877, I. S. Blackwelder of Chicago; children: Paul, b. April 7, 1878; Eliot, b. June 4, 1880. Active mem. in the early years of Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae; for the past fifteen years has been a worker along educational and civic lines in the Chicago Woman's Club. Chairman of Chicago Vacation Schools Com. for three years (active in that work for more than ten years); pres. of the Chicago Woman's Club, 1906-08; chairman of Educational Dep't of Ill. State Federation, 1909-11; pres. Chicago Political Equality League three years. Author of articles on educational matters, principally in college magazines, but occasionally in newspapers. Mem. Chicago School Extension Soc, Chicago Public School Art Soc, Chicago Woman's Club, Woman's City Club, Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae, Chicago College Club.

BLACKWELL, Alice Stone, 3 Monadnock St., Dorchester, Mass.

Editor of The Woman's Journal; b. East Orange, N.J., Sept. 14, 1857; dau. Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone; ed. Chauncy Hall School, Boston (took the Thayer gold medal for English composition and a special prize for knowledge of Shakespeare); Boston Univ., B.A. '81 (Phi Beta Kappa); (mem. Gamma Delta Soc). Has been one of the editors of the Woman's Journal (national suffrage paper) since 1882; sole editor since 1909. Lecturer, speaker and writer on suffrage question. Pres. New England Woman Suffrage Ass'n, hon. pres. Mass. Woman Suffrage Ass'n and vice-pres. of Boston Equal Suffrage Ass'n for Good Government. Born into the Woman's Rights movement; her parents were pioneer workers in that cause; one of her aunts, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, was the first woman physician; another, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was first ordained woman minister. Author of three volumes of translated poems: Armenian Poems; Songs of Russia; Songs of Grief and Gladness (from the Yiddish). In collaboration with Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Lucy E. Anthony compiled the Yellow Ribbon Speaker, a book of suffrage readings and recitations. Unitarian. Mem. Board of Trustees of Boston Univ.; mem. Friends of Russian Freedom, Friends of Armenia, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Am. Peace Soc, New England Anti-Vivisection Soc, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Mass. Total Abstinence Soc, Free Trade League, Woman's Trade Union League, New England Women's Press Ass'n; Phi Beta Kappa Soc, New England Women's Club; Twentieth Century Club of Boston. Recreation: Putting foreign poetry into English verse; has made renderings from the Armenian, Russian, Yiddish, Hungarian, Spanish-Mexican, French, Italian. Latin, German and Bohemian.

BLACKWELL, Antoinette Louisa Brown (Mrs. Samuel Charles Blackwell), 348 Bay Way, Elizabeth, N.J.

Minister, lecturer; b. Henrietta, N.Y., May 20, 1825; dau. Joesph and Abby (Morse) Brown; ed. Monroe Acad.; Oberlin Coll., at 75th anniversary of which the degree of D.D. was conferred upon her; m. Henrietta, N.Y., Jan., 1856, Samuel Charles Blackwell; four daughters. Ordained in 1853 as pastor of the Congregational Church of South Brooklyn, N.Y., and was the first woman to perform the marriage ceremony. Pastor of All Souls' Unitarian Church of Elizabeth, N.J. Author: Shadows of Our Social System; Studies in General Science; The Market Woman; Sea Drift; One and the Many; The Island Neighbor. Mem. A.A.A.S.; mem. and honorary of numerous societies and clubs. Prominent in woman suffrage cause.

BLAINE, Harriet Gertrude, 602 Irving Av., Wheaton, Ill.

Teacher; b. North Ridgeville, Lorain Co., O., March 9, 1861; dau. Thomas and Margery A. (Davis) Blaine; grad. Elyria (O.) High School, '79; Oberlin Coll., A.B. '90; Univ. of Chicago, M.A. '96. Lady principal Frances Shimer Acad. of the Univ. of Chicago, 1896-1901; dean of women, Wheaton (Ill.) Coll., 1902-09. Congregationalism Mem. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae and Classical Ass'n of the Middle West and South. Recreations: Walking and gardening.

BLAIR, Adeline Cleveland (Mrs. Dorian H. Blair), 439 Walker Av., Greensboro, N.C.

Born N.Y. City, Oct. 14, 1863; dau. Harvey T. and Elizabeth (Wray) Cleveland; ed. Friends Sem., N.Y. City; m. Greensboro, N.C, April 29, 1896, Dorian H. Blair; children: Theodore Garland (died), Clarence Dorian. Resident of N.C. since 1888, and of Greensboro since 1896. Mem. W.C.T.U.; mem. Social Service Com. of State Fed. Women's Clubs. Episcopalian. Regent Guilford Battle Chapter D.A.R. of Greensboro; chairman Missionary Golden Jubilee Com.; mem. Woman's Auxiliary to Board of Missions (local pres. St. Andrew's branch and Diocesan treas.); sec Board and mem. Social Com. Y.W.C.A.; mem. Boys' Com. of Auxiliary to Y.M.C.A. Sunday-school teacher (boys). Mem. Greensboro Woman's Club (first vice-pres.), Friday Afternoon Book Club (pres. last two years). Delegate from N.C. branch of Woman's Auxiliary to Woman's Auxiliary Triennial General Conventions at Richmond and Cincinnati and represented N.C. at Golden Jubilee, held at Monteagle, Tenn., 1912.

BLAIR, Apolline Madison (Mrs. James Lawrence Blair), The Dresden, Washington, D.C.

Born Washington, D.C, May 7, 1860; dau. Col. Charles M. Alexander; ed. Washington, D.C, specializing in music; m. Feb. 21, 1883, James Lawrence Blair of St. Louis (died Jan. 16 1904); children; Percy, Francis Preston. Lived in St. Louis and became distinguished for her promotion of organizations to popularize higher ideals of musical culture; founded and was president of the Morning Choral Club (75 women members), the People's Music Class (for women), which reached a membership of 800, and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Choral Club, a suburban organization of fifty women; also of the Men's Musical Class of St. Louis; was pres. of the Board of Lady Managers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.

BLAIR, Edna Sheldon (Mrs. James G. Blair), 141 Oak St., Hillsdale, Mich.

Born Napoleon, O., Dec. 29, 1875; dau. Benjamin E. and Anna S. (Dodd) Sheldon; ed. Hillsdale High School; Hillsdale Coll.; m. Hillsdale, Mich., Dec. 20, 1900, James G. Blair. Active in local and State club work. Pres. Hillsdale Clover Club (sec three years, pres. two years, director since 1910); mem. Hillsdale Woman's Club; former mem. Household Economies Com. of Mich. State Fed. Women's Clubs, now chairman of its literature dep't, and mem. Civil Service Reform Com. of Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage; chairman of organization work and mem. State Finance Com. of Mich. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Mem. State


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Rh Speakers' Bureau for suffrage in active campaign for passing of amendment Nov. 5, 1912. Author of newspaper articles on civic questions, health, suffrage, immigration, etc. Mem. Order Eastern Star (worthy matron Wenona Chapter, 162, Mich., 1911-12).

BLAIR, Emily Newell (Mrs. Harry Wallace Blair), 1849 S. Garrison Av., Carthage, Mo.

Writer; b. Joplin, Mo., Jan. 9, 1877; dau. Capt. James P. and Anna C. (Gray) Newell; ed. Carthage High School and Goucher Coll.; m. Carthage, Dec. 24, 1900, Harry Wallace Blair; children: Harriet Wallace, James Newell. Mem. Cosmos and Shakespeare Clubs of Carthage; dist. chairman of Press Com. of Mo. Fed.; vice-pres. Mo. Woman's Press Club; mem. D.A.R., Equal Suffrage League, Free Kindergarten Board, church guilds and social clubs. Author: Heart of a Wallflower; short stories published in Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazar, Woman's Home Companion, Ladies' Home Journal, Lippincott's; articles in same magazines and the Outlook. Episcopalian. Recreations: Fishing, bridge, gardening.

BLAIR, Margaret Josephine, State Agricultural Coll., University of Minnesota, Minn.

