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64 BACKUS, Annie Amelia (Mrs. A. A. Backus, M.D.), Aylmer, Ontario, Can.

Physician; b. Port Rowan, Ont; dau. Jahn H. and Sarah (Dedrick) Backus; ed. Port Rowan Grammar School, Bishop Strachan School, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Mich., 18S6-87; Chicago Med. Coll., M.D. '89; degrees ad eundem, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1890; Ontario Med. Coll., '08; m. Albert Hamilton Backus, barrister. Practised medicine at Coldwater, Mich., one year, then took position in Maternity Hospital, N.Y. City, after which practised in Adrian, Mich. Took examinations in Ontario Coll., 1908, and practises in Aylmer, Ont. Lecturer for Dep't of Agriculture on health topics. Lectures for W.C.T.U. on social purity; interested in care of feeble-minded; has farm and is interested in stock farming and all kinds of agriculture. Favors woman suffrage; chairman of Suffrage Ass'n, Toronto. Writer of editorials for local papers and articles for magazines and Government reports. Episcopalian. Mem. Women's Inst, of Ontario, W.C.T.U., United Empire Loyalists. Recreations: All kinds of out-door sports, riding, driving, fishing, skating, gardening, games, chess, bridge and whist, lover of all animal and bird life. Mem. Aylmer Travel Club, Norfolk Historical Society.

BACKUS, Carrie Haskins, 678 Holly Av.. St. Paul, Minn.

Principal Mrs. Backus' School; b. Oswego, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1860; dau. David and Laurena (Eson) Hawkins; ed. New York schools, Oswego Normal; m. June 18, 1886, Oswego, N.Y., Clinton J. Backus; children: Clinton J. Backus, Jr., David H. Backus, Romaine L. Backus, Rena Backus. Leader adult Bible class; chairman Minn. State Forestry; committee of Federation of Women's Clubs; mem. of Soc. for Regulation of Child Labor. Presbyterian. Mem. New England Women's Club, Thursday Club, Forestry Club; Mem. Women's Council of St. Paul Commerce Club. Recreation: Gardening.

BACKUS, Emma S. (Mrs. Henry Backus), 273 Ernshaw Av., Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Writer; dau. Louis C. and Henrietta (Kroger) Shermeyer; ed. Cincinnati public schools; m. August, 1902, Henry Backus; children: Carl, Robert, Harry Jr. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The Career of Dr. Weaver. Mem. the Civic league Press Club.

BACKUS, Harriet Ivins (Mrs. Henry C Backus), The Osborne, 205 W. 67th St., N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; dau. Wilmer and Jennie Hastings (Davis); ed. New York schools and tutors; m. at Hotel Brunswick, N.Y. City, 1891, Henry Clinton Backus; children: Harriet Edna, Clinton Davis. Vice-pres. Woman's Municipal League; member Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and of Nat. Ass'n for Civic Education of Women; interested in social service and settlements. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian.

BACKUS, Susan Emily Foote (Mrs. Grosvenor Hyde Backus), Beech Road and Palisade Av., Englewood, N.J.

Born N.Y. State; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '96; grad. student in economics, sociology and pedagogy, Columbia Univ.; m. Port Henry, N.Y., June 3, 1904, Grosvenor Hyde Backus (lawyer). College settlement worker until marriage.

BACON, Albion Fellows (Mrs. Hilary E. Bacon), Evansville, Ind.

Engaged in housing reform; b. Evansville, Ind.; dau. Albion and Mary (Erskine) Fellows; ed. Evansville, Ind.; m. Evansville, 1888, Hilary E. Bacon; children: Margaret (died 1909), Albion, Hilary and Joy (twins). Began housing reform work actively in 1908; Investigated conditions in State of Indiana and has lectured and written on subject ever since. In 1909 drafted a Housing Reform bill to cover all cities in State; look it to the Legislature and watched its passage. As passed it applies to only the two largest cities of State; took another State-wide bill to the Legislature, 1911; lost it by one vote being changed after it had won; since then has continued to campaign for housing reform. Active in many social and civic matters, helped organize Working Girls' Ass'n (now merged in Y.W.C.A.), organized Flower Mission. Author of book of poems: Songs Ysame (with sister, Annie Fellows Johnson); also housing pamphlets: What Bad Housing Means to the Community, and The Awakening of a State. Mem. Circle of the Visiting Nurse.; sec. of the Indiana Housing Ass'n; director of the Nat Housing Ass'n; mem. Flower Mission, Friendly Visitors' Circle; helped organize Anti-Tuberculosis League; helped with Civic Improvement; mem. Ladies' Literary Club, chairman of Housing Com. of State Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Exec. Com. of Children's Bureau of Indiana. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

BACON, Alice Mabel, Deephaven Camp, Ashland, N.H.

Writer, teacher; b. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 22, 1858; dau. Leonard and Catherine (Terry) Bacon; ed. New Haven private schools; certificates Harvard examinations for women, 1881; advanced philosophical course, 1882. Teacher Hampton Inst., Hampton, Va., 1884-99; Peeresses School, Tokyo. Japan, 1887-1888; Higher Normal School, Tokyo, 1899-1901; since then has lectured on Japan and current topics and employed in Miss Capen's School, Northampton, Mass. Founded Dixie Hospital, Hampton, Va., 1889; one of the founders of Women's Civic Club, New Haven, Conn., 1905; Higher English School for Girls (Miss Tsuda's School), 1899, Tokyo, Japan. Author: Japanese Girls and Women; A Japanese Interior; In the Land of the Gods; edited Human Bullets, by H. Sakurai (a soldier's story of Port Arthur). Recreation: Running a large summer camp in N.H. Congregationalist.

BACON, Caroline Tilden (Mrs. George Wood Bacon), 23 W. Sixty-seventh St., N.Y. City, and St. James, L.I., N.Y.

Born Saint Cloud, Minn., Aug. 31, 1873; dau. William B. and Emily (Whittlesey) Mitchell; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '97; Columbia Univ., M.A. '99; Kappa Kappa Gamma; m. June 1, 1904, George Wood Bacon; one daughter: Elizabeth Mitchell, b. Mar. 30, 1905. Instructor in history in high school and college. Director of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations; mem. Playgoing Com. for N.Y. Drama League of America; pres. Students' Aid Soc. of Smith Coll. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. American Historical Ass'n. Mem. Smith Coll. Club, Woman's University Club, McDowell Club, N.Y. City.

BACON, Corinne, Drexel Inst. Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

Librarian; b. N.Y. City; dau. William Plumb and Emma Parsons (Whittemore) Bacon; ed. Brooklyn Heights Sem., 1885; Packer Collegiate Inst., '90; N.Y. State Library School, B.L.S. '03. Assistant New Britain (Conn.) Institute Library, 1894-1901; assistant N.Y. State Library, Albany, N.Y., 1902-03; instructor N.Y. State Library School, 1903-10; chief of catalogue dep't Free Public Library, Newark, N.J., 1910-12; reference assistant for eight months in 1911; director Drexel Inst. Library and Library School, Philadelphia, 1912 —. Joint author of Course of Study for Normal School Pupils on Literature for Children. Magazine articles: New England Sectionalism; What Makes a Novel Immoral. Mem. Equal Franchise Soc. of Philadelphia, Nat. Child Labor Com., Keystone State Library Ass'n, Am. Library Ass'n, N.Y. State Library School Ass'n, National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Pennsylvania Library Club. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Franchise Soc. of Philadelphia.

BACON, Dolores (née Mary Schell Hoke), Norton Heights, Conn. (Summer: 3021 Emmons Av., Sheepshead Bay, L.I.)

Author; b. Atchison, Kan., Nov. 20, 1870; dau. Jacob Schell and Amarillas (Carter) Hoke; ed. at home; m. N.Y. City, Oct. 1. 1898, Charles Bacon; one son: Charles Bacon, 2d. Author: I'll Ne'er Consent; Juggernaut (with George Gary Eggleston); Diary of a Musician; A King's Divinity; Cervantes and His Times; Old New England Churches; Songs Every Child Should Know; Hymns Every Child Should Know; Operas Every Child Should Know; Pictures


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Rh Every Child Should Know. Plays produced: Juggernaut; The End of the Century; Dead Heroes and Live Ones. Contributor to magazines; engaged in European journalistic missions, 1889-91. Pen name Dolores Marbourg.

BACON, Elizabeth Daken (Mrs. James G. Bacon), 106 Capen St., Hartford, Conn.

Born Cranston, R.I., Mar. 19, 1844; dau. Solomon W. and Elizabeth W. (Wilbur) Kenyon (granddaughter of John Wilbur, noted Quaker preacher, who traveled and preached twice during his life in the British Isles and led a schism in his church, his followers being called the Wilburites); ed. Providence (R.I.) public schools; grad. with diploma from Providence High School, 1864; m. Providence, R.I., Oct. 6, 1869, James G. Bacon; one daughter: Alice Gary Bacon. Interested in the temperance question; mem. W.C.T.U., the Woman's Alliance (society connected with Unitarian Church of Hartford). Ardent advocate of woman suffrage; has addressed various organizations on the subject; vice-pres. at large Conn. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, 1892-1906; pres. 1906-10; pres. Hartford Equal Rights Club for past 20 years (club 28 years old; oldest suffrage club in State). Mem. First Unitarian Congregational Church of Hartford. Mem. Woman's Alliance, Conn. Peace Soc. (director), Consumers' League; was several years mem. of Hearthstone Club of Hartford (pres. two years—limit of term). Mem. since 1910 of Board of School Visitors of Hartford (only woman on board); served on High School Com., 1896-97.

BACON, Helen Hazard (Mrs. Nathaniel Terry Bacon). Peace Dale, R.I.

Born Peace Dale, R.I., Jan. 15, 1862; dau.Rowland and Margaret (Rood) Hazard; ed. private school in Providence, R.I., till 12 years old, and by governess, classes and foreign travel; m. Peace Dale, Oct. 6, 1885, Nathaniel Terry Bacon; children: Leonard, b. May 26, 1887; Susan, b. Nov. 12, 1889. Leader of Silent Circle of King's Daughters, Peace Dale, since 1895. Chairman for R.I. Soc. of Descendants of Colonial Governors; vice-pres. R.I. branch Woman's Board of Missions. Congregationalist. Mem. Nat. Soc. of Colonial Dames of America in State R.I. and Providence Plantations, Soc. Descendants of Colonial Governors; mem. Colonial Dames Club (Washington, D.C.). Against woman suffrage.

BACON, Josephine Daskam (Mrs. Selden Bacon), Beech Hill, Briarcliff, N.Y.

Author; b. Stamford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1876; dau. Horace Sawyer and Anne Loring Daskam; ed. Katherlne Aiken School and Stamford High School, Stamford; Smith Coll., B.A. '98 (editor-in-chief College Magazine; class orator); m. Stamford, Conn., July 25, 1903, Selden Bacon; children: Anne, b. Sept. 28, 1904; Deborah, b. Dec. 11, 1906; Selden, Jr.. b. Sept. 10, 1909. Books: Madness of Philip; Smith College Stories; Sister's Vocation; Middle Aged Love Stories; Fables for the Fair; Imp and the Angel; Memoirs of a Baby; Biography of a Boy; Ten to Seventeen; Margarita's Soul; The Border Country. Poems: Whom the Gods Destroyed; When Caroline Was Growing; Domestic Adventures; Idyll of All Fool's Day. Episcopalian. Mem. Colony Club and Woman's Cosmopolitan Club, N.Y. City. Recreations: All country sports, farming, stock breeding, amateur dramatics, music.

BACON, Rachel Haines (Mrs. Francis Llewellyn Bacon), 234 Winona Av., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., July 29, 1880; dau. William Henry and Mary Emlen (Howell) Haines; ed. Wellesley College, B.A. '02 (Agora Soc.); m. June 14, 1910, Francis Llewellyn Bacon. Clubs: Philadelphia College, Germantown Cricket.

BADEAU, Marie, 15 Badeau Av., Summit, N.J.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y., May 30, 1883; dau. Willlam E. and Annie (Bishop) Badeau; ed. Kent Place School, Summit, N.J., Vassar, A.B. '05, and by private instruction In Dresden, Germany, 1912. Interested in various religious, social and philanthropic interests. Against woman suffrage. Contributor of short stories and book reviews to various papers and magazines. Episcopalian. Mem. Fortnightly Club, Summit, N.J.

BAER, Libbie C. (Mrs. John M. Baer), Appleton, Wis.

Author; b. Bethel, Clermont Co., Ohio; dau. Rev. Gerard P. and Sarah (Riley) Baer; ed. Clermont Acad; m. Oct., 1867, Capt. John M. Baer, a distinguished soldier of the Civil War; children: Antis, b. Sept. 26, 1868; Charles, b. Mar. 22, 1872 (died Aug., 1898); Edward S., b. Oct. 28, 1878; John M., b. Mar. 29, 1886. Teacher, long active in Woman's Relief Corps (as allied with the G.A.R.) as State pres., also as Nat. senior vice-pres. Identified with club work (federated); pres. Civic Ass'n, Appleton, Wis. Always active in philanthropic work. Interested in the principles of universal suffrage; opposed to aggressive methods of obtaining it. Contributor to magazines; author of short stories and a volume of poems, entitled In the Land of Fancy. Congregationalist.

