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McCain), 4008 Pine St., Philadelphia. Pa,

Writer and traveler; b. Mt. Pleasant, Pa.; dau. C. S. and Katherine L. (Newmeyer) Overholt; grrad. Western Pa. Classical and Scientific Inst., '78; specialized in art studies under Ida Waugh, Philadelphia, 1897-98; m. 1879, George Nox McCain (journalist, lecturer, traveler); children: Edith 0., Millo Marie, Donald Rockefeller, Helen K., Mary V. L. Traveled extensively all over the world; entered Dawson City, Alaska, alone, on White Pass route, 1901; also through Europe, Middle East, Servia, Bulgaria, Africa, Barbary States, Egypt; in caropany with her husband in Lybian desert and Sahara; accompanied her hus- band, Col. Geo. Nox McCain, through Alaska the entire length of the Yukon River while investi- gating Alaskan mail routes for the Government. A.uthor: Haw Famous Hymns Were Written; Great Songs and Their Authors; other articles (or syndicates and magazines. Recreation: Pho- tography. Baptist. Against woman sufirage. Republican voter in Colorado, 1903-04. McCAINE, Helen J. (Mrs. William McCaine),

813 Fairmont Av., or St. Paul Public Library,

St. Paul, Minn.

Librarian; b. Peterboro, N.H. ; dau. William C. and Lucinda (Parker) Gray; ed. private schools and Peterboro Acad.; m. Boston, Mass., 1860, William McCaine. Became connected with St. Paul public library as ass't librarian in 1876, Boon after was appointed librarian, which posi- tion has held ever since. Unitarian. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n. McCALEB, Ella, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,

N.T.

Secretary of Vassar Coll.; b. Mt. Pleasant, Pa., Apr. 23, 1856; dau. John Dickey and Sarah B. (Sherrick) McCaleb; ed. Mt. Pleasant Acad., Vassar Coll., A.B. '78, European travel (three trips). Teac'ier Clifton Springs, N.Y., 1878-81; Detroit, Mich., 1881-85. Interested in Y.W.C.A. and in child labor legislation. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnse, Vassar Students' Aid Ass'n, Associate Alumnae of Vassar, Armstrong Ass'n, Women's Univ. Club, N.Y. City; Philadelphia Coll. Club. Recreations: Walking, driving, read- ing. Presbyterian. McCALL, Florence Mabel (Mrs. Robert L. Mc-

Call), 3822 Wilcox Av., Chicago, 111.

Born Marietta, Ohio, April 15, 1867; dau. Michael and Bettie (Goldsmith) Gettle; ed. Mari- etta High Sghool; m. Chicago, 111., June 3, 1896, Robert Lorimer McCall. Studied medicine but did not finish course. Mem. missionary societies and several phiianthropio ass'ns. Favors wo-man suffrage; chairman Propaganda Section Political League. Had article in Am. City Magazine on Civics; now lecturing on civics. Methodist. Pro- gressive in politics. Mem. Chicago Political Equality League, Board of Y.W.C.A.; pres. Sixth Dist. Juvenile Protective League. Recreations: Traveling, improvements in playgrounds, socials. Mem West End Woman's Club, pres. 1911-12; chairman Civics Dep't of 111. Fed. of Women'3 Clubs, 1911-13. MacCALLUM, Emily, Girls' College, Smyrna,

Turkey.

Missionary, educator; b. Kingston, Ont; dan. Rev. D. MacCallum; ed. Miss Lay's Acad., Mon- treal, Can. Engaged as a Sunday-school teacher In the Emanuel Congregational Sunday-school In Montreal; volunteered to serve as a missionary to Turkey, to which country was sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1883; established the Girls' College, Smyrna, Turkey, of which she became and atlU Is the principal. MoCAMANT, Catherine, Bethlehem, Pa.

Teacher; b. Pottsville, Pa., March 22, 1862; dau. Joel B. and Susanna (Boyle) McCamant; grad. Pottsville High School, '81; Wellesley Coll., B S. '87. Taught in College Prep. Dep't of Mo- ravian Parochial School, Bethlehem, Pa., 1891-96; Blair Acad., Blairstown, N.J., 1896-1912. Treas. of First Presbyterian Church, South Bethlehem, Pa., 1888-96; head of the Primary Dep't in Sun- day-school; sec. Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. ; cor. sec. Christian Endeavor

��Soc, and mem. and sec. Women's Indian Ass'n, Bethlehem; mem. History Teachers' Ass'n ol Middle States, Am. Historical Ass'n. Recrea- tions: Sewing, housekeeping. Presbyterian. Fa- vors limited suffrage. MoCAMMON, Anna Estelle (Mrs. Ormsby Mc-

Cammon), 3 Lenox St., Chevy Chase, Md.

Born Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 1, 1881; dau. Thomas Russell and Matilda (Griesmer) Murray; ed. Friends School, Philadelphia, Pa.; m. June 21, 1904, Ormsby McCammon; one son: Joseph Kay, b. Feb. 1, 1907. Mem. Board of Children's Coun- try Home of Dist. of Columbia, and connected with other philanthropies. Favors woman suf- frage. Episcopalian. Mem. Philadelphia GJolf Team and Huntingdon Valley Chevy Chase Golf Team. Recreations: Golf, tennis. McCAK^, Martha Nelson (Mrs. David Chambers

McCan), 939 S. Burlington Av., Los Angeles,

Cal.

Born Plymouth, Wis., 1867; dau. H. N. and Laura (Chase) Smith; ed. public schools. Epis- copal Church school, Milwaukee Coll. (now Downer (3oll.); m. Milwaukee, 1886, George H. Lenowine (now deceased); m. Los Angeles, Cal., 1904. David Chambers McCan. Pres. Southern Cal.' Woman's Press Club, 1909-11; 2nd vice- pres. 1911, pres. 1912-13, Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles; vlce-pres. Southern Cal. Civic League; first vice-pres. Allied Arts Centre Com.; director Woman's City Club, Los An- geles. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage. Director and chairman Publicity Com., Political Equality League of Southern Cal. Democrat — voter; first woman Civil Service Commissioner ever appointed (appt'd by mayor and confirmed by Council, Los Angeles, Oct., 1912). Writer of short stories, magazine articles and news letters. McCANDLESS, Alice (Mrs. William A. McCand-

less), 5056 Westminster PL, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Sprinfield, 111., Oct. 26, 1864; dau. Thomas G. and Elizabeth A. (Kimber) Lansden; ed. private schools, Chicago and N.Y. City; m. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 21, 1886, Dr. William A. McCandless; children: Margaretta, Ruth E., Alice K., William A. Jr., Lansden. Vice-pres. Symphony Soc. Mem. Y.W.C.A. Extension Dep't, Children's Aid, and all branches of social service. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Recrea- tion: Music. Clubs: Morning Choral, Wednesday. McCARTER, Margaret Hill (Mrs. William Ar- thur McCarter), 1534 College Av., Topeka,

Kan.