Professor; b. Goodhue Center, Minn., May 5, 1863; dau. John V. and Isabelle (Kennedy) Bailey; took work in Red Wing (Minn.) High School, later studied household science at Armour Inst. and Jewish Training School in Chicago, following this up with work at Pratt Inst, and other Eastern Schools (mem. Phi Upsilon Omicron); m. 1884, John N. Blair; one son: Donald S. For two years Nat. Chairman of Home Economies in the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, for eight years chairman in Minnesota. Mem. of Lady Board of Managers of the U.S. Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Co. Author: Garment Drafting, 1896; Model Sewing, 1900; Sewing Basket Stories, 1907; A New and Practical Course of Sewing Texts, 1909; also many articles in periodicals. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Woman's Federation, Am. Home Economics Ass'n, St. Anthony Park Woman's Club. Has been a pioneer in formation and development of courses in Domestic Art; has planned courses for all kinds of schools; her courses of instruction have formed the basis of work in the subject throughout the country; many prominent instructors in domestic art in higher institutions have received their training from her. Recreation: Outdoor sports, especially long horse-back rides.

BLAIR, Margaretta E. (Mrs. Harrison H. Blair), Elk Point, S.Dak.

Born Tecumseh, Mich., Feb. 2, 1844; dau. Benjamin and Margaret T. (Sinclair) Dey; ed. Rockford (Ill.) Female Coll.; m. Portage City, Wis., Oct. 25, 1863, Harrison H. Blair; children: Winifred, b. 1865; Frank Howard, b. 1870; Genevieve, b. 1872; Guy E., b. 1874. Club: Woman's Literary. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Resident in Wis., 1844-69; since then at Elk Point, S.Dak.

BLAIR, Mary Jesup (Mrs. James Blair), 12 Lafayette Sq., Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md.

Born Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 1826; dau. Maj.-Gen. Thomas S. and Ann Heron (Croghan) Jesup; ed. chiefly at home by governesses; m. Washington, Jan. 12, 1847, Lieut. James Blair, U.S. Navy; children: Ann, Jesup, Violet, Lucy, James. Mem. various societies of the Episcopal Church. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Pres. Soc. of Colonial Dames in the Dist of Columbia.

BLAIR, Salome Annette (Mrs. Albert Houston Blair), Wa-Keeney, Trego Co., Kan.

Born Kusaiae, Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean, Aug. 31, 1856; dau. Rev. George and Nancy Annette (Shaw) Pierson; ed. in common school, East Oakland, Cal; High School, Adel, Ia.; Rockford Coll., grad. '76; grad. fine arts dep't, Bethany Coll., Lindsborg, Kan. (painting), '06; m. Jan. 1, 1880, Albert Houston Blair; children: Stella Annette, b. Aug. 3, 1881; Lucy Emily, b. Aug. 14, 1882; Julia Maud, b. Jan. 2, 1886. Deputy clerk of the District Court, 1884-85. Assisted in organization of Osborne Women's Presbyterial Missionary Soc., 1890. Active in Presbyterian Church and Sunday-school, and in choir work. Has been pres. and sec. County Sunday-school Ass'n; church organist; active in philanthropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive in politics. Mem. Order of the Eastern Star. Recreations: Needlework, painting, music Mem. Tourist Club, Soc. Fed. with Kansas Sixth Dist. Fed. W.C. (treas.).

BLAIR, Vivian Beatrice Losse (Mrs. James Clark Blair), Martin Av., Hanchett Park, San José, Cal.

Born in California; grad. Leland Stanford Jr. Univ., A.B. '02; graduate student in English and German, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1902-03; m. 1910, Dr. James Clark Blair. Substitute teacher of English and German, San José (Cal.) High School, 1903-04; teacher of English, 1903-06; student in Hanover, Germany, 1906-07; teacher of English and German, San Jose High School, 1907-09.

BLAISDELL, Daisy Luana, 908 Nevada St., Urbana, Ill.

Teacher; b. Baltimore, Md., April 12, 1866; dau. Samuel and Harriott (Crane) Blaisdell; ed. in public schools of Chicopee, Mass.; Smith Coll., A.B, '88, A.M. '94; Berlin, Germany, Victoria Lyceum and Charlottenschule, 1892-93; Berlin Royal Univ., 1899-1900 (mem. Alpha Literary, Smith). Taught in Pulaski Acad., 1889-90; high school, Springfield, Mass., 1890-92-95-98; Oberlin Acad., 1898-99; instructor in German, State Univ. of Ill., 1900-. Mem. Equal Suffrage League. Baptist. Mem. Modern Language Ass'n, Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll., Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

BLAISDELL, Mary Frances, 573 Winthrop St., Medford, Mass.

Author, teacher; b. Manchester, N. H., April 20, 1874; dau. Clark and Clara (Murray) Blaisdell; grad. Cambridge Training School '95. Taught in Brockton, Mass., 1896-1901; in Medford since 1901. Co-author with sister (Etta Blaisdell McDonald): Child Life, 1899; Child Life in Tale and Fable, 1899; Child Life in Many Lands, 1900; Child Life in Literature, 1900; Child Life Primer, 1901; Blaisdell Speller, 1901; Child Life Fifth Reader, 1902; Playtime, 1906; The Child at Play, 1907; Story Land, 1908; Story Book Friends, 1908. Author: Polly and Dolly, 1909; Tommy Tinker's Book, 1911; Cherry Tree Children, 1912; Boy Blue and His Friends (under pen-name of Clara Murray), 1907. Recreation: Motoring. Mem. Boston Author's Club.

BLAKE, Blanche Morgan (Mrs. George E. Blake), 1304 S. Belmont St., Nashville, Tenn.

Born Fayetteville, Tenn., May 23, 1866; dau. William C. and Nancy (Edwards) Morgan; grad. Fayetteville Acad., with degree of Mistress of English Literature; m. Fayetteville, Tenn., Nov. 16, 1886, George E. Blake; children: William Morgan, Gladys Thomas. Chairman of literature in State Fed. of Women's Clubs; pres. Friday Literary Club; mem. Centennial Club, Magazine Club, Daughters of the King, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BLAKE, Eva M., 190 Maplewood Av., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa,

Physician; b. Bridgeport, Conn,; dau. Edwin A. and Amanda H. (Tinkham) Blake; ed. Packer Coll. Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y., Goucher Coll., Baltimore, B.A.; N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women, M.D.; Philadelphia Coll. of Osteopathy, D.O. (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). Lecturer on Social Purity and kindred subjects. Mem. Pa. Soc. for Prevention of Social Disease, Homeopathic Soc. of the County of Philadelphia, Homeopathic Soc. of State of Pa., Am. Inst. of Homeopathy, Coll. Settlements Ass'n, Woman's Coll. Club (Philadelphia). Recreation: Vocal music. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Philadelphia County Suffrage Soc.

BLAKE, Katharine Aldrich (Mrs. John Blake), 91 Jefferson Av., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Born Grand Rapids, Mich.; dau. Moses V. and Euphrasia L. (Ledyard) Aldrich; grad. Grand Rapids High School, '76; Vassar Coll., '80 (mem. Dickens Soc); m. Grand Rapids, 1885, John


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106 Blake; children: Aldrich, Ledyard. Favors woman suffrage. Clubs: Women's University (Grand Rapids), Women's University (N.Y. City).

BLAKE, Katherine D. Umsted, 100 Lexington Av., N.Y. City.

Educator, writer; b. N.Y. City, July 10, 1858; dau. Frank Geoffrey Quay Umsted and Lillie (Devereux) Blake; ed. Miss Walker's School, St. Mary's School; grad. Normal Coll., '76; studied at School of Pedagogy, N.Y. Univ., 1887-88. Principal of Public School No. 6, 1894. Organized the first evening high school for women in N.Y. City, 1897. Chairman com. of teachers and principals that framed and presented to Mayor Grace the monster petition asking for the appointment of women on Board of Education. Called together the committee of women teachers and principals who made the first effort to secure adequate salaries for city teachers. Spoke in reply to ex-President Roosevelt when he addressed the Nat. Educational Ass'n. Compiled the first statistics showing the number of dark and badly lighted rooms in public schools. Contributor to periodicals, verse and prose. Vice-pres. Ass'n Women Principals of N.Y. City; mem. Special N.Y. City Com. of Nat. Educational Ass'n, Exec. Com. Normal College Alumnae; charter mem. Soc. Political Study. Favors woman suffrage.