BAGLEY, Florence MacLean Winger (Mrs. William C. Bagley, 611 West Oregon St., Urbana. Ill.

Writer; b. Claylick, Pa., Jan. 7, 1874; dau. Joseph W. and Margaret (Irwin) Winger; ed. Univ. of Nebraska, A.B. '95, A.M. '98; received honorary Sigma Xi from Cornell (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14, 1901, William Chandler Bagley; children: Ruth, Joseph, William Chandler Jr. and Florence. Author: Fechner's Colors (in Am. Journal of Psychology, 1902).

BAGLEY, Isabelle Tipton (Mrs. Fenton Bagley), Tome School for Boys, Port Deposit, Md.

Born Muskingum Co., O.; dau. William M. and Catherine (Melser) Tipton; ed. Zanesville (O.) High School, and at Washington, D.C.; m. Zanesville, O., Fenton Bagley; children: Arthur Tipton, Fenton, Myron Everhart. Teacher in public schools in Ohio and Washington, D.C; now connected with Tome School for Boys. Filled office of State pres. of Woman's Relief Corps of Ohio; served five years as nat. treas. Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the G.A.R.; 14 years on boards of hospital trustees; a term as national director from Ohio in the Am. Nat. Red Cross organization; appointed by courts in Ohio to serve on visiting boards for charitable and correctional institutions of county and State. Identified with various other religious and philanthropic societies. Presbyterian.

BAHRENBURG, Carrie Thomas Alexander (Mrs. William Bahrenburg), Belleville, Ill.

Born Belleville, Ill., 1860; dau. Col. John and Magdelene (von Euw) Thomas; ed. Belleville School, Monticello Sem. (valedictorian of class); m. (1st) H. A. Alexander (deceased); (2d) 1909, Dr. William Bahrenburg. State director Illinois Children's Home and Aid Soc. Pres. Civic League of Belleville, auxiliary to Equal Suffrage Ass'n of Ill. Republican. Past State pres. of Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to Grand Army of Republic. Organized chapter of Order of Eastern Star in Belleville (matron four years). Recreation: Autoing. General manager and treas. of the Belleville Street Railway for five years; only case on record where a woman was actively engaged in operation of street railway. Pres. Ladies' Aid Soc; evolved plan by which able-bodied men and women were given work instead of alms; elected and served as a trustee of Univ. of Illinois 12 years.

BAILEY, Adella Browne (Mrs. Dewey Crossman Bailey), 1543 York St., Denver, Colo.

Born Aurora, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1860; dau. Warren and Harriet E. (Kerr) Browne; ed. high school, Chicago, Ill.; m. Kiowa, Colo., 1880, Dewey Grossman Bailey; one son: Dewey Grossman Bailey Jr. Pres. Woman's Club of Denver; mem. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Ergateau Club (study club); pres. of Sarah Platt Decker Memorial Ass'n; mem. of the Plymouth Congregational Church. Congregationalist. Republican.

BAILEY, Agnes McGiffert (Mrs. Frank Gelston Bailey), The Alhambra, Park and Bagg Sts., Detroit, Mich.

Lecturer; b. Hillsdale, N.Y.; dau. Rev. J., N. McGiffert (D.D.) and Harriet (Cushman)

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66 ; ed. Le Roy, N.Y.; N.Y. City and Berlin, Germany; student in music, French and German. Taught English in a French school in N.Y. City; m. Sept. 3, 1890. Rev. Edward H. Pound; lived in California most of married life; after his death became interested in club work, then married, Troy, N.Y., July 8, 1910, Frank Gelston Bailey. Gives stereopticon lectures and organizes Junior Civic Leagues. Mem. Junior Civic League of the American Civic Association; gives Browning lectures and recitals. Author of civic articles in magazines: The American City; Life and Health; Washington (last named articles were reproduced by the Countess of Aberdeen in her magazine), and Junior Civic Leagues have been organized in Dublin. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Am. Civic Ass'n (headquarters Washington). Mem. Sorosis, Social Study Club, Woman's Club (Cleveland). Organized Junior Civic League and gives stereopticon lectures on children's work; has organized Junior Civic Leagues in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Troy, N.Y.; Chattanooga, Tenn., and many other cities and smaller towns in many States. Was pres. Woman's Out-door Art League of Am. Civic Ass'n, 1907-08; since then occupies the position of chairman of Junior Civic League of Am. Civic Ass'n. For seven years mem. (three years chairman) of Civics Com. of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; two years chairman of Civics of the Cleveland Fed.; mem. Municipal School League of Cleveland.

BAILEY, Alice Van B. Foos (Mrs. Theodorus Bailey), 122 W. Seventy-eighth St., N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; dau. Lamar and Mary K. (Fellows) Foos; ed. Peebles and Thompson School, N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, Nov. 1, 1902, Dr. Theodorus Bailey: children: Rosalie Fellows, Dorothy Platt, Gertrude de Peyster, Florence Livingston. Episcopalian. Pres. Peebles and Thompson Alumnae Ass'n. Recreations: Motoring, golf, tennis, bridge. Clubs: Amateur Comedy, Saratoga Golf.

BAILEY, Alice Ward (Mrs. A. G. Bailey), 525 Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.

Writer, lecturer, editor; b. Amherst, Mass., April 30, 1857; dau. Horace and Mary R. Ward; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '83; Coll. of Nature Cure, Chicago, D.N.C. '09; m. 1884, Dr. A. G. Bailey. Author and lecturer, 1884-1906; ass't editor Nature Cure Magazine, 1909; inventor and manufacturer since 1910. Contributor to leading magazines. Author: Verse Fancies, 1889; The Outside of Things, 1899; (novels) Mark Heffron; The Sage-Brush Parson; Roberta and Her Brothers (juvenile).

BAILEY, Almeria Adgrate (Mrs. Charles F. Bailey), Hampton, Va.

Born Irasburg, Vt., Nov. 20, 1864; dau. Luther W. and Almeria (Pitkin) Adgate; ed. St. Johnsbury, Vt. Acad., and Wellesley Coll., A.B. '87; m. B. Hardwick, Vt., Aug. 18, 1891, Charles F. Bailey; children: Almeria Pitkin, b. Oct. 4, 1892; Albert Adgate, b. Sept. 3, 1894; Mary Joyce, b. May 15, 1899.

BAILEY, Anna Leland (Mrs. Alvin Richards Bailey), Newton, Mass.

Born Somerville, Mass.; dau. John Murray and Sophronia Page (Savage) Leland; grad. from complete classical course of Somerville High School and afterward studied music with private teachers and the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston; m. Somerville, Mass., Feb. 14, 1884, Alvin Richards Bailey. Engaged in teaching until marriage and organized several study classes for women which became pioneers of the club movement. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Newton Suffrage League and of the Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. Active in D.A.R., past regent of Paul Revere Chapter and State historian of Mass. D.A.R., in which capacity compiled History of the Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1896; founded the Signal Lantern Soc. of the Children of the American Revolution. Mem. West Newton Women's Educational Club (past pres.), Newton Fed. of Women's Clubs, Appalachian Mountain Club, New England Women, and the Massachusetts Fed. of Women's Clubs.

BAILEY, Anna Peabody (Mrs. Ayrault Bailey), North Dana, Mass.

Minister; b. Santa Rosa, Cal., Dec. 25, 1866, dau. George A. and Margaret (Tinkham) Peabody; ed. by private tutors; Mt. Holyoke Coll.; Emerson School of Oratory, 1882-90; m. Eastport, Me., 1891, Rev. Ayrault Bailey. Lecturer on international peace, equal suffrage and child protection. Ordained minister. Interested in missions, home and foreign, and Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Favors woman suffrage. Author of short stories, especially for children. Universalist. Mem. Am. Peace Soc, Nat. Educational Ass'n, W.C.T.U. Mem. Woman's Ministerial Club (Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, late pres.).

BAILEY, Bertha, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass.

Principal Abbot Acad.; b. Albany, N.Y., Dec. 17, 1866; dau. Rev. William and Mary L. (Stark) Bailey; grad. Albany Girls' Acad., '84; Wellesley Coll., B.S. '88 (mem. Shakespeare Soc., Wellesley). Teacher of science. Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Ky., 1888-90; Miss Mittleberger's School, Cleveland, O., 1890-93; mathematics and history, the Ruel School, N.Y. City, 1893-1900; head of day school, Miss Brown's and Miss Boesé's School, N.Y. City, 1900-02; Miss Stuart's School, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1902-04; principal Taconic School, Lakeville, Conn., 1904-12; principal Abbot Acad., Andover, Mass., 1912—. Mem. Congregational Church.

BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin, 39 E. 31st St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Hoosick Falls, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1876; dau. Charles H. and Emma Frances (Blanchard) Bailey; ed. private school and Teachers Coll., Columbia Univ. Associate Editor, Wildman Magazine and News Service; Children's Editor, Delineator. Lecturer on Story Telling; story teller in settlements and kindergartens. Author: Daily Program of Gifts and Occupation Work; Firelight Stories; For the Children's Hour; Stories and Rhymes for a Child; Songs of Happiness; Girl's Make-at-Home Things; Boy's Make-at-Home Things; Jingle Primer; Psychology of Story Telling. Contributor to nearly all the magazines. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BAILEY, Edith Lawrence Black (Mrs. Pearce Bailey), 52 West 53d St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. N.Y. City, 1870; dau. Charles Newbold and Mary Keese (Lawrence) Black; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City; m. at Ockanickon Farm, N.J., Pearce Bailey, M.D.; children: Newbold, Pearce, Lawrence, Geraldine. Acting pres. Equal Franchise Soc.; general suffrage speaker. Author: Crecy, by "Edith Lawrence"; Portia Politics; verses and short stories in various magazines. Episcopalian. Clubs: Cosmopolitan, Pen and Brush.

BAILEY, Eliza Randall Simmons (Mrs, William Whitman Bailey), 6 Cushing St., Providence, R.I.

Writer; b. Providence, R.I.; graduated from Providence High School; m. Providence, Mar. 14, 1880, William Whitman Bailey, LL.D., prof. botany in Brown Univ. Writer on educational subjects and author (in collaboration with Professor John Manly) of The Bailey-Manly Spelling Book. BAILEY, Florence Augusta Merriam (Mrs. Vernon Bailey), 1834 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C.

Author, ornithologist; b. Locust Grove, N.Y., Aug. 8, 1863; dau. Hon. Clinton L. and Caroline (Hart) Merriam; ed. Mrs. Piatt's Sem., Utica, N.Y., Smith Coll., special student class of '86 (mem. Alpha); m. 1899, Vernon Bailey. Has had bird classes and given lectures on birds; for years on Board of Managers of Working Boys' Home and also associated with the Playground movement. Author: Birds Through an Opera Glass, 1889; My Summer in a Mormon Village, 18S5; A Birding on a Bronco, 1896; Birds of Village and Field, 1S98; Handbook of Birds of Western U.S., 1902; also various newspaper and magazine articles, including St. Nicholas, The Outlook, Forest and Stream, Bird-Lore, The Condor and


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Rh The Auk. Mem. Housekeeper's Alliance, Smith Students' Aid Soc., Smith Alumnae Chapter C.S.A., Washington Branch Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae, Ass'n for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Nat. Housing Association, Playground and Recreation Ass'n of America, Working Boys' Home and Children's Aid Ass'n, Nat. Child Labor Committee (associate member); mem. Executive Committee Audubon Soc. of District of Columbia, Biological Soc. of Washington, Am. Ornithologists' Union, Cooper Ornithological Club, Wilson Ornithological Club, Twentieth Century Club. Favors restricted suffrage for men and women.

BAILEY, Florence Kate, Claremont, N.H.

High school teacher; grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '88; student of English, Harvard Summer School, 1894; English history, Radcliffe Coll., 1899-1900. Teacher in Stevens' High School, Claremont, N.H., 1889-91, and 1892-94, 1896-99, and 1900-03, and in Somerville (Mass.) High School, 1894-95. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n.

BAILEY, Hannah Johnston (Mrs. Moses Bailey), Winthrop Centre, Me.

Supt, World's and National W.C.T.U. Dep't of Peace and Arbitration; b. Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., July 5, 1839; dau. David (minister Society of Friends) and Letitia Clark Johnston; ed. public and private schools; m. Winthrop Centre, Me., 1868, Moses Bailey (died 1889). Taught school, 1859-68; has been head of Dep't of Peace and Arbitration of W.C.T.U. Former pres. Maine Equal Suffrage Ass'n, six years, former treas. Nat Council of Women, three years, has been a Maine representative on Nat. B'd of Chanties and Correction. Favors woman suffrage.

BAILEY, Jessie Emerson (Mrs. Francis Duncan Bailey), 10 West Sixty-first St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Fredonia, N.Y., Aug. 22, 1886; dau. Edward Randolph and Idanthea deLacey Emerson (of Revolutionary ancestry); ed. at home and in public schools at Fredonia, N.Y.; m. (1st) Sept. 11, 1898, Joseph A. Moffat; (2d) June 8, 1911, Francis Duncan Bailey. Contributor of short stories in various magazines. Author of a novel, A Friend at Court, and of a play, The Mirror of Miyama, staged and produced at the Herald Square Theatre (N.Y. City) in 1907. Mem. Actors' Church Alliance, D.A.R., Daughters of the Empire State. Pres. New Yorkers Club; mem Woman's Press Club, N.Y. City, and Athenia Club of Washingtonville, N.Y. Congregationalist.

