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148 1902; The Shuttle, 1907; The Cosy Lion, 1907; Good Wolf, 1908; The Spring Cleaning, 1908; The Secret Garden, 1909; The Dawn of To-Morrow, 1909; My Robin, 1912. Dramatized Little Lord Fauntleroy; also wrote other plays, including: The Showman's Daughter; Esmeralda; The First Gentleman of Europe; Editha's Burglar; also (in collaboration with Stephen Townesend) Nixie; A Lady of Quality.

BURNETT, Katherine D., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Physican; b. Clyde, Wayne Co., N.Y.; dau. William and Loretta C. (van Tassel) Burnett; ed. Clyde High School, St. Lawrence Univ. A.B., Woman's Med. Coll. (N.Y.) M.D.; École de Médecine, Paris, France (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). Clubs: Brooklyn Woman's, Portia, Chiropean. Mem. Kings County Med. Ass'n. Recreation: Travel. Episcopalian.

BURNEY, Minnie Melton (Mrs. W. B. Burney), 8 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.

Born Yorkville, S.C, Mar. 14, 1860; dau. Samuel W. and Mary Helen (Gore) Melton; grad. Columbia (S.C.) Coll., B.A.; special student two years at Wellesley Coll.; m. Columbia, S.C, Jan. 9, 1883, Dr. W. B. Burney (prof, chemistry, Univ. of S.C.); children: Addie M., William M., Dorothy E. Interested in church societies, Free Kindergarten Ass'n, hospital ass'ns, and other charitable institutions. Greatly interested in favor of woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Democrat. Mem. D.A.R., United Daughters of Confederacy, ex-regent Columbia Chapter D.A.R. and State registrar of S.C. Pres. City of Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs; ex-pres. New Century Club (literary), Civic League, Kindergarten Ass'n, Rural School Improvement Ass'n; ex-pres. S.C. Fed. Women's Clubs.

BURNHAM, Clara Louise (Mrs. Walter Burnham), Elms Hotel, E. Fifty-third St., Chicago, Ill.; summer, The Mooring, Bailey Island, Me.

Author; b. Newton, Mass.; dau. Dr. George Frederick and Mary O. (Woodman) Root; ed. Chicago and Boston; m. Walter Burnham, lawyer. Her father was the well-known composer of the war songs: Battle Cry of Freedom; Tramp, Tramp, etc., also composer of cantatas and operettas for which she wrote the librettos. Author: No Gentlemen; A Sane Lunatic; Dearly Bought; Next Door; Young Maids and Old; The Mistress of Beach Knoll; Miss Bagg's Secretary; Dr. Latimer; Sweet Clover; The Wise Woman; Miss Archer, Archer; A Great Love; A West Point Wooing; Miss Pritchard's Wedding Trip; The Right Princess; Jewel; Jewel's Story Book; The Opened Shutters; The Leaven of Love; Clever Betsy; The Inner Shrine, etc. Christian Scientist. Favors woman suffrage.

BURNHAM, Josephine May, 1 Leavitt St., Wellesley. Mass.

Teacher; b. Lexington, Miss.; dau. Josiah and May E. (Cilley) Burnham; ed. Univ. of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa, 1900, Ph.B. '01; fellow in English, Yale Univ., 1907-10, Ph.D. '10. Instructor in English, Wellesley Coll., 1902-07, 1910-12; associate prof, of English, Wellesley Coll., since 1912. Interested in suffrage, socialism. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Concessive Constructions in Old English Prose; A Brief Inquiry Into the Province and Laws of Poetry (privately printed). Socialist. Mem. Modern Language Ass'n of America, Consumers' League, Phi Beta Kappa Society.

BURNHAM, Laura Hunter (Mrs. P. J. Burnham), Mechanicsburg, O.

Born Mechanicsburg, O., Mar. 25, 1855; dau. Vincent and Sabina (Weber) Hunter; ed. high school; Vassar Coll., A.B. '77; m. Mechanicsburg, O., Feb. 10, 1885, P. J. Burnham; children: Vincent H., John P.; two grandchildren. Was mem. of the local school board for three years; served as sec. of the board for two years; active in the religious and social life of the village. Charter mem. Order of the Eastern Star (worthy matron two years) Charter mem. and first vice-pres. Women Tourist Club (literary); mem. two social clubs. Methodist.

BURNHAM, Margaret Sherman (Mrs. Daniel H. Burnham), Evanston, Ill.

Born Fishkill, N.Y., Nov. 9, 1850; dau. John B. and Ophelia (Graham) Sherman; ed. N.Y. State; m. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 20, 1876, Daniel H. Burnham (distinguished architect; chief architect of World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, etc.; died June 1, 1912); children: Ethel B. Wells, b. 1876; John, b. 1878; Herbert, b. 1884; Margaret R. Kelly, Daniel H., b. 1886.

BURNS, Louisa, The Pacific College of Osteopathy, Los Angeles, Cal.

Teacher of physiology; b. Saltillo, Ind.; dau. W. N. and Mary Lois (Littell) Burns; grad. Borden (Ind.) Inst., B.S. and M.S.; Pacific Coll. of Osteopathy, D.O., D.Sc.O. (mem. Delta Omega). Author: Studies in the Osteopathic Sciences; Basic Principles; The Nerve Centres; The Physiology of Consciousness; various scientific reports and essays. Christian. Republican. Mem. Am. Osteopathic Soc, California Osteopathic Ass'n, Woman's Faculty Club of Pacific Coll. of Osteopathy; since 1902 prof, of physiolgy in Pacific Coll. of Osteopathy, Los Angeles. Favors woman suffrage.

BURNS, Lucy, 904 President St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Organizer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; ed. Packer Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '02; graduate work in Yale Univ., 1902-03; Univ. of Berlin, 1906-08; Univ. of Bonn., 1908-09. Teacher in Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, 1904-06; resided abroad, 1906-12. Favors woman suffrage. Organizer of Woman's Social and Political Union in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1909-12; residing in Washington, D.C., as mem. of Congressional Committee, Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, 1913.

BURNS, Margaret Broad (Mrs. Berend James Burns), 105 Fargo Av., Buffalo, N.Y.

Born Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 1, 1873; dau. George and Agnes (Dempster) Broad; ed. Buffalo public and high school; Vassar Coll., A.B. 1896; Teachers' Training School, Buffalo, '97; m. Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1901, Berend James Burns; children: Margaret Agnes, Helen Broad, Berend James Jr. Teacher Masten High School, 1897-01; specialty English. Interested in child study (committee work), also manual training in schools and in household economics movement. Favors woman suffrage. United Presbyterian. Pres. Women's Missionary Soc. of First United Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae; pres. Managers' College Creche, Buffalo, 1907; mem. Vassar Club, Buffalo. Recreations: Walking, swimming, rowing, dancing, skating.

BURPEE, Myra Blanche Walker (Mrs. Homer Stanford Burpee), 809 N. Court St., Rockford, Ill.

Born Rockford, Ill.; grad. Rockford (Ill.) Coll., B.A. '95; m. Rockford, Ill., Homer Stanford Burpee (banker); one daughter. Episcopalian (active in church and Sunday-school work). Mem. Rockford College Ass'n (has been treas.), Rockford Coll. Alumnae Ass'n (has been sec. and mem. Exec. Com.). Mem. Short Story Club, Rockford Country Club.

BURR, Anna Robeson, 246 S. 23d St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Writer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., 1873; dau. Henry Armitt and Josephine L. (Baker) Brown; ed. private school tutors in Philadelphia; m. May, 1899, Charles H. Burr, of the Philadelphia Bar; children: Dorothy, b. 1900; Pamella, b. 1905. Author (novels): Truth and A Woman; The Jessop Bequest; also The Autobiography, a critical comparative study. Mean. Contemporary Club. Recreations: Walking, climbing, out-door life generally.

BURR, Helen Louise, Reynolds Hall., Walla Walla, Wash.

Dean of women, Whitman Coll.; b. Dedham, Mass., Dec. 17, 1870; dau. Lafayette and Abby White (Shepard) Burr; ed. Melrose (Mass.) public schools; Wellesley Coll., A.B. '93; Domestic Science (Simmons Coll.), '03; Univ. of Chicago, '07. Interested in social activities. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalism Republican. Mem. Y.W.C.A. Recreation: Camping. Mem. Boston College Club. Interested in science and eugenics.


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Rh BURR, Marjorie, Williamstown, Mass.

Educator; b. Winsted, Conn.; ed. in schools of Winsted, Conn., and Vassar Coll., B.A. '99. Teacher in the Misses Graham's School, N.Y. Dity, 1899-1900; since 1900 in Normal Coll., N.Y. City.

BURR, Theodora Dudley (Mrs. Ralph H. Burr), 72 Pearl St., Middletown, Conn.

Born Madison, Conn., July 28, 1867; dau. Benjamin and Zerviah (Clark) Dudley; grad. New Haven High School, '86; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '91; m. Madison, Conn., Oct. 29, 1895, Ralph H. Burr; children: Catharine, Antoinette, Theodora, Ralph Jr. Interested in missionary societies connected with the church and Day Nursery and District Nurse Work. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BURRAGE, Edith May, 34 Harrison Av., Northampton, Mass.

Librarian; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '99; student Simmons Coll. Library School, Boston, 1903-04. Apprentice Lancaster (Mass.) Library, 1902-03; library organizer, Bolton (Mass.) Public Library, 1904-05; Wellesley (Mass.) Public Library, 1905-06; Harvard Med. School, January-September, 1907; ass't librarian Clark Univ. Library, 1907-08; ass't librarian Smith Coll. since October, 1908. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n.

BURRAGE, Harriet Greene Dyer (Mrs. Thomas J. Burrage), 139 Park St., Portland, Me.

Born Providence, R.I., Dec. 22, 1879; dau. William Jones and Lillian Pitman (Greene) Dyer; ed. Miss Abbott's School, Miss Bowen's School; m. Providence, R.I., June 12, 1906, Dr. Thomas J. Burrage; one son: Henry Dyer, b. 1910. On board of managers of Female Orphan Asylum. Mem. Maine Soc, Colonial Dames of America. Protestant Episcopal. Against woman suffrage.

BURRELL, Caroline Benedict, 58 Downing St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Chicago, Ill.; daughter of Amzi and Catharine (Walrath) Benedict; ed. Lake Forest Coll., Univ. of Ill. M.Litt.; m. Oct. 18, 1888, Rev. Joseph Dunn Burrell; children: Katharine Benedict, b. Oct. 9, 1889; Monica, b. February 1, 1891. Author: A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl; Margaret's Saturday Morning; Living on a Little; Easy Entertaining; Fairs and Fetes, etc. (all under nom-de-plume). Presbyterian. Mem. Meridian Club of N.Y. City. Writer under her own name and others of essays, fiction, juvenile stories, etc., for magazines and papers.

BURRELL, Clara DeForest (Mrs. David James Burrell), 2 48 W. Seventy-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Born New Haven. Conn., Nov. 19, 1849; dau. George F. and Caroline E. (Sergeant) DeForest; ed. public and private schools of Freeport, Ill.; m. Freeport, Ill., Oct. 18, 1871, Rev. David James Burrell (pastor Marble Collegiate Church, N.Y. City); children: Clara Miriam, Elizabeth Sergeant, David DeForest, Norman McLeod, Eleanor Loudenois, Katharine DeForest. Pres. Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of Reformed Church in America. Against woman suffrage.

BURRELL, Tempe Garfield (Mrs. Harry Clifton Burrell), Lorain, Ohio, R.F.D. No. 1.

Born Sheffield, Ohio, 1870; dau. Halsey and Harriet (Root) Garfield; grad. Oberlin, Ph.B. '97; mem. AEolian Soc; m. Sheffield, Oct. 9, 1894, Harry Clifton Burrell; children: Edward, Dwight, Kenneth, Doris, Virginia, Eleanor. Has helped organize and support a social settlement ass'n in Lorain. Served on school board. Congregationalist Mem. Lorain Sorosis Club, East Side Literary Club.

BURROUGH, Mary Anna, 544 Penn St., Camden, N.J.

Teacher; b. Camden Co., N.J.; dau. James and Elizabeth P. (Pine) Burrough; ed. Clarksboro and Camden, N.J., and Philadelphia; grad. Philadelphia Normal School (valedictorian), 1870; Nat. School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia, B.E. '92. Principal of North-East School, 1880; supervising principal of North-East and J. S. Read schools, 1901; sup't of Friends First-day School for many years; pres. of Woman's Park Ass'n for 10 years; pres. Teachers' Club of Camden; county vice-pres. of N.J. Teachers' Retirement Fund; mem. and one of the organizers of Teachers' Insurance Ass'n; mem. exec. com. State Teachers' Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Mem. Camden Principals' Ass'n, Parent Teachers' Ass'n of North-East School, N.J. Congress of Mothers. Recreations: Travel, lectures, musicals, etc.