BLAKE, Leslie Appleton (Mrs. Arthur Blake), Dedham, Mass.

Daughter Henry Miles and Alice Leslie (Appleton) Knowles; ed. Miss Winsor's School, Boston; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B.; m. "Burntwood," Dedham, Sept, 7, 1910, Arthur Blake of Boston (Harvard '92). Mem. Drama League of Boston, Dedham branch of Woman's Auxiliary Civil Service League; subscribing mem. Boston Art Museum. Clubs: Bryn Mawr (Boston), Bryn Mawr (N.Y. City), Cohasset Golf, Contentment (Dedham), Herford. Unitarian.

BLAKE, Lillie Devereux (Mrs. Grenfill Blake), The Roslyn, 101 W. Eighty-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Author; b. Raleigh N.C., 1835; dau. George Pollock and Sarah Elizabeth (Johnson) Devereux; ed. Miss Opthorp's School, New Haven, Conn., and had course of studies in Yale Coll.; m. (1st) 1855, Frank G. Q. Umsted (died 1859); (2d) 1866, Grenfill Blake; children: Elizabeth Johnson Umsted, Katherine Devereux Umsted. In 1869 became interested in movement for enfranchisement of women, to which has been largely devoted. Contributor to Harper's, the Atlantic, Frank Leslie's, North American Review, the Forum, and others. Author: Southward, 1859; Rockford, 1863; Fettered for Life, 1874; A Daring Experiment, 1883; also numerous stories and articles. In 1883 delivered series of lectures (in reply to Lenten Discourses on Women by Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D.), which were printed under title of Woman's Place To-Day, 1894. Founder and pres. N.Y. Legislative League; pres. N.Y. City Mother's Club; hon. pres. Soc. Political Study. Took a leading part in the Constitutional Convention campaign, spoke before Suffrage Com. of convention, and directed much of work in N.Y. City. Was first person to demand that Columbia College be opened to women students. Episcopalian. Has traveled all over France, England and Ireland. Recreations: Music and embroidery, reading and walks.

BLAKE, Mabelle B., 24 Greenville St., Roxbury, Mass.

Social worker; b. N.Y. City, Oct. 19, 1880; dau. Edwin A. and Amanda H. (Wilson) Blake; ed. in Brooklyn, N.Y., at Packer Inst., Adelphi Acad., Adelphi Coll., A.B. Trained for social work with Associated Charities of Boston; then became dist. sec. of Associated Charities; gen. sec. of Boston Soc. for the Care of Girls since 1908. Interested in music. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recreations: Folk dancing, walking. Mem. Twentieth Century and Monday Evening Clubs (Boston), Woman's Municipal League of Boston.

BLAKE, Mary Katharine Evans (Mrs. William McKendree Blake), The Berkeley, Minneapolis, Minn.

Author; b. Rockport, Ind., Aug. 31, 1859; dau. Joseph Smith and Mary Caroline (Cotton) Evans; ed. Rockport (Ind.) Collegiate Inst.; m. Rockport, Ind., Aug. 28, 1876, William McKendree Blake. Author: Heart's Haven; The Stuff of a Man.

BLAKE, Sue Avis, Merion, Fa.

Instructor in physics, Smith Coll.; b. Boston, Mass., Oct. 9, 1875; dau. Barton Fisk and Mary Elizabeth (Manning) Blake; grad. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98, A.M. '1900. Fellow in physics, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1906-07; graduate student in physics, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1898-1900-04-06; fellow in physics, Univ of Pa., 1907-08. Associate mem. Am. Physical Soc. Congregationalist.

BLAKELY, Delora Edith Wilkins (Mrs. Gould B. Blakely), Suite 3, Kendart Apartments, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Club woman; b. Mt. Pleasant, Ia., June 19, 1864; dau. James Shields and Emma (Miller) Wilkins; ed. Academic and Normal Teachers' Training School, Mt. Pleasant, Ia.; m. Fremont, Neb., April 14, 1897, Gould B. Blakely. Taught several years in public schools in Nebraska and later in Salt Lake City. Vice-pres. Utah Fed. of Women's Clubs; gen. chairman of State hospitality for entertainment of biennial visitors to 1912 convention; State chairman Gen. Fed. Endowment Fund Com. Interested in religious, social and philanthropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Democrat. Mem. P.E.O. Sisterhood. Mem. Monday Night Literary of Salt Lake City, composed of men and women; the Am. Woman's League. Actively interested in charitable ass'ns of S.L.C., on boards of control, etc.

BLAKEMORE, Lizzie McFarland (Mrs. W. T. Blakemore), Box 16, Hopkinsville, Ky.

Born Yazoo City, Miss., July 30, 1851; dau. John McFarland and Virginia (Blanton) Ireland; ed. at home by governesses and tutors; m. July 14, 1874, Maj. W. T. Blakemore; children: Allen Bruce, John McFarland, Virginia Elizabeth, Page Blanton. Active in civil, religious and social matters. Has done newspaper work and acted as correspondent. Mem. Civic League, School Improvement League, ex-pres. of the Ky. Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy. Presbyterian. Favors qualified suffrage. Democrat.

BLAKER, Adelaide Marion Cornell (Mrs. Ernest Blaker), 402 Oak Av., Ithaca, N.Y.

Born Kansas City, Kan., July 23, 1878; dau. Dudley Emerson and Annie M. (Speck) Cornell; ed. high school, Kansas City, Kan.; Miss Barstow's School for Girls, Kansas City, Mo.; Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y.; m. Kansas City, Kan., Sept. 1, 1900, Ernest Blaker; one daughter: Marion Adelaide, b. Nov. 18, 1505. Corresponding sec. of Visiting Nurse Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Republican. Mem. D.A.R., Child Study Club, Campus Club of Cornell Univ., Cornell Equal Suffrage Club, Housewives' League of Ithaca.

BLAKESLEE, Adeline Graves (Mrs. Edwin A. Blakeslee), Galien, Mich.

Born Grand Rapids, Mich., May 23, 1873; dau. John B. and Frances (Greene) Graves; grad. Grand Rapids High School, '91; grad. in music, Benton Harbor Coll., '94; m. Galien, Mich., May 18, 1898, Edwin A. Blakeslee; children: Marian (deceased), Eleanor, Adeline, Edwin A. Director of music Benton Harbor Coll., 1895-97. Interested in Needlework Guild of America; organized Benton Harbor Branch Needlework Guild, June 11, 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Universalist. Mem. D.A.R., Algonian Chapter (St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Mich.); charter mem. Daughters of Assoli (Benton Harbor, Mich.), 1897; charter mem. Friday Culture Club (Galien, Mich.), 1903; Monday Musicale (Benton Harbor and St. Joseph). With aid of Friday Culture Club of Galien, organized Berrian County Fed. of Women's Clubs, Nov. 23, 1907.


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 * James Grant, traditional Scottish ballad
 * articles in the Dictionary of National Biography:
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4
 * "James Grant" in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Vol. 4

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Rh BLANCHARD, Amy Ella, Redding Ridge, Conn.; summer, Bailey Island, Me.

Author; b. Baltimore, Md., June 28, 1856; dau. Daniel Harris and Sarah L. (Reynolds) Blanchard; ed. by private instruction at home and in private schools, 18 months in High School, Baltimore, and special courses at art schools, Harvard Summer School and elsewhere. Took first prize In Metropolitan Museum of Art School, 1885 (life class). Taught drawing and painting at Sem., Plainfiejd, N.J., two years, afterward moved to Philadelphia, where engaged in literary work. Believes in equal suffrage. Episcopalian. Has traveled in principal countries of Europe. Recreations: Music, painting. Author: Two Girls (series); Three Pretty Maids (series); Four Corners (series); War of the Revolution (series); War of 1812 (series); A Gentle Pioneer (series); A Journey of Joy (series); Wit's End; A Glad Lady; Talbot's Angels.