Author, lecturer; b. Charlottesville, Ind. ; dau. Thomas Thornbury and Nancy (Davis) Hill; grad. State Normal School, Terre Haute, Ind., A.B. '84;, A.M. conferred by Baker Univ., Topeka, Kan., 199; m. Topeka, Kan., June 5, 1890, Dr. William Arthur McCarter. Teacher in public and high schools in Indiana and Kansas, 1876-94. Edited, with biographical and bibliographical notes (Crane Classics): Hawthorne's Great Stone Face; Miraculous Pitcher; Holmes' Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill, Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; Shake- speare's King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Whit- tier's Snowbound. Author: The Cottonwood's Story, 1903; Cuddy's Baby and other stories, 1908; In Old Quivers, 1909; Price of the Prairie- Story of Kansas, 1910; The Peace of the Solomon Valley, 1911; A Wall of Men, 1912. McCarthy, Ellen S. (now Foley, Ellen a Mc- Carthy) — see Addenda. McCAUL, Helen, 34 Victoria St.. Weatinlnstor,

London, S.W., England.

Canadian artist photographer; b. Toronto, Canada; dau. Rev. John McCaul, LL.D (now de- ceased), pres. of Toronto Univ., and Emily Au- gusta (Jones) McCaul; ed. in Toronto; special studies in art. For several years has been do- voted to artistic photography in London, Eng- land, where she owns and conducts The Cana- dian Studio, distinguished for the artistic quality of its work. McCAULEY, Lena May, 418 St. James PI., or

care Chicago Evening Post, Chicago.

Writer; b. Hagerstown, Md., May 2, 1859; dau. James and Lena (Rowland) McCauley; ed. Dear- born Sem., Chicago, special undergraduate workj

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��Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of 111., and Univ. of Wis. Art editor Chicago Evening Post; also special editorial writer since 1900; lecturer on art at Chicago Art Inst., and before women's clubs. Mem. Municipal Art League, Woman's Press Ass'n. Interested in Public School Extension, Social Center, Penny Luncheon and similar philanthropic activities. Author: Etchers of Architecture; Monographs on Etchers; The Joy of Gardens. Episcopalian. Progressive Repub- lican. Hon. mem. Chicago Soc. of Artists, Chi- cago See. of Etchers, Chicago Water Color Soc. Recreations: J!usic, concerts, travel, study of Sowers. Clubs: Chicago Woman's, Woman's City, Lake View Woman's. Favors woman suffrage. McCAULEY, Mary E. Mendenhall (Mrs. Richard Newton McCauIey), Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Normal, III.

Matron; b. Peru, Ind., July 24, 1853; dau. Ira and Isabella K, (Cunningham) Mendenhall; ed. public schools of Peru, Methodist Coll. of Fort Wayne, Ind. (Patroness Sigma Kappa) ; m. Olney, 111., Aug. 28, 1870, Richard Newton Mc- CauIey; children: D. Edward, Myrtle Beatrice, Martha Canter, William Roscoe. Active mem. Methodist Episcopal Church; interested iu local charities; for fourteen years matron 111. Soldiers' Orphans' Home; director Bloomington Woman's Exchange and Day Nursery Ass'n; mem. Nat. and State Conference of Charities and Correc- tions; mem. Nat. and State Woman's Relief Corps; past State pres. W.R.C., and by virtue of office of dep't treas. W.R.C. was mem. of the Legislative Com. of III. that was instrumental in securing enactment of the bill creating the 111. Soldiers' Widows' Home. Interested in Playground movement, athletics supervised for boys and girls. Vice-pres. 17th Dlst. of 111. State Fed. of Club of Bloomington, 111. Has made addresses the State Fed and other Woman's Club meet- ings; also at State Conference of Charities and Scribbler's (Chicago), Colony (N.Y. City). MacCHESNEY, Clara Taggart, The Chelsea, 222 W. Twenty-third St., N.Y. City. Artist; b. Brownsville, Cal. ; dau. J. B. and Sara S. (Jewett) MacChesney; studied art in San Francisco with Virgil Williams, Gotham Art School, N.Y. City; Colarossi School, Paris; awarded medals at World's Columbian Exposi- tion, 1S93; Dodge prize, 1894 (gold medal); Phila- delphia Water Color Soc, 1900; second Hailgarten prize, 1901; bronze modal Pan-American Exposi- tion, 1901; bronze medal St. Louis, 1904. Be- liever in universal peace. Socialist. Is a suffra- gist and mem. Woman's Political Union. New Thought in religion. Life mem. Nat. Arts Club, Consumers' League, Lyceum Club (London), N.Y. V/ater Color Club, Am. Water (3olor Soc, Soc. of Woman Painters and Sculptors, Woman's Municipal League, Art Workers' Club, Barnard Club, Julia Seton Sears Clbh.

MiacCHESNEY, Lena Frost (Mrs. Nathan Will- iam MacChesney), 668 Hawthorne Place, Chi- cago, III.

Born Chicago, 111., daughter of William E. and Emma Louise (Wright) Frost; grad. Univ. of Mich., A.B. '01; Univ. of Berlin (Germany), 1901-02; Univ. of Chicago (Graduate School), 1906-07; student of music under IngersoU in Chicago and Piatt In Berlin; m. Riverside, 111., Dec 1, 1904, Col. Nathan William MacChesney of Chicago; one son, Alfred Brunson MacChesney Brd, b. May 21, 1909. Instructor in German and Latin, the Friends Acad., New Bedford, Mass., 1902-04. Chairman German Department Chicago Woman's Club, 1912-1:?. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Chicago Alumnae Ass'n of the Univ. of Mich, (pres. 1912-13). Recreations: Walking, horseback riding, motoring, swimming, reading. Mem. Twentieth Century Club, Chicago Woman's Club, College Club of Chicago, Chicago South Side Club, South Shore Country Club, Kenwood Club, Columbia Damenklub.

AIoCI.ELLAN, Elii^abeth. 5531 Wayne Av., Ger- mantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Assistant librarian; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. John Hill Brlnton McClellan, M.D., and Maria (Eldredge) .McClellan; ed. private schools In Philadelphia. Author; Historic Dresa In America,

��1C07-1SOO, 1909; Historic Dress in Am'^rica, 1800- 1870, 1910; translator of Schiller and His Times, 1881. Episcopalian. .Mem. Pa. Soc. of Colonial Dames of America, Site and Relic Soc. of Ger- mantown, Descendants of Colonial Governors. WoCL!>;LLANI>, Ella Gale (Mrs. Thomas S. Mc- Clelland), 228 East Superior St., Chicago, 111.