BURROUGHS, Edith Woodman (Mrs. Bryson Burroughs), Flushing, L.I., N.Y.

Sculptor; b. Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1871; dau. Webster and Mary M. Woodman; ed. Art Students' League, N.Y. City; pupil of St. Gaudens; m. Sittingbourn, Kent, England, Sept. 5, 1893, Bryson Burroughs. Engaged as sculptor in marble, statuettes, busts of children, portraits in low relief, etc., participating in exhibitions in N.Y. City, receiving the Shaw memorial prize, and at the Champs de Mars, Paris. Mem. Nat. Sculpture Soc, etc.

BURROUGHS, Edna McCoy (Mrs. George T. Burroughs), Burley, Ida.

Born Portland, Ore., April 12, 1877; dau. John B. and Harriet (Hald) McCoy; ed. high school, Bellevue, Ida,, and special studies in private; m. Jan. 10, 1900, George Tyler Burroughs Jr. (mining engineer); one son: George Tyler Burroughs, b. 1905. Has been interested in educational and club work for several years; was pres. of Civic Improvement Ass'n, Burley, Ida.; has in co-operation with City School Sup't promoted domestic science work in public schools; on Historical Com. in Idaho Club Work; vice-chairman of Civil Service Com.; taught in public schools for five years. Mem. of leading social organisations in State, Civic Improvement Ass'n, Idaho State and First Dist. Federations. Recreations: Golf, camping, fishing. Christian Scientist, Favors woman suffrage. Republican; vice-pres. of Woman's Republican Club of Burley, Ida.

BURROUGHS, Marie (Mrs. Francis M. Livingston), 64 W. Eighty-seventh St., N.Y. City.

Former actress; b. (Lillie Arrington) San Francisco, 1866; ed. San Francisco schools; m. (1st) 1890, Louis F. Massen; (2d) Robert Barclay Macpherson of N.Y. City (died 1907); (3d) April 8, 1908, Francis M. Livingston. At 17 had been successful in private readings and recitals in native city, at one of which Lawrence Barrett was present, and was so impressed that he telegraphed A. M. Palmer and secured for her an engagement in The Rajah, then playing at Madison Square Garden, and she made her N.Y. debut in the part of Gladys in that play in 1884, assuming the stage name of "Marie Burroughs"; later played Irma in Alpine Roses, and afterward took leading parts in Hazel Kirke, Bssmeralda, After the Ball and Mrs. Winthrop in same company. While in New Orleans played Zieka in Diplomacy with Wallack's company, and afterward played Pauline March in Called Back with Robert Mantell in N.Y. City; then, returning to Palmer's Madison Square Garden company, created part of Queen Gainevere with Alexander Salvini, and later played Lettie in Saints and Sinners. After that, for several seasons, supported E. S. Willard, playing Vashti Dethic in Judah, Mary Blenkarn in The Middleman, Edith Ruddock in Wealth, Kate Norbury in John Needham's Double, Lucy in The Professor's Love Story and Ophelia in Hamlet; starred in Pinero's The Profligate, and in Romeo and Juliet and Leah, 1894-98, and starred in The Battle of the Strong, 1901, then retired from the stage.

BURROWES, Katharine, 246 Highland Av., H. P., Detroit, Mich.

Musician, composer, author, teacher; b. Kingston, Can.; dau. Edwin Annesley and Florinda (Radcliff) Burrowes; ed. privately at home and in Europe; studied music under Prof. J. C. Batchelder in Detroit, Mich., later in Germany under Karl Klindworth (founder with Zavier Scharwenka of the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory of Music). Taught in Detroit Conservatory of Music, 1887-95; established Burrowes Piano School, 1895. Invented appliances pertaining to the Burrowes course of music study, a method for teaching music to beginners by means of songs, stories, games, blackboard work, chart work, competitive drills and mechanical

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 , as well as pianoforte music; some of the appliances are: Miss Keyboard's School, a device for teaching notation and sight reading (patented 1904); The Broken Globe, a device for teaching meter or time; The Twelve Scale Boys, a device for teaching scales and chords (patented 1903); Meter Fractions and Meter Blocks, for teaching meter, etc. Author: Kindergarten Class Songs, 1901; Modern Music Methods, 1902; Some of the Knowledge Which a Music Teacher of Children Should Possess, 1906; Teachers' Manual of the Burrowes Course of Music Study, 1910; Tales of the Great Composers, 1911. Composer: Short Pieces for Small Hands (piano), 1904; Playtime Pieces (piano), 1904; Forty Reading Studies (piano), 1904; The Girls and the Doves (vocal), 1905; The Five Squirrels (vocal), 1906. Episcopalian. Mem. Tuesday Musicale of Detroit. Recreations: Reading, concerts, theatre. Favors woman suffrage.  BURROWES, Verlista Shaul (Mrs. Charles W. Burrowes), Kinderhook, N.Y.

Born Sharon Springs, N.Y.; ed. schools of Sharon Springs, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., B.A. '87; m. July 7, 1896, Charles W. Burrowes. Teacher Glade Springs, Va., 1889-90; examiner Regents' Office, Albany, N.Y., 1888-89 and 1890-96. BURROWS, Frances Peck (Mrs. Julius C. Burrows), The Elms 315 Woodword Kalamazoo, Mich, and 1406 Massachusetts Av., Washington D.C.

Daughter of Horace M. and Emilia (Barnes) Peck; grad. Forest Hill Sem; Rockford Coll.,1864 one of the three distinguished essayists who read essays on graduation day (mem. Rockford Coll. Ass'n); m. Richland, Mich., 1864, Julius C. Burrows (U.S. Senator, 1895-1911). Mem. Congregational Church. First State regent D.A.R.; vice-pres. gen. of Nat. Soc. D.A.R; nat. pres. of Children's Soc. D.A.R.; mem. Colonial Dames Howells of America. Interested in church work and philanthropy. Favors woman suffrage (with educational and property qualification). Mem. Colonial Dames Club (Washington); Book Review Club (Kalamazoo). During husband's service as Congressman and Senator has spent 33 winters in Washington.  BURROWS, Marion Cowan (Mrs. Charles Irving Burrows), 68 Ocean St., Lynn, Mass.

Physician; b. Scranton, Pa.; dau. James Cowan and Jane (Cary) Cowan; grad. Scranton High School; Mass. Coll. Pharmacy, Ph.G. and Ph.L.; grad. Tufts Med. Coll., M.D.; m. Aug. 26, 1909. Charles Irving Burrows. Chemist and bacteriologist for city of Lynn, Mass., 1900-05; medical inspector to schools, 1905-10. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Republican voter for school com. Mem. Order of Eastern Star. Recreations: Automobile, golf, music. Mem. North Shore Club of Lynn, Mass.  BURT, Helen Tyler (Mrs. William A. Burt), Lock Box 818, Huntington, W.Va.

State commander for Maccabees of the World for W.Va.; b. Almont, Mich.; dau. Walter P. and Martha (Stacy) Leach; ed. high schools of Ypsilanti, Mich.; St. Mary's Acad., Windsor, Ont.; m. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1880, William A. Burt; children: Orand Walter, b. 1882; Lenden Beach, b. 1887; Edith A., b. 1889. Worker for the Maccabee order, of which she is head in the State of W.Va. Against woman suffrage unless an educational test be established for both men and women.  BURT, Laura (Mrs. Henry Stanford), Stanford Lodge, Great Kills, Staten Island, N.Y.

Actress; b. Ramsey, Isle of Man, England, Sept 16, 1881; dau. Capt. Brown and Anna Lloyd (Welsh) Burt; ed. Am. Acad. Dramatic Arts; m. N.Y. City. Mar. 2, 1902, Henry Stanford. Roles include June in Blue Jeans; Madge in Old Kentucky; Susanne in A Scrap of Paper; Rosalind in As You Like It; Helen of Swabia in Dante; with Sir Henry Irving at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, also on his last tour in America; starring in Dorothy Vernon, 1906-07; The Walls of Jericho, 1907-08; created role of Nurse in Brieux play of Damaged Goods at the Fulton Theatre, N.Y. City. Life mem. Professional Woman's League, Twelfth Night Club.  BURT, Mary Elizabeth, Coytesville, N.J.

Writer, editor, teacher; b. Lake Geneva, Wis.; ed. Lake Geneva public school; Anna Moody's Acad.; Oberlin Coll., one year; completed full college course with private teachers. Taught in public schools of Chicago, 1868-90, except one year when was principal grammar dep't, River Fall (Wis.) Normal School; teacher of literature in Cook County Normal School with Col. T. W Parker, 1887-90; private school, N.Y. City, 1893-1905. Chairman Com. on Drawing, Chicago Board of Education, 1890-93; stood for Socratic and Froebelian methods, manual training, equal pay for primary teachers and psychological methods on the teaching of reading. Wrote on educational subjects for Atlantic Monthly Chautauquan, Ill. School Journal, Lake Geneva News, Critic, Inter-Ocean, Unity, etc. Delivered lectures before Nat. Educational Ass'n, 1889, Inst, of Pedagogy, St Louis, 1890; State Teachers Ass'n, Ill., 1889; Boston Educational Meeting, 1892; Teachers Ass'n, Indianapolis, 1892; Coll. for Training of Teachers, Cambridge, England, 1898, etc. Author: Seed Thoughts from Browning, 1885; Browning's Women, 1886; Birds and Bees (edited from the essays of John Burroughs), 1885; Literary Landmarks, 1887; Bees, A Study from Virgil, 1890; Story of the German Iliad, 1892; The World's Literature, 1890; Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers, 1894; Little Nature Studies for Little People, from the works of John Burroughs, who collaborated, 1895; The Child-Life Chart, 1896; The Burt-Markham Primer, Edward Mark ham collaborating, 1908. Initiative editor of the Scribner Reading Series, 1894-1904, collaborating with Z. Ragozin in Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca, and Herakles, Hero of Thebes; with Lucy Cable and G. W. Cable in The Cable Story Book; with Mary Cable In The Eugene Field Book; with Mildred Howells in The Literary Primer and The Howells Story Book; with Lucy Cable in Don Quixote; with Julia Elizabeth Langworthy in Fanciful Tales from Stockton, and with Mrs. Elizabeth Custer in The Boy General; Poems Every Child Should Know, 1904; Prose Every Child Should Know, 1908; The Marvellous Adventures of Pinocchio, 1909; Stories and Poems from Kipling Every Child Should Know, 1910, etc. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Ill. Woman's Press Ass'n, Round Table Club (Teachers College).  BURTIS, Mary E. 530 Lafayette A v.. Buffalo, N.Y.

Literature, linguist, genealogist; b. Cherry Valley, N.Y., Oct. 26, 1836; dau. Arthur and Grace Ewing (Phillips) Burtis; ed. Cherry Valley Acad.; Miss Hill's School (now St. Margaret's), Buffalo. Mem. D.A.R. Mem. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo. Against woman suffrage.  BURTON, Alice (Mrs. Hazen James Burton), Deephaven, Minn.

Born Boylston, Mass., July 21, 1857; dau. Rev. Daniel S. and Hannah Sophia (Cotton) Whitney; ed. public schools of Southborough, Mass.; Normal School, Salem, Mass; m. Southborough, Mass., July 20, 1871, Hazen James Burton, of Boston, Mass.; children: Hazel, Ralph Walter, Ward Cotton, Ariel, Hazen, Hazen James Jr. Director of Maternity Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn., for past 20 years; mem. (treas.) of School Board of Deephaven for 12 years. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Progressive; LaFollette Republican. Recreation: Dairy work, mall riding, sketching.

BURTON, Marian Williams Perrin (Mrs. Henry F. Burton), 70 Dartmouth St., Rochester, N.Y.