BLANCHARD, Elizabeth Miller, Bellefonte, Pa.

Worker in Bellefonte basket shop; b. Bellefonte, Pa., 1865; dau. Evan Miles and Eliza (Thomas) Blanchard; ed. Bellefonte Academy, Bryn Mawr College, B.A. '89; fellow in mathematics, Bryn Mawr, '90. Teacher of mathematics in the Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore; Misses Shipley School; Bryn Mawr; Miss Irwin's School, Philadelphia. Chairman Municipal Com. of Board of Trade, Bellefonte, Pa. Pres. Woman's Club, Bellefonte, Pa. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Socialist; mem. Socialist party. Mem. Ass'n Coll. Alumnae, Bryn Mawr Coll. Alumnae, Coll. Club of Philadelphia. Recreations: Camping, walking, cards. Pres. Suffrage League, Bellefonte, Pa.; Coll. Suffrage League.

BLANCHARD, Ethel West (Mrs. Ferdinand Quincy Blanchard), East Orange, N.J.

Born Boston, Mar. 13, 1874; dau. Charles Foster and Elizabeth (Buckley) West; ed. Newton (Mass.) grammar and high schools; Smith Coll., B.L. '99; m. Newtonville, Mass., June 19, 1901, Rev. Ferdinand Quincy Blanchard; one son: Edward Richmond. Against woman suffrage. Congregationalist.

BLANCHARD, Dr. Frances S. Carothers (Mrs. Charles A. Blanchard), 523 Howard St., Wheaton, Ill.

Physician; father Scotch-Irish; mother a descendant of the Whitneys of Vermant; grad. Wheaton Coll., A.B. '80, A.M. '85; Northwestern Univ. Med. School, M.D. '85; m. Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 19, 1896, Rev. Charles Albert Blanchard, D.D., LL.D., pres. of Wheaton Coll. Practised medicine in Iowa until marriage, since then in Wheaton, Ill. Congregationalist. Prohibitionist.

BLANCHARD, Irene M., Willard Hall, Evanston, Ill.

Teacher; b. Lower Waterford, VL, 1876; dau. Enoch and Susan (Bugles) Blanchard; ed. Univ. of Mich., A.B. '98; grad. student, Univ. of Mich., 1911-12 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). Teacher Latin and Greek, Battle Creek (Mich.) High School, 1898-99; Latin and English, Ill. State Normal Univ., Normal, Ill., 1899-1910; acting dean of women, Northwestern Univ., 1912-13. Favors woman suffrage; sec. Equal Suffrage League, Normal, Ill., 1910-11. Presbyterian. Mem. D.A.R. and Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BLANCHARD, Mary Miles, Bellefonte, Pa.

Born Bellefonte, Pa., July 22, 1867; dau. Evan Miles and Eliza Thomas (Harris) Blanchard; ed. Bellefonte Acad., A.B. '89; Bryn Mawr Coll., Master Craftsman in Basketry conferred by the Arts and Crafts Soc. of Boston. Owner, manager and designer of the Basket Shop at Bellefonte. Mem. Women's Civic Club of Bellefonte, Pa.; secretary of Auxiliary of Bellefonte Hospital; mem. College Club of Philadelphia, Arts and Crafts Soc. of Boston, Detroit, Baltimore; Nat. Soc. of Craftsmen of N.Y. Mem. of Society of Friends. Identified with and teacher of women's Bible class in a mission school. Favors woman suffrage.

BLANKENBURG, Lucretia L. (Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg), 214 West Logan Sq., Philadelphia, Pa,

Social reformer and suffrage worker; b. New Lisbon, O., May 8, 1845; dau. Thomas E. and Hannah E. (Myers) Longshore (mother was a pioneer woman doctor, grad. from the Woman's Med. Coll., Philadelphia, 1850; practised medicine forty-five years); ed. in Philadelphia Friends' Central School; m. Philadelphia, 1867, Rudolph Blankenburg of Lippe Detmold, Germany (now reform Mayor of Philadelphia); three children (all deceased). Mem. Society of Friends. Has been interested in the evolution of the woman movement and the growth of liberal religious views; for sixteen years pres. Pa. Woman Suffrage Ass'n (now honorary pres.). Author of short articles and leaflets in regard to suffrage or other activities among women. Life mem. Nat. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Recreation: Travel. Mem. New Century Club, Working Woman's Guild, Civic Club of Philadelphia. First vice-pres. General Federation of Women's Clubs.

BLANKENSHIP, Georgiana Mitchell (Mrs. George E. Blankenship), 1503 Columbia St., Olympia, Wash.

Newspaper correspondent; b. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 17, 1860; dau. George Martin and Elizabeth (Penniman) Mitchell; ed. public schools; m. Olympia, Wash., 1892, George E. Blankenship; children: Frank D., Marion Ruth. Newspaper correspondent for State House News, Associated Press, Portland Oregonian, Seattle Post-Intelli- gencer. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Relief (woman's) Soc. Mem. Woman's Club of Olympia, Eenati Club; second vice-pres. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Recreations: Out-door sports. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage (voter); pres. Thurston Co. Suffrage Ass'n.

BLASAR, Jeanette (Mrs. Joseph Blasar), 100 S. Thirteenth St., Kansas City, Kan.

Born Hudson, Mich.; dau. Lyman L. and Philana (Manning) Wright; ed. Toledo (O.) Normal School; m. (1st) Mattoon, Ohio, 1869, Edwin Dimick; (2d) Neosho, Mo., 1895, Joseph Blasar. Has been identified with churches as sup't; pres. of Ladies' Aid at Thompson Falls, Mont., 1892; organized first Sunshine Branch in Springfield, Mo., later in Kansas City home. Organized seven branches of Internat. Sunshine Soc; organizer for 10 years of State of Kansas Sunshine Soc. (incorporated), called Kansas Division; was pres. Mo. State Division. Organized three branches in Kansas City. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Progressive in politics. Mem. Grand Army Circle, Ladies' Circle of Loyal Order of Moose; pres. One Kindness Branch of Internat. Sunshine Society.

BLATCH, Harriot Stanton, 315 W. 97th St., N.Y. City.

Reformer; b. Seneca Falls, N.Y., Jan. 20, 1856; dau. Henry Brewster and Elizabeth (Cady) Stanton; grad. Vassar Coll., B.A. '78; honors in mathematics (Phi Beta Kappa), A.M. '94; student Berlin '80, Sorbonne, Paris, '82; m. London, Eng., 1882, William Henry Blatch; children: Nora Stanton, b. 1883; Helen Stanton, b. 1892. After marriage in 1882, lived twenty years in England. Active while there in Women's Industrial Union, suffrage organizations, Liberal Ass'n and on executive of Fabian Soc.; trustee of evening schools; associated with Charles Booth, the statistician, in collecting facts of village life which formed basis of thesis for degree of M.A. Life mem. of the N.Y. State Suffrage Ass'n of the Coll. Equal Suffrage League; pres. of the Women's Political Union; mem. Women's Univ. Club; mem. Society of Ethical Culture.

BLAUVELT, Lillian (Mme.), 744 Kenmore Place, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Prima donna soprano; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 16, 1873; dau. Peter and Elizabeth Augusta Blauvelt; ed. public schools of Brooklyn; student of violin from age of seven; musical education (voice) at Nat. Conservatory of Music, N.Y. City, and in Paris under Jacques Bonby; m. (1st) Royal Smith; (2d) N.Y. City, William F. Pendleton. Sang in concerts in France and Belgium and afterward with the Philharmonic Soc. in Moscow; debut in opera at Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels, in Mirelle; returned to U.S., singing in concerts, oratorios, etc., under Seidl, Thomas Damrosch, and other leading conductors


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108 Has since then sung in all of the classic prima donna soprano roles of grand opera in America and all the great European capitals. Has received decorations and honors from England, Germany, France and Russia, and the unique distinction (being only woman so honored) of the decoration of the Order of St. Cecilia at Rome. In Europe since 1910.

BLAUVELT, Mary Taylor, Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn.