Born Milwaukee, Wis.; dau. John and Margaret (Norcross) Gale; ed. Milwaukee Coll.; m. Milwau- kee, Wis., July 15, 1875, Thomas S. McClelland: children: Marion, Ella, Margaret Inez (died Feb. 19, 1911). Author: A Daughter of Two Nations. Mem. Colonial Dames, Order of the Crown, D.A.R.. Chicago Woman's Club, City Club. Fa- vors woman suffrage; mem. North Side Branch of 111. Woman Suffrage League, Chicago, and Chicago Political Equality League. McClLELLAJifD, Nancy Vincent, 268 Boulevard

Raspall, Paris, France.

Editorial writer (advertising); b. Poughkeepsle, N.Y. ; dau. Rev. James F. M. and Mary (Vin- cent) McClelland; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '97. Reporter on the Philadelphia Press; took up study of scientific advertising in the John Wanamaker Store; now residing in Paris. Writer short stories In the magazines; a book of poems (published privately), and A Child's History of Napoleon, written for the Wanamaker Store. Clubs: Women's Univ. (N Y. City), Lyceum (Paris). McCLENCH, Katharine HiU (Mrs. William

Wallace McClench), 112 Sumner Av., Spring- field, Mass.

Born Chicopee, Mass., Dec. 8, 1858; dau. Syl- vester Bradley and Catharine Amelia (Blauvelt) Hill; ed. Chicopee High Scbool; m. Chicopee, Mass., Dec. 8, 1880, William Wallace McClench; children: Marion Hill, (Jora Christine, Donald. Director of the Alliance of Unitarian and other liberal Christian women; director Mass. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Ex-regent Mercy War- ren Chapter D.A.R. Pres. Cosmopolitan Club; mem. Women's Club, Tuesday Morning Music Club, Springfield; Ex-Regents' Club of Boston. Unitarian. MoCLENON, Mary Adeline White (Mrs. R. B.

McClenon), 1550 W. Thirty-seventh St., Los

Angeles, Cal.

Born Walton, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Walton, N.Y.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '78; m. July 27, 1882; two sons. After graduation engaged as teacher at Newburgh, Lake Geneva, Wis., until mar- riage. McCLINTIC, Olive Leaman, 721 W. 19th St.,

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Reader, monologlst, Impersonator; b. Bremond, Tex. ; dau. George V. and Emma (Procter) Mc- Clintic; ed. Texas Christian Univ., B.A. ; Emer- son Coll. of Oratory of Boston (grad. Bachelor of Oratory), Northwestern School of Oratory, Chi- cago; Univ. of Cal. Engaged in platform work, Chautauquas, lyceums, etc., 1908-9. Reader for and State sponsor to Confederate reunion at Memphis, Tenn., 1909; travel in Europe, 1910. State reader for United Daughters of Confeder- acy, 1910-11. Appeared before Pacific Coast so- cieties, 1912. Interested in Oklahoma Coll. for Women, and has been lecturer and professor since Its organization in 1909. Favors woman suffrage. Author of short stories published in current magazines under pen-name of "Oliver L. Mack." Author: Reading As An Art; Woman's Oppor- tunity and Obligation; also adapts and composes stories for own recitals. Mem. United Daughters of Confederacy, hon. mem. David B. Hammond Camp, United Confederate Veterans. Recrea- tions: Riding, swimming, tennis, camping, fish- ing, motoring, etc. Was first director of Dra- matic Art Dep't of Sorosis Club; mem. Sana Soucl Club, Cosmopolitan Club. For past five years has appeared in public recitals before the State conventions of the Federation and has ad- dressed conventions and clubs on subjects per- taining to art of public speaking; a State dele- gate to Gen. Fed. biennial, San Francisco, 1912. McCMNTOCK, Helen Elizabeth, Geneva Coll..

Beaver Falls, Pa.

College professor; b. Meadville, Pa., Oct. 5, 1883; dau. John Oliver and Harriet E. (Coburn) McClintock; ed. Allegheny Coll., MeadvUle, Pa,,

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512 A.B. '04 (first honors), M.A. '06 (Phi Beta Kappa); Univ. of Göttingen, Germany, 1911-12 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). Teacher of Ger- man in Allegheny Coll. Preparatory School, 1904- 06; head of German Dep't Sharon (Pa.) High School, 1906-08; prof. of German and French, Geneva Coll., Beaver Falls, Pa., since 1908. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Rec- reations: Tennis, boating, walking, athletics and traveling.

MCCLOSKEY, Alice Gertrude, N.Y. State College of Agriculture, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y.

Educator, lecturer; b. Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1870; grad. Cornell, B.A. Lecturer on Nature Study and Elementary Agriculture in N.Y. State Coll. of Agriculture at Cornell Univ.; associate in Rural School Education Extension. Editor of Cornell Rural School Leafiet, published monthly for use of rural communities.

McCLOUD, Lucy Carter, 186 South St., Northampton, Mass.

Assistant register of deeds, lawyer; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '85; student Sprague Correspondence School of Law, 1900-05. Teacher Glenwood Sem., Brattleboro, Vt., 1885-86; clerk in Registry of Deeds, Northampton, Mass., 1895-1905; ass't regis- trar of deeds since 1905. Admitted to Massa- chusetts bar, 1905. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumuæ Ass'n.

MCCLUNEY, Mabel McKeighan (Mrs. James Mc- Cluney), 179 E. Chestnut St., Chicago, Ill. Born St. Louis, Jan. 1, 1883; dau. John El- more and Ellen (Cutler) McKeighan; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis High School, Smith Coll., A.B.; m. St. Louis, April 24, 1905, James McCluney. Mem. Fourth Presbyterian Church (pres. of Guild); mem. Junior League and Junior Auxiliary of Children's Memorial Hospital. Mem. Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Recreations: Tennis, golf, skating. Mem. Onwentsia Club.

McCLUNG, Nellie Letitia Mooney, 97 Chestnut St., Winnipeg, Man., Can.

Writer; b. Chatsworth, Ont., Oct. 20, 1873; dau. John and Letitia (McCurdy) Mooney; ed. North- field School and Central Collegiate School, Winni- peg, Man. m. Aug. 25, 1896, Robert Wesley McClung (druggist); children: John, Florence, Paul, Horace, Mark. Gives recitations from her own books and visits the towns of her own Province; also made a successful tour of On- tario, 1910. Favors woman suffrage (prominent speaker on subject). Author: Sowing Seeds in Danny, 1908; The Second Chance, 1910; The Black Creek Stopping-House, 1912; also short stories and articles for magazines. Methodist. Pres. Press Club of Manitoba; mem. Political Equality League, Canadian Club.