Born Titusville, Pa., Aug. 23, 1869; dau. Andrew Norton and Belinda (Williams) Perrin; ed. public schools of Titusville; private tutor for college preparation; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '91; grad. student Univ. of Mich. (mem. Zeta Alpha, Wellesley; Phi Sigma, Univ. of Rochester); m. Rochester, June 14, 1898, Prof. Henry Fairfield Burton; children: Andrew Perrin, b. 1899; Sara Fairfield b. 1900; Henry Fairfield, b. 1901. Lectures on The English Novel, Household Economics, Literature for Children, etc. Writer of miscellaneous contributions to papers and magazines. Mem. Board of Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Board of Woman's Education and


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Rh Union, Children's Aid Soc., City Hospital Supply Soc, Civic Art Com., Century Club, Tuesday Reading Club, Wellesley College Club. Recreations: Designing and painting. Baptist. Against woman suffrage; pres. Rochester Soc. Opposed to Woman Suffrage; mem. N.Y. State Organiation Com. Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Lecturer on anti-suffrage.

BURWELL, Ethel Irene, 48 Race St., Bristol, Conn.

Teacher, librarian; b. Mercer, Pa.; ed. in schools of New Brunswick, N.J., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '99. Engaged in teaching, New Brunswick, N.J., 1899-1900; Woodbridge, N.J., 1900-02; Cleveland, Ohio, 1908-09; librarian of Normal School, Cleveland, 1909-11.

BUSBEY, Katharine Olive Graves (Mrs. L. White Busbey), 2336 Massachusetts Av., Washington, D.C.

Author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 16, 1872; dau. Horace and Annie A. (Hall) Graves; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '94; m. June 10, 1896, Leroy White Busbey, journalist (then Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean); children: Leroy White Jr., b. 1897; Horace Carleton, b. 1899. Writer on economic subjects; made economic study of lives and surroundings of women employees of factories in England for U.S. Dep't of Commerce and Labor, 1910. Author: Home Life in America, 1910; also short stories in the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and other magazines.

BUSEY, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. S. T. Busey), Elm St., Urbana, Ill.

Born Delphi, Ind., June 21, 1854; dau. Abner H. and Catharine J. (Trawin) Bowen; ed. Delphi High School and Vassar Coll.; m. Delphi, Ind., Dec. 25, 1877, Gen. S. T. Busey; children: Marietta, Bertha, Charles Bowen. Mem. Urbana Public School Board eight years; mem. Board of Trustees of Univ. of Ill. Mem. Board of Trustees of Presbyterian Church. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Dames of Loyal Legion, Ill. State Suffrage Ass'n. Recreation: Travel.

BUSH, Bertha E., Osage, Ia.

Writer; b. Galva, Ill., May 30, 1866; dau. Henry Hudson and Minerva (Wright) Bush; ed. Grinnell (Ia.) Coll., Ph.B. '91, A.M. '94. Teacher, 1891-1904. Since then a writer, especially children's stories in journals and Sunday-school papers. Author: A Prairie Rose; Special Days with Little Folks; Old English Heroes; Stories of Courage; Story of Napoleon; Indian Myths; Famous Early Americans; Later English Heroes; Great European Cities; Indian Children Tales; Children

BUSH, Emma Danforth, 1301 Pennsylvania Av., Wilmington, Del.

Born Wilmington, Del., Apr. 4, 1881; dau. Lewis Potter and Margaret (Whiteley) Bush; ed. The Misses Hebh's School, Wilmington, Del., and Bryn Mawr Coll. Corresponding sec. New Century Club of Wilmington. Presbyterian. Clubs: New Century, Wilmington County, Brandywine Canoe.

BUSH, Emma Louise, Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg. Pa.

Teacher; b. Waverly, Iowa; ed. in schools of Arcade, N.Y.; Vassar Coll., B.A. '81. Teacher Mt. Carroll, Ill., 1881-82; Oxford, N.C., 1882-84; Ishpeming, Mich., 1885-90; Montour Falls, N.Y., 1890-1901; Stetson Univ., 1902-04; Bucknell Univ. since 1900.

BUSH, Florence Lillian, 334 Maple St., Battle Creek, Mich.

Writer; b. Battle Creek, Mich., 1865; dau. Martin Luther and Elizabeth Ann (Fellows) Bush; grad. Battle Creek Coll., 1885; Mich State Normal, 1889; Art Inst, of Chicago, 1895. Supervisor of drawing. Little Rock, Ark; Manitowoc, Wis.; teacher in Berea Coll., Ky. Favors woman suffrage. Chairman of City Press Com. in Battle Creek, Mich. Author: Goose Creek Folks, written in collaboration with her sister (1912); Concerning Peter and the Crowd (now ready for the press); special articles, one in Country Life in America (April, 1913); short stories for Forward, Youth's World, Young People's Weekly, Christian Endeavor World, etc. Serials for all the above publications. Goose Creek Folks was adopted among the 100 best books for missionary purposes to be sold at The World In Chicago. Presbyterian. Mem. Mich. Press Ass'n.

BUSH, Katharine Jeannette, 203 Edwards St., New Haven, Conn.

Zoologist, lexicographer; b. Scranton, Pa., of the Northland, and other five-cent classics. Dec. 30, 1855; dau. William Henry and Eliza Ann (Clark) Bush, of distinguished New England ancestry; ed. New Haven (Conn.) public, private and high schools; special studies in zoology under Prof. Addison E. Verrill of Yale, received Ph.D. from Yale Univ., 1901. Since 1879 ass't in zoological dep't of Yale Museum; associated for some years with Prof. Verrill in scientific work of U.S. Fish Commission, being the first woman, outside teaching force, to take up scientific work. Was actively identified with the revision work of Webster's Dictionary into the larger and more comprehensive Webster's International Dictionary, published in 1890. Contributor to scientific journals on zoological subjects, chiefly mollusks and annelids, and author of a monograph on The Tubicolous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides (published in Vol. 12 of the Reports of the Harriman Alaska Expedition). Mem. Am. Soc. of Zoologists, Am. Soc. of Naturalists, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

BUSH, Loue Pollock (Mrs. George S. Bush), 529 Belmont Av., N., Seattle, Wash.

Born Weston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1865; dau. George Henry and Louise (Plessner) Pollock; grad. Normal School, Washington, D.C, 1885; Kindergarten Normal Inst., Washington, D.C. (conducted by her mother and elder sister) '86; m. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 4, 1891, George S. Bush; children: George P., b. 1892; Agnes Selene, b. 1895. Teacher in public schools of Washington, D.C, for five years; ass't in Kindergarten Normal Inst. Organized the Woman's Educational Club of Seattle in 1894, and served as first pres. for three years; mem. Progressive Thought Club of Seattle, which she organized in 1905 (served as first pres. two years); mem. Seattle Lodge Theosophical Soc. since 1896, when organized; mem. Seattle Bahai Assembly when organized, 1906. Mem. the Girls' Triad, or Do for Others Soc., Woman's Educational Club. Favors woman suffrage; served at the polls on the day suffrage carried in the State of Washington.

BUSH, Margaret Whiteley (Mrs. Lewis P. Bush), 1301 Pennsylvania Av., Wilmington. Del.

Born Bridgeton, N.J., Sept. 22, 1852; dau. William G. and Nancy P. (Elmer) Whlteley; ed. Bridgeton Sem.; m. Wilmington, Del., May 13, 1879, Lewis P. Bush; children: Emma Danforth, Charles Whiteley, William Whiteley. Manager of the Delaware Hospital. Mem. New Century Club of Wilmington, Del. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage.

BUSHNELL, Florence Ellsworth (Mrs. John Edward Bushnell), 1819 Vine Place, Minneapolis, Minn.

Born Windsor, Conn., June 21, 1866; dau. Eli Phelps and Sarah Morris (Clapp) Ellsworth; ed. Windsor private and high schools; Adelphl Acad., Brooklyn, N.Y.; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 14, 1887, Rev. John Edward Bushnell; children: Ellsworth, b. 1888; John Horace, b. 1892; Paul Palmer, b. 1900. Interested in various religious, social and philanthropic activities. Mem. the Woman's Club of Minneapolis. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage.

BUSSELLE, Harriet Murray (Mrs. Alfred Busselle), Chappaqua, N.Y.

Born Chappaqua, N.Y., May 31, 1880; dau. Robert I. and Phebe Anna (Cock) Murray; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City; Bryn Mawr Coll.; m. Chappaqua, N.Y., Oct. 1, 1903, Alfred Busselle; children: Robert Murray, b. 1904; Alfred, b. 1905; Ann, b. 1910. Interested in District Nursing Ass'n (associate chairman, Chappaqua), Red Cross (associate sec). Plant and Flower Guild, National Progressive Party. Clubs: Fortnightly (Pleasantville), Bryn Mawr (N.Y. City).


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EAK and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic. The one, cherishing religious ideals, soars to certain spiritual heights and now and then produces a seer to justify its languor and indolence; the other, seeking material things, bores into the earth for its treasures and keeps going down, down till its dynamic forces reach an impenetrable sterility and explode in a sudden, terrible reaction. The life of such a nation is symptomatic of a diseased state of the soul. The life of the other undermines, to say the least, its physical strength. The dwarfing tendency is equally potent in both. But a nation without a soul is more grotesque, more hideous than a nation of ascetics. It is not my purpose to startle and provoke the reader with sweeping generalities, or to bamboozle him with dogmas old in garments new. The foregoing paragraph imposes, therefore, the necessity of a little


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162 : Riding, driving, bridge, training colts. Mem. Soc. of Friends.

BUSSERT, Anne Elizabeth (Mrs. Carl Gantvoort), 535 W. High St., Lima, Ohio.

Singer; b. Allan Co., Ohio; dau. Ambrose and Mary (Thomas) Bussert; ed. village school; Ada (Ohio) Univ.; N.Y. City, Paris and Milan for vocal studies; m. March 18, 1913, Carl Gantvoort. Began in church choirs; soloist with important orchestras, concerts, oratorios in U.S., grand opera in Italy, light opera in U.S. upon return. Favors woman suffrage. Protestant. Recreations: Riding, swimming, camping, out-door sports.

BUTCHER, Ida Jane, 30 Court St., Utica, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Utica, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Utica, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '87. Engaged as teacher in Utica, N.Y., since 1888. Chairman Education Com. of N.Y. State Fed. of Women's Clubs since 1906; mem. Com. on Literary and Library Extension, Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs.

BUTLER, Anne Balfour (Mrs. Henry J. Butler), 610 Manhattan Av., Manhattan, Kan.

Lawyer; b. La Prairie, Ill.; dau. Nixon and Keziah (Robbins) Balfour; grad. Univ. of Mich. LL.B.; m. Henry J. Butler (died 1893); one son: Carl Balfour. Largest land owner in State of Kansas for a woman; began with the amount of $15,000 which gave her the start. Favors woman suffrage. Author of short novel; Ad Astra per Aspera. Poems: Will o' the West; Just All for Me; Love the Lord of Life; A Kansas Dug-Out; Friendship; The Butterfly, and other poems. Pres. Themian Club; pres. Treble Clef Club; mem. D.A.R.

BUTLER, Cora Waldo (Mrs. Pierce Butler), 2224 Milan St., New Orleans, La.

Born Texas; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '98; student of history, Univ. of Texas, 1900-01; m. June 25, 1902, Pierce Butler; children: Virginia Waldo, b. Oct. 19, 1903; Pierce Jr., b. Nov. 16, 1905; Mary Frances Harrison, b. Feb. 3, 1909. Teacher in private school, Philadelphia, 1898-1900; instructor in English, Univ. of Texas, 1900-02.

BUTLER, Jessie Storrs Ferris (Mrs. William E. Butler), 102 Hodge Av., Buffalo, N.Y.

Writer; b. Black River, Mich., July 28, 1879; dau. William Barton and Elizabeth (Buell) Ferris; ed. St. Margaret's School, Buffalo, 1897; m. Kidder's Point, Lake Cayuga, N.Y., Sept. 3, 1905, William E. Butler; one son: William Storrs. Engaged in newspaper work for three years previous to marriage. Contributor of both prose and verse to Smart Set, Everybody's, Good Housekeeping; jointly with aunt, Minnie Ferris Hauenstein, has written a volume of poems (private edition); author: The Golden Bough (poem), 1912. Club: The Scribblers (Buffalo). Recreations: Writing, camping, stage, music. Presbyterian.

BUTT, Emily, Jackson, Miss.

Teacher; b. Kosciusko, Miss., Sept 2, 1867; dau. John T. and Belinda (Swayze) Butt; ed. private tutors and private schools in Kosciusko; grad. at Hamilton Coll., Lexington, Ky., 1885. Connected with the public school system of the State 25 years. Actively identified with efforts to secure needed juvenile legislation in Miss., particularly the establishment of a juvenile reformatory and the separation of boy offenders from adults; also much work with boy convicts (established Sunday School for them in State penitentiary). Contributor to Miss., Memphis and New Orleans papers concerning juvenile delinquents, educational questions, etc. Received first honors for a short story awarded by the Miss. Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mem. Christian Church. Chairman Miss. Juvenile Reformatory Ass'n; pres. Old Ladies' Home Ass'n; chairman Civil Service Reform Com., Miss. Federation of Women's Clubs.