BAILEY, Minnie Keith (Mrs. John Roberts Bailey), 621 E. Maple St., Enid, Okla.

Born Brown Co., Kan., 1869; dau. Uri Seeley and Mary F. (Grossman) Keith; ed. public schools of Kansas; Atchison (Kan.) Inst.; grad. Western Normal Coll., Shenandoah, Ia., A.B. '88 (valedictorian); m. McPherson, Kan., Oct. 10, 1889, John Roberts Bailey; one daughter: Mildred Keith, b. 1891. Taught school; interested in sociological and economic problems and helping others. Author of the first book of poems published by a woman of Oklahoma: Life's Undertow, 1905. Mem. Okla. Betsy Ross Ass'n, Woman's Relief Corps. Clubs: Alpha Chautauqua (Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle graduate), Enid Shakespeare Club, State and District Federations. Recreations: Music, dancing, gardening, reading. Universalist. Favors woman suffrage (worked through the Okla. Constitutional Conventions for Suffrage for Women), also on Initiative Amendment, and through campaign of 1910.

BAILY, Belle C. (Mrs. G. S. Baily), 31 S. Fifteenth St., Richmond, Ind.

Born New Castle, Ind., Oct. 18, 1858; dau. Robert Mason and Zurilda (Elliott) Chambers; ed. New Castle High School, Friends Acad. and two years in Univ. of Mich.; m. (1st) June 6, 1881, L. A. Estes. Always Interested in buying and selling real estate, in which has amassed a competency. Active worker in missionary work of the church at home and abroad; interested in all kinds of social betterment work. Associated Press correspondent for 10 years; wrote special articles from Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo) and World's Fair (St. Louis), also does feature work for magazines and papers. Mem. Friends Church. Mem. Historical Soc. and Athnae and Woman's Clubs, (both literary).

BAIN, Gertrude Benchley (Mrs. Ferdinand Randall Bain), 101 E. Ninety-fourth St., N.Y. City.

Born San Francisco, Cal.; dau. Leonidas B. and Helen (Kenyon) Benchley; ed. Clark Inst., San Francisco; Vassar Coll., Poughkeepsie; m. (1st) San Francisco, Frank Griswold Tefft (died); (2d) Charles Wooster Miller (died); (3d) N.Y. City, Feb. 12, 1911, Ferdinand Randall Bain; children: Erastus G. Tefft, Beatrice Wooster Miller. Interested in all questions affecting the working girls. Mem. Woman's Municipal League, N.Y. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BAIN, Lydia Katherine Smith (Mrs. William H. Bain), Canajoharie, N.Y.

Born Canajoharie, N.Y., Jan. 7, 1862; dau. Adam and Catharine (Van Slyke) Smith; ed. Vassar Coll., '84; was "Spade Orator" on class day (pres. Students' League); m. Canajoharie, Sept. 21, 1887, William H. Bain; children: Margaret K., b. Dec. 31, 1891; Therese L. Bain, b. April 8, 1893. Interested in religious, social and philanthropic activities. Mem. Dutch Reformed Church. Mem. D.A.R., Canajoharie Colonial Club (one of founders).

BAINES-MILLER, Minnie Willis, Springfield, Ohio.

Writer; b. Lebanon, N.H.; dau. Horace F. and Minerva J. Tisdale Willis; ed. Springfield, Ohio, degree of A.M. from Wittenberg Coll.; m. twice: first husband, Evan Franklin Baines; second, Leroy Edgar Miller; children: Florence May Baines and Frank Willis Baines, both now deceased. Has written for publication since age of 14; always favored temperance, morality and religion. Author: The Silent Land; His Cousin; The Doctor; The Pilgrim's Vision; Mrs. Cherry's Sister, Author of innumerable short stories and poems in magazines and papers. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Favors woman suffrage; has written and talked in its favor for many years; a very strong believer in equal rights.

BAIRD, Ellen Richardson (Mrs. John William Baird), Samokov, Bulgaria.

Teacher emerita; b. Granville, Ill., July 3, 1849; dau. Sanford and Rhoda Ann (Scott) Richardson; ed. at home; German Deaconesses' School, Smyrna, Turkey, 1861-64; Rockford Female Sem. (now college), Rockford, Ill., 1869; m. Broosa, Turkey, Sept. 17, 1873, Rev. John William Baird; children: Agnes Mary, Ethel Caroline, Clara Elizabeth, Emma Louise, Arthur Richardson, Alice Irene, Winifred Ellen. Although born in the U.S. has spent most of her life in various parts of the Turkish Empire and in Bulgaria, having gone to Turkey with parents in 1854, and lived in Erzroom, Arabkir, Broosa, Asia Minor and Constantinople, before marriage. Teacher, Rockford (Ill.) Sem., 1869-70; Girls' School, Broosa, Turkey, 1871-72; Girls' Coll., Constantinople, 1872-73; teacher of French, Collegiate and Theological Inst., Samokov, Bulgaria, 1901-08; teacher of French, English and domestic science, Girls' High School, Samokov, Bulgaria, 1901-08. Missionary of Am. Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, 1873—. In Monastir, Macedonia, Turkey, 1873-97; Salonica, Turkey, 1899-1901; Samokoy, Bulgaria, 1901—. Manager Associated Charities, Samokov, Bulgaria, 1903—. Contributor of occasional articles in missionary publications. Congregationalist. Somewhat interested in favor of woman suffrage.

BAIRD, Hattie E. (Mrs. Frederick S. Baird), Wayside. Neb.

Born Nora, Ill., Mar. 28, 1854; dau. James Hervey and Harriet Knight (Smith) Rogers: m. Warren, Ill., Nov. 9, 1876, Frederick S. Baird; children: Manley F., Harriet S., Frederick Rogers, Bruce, Robert Wilt, Maurice. Has taken active interest in church and philanthropic effort; active in club work for 20 years in Chicago and Nebraska. Presbyterian. Republican. Recreations: Traveling, summer outings. Mem. Tuesday Club of Chicago; Country Culture Club of Wayside, Neb.


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68 BAIRD, Jean Katherine, Renovo, Pa.

Writer; b. Renovo, Pa., March 12, 1872, dau. Wm. Preston and Mary Tamson (Hughes) Baird; ed. High School, Lock Haven Normal, Ada Univ., and private tutors, principally the latter. Teacher at Lock Haven Normal; connected with Chautauqua Press one year; contributes to Smart Set, Ladies' Home Journal, Youth's Companion, Sunday School Times; editor and short story writer for a score of Church and S.S. publications. Books: Danny; Cash Three; Elizabeth Hobart; The Honor Girl; Second Sixty-Five; Little Rhody; The Boy Next Door; The Heir of Baracha; Hester Series (The Coming of Hester, Hester's Counterpart, Hester's Wage Earning). Pres. Alumni Ass'n, Normal School, Lock Haven, Pa. Recreations: Walking, skating, boating. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BAIRD, Jennette Fergus, 239 W. Seventieth St., N.Y. City.

Lawyer; b. N.Y. City; dau. John and Agnes (Russell) Baird; ed. N.Y. Univ., LL.B. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage League of N.Y. City. Pres. Alumnae Ass'n of Women's Law Class of N.Y. Univ. Mem. the New Yorkers, Post Parliament, Current Events Club, Legislative League, N.Y. State Women Government Club.

BAIRD, Lucy, 1135 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky.

Principal and owner of girls' school; b. Sept. 12, 1871; dau. James W. and Martha A. Howard Baird; grad. Girls' High School, Louisville, Hampton Coll., Louisville, Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. 1896. Teacher of history in Miss Hill's School for Girls, Philadelphia, 1896-1905; teacher of history in Sample Collegiate School, Louisville, Ky., 1905-10; principal and owner Sample Collegiate School, 1910. Mem. Am. Acad. Political and Social Science, Am. Historical Ass'n, Ohio Valley Historical Ass'n, Nat. Geographic Soc, Woman's Club and Monday Afternoon Club, Louisville. Episcopalian. Believes in non-partisan school suffrage only.

BAKEMAN, Caroline (Mrs. Percival R. Bakeman), Chow Chung, China.

Missionary; b. Port Elgin, New Brunswick, Can.; dau. late J. Hanford Read; ed. Wellesley Coll. and Northfleld Sem.; m. Chelsea, Mass., July, 1906, Rev. Percival R. Bakeman. Left for China under the auspices of the Baptist Mission Union, Sept, 1906.

BAKER, Aimee Cevilla, 450 Eldorado St., Appleton. Wis.

Artist; b. Appleton Wis., Dec. 7, 1870; dau. Albert and Hannah (Stevens) Baker; ed. Ashland High School; Lawrence Coll., Appleton, Wis.; Art Inst, and Acad, of Fine Arts, Chicago. Engaged as teacher of drawing in Northland Acad., Ashland, Wis., and in Appleton public schools; Lawrence Coll., and in portrait and designing work in Chicago. Mem. Unitarian Church and connected ass'ns. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Political Equality League of Appleton, Wis. Mem. Monday Club, Ashland, and NovelHistory Club, Appleton.

BAKER, Annie Cunningham (Mrs. George W. Baker), 4516 Ross Av., Dallas, Tex.

Born Gadsden, Ala., June 10, 1871; dau. Joseph L. and Elizabeth Cunningham; ed. Gadsden public school; m. Gadsden, Ala., June 22, 1892, George W. Baker; children: George Jr., b. Aug. 26, 1893; Wilson Kirby, b. June 13, 1900. Pres. two years Dallas Free Kindergarten Ass'n; vice-pres. City Fed. of Women's Clubs. Against woman suffrage. Contributor to newspapers. Methodist. Mem. Young Ladies' Soc. of church. Recreation: Musical work of all kinds. Pres. three years Wednesday Morning Choral Club.

BAKER, Bertha Kunz (Mrs. L. B. Baker), 155 E. Twenty-second St.; business address, care J. B. Pond Bureau, Metropolitan Life Building, N.Y. City.

Lecturer and reader; b. Erie, Pa.; dau. Jacob and Caroline (Weiss) Kunz; ed. public schools, private study in Europe; m. Oct. 5, 1893, Dr. L. B. Baker, physician and lawyer (died Feb. 26, 1907). On lecture staff of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Pa. and other leading universities; also, Chautauqua and Lyceum courses. Author: Studies in the Art of Expression. Mem. Inst. of Arts and Sciences, N.Y. Historical Soc., Drama League of America. Recreations: Flower gardening, sketching, photography, walking and mountain climbing. Mem. Century Theatre Club. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Blanche Hutchinson (Mrs. John H. Baker), 976 Delaware Av., Buffalo, N.Y.

Born Buffalo, April 9, 1876; dau. Edward Howard and Jeanie B. (Ganson) Hutchinson; ed. Buffalo Sem., '95; m. Buffalo, Oot 24. 1900, John Henry Baker; children: Sarah H., Jean W., John H., Edward Folsom, Barbara. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Church Home League, Children's Aid Ass'n, Y.W.C.A.

BAKER, Caroline Isabel, 194 Salisbury St., Worcester, Mass.

Born Massachusetts; grad. Smith Coll., B.L.'93; Radcliffe Coll., M.A. '02. Teacher in Franklin Acad., Malone, N.Y., later in Worcester (Mass.) Classical High School; since 1903 instructor in English in Smith Coll.

BAKER, Charlotte Le Breton Johnson (Mrs. Fred Baker), Point Loma, Cal.

Physician; b. Newburyport, Mass., Mar. 30, 1855; dau. Nicholas and Caroline (Pettingell) Johnson; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '77, A.M. '88; Univ. of Mich., M.D. '81; m. Newburyport, Mass., Mar. 30, 1882, Dr. Fred Baker; children: Mary Caroline, Robert Henry. Student physician at Sherburn Reformatory, 1878-79; practicing medicine since graduation; pres. San Diego Co. Med. Soc., 1896; ex-vice-pres. Southern Cal. Med. Soc; ex-county pres. of W.C.T.U., and now honorary pres. of San Diego W.C.T.U.; pres. of Y.W.C.A. for three years and now honorary pres.; legislative chairman of League of Social Workers. Mem. Anti-Tuberculosis Soc, (Children's Home, Associated Charities, Joint Com. for Welfare of Working Women and Girls. Pres. of Point Loma Assembly (woman's club). Recreations: Boating, swimming. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive Republican. Pres. of San Diego Co. Equal Suffrage Organization; led in the local campaign for suffrage, which won the ballot in 1911.

BAKER, Cornelia (Mrs. Wilson G. Baker), 216 East Superior St., Chicago, Ill.

Author; dau. William and Electa McGhee; ed. Wesleyan Coll., Cincinnati, Ohio; m. Chicago, Wilson C. Baker. Literary work has been the writing of short stories and serials and making translations from the French, Spanish and Italian prose and verse. Completed in 1911 a series of four hundred children's stories for a syndicate. Author: Coquo and the King's Children; The Queen's Page; The Court Jester; Young People in Old Places; The Magic Image from India.