McCLURE, Mary Alice (Mrs. Thomas J. Mc- Clure), Hudson, McLean Co., Ill.

Born Bloomington, Ill, Sept. 7, 1855; dau. Theo- dore and Ann Eliza (Winslow) Stout; ed. Bloom- ington, Ill.; m. Normal, Ill., June 3, 1902, Thomas J.

McCLURE. Taught in public schools of Ill. 22 years. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Mem. Woman's Club of Hudson, Ill: Girls, Lancaster, Pa., 1907-08; principal of the High School of Huntington Valley, Pa., 1910-11.

McCOMAS, Alice Moore (Mrs. C. C. McComas), home address, Los Angeles, Cal.; present address, 440 Riverside Drive, N.Y. City.

Journalist, educator, orator, lecturer; b. Paris, Ill., 1850; dau. Gen. Jesse H. and Rachel (Hines) Moore; ed. St. Mary's of The Wood, Terre Haute, Ind., special honors in music and literary com- position, prize winner in elocution; m. Decatur, Ill., Nov. 14, 1870, Judge C. C. McComas; chil- dren: Helen, b. 1872 (died 1891); Alice Beach, b. 1876; Clare, b. 1881; Carroll, b. 1886. First woman in the State of Cal. to conduct a Woman's Dep't in a daily paper, Los Angeles Express; first woman in same State to speak at a State Repub- lican ratification meeting, 1894. One of the earliest workers in the Free Kindergarten Ass'n; one of the organizers of the working woman's clubs; lectured on Politics in the Home, Individual Education in the Public Schools, The Common Sense Rearing of Children. Has written recent articles on The Panama Canal, Southern Cal. Chapter in History of Suffrage; has contributed to over 70 newspapers on the suffrage question; originated "Precinct" idea in Woman Suffrage campaigning; wrote a brochure, The Timely Question, on the same subject; correspondent for three California papers during the World's Fair, special contributor of travel sketches in Los Angeles Times and various magazines, just com- pleted a book on child life in California, Under the Peppers; writer of short stories, articles on politics and economics; was for two years as- sociate editor of The Household Journal (now The Southwest) in Los Angeles. Member Am. Play-goers, Ethical Soc., Woman's Press Ass'n, San Francisco; California Club of N.Y., Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles. Recreations: Motoring, social affairs, traveling. Favors woman suffrage; pres. of the Los Angeles Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Progressive voter in California. Recently made tour of thorough investigation at Panama Canal and will lecture on tbat subject in 1914; will soon publish book on The Women of the Canal Zone.

MCCOMBS, Georgette (Mrs. Roderick N. McCombs), Lawrence, Ind.

Born Juneau, Wis.; dau. Isaac and M. E. Vail; ed. high school; m. in Kansas, Roderick N. Mc- Combs; children: Walter N., Edward C., Harold B. Interested in church societies, Library Board, civic improvement. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Church of Christ, Order Eastern Star. Recreation: Social circles. Pres. Woman's Club.

MCCONKEY, Bertha M., 236 Union St., Springfield, Mass.

Ass't sup't of schools; b. Rochester, N.Y.; dau. Samuel and Sarah (Johnston) McConkey grad. high school, Tidioute, Pa.; State Normal School, Edinboro, Pa. For 10 years (1892-1902) supervisor of practice teachers in State Normal Practice School, South Manchester, Conn.; since 1902, ass't sup't schools of Springfield, Mass. Mem. of Executive Board of Union Relief Ass'n, Springfield, Mass; mem. Springfield Woman's Club, Springfield Teachers' Club. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist.

MCCONNELL, Ella Mead (Mrs. Benjamin F. McConnell), Sweet Brier, 2001 Niles Av., St. Joseph, Mich.

MCCLUSKY, Mrs. O. W., Carrington, N.Dak. Reader; b. Braidwood, Ill., Aug. 28, 1884; dau. Robert and Agnes (Paxton) Trotter; ed. Coal City High School; Cumnock School of Oratory, Born Michigan City, Ind., Jan. 29, 1859; dau. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, III.; m. Coal Edwin Ruthven and Josephine (Sleight) Mead; City, Ill., Jan. 29, 1907, Dr. O. W. McClusky. ed. Chicago public schools; grad. Lake View Has given numerous recitals, coached amateur High School, 78, with second honor; m. Chicago, plays and taught dramatic and physical culture June 22, 1881, Benjamin F. McConnell; children: work. Interested in Sunday-school work and Marguerite (Mrs. W. L. Wilson), Harold Mead, civic improvement work. Favors woman suf- Benjamin Stuart, Madeline. Taught three years frage. Methodist. Republican. Mem. Order of in Chicago schools. Deeply interested in re- Eastern Star. Recreations: Tennis, skating, ligious questions of non-doctrinal, non-dogmatic rowing, gardening, dancing. Mem. Woman's Literary Club, Sociology Club.

McCOLL, Edith Pusey Durand (Mrs. Gilbert B. McColl), 506 Telfer St., Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born Herrick, Pa., July, 1883; dau. Silas H. and Clarice E. (Pusey) Durand; grad George School, Newtown, Pa., 1901, Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '06; student of music, 1908-10. Prof. French and ass't in Latin and mathematics, Lancaster (Pa.) Coll., 1906-07, and in Shippen School for nature. Study of late years chiefly biographies and world's religions. Vice-pres. Equal Suffrage Ass'n of St. Joseph; mem. Berrien County Board of Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Recreations: Mem. Thursday Club.

McCONNELL, Genevieve Knapp (Mrs. Guthrie McConnell), Llandrillo Rd., Cynwyd, Pa.

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��Kappa Psi); m. June, 1903, Dr. Guthrie Mc- Connell; children: Frances Shackelford, Charles Knapp. Mem. College Club and Smith College Club, Plastic Club (Philadelphia). Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage. McCONNELL, Marion Vincent KUis (Mrs. James

Eli McConnell), 121 Moore St., Providence, R.I.

Born Springfield, Mass., Mar. 11, 1865; dau. Henry A. and Saraii (Burdick) Ellis; ed. private schools and by tutors in Mass. and N.Y. ; spe- cialized in voice culture; m. May 1, 1889, Brook- lyn, N.Y., Rev. James Eli Mc-Connell, D.D.; children: Ellis Huntington, b. Dec. 16, 1890 (died Dec. 21, 1S90); Florence Marion, b. SepL 15, 1893; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 6, 1895. Church and concert singer, 1887-1910; teacher voice culture, Carleton Coll., Northfleld, Minn., 1891-92, continuing as private teacher of voice, 1892-1906. Interested In and connected with various religious, social and philanthropic and musical activities and welfare work. Against woman suffrage. Congregatlonal- 1st. Mem. Home and Foreign Missionary So- cieties, R.I. and New England. Mem. Chami- nade Club, Handicraft Club. As pastor's wife Identified with the work of the Congregational Church in Churchville, N.Y., 1889-90; Northfleld, Minn., 1S90-19O5; Providence, R.I. (Union Congre- gational), 1905—.