BUTTENWIESER, Ellen Clune (Mrs. Moses Buttenwieser), 3208 Fredonia Av., Avondale, Cincinnati, O.

Born Warkworth, Ont., Aug. 12, 1870; dau. Bartholomew and Ellen (Kennedy) Clune; ed. Queen's Univ., Kingston, 1888-92; Univs. of Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1893-97, Ph.D., Heidelberg; m. January 11, 1897, Dr. Mosea Buttenwieser (prof. Hebrew Union Coll., Cincinnati); children: Paul, Hilda, Ellen, Laurence. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. College Equal Suffrage League, N.Y. City; vice-pres. Woman Suffrage Party, Cincinnati. Author: The Obstinate Child (Pedagogical Seminary, 1911); Studien zur Verfasserchaft des altenglischen Gedichts Andreas (Heidelberg, 1899); also contributions to literary magazines. Mem. Civic League, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BUTTERFIELD, Emily Helen, 614 Stevens Building, Detroit, Mich.

Architect; b. Algonac, Mich., 1884; dau. Wells Duane and Helen (Hossie) Butterfield; ed. Detroit Central High School; Syracuse Univ., B.Arch. '07; mem. Alpha Gamma Delta. Practises with Wells D. Butterfield. Sec. College Woman's Auxiliaries; mem. Woman's Home Missionary Soc. of Methodist Church (reserve field sec). Favors woman suffrage. Occasional magazine contributor as "Cupboards" in Suburban Life. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Recreations: Swimming, sketching, tramping, pansy culture. Mem. Detroit College Club, Detroit Business Woman's Club.

BUXTON, Eva Joanna, Trumann, Poinsett Co., Ark.

Physician; b. Rockport, Ind., Aug. 11, 1863; dau. John X. and Margaretta (Shaw) Buxton; ed. public schools of Ind., Univ. of Mich., Northwestern Univ., M.D. '97; grad. from Louisville Training School for Nurses in 1889. Presbyterian. Progressive Democrat. Mem. Friday Night Club of Rockport, Ind. Practised medicine in Rockport, Ind., 1897-1911. In 1911 moved to Poinsette Co., Ark., to take up homestead.

BYINGTON, Jeannette Gregory (Mrs. Homer Morrison Byington), 5 West Av., Norwalk, Conn.

Born Norwalk, Conn., Dec. 31, 1880; dau. James G. Gregory, M.D., and Jeannette L. (Pinneo) Gregory; ed. Hillside Preparatorry School, Norwalk, Conn.; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '02 (mem. Shakespeare Soc); m. Norwalk, Conn., June 2, 1903, Homer Morrison Byington; children: Homer Morrison Jr., Jeannette Lindsley, James Gregory. Favors woman suffrage. As husband is in American Consular Service (now American Consul at Bristol, England), has resided abroad continuously since marriage.

BYINGTON, Margaret Frances, 105 E. Twenty-second St., N.Y. City.

Born Constantinople, Aug. 3, 1877; dau. Theodore Linn and Margaret (Hallock) Byington; ed. Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn, 1892-96; Wellesley Coll., B.A. 1900; Columbia Univ., M.A. '02. District sec. Associated Charities, Boston, 1902-06; on staff of Pittsburgh Survey, 1907-08; staff Russell Sage Foundation, 1909-. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Homestead (Pittsburgh Survey Series). Congregationalist.

BYRD, Mary Emma, Box 77, Route 9, Laurena, Kan., and N.Y. City Normal Coll., Sixty-eighth St. and Park Av., N.Y. City.

Astronomer; b. Le Roy, Mich., Nov. 15, 1849; dau. Rev. John Huntington and Elizabeth Adelaide (Lowe) Byrd (descendant on father's side from Timothy Edwards, father of Jonathan Edwards, and on the mother's side from Governor John Endicott); ed. high school, Leavenworth, Univ. of Mich., A.B. '78; Carleton Coll., Ph.D. '04. Principal of Wabash High School, 1879-82; first assistant in Observatory of Carleton Coll., Northfield, Minn., 1883-87; director Smith Coll. Observatory, Northampton, Mass., 1887-1906; prof. astronomy in Smith Coll., 1898-1906; now in charge of the astronomical dep't of the Normal Coll. of the City of N.Y. Writer of numerous non-mathematical articles, technical articles dealing with comet positions by pillar micometers; Laboratory Manual in Astronomy, 1899. Mem. British Astronomical Ass'n, Astronomical and Astrophysical Soc. of America. Recreations: Reading, riding. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

BYRNE, Miriam, 4337 Wilcox Av., Chicago, Ill.

Author; b. Chicago, Jan. 13, 1884; dau. James and Hannah (Elliott) Byrne; ed. public schools and high school, Chicago. Appointed librarian and keeper of clinical records in Cook County


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Rh Hospital, Chicago. Author: The Would-Be Witch; House of the Red Fox.

BYRNES, Esther Russell, 193 Jefferson Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Biologist, teacher; b. Overbrook, Pa., Nov. 3, 1866; dau. Jacob Russell and Mary (Wilson) Byrnes; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., B.A. '91, M.A. '94, Ph.D. '98; Garrett graduate scholar in biology; fellow in biology, Bryn Mawr Coll. Assistant in Dep't Biology, Vassar, 1891-93; student assistant in Biological Laboratory, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1895-97. Teacher Biology Girls' High School, Brooklyn, 1898-1912. Fellow N.Y. Acad. Science. Author: Origin of Limb Muscles in Amphibia; Maturation and Fertilization in Limax Campestris; Regeneration of Limbs in Frog Tadpoles After the Extirpation of Limb-Rudiments; The Fresh Water Cyclops of Long Island. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Mem. Woods Hall Biological Ass'n, Soc. Am. Naturalists, Intercoll. Socialists, Brooklyn Inst, of Arts and Sciences, Alumnae Ass'n Bryn Mawr Coll. Recreations: Housekeeping, varied by travel, music, literature. Studied at Maine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., and at Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., N.Y. Traveled in Europe, 1901-06.

BYRNES, Josephine Armstrong (Mrs. William J. Byrnes), 1726 Eighth Av., N., Minneapolis, Minn.

Born Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 22, 1869; dau. Solomon and Angeline (Scribner) Armstrong; grad. Ann Arbor (Mich.) High School, with honors, '76; m. Feb. 4, 1886, William J. Byrnes, M.D.; children: Lyle, b. Nov. 17, 1886; William A., b. Sept. 19, 1890; Martica, b. Nov. 25, 1892; Josephine, b. Nov. 17, 1894. Taught in Ann Arbor public schools; was principal of school four years. Mem. Woman's Alliance. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Political Equality Club of Minneapolis. Unitarian. Mem. D.A.R., Woman's Auxiliary of Hennepin Co. Med. Soc, Minn. Territorial Pioneers (through husband), Woman's Alliance. Mem. Oak Park Literary Club, Tuesday Study Club, Lewis Parliamentary Ass'n.

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CABEEN, Sarah Biddle (Mrs. Francis von A. Cabeen), New Britain, Pa.

Born Philadelphia, Pa., Jan., 1867; dau. Thomas and Sarah T. (White) Biddle; ed. Miss Agnes Irwin's School, Philadelphia; m. May 19, 1904, Francis von A. Cabeen. Interested in literary and social work. Author: The Sister, or A Romance of the United Brethren. House mem. of the College Club of Philadelphia. Episcopalian. On maternal side great-granddaughter of Bishop William White, first bishop of the Episcopal Church in America; on paternal side great-granddaughter of Clement Biddle (quarter-master-general on Washington's staff at Valley Forge) and his wife, Rebecca Cornell.

CABEEN, Sarah Clark (Mrs. William C. Cabeen), 807 Comstock Av., Syracuse, N.Y.

Born Portage, Wis., Aug. 14, 1861; dau. John Tillotson and Louise (Holley) Clark; grad. Univ. of Wis., B.L. '84; m. Portage, Wis., July 15, 1885, William Charles Cabeen; children: Daniel Clark, Ruth Holley, Donald Stewart, Charles Kirkland. Teacher Philathea Class, Plymouth Sunday School; mem. Foreign Missionary Com., Woman's Guild, Plymouth Church, Y.W.C.A. Com., Consumers' League, Political Equality Club. Congregationalist. Mem. Onondaga Chapter D.A.R.; mem. Board of Management and Educational Com., Ass'n Coll. Alumnae, Press Com. (Central N.Y. Branch). Mem. Fortnightly Club, Social Art Club. Recreations: Walking, gardening.

CABELL, Anne Branch (Mrs. R. G. Cabell), 1811 Park Av., Richmond, Va.

Born Petersburg, Va., Dec. 31, 1860; dau. James Read and Martha Louise (Patteson) Branch; ed. Miss Gordon's School, Richmond, Va. ; Edge Hill Randolph School, Albemarle Co., received highest honors and literature scholarship; m. Richmond, Va., Nov. 14, 1877, R. G. Cabell Jr.; children: James Branch, Robert Gamble, John Lawrence. Episcopalian. Recreations: Out-door life, literature and genealogy. Favors woman suffrage.

CABELL, Isa Carrington (Mrs. Edward Carrington Cabell), 329 Amsterdam Av., N.Y. City.

Author; b. Va.; dau. Isaac and Sarah E. (Read) Carrington; ed. Mary Baldwin Sem., Staunton, Va. (Medallist), 1875; m. Richmond, Va., 1876, Edward Carrington Cabell. Has been connected with Richmond Dispatch, New York Herald, New York World, literary editor Hartford Courant, held staff position on Baltimore Sun, wrote under the title of "Carisabel"; essays on humorous topics (8 years); has been an assistant editor of The Bellman for some years; contributor to Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazar, The Youth's Companion. Author: Seen from the Saddle; Thoughtless Thoughts of Carisabel. Has spent time in reading, writing and preparing for daily and weekly journals with which she is connected; has lived in Europe and America and divided time between Va., Hartford, Conn., and N.Y. Mem. Barnard Club, Colonial Dames of America. Roman Catholic. Democrat. Favors woman suffrage.

CABELL, Margaret (Mrs. Ashley Cabell), Kirkwood, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Nashville, Tenn., July 4, 1862; dau. Aaron and Frances (Gowdey) Stretch; grad. Dr. Ward's Acad., Nashville, Tenn., 1880; m. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1881, Ashley Cabell; one son: Carrington Cabell. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R.

CABLE, Ida Tower, Bradford, Pa.

Editor and publisher; b. Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 23, 1860; dau. Gad H. and Rebecca (Smith) Tower; ed. Pittsburgh, Pa.; m. Pittsburgh, May 1, 1876, Daniel J. Cable; one son: Gustine Tower, b. May 7, 1878. Newspaper reporter, then editor Erie Messenger-Graphic, purchased Bradford Herald and edits same. Vice-pres. Internat. League of Press Clubs; mem. Nat. Women's Press Ass'n, Pa. Women's Press Ass'n, Pittsburgh Women's Press Club. Director McKean County Children's Home; vice-pres. Children's Aid Soc. of McKean Co.; sec. McKean Co. Historical Soc; mem. Governing Board Women's Literary Club. Episcopalian. Mem. Country Club of Bradford, Pa. Speaker on various topics, after dinner speaker.

CABOT, Caroline Sturgis (Mrs. Follen Cabot), 21 W. Cedar St., Boston, Mass.

Author; b. Concord, Mass., April 13, 1846; dau. William Ellen Channing (poet and essayist) and Ellen K. (Fuller) Channing, sister of Margaret Fuller; ed. privately; m. Boston, Sept. 20, 1865, Follen Cabot (died 1905). Author: Six Stories in the Child's Hour, 1898; Sketches of Nantucket, Mass., 1899; Football Grandma, 1905. Episcopalian. Mem. Boston Browning Soc, Boston Authors' Club.

CABOT, Elinore Blake (Mrs. W. Channing Cabot), Nantucket, Mass.

Born Portsmouth, N.H.; ed. high school, Portsmouth, N.H.; Miss Florence Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and at Bryn Mawr Coll., 1894-96; m. 1901, W. Channing Cabot. Private tutor, Biltmore, N.C., 1897-99; teacher of mathematics and Latin in Miss Roberts' School and in the Brearley School, N.Y. City, 1899-1901. Pres. Woman's Auxiliary of the Civic League of Nantucket, 1904-05.