Teacher, author; b. Clinton, N.J., 1868; dau. I. Alstyne and Caroline (Taylor) Blauvelt; grad. Wellesley, B.A. '88, M.A. '91; student in Oxford, England, 1895-97; fellow of Ass'n Collegiate Alumni, 1896-97. Teacher in Elmira Coll., 1892-96; in Rockford Coll., 1898-1300; in Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn., 1903-. Author: The Development of Cabinet Government in England; In Cambridge Backs; Solitude Letters. Presbyterian. Mem. Am. Historical Ass'n, Am. Sociological Ass'n, Am. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BLEAKLEY, Cara Rogers (Mrs, Clarence L. Bleakley), 536 Broadway, North, Yonkers, N.Y.

Born Norristown, Pa.; dau. George W. and Cara (Bean) Rogers; grad. Elmira Coll., B.A.; m. Clarence L. Bleakley; children: G. Rogers, Paul L., Clarence H. Pres. Gen. Nat. Soc. of Daughters of the Revolution; pres. Elmira College Club of N.Y. City. Director of Peekskill (N.Y.) Hospital; mem. Travelers' Club of Peekskill, N.Y.; Conversational Club of Norristown, Pa. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BLECKLEY, Olie Evans (Mrs. Haralson Bleckley), De Soto Apartments, 120 East Seventh St., Atlanta, Ga.

Born Augusta, Ga.; dau. John and Olive (Tarver) Evans; ed. in Augusta, Ga., and N.Y. City; m. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 14, 1895, Haralson Bleckley. Mem. and interested in the Atlanta Art Ass'n., the Anti-Tuberculosis Soc., the 1908 History Class, Associated Charities, D.A.R. and Brookhaven Cluib. Baptist.

BLENDERMAN, Helen Clara Biedel (Mrs. Harry J. Blenderman), 815 W. 179th St., N.Y. City.

Teaching; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., July 26, 1881; dau. Dr. Henry and Clara (Wendler) Riedel; ed. Turn Schule, Brooklyn; Moabit Höhere Töchter Schule, Berlin; Manual Training High School, Brooklyn; Cornell Univ., A.B. (mem. Wayside Club, Cornell); m. N.Y. City, Oct. 10, 1910, Harry J. Blenderman. Taught German in Manual Training High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1903-10. Mem. Women's Auxiliary Board of 155th St., branch Y.M.C.A. Favors woman suffrage. Lutheran. Recreations: Out-door sports, tennis, running, rowing, basketball, walking. Mem. Cornell Women's Club of N.Y.

BLEWETT, Jean (Mrs. Basset Blewett, 92 Westminster Av., Toronto, Can.

Author; b. New Scotland, Can., Nov. 4, 1872; dau. Ian and Janet (Mclntyre) McKishnie; ed. Chatham (Ont.) Coll; m. Chatham, Ont., 1890, Basset Blewitt; children: John G., Eve Hazel. Works among young women, settlement work, connected with and active in many charitable institutions. Author: From Out the Deep; The Cornflower; Heart Songs; contributes to Collier's, Harper's, etc. Mem. Canadian Press Club, Dickens Fellowship, Canadian Club, Peace and Progress Club, Rosedale Travel Club. Recreations: Books, social life and out-of-door sports. Presbyterian.

BLEY, Caroline Averill (Mrs. John Cornelius Bley), 5046 Washington Park Court, Chicago, Ill.

Born Durand, Wis., Nov. 5, 1858; dau. Charles N. and Frances (Keenan) Averill; ed. country school, Galesville Univ., Wis. State Normal School; m. Durand, Wis., Aug. 18, 1892, John Cornelius Bley. Chairman Home Dep't of Chicago Woman's Club (chairman Playground Com. and has been chairman of Civics Com.); mem. Board of Managers of Fellowship House. Pres. Chicago Clean Food Club; pres. Fellowship House Woman's Club; seven years vice-pres. Fourth Congressional Dist. Ill. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Geographic Soc. of Chicago, Political Equality League, Ill. Audubon Soc. Recreations: Tramping and studying birds, trees and flowers.

BLICHFELDT, Eva Potter (Mrs. E. H. Blichfeldt), Box 414, Chautauqua, N.Y.

Born Delaware Water Gap, Pa,, Aug. 2, 1875; dau. Emory and Huldah (Leach) Potter; ed. Saratoga Springs public schools; grad. high school; Wellesley, B.A. '98; m. Saratoga Springs, 1903, E. H. Blichfeldt; children: Emily Potter, b. Mar. 12, 1910; Eva Mary, b. Nov. 13, 1912. Teacher in public schools of Saratoga Springs for five years before marriage. Mem. W.C.T..U. in Chautauqua; sup't of Loyal Temperance Legion; graduate of Chautauqua Literary Circle. Was a Sunday-school teacher for several years, also mem. of choir. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church.

BLIGH, Julia Morurm (Mrs. Herman E. Bligh), Warsaw, N.J.

Born London, England, April 12, 1855; dau. Henry and Julia (Brett) Morum; ed. Corry (Pa.) High School and Allegheny Coll., Meadville, Pa., A.B. '75; m. Bradford, Pa., Dec. 19, 1879, Herman E. Bligh; children: Julia M., Edith M., Arthur H., Ernest W. Before marriage taught in Corry, Titusville, and Bradford high schools and later was matron of the N.Y. State School for the Blind. Favors woman suffrage; one of directors of Warsaw Political Equality Club. Speaker for suffrage. Methodist. Mem. Monday Club.

BLISS, Eleanora Emma (Mrs. Tasker H. Bliss), Fort Totten, N.Y.

Daughter Rev. George W. Anderson, D.D., and Maria Frances (Hill) Anderson; ed. by tutors in U.S. and Germany; m. Rosemont, Pa., May 24, 1882, Tasker H. Bliss (now brig.-gen. U.S. Army); children: Eleanora Frances, Edward Goring.

BLISS, Eleanora Frances, Fort Totten. N.Y.

Geologist; b. Rosemont, Pa., July 15, 1883; dau. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, U.S.A., and Eleanora Emma (Anderson) Bliss; grad. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. and A.M. '04, Ph.D. '12. Author: Crystalline Rocks of the Doe Run Region of Pennsylvania (thesis). Episcopalian. Recreations: Tennis, horseback riding, swimming, basket ball.

BLISS, Elizabeth Bancroft, 1621 Twenty-first St., Washington, D.C.

Born Berlin, Germany, Nov. 6, 1868; dau. Alexander and Eleanor Taylor (Albert) Bliss; ed. Miss Burgess' and Miss Hilton's private schools in Washington, D.C. Interested in parish activities at St. John's Church, Washington, D.C; mem. Civic Federation; interested in social Improvement. Joint editor of Letters from England by Mrs. George Bancroft Episcopalian. Mem. Colonial Dames of America (Dist. of Columbia Chapter), Am. Forestry Ass'n, Navy League, Nat. Geographic Soc., Washington Club, York Club.

BLISS, Laura Adella, Dickinson House, Northampton, Mass.

Professor of music; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; ed. In schools of N.Y. City; Vassar Coll., A.B. '77, A.M. '86, Mus.B. '88. Teacher Vassar Coll., 1879-95; Wilson Coll., Chambersburg, Pa., 1895-1904; ass't prof, of music, Smith Coll., since 1904. Elected Associate of Am. Coll. of Music, 1894.

BLISS, Mary H., Iowa Falls, Iowa

Club woman; b. Iowa Falls, la., 1867; dau. Lewis Oscar and Ruth (Seymour) Bliss; father is of Revolutionary stock; descendant of Beriah Bliss and Captain Stephen Seymour, both of whom served in the war of 1776; ed. Iowa Falls High School and Grinnell Coll. Trustee Iowa Falls Public Library; vice-pres. and mem. Board of Directors of Ladies' Social Gathering; delegate from Third District of Iowa to Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs, San Francisco, June, 1912; chairman Third District Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs. Congregationalist. Mem. P.E.O. Soc., D.A.R. and Eastern Star. Mem. Parchment Club.

BLISS, Ruth Shorkley (Mrs. George R. Bliss), Silver Spring, Md.