McCONNELL, Maude WeUs, 328 E. Washing- ton St.. Sullivan, Ind. Physician; b. near Sullivan, Ind.; dau. John

A. and Mary Elizabeth (Wells) McConnell; ed. public schools of Sullivan. Ind.; Med. Dep't of Ind. Univ., M.D. '95; Woman's Hospital of Chicago Training School for Nurses, 1892. Helped with the passage of the law for registra- tion of nurses, which was the first law for women in Ind. put through by women. Pres. Ind. State Nurses Ass'n. Mem. American Med. Soc, Ind. State Med. Soc., Soc. of Sani- tary and Moral Prophylaxis, Local Council of Women. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

McCOBD, Annie Elizabeth, Allegheny Av.,

N.S., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Social worker; b. Allegheny, Pa., Jan. 21, 1878; dau. James E. and Sue (Stephenson) McCord; grad. Wellesley Coll., A.B. '01; N.Y. School of Ph.lanthropy, 1906-07. Probation officer. Juvenile Court; expert agent U.S. Bureau of Labor; in- vestigator Pittsburgh Survey; director Vocation Bureau, Pittsburgh. Mem. Nat. Child Labor Com. of Board of Directors; recording sec. Pa. Child Labor Ass'n, Western branch; mem. Dis- trict Council Associated Charities of Pittsburgh. P'avors woman suffrage. Mem. Equal Franchise League of Pittsburgh, Woman Suffrage Party of Pa. E>piscopallan. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Soc. for Promotion of Industrial Education, Nat. Conference of Charities and Cor- rection, Pittsburgh Wellesley Club, Collage Club of Pittsburgh, Social Workers' Clut) of Pitts- burgh.

McCORAnCK, Edith Rockefeller (Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick), 1000 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111.

Bom Cleveland, 0., Aug. 31, 1872; dau. John D. and Laura (Spelman) Rockefeller; ed. by pri- vate professors; m. Nov. 26, 1895, Harold Mc- Cormick; children: John Rockefeller (deceased). Fowler, Muriel, Edltha (deceased), Mathllde. Interested in Chicago grand opera; Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases; many civic in- terests and many philanthropies, French School, Italian Club, educational matters, art, drama, etc. Favors woman suffrage. Has written for maga- zines and literary clubs. Baptist; mem. many •ocietles. Clubs: Fortnightly, Woman's Athletic, Scribblers' (Chicago), Colony (N.Y. City).

McCORMICK, Harriet Hammond (Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick), 60 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111.

Horn Monmouth, England; dau. Capt. George W. and Emma (Youns) Hammond; ed. Klrkland School and in Europe; m. Monterey, Cal., Mar.

B, 1889, Cyrus Hall McConmlck; children: Cyrus, Elizabeth (deceased), Gordon. Literary mem. and at one time vlce-pres. Fortnightly Club; past pres. Friday Club; promoter and financial backer of the Child WeUare Exhibit, held in Chicago,

��May, 1911, which marked an era In child 3tud> Especially Interested In all that concerns the betterment of children and in civic and social welfare in general. Has contributed several ar- ticles on civic planting and landscape art to va- rious publications. Episcopalian. Recreation; Walking. Mem. Lake Forest Garden Club, Colony Club of N.Y. City.

McCORMICK, Ida May (Mrs. Samuel Black Mc- Cormick). 4725 Walllngford St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Born Washington, Pa., Dec. 1, 1863; dau. Will • lam M. and Harriet Newell (Gibson) Steep; ed. Washington Sem. ; m. Carnegie, Pa., Sept. 29, 1882, Samuel Black McCormick (now Chancellor of the Univ. of Pittsburgh); children: James Irwin, Gertrude, Samuel Black, Rachel. Inter- ested in religious, social and philanthropic works; served on Moral Efficiency Commission of Pitts- burgh and as director and :;hairman of Y.W.C.A. (Hill Top Branch). Mem. Twentieth Century Club. Recreation: Walking. Presbyterian. As wife of the Chancellor of Univ. of Pittsburgh fills the social duties of that position as well ae those above indicated.

McCORMICK, Katiierine Dexter (Mrs. St&nley McCormick), 393 Commonwealth Av., Boston, Mass.

Philanthropist, lecturer; b. Dexter, Mich., 1876; dai|. Wirt and Josephine (Moore) Dexter; ed. Mass. Inst, of Technology, A.B. '94; m. Geneva, Switzerland, 1894, Stanley McCormick, of Chi- cago, son of inventor of the reaping machine. Prominent in society; actively interested in va- rious philanthropies; lecturer and social worker. Favors woman suffrage; treas. Nat. American Woman Suffrage Ass'n; corr. sec. Internat. Woman Suffrage Alliance. Mem. College Club, Maryland Club, Chilton Club (Boston). McCORMICK, Ruth Hanna (Mrs. Medill McCor- mick), office, 500 Dlversy Blvd., Chicago, 111. Bom Cleveland, O., 1887; dau. Marcus Alonzo and Charlotte Augusta (Rhodes) Hanna; ed. Dobbs Ferry and Farmington; m. Cleveland, O., June 10, 1903, Medill McCormick. Interesrted In Nat. Civic Fed., Consumers' League, Am. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Women's Club for Civic Improvement In Chicago. Favors woman suf- frage. Mem. Finance Com. of the Nat. Suffrage Ass'n. Progressive. Recreations: Camping, hunting, shooting, fishing, horseback riding. Mem. (iolony Club of N.Y., Chicago Woman's Club, Woman's City Club, Congregational Club of Washington, D.C. ; Progressive, Fortnightly and Scribblers' Club of Chicago. Now working In Progressive Party and Suffrage organizations along educational lines to develop woman's ac- tivity In the political field and for civic better- men in her home locality.

McCORMICK, Sophia Grant, 6205 Howe St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Nov. 6, 1869; dau. David Cum- mings and Cecelia Carroll (Grant) McCormick; ed. Pittsburgh in Bishop Bowman In»t. Dlst. nurse under auspices of Fruit and Flower Mis- sion (treas.); active in Homoeopathic Hospital; sec. Calvary P.E. Church Sisterhood; mem. Twen- tieth Century Club, Civic Club, Playground Ass'n, Pa. Child Labor Ass'n, D.A.R. Favors woman suffrage. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Pittsburgh Art Soc., Twentieth Century dub (whist), Pittsburgh (Jolf Club. Recreations: Walking, golf, whist, bridge, concerts, reading, dancing.