CABOT, Ella Lyman (Mrs. Richard Clarke Cabot), 1 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Educator; b. Boston, Mass.; dau. Arthur T. and Ella (Lowell) Lyman; ed. private schools in Boston, Radcliffe Coll. (special student); grad. courses in philosophy and logic at Harvard Univ.; m. Waltham, Mass., Oct. 26, 1894, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot (professor in Harvard Med. Coll. and author of several medical books). Has taught ethics in private schools in Boston. Appointed on Mass. Board of Education, 1904. Sec. Mass. Branch of Am. School Peace League, 1911. Pres. Civil Service Reform Auxiliary of Mass. Chairman Education Dep't of Woman's Municipal League of Boston; mem. Council of Religious Education Ass'n. Trustee of Radcliffe Coll.; pres. Radcliffe Coll. Auxiliary. Mem. Nat. Education


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154 Ass'n. Mem. Nat. Montesseri Committee. Life mem. Unitarian Ass'n. Author: Everyday Ethics; Ethics for Children; 70th Report Mass. Board of Education; Outline of a Course in Good Will for the Public Schools; The Value of Literature Teaching (Educational Review); School Social Service (American Volume for the 2d Internat. Conference in Moral Education). Unitarian. Recreations: Piano playing, singing, gardening, golf, tennis, swimming, camping. Mem. College Club, Boston.

CABOT, Elsie Pumpelly (Mrs. Thomas Handasyd Cabot), 232 Newbury St., Boston; summer, Dublin, N.H.

Artist, photographer; b. Newburgh, N.Y., 1875; dau. Raphael and Eliza (Shepard) Pumpelly; m. Dublin, N.H., Oct. 3, 1898, Thomas Handasyd Cabot; children: Elizabeth, Pauline, Thomas Handasyd. Professional portrait photographer since 1896. Favors woman suffrage. Recreation: Tennis.

CABOT, Maria M. (Mrs. Godfrey Lowell Cabot), 16 Highland St., Cambridge, Mass.; summer, Beverly Farms, Mass.

Born Boston, Mass., April 21, 1866; dau. Joseph S. and Mary B. (Jones) Moors; ed. Miss Sanger's School, Miss Foot's School; m. Cohasset, Mass., June 23, 1890, Godfrey Lowell Cabot; children: James Jackson, Eleanor, Thomas Dudley, John Moors. Interested in charities. Unitarian.

CADBURY, Anna Mary Moore (Mrs. Benjamin Cadbury), 260 East Main St., Morristown, N.J.

Born Moorestown, N.J.; grad Earlham Coll., A.B. '94; graduate student in English and economics and politics, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1894-95; graduate student Earlham Coll., 1900-01; m. 1909, Benjamin Cadbury. Prof. English and German, Whittier (Cal.) Coll., 1895-1900; teacher in Westtown (Pa.) Boarding School, 1902-08; associate prof, of Englisn, Earlham Coll., 1908-09. Mem. Society of Friends.

CADBURY, Emma, Jr., 254 East Main St., Moorestown, N.J.

Born Philadelphia, Feb. 24, 1875; dau. Joel and Anna Kaighn (Lowry) Cadbury; ed. Friends' Select School, Philadelphia, Pa., Case and Hallowell School, Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98. Treas. Ass'n for the Care of Coloured Orphans; trustee Moorestown Free Library. Mem. Society of Friends (Orthodox).

CADE, Clayton Thomas (Mrs. George Lyman Cade), "The Gables," Stonelea Park, New Rochelle, N.Y.

Composer and singer; b. Charlestown, Mass., Nov. 12, 1868; dau. Spencer Churchill and Eunice A. (Clayton) Thomas; ed. Boston public schools and private tutors; studied for career as singer in America, London and Paris; m. Boston, Mass., Sept. 15, 1902, George Lyman Cade; children: Margaret Salome, b. Oct. 28, 1904; Elizabeth Eunice, b. June 6, 1906. Appeared in public at the age of five years as singer; at 18 years made debut in light opera in America, followed by four years of same in England, where first work as composed came out (the Japanese Love Song) in 1900. Composer of: Japanese Love Song; Chasing Butterflies; Ave Maria; Toyland; The Duel; Song of an Egyptian Princess (Eugene Field); Invention to the Sun-God, Ra! (also Egyptian); several children's songs; Japanese Song Cycle, Matsurie; Shakespeare Song Cycle; now engaged writing music for plays for children's company at Plymouth Theatre, Boston, Mass. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Motoring, gardening. Mem. Professional Women's Club of Boston; also the Shakespeare, Woman's and Mothers' Clubs of New Rochelle, N.Y.

CADY, Cornelia Ensign, 310 W. 105th St., N.Y. City.

Artist and lecturer on art; b. in Springfield, Mass.; dau. Henry Stearns and Sarah L. (Ensign) Cady; ed. Maplewood Inst, for Young Ladies, Pittsfield, Mass. For 10 years associate principal of West End Inst., Mrs. and Miss Cady's School for Girls, New Haven, Conn. Vice-pres. of N.Y. Auxiliary of Am. McAll Ass'n (an auxiliary of the Mission Pobulaire in France), Am. Waldensian Aid Soc. (recording sec), Internat. Federated Council for Christian and Patriotic Service (vice-pres.). Newspaper contributor critical articles on art and miscellaneous short poems. Clubs: Round Table, Sorosis. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Republican

CAFFIN, Caroline (Mrs. Charles H. Caffin), 17 W. Eighth St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Whitehall, Hook, Surrey, England,; 1864; dau. Robert and Sarah (Iliff) Scurfield; ed, private school, Sunderland, Durham, England; m. Battersea, London, 1888, Charles H. Caffin; children: Dorothy Agnes, Freda Margaret. On the stage until 1893 in original company of Ben Greet Pastoral Plays. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. 25th Assembly Dist. of the Woman Suffrage Party (chairman of Drama Com. of 25 players). Author: Dancing and Dances of To-Day. Associate mem. of the Educational Players. Mem. MacDowell Club of N.Y. City.

CAGWIN, Clara Joslyn, Walsenburg, Colo.

Teacher; b. Westmoreland, N.Y., Feb. 21, 1884; dau. De Witt Clinton and Frances M. (Joslyn) Cagwin; ed. West Denver High School, Denver (salutatorian) '03 (won prize each year for essay writing); Cornell Univ., B.A. '07 (class poet). Head of Latin dep't, Huerfano County High School, Walsenburg, Colo, five years; ass't principal of same institution two years. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

CAHILL, Marie (Mrs. Daniel V. Arthur), care of D. V. Arthur, 1402 Broadway, N.Y. City.

Comedienne; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Brooklyn; m. Daniel V. Arthur. Made first appearance in soubrette role in Kathleen Mavourneen with a stock company of which Harley Merry, the scenic artist, was manager; later filled various parts and entered musical comedy in Hoyt's company as Patsy in A Tin Soldier; later, under the management of George Lederer, in several productions and in the season of 1902-03 began starring career in the musical comedy Nancy Brown for two seasons and at Daly's Theatre in August, 1906, as Mary Montgomery in Marrying Mary, in which she appeared for several seasons, later appearing in other star parts, and in season of 1912 was at the Liberty Theatre in N.Y. City in The Opera Ball.

CAHOON, Grace Willson, 1604 W. Thirty-ninth St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Physician; b. Lyndon, Vt.; dau. George W. and Mary L. (Bellows) Cahoon; grad. Univ. of Minn. Med. School, M.D.; post-graduate studies in Vienna, Austria. Practiced medicine in Montana; sec. Montana State Med. Soc.; now at Los Angeles, Cal. Club: College Woman's. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive.

CAIRNS, Anna Sneed (Mrs. John G. Cairns), Forest Park University, St. Louis, Mo.

University president; b. New Albany, Ind., Mar. 19, 1841; dau. Rev. Samuel K. and Rachel (Crosby) Sneed; grad. Monticello Sem., 1858. As no colleges for women existed then, studied with Bishop Dunlop, Latin and Greek, also French, German and Spanish, History, Shakespeare, literature, Christian evidences; m. April 7, 1884, John G. Cairns (died 1895). Founded Forestt Park Univ., Sept. 5, 1861, and for 52 years has been its president. Legislative and legal sup't Mo. State W.C.T.U., seven years; carried Constitutional Amendment, submitting prohibition, through the House of Representatives of Mo. Served four years as Sup't Capital and Labor of Nat. W.C.T.U.; first dist. pres. St. Louis dist. W.C.T.U.; invited by Susan B. Anthony to be pres. St. Louis Suffrage Ass'n. The Mo. Legislature invited her to address it on the subject of suffrage during its morning business session (an unusual honor). Mem St. Louis Chapter D.A.R. Favors woman suffrage; addressed Mo. House of Representatives and Senate, each on suffrage. Author of pamphlets, addresses, newspaper articles, etc. Presbyterian. Republican, then mem. Prohibition Party. Mem. missionary societies. Recreations: Horseback riding, driving.

CAIRNS, Frances V. Shellabarger (Mrs. Charles Sumner Cairns), 1410 Yale Place, Minneapolis, Minn.

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Rh (Weaver) Shellabarger; grad. Cincinnati Wesleyan Female Coll., B.A. '77 (mem. Lyceum); m. Decatur, Ill., 1884, Charles Sumner Cairns; children: Millard Shellabarger, b. 1887; Carl Albert, b. 1890; Donald Cairns, b. 1896 (deceased). Club woman since college days, also active in church and missionary societies; worked in State Federation on Forestry Bill and Traveling Library; now working on Minnesota Red Light Injunction and Abatement Law. Mem. and contributor to many other philanthropic and social service clubs. Presbyterian. Mem. Westminster Home and Foreign Missionary Soc, Juvenile Protection League, Woman's Welfare League, Bible League. Recreations: Concerts, lectures, Mem. Minneapolis Woman's Club.

CAIRO, Frances Lillian Wilmer (Mrs. Vincent Cairo), 354 E. 18th St., Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Baltimore, Md.; dau. Lambert Alexander Wilmer (judge, author, journalist) and Sidney Ann Wilmer; ed. private schools; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 6, 1890, Vincent Cairo (merchant). Designer of artistic novelties which have had large sale in America and Europe; contributor to various periodicals. Interested in and connected with W.C.T.U. and several philanthropic organizations. Mem. Professional Woman's League, Woman suffrage Ass'n, Political Equality League and several women's clubs.

CALDWELL, Estella Riley (Mrs. J. S. Caldwell), 410 W. Eighth Av., Cincinnati, O.

Born Cincinnati, Sept 11, 1873; dau. John C. and Ellen Lyons (Lynch) Riley; ed. Univ. of Cincinnati, B.L., cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa); Laura Memorial Med. Coll., Cincinnati, M.D. (mem. Delta Delta Delta); m. Jan. 28, 1904, Dr. James Sterrett Caldwell; children: James Sterrett, Hamilton Allen. Prof, materia medica in Laura Memorial; sec. staff of Presbyterian Hospital; first woman dist. physician in Cincinnati, 1898-1904. Interested in church, social activities, mothers' clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Charter mem. and vice-pres. Hawthorn Club; vice-pres. Federation of Mothers' Clubs; treas. Sherman School Mothers' Club.

CALDWELL, Louise Orton (Mrs. Francis C. Caldwell), 206 Sixteenth Av., Columbus, Ohio.

Born Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1877; dau. Edward and Anna Davenport (Torrey) Orton; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '99; m. Columbus, Ohio, July 12, 1900, Francis C. Caldwell; children: Anna Davenport, b. 1903; Edward Orton, b. 1905 (died 1909). Mem. Woman's Guild of the First Congregational Church, Home and School Ass'n (treas. of ass'n and chairman of Mound St. School luncheon), Deshler-Hunter Com. of Columbus Female Benevolent Soc. (cares for crippled children), Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, D.A.R. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. College Equal Suffrage League of Columbus. Mem. Congregational Church. Recreations: Reading and out-door excursions. President-elect of the Women's Club of Ohio State University; mem. Present Day Club, College Women's Club of Columbus.

CALDWELL, Willie Walker (Mrs. M. M. Caldwell), Virginia Heights, Roanoke, Va.