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Rh and Sarah (Metxell) Shorkley; grad. Bucknell Inst., '02; Bucknell Univ., A.B. '05 (mem. Delta Delta Delta); m. Lewisburg, Pa, July 29, 1909, George R. Bliss (patent lawyer); one son: Henry Harmon Bliss. Now living, for benefit of husband's health, on a poultry farm, which they have named "Novova." Baptist.

BLOCK, Anita C. (Mrs. S. John Block), 65 Hamilton Terrace, N.Y. City.

Associate editor; b. N.Y. City, Aug. 22, 1882; ed. private school, N.Y. City; Barnard Coll., grad. B.A. '03; m. N.Y. City, June 4, 1907, S. John Block (lawyer and well-known Socialist). Was teacher in a New York private school. Active mem. Socialist Party. Favors woman suffrage. Associate editor of Socialist daily paper, the New York Call; edits Sunday page for women, also writes several editorial articles weekly. Mem. Socialist Press Club, Women's Trade Union League, Am. Soc. Med. Sociology, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc. Recreations: Dancing, walking, rowing, swimming, music, art, theatre. Has been delegate to city and State conventions of the Socialist Party. Lectures on Socialism and all allied subjects before women's clubs, suffrage societies, dinner clubs, etc.

BLOCK, Elizabeth Orme (Mrs. Francis C. Block), 16 Kimball St., Atlanta, Ga.

Born Atlanta, Ga.; dau. Francis Hodgson and Ellen Vail (Woodward) Orme; ed. public schools of Atlanta and Edgeworth School, Baltimore, Md.; m. Francis Cockran Block (deceased); one daughter: Margaret Douglas Block. Mem. Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Every Saturday Club. Episcopalian.

BLODGETT, Katharine Frances (Mrs. Kinsley Blodgett), 1016 Main St., Worcester, Mass.

Born Boston, Sept. 4, 1880; dau. George Abner and Emma W. (Bancroft) Littlefield; ed. public schools of Newport and Providence, and Brown Univ., A.B. '02 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Providence, June 27, 1910, Rev. Kinsley Blodgett. Teacher in Sunday-school. Episcopalian. Recreation: Music. Mem. Current Topics Club (sec.) Against woman suffrage.

BLODGETT, Mabel Fuller (Mrs. Edward E. Blodgett), Redgables, West Newton, Mass.

Author; b. Bangor, Me., April 18, 1869; dau. Ransom Burritt and Mary Louise (White) Fuller; ed. Acad. Sacre Cceur, Elmhurst, Providence, R.I.; m. Boston, Mass., Nov. 17, 1891, Edward Everett Blodgett; children: Robert Fuller, Ruth Hartwell, Richard Ashley, Dorothy. Author: The Aspen Shade; At the Queen's Mercy; Fairy Tales; The Giant's Ruby; When Christmas Came Too Early. Roman Catholic. Mem. Mayflower Club and Mayflower Descendants.

BLODGETT, Minnie Cumnock (Mrs. John Wood Blodgett), 401 Cherry St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Born Lowell, Mass.; dau. Alexander G. and Frances F. (Ross) Cumnock; ed. public schools, Lowell, Mass.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '84; m. Lowell, Mass., Jan. 16, 1895, John Wood Blodgett; children: Katherine Cumnock, John Wood. Pres. of the D. A. Blodgett Home for Children; interested in the child-welfare work of the city. Mem. Women's University Club, Ladies' Literary Club, Fortnightly Club, Art Ass'n. Congregationalist.

BLOOM, Bessie Luella Kutcher (Mrs. Jesse Stewart Bloom), 55 N. Park St., East Orange, N.J.

Born East Orange, N.J., 1880; ed. in schools of East Orange; Vassar Coll., A.B. '01; m. East Orange, N.J., Aug. 26, 1908, Jesse Stewart Bloom; children: Roger Langdon, Lois Gilbert, Clifford Stewart. Engaged in teaching and office work in Morristown, N.J.; Newark, N.J., and Brooklyn, N.Y., 1901-05; sec. Y.W.C.A. of Brooklyn, 1905-08. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church.

BLOOMSTEIN, Elizabeth Lee, 521 Fifth Av., South, Nashville, Tenn.

Teacher; b. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 8, 1859; dau. Jacob and Esther M. (Radzin) Bloomstein; ed. private school, normal school, Univ. of Nashville, A.M.; grad, student of Univs. of Wis. and Chicago. Professor of history (European), Peabody Normal School, for thirty-five years; now librarian of George Peabody Coll. Library. Has lectured for many years, particularly on history and history of art; has been active in civic work as mem. of South Nashville Fed. of Women, as well as other clubs. Against woman suffrage. Has written for newspapers. Jewish religion. Pres. Magazine Circle, which has endowed a scholarship for the George Peabody Coll. for Teachers, to be known as the Magazine Circle Scholarship; has been a delegate twice to the Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs of the U.S. and on the educational program in 1900 at Milwaukee. Vice-pres. Tennessee Woman's Historical Ass'n; mem. Tenn. Press Woman and Authors' Club, Am. Historical Ass'n, Ladies' Hermitage Ass'n (which cares for home of Andrew Jackson), United Daughters of the Confederacy, Nashville Art Ass'n, Peabody Woman's Club, Centennial Club, etc.

BLOUNT, Alma, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Teacher; b. Byron, Ill., Nov. 29, 1866; dau. Joseph Blount, M.D., and Mary Putman (Green) Blount; grad. Wheaton (Ill.) Coll., A.B. '90; Cornell Univ., Ph.D. '96; scholar in English philology, 1894-95; fellow in English philology, 1895-96; student at Radcliffe Coll., 1898-99; held European fellowship of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, 1904-05. Earlier years of teaching were spent in various schools; now ass't prof. of English in the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, Mich. Author: Language Lessons for Intermediate Grades, 1912; An Elementary Grammar, Composition for Grammar Grades, 1913. Mem. D.A.R., Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, National Council of Teachers of English. Interested in investigations in mediaeval romance, and has partially completed a Complete Onomasticon of the Mediaeval Legends of the Arthurian Cycle. Pending its completion and publication the MS. is kept in the fireproof vaults of the Harvard Library, where it may be consulted by scholars interested. Favors woman suffrage.

BLOUNT, Anna Ellsworth (Mrs. Ralph Earle Blount), 124 South Oak Park Av., Oak Park, Ill.

Physician, lecturer; b. Oregon, Wis., Jan. 18, 1872; dau. H. G. and Amelia (Barnhisel) Ellsworth; grad. Univ. of Wis., class of '92; Northwestern Univ., Woman's Med. School, M.D. '97; Germany, 1904; Cook Co. Hospital interne, 1897; m. Chicago, 1893, Ralph Earle Blount; children: Walter, Earle, Ruth. Passed competitive exam., 1897, for Cook Co. Hospital; studied abroad, 1902-04. Frequent lecturer on social hygiene, equal suffrage, eugenics and kindred subjects. Formerly vice-pres. Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, now chairman of Literature Com. Author of magazine articles, leaflets and addresses. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Chicago Med. Soc, Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Chicago Political Equality League, Am. Eugenics Soc. Recreation: Travel. Mem. Chicago Woman's Club, Nineteenth Century Club (Oak Park, Ill.), Woman's Med. Club.

BLOUNT, Marie Ross (Mrs. Henry F. Blount), 218 Sunset Av., Evansville, Ind.

Born Mt. Vernon, Ind., July 10, 1881; dau. Robert Neal and Emily (Lichtenberg) Ross; ed. public schools of Evansville, Ind., later private schools and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music; m. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 4, 1905, Henry F. Blount Jr.; children: Henry F., b. Sept, 25, 1906; Robert E., b. Nov 20, 1908. After completing musical education did accompanying and sole work on the piano in concert professionally for several years, later taught music. Leader in social musical circles and mem. of musical societies in Evansville and Washington, D.C. Interested in civics and municipal reforms—especially health and education. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BLOW, Alziere Kennerly (Mrs. William T. Blow), 6712 Michigan Av., St. Louis, Mo.