BAKER, Eleanor Robinson, 469 Fourth Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Writer, teacher; b. Eddington, Me.; grad. Vassar, A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '99. Teacher St. Mary's School, N.Y. City, 1899-1907; Manual Training High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., since 1907. Author of magazine articles: The Battle of Harlem Heights, Dame Fashion's Rendezvous, etc.

BAKER, Elizabeth Gowdy (Mrs. Daniel B. Baker), 898 Madison Av., N.Y. City.

Portrait painter; b. Xenia, Ohio; dau. Rev. George W. and Ellen (Graham) Gowdy; ed. Monmouth Coll.; studied art at Cooper Inst, (medal). Art Students' League, Philadelphia Academy, Boston, Paris, Rome and Florence (charter mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Daniel B. Baker; one son: William Munford Baker. Painter of portraits in oil and water color, being the first to combine the transparency of pure aquarelle work with strength in serious life-size portrait work. Mem. National Arts Club, Iowa New Yorkers; pres. Daughters of Ohio.

BAKER, Ellen Gillette (Mrs. Samuel W. Baker), 449 Fifth St., Manletee, Mich.

Born Venice, Shiawasse Co., Mich., Dec. 20, 1850; dau. Jason C. and Harriet (Card) Gillette; ed. district school, Corunna High School, Normal


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Rh School; m. Corunna, Mich., July 26, 1871, Samuel W. Baker. Was a teacher for several years. Interested in M.E. Church Home Missionary Soc. Mem. D.A.R.; sec. Board of Trustees of the Public Library; interested in Associated Charities; mem. M.E. Church and teacher for years in M.E. Sunday-school; mem. Missionary Socs., Art Soc, Soc. for Civic Work; pres. Lakeside Club. Progressive Republican. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Emma C. Andrews (Mrs. George S. Baker), 2115 Sherman Av., Evanston, Ill.

Born Pawpaw, Mich., Dec. 29, 1851; dau. Dr. Josiah and Mary A. (Dickinson) Andrews; ed. Pawpaw High School; Univ. of Mich., Ph.B. '75; m. Pawpaw, Mich., 1879, George S. Baker; children: J.A., R.D., Mary E., Alice L., Roger H., Lewis D., Charles P.

BAKER, Emma Sophia, Mt. Allison Ladies' Coll., Sackville, N.B., Can.

College principal; b. Milton, Ont,; dau. Charles A. Baker; grad. Victoria Univ., B.A. '99; Toronto Univ., Ph.D. '03 (first woman to take that degree at that university); special work in French at Univ. of Paris; graduate work at Newnham Coll., Cambridge, England. Was preceptress at Alexandra Coll., Belleville, Ont.; Dickinson Sem., Williamsport, Pa.; six years lady principal Presbyterian Ladies' Coll., Toronto; since 1901 vice-pres. Mt. Allison Ladies' Coll., Sackville, N.B., Canada.

BAKER, Helen Bartlett, 140 W. Eighty-seventh St., Chicago, Ill.

Teacher; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '89. Teacher Girls' Collegiate School, 1884-86; Female Acad., Salem, N.C., 1889-90; Grant Collegiate Inst., Chicago, 1890-94; the Misses Ely's School, 1894-1901; Horace Mann High School, N.Y. City, since 1901.

BAKER, Hettie Gray, 280 Wethersfield Av., Hartford, Conn.

Librarian, photoplay writer; b. Hartford, Conn., July 12, 1881; dau. Josiah Q. and Lizzie A. (Chipman) Baker; ed. Hartford public high school, special course at Simmons Coll., Boston. Engaged at Hartford Public Library, 1900-03; private sec. School for Social Workers, Boston, 1904-07; librarian Hartford Bar Library, 1907—. Favors woman suffrage. Regular contributor of photoplays to leading licensed film manufacturers; has written various special articles on theatrical subjects for magazines. Unitarian. Republican. Mem. Municipal Art Soc. of Hartford; Drama League of Hartford. Recreations: Golf, attending theatre and moving picture shows.

BAKER, Josephine Turck (Mrs. Frederick Sherman Baker), Evanston, Ill.

Editor, author, playwright; b. Milwaukee, Wis.; dau. J. Byron and Sarah Turck; ed. Milwaukee, Wis.; Chicago, Boston; grad. Milwaukee-Downer Coll.; m. Chicago, 1899, Frederick Sherman Baker; children: Beatrice, Roschen, Sherman. Specialist on English; editor of Correct English, the only magazine of the kind in the world. Her Grammar has been translated into Japanese by the Japanese and magazine into German by publishers in Germany. Author: Correct English—A Complete Grammar; The Correct Word—How To Use It; The Literary Workshop; Art of Conversation; Art of Social Letter-Writing; Correct Business Letter-Writing; How Can I Increase My Vocabulary? Ten Thousand Words—How to Pronounce Them; The Correct Preposition—How to Use It; Correct English in the Home; Correct English in the School. Mem. Ill. Woman's Press Club. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Julia Wetherill (Mrs. Marion Albert Baker), 1330 Tenth St., New Orleans, La.

Editor; b. Woodville, Miss., 1858; dau. Thomas and Sarah Eliza (Smith) Wetherill (daughter of Chief Justice Cotesworth Pinckney Smith); ed. Philadelphia, Pa.; m. 1886, Marion Albert Baker, editor of New Orleans Times-Democrat. Author: The Wandering Joy. Episcopalian. Has been for many years literary editorial writer on the Times-Democrat, in addition to other work on the paper.

BAKER, Lennie Van Holland (Mrs. Mills P. Baker, Jr.), 512 Bedford Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Physician; b. Brooklyn, May 25, 1851; dau James and Eliza Jane (Harned) Van Holland; ed. public school, Brooklyn, N.Y. Med. Coll. and Hospital for Women, M.D. 1882 (received gold medal, class '82); m. June 20, 1877, Mills P. Baker Jr.; daughter: Ella Mills Baker, died in infancy Mem. Am. Inst, of Homeopathy, N.Y. State Homeo. Soc., King's Co. Homeo. Med. Soc. Life mem. Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage, N.Y. State Ass'n, King's County Ass'n, 4th Assembly Dist. Ass'n, the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Ass'n, the Political Equality Ass'n, Women's Political Union, Chiropean Club. Hon. pres. of Staff of Memorial Hospital for Women and Children. Universalist. Mem. All Souls' Universalist Church, Flatbush, N.Y. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Louise Regina, Germantown, Md.

Writer; b. New Windsor, Md.; dau. Andrew Hull and Anna J. (Boland) Baker; home and academic education. Contributor of stories and verse to juvenile magazines. Author of books for children: Cis Martin; Sunbeams and Moonbeams; Rosy Posy; Mrs. Pinner's Little Girl; The Old Monday Farm; Betty Porter.

BAKER, Mabel Kimball (Mrs. Walter D. Baker), Hyannis, Mass.

Born Boxford, Mass., Sept. 20, 1871; dau. Wm. H. and Sarah E. Kimball; ed. Holten High School (Danvers, Mass.), State Normal School (Salem), State Normal School (Hyannis), special work; m. Danvers, Sept. 11, 1907, Walter Durell Baker of Hyannis, Mass. With her husband is equal partner in the Colonial Candle Co., Hyannis, Mass.; supervises dipping and packing of the thousands of hand-dipped Bayberry Candles, now being sent all over the country. Taught two years in Los Angeles; principal Primary Dep't, Hyannis Training School, later Supervisor industrial work, Hyannis Normal and Training School, now head of Basketry and Weaving Dep't, Hyannis Normal School; one of foremost basketry teachers in this country. Mem. Library Ass'n; sec. Town Committee of Conservation. Contributes articles for magazines, mostly on Basketry and Primary Hand Work. Pres. Hyannis Woman's Club, 1909-12; mem. Shakespeare Club. Congregationalist; assistant supt. and teacher in Sunday school. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Marian Una Strong (Mrs. Marcus Baker), 1905 Sixteenth St., Washington, D.C.

Born in Michigan; grad. Univ. of Mich., A.B. '94; graduate scholar in Greek, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1894-95; m. Kalamazoo, Mich., May, 1899, Marcus Baker, LL.B. (distinguished cartographer; died Dec. 12, 1903). Instructor in Greek and Latin, Lake Erie Sem., Painesville, Ohio, 1895-97; instructor in Latin, Emma Willard School, Troy, N.Y., 1897-99, and in Miss Madeira's School for Girls, Washington, D.C, 1906-08; teacher of Latin, Cathedral High School, Washington, D.C, since 1910.

BAKER, S. Josephine, M.D., 33 West 96th St. (Office, Department of Health, Centre and Walker Sts.), N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1873; dau. O. D. M. Baker and Jennie Harwood Brown Baker; ed. private schools, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '98. Appointed medical inspector, N.Y. City Dep't of Health, 1901; assistant to Commissioner of Health, 1907-08; director Division of Child Hygiene, organized the first Division of Child Hygiene under municipal control; only woman who holds an executive position in the N.Y. City Government. Interested in all matters pertaining to civic betterment and child welfare. Author: The Principles of the Reduction of Infant Mortality; The Value of the Municipal Control of Child Hygiene; Schools for Midwives; Little Mothers' Leagues; and many others. Mem. D.A.R., College Women's Club, Med. Ass'n N.Y. County and State Med. Socs., Nat. School Hygiene Ass'n, Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Collegiate Equal Suffrage League, Equal Franchise Soc,, Woman's Political Union.


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70 BAKER, Sarah Pfeil (Mrs. Elisha Brown Baker), 221 Prospect St., Herkimer, N.Y.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 15, 1882; dau. Philip M. and Elizabeth (Wagner) Pfeil; ed. Pittsburgh public schools and high school; Pa. Coll. for Women, A.B.; m. Pittsburgh, Nov. 28, 1906, Elisha Brown Baker. Methodist. Mem. College Woman's Club, Schenectady, N.Y.; Progressive Literary Club, Herkimer, N.Y. Before marriage was actively engaged in settlement work in Pittsburgh.

BAKER, Virginia, Warren, R. I.

Teacher and author; b. Warren, R.I.; dau. William Loughead and Emmeline (Maxwell) Baker; ed. at home by private teachers. Teacher in the public schools of Warren. R.I. Writer of numerous historical sketches published in various magazines. Especially interested in study of thr Colonial and Revolutionary periods of R.I. history. Author: History of Warren, R.I., in the War of the Revolution, 1776-1783; Massasoit's Town, Sowame in Pokanoket. Also writer of poems and of fiction dealing with New England life, past and present; also stories and serials for juveniles as well as contributions to several educational magazines.

BALBACH, Julia Anna (Mrs. Edward Balbach), Bernardsville, N.J.

Born Newark, N.J., Feb. 23, 1852; dau. Peter F. and Anna B. (Miltz) Nenninger; ed. at home by tutors, at Moravian Sem., Bethlehem, Pa., also Dulon's School in N.Y. (mem. Alumnae, Bethlehem Sem.); m. Jan. 21, 1869, Edward Balbach; one daughter: Julia Anna Marguerite, b. Apr. 20, 1870. For years society leader in Newark, N.J.; interested in philanthropic societies until removed to N.Y. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Cupid Intelligent, 1909 (for club propaganda); Woman's Proper Status as Citizen, 1902; wrote a kindergarten paper for the New Century Study Circle (later published in The Club Woman), 1904, which did good work in attracting attention to the need of kindergartens, public institutions and playgrounds. Episcopalian. Recreations: Music, landscape gardening. Clubs: N.Y. Woman's Press, Minerva, Rubinstein, Phalo, West End Republican, New Yorkers, Dixie, Rainy Day.

BALCH, Emily Greene, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Economist; b. Jamaica Plain, Mass.; dau. Francis Vergnies and Ellen M. (Noyes) Balch; ed. Miss Ireland's and other private schools, Bryn Mawr Coll., B. A. '89 (European scholar of that year) Connected with opening season of Denison House (college settlement), Boston, Mass., 1892-93; mem. Municipal Board of Trustees for Children (in charge of pauper and neglected children, truants and juvenile offenders) 1897-98; ass't in economics, 1896-97, instructor, 1897-1903, assoc. prof. of economics and sociology since 1903, Wellesley Coll. Mem. Mass. State Commission on Industrial Education, 1908-09. Wrote monograph: Public Assistants of the Poor in France, 1893; Our Slavic Fellow Citizens, 1910. Interested in social reform. Favors woman suffrage. Formerly vice-pres. Boston Equal Suffrage League for Good Government. Unitarian. Acting pres. Boston Women's Trade Union League. Recreations: Travel, books. Mem. College Club of Boston.

BALCH, Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane (Mrs. Edwin Swift Balch, 311 S. Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Towanda, Pa.; dau. James and Mary (Overton) Macfarlane; ed. Vassar Coll. (art school diploma); m. Towanda, Pa., Oct. 5, 1904, Edwin Swift Balch. Mem. of Associate Com. of Women of Pa. Museum and School of Industrial Art; director Morris Refuge Ass'n. Studied painting in Paris at Académie Julian, with Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury; also with Ferdinand Humbert. Exhibited several times at Paris Salons, viz.: Société des Artistes Français (Champs Elysées) and Société Nationale des Beaux Arts (Champ de Mars), also at Paris Exposition of 1900. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, D.A.R., Acorn Club, Plastic Club, Contemporary Club.