Born Newborn, Pulaski Co., Va., 1860; dau. General James A. and Sarah Ann (Poage) Walker; ed. private school, Mary Caldwell Sem., Staunton, Va.; m. Wytheville, Va., 1888, Manley M. Caldwell; children: Virginia Graves, Sarah Poage, James A. Walkes. Edited a civic column for five years in Roanoke Times. Mem. Presbyterian Church; sec. church, Roanoke, Va.; worker in mission societies; pres. four years Roanoke Woman's Civic Betterment Club, also charter mem.; pres. Va. Fed. of Women's Clubs since May, 1912. Newspaper correspondent; writer of short stories for magazines; Novelette: The Tie that Binds. Mem. D.A.R., United Daughters Confederacy. Recreations: Reading, gardening, club work, social life. Presbyterian.

CALHOUN, Laura A. (Mrs. E. E. Calhoun), 419 W. 119th St., N.Y. City.

Author; b. en route to California, Jan. 27, 1847; dau. Abram and Hulda Davis; ed. public schools and high schools of Visalia, Cal., and private tutors; m. Judge E. E. Calhoun of Visalia; children: Eleanor Hulda (Princess Lazarovich-Hreblianovich), Virginia Catherine, Jessie Isabel (Mrs. William H. Anderson), Laura A., Mary Lee (deceased), Susan Patricia (deceased), James Ewing. Experimentalist in natural history. Instructor in physical culture and voice production. Inventor fruit-harvester, nut-lock, non-refillable bottle (two different kinds). Author of biological works, including The Law of Sex Determination and Its Practical Application. Catholic. Mem. League of the Sacred Heart, United Daughters of Confederacy, Los Angeles (Cal.) Chapter. Favors woman suffrage and the Am. Progressive Political Party.

CALHOUN, Sallie Williams (Mrs. Patrick Calhoun), Euclid Heights, Cleveland, O.

Born Charleston, S.C.; dau. George W. and Martha (Porter) Williams; took diploma from Charleston Female Sem.; m. Nov. 4, 1885, Patrick Calhoun; children: Martha, Margaret Green, Patrick, George Williams, John Caldwell, Andrew Pickens, Mildred Washington, Sallie Williams. Interested in Children's Hospital and Free Dispensary, School for Crippled Children, Rainbow Cottage. Episcopalian.

CALHOUN, Virginia Catherine, 419 W. 119th St., N.Y. City.

Actress, reader, lecturer; b. Visalia, Cal.; dau. Judge E. E. and Laura A. Calhoun; ed. San Jose public schools and State Normal School, Cal.; special tutors, London and Paris, music, French, German, Latin, literature, art. Connected with educational work, also civic and social work in San Jose and Santa Clara County, Cal. Mem. Sans Souci International French Alliance, Nat. Fed. of Theatre Clubs (N.Y. City), Elizabethean Stage Soc. (two years, beginning 1898, connected with their productions of classical drama), London, England; some time mem. Ben Greet Players, English provinces. Is giving professional dramatic recitals and productions of plays in America, including N.Y. City and Cal., the most notable Ramona, the California classic. Lecturer on art and political subjects. Writer French translations; author of plays and sketches, magazine and newspaper articles. Author: The World-Famous Artist-Model, Antonio Corsi. Favors woman suffrage and Am. Progressive Party.

CALKINS, Emily Blackwell Lathrop (Mrs. Raymond Calkins), Cambridge, Mass.

Born Astoria, L.I.; dau. John P. P. and Anna B. (Noyes) Lathrop; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '92 (mem. Alpha); m. Sept. 14, 1899, Raymond Calkins. Active in parish work, settlement work, dist. nursing and tuberculosis work. Joint editor (with Raymond Calkins) of Substitutes for the Saloon, one of the series of volumes pub. by the Committee of Fifty. Episcopalian.

CALKINS, Emor L. (Mrs. Earl H. Calkins), 284 Champion St., Battle Creek, Mich.

Lecturer; b. Springville, N.Y.; dau. Joseph and Mary (Frank) Capron; ed. Griffith Inst., Springville, N.Y.; m. Dec. 28, 1876, Earl H. Calkins; children: Glena, Grace, Mildred. State vice-pres. of Ind. W.C.T.U., 1894; State pres. Mich. W.C.T.U. since 1905. Nat. lecturer for Equal Suffrage Ass'n for several years. Methodist.

CALKINS, Mary Whiton, 22 Bellevue St., Newton, Mass.

Professor philosophy, Wellesley Coll.; b. Hartford, Conn., Mar. 30, 1863; dau. Rev. Wolcott and Charlotte Grosvenor (Whiton) Calkins; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '85, M.A. '87; Columbia Univ., Litt.D. '09; student Harvard Annex, 1886-87, 1890-91, and passed Harvard Ph.D. examination, 1895; student of Greek, Univ. of Leipzig, 1886-87, and of psychology and philosophy at Berlin and Oxford, 1902. Tutor and instructor in Greek, Wellesley Coll., 1887-90; since then teaching psychology and philosophy as instructor, 1891-94, associate prof., 1894-97, and prof, since 1897, Wellesley Coll. Author: Introduction to Psychology (three editions); Der doppelte Standpunkt in der Psychologie; Persistent Problems of Philosophy (three editions); First Book in Psychology (two


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156 editions). Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Am. Psychological Ass'n, Am.. Philosophical Ass'n. Congregationalist.

CALL, Annie Payson, Waltham, Mass.

Author; b. Arlington, Mass., May 17, 1853; dau. Henry E. and Emily (Payson) Call; ed. at various schools. Books: Power Through Repose; As a Matter of Course; For Freedom of Life; Every Day Living; Nerves and Common Sense; A Man of the World; The Heart of Good Health.

CALVERT, Eleanor Mackubin (Mrs. Charles Baltimore Calvert), 405 Stoneleigh Court, Washington, D.C.; (country) McAlpine College Park, Prince George's Co., Md.

Born Summer Hill, Md.; dau. Richard Creagh Mackubin, of Annapolis and "Strawberry Hill," and Hester Ann (Worthington) Mackubin; ed. Annapolis private schools, St. Mary's Hall, Baltimore City and Ingleside (Mr. and Mrs. Gibson), Catonsville, Md.; m. St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, June 14, 1866, Charles Baltimore Calvert, of "Riverdale," Prince George's Co., Md.; children: Eleanor, Hester Virginia, Charlotte Augusta, Charles Benedict (died), Richard Creagh Mackubin, George Henry, Rosalie Eugenia Stier, Charles Baltimore, Elizabeth Steuart. Against woman suffrage. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Colonial Dames, D.A.R., United Daughters of the Confederacy, Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America.

CALVERT, Frances Adelia (Mrs. George H. Calvert), 1750 Corcoran St., Washington, D.C.

Born Middletown, N.Y., Feb. 20, 1847; dau. Frederick Ira and Susan Adelia (Cooley) Seybolt; ed. Mrs. Houston's private school at Middletown, N.Y., and Academy of Visitation, Washington, D.C.; m. Dec. 26, 1872, George H. Calvert of Riversdale Manor, Md.; children: Julia Stuart, Charles Benedict, George, Cecilius, John Wentworth. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Chevy Chase Club (Md.).

CALVERT, Mary Githens (Mrs. Alan Calvert), 327 S. Sixteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Philadelphia, Oct. 7, 1876; dau. Benjamin and Mary J. (Prettyman) Githens; ed. Miss Agnes Irwin's School, Philadelphia; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98; m. Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 1906, Alan Calvert; children: Benjamin Githens, Jean, Marian. Active worker in the First Baptist Church. Boardman of Boys' Guild and Philadelphia College Settlement. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Bryn Mawr Alumnae Ass'n, College Settlements Ass'n, College Club of Philadelphia.

CALVIN, Clementine, Meadville, Pa.

Teacher; b. Meadville, Pa.; dau. John M. and Isabel (Lytle) Calvin; grad. Allegheny Coll., A.B. '82, A.M. '84; post-graduate course in Prof. Curry's School of Expression, 1883. Instructor in German and elocution, Waterford Acad., 1884; teacher Meadville (Pa.) High School, 1885; prof. German and oratory, Monmouth (Ill.) Coll., 1886-1903; instructor same branches, Meadville Theological School, 1903-H. Active as public reader and speaker; especially interested in Mission work at home and abroad. Mem. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of First M.E. Church, Meadville, Pa. Club: Woman's Literary Club of Meadville, Pa. Favors woman suffrage.

CALVIN, Henrietta Willard (Mrs. John H. Calvin), Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore.

Dean of School of Home Economics; b. Jonesboro, Ill., Aug. 11, 1865; dau. Henry Webb and Alice (Condon) Willard; finished junior year at Washburn Coll., Topeka, Kan.; grad. Science Course at Kansas State Agricultural Coll. B.S. '86; m. Manhattan, Kan., June 16, 1886, John H. Calvin; children: John Willard, b. Mar. 24, 1887; Paul Henry, b. June 3, 1889; Ruth, b. Nov. 28, 1890; David, b. Oct. 18, 1882; Catherine, b. Jan. 30, 1894 (deceased); Benjamin Willis, b. Feb. 20, 1896; George Fairchild, b. June 3, 1898. In Kansas State Agricultural Coll. as librarian, 1901-03; prof, of domestic science, 1903-08; prof, home economics, Purdue Univ., 1908-12; since then Oregon Agricultural Coll. as dean of home economics and prof, of domestic science. Lecturer to women's clubs, mothers' congresses, extension schools, national meetings, Chautauqua and farmers' institutes in Wis., Kan., Ill., Ind., Md., Washington, D.C; Ga., N.C., Ala., Ohio. Recreations: Country tramps, study of birds and flowers, amateur photography. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat. Pres. Civic Improvement Soc. of West Lafayette, Ind.

CAMERON, Agnes Deans, 64 E. Government St., Victoria, British Columbia.

Journalist, writer, lecturer; b. Victoria, B.C., Dec. 20, 1863; dau. Duncan and Jessie (Anderson) Cameron; grad. from public high school, Victoria, B.C. Taught in public and high schools; 10 years principal South Park School, Victoria, B.C., now school trustee. Associate editor Educational Journal of Western Canada. Made notable journey from Chicago by way of Athabasca, Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean, returning by Peace River and the Lesser Slave Lake. Lectures on travel themes in U.S., Canada and England. Author: The New North, 1909; The Outer Trail, 1910. Vice-pres. Canada Woman's Press Club, 1909; mem. Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, B.C. Women's Council, B.C. Agricultural Ass'n, B.C. Historical Soc, Tuesday Club.

CAMERON, Beatrice—see Mansfield, Beatrice Cameron.

CAMERON, Bettie Garner (Mrs. Benjamin G. Cameron), 3119 Eighth St., Meridian, Miss.

Born Tuscumbia, Ala.; dau. Argy L. and Sarah (Burton) Garner; ed. St. Mary's Episcopal School, Memphis, Tenn.; grad. St. Mary's, N.Y. City, 1879; m. Tuscumbia, Ala., Feb. 20, 1884, Benjamin L. Cameron; children: Argy Garner, Alan William, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Garner. Mem. St. Paul's Guild; vice-pres. Woman's Auxiliary; mem. choir and teacher in Sunday-school. State cor. sec. Internat. Order King's Daughters and Sons; treas. local chapter; vice-pres. Pushmataha Chapter D.A.R., Winnie Davis Chapter (oldest chapter in the State), United Daughters of Confederacy, Old Ladies' Home Ass'n, Public Library Ass'n, Matinee Musical Club, Euterpean Club. Opposed to woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Democrat.

CAMERON, Cora May Kent (Mrs. Wallace Cameron Jr.), 101 Willard Av., Bloomfield, N.J.

Former teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '97; m. July 24, 1905, Wallace Cameron Jr.; children: William Wallace 2d, b. .Oct. 22, 1907; James Kent, b. Nov. 3, 1909. Teacher South Deerfield, Mass., 1897-98; Tarrytown (N.Y.) High School, 1899-1901; Chestnut St. Grammar School, Springfield, Mass., 1901-05.

CAMERON, Edith Virginia Buzzell (Mrs. Harry Frank Cameron), Cebú, Cebú, Philippine Islands.

Born Massachusetts; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '99; student North Adams (Mass.) Normal School, spring of 1902; m. Feb. 18, 1905, Harry Frank Cameron; children: Anne, b. Jan. 11, 1906; Virginia, b. Sept. 14, 1907. Teacher, Amherst (Mass.) High School, 1899; Lee (Maine) Normal School, English, 1900; St. Hilda's Industrial School, Morristown, N.J., 1901; principal Charlemont (Mass.) Grammar School, 1902; Byfield Grammar School, 1903-04; teacher of English at Cebú, Cebú, Philippine Islands, since 1904.