MacCOULL, Kari P. Gamble (Mrs. Nell Mac-

Coull), 537 W. 121st St., N.Y. City.

Born New Scotland, N.Y., Mar. 14, 1865; dau. Samuel L. and M. Josephine (Leggett) Gamble; ed. Wellesley, A.B. '87; m. Pekin, 111., Dec. 19, 1889, Neil MacCoull; children: Nell MacCouU Jr., Dorothy L. MacCoull. Has been mem. various Wellesley clubs. Women's University Club of N.Y. ; Ass'n of Ciollegiate Alumnae. Active In all branches of church work as well as In settlement sewing schools. Baptist. Against woman suf- frage. McCOY, CamlUs Harrison (Mrs. Adrian Hill

McCoy), Cuthbert, Ga.

Born Savannah, Ga., Dec 21, 1861; dau. George P. and Thursa A. (Gulnn) Harrison; ed. privat(

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��Bcbool, Savannali, Ga., and Girls' High School, later A.B. (classical course); m. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 21, 1885, Adrian Hill McCoy; two adopted children: Harrison, Thurja Perry. Has worked for years for the uplift of the working girls, fnorally and socially. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Order Eastern Star and United Daughters Df Confederacy. Pres. Cutbbert Woman's Club; officer in State Fed. of Clubs.

McCOY, Emma Augusta, Somerset PI., New

Brunswick, N.J.

Supervisor; b. New Brunswick; dan. Goyn D. and Louisa (Thompson) McCoy; ed. New Bruns- wick public schools; Women's Art School, Cooper Inst., N.Y. City. Connected with piLblic schools of Somerset and Middlesex counties, N.J., for over 20 years; now supervisor of drawing in New Brunswick public schools. Organized, 1912, and is pres. Political Study Club of New Bruns- wick. Favors woma,n suffrage. Mem. Dutoh Reformed Church. Mem. Nat. Educational Ass'n, N.J. State Teachers' Ass'n, N.J. Fed. of Women's Clubs, Public School Teachers' Club of New Brunswick, W.C.T.U. Recreations:' Reading, walking.

McCOY, Etta Joe, 820 So. Cedar St., Ottawa,

Kan.

Educator; b. Indianapolis, la., Feb. 25, 1874; dau. Mark and EHizabeth (Wallace) McCoy; ed. Penn Coll., Oskaloosa, la.; Ottawa (Kan.) Univ. Teacher in grades, Ottawa, Kan. ; in grades and high school, Newberg, Ore. Sup't of Wellsville (Kan.) schools; now county sup't of schools, Franklin Co., Kan. (second term). Sec. and treas. of Miami Baptist Young People's Union and Sunday-school .Convention; vice-pres. Phila- thea Class; mem. Exec. Com. of Kansas School Peace League; mem. Resolution Com. Kan. State Teachers' Ass'n; mem. State Board of Education for Graded Schools; mem. proposed Legislation Com. of County Sup'ts of Kan. Favors woman suffrage; educational sec. of Equal Suffrage League. Editor of County Superintendent's Re- view; writer of articles for educational maga- zines. Mem. of Com. on Course of Study for Rural Schools of Kansas. Mem. Eastern Star, D.A.R. Recreations: Riding, driving, nature study. Mem. Exec. Com. Progressive Club. Led ticket in primary and election for county su- perintendent of public instruction, both for first and second terms. Baptist.

McCOY, Eeeta Myrtle, 3517 Thirteenth St., N.W.,

Washington, D.C.

Teacher; b. in Iowa; dau. L. L. and Alice (Richards) McCoy; ed. in Iowa, Nebraska, Chi- cago, New York. Formerly school teacher, now dean of Leojean Coll., Washington, D.C. Inter- ested in work for children, especially assisting in education of poor girls. Has written articles and has been connected with prominent news- papers and periodicals. Baptist. Republican. Recreations: Walking, jiding, driving.

McCBACKEN, Elizabeth, 4 Avon St., Cambridge, Mass. ; business, Houghton-Mifflin Co., 4 Park St., Boston, Mass.

Writer and editor; b. New Orleans, La., Feb. 29, 1876; dau. William Charles and Mary Elizabeth (Kruse) McCracken; grad. Brownell Hall, Omaha, Neb., B.A. ; special studies, Boston, in English, literature, Italian and German. Engaged in literary work since 1S96, contributing to The Atlantic Monthly, The OuUook. The Youth's Companion, The Century, The Independent and ■The Ladies' Home Journal. Wrote a series of articles as the result of investigations all over the country into the sociological conditions of American women, which were published in The Outlook, 1902-03, and afterward in a volume. The Women of America, 1904; wrote series of articles on American children, published in The Outlook, 1912-13, and in a volume, The American Child, 1913. Since its founding by Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1911, editor of the new magazine. Home Progress. Active in church social service work and civic betterment work. Anti-suffragist; hon- orary vice-pres. Mass. State Anti-Suffragist Ass'n. Mem. Boston Authors' Club, Circolo Italiano of Boston, Boston Browning Soc, Wom-

��en's Trade Union League, Am. Home Economics Ass'n. Episcopalian. Socialist. Recreations: The drama, nature study.

McCRACKEN, Mary Unger (Mrs. John W. Mc- Cracken), 911 Main St., E., Rochester, N.Y. Born Danville, Pa., Oct. 14, 1879; dau. Melanc- thon and Elisabeth (Swenk) Unger; ed. Dan- ville High School, Bucknell Univ., A.B. '02, A.M. '03, summa cum laude (commencement speaker); m. Danville, Pa., June 21, 1907, John W. MoCracken; one daughter: Elisabeth Unger. Baptist.

McCBACKTN, BeUe Fitzhngh McPherson (Mrs.

Alexander McCrackin), 225 Pacific Av., San

Francisco, Cal.

Born Baltimore, Md., 1870; dau. Maynard and Mary P. (Fitzhugh) McPherson; ed. San Fran- cisco in private schools; m. 1895, S*n Fran- cisco, Alexander McCrackin, U.S. Navy (died January, 1911, with rank of rear admiral) ; one daughter: Isabelle McPherson, b. Annapolis, Md., 1896. Active in church work. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Democrat. Mem. of Colonial Dames Resident in State ot Cal., United Daughters of Confederacy, Town and Country Club of San Francisco, Y.W.C.A., Drama League, Channing Auxiliary, Army and Navy League, Navy Relief, Rest Room for Business Women.