BALCH, Marion Casares, Prince St., Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Bacteriologist; ed. Miss Folsom's School, Boston, Mass.; Miss Florence Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. 1902. Teacher of Latin and science, 1904-05, and of science, 1905-07, in St. Agnes' School, Albany, N.Y. Laboratory worker in bacteriology. Harvard Med. School, since 1910.

BALDING, Martha Joab (Mrs. Robert Hollister Balding), 2416 N. Tenth St., Kansas City, Kan.

Born Pomeroy, 0.; dau. William and Nancy (Crow) Joab; ed. Terre Haute (Ind.) High School; studied art with John Phillips (portrait painter), Chicago; Carl Hecker Art School, N.Y. City, and with Madame LaPrince, Jumel Mansion, N.Y. City; m. Terre Haute, Ind., Robert Hollister Balding (died Feb. 28, 1910). Society woman. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. of State and Nat. Suffrage Ass'n; has been very active in the work, but has declined various offices; managed campaign in Miami Co., Kan., 1892. Progressive. Mem. Board of Trustees of Public Library, Paola, Kan., ten years; pres. Pleasant Hour Club, and founded the Up-to-Date Club, 1897; mem. Federation of Clubs of Topeka and vicinity. State and Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs, Shakespeare Club and prominent in founding the Ceramic Club of Topeka, 1900-01, mem. History Club and Council of Clubs, Kansas City, Kan. (chairman of art dep't three years); mem. Athenaeum, Kansas City, Mo; director of art dep't and extension class for study of dramatic art (mem. board of managers). Recreations: Riding and driving.

BALDWIN, Adele Clagett (Mrs. Newland Baldwin), Manila, P.I.

Born Washington, D.C., Aug. 20, 1885; dau. Howard Clare and Mary (Du Hamel) Clagett; ed. Mount de Sales Acad, of Visitation, Baltimore, Md., and in Paris, France; m. Manila, P.I., May 21, 1910, Newland Baldwin; one son: Barry Baldwin, b. June 4, 1911. Against woman suffrage. Catholic.

BALDWIN, Alice Mary, "High Croft," Acworth, N.H.

Teacher; grad. Cornell Univ., A.B. 1900, A.M. '02; graduate student, Sorbonne, Paris, 1902; Columbia Univ., 1902-03; Bryn Mawr, 1908-09. Teacher of languages, Fargo (N.Dak.) Coll., 1903-05; teacher of German, history and English, Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., since 1905.

BALDWIN, Clara Frances, 605 Portland Av., St. Paul, Minn.

Librarian; b. Lake City, Minn., Mar. 9, 1871; dau. Benjamin C. and Ann C. (Atkinson) Baldwin; grad. St. Paul public schools, '87; Univ. of Minn., B.L. '92 (Delta Gamma). Ass't Minneapolis Public Library, 1892-99; sec. Minn. Public Library Commission, 1900—. Mem. Minn. Alumni Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, American Library Ass'n, Minnesota Library Ass'n, State Art Soc., Women's Civic League, Twin City Library Club. Presbyterian.

BALDWIN, Mrs. Clara Waters, Lewis Apartments, Muskegon, Mich.

Born Portland, Me.; dau. William H. and Belle Jane (Quindlin) Waters; ed. public schools of Springfield, Mass.; grad. High and Normal schools of Newark, N.J.; grad. (gold medal) Chicago Musical Coll.; m. Chicago, 1878, Byron Baldwin. Teacher of music. Has been an organist in Mich. Av. M.E. Church in Chicago, and Grace M.E. Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. Cor. sec of Mich. State Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1911-13; rec. sec. of Y.W.C.A. (charter mem.), Muskegon, Mich.; rec. sec. Visiting Nurse Ass'n of Muskegon, Mich. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Art Ass'n of Muskegon, Mich.; ex-pres. Muskegon Woman's Club; mem. Travelers' Club of Muskegon.

BALDWIN, Helen, 39 E. 31st St., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Canterbury, Conn., Nov. 14, 1865; dau. Dr. E. and Sarah H. (Mathewson) Baldwin; ed Thayer Acad., Braintree. Mass.; grad. Wellesley Coll., A.B. '88; in Med. Dep't Univ. of Mich,, 1889; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y,


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Rh, M.D. '92. Took graduate study in Johns Hopkins Med. School. Demonstrator of physics, Wellesley Coll., 1888-89; resident physician City Hospital, Philadelphia, 1893; instructor in physiology. Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, 1897; attending physician, N.Y. Infirmary. Author of medical articles.

BALDWIN, Jane North, Vassar Coll., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Physician; b. Keeseville, N.Y., Feb. 10, 1876; dau. Geo. W. and Margaret Jane (Hargraves) Baldwin; ed. Plattsburg High School, Cornell Univ. Med. School; graduate work in Harvard Med. School. Interne N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children; asst physician Vassar Coll. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. State Med. Soc., Woman's Med. Soc. N.Y. State, Woman's Med. Soc. N.Y. City, Dutchess Co. Med. Soc, Stanton Co. Med. Soc. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BALDWIN, Kate M. Shoemaker (Mrs. A. M. Baldwin), Groton, Tompkins Co., N.Y.

Born Belle Center, Blair Co., Pa., 1858; dau. Jasper and Sarah (Dorworth) Shoemaker; ed. private and public schools. Normal and Classical Institute of Muncy, Pa.; National School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia; m. Muncy, Pa., Mar. 17, 1880, Alva Morse Baldwin, M.D.; children: Kenneth Morse, b. 1881; Manning Dorworth, b. 1885 (died 1893). Sec. and treas. Groton branch of the Woman's Auxiliary (to the Board of Missions of Protestant Episcopal Church); elected to serve on Board of Education, 1910-13; elected sec. of board, 1911. Mem. Cayuga Chapter D.A.R.; eligible to membership in the National Soc. of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. Mem. Political Equality Club, Columbian Club (literary and social, founder in 1892). Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; pres. of Suffrage Club.

BALDWIN, Myra Rush (Mrs. Edgar M. Baldwin), Fairmount, Ind.

Newspaper worker; b. Fairmount, Ind., July 4, 1865; dau. Nixon and Louise (Winslow) Rush; grad. Fairmount Acad.; student at Earlham Coll. (both Friends institutions); m. Aug. 23, 1887, Edgar M. Baldwin; one son: Mark Baldwin. Associated with husband in country newspaper work, reporter city newspapers, special article and short story writer. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Friends Church. Mem. Marion Morning Musical Club.

BALDWIN, Nellie Elizabeth (Mrs. Edward Lewis Baldwin), 20 Market St., San Francisco, Cal.

Club woman; b. Muskegon, Mich.; dau. Robert Burnside and Mary Graham (Miller) Patterson; ed. Ludington (Mich.) High School; m. 1887, Edward Lewis Baldwin; children: Robert, Marion D. 'Taught in Ludington schools five years; now conducting drug business in San Francisco. Pres. California Club, 1908-10, State chairman of Civics in Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, 1906-08; vice-chairman Civics Com. Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, 1911-12. Now State chairman School Patrons Com. Nat. Educational Ass'n; chairman Probation Com. Juvenile Court of San Francisco. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. California Club, Juvenile Protective Ass'n.

BALDWIN, Ruth Standish (Mrs. William H. Baldwin), Washington, Conn., and 281 Fourth Av., N.Y. City.

Born Springfield, Mass., Dec. 5, 1865; dau. Samuel Bowles and Mary (Dwight) (Schermerhorn); grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '87; m. Springfield, Mass., Oct. 30, 1889, William H. Baldwin, Jr.; children: Ruth, Standish and William H. Mem. Board of Trustees of Smith Coll., 1906-12, as representative of Alumnae Ass'n; elected permanent mem. of board Feb., 1912. Vice-pres. N.Y. Probation Ass'n; vice-pres. Nat. League on Urban Conditions among Negroes; mem. Committee of Fourteen of N.Y. City, Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Ass'n Coll. Alumnae, Nat. Housing Ass'n, Nat. Municipal League, Nat. Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People; mem. Coll. Equal Suffrage League of N.Y. Mem. of N.Y. Ethical Soc. Mem. Woman's Municipal League of N.Y., Woman's Trade Union League of N.Y., Am. Inst, of Criminal Law and Criminology, Woman's Univ. Club of N.Y., Mayflower Club of Boston.

BALENTINE, Mary Pollok Nimmo (Mrs. David C. Balentine), 922 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Born Ayrshire, Scotland; dau. Claude and Mary (Madden) Nimmo; ed. Presbyterian Sem., Springfield, O.; m. Washington, D.C, Feb. 18, 1896, David C. Balentine. Journalist, writer of verses. Favors woman suffrage. Interested in prison reform, domestic science and civic betterment. Author: Book on Washington; Official Etiquette, etc. Presbyterian. Recreation: Auction bridge.

BALL, Alice Worthington, 213 W. Monument St., Baltimore, Md.

Painter; b. Boston, Mass.; dau. Joshua Dorsey and Emily A (Cole) Ball; ed. Boston and Paris; exhibited for six years in Paris Salon and all the important exhibitions in this country. Has pictures In several collections. Episcopalian. Mem. Maryland Soc. Colonial Dames, Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore Water Color Club, Copley Soc. of Boston. Officer of the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore. Recreation: golf, motoring, driving.

BALL, Bertha Crosley (Mrs. Edmund Burke Ball), Minnetrista Boulevard, Muncie, Ind.

Born Terre Haute, Ind.; dau. Rev. Marion Crosley, D.D., and M. Adella (Swift) Crosley; ed. Springfield High School, Springfield, Mass., and in Vassar Coll., A.B.; m. Oct. 7, 1903, Edmund Burke Ball; children: Edmund Ferdinand, Clinton Crosley, Adella. Pres. Matinee Musical; mem. Art League; director of Y.W.C.A. and Orphans' Home. Favors woman suffrage. Universalist. Recreations: Golf, tennis. Mem. Conversation Club, Indiana Vassar Club.

BALL, Caroline Peddle (Mrs. Bertrand E. Ball), Westfield, N.J.

Sculptor; b. Terre Haute, Ind., Nov., 1869; dau, Charles Rugan and Mary E. (Ball) Peddle; ed. public schools in Terre Haute, Art Students' League of New York; m. New York, 1902, Bertrand Emery Ball; one daughter: Mary Aseneth Ball. Executed Victory in quadriga on U.S. building at Paris Exposition, 1900; Mary Lawrence Eliman Memorial, Flushing, L.I.; Memorial Covels, Grace Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. Recreations: Gardening, propagating dwarf fruit trees. Favors woman suffrage.

BALL, Ida M. (Mrs. J. Frank Ball), 1019 Park Place, Wilmington, Del.

Born Wilmington, Del., 1858; dau. Benjamin F. and Rachel A. (Strahorn) Perkins; ed. Wilmington High School and Cornell Univ.; m. Wilmington, Del., Oct. 13, 1881, J. Frank Ball; children: Jean Ross (deceased), Beatrice (deceased), Ethel, Dorothy. Mem. Board of Lady Managers World's Columbian Commission, 1892-93; Com. on Awards Board of Lady Managers; chairman Com. to Collect and Collate Religious, Philanthropic and Educational Departments Board of Lady Managers; representative from Delaware to Atlanta Exposition. Mem. Daughters of 1812, Territorial Com., Del., Md. and Pa. of the Y.W.C.A.; chairman Wilson and Marshall Organization of Del., Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of the Synod of Baltimore, Nat. Geographic Soc., Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children; treas. Wilmington Y.W.C.A.; mem. New Century Club. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage.

BALL, Isabel Worrell (Mrs. Henry Martyn Ball), 3932 Illinois Av., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Newspaper woman; b. Hennepin, Ill.; dau. James Purcell and Elizabeth (McClung) Worrell; ed. public school and college, Henry, Ill.; State Normal School, Emporia, Kan.; m. Larned, Kan., 1877, Henry Martyn Ball; one daughter: Hazel Winifred, b. 1883 (died 1887). Newspaper woman, Washington correspondent; only woman ever admitted to press galleries of Congress; was there 10 years. Associate editor of National Tribune, the organ of the patriotic societies of the


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72. Nat. senior vice-pres. (former pres.) and mem. Nat. Exec. Board Woman's Relief Corps; Interested particularly in education, teaching love of the flag and of country. Uses in illustrating her flag addresses 45 Colonial flags, which she made herself, and 35 of the special flags of the United States. Has spoken on this subject in all the large cities of the country and appeared before Congress many times in interest of bill to prevent desecration of the flag. Against woman suffrage. Author of short stories of Western life, syndicated in the larger Eastern Sunday papers. Presbyterian (Scotch-Irish descent). Mem. Ladies of the G.A.R., Daughters of Union Veterans. Recreations: Horseback riding, hunting, singing, chess. Has pioneered in Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona.

BALL, Minnie Warner (Mrs. B. B. Ball), Midland, Mich.

Born Pulaski, N.Y., Aug. 26, 1865; dau. Stephen R. and Marion (Gould) Warner; ed. public schools of Saginaw, Mich.; m. Sable, Mich., Jan. 2, 1890, Benjamin B. Ball; one daughter: Marian. Interested in Sabbath-school, Missionary Soc, Mission Sabbath-school and special work with boys in Sunday-school for 17 years; sec. Library Ass'n nine years; pres. two years, now chairman. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Republican. Recreation: Reading. Mem. Monday Club, for social and mutual improvement; chairman Waterways Com., Mich. State Fed. Women's Clubs.