Born Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Dec. 29. 1866; dau. Wm. F. and Abbie (Kennerly) Haines; is a soldier's daughter of Colonial lineage; ed. in High School, Acad, of Sacred Heart and Washington Univ., St. Louis; m. Nov. 19, 1898, Dr.


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110 William T. Blow. Mem. Civic League of St. Louis. Pres. Carondolet Women's Club. Recreation: Artistic pursuits. Against suffrage, as non-Scriptural.

BLUM, Charlotte, M.D., 293 E. 10th St., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Odessa, Russia, May 26, 1882; dau. Harris and Golda (Rabinowitz) Blum; general education in Russia; grad. Cornell Univ. Med. Coll., M.D. '06. Engaged since graduation in general practice of medicine in N.Y. City. Hebrew. Favors woman suffrage.

BLUMENSCHEIN, Mary Shepard Greene (Mrs. Ernest L. Blumenschein), 50 Orange St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Artist; b. New York; dau. Rufus and Mary I. (Shepard) Greene; ed. Adelphi Acad., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Pratt Institute; studied art under Prof. Whittaker and Herbert Adams, of Brooklyn, and Raphael Collin, of Paris; m. Paris, June 29, 1905, Ernest L. Blumenschein, artist; children: Ethan Allen (died in infancy), Helen Greene Blumenschein. Studied in Paris 1892-1909; awarded in Paris Salon, 1900, medal of third class; in 1909, medal of second class; St. Louis Exposition, silver medal. Mem. Woman's Art Club.

BLUNDON, Ada C. Pollock (Mrs. Frank C. Blundon), Baton Rouge, La.

Teacher; b. Patria, N.Y., April 11, 1863; dau. Jesse W. and Mary (Dagget) Pollock; grad. Albany State Normal, '86; m. Baldwin, La., Feb. 9, 1889, Rev. Frank C. Baldwin. With husband organized, 1889, the Live Oak School for Colored People in Baton Rouge, La., which they have conducted ever since; enrollment 485 in 1912, the school being supported chiefly by the freewill offerings of Christian people of the North. Favors woman suffrage.

BLUNT, Katharine, Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass.

Chemist, teacher; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Stanhope English Blunt (now colonel U.S.A.) and Fanny (Smyth) Blunt; grad. Vassar Coll., B.A. '98; graduate student Mass. Inst. of Technology. 1902-03; graduate student Univ. of Chicago, 1902, 1905-07, Ph.D. '07 (holder of Babbott fellowship, 1905-06). Teacher Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y.; instructor in chemistry, Vassar Coll., 1903-05, and 1908-13; associate prof, chemistry, School of Education, Univ. of Chicago, 1913—. Mem. Am. Chemical Soc.; fellow A.A.A.S.

BLUNT, Olive M., 508 S. Prairie St., Jacksonville, Ill.

Teacher, missionary, lecturer; b. Mason Co., Ill., Aug. 21, 1859; dau. Robert C. and Mary J. Blunt; ed. Wesleyan Coll., Bloomington, Ill., and examinations by correspondence for foreign field. Has lectured on Japan and on temperance in every State except nine. Routed for eight months for State W.C.T.U. of Kansas, for Texas three months, and five months for Nebraska, to give public addresses and to organize. Taught five years in Ill., eight in public schools of Kansas City, Mo.; was sent to Japan by Baptist Women's Board of Chicago to open girls' school and spent seven years in Japan. A. year after retiring entered lecture field for Japan and temperance. Returned to Japan in 1905 at own expense from lectures. On way spent three months in Honolulu, where served as sec. Y.W.C.A., having had experience as sec. in Kansas City, where she was the first sec. Traveled from North to South Japan, addressing 27,000 students, and was chaperone for nine students upon return to this country. Has written much for local papers and a pamphlet: Gone Before (the narration of the life and death of a Japanese pupil). Baptist. Prohibition in politics. Mem. W.C.T.U., State chairman of Ill. Woman's Prohibition Club; mem. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc.

BLYE, Birdice, 5424 Washington Av., Chicago, Ill.

Piano virtuoso; dau. J. M. and Annie Blye; of English ancestry (grandparents came from England and settled in New York); educated in London, Paris and Berlin; completed her musical studies with Anton Rubinstein. As a child played in London and Continental cities when only ten years of age. Has played before the royal families of England and Germany and for two administrations at the White House in Washington. and has given recitals in the principal cities of the United States. Has contributed articles to various magazines on musical subjects and on distinguished people she has met. Mem. of several clubs and societies. Protestant Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BOAK, Mabel, Valhalla, N.Y.

School principal; b. N.Y. City; ed. in schools of N.Y. City; Vassar Coll., A.B. '01; Columbia Univ., A.M. '02. Teacher, Allentown, Pa., 1902-07; Worcester, Mass., 1907-08; preceptress, 1908-09, and principal since 1909 Chappaqua Mountain Institute.

BOARDMAN, Anne Calef (Mrs. Francis Boardman), Riverdale, N.Y. City.

Born Boston, Mass., Aug. 5, 1881; dau. Benjamin Shreve and Annie (Macdonald) Calef; ed. private schools, Boston, Dresden, Germany, 1899; N.Y. School of Philanthropy, 1908; m. Boston, June 8, 1910, Francis Boardman; children: Elizabeth, William Hall. Mem. Board of Directors of the N.Y. College Settlement. Episcopalian.

BOARDMAN, Mabel Thorp, 1801 P St., Washington, D.C. (Summer, Windcliffe, Manchester-by-the Sea, Mass.)

Red Cross official; b. Cleveland, O.; dau. William Jarvis Boardman (grandson of Hon. Elijah Boardman, an early U.S. Senator from Conn.) and Florence Shefield Boardman (dau. Joseph Earl Shefield of New Haven, after whom the Shefield Scientific School of Yale was named); ed. Cleveland and N.Y. schools and abroad; resident of Washington since 1889; received A.M. from Yale Univ. 1910. Was given decorations of the King's Order by King of Sweden, 1909; received gold civic crown from Italian Government, 1909, and honorary decoration from Japanese Red Cross, 1912; U.S. delegate to the Eighth International Red Cross Conference, London; mem. Com. of One Hundred of A.A.A.S. to Promote Public Health, and especially to establish Nat. Dep't of Health. Mem. Exec. Com. and chairman of the Nat. Relief Board of the Am. Red Cross. Mem. Congressional Club of Washington.

BOAS, Harriet Betty (Mrs. Emil L. Boas), Bonniecrest, Greenwich, Conn.

Born Boston, Mass.; dau. Adolph and Charlotte (Leviseur) Sternfeld; ed. in N.Y. private schools; m. N.Y. City, March 20, 1888, Emil L. Boas (died May 3, 1912); one son: Herbert Allan. Trustee City History Club of N.Y., of which was pres. for several years; Nat. Alliance of Unitarian Women of which was vice-pres. five years; N.Y. League of Unitarian Women (pres.); Auxiliary of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Soc; mem. Thursday Musical Club; Mary Washington Memorial Ass'n; Children's Charitable Union; Public Education Ass'n; Seaman Home (Hoboken); also many charitable organizations and philanthropic enterprises. Has translated many songs for well-known composers, also written several articles both in English and German for American and European magazines. Especially interested in civic matters, particularly city history; has received from the Sultan of Turkey, Great Star of the Order of the Nishan-i-Shefkat. Recreation: Music. Clubs: MacDowell, Sorosis, Nat. Society New England Women. Favors woman suffrage. Plans much for charity in settlements, etc., and particularly interested in American composers, most of whom she knows personally.

BODMAN, Ida M. (Mrs. Edward Cushman Bodman), 835 Madison Av., N.Y. City.

Daughter of Peter F. and Maria (Waite) Berdan; grad. N.Y. Univ., L.H.M.; m. Toledo, O., 1878, Edward Cushman Bodman; children: Herbert Luther, George Melnine Bodman. Pres. Advisory Com. of School of Pedagogy of N.Y. Univ. Clubs: Cosmopolitan, Barnard.

BODMAN, Rose Maria, Maple Lodge, Rutland, Mass.