CAMERON, Elizabeth (Mrs. James Donald Cameron), Middletown, Pa., and 6 Square Bois de Boulogne, Paris.

Daughter Charles and Elizabeth (Williams) Sherman; ed. in Boston; m. Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Senator James Donald Cameron of Pa.; one daughter: Martha.

CAMERON, Margaret—see Lewis, Margaret Cameron.

CAMERON, Susan Elizabeth, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Can.

Teacher; b. Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Can.; dau. Alexander and Anne (Purves) Cameron; ed. at home, high school, St. John, New Brunswick; McGill Univ., Montreal, B.A., honors and gold medal, 1895, M.A. '99. Teacher in the Misses Graham's School, N.Y. City, 1896-99; tutor in English, McGill Univ. since 1899; lecturer 1906;


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Rh ass't professor 1912; vice-warden, Royal Victoria Coll., since 1907. Public lecturer in Montreal, Ottawa, etc. On the board of the University Settlement. Favors woman suffrage. Has written occasional articles in the University Magazine (ed. Dr. Macphail, Montreal) and Canadian Magazine (Toronto); co-editor with Dr. J. W. Cunliffe of Poems of the Romantic Revival. Presbyterian. Mem. Alumnae (McGill), Women's Canadian Club.

CAMP, Constance Graham (Mrs. Harry Finley Camp), Cogswell, N.Dak.

Born Lexington, Ill., Mar. 14, 1878; dau. Dr. J. C. and Mauvia (Fell) Graham (dau. Dr. Jonas Fell); grad. La Porte City (Ia.) High School, '95; Iowa State Teachers Coll., Cedar Falls, Ia., B.S. '97; m. La Porte, Ia., Oct. 30, 1901, Harry Finley Camp. Primary teacher, La Porte City, Ia., 1898; seventh grade teacher, Cresco, Ia., 1899-1901. Pres. Cogswell Literary Club, 1910-13; chairman Educational Com. of Sixth Dist. N.Dak. Fed. of Women's Clubs; sec. of Concord Round Table, Anamosa, Ia., 1902. Against woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Neotrophian Soc., I.S.T.C., hon. mem. W.C.T.U.

CAMPBELL, Annabel Thompson, Albion, Ill.

Born Albion, Ill., Jan. 31, 1856; dau. Francis Burdette and Jane (Bawman) Thompson; ed. Albion public schools, Univ. of Ind.; m. Dec. 17, 1878, Albion, Ill., Joseph McCown Campbell; children: Bruce A., Winifred, Joseph F., Jane Bird, Mary Emabel, Nigel Dobell. Interested in social and musical matters. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Albion Shakespeare Club, Twentieth Century Shakespeare Club.

CAMPBELL, Catherine Mary, care of Board of Protestant School Commissioners, Montreal, Que., Can.

Teacher; b. Dalesville Co., Argenteuil Que., May 4, 1887; dau. John and Christina (Dewar) Campbell); ed. Lachute Acad, (won three scholarships); McGill Normal, grad. 1906 (was gold medalist and valedictorian). Has taught under Protestant Board of Montreal, in Hochelaga and Dufferin schools. During her first five years of teaching, while she was in charge of the second year class in the Hochelaga school, the disastrous fire occurred in that school, in which the principal, Miss Sarah Maxwell, and sixteen little children lost their lives. When the fire was discovered, escape from Miss Campbell's class room on the floor, by the stairway, was already cut off, but her pupils and some who had come from the kindergarten escaped through a window. Later, she and two other surviving teachers received medals from the parents of the children; she was also presented with a medal from the people of Argenteuil, her own county, and a locket from the children of Fairmount, a large school in the north end of the city. Baptist.

CAMPBELL, Caroline Portman (Mrs. H. J. Campbell), 37 Prospect Av. N.E., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Born Marshall, Mar. 2, 1857; dau. Rev. James Gilson and Caroline (Miner) Portman; ed. in public schools and seminary; m. Marshall, Mich., Jan. 18, 1879, Hon. James H. Campbell; one daughter: Enid (died). One of the founders of Bissell House Settlement. Interested in State historical work. Mem. State and local historical societies, Grand Rapids Art Ass'n, Colonial Dames of America, U.S. Daughters of 1812, Mt. Vernon Soc.; founder Daughters of Mich. Pioneers; regent Sophie de Marsac Campau Chapter D.A.R. (honorary life regent); pres. Mich. State Fed. of Art. Mem. ladies' literary club, The Reviewers; associate mem. St. Cecelia Soc. Episcopalian. Has voted on all permitted propositions, but does not favor universal suffrage.

CAMPBELL, Clara Green (Mrs. William James Campbell). 715 Court St., Port Huron, Mich.

Born Bangor, Me.; dau. Josiah Wesley and Eulalia P. (Luce) Green; ed. Univ. of Maine, Orono, Me.; Bangor (Me.) High School (mem. Alpha Omicron Pi); m. Bangor, Me., Jan. 18, 1906, Rev. William James Campbell; one daughter: Louise. Librarian before marriage; organized libraries and was librarian of Bangor Theological Seminary. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Annex Tuesday Club, Port Huron, Mich. Chairman of Com. on Charities and Corrections, Mich. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Grand Council mem. of Alpha Omicron Pi, and was its delegate to Pan-Hellenic Congress.

CAMPBELL, Dorothy Iona, Hamilton, Canada,

Golf champion; b. in Edinburgh, Scotland; British golf champion, 1909-11; U.S. golf champion, 1909-10; Scottish golf champion, 1905-06-08; Canadian golf champion, 1910-11-12.

CAMPBELL, Mrs. Eleanor Goodrich, "Gladwyn," Pomfret, Conn.

Born Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 19, 1876; dau. Caspar Frederick and Eleanor (Milnor) Goodrich; m. Annapolis, Md., June 1, 1901, Douglas Campbell, of New York. Against woman suffrage. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. York Club of N.Y.

CAMPBELL, Elizabeth, 3550 Reading Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Physician; b. Ripley, O., Feb. 3, 1862; dau. William Byington and Mary D. (Leavill) Campbell; ed. Univ. of Mich., Univ. of Cincinnati A.B., M.D. (Alpha Epsilon Iota). Prof. medicine in Laura Memorial Coll. Mem. Medical staff Christ Hospital and mem. of Am. Med. Ass'n. Pres. Visiting Nurse Ass'n. Contributor to medical journals. Presbyterian. Has frequently lectured on Social Hygiene. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Acad. of Medicine, Cincinnati.

CAMPBELL, Harriet Parker (Mrs. John Campbell), 1401 Gilpin St., Denver, Colo.

Born Grinnell, Iowa, Mar. 3, 1857; dau. Leonard Fletcher Parker (prof. and D.D.) and Sarah Candace (Pearse) Parker; grad. State Univ. of Iowa at Iowa City, A.B. '79, M.A. '82 (Phi Beta Kappa); studied Greek and political economy at Hochschule and University, Leipzig, Germany, 1879-80; m. Iowa City, June 28, 1881, John Campbell (later Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Colorado). Instructor in Greek one year in State Univ. of Iowa. Taught German at different times, had charge of a dep't in small newspaper in Colorado Springs for one year. One of founders of Boys' Club in Colorado Springs; deaconess in First Congregational Church there for several years. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. Denver Chapter Regent, State regent and vice-pres. Gen. Nat. Soc. D.A.R. from Colorado and on several committees; mem. Soc. of Colonial Dames; pres. of Denver Fortnightly Club and of Deutsche Damen. Attended lectures six months at the German, English and American schools of archaeology in Athens, Greece.

CAMPBELL, Helen Stuart (Mrs.), 9 Walnut St., Boston, Mass.

Author, social reformer; b. Lockport, N.Y., 1839; ed. schools of Lockport, N.Y., and in the Gammell School at Warren, R.I. Began career as writer of juvenile stories, writing among other books the Ainslie Series (four vols.), Girls' Handbook of Work and Play, etc. Later devoted to problems of philanthropy and social reform, writing upon these subjects the books: Prisoners of Poverty; Prisoners of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the Practice of Dr. Martha Scarborough; Women Wage Earners; Problem of the Poor; Darkness and Daylight in New York, etc. Has also been special lecturer on sociological themes in Univ. of Wis., and was prof. in State Agricultural Coll. of Kansas., 1895-99. Author also of books on domestic economy: In Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way in Housekeeping; Household Economics. Books of fiction: Six Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger Berkeley's Probation; Miss Melinda's Opportunity; Mrs. Herndon's Income; The What-to-do Club; Under Green Apple Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Patty Pearson's Box; Balentyne. Also author of biographical work: Ann Bradstreet and Her Times.

CAMPBELL, Henrietta Foster Crosman (Mrs. Maurice Campbell), office 133 W. Forty-second St., N.Y. City.

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158 ; ed. private teachers at home; m. 1896, Maurice Campbell; children: George Crosman, Maurice Crosman. Went on the stage at 16 years of age; was with Bartler Campbell's White Slave Co.; later played leads with Robert Downing; was with the Lyceum Co., Augustin Daly's Co., and with Charles Frohman; in 1900 began as star, under her husband's management, in One of Our Girls, by Bronson Howard. Since then has continued in various plays, including Mistress Nell, The Sword of the King, Sweet Kitty Bellairs (which ran for two years), Madeline Nance Oldfleld, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, All-of-a-Sudden Peggy, The Christian Pilgrim. Favors woman suffrage.

CAMPBELL, Jane, 413 W. School House Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

Writer, lecturer; b. Philadelphia; dau. John and Margaret (Hughes) Campbell; grad. Girls' High and Normal School of Philadelphia, Has lectured before many clubs in Pa., N.J. and Del. on woman suffrage, English and German literature, Danish folk songs, songs and ballads of the Am. Revolution, historic songs and ballads of Ireland, Philadelphia music, Colonial music, songs of the War of 1812, songs of the Civil War, old minstrel songs, historic trees, historic churches, Philadelphia mansions, Philadelphia In 1830. Sec. of Am. Catholic Historical Soc.; historian of Site and Relic Soc. of Germantown; mem. of the Exec. Council of City History Soc. of Philadelphia; librarian of English Library E. de M.; officer and mem. of Exec. Board of Pa. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Has written many historical articles published in Philadelphia Sunday Record, poems, stories, essays in Wide Awake, Golden Days, The Continent, Puck and other periodicals; editor of Woman's Progress; contributor to various club magazines. Mem. Audubon Soc., St. Vincent's Aid Soc, Mercantile Library, New Century Club, Civic Club; hon. mem. of Wednesday Club. Recreations: Music, collecting Philadelphia pictures (has a large and valuable collection). Catholic. Favors woman suffrage. Cor. sec. of Pa. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; pres. of Woman Suffrage Soc. of the County of Philadelphia for 20 years; has been for last six years Pa. representative on the Exec. Com. of the Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n.

CAMPBELL, Leona Pelton (Mrs. James McD. Campbell), Oregon St., Huron, S.D.

Born Lowville, N.Y., Dec. 18, 1879; dau. John Northum and Mary Louise (Boshart) Pelton; ed. Minneapolis schools; Univ. of Minnesota; grad. from Minneapolis Kindergarten Training School, 1902 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Minneapolis, June 4, 1903, James McD. Campbell; one daughter: Mary Alice Campbell. Interested in work of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mem. Monday Musical Club, Mothers' Club.

CAMPBELL, Mary Edith, 3550 Reading Road, Cincinnati, O.

Director Schmidlapp Bureau; b. Ripley, O., Dec. 27. 1875; dau. William Byington and Mary (Leavitt) Campbell; grad. Univ. of Cincinnati, B.A. '01, M.A. '06. Engaged as instructor in economics, Univ. of Cincinnati, 1906-08, then engaged to take charge of the Schmidlapp Fund for Girls, which she developed into the Schmidlapp Bureau for securing employment for girls and women. Has attained national prominence in vocational work; first woman ever elected to Cincinnati Board of Education, in which has served since 19H. Presbyterian. Mem. Cincinnati College Club.

CAMPBELL, Mary Isabella McPherson (Mrs. Nathan Warner Campbell), 1836 Calumet Av., Chicago, Ill.

Born Mumford, N.Y., Dec. 29, 1855; dau. John Finlay and Jennette (Eraser) McPherson; grad. Ingham Univ., A.B.; m. Dec. 22, 1881, Nathan Warner Campbell; one son: Donald McPherson Campbell (deceased). Life mem. and trustee of Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of Northwest (Chicago); manager of Y.W.C.A. of Chicago. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Madagascar; A Brochure on Missions. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Woman's Home Missionary Soc, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc., the Fortnightly (Chicago).