BALL, Nellie Boeck (Mrs. David Clifton Ball), 622 W. 113th St., N.Y. City.

Born St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 4, 1867; dau. Adam and Mary Elizabeth (Kriechbaum) Boeck; ed. Mary Institute, St. Louis, Mo.; Conservatory of Music, St. Louis School of Fine Arts; m. St. Louis, Mo., Jan., 1892, David Clifton Ball; one son: David Spencer Ball, b. Oct. 18, 1892. Treasurer of Sorosis; mem. Drama and Art Committee of Sorosis. Unitarian. Mem. Sorosis, Sorosis Carol Club, Browning Soc. Recreation: Tramping and canoeing in Adirondacks (summer home: Raquette Lake, N.Y.). Favors woman suffrage.

BALL, Sylvia Ernestine, 337 Hickory St., Warren, Pa.

Teacher; b. Warren, Pa., Aug. 8, 1883; dau. George and Mary Ball; ed. Warren public schools, Warren High School, Cornell Univ. A.B., studied one summer abroad (mem. Delta Gamma). Taught in public school one year, grammar school one year; high school, English and French, four years. Mem. High School Orchestra Conservatory Piano Quartet. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Natural Science Soc., Warren Co. Educational Soc, State Educational Soc, State Teachers League. Recreations: Golf, boating, walking. Mem. Warren Shakespeare Club.

BALLAGH, Josephine Jackson (Mrs. James Curtis Ballagh), 415 Hawthorne Road, Roland Park, Baltimore, Md.

Teacher; b Maryland; ed. St. Timothy's School, Catonsville, Md.; student Bryn Mawr Coll., 1889-91: m. Baltimore, Md., 1897, James Curtis Ballagh. Teacher of Latin and English, St. Timothy's School, Catonsville, Md., 1886-89; Wilford School, Baltimore, 1893-94; teacher of Latin in Edgeworth School, Baltimore, 1895-98; Misses Hall's School, Baltimore, 1903-04; Southern Home School, Baltimore, 1894-1904.

BALLANCE, Harriet N., 256 Randolph Av., Peoria, Ill.

Physician; b. Peoria, Ill.; grad. Vassar, A.B. '98; med. dep't Northwestern Univ., Chicago, M.D. '01. Since medical graduation engaged in practice as physician at Peoria, Ill.

BALLARD, Anna, 648 Fifty-seventh St., Oakland. Cal.

Journalist, lecturer, teacher; b. Athol, Worcester Co., Mass., Oct. 12, 1828; dau. Elijah and Mary (Cutting) Ballard; ed. in collegiate course at Mission Inst., Quincy, Ill., and by tutors in Boston. Teacher of singing, Vassar Coll., 1869-72; miscellaneous daily reporter of N.Y. Sun; its camp-meeting correspondent and writer of Bermuda letters, etc, 1872-79, except two years in Europe. In Ceylon, India, and Burma, 1885-94; correspondent of American newspapers and work for English Oriental publications; in 1895 and thereafter Woman's Club lecturer, etc. Ardent for equal suffrage and for equality in every sort of opportunities, their use to be limited by personal capacity. Author of Fifteen Vocalizes for the Singing Student (published by Ditson); contributor to various publications. Life mem. Am. Bible Soc; life mem. and only woman mem. N.Y. Press Club; hon. mem. Ill. Woman's Press Ass'n.

BALLARD, Frances Anne Keay (Mrs. Thomas P. Ballard). The Headlands, Painesville, O.

Lawyer before marriage; b. Bridgewater, Mass., 1878; dau. Nathaniel Seaver and Anna C. (Hyde) Keay; ed. The Misses Case and Hallowell School, Philadelphia; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '99; Univ. of Pa., LL.B. '02; m. Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1907, Thomas P. Ballard; one son: Hyde Whitcomb Ballard, b. 1909. Practising lawyer, Philadelphia, 1902-07. Since 1909 chief interest has been in social studies and establishing a suburban home, near Cleveland, on the shore of Lake Erie. Attorney Legal Aid Soc. of Philadelphia; attorney Seaman's Branch Legal Aid Soc of Philadelphia; mem. ward com. of City, Party, Philadelphia; mem. Educational School Board, Philadelphia. Has published articles on Seamen in Charities and The Commons. Mem. D. R., 1898-1907. Mem. College Club of Cleveland. Recreation: Gardening. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage League; mem. Exec. Com. Cleveland Woman's Suffrage Party, 1911-12.

BALLOU, Susan Ann (Mrs. Henry L. Ballou), 74 Harris Av., Woonsocket, R.I.

Born Woonsocket, R.I., Dec. 9, 1844; dau. Willis and Cyrena (Thayer) Cook; grad. Lowell Sem., Auburndale, Mass., 1864; m. Woonsocket, R.I., Oct. 6, 1868, Henry L. Ballou; children: Marie Louise, Roland Hunnewell. Mem. of Woonsocket School Com. for 16 years. Connected with Universalist Mission Circle, Woonsocket, R.I.; director of State branch Universalist Mission; director State Charities and Corrections; pres. Woonsocket Children's Home; director Ballou Home for Aged; ex-State Regent State D.A.R.; ex-State Pres. of R.I. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem, R.I. Council of Women, R.I. Women's Club, Woonsocket Women's Club, Fortnightly, Woonsocket Olla Podrida. Universalist. Against woman suffrage.

BALMER, Helen Pratt (Mrs. Thomas Balmer), 1327 Hollywood Av., Chicago, Ill.

Writer; b. St. Louis, Mo.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '76; Cincinnati Women's Coll., '79; Northwestern Univ., A.M. '02; m. Sept. 23, 1880, Thomas Balmer. Author: Bellevue Sketches; contributor to various magazines. Directress Chicago Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BAMFORD, Mary Ellen, 1235 E. 15th St., Oakland, Cal.

Author; b. Healdsburg, Cal., Dec. 10, 1857; dau. Dr. William and Cornelia Elizabeth (Rand) Bamford (father was pioneer physician who went across the plains in the early '50s, and her mother, a native of New Hampshire, went to California, 1854-55, by long voyage around Cape Horn); ed. in public and high schools of Oakland, Cal.; was four years assistant in Oakland Free Public Library. North California sec. Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Soc. of West. Prohibitionist (voter). Author: Up and Down the Brooks; My Land and Water Friends; The Look-About Club; Second Year of the Look-About Club; Her Twenty Heathen; In Editha's Days; Jessie's Three Resolutions; Three Roman Girls; Miss Millie's Trying; Father Lambert's Family; A Piece of Kitty Hunter's Life; Thoughts of My Dumb Neighbors; Out of the Triangle (first published serially); Ti; The Denby Children at the Fair; Eleanor and I; Marie's Story; Talks by Queer Folks; Janet and Her Father; Number One or Number Two; pamphlet on Burma: The Work and the Workers, and much writing for the


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BANCKER, Mary Clark, 134 W. Seventy-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Teacher Brearley School; b. Jackson, Mich.; dau. Enoch and Lucy White (Clark) Bancker; ed. Wellesley Coll., Univ. of Mich., Ph.B. '91; Ph.M. '92; Chicago Univ., '97; Columbia Univ., A.M. '06; attended Oxford Univ. (lectures), England, 1905. Was instructor of History, Oxford (Ohio) Coll.; head of English dep't, Stanley Hall, Minneapolis, 1897-1904; head mistress Miss Caton's and Miss Wilson's School, N.Y. City, 1906-08; instructor Brearley School since 1908. Owner and manager Green Gables Inn, Magnolia, Mass., 1910-12. Mem. Colonial Dames in State of New York, the College Club, Boston; Nat. Geographic Soc. Episcopalian.

BANCKER, Mary Whitaker (Mrs. G. Bancker), 339 W. Twenty-third St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Waverly, N.Y.; dau. James and Lucinda M. (Orser) Whitaker; ed. Waverly Academy; m. June 14, 1900, Gerard Bancker. Eight years on the regular staff of N.Y. Tribune; two years at Washington for N.Y. World; syndicate writer for ten papers. Director N.Y. City Fed. Hotel for Working Girls, Patriotic Women of America. Favors woman suffrage; vice-leader of Seventh Assembly Dist. Woman Suffrage Party, N.Y. City. Episcopalian. Mem. Soc. of N.Y. State Women, Am. Criterion Club, N.Y.; N.Y. Theatre Club, James Monroe Relief Corps, Government Club, Current Events Club, Post Parliament.

BANCROFT, Eleanor Stow, Rockefeller Inst. for Medical Research, N.Y. City.

Physician; b. California, June 2, 1874; dau. James M. and Alice (Glass) Stow; ed. Cal. public schools, State Normal, San Jose, Medical Dept. Univ. of California, 1896; mem. Alpha Epsilon Iota; m. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 31, 1900, Frank W. Bancroft; children; Frances S., James S., Martin F. Lecturer in hygiene and medical examiner to women in Univ. of Calif., 1904-12.

BANCROFT, Emma Cooper (Mrs. William Poole Bancroft), Wilmington, Del.

Daughter James and Lucy (Middleton) Cooper; ed. Moses Brown School, Providence, R.L; m. Sharon Hill, Pa., Nov. 1, 1876, William Poole Bancroft; children: Sarah Bancroft Clark (Mrs. Roger Clark, England), Lucy Bancroft Gillett (Mrs. Henry T. Gillett, England). Mem. Soc. of Friends.

BANCROFT, Jessie Hubbell, 500 Park Av., N.Y. City.

Assistant Director Physical Training, public schools of N.Y. City; b. Winona, Minn., Dec. 20, 1867; dau. Edward Hall and Susan M. (Hubbell) Bancroft; ed. State Normal School, Winona, Minn.; Minneapolis School of Physical Training, 1889; Harvard Summer School of Physical Training; honorary diploma, Sargent Normal School of Physical Education, Cambridge, Mass. Director physical training public schools of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1893-1904; assistant director physical training, public schools of Greater N.Y., 1904. Lecturer physical training, summer session, Columbia Univ., 1901-06; Univ. of Utah, 1908. Chairman Section of Physical Training, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1893-98. Author: School Gymnastics, Freehand; School Gymnastics with Light Apparatus; Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium; Athletics for Girls; The Posture of Children, with its Home Hygiene and New Efficiency Methods for School Training; articles on Games and Physical Training in Encyclopedia Americana, and many miscellaneous articles. Protestant. Mem. and ex-secretary Am. Physical Educators' Ass'n; mem. A.A.A.S., Nat. Education Ass'n. Physical Education Soc. of N.Y. City and Vicinity; Public Education Ass'n N.Y. City. Recreations: Outdoor life; tramping, mountain climbing, horseback riding. Favors woman suffrage.

BANCROFT, Margaret Healy (Mrs. Edgar Addison Bancroft), 77 Cedar St., Chicago, Ill.

Born Boston, Mass.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '80; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 18, 1896, Edgar Addison Bancroft (now general counsel Internat. Harvester Co.). Was engaged in executive work with the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., before marriage. Mem. Woman's Club of Chicago, Chicago Literary Club.

BANDY, Mary Albertson (Mrs. George A. Bandy), Hawarden, Iowa.

Club president; b. Cook's Valley, Minn., Mar. 22, 1874; dau. William and Eliza (Hancock) Albertson; ed. Volga, S. Dak.; m. Volga, S. Dak., Mar. 28, 1900, George A. Bandy; children: Dorothy Edna, William Arthur and Mary Elizabeth. Was nine years a school teacher prior to marriage. Presbyterian in name. New Thought in faith; mem. Woman's Missionary Soc. Mem. Twentieth Century Club; pres. Mother's Club.

BANG, Mary Phillips (Mrs. William F. Bang), 710 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn.

Born Mar. 7, 1849; dau. William and Sallie K. (Hooper) Phillips; grad. Packer Collegiate Inst., '66; one year at Nashville Female Acad.; m. Nashville, Tenn., June 10, 1869, William F. Bang; children: Nellie, Mary, Frances, Elizabeth, Beulah, Lillian, Louise, Laura, William. Has been active in Sunday-school, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc.; active mem. W.C.T.U. 25 years. Conducted a W.C.T.U. column (weekly) in Nashville, Tenn., five years. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage League. Has written many articles for press in behalf of various reforms. Methodist. Pres. East Nashville W.C.T.U.; cor. sec. of State W.C.T.U.; mem. Exec. Board of Travelers' Aid Soc. Recreations: Gardening. Interested in reform and philanthropic work; appointed delegate to Southern Sociological Conference at Atlanta, Ga. Directly instrumental in getting the age of consent for girls in Tennessee raised from 10 to 16 years in 1895.

BANKS, Charlotte Mooney (Mrs. Charles E. Banks), Falls City, Neb.

Teacher of voice, choral director; b. New Albany, Ind., 1847; dau. William and Charlotte (Henry) Mooney (mother of the Patrick Henry family); ed. public and private schools, Keokuk, Iowa, and Boston, Mass.; musical education in Boston; m. Chariton, Iowa, 1874, Charles Edwin Banks; children: Lilian Carrol, also Edwin H. (adopted in 1882). Was soloist for the old celebrated Mendelsohn Quintette Club at Boston, 1869-72. Contributor of short stories and poems for various magazines and papers; has written articles on subjects of the day, such as Rights of the Child, pronunciations in singing; wrote daily descriptive articles of the World's Jubilee, 1872, and a series of music letters in the Peoria Saturday Evening Call, 1879-80. Mem. of Library Board; conductor Falls City Chorus; pres. Missionary and Aid Soc.; mem. Sorosis Club; brought about the organization of the Falls City Fed. of Women's Clubs Recreations: Recitals, music entertainments. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage; was active mem. in Montana.