Sanatorium proprietor; b. Massachusetts; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '87. Private teacher, 1887-88;


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Rh teacher Miss Brackett's School for Girls, N.Y. City, 1888-89; Misses Ely's School, Brooklyn, 1889-92; principal of private school for girls, Brooklyn, 1892-1903; since 1909 matron and proprietress of sanatorium at Rutland, Mass.

BOERICKE, Edith Gertrude Schoff (Mrs. John James Boericke), 112 Beacon Lane, Merion, Pa.

Born Newtonville, Mass.; dau. Frederic and Hannah (Kent) Schoff; ed. Friends Central School and Walton School, Philadelphia; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98; graduate student Univ. of Pa., 1899-1900; student of music, 1900-03; demonstrator in geology, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1903; m. 1906, John James Boericke; children: Ralph, b. June 5, 1907; Frederic Schoff, b. Nov. 7, 1909; Edith Clara, b. July 11, 1911. Sec. West Philadelphia Com. of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1904-06. Mem. Church of the New Jerusalem. Mem. Mothers' Club.

BOERICKE, Helene, 6375 Woodbine Av., Philadelphia, Pa.

Musician; b. Philadelphia; dau. Francis E., M.D., and Elsie M. (Tafel) Boericke; grad. Univ. of Pa., degree Bachelor of Music; studied with Michael H. Cross and W. W. Gilchrist, Philadelphia; in Conservatory of Music, Leipzig, Germany; Madame Falchi, Rome, Italy; Miss McEvilly and de Reszke, Paris. Teacher of voice, theory and chorus at Music Settlement School, Philadelphia; chorus of children at College Settlement, Philadelphia. Mem. New Jerusalem Church. Mem. Manuscript Music Soc (Philadelphia), Philadelphia Music Teachers' Ass'n, Ladies' Aid Ass'n of New Jerusalem Church.

BOERICKE, Johanna Magdaline, 6375 Woodbine Av., Philadelphia, Pa.

Artist and sculptress; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 13, 1868; dau. Francis Edmund and Eliza (Tafel) Boericke; grad. West Green St. Seminary; studied at Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; water colors at Rome, under Enrico Nardi; portraiture in Paris, under Renard; miniature painting at Julien's, Paris. Mem. New Jerusalem Church. Mem. fellowship of the Pa. Acad, of Fine Arts, New Church League, Ladies' Aid Soc., Plastic Club.

BOGARDUS, Estella Mae, Thompson Publishing Co., Syracuse, N.Y.

Publisher; dau. Everadus and Mary Jane (Little) Bogardus; grad. Keble School. Started business, April, 1895, with Francis Hendricks & Co., art dealers; in 1898 assumed management of the publishing dep't of Earl Thompson Publishing Co. (pres., sec. and director). Inventor of the blue print system of studying art in American schools and has built up an extensive enterprise in supplying schools with blue prints for the study of art and literature by her method. Mem. Professional Woman's League, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Eastern Art Teachers' Ass'n. Mem. Kanatenah, Round Table and hon. mem. Social Art Club.

BOGGS, Christina Marie (Mrs. John Lawrence Boggs), 44 Spruce St., Newark, N.J.

Born N.Y. City; dau. Charles Whiting and Jeannie (Wilson) Newton; m. Washington, D.C., 1892, John Lawrence Boggs; children: Cornelia Paterson, Christina Newton. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

BOGGS, Lucinda Pearl, 811 W. Illinois St., Urbana, Ill.

Educator; b. Tuscola, Ill., Nov. 18, 1874; dau. Benjamin Franklin and Mary (Armstrong) Boggs; ed. Univ. of Ill., A.B. '94; Univs. of Jena, Berlin, and Halle, Germany, 1897-1900 (Ph.D., Halle, 1900); honorary fellow, Cornell, 1902-03. Principal Oakland High School, 1894-95; preceptress and instructor in Greek and Latin, Rue Collegiate Inst., Paxton, Ill., 1895-97; principal Primary Training Dep't, State Normal, Ellensburg, Wash., 1901-02; also instructor in psychology and education, Western College for Women, Oxford, O., 1906-07; director of normal training, Methodist Episcopal Mission schools in Central China, 1910-12. Leader in local option campaigns in Urbana, 1908 and 1910. Secured appointment of probation officer for county; assisted in organizing Child Welfare Conference, 1909. Pres. Dist. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, 1909-10; Ill. State delegate to World's Congress on Home Education at Brussels, 1910; sec. Com. on Eugenics, Nat. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, 1909-10. Lecturer on professional and popular subjects. Author: Das Interesse u. seine Anwendung in der Pedagogik, 1900 (Docter's thesis, Halle), and a Series on Interest (Journal of Philosophy), 1904-06; The Physical Accomplishments of Feeling (Psychological Review), 1904; Home Education (Proceedings Child Welfare Conference), 1910; Chinese Womanhood, 1913; also articles on educational and social topics in various Chinese magazines and newspapers. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. A.A.A.S., Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Am. Home Economics Ass'n, W.C.T.U., Public Health Ass'n, Child Welfare Conference (ex. sec), Anti-Tuberculosis League, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of Methodist Episcopal Church. Recreations: Music, out-door sports. Favors woman suffrage.

BOGUE (Mrs. Arthur Hoyt), (see Bell, Lilian).

BOHAN, Elizabeth Baker (Mrs. Michael Bohan), 1844 Santa Cruz St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Journalist; b. Birmingham, England, 1849; dau. Joseph and Martha (Boddington) Baker; ed. Milwaukee (Wis.) public and private schools; m. Milwaukee, 1872, Michael Bohan; children: Arthur Baker, Edmonde Russell, Martha Boddington, Florence Claire. Lecturer to women's clubs on civic reforms, especially that which includes a reconstruction of penal system; works for the establishment of municipal farms for the down-and-out and petty offenders. Author: The Dragnet (book); and serial stories: The Burro Girl, and The Strength of the Weak. Has written for the West Coast Magazine as staff writer for past five years; also occasionally for Chicago Tribune, Simmons' Magazine, Munsey's, Milwaukee Sentinel, Youth's Companion, National New Thought Monthly, The Club Woman and others. Clubs: Southern Cal. Press, Cal. Badger. Recreations: Work with pencils, brushes, water color, oils and black and white illustrations. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive.

BOHN, Maud Thompson (Mrs. William E. Bohn), 206 N. Maple Av., East Orange, N.J.

Teacher and lecturer; b. Cincinnati, 1870; dau. Charles L. and Mary (Boyd) Thompson; grad. Wellesley, B.A. '01, M.A. '02; Yale, Ph.D. '06; student at Columbia Univ., 1897-99; Durant scholar, Wellesley, 1901 (mem. Agora); m. William E. Bohn; one daughter: Rhoda Thompson Bohn. Teacher of Greek and Latin at Irving Coll., Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1902-04; teacher of Latin and history at Detroit (Mich.) Sem., 1906-08. Lecturer on suffrage and socialism, 1908-13. Mem. College Equal Suffrage League, Women's Political Union of N.J. (mem. Exec. Board, 1912-13), Mich. State Suffrage Soc. (vice-pres. 1908-09), Socialist Party, Classical Ass'n of Middle West, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc.

BOLDS, Augusta W. (Mrs. W. V. Bolds), 470 West 7th St., Superior, Wis.

Teacher, Prohibition worker; b. New York; dau. Judge H. Van Renssalaer and Beth (Brownson) Wilmot, formerly of New York, later of Kansas; grad. Wesleyan Univ. and after graduation took course in theology under tutor; m. Port Washington, Wis., W. V. Bolds. Since graduation active in club, patriotic and philanthropic work; mem. Wisconsin Industrial School (for girls) Board; speaker from pulpit and platform. Nat. pres. Woman's Prohibition Club of Am., a federation of clubs working for the legal abolition of the traffic in women and intoxicants and sex discrimination at the ballot-box. Mem. Wis. Federation of Women's Clubs (organizer and former vice-pres.), Humorous Hour Club, Superior, Wis.; vice-pres. Internat. Prohibition Confederation of the World (with headquarters in London) representing the United States. Author of poems and sketches, contributions to periodical press and editor The National Woman's Advance Guard. Congregationalist.