McCBACKIN, Josephine Clifford (Mrs. Jackson McCrackin), Pacheco Av., Santa Cruz, Cal. Writer; b. Petershagen, Prussia, Germany; dau. Ernest and Charlotte (Baroness von Ende) Woempner; ed. St. Louis, Mo.; partly at private German school; later visited externat of Sacred Heart Convent; m. (1st) J. S. Clifford; (2d) Jack- son McCrackin. Author: Overland Tales; Another Juanita; as magazine writer contributed to Overland Monthly, Lakeside, Harper's, West- ern Monthly and others; has written much on forest, bird, game and animal protection; was first to sound the slogan. Save the Redwoods. Roman Catholic. Founder Ladies' Forest and Song Bird Protective Ass'n; mem. Pacific Coast Women's Press Ass'n; officer Santa Cruz Co. Humane Soc.; mem. State Humane Ass'n; mem. California Game and Fish Protective Ass'n. Mem. Sempervirens Club of Cal.; hon. mem. Saturday Afternoon Club of Santa Cruz; also Improvement Club.

McCREADY, Margaret Merkley (Mrs. Norman

S. McCready), Snohomish, Wash.

Born Iroquois, Ontario, Can., Mar. 5, 1865; dau. Charles and Elizabeth (Irvine) Merkley; ed. Iroquois public schools; m. Sntihomisii, Wash., Sept. 24, 1890, Dr. Norman S. MoCready; chil- dren: Norman M., b. Jan. 19, 1893; Irving S., b. May 19, 1896. Interested and active in social and philanthropic matters, reform work and so- cial service. Favors woman suffrage and activ« In a general way. Episcopalian. Progressive. Mem. St. John's Episcopal Guild; director oi Anti-Tnberculosls Ass'n of Washington; past worthy matron Order of Eastern Star. Mem. Cosmopolitan Club; first vice-pres. Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs; director ol Western Federation of Improvement Clubs.

McCBEDIE, Marion MacMaster, Sunnyslde,

Wash.

Bom Staffordshire, England, April 27, 1863; dau. James and Rosanna (Heron) MacMaster; ed. Ladies' Coll., Edinburgh, Scotland; honors in German, French art and EInglish subjects; m. Wigtownshire, Scotland, Oct. 11, 1892, Robert C. McCredie; one son: William Lemond. Teacher of Bible classes; civic worker. Mem. Washing- ton State Board of Health, Washington State Ass'n for Prevention and Relief ot Tuberculosis (Exec.. Board); Board of Regents Puget Sound Univ. ; pres. Western Woman's Outlook News- paper Co. ; pres. Washington State Federation ol Women's Cluhs; mem. Sunnyslde Park Com- mission. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Th« Few Responsibilities of Women in the State oi Washington; The Ideal Town; The Modern Ideal Club Woman; What the State Federation of

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��Clubs is Doing for Woman; Rules and Regula- Mons for Good Health. Presbyterian. Pro- pressive (Bull Moose). Mom. P.E.O. Sisterhood (Chapter L. Sunnyslde). Recreations: Gardening, walking, driving, entertaining young people away from home. Pres. Woman's Civic Club, Sunny- ride; mem. Lyceum Club (London and N.Y. City). McCREERY, Janie Cole (Mrs. R. W. McCreery),

704 West Main St., Marshalltown, la.

Born Chicago, Apr. 11, 1875; dau. John E. and Mary Ella (Shirley) Cole; ed. Kansas City High School; m. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 30, 1895, R. W. McCreery; children: Worthington Cole, Walter Say. Interested In Congregational Church; pres. of Twentieth Century Club, the Hawthorne Club, and the Carreaway Club, Marshalltown, la.; mem. of City, State and Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs;" officer Playground Work (pub- lic). Unitarian (though active In Congregational Church). Favors woman suffrage.

McCRELLIS, Mary F., 800 Davis St., Evanston, 111.

Physician; b. North Sandwich, N.H., June 15, 1856; dau. William and Mary Shaw (Watson) McCrlllis; ed. Gilmanton (N.H.) Acad., 1873-76; Boston University School of Medicine, 1878-82. Mem. Am Inst, of Homoeopathy, 111. Hcmceop- ithic Med. Ass'n, Chicago Homoeopathic Med. Soc., Chicago After Dinner Club, Evanston Univ. Guild. Congregationaliflt. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

McCX'LLOCH, Catharine Waagh (Mrs. Frank Hathorn McCulloch), 2236 Orrlngton Av., Evanston, III.

Attorney-at-law; b. Ransomville, N.Y., June ■i, 1862; dau. A. Miller and Susan ((3ougar) Waugh; ed. Rockford Coll., B.A., M.A.; North- western Univ. Law School, LL.B., '86; m. Rock- ford, 111., May 30, 1890, Frank Hathorn Mc- Culloch; children: Hugh Waugh, Hathorn Waugh, Catharine Waugh, Frank Waugh. Ad- mitted to bar in Illirois, 18S6, and to Su- preme Court of U.S., 1898; practised law for four years and in 1890 became mem. of firm Mc- Culloch & McCulloch. Interested in Sunday- school and missionary socs., Mothers' Club, W.C.T.U. Author: Mr. Lex, a story; Bridget's Sisters, a play; many short leaflets and pam- phlets, mostly with a legal turn. Mem. Fred- erick Douglass Center, Immigration Aid Soc., Chicago Woman's Club, Political Equality League, Evanston Woman's Club, Evanston Po- litical Equality League, Evanston Univ. Guild. Recreations: Visiting, traveling, horseback riding, piano playing to accompany her sons' violin and 'cello. Congregationalist. Independ- ent in politics. For 22 years in charge of legis- lative work of III. Equal Suffrage Ass'n; was an officer of the Nat. Ass'n (1st vice-pres. and legal adviser) ; mem. of local boards. Was elected justice of the peace twice, and was first woman to hold judicial office In U.S. Took a leading part in the successful effort to secure the pass- age of the bill which gave women the franchise in Illinois, 1913.

McCulloch, Harriet Ellen Mlze (Mrs. Robert McCulloch), Cloverdale, Cal. Teacher; b. Troy, la., July 22, 1842; dau. Flem- ing and Harriet (Briggs) Mlze; eldest of eight children (six boys and two girls); ed. Rockford Female Sem., 111., June, 1862; m. Cal., June, 1875, Robert McCulloch, Presbyterian minister; one son: Edgar Robert; two step-children: David and Mary McCulloch. Began as assistant teacher in Troy Acad, before graduation; taught in pub- lic schools of Iowa, California, Nevada and in Seattle, Wash., the last 17 years of 45 years of teaching. Sunday-school teacher up to the age of 70; worker in missionary soc; mem. W.C.T.U. Favors woman suffrage. Preshyterian. Repub- lican. Mem. Chautauqua societies for years. After some years' teaching in Iowa went to Cali- fornia; taught in VacavUle and Healdsburg; after the great Seattle flre went as teacher to Seattle for 17 years.