BANKS, Elizabeth, care of Lyceum Club, 128 Piccadilly, London, England.

Journalist, author; b. Trenton, N.J.; dau. John and Sarah (Briston) Banks; ed. Milwaukee-Downer Coll., Milwaukee. Began journalism in St. Paul; was sec. to Am. Minister to Peru; lived mostly in London since 1894; writes under own name and under nom-de-plume of "Mary Mortimer Maxwell," also "Enid" on London Referee. Works with various societies for protection of children and animals. Author: In Cap and Apron; Campaigns of Curiosity; The Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl; The Mystery of Frances Farrington (novel); The Luck of the Black Cat (short stories). Mem. Inst, of Journalists, Incorporated Soc. of Authors, Soc. of Women Journalists. Club: Lyceum. Recreations: Playing with children, dogs and kittens. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Women Writers' Suffrage League, London.


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74 BANKS, Florence S. Woolley (Mrs. William Edgar Banks), 281 Ryerson St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 23, 1853; dau. Milton and Hannah (Chivney) Woolley (descendant in tenth generation from Emanuel and Elizabeth Woolley, Quakers, who settled at Providence, R.I., in 1662); ed. in private school and academies; grad. Bryant and Stratton Business College; Pratt Inst.; m. Brooklyn, Dec. 25, 1878, William Edgar Banks; children; Ursula Woolley (Mrs. Albert Shirls Williston), Augustine, Grace Adelaide, David Harold. In 1893 went into business of modiste and exhibited at World's Fair in Chicago, 1893 (not now in business). Republican. Universalist. Joined Order of the Eastern Star 1895 and in 1900 instituted and organized Aurora Grata Chapter No. 207. Appointed right worthy grand pres. Hall and Home Ass'n, O.E.S., 1902. Enlisted as Red Cross nurse for late Spanish War under Clara Barton. Charter mem. George Washington Memorial Ass'n; mem. Am. Theosophical Soc, Brooklyn Woman's Animal Aid Ass'n, Utile Court of Royal and Exalted Order of Amaranth, Pratt Inst. Alumni, Bedford Political Equality League, Seminole Council, Daughters of Pocahontas; Red Hook Grange No. 918 of N.Y. State Patrons of Husbandry. Recreations: Travel and charitable work.

BANNAN, Theresa, 503 Warren St., Syracuse, N.Y.

Physician; b. Bolivar, N.Y., May 5, 1868; dau. Edward and Anastasia (Nolan) Bannan; ed. public schools; Syracuse Univ., Med. Coll. and Women's Med. Coll., N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '90. Engaged in medical practice in Syracuse since 1890. Author: Pioneer Irish of Onondaga, 1911; also of medical papers, newspaper articles and short poems. Obstetrician House of Good Shepherd ten years; public vaccinator four years. Catholic. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. State Med. Soc, Onondaga Co. Med. Soc, City Acad., Woman's Med. Ass'n of N.Y. City and N.Y. State Professional Woman's League. Recreations: Out-door sports, modern languages, reading.

BANNING, Carrie B. Carpenter (Mrs. E. P. Banning), 1148 Kinnaird Av., Fort Wayne, Ind.

Physician; b. Phelps, N.Y., Feb. 11, 1857; dau. Calvin Hasleton and Jennette K. (DeLano) Carpenter; ed. private schools, Univ. of Wisconsin, B.S. (first honor); M.D. Cleveland Univ. of Medicine and Surgery (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Feb. 11, 1879, E. P. Banning; children: Lydia J., Carina C, Florida J., J. Dahlgren. In general practice ten years; now limited to diseases for women and children and obstetrics. Mem. Baptist Church, Woman's Club League, Duodecimo Club, D.A.R., and medical societies. Belongs to Woman Suffrage Party and is chairman of her own ward.

BANNING, Sarah Jane (Mrs. Thomas A. Banning), "Longacres," Robertsdale, Ala.

Pecan orchard cultivator; b. Bowling Green, Ky., July 23, 1854; dau. Elijah M. and Elizabeth Ann (Shields) Hubbard; ed. Highland (Kan.) Coll., A.B., and studied music several years; m. Highland, Kan., Dec. 21, 1875, Thomas A. Banning (now head of Banning & Banning, patent lawyers, Chicago); children: Samuel Walker, b. Nov. 16, 1878; Edith, b. Jan. 11, 1882; Helen Ruth, b. Dec 16, 1883 (died Oct. 15, 1899); Thomas A. Jr., b. April 12, 1886; Sarah Louise, b. June 25, 1888; Dorothea Esther, b. Aug. 11, 1894. Taken by parents in 1856 to Kansas Territory, where they went to assist in a Presbyterian mission to the Iowa and Sock Indians, and her father later became member of the Legislature that made Kansas a State. Went to Chicago on marriage in 1875; was there member of a Presbyterian Church, later removing to South Side and joining Congregational Church; active in missionary societies of both; mem. Corporate Board Y.W.C.A. and active in the early work, also in work of the Industrial School for Girls, Evanston, Ill., and several years member Board of School of Domestic Arts and Sciences and other philanthropic organizations. Since 1905 has conducted and had sole active charge of her estate of "Longacres," an orchard of almost 2,000 choice pecan trees, 500 of which are just coming into bearing, carrying on their culture with the most modern methods, also cultivating oranges, roses, etc Chairman Woman's Com. of Nat. Nut-Growers' Ass'n (vice-pres. from Ill.); mem. Alabama State Horticultural Soc (mem. Exhibition Com.); chairman Alabama Com. on Conservation, Nat. Soc D.A.R.; mem. Nat. Forestry Ass'n, One of founders and now honorary life mem. the Travel Class, Chicago; active for 20 years and now honorary life mem. Arche Club, Chicago; mem. Chicago Woman's Club. Congregationalism Strongly opposed to woman suffrage.

BARBER, Alice Sherman (Mrs. Joel Barber), Lake Geneva, Wis.

Dentist; b. Eagle, Waukesha Co., Wis.; dau. William and Louisa (Parsons) Sherman; ed. State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis., 1878; Univ. of Mich., D.D.S., 1890; m. Lake Geneva, Wis., May 14, 1892, Joel Barber; one daughter: Caroline Elise Barber. Opened office in Lake Geneva, Aug. 1, 1890, and still practicing. Favors woman suffrage.

BARBER, Mary Saxton (Mrs. Marshall C. Barber), 333 S. Market St., Canton, Ohio.

Born Canton, Ohio, Dec 15, 1848; dau. James A. and Katherine (Dewalt) Saxton; ed. Canton private school and at Brook Hall, Media, Pa., 1868; m. Canton, August, 1873, Marshall C. Barber; children: James S., b. Aug. 15, 1874 (died May 15, 1900); Mary, b. Feb., 1876; George S., b. Feb., 1878; John D., b. April, 1879; Ida McK., b. Jan., 1881; William McK., b. Dec, 1882; Katherine D., b. December, 1884. Identified with various religious, social and philanthropic activities. Presbyterian. Mem. Anti-Tuberculosis League, Consumers' League, Playground Ass'n, Associated Charities, Y.W.C.A.; charter mem. of Canton branch D.A.R.

BARBOUR, Amy Louise, Lawrence House, Northampton, Mass.

College instructor; grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '91; scholar in classics, 1896-97, 1899-1900; fellow, 1900-01: Yale, Ph.D. '02. Instructor Elizabeth Coll. (Marietta Coll.), Ohio, 1891-96; teacher of Latin, Hartford (Conn.) High School, 1897-98; Beacon School, 1898-99; instructor in Greek, Smith Coll., since 1901. Mem. Am. Philological Ass'n, Am. Archaeological Institute.

BARBOUR, Anna Maynard (Mrs. William James Barbour), 244 Townsend St., Roxbury, Boston, Mass.

Author, deaconess; b. N.Y. City; dau. Fayette and Jane E. (Cutler) Maynard; m. St. Paul, Minn., 1893, William James Barbour. Author: Told in the Rockies, 1897; That Mainwaring Affair, 1900; The Award of Justice, 1901; At the Time Appointed, 1903; Breakers Ahead, 1906. Episcopalian; deaconess in charge of House of Mercy, Boston, since 1907.

BARBOUR, Anne Violet, care Mrs. T. O. Barbour, Sage College, Ithaca, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Richmond, Va., 1884; dau. Thomas Osmyn and Elizabeth (Hughes) Barbour; ed. the Girls' Classical School of Indianapolis, Ind.; Cornell Univ., B.A. '06, M.A. '09; Alice Freeman Palmer Traveling Fellowship (Wellesley College) in 1911-12; President A. D. White Traveling Fellowship (Cornell Univ.), 1912-13 (Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Phi). Has written articles and reviews in American Historical Review. Mem. Service Club, Indianapolis; American Art Students' Club, Paris, France. Favors woman suffrage.

BARBOUR, Elizabeth Graeme, 1139 Fourth Av., Louisville, Ky.

Teacher; ed. in Kentucky; grad. Central Univ. of Ky., B.S. '88; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '99. Principal of private school, Richmond, Ky., 1889-93; teacher of Latin, English and German in York (Pa.) Collegiate School, 1896-97; English and Latin in Classical School for Girls, N.Y. City, 1897-1900; Riverside School, N.Y. City, 1900-01; Kentucky Home School, Louisville, 1901-02; teacher Latin, Girls' High School, Louisville, 1902-04, and since 1904 head of English dep't to same.


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Rh BARBOUR, Louise, Tudor Hall, 129 W. Twelfth St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Teacher; b. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 23, 1882; dau. Thomas Osmyn and Elizabeth (Hughes) Barbour; ed. Miss Jennie Ellett's School, Richmond, Va,; Girls' Classical School, Indianapolis, 1901, with diploma and college certificate; Cornell Univ., A.B. '04 (Alpha Phi). Taught in Indianapolis public schools, 1904-06; head of mathematics and science in Tudor Hall, Indianapolis, 1906. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Players' Club and Contemporary Club of Indianapolis, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

BARCLAY, Portia Lomax (Mrs. John Anderson Barclay), Wharton, Tex.

Born Haskell, Tex., Aug. 10, 1890; dau. Richard Cooper and Martha (Crites) Lomax; ed. Whitis Preparatory School, Austin, Tex. (diploma); Newcomb Art School, New Orleans, La.; Univ. of Texas; mem. Chi Omega, Sigma Phi; m. Austin, Texas, June 7, 1911, John Anderson Barclay. Methodist. Sunday-school teacher; belongs to two clubs, social, one literary, music and art; Mutual Improvement Club of Wharton, Tex., and of the Civic Improvement League. Methodist. Mem. Home Mission Soc. Mem. Young Ladies' Bridge Club, United Daughters of the Confederacy.

BARCUS, Betty Belle (Mrs. J. S. Barcus), 205 W. Eighty-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Born Indiana; dau. Jerod and Mary E. (Thomas) Tichenor; ed. Univ. of Mich., N.Y. School of Fine and Applied Arts; m. Terre Haute, Ind., 1884, J. S. Barcus. Writer of Prologue in Cosmo Collection and other short poems. Mem. League for Political Education; mem. and third vice-pres. of Woman's Auxiliary to the Rescue Work of the Salvation Army; chairman of one of the permanent committees of the auxiliary; chairman Big Sister Com. in Daughters of Indiana. Mem. Univ. of Mich. Woman's Club, Home Progressive Club, the Alumnae Progressive Club (woman's), Daughters of Indiana in New York, City Fed. of Women's Clubs. Christian Scientist. National Progressive. Mem. Woman Suffrage Party, League for Equal Suffrage.

BAREIS, Grace M., 201 W. 11th Av., Columbus, Ohio.

Educator; b. Canal Winchester, Ohio; dau. George F. and Amanda J. (Schoch) Bareis; grad. Heidelberg Univ., Tiffin, Ohio, A.B. '97 (first honor); graduate student Bryn Mawr Coll., 1897-99; fellow in mathematics Ohio State Univ., 1906-08., Ph.D., 1909. Teacher of mathematics and science, Miss Roney's School. Philadelphia, 1902-06; asst. prof, mathematics Ohio State Univ., 1908—. Mem. Reformed Church. Mem. Mathematical Soc. Columbus Coll. Club; Woman's Club of Ohio State Univ. Favors woman suffrage.

BARKER, Eliza Harris Lawton (Mrs. Richard Jackson Barker), The Outlook, Tiverton, R.I.