CAMPBELL, Mattie Ormsby (Mrs. William Aulls Campbell), 19 Northwestern Av., Muskegon, Mich.

Teacher; b. Woodstock, Ill., June 1, 1861; dau. William Morgan and Lucia (Bunker) Ormsby; grad. Cook Co. Normal School (Chicago), 1879; Univ. of Mich., B.S. '82 (associate mem. Alpha Epsilon Iota Sorority); m. 1882, Dr. William Aulls Campbell; one daughter: Lois Lucia Campbell (now Mrs. Steere). Taught eight years; was sup't of Gladstone (Mich.) public schools. Sunday-school sup't and teacher. Chairman Educational Com. of Woman's Club. Has addressed women's clubs in Mich. at various places. Interested in federation of clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Author of children's stories and verses, outing stories, educational articles; has assisted in writing text-books and forming school libraries. Presbyterian. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae Ass'n (mem. exec, board); sec. Univ. of Mich. Alumnae Ass'n (Ann Arbor); treas. Univ. of Mich. Alumnae Ass'n (Muskegon); mem. Audubon Soc., Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty. Recreations: Reading along educational lines, watercolor painting, writing children's verses and stories. Mem. Tuesday Club (Ann Arbor); pres. Muskegon Woman's Club.

CAMPBELL, Stella Bogue (Mrs. Andrew Thomson Campbell, Jr.), 271 Midland Av., Montclair, N.J.

Graduate Smith Coll., B.A. '91; N.Y. Univ., LL.B. '98; m. 1898, Andrew Thomson Campbell Jr. (died Jan. 24, 1908); children: Avis, b. May 7, 1899; Catharine, b. Nov. 16, 1901.

CAMPBELL, Viola Vaille Barnes (Mrs. David Allen), 116 S. Michigan Av., Chicago, Ill.

Editor of Musical Monitor; b. Plattsmouth, Neb.; dau. John W. and Martha D. (Gage) Barnes; ed. Ladies' Sem., Mt. Pleasant; musical education, Chicago, New York and London; m. Plattsmouth, Neb., June 28, 1882, David Allen Campbell; children: James P. Newton, Paul. Teacher of voice, concert singer and editor of Musical Monitor, organ of Nat. Fed. of Musical Clubs, of which is charter mem. and hon. vice-pres. Presbyterian.

CAMPION, Marguerite, 179 Summit Av., Upper Montclair, N.J.

Teacher, editor; b. Philadelphia, Pa., 1884; dau. John W. and Camilla Farr (Charter) Campion; ed. Swarthmore Coll., A.B. '04 (Kappa Alpha Theta). Employed in editorial work with Ladies Home Journal, 1904-05; teacher in Swarthmore Preparatory School and in public schools of Montclair, N.J. Author of several short stories, general articles. Mem. Ethical Soc. of Philadelphia. Favors woman suffrage.

CANAVAN, Myrtelle May Moore (Mrs. James Francis Canavan), Boston State Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Physician; b. St Johns, Mich., June 24, 1879; dau. Richard Avery and Kate Gulia Elma (Young) Moore; ed. Mich. Agricultural Coll., Lansing, Mich.; Univ. of Mich.; Woman's Med. Coll. of Pa., M.D. '05 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma and Zeta Phi); m. Philadelphia, May 17, 1905, Dr. James Francis Canavan (died July 26, 1907). Appointed pathologist to Boston State Hospital, 1910; appointed med. examiner to Wellesley Coll., 1908. Has written reports of cases of interest in connection with hospital hygiene, pathology, bacteriology and psychiatry. Mem. Assembly Club of Boston. Favors woman suffrage.

CANBY, Marion Gause (Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby), 105 East Rock Road, New Haven, Conn.

Born Wilmington, Del., Aug. 11, 1885; dau. Harry Taylor Gause (Ph.B., Yale, '79) and Virginia (Ingersoll) Gause; ed. privately; m. June 15, 1907, Henry Seidel Canby; one son: Edward Tatnall Canby, b. Feb. 28, 1912. Mem. advisory board Leila Day Nursery, and various charitable and social organizations in New Haven and Wilmington, Del. Presbyterian. Mem. Connecticut Soc for Social Hygiene, Conn. Soc. for Mental Hygiene. Mem. New Haven Lawn Club.


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Rh CANDA, Ida Hammond Holmes (Mrs. Charles A. Canda), 564 Westminster Av., Elizabeth, N.J.

Born Ridgefield, N.J., Jan. 11, 1867; dau. Charles Bassett and Sarah B. (Hammond) Holmes; ed. by private instruction and in schools; private pupil in music of Dr. William Mason, Edward A. McDowell and Edward M. Bowman of N.Y. City; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 5, 1905, Charles A. Canda. Against woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Recreations: Automobiling, music, walking. Charter mem. and first pres. of Brooklyn Pianists' Club.

CANDEE, Annie Chunn (Mrs. Nehemiah Candee), 53 Bayview Av., South Norwalk, Conn.

Born Chaptico, Md.; dau. Mark B. and Annie (Dent) Chunn; ed. public schools in Maryland and Washington, D.C.; Md. State Normal School; special course at Yale Univ.; m. New Haven, Conn., 1901, Nehemiah Candee (lawyer); children: Mark Chunn, Marjorie Dent, Dorothy Caroline. Contributor of stories, articles and verse to Youth's Companion, Little Folks, Children's Magazine, Lippincott's, Cavalier, Every Month, Brown Book, N.Y. Sunday Herald, Ladies' Home Journal, Holland's, etc. Baptist. Mem. Scribblers' Club of New Haven, Woman's Municipal League of South Norwalk, Conn. Opposed to woman suffrage.

CANDEE, Helen Churchill (Mrs. E. C. Candee), 1718 Rhode Island Av., Washington, D.C.

Author; b. N.Y. City, Oct. 5, 1863; dau. Henry and Mary (Churchill) Hungerford; ed. New Haven, Conn, (attended the first kindergarten in this country—under Rose Porter); m. Norwalk, Conn., 1890, E. C. Candee; children: Harold C, Edith C. Survivor of the wreck of the Titanic, April 15, 1912. Mem. Ladies' Board of Children's Hospital, Washington. Author: An Oklahoma Romance, 1902; Styles and Periods in Decoration, 1906; The Tapestry Book, 1912; short stories for magazines. Mem. National Fed. of Arts, National Civic Fed. Clubs: Riding of Washington, Chevy Chase. Favors woman suffrage.

CANDEE, Marion Otis, 45 South Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Teacher, kindergartner; b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '94; Albany Normal Coll., Pd.B., '06. Teacher Bellows Falls, Vt. 1895-97; Morristown, N.J., 1898-99; since 1909 has conducted a private kindergarten in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

CANFIELD, Elizabeth Norton (Mrs. Thomas H. Canfield), Lake Park, Minn.

Born Wincoski, Vt., Oct. 9, 1874; dau. John Wright and Mary Frances (Pease) Norton; grad. Univ. of Vt., B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) '96 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Albany, N.Y., Dec. 29, 1898, Thomas H. Canfield; children: Katherine, Thomas 3d, David, Donald, Margaret. Trained as librarian at State Library School at Albany, N.Y., 1896-97. Episcopalian. Recreations: Tennis, automobiling.

CANFIELD, Nellie Heth, 2031 East 96th St., Cleveland, Ohio.

Teacher; b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '87. Teacher in Middletown, N.Y., 1887-88; Chicago, Ill., 1888-90; since 1890 in the Central High School of Cleveland, Ohio.

CANNON, Annie Jump, 291 Huron Av., Cambridge, Mass.

Astronomer; b. Dover, Del., Dec. 11, 1863; dau. Wilson Lee and Mary E. (Jump) Cannon; ed. Wilmington Conference Acad., Dover, Del., '80, Wellesley Coll., B.S. '84, M.A. '07, special work in astronomy at Radcliffe Coll., 1896-97; Harvard Coll. Observatory, 1898-11; curator astronomical photographs, Harvard Coll. Observatory, 1911-. Has discovered 150 variable stars, 3 new stars and other peculiar objects, such as spectroscopic binaries and stars having bright lines in their spectra, and has made the classification of stellar spectra which is accepted as the standard by astronomers throughout the world. Author of various volumes of the Annals of Harvard Coll. Observatory, such as classifications of stars by means of their spectra and discussions of variable stars; now engaged upon the determination of the class of spectrum of all the stars down to the eighth magnitude in the entire sky. The results will form a catalogue of more than 100,000 stars. Mem. M.E. Church. Chairman of Observatory and Fellowship Committees of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Ass'n. Mem. Astronomical and Astrophysical Soc. of America, Boston College Club, Boston Wellesley College Club, Wellesley Shakespeare Soc, Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae. Recreations: Walking, music.

CAPEN, Anne, 51 Highland Av., Haverhill, Mass.

Born Boston; dau. Edward Capen (librarian philanthropist, first librarian of Boston Public Library, later started Haverhill Public Library on invitation of E. J. M. Howe, who endowed it), and Anne (Saville) Capen; mem. of original Dorchester (Colonial) Capen family; ed. Everett Grammar School, Haverhill High School, Smith Coll. B.A., post-graduate course, Cornell Univ., later studied abroad. Has been college prep. tutor, editor, essayist critic. Unitarian. Vice-pres. Woman's Alliance. Mem. Woman's Club of Haverhill; sec.-treas. Hosford Club; mem. (former pres.) College Club.

CAPEN, Chanie A. (Mrs. Charles A. Capen), 727 Main St., Willimantic, Conn.

President State Federation; b. Hartford, Conn., 1843; dau. Samuel B. and Lemira (Little) Fuller; ed. in private acad., East Hartford, and High School, Hampton, Conn.; self-educated aside from this; m. Willimantic, Conn., Charles A. Capen. Pres. for years of Willimantic Woman's Club, also of Needlework Guild; pres. of Conn. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; has given literary talks at different times. Fond of amateur theatricals; still acts as coach occasionally; has dramatized, in a simple way, Lady Baltimore, and Lady Rose's Daughter, for local use. Congregationalist. Against woman suffrage.

CAPEN, Mary Warren, 38 Greenough Av., Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Born Boston, Mass., April 18, 1874: dau. Samuel Billings and Helen M. (Warren) Capen; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '98; mem. Agora (a society local to Wellesley). Officially connected with Suffolk Branch of Woman's Board of Missions, Woman's Home Missionary Ass'n, Wellesley Chapter of College Settlements Ass'n. Congregationalist. Mem. College Club (Boston), Boston Branch of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Mass. Soc. of Mayflower Descendants, Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae; sec. and treas. Boston branch 1902-04; director Boston branch, 1904-06; chairman of Membership Com. of Nat. Ass'n, 1904-06: pres. Boston Wellesley College Club, 1910-12.

CAPERTON, Helena Trench Lefroy (Mrs. Clifford Randolph Caperton), Kilmorony, R.F.D. No. 2, Westhampton, Richmond, Va.

Born Richmond, Va., Aug. 18, 1878; dau. Jeffry Arthur and Sallie Watson (Montague) Lefroy; grad. from Miss Augusta T. Daniel's private school, 1896; awarded two gold medals for essays and English literature; m. Richmond, Va., Nov. 17, 1897, Clifford Randolph Caperton; children: Arthur Lefroy, Rose Gaston, Helena Minna, Sarah Montague, Mary Clifford, Harriette Alexander, Melinda Montague. Mem. of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church; interested in charity work. Mem. Colonial Dames of America in State of a., Daughters of Confederacy, Country Club of Va. Mem. Richmond Educational Soc. Recreations: Gardening, farming, poultry raising, golfing, dancing, visiting in England, Ireland, London season, Dublin Horse Show, yachting on Irish Coast, shooting pheasants at camp in autumn in W.Va. Episcopalian.

CAPLES, Grace Stelle (Mrs. Byron M. Caples), Waukesha, Wis.

Journalist; b. Beloit, Wis.; dau. Oliver Benjamin and Lucy Page (Woods) Stelle; ed. Baltimore, also Wooster Univ., O.; m. Milwaukee, Mar. 23, 1901, Byron McBride Caples, M.D.; one daughter: Lucy Margaret. Washington (D.C.) journalist; correspondent for N.Y. Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun; on staff, Washington Post, editing woman's page. Chairman Public Health Committee; Wis. Federation of Women's Clubs.