Born Tiverton, R.I.; dau. Moses Turner and Elizabeth (Tillinghast) Lawton; ed. Bridgeport School, Tiverton and Vassar Coll.; m. Oct. 9, 1873, Richard Jackson Barker; one son: Richard J. Barker Jr., b. May 22, 1875. Prominent in social life and in educational, patriotic, benevolent and literary work; mem. Board Directors R.I. Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n; mem. Old Colony Historical Soc., Va. Soc. for Preservation of Va. Antiquities. Former vice-pres. Gen. Nat. Soc. D.A.R. (now honorary State Regent R.I. D.A.R.); mem. Colonial Dames; vice-pres. R.I. Inst. of Instruction; chairman Tiverton School Committee; R.I. State Regent Pocahontas Memorial Ass'n; R.I. State pres. Women's Rivers and Harbors Congress of the U.S.; mem. R.I. Sec. for Collegiate Education of Women; mem. Union Hospital Board and of Board of Women's College in Brown Univ. Author: Daughters of Liberty, and magazine and newspaper articles. Owner of very valuable collection of book plates. Mem. Civic Club of Fall River, Woman's Club and The Fortnightly Club; mem. Board Directors Women's Union, Women's Industrial Exchange of Fall River, Mass. Episcopalian.

BARKER, Ellen Blackmar (Mrs. Albert S. Barker), 1716 N St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Author; b. West Springfield, Pa.; dau. John and Rebecca M. (Blackmar) Simmons; ed. Edinboro, Pa.; m. (1st) 1879, Rev. Allen Maxwell (died 1890); (2d) 1894, Rear Admiral Albert S. Barker of the U.S. Navy. Author: The Bishop's Conversion; Three Old Maids in Hawaii; The Way of Fire. Writes under pen-name—"Ellen Blackmar Maxwell."

BARKER, Ellen Frye, 15 W. 109th St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Fall River, Mass., Feb. 4, 1873; dau. Abram T. and Ellen Maria (Frye) Barker; ed. Cook's Collegiate Inst., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Granger Place School, Canandaigua, N.Y., Wells Coll., Class of '90. Willard School, Berlin, Germany. Has lived two years in Europe. a year in California, has traveled all over U.S. and Canada, visited Bermuda. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and made a tour of the West Indies. Author: White Heather; also books of travel, biographies in Library of Inspiration and Achievement; short stories and children's stories. Compiler and publisher of Wells Coll. Calendar, writer of booklets and genealogies. Director Ybrad Mf'g Co. Episcopalian. Mem. Wells Coll. Alumnae; branch sec. Girls' Friendly Soc. of Church of the Ascension. N.Y. City; served as pres. Ladles' Board in Institution for Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes. Recreations: Golf, horseback riding, boating.

BARKER, Emma DeLand Dinsmoor, 201 Maine St., Lawrence, Kan.

Teacher.civil worker; b. Forestville, N.Y., Nov. 9, 1851; dau. Benjamin F. and Harriet (Bowen) DeLand; ed. Ohio Wesleyan Univ.. Delaware, Ohio; m. 1st. Lawrence, Kan., 1878, Frank F. Dinsmoor; 2d. Lawrence, Kan., 1897. George J. Barker; children: Paul Addison Dinsmoor, Kate E. Dinsmoor, Edna F. Dinsmoor Marshall, Frances F. Dinsmoor Storm. Mem. Athenaeum (local society of Ohio Wesleyan Univ.); has been member of School Board of Lawrence; organized Junior Civic League In Lawrence schools; sec. Lawrence Playground Ass'n; pres. Kan. 2d Dist. Federation of Women's Clubs; a director of Kan. State Fed. Women's Clubs; mem. Lawrence City Fed. Women's Clubs; mem. of a committee of Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs; vice-pres. Woman's Kansas Day Club; mem. Douglas Co. Suffrage Ass'n. Presbyterian. Republican (municipal). Pres. of Y.M.C.A. Auxiliary, Social Circle of First Presbyterlan Church; mem. Social Service League, Civic League, Zodiac (literary) and Miercoles (bridge whist) Clubs.

BARKER, E. Nellie, Verona, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Trenton, N.Y.. Nov. 16, 1879; dau. Byron and Anna L. (Perkins) Barker; grad Oneida High School 1897, Cornell Univ. 1902. Taught in Ithaca High School 1906-09; returned for year 1911-1912; appointed to North High School, Syracuse. N.Y., in 1912. Especially interested in biological work. Baptist. Recreations: Tennis, basket ball. Mem. Sennightly Club of Cornell. Favors woman suffrage.

BARKER, Frances Crosby Buffington (Mrs. George Charles Barker), Manila, P.I.

Educator; b. Mass.; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '01; m. Manila. P. I.. George Charles Barker. Soon after graduation in 1901 went to the Philippine Islands, engaged as teacher, 1901-04; supervisor of primary schools for districts of Ermita and Melate, 1904-05; principal of Normal Institute for Native Teachers. Manila. 1904-05; tutor in Boston, 1907; Instructor in Spanish, Smith Coll., January-June, 1908; returned to Philippines and since December, 1908, has been teacher of settlement training school. Manila.

BARKER, Nellie Florence (Mrs. George J. Barker), 42 Prospect St., Waltham, Mass.

Born Waltham, Mass., Nov. 26, 1862; dau. Benjamin Franklin and Mary Ellen (Wallace) Clough; grad. with highest honors, Waltham High School, classical course (valedictorian) '81; not absent or late during seven years in grammar and high schools; m. Waltham, Oct. 28,


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76 1885, George Jenison Barker. Sec. of Charity Club since 1898; sec. Musical Club 1890-98, then its pres. 1898-1910. Past Matron of Electa Chapter No. 19, O.E.S., and Deputy Grand Matron for 1912-13; chairman entertainment committee. Congregational Club 1911-1912-1913; treas. Tuesday Club. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Life mem. Am. Art Society; mem. Boston Browning Soc, Waltham H.S. Alumni Ass'n, Auxiliary of Mass. Civil Service Reform, Leland Home Ass'n, Hospital Aid Soc. Recreations: Traveling, opera. Mem. Waltham Charity Club; Waltham Tuesday Club (literary), Waltham Musical Club; Congregational Club (church entertainments); pres. Waltham Woman's Club, 1911-13; mem. The Rangers (travel and nature study). One of the Committee of 100 chosen for the 25th anniversary celebration of the city in 1909 (only few women on that committee).

BARLOW, Alpha Winifred, 89 Bristol St., New Haven, Conn.

Teacher; b. in Connecticut; grad. Smith Coll., B.S. '96; student of Biblical literature, Yale. 1907-08, 1909-10. Teacher of English in Williams Memorial Inst., New London, Conn., 1896-98, 1900-02; teacher of botany, Norwich Free Acad., 1900; New Haven High School, 1902-04. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BARLOW, Charlotte Emily (Mrs. F. J. Barlow), Williamston, Mich.

Born Colborne Harbor, Can., Apr. 19, 1855; dau. Allen Lindsay and Anne (Gallagher) Brisbin; ed. in high school, Lansing, Mich., special training as teacher; m. Williamston, Mich., 1883, F. J. Barlow. Teacher for ten years in Lansing and Williamston, specializing in kindergarten work. Teacher in Sunday-school, interested in civic Improvement and charity; especially interested in birds animals and art. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Ladies' Aid Soc, Missionary Soc.; interested in study of mythology. Mem. Williamston Woman's Club (has been pres., sec. and several times delegate to State Federation). Recreation: Study of China, has a large collection of pitchers and jugs. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.

BARLOW, Kate Brown (Mrs. Harry N. Barlow), 1005 O St., Washington, D.C.

Born Howard Co., Md.; dau. William and Mary A. (White) Hoslup; ed. privately at home, in Howard and Anne Arundell counties, Md.; descendant in fifth generation from Capt. Charles Griffith, M.D., of Anne Arundell County; m. July 3, 1867, Harry N. Barlow. Inspector for Board of Children's Guardians and interested in the condition of poor and destitute children. Author of poetry published in Washington Capital and letters of travel in the Republic Magazine, 1884-85. Episcopalian; mem. of church societies. Mem. Monday Evening Club and of Conference of Charities and Corrections, Grand Rapids.

BARNARD, Marion Harvie (Mrs. Harry E. Barnard), 5543 University Av., Indianapolis, Ind.

Born Cheshire, England, 1875; dau. Thomas Harvie and Elizabeth (Watt) Harvie; ed. primary school, Cheshire, England; private school in Derbyshire, England; Garnethill School, Glasgow, Scotland; Brown Univ. Ph.B. '01 (Phi Beta Kappa); m. Providence, R.I., 1901, Harry Everett Barnard; children: Harvie, Marion Elizabeth. Teacher, Providence, R.I., 1896-98. Interested in Household Economics Dept. of Indiana State Federation of Clubs; treasurer Indiana Equal Suffrage Ass'n; mem. Indianapolis Woman's Franchise League. Congregationalist. Mem. Irvington Parent-Teachers' Ass'n; pres. Irvington Woman's Council (a union of all the clubs of Irvington), and of Irvington Tuesday Club; mem. Irvington Woman's Club.

BARNARD, Therina Townsend (Mrs. E. L. Barnard), Rochelle Park, New Rochelle, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, April 14, 1875; dau. Edward and Adelaide L. (Turner) Townsend; ed. N.Y. Collegiate Inst; Smith Coll., B.L. '97; m. N.Y. City, June 1, 1901, Everett Larkin Barnard; children: Lucy, Louise Townsend, Edward Townsend. Identified with various religious, social and philanthropic interests in N.Y. City. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Women's University Club of N.Y. City, Smith Club of N.Y. City, Women's Club, New Rochelle.

BARNES, Anna Maria, Summerville, S.C.

Author; b. Columbia, S.C, 1857; dau. James Daniel and Henrietta (Jackson) Barnes; ed. in public schools in Atlanta, Ga. Editor of Young Christian Workers, publication of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the M.E. Church, South; writer of juvenile books and missionary stories. Author (pen-name "Cousin Annie"): A-chon-ho-ah; Carmio, Mexican Indian Captive; Children of the Kalahari; Chonita; Cousin Annie's Library; David Livingstone; Ferry Maid of Chattahoochee; House of Grass; Izilda—Story of Brazil; Little Burden Shavers; Marti; Matouchon; Ninito, Story of the Bible in Mexico; The Outstretched Hand; Scenes in Pioneer Methodism; Singing Will; Some Lovely Lives; Tatong, the Little Slave; An American Girl In Korea; The King's Gift; Lass of Dorchester; Laurel Token; Little Betty Blew; Little Lady of the Fort; Mistress Moppet; Red Mirrok; A Little Lady at the Fall of Quebec.

BARNES, Frances Julia (Mrs. Willis A. Barnes), 446 Central Park W., N.Y. City.

Born Skaneateles, N.Y., April 14, 1846; dau, C. W. and Letitia (Willets) Allis; ed. Packer Coll. Inst., Brooklyn; m. N.Y. City, Sept. 21, 1871, Willis A. Barnes. One of the early workers in W.C.T.U. as associate of Miss Frances Willard, becoming the first secretary to Miss Willard and also of Chicago W.C.T.U.; became sup't of Y Dept World's W.C.T.U., 1891; now honorary sec. of same; pres. Loyal Legion Temperance Soc. of N.Y. Founded and edited Y Almanac, Mem. Orthodox Society of Friends (Elder); mem. Women's Foreign Missionary Alliance, Women's Sabbath Alliance. Favors woman suffrage.

BARNES, Gertrude Jameson (Mrs. Henry A. Barnes), 1812 Emerson Av., South Minneapolis, Minn.

Painter; b. Tyngsboro, Mass., Oct. 23, 1865; dau. Horatio and Sarah (Jameson) Jenkins; ed. private schools and Duval High School, Jacksonville, Fla.; Minneapolis School of Fine Arts; Cowles Art School, Boston; Art Students' League, N.Y. City; also student of W. L. Lathrop and C. H. Woodbury; m. Alexandria, Minn., Oct. 16, 1891, Henry A. Barnes; children: Philip Jameson, b. Mar. 30, 1894; Henry Lyman, b. Oct. 30, 1901. Prizes at Cowles Art School, Boston, 1886; Minneapolis, 1888; prize State Art Soc. Exhibition, 1904, 1908, 1910, honorable mentions. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Minneapolis Soc. of Fine Arts, Minn. State Art Soc, charter mem. Artists' League of Minneapolis. Recreations: Walking, tennis. Mem. Woman's Club of Minneapolis, Minikahda Club, (athletic and social).

BARNES, Margaret Ayer (Mrs. Cecil Barnes), 20 E. Goethe St., Chicago, Ill.

Born Chicago, April 8, 1886; dau. Benjamin F. and Janet (Hopkins) Ayer; ed. University School for Girls, Chicago, and Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '07; m. Chicago, May 21, 1910, Cecil Barnes; one son: Cecil Barnes Jr., b. 1912.

BARNES, Sarah Short (Mrs. Chauncey Parker Barnes), Louisville, Ky.

Born Paris, Ky.; dau. James McVicker and Sarah Jane (Saunders) Short; ed. Oxford (O.) Coll.; mem. Philulethion sorority; m. 1887, Chauncey Parker Barnes. Principal of private school in Lexington, Ky., 12 years. Club woman. Recording sec and auditor for Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs for 6 years; chairman of Vocational Training and Guidance in Gen. Fed. Opposed to woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Monday Afternoon Club, Woman's Club of Louisville, Ky.

BARNETT, Claribel Ruth, U.S. Department of Agriculture Library, Washington, D.C.

Librarian; b. Kent, O., Mar. 26, 1872; dau. George and Lucina Deuel Barnett; grad. Univ.