McCUJLLOCH, Margraret, 1100 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Born Indianapolis, Ind. ; dau. Oscar C. and Alice (Barteau) McCulloch; ed. Indianapolis High

��School, Vassar Coll., A.B. Friendly visitor of Charity Organization Soc; pres. Indiana Vassar Club, 1910-12. Congregationalist. Mem. Dra- matic Club, D.A.R.

McCL'NE, Lilian Jlay (Mrs. C. B. McCune), Benson, Minn.

Born Uniontown, Ind., May 7, 1856; dau. Solo- mon and Sarah Belle (Francisco) Foland; ed. Indiana Univ., B.S. '75 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Benson, Minn., Nov. 4, 1885, C. B. McCune (Princeton '73); children: Robert Hugh, Guy Everett, Howard Lyndon (deceased). Taught before marriage in Terre Haute (Ind.) High School. Original and continued mem. of Public Library Board, which is just completing new Carnegie Building; vlce-pres. Seventh Dist. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Has published numerous poems and written travel letters for local papers. Author: Betty Leeds; Peace, Be Still; A Vision; These Three. Congregationalist. Mem. Coterie, Woman's Study Club and church societies. McCl'TCHEON, Hattie Louise, 15 MacPherson Terrace, Albany, N.Y.

Normal teacher; b. Charlotte, Mich.; ed. in schools of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. ; Vassar Coll., A.B. '95; N.Y. State Normal Coll., Pd.D. '03. Teacher Brooklyn Heights Sem., 1895-99; Short Hills (N.J.) High School, 1899-1902; State Normal School, Geneseo, N.Y., 1903-04; teacher and critic, N.Y. State Normal High School, 1904-06; N.Y. State Normal Coll. from 1906. Author of mono- graph on Teaching French Phonics; The Poetry of B6ranger and National Sentiment in France (published by State Normal Coll.). McCUTCHEOX, Leoiia, Thorndale, Ont., Can.

Teacher; b. Thorndale, Ont., Can.; dau. Will- iam M. and Essie (Teare) McCutcheon; ed. Univ. of Toronto, B.A. '03 (first class honors In clas- sics); Univ. of Wis., M.A. '05. Engaged in teach- ing in Ontario schools since graduation. Also actively interested in Sunday-school work. Methodist.

McDANIEL, Martha Douglass Scarborough (Mrs. George White McDaniel), Mt. Sylvan, Rich- mond, Va.

Born Mt. Carmel, Tex.; dau. John B. and Mary (Ellison) Scarborough; grad. Baylor Univ., Waco, Tex., A.B., A.M. 1893-95; Vassar Coll., A.B. '96; m. Waco, Tex., Mar. 23, 1898, George White McDaniel, D.D. (Richmond Coll.), '06, pastor First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va. ; children: Mary Scarborough, b. Mar. 10, 1899; John Harrington, b. May 10, 1901. Prof, of mod- ern languages in Baylor Univ., Waco, Tex., 1896- 98. Pres. 1907-09, now mem. Exec. Board Wom- an's Missionary Union of Va. ; vlce-pres. Flor- ence Crittenden Mission in Va.,. 1910-11; delegate from State of Virginia to World's Alliance, Phil- adelphia, 1911; vice-pres. Mission Circle of Rich- mond. Author of Mission Tracts and Pamphlets; State Mission Salmagundi; Our State for Christ; Christian Stewardship; Mission Interest Depend- ent Upon a Knowledge of Facts; Children as Christians and Church Members. Also poema and essays, published principally by Woman's Missionary Union and Sunday-School B'd ol Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. Mem. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, Woman's Guild, Daughters of the Church, Confederate Memorial Literary Soc Every Monday Club of Richmond, Va. Recrea- tions: Horseback riding, walking, tennis. MACDONALD, Annie CaroUne, 15 Dote San- banche, Kojimachi, Tokyo, Japan. National secretary Y.W.C.A. In Japan- b Wlngham, Ont; dau. Hon. Peter Macdonald, M.D. (mem. Dominion House of Commons 1887- 1904), and Margaret (Ross) Macdonald; ed schools' of Wlngham, Ont.; Toronto Univ., B.A. (honor graduate in mathematics and physics), '01. Became sec. Y.W.C.A., Ottawa, Ont.; latei traveling sec. Student Volunteer Movement, 1903 National City sec. Canadian Y.W.C.A., 1904, in which year she took her present position as bat sec Y.W.C.A. in Japan.

MACDONALD, Belle Jeanne (Mrs. Henry Mac- donald), "Barberrybush," Brlgh"twater», L.I., N.Y. ; office, 1730 Broadway, N.Y. City. Physician, surgeon; b. Montreal, Can., Aug. 6 1866; dau. Capt. Edward and Barbara Ann (McBee) Chambrean; general education at home

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��by tutors and governesses; grad. Med. Dep't Willamette Univ., Portland, Ore., M.D. '86; m. Chattanooga, Tenn., 1892, Dr. Hfinry Macdonald; children: Daisy Belle, Ev^yn. Founder Bye and Ear Clinic, Portland, Ore., and was physician and sec. to Florence Crittenden Home for Girls at Portland, Ore.; later in Chattanooga, Tenn., was physician to the County Hospital and lee-, turer on physiology and anatomy before the Col- lege of Teachers; located in practice in N.Y. City; became clinical ass't at Manhattan Bye and Ear Hospital and N.Y. Polyclinic to Dr. David Webster and the late Dr. E. C. Seguin. Physician in Nose and Throat Clinic, N.Y. Women's Infirmary; established Home for Ner- vous Convalescents at Woodhaven, L.I. ; passed Civil Service examination and was appointed med. inspector in N.Y. City Dep't of Health, Division of Child Hygiene, serving eight years. Original mem. in establishment of Public Health Education Com. of Am. Med. Ass'n. Author of articles on Developmental Diseases; Let Roofs Save the Children's Lives; Legislation Should Provide for Compulsory Vocational Training; Un Important Projet d'Hygiene Publique; Les "Sans Metiers." -Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. State Med. Soc, N.Y. Med. Soc, Women's Med. Ass'n of N.Y. City (sec), Internat. Surgical Clinic, Internat. Dermatological Congress, Nat. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene Soc, Fonda- tion de la Maison du Pauvre, Paris, France; William Lloyd Garrison Equal Rights Ass'n, Professional Women's League, Twilight Club; ex. sec. L'Union Franco-Americaine, N.Y. City. Recreations: Art, music, travel, languages. Protestant Episcopal. Favors woman suffrage; organized first meeting of 27th Assembly Dist. of the Woman Suffrage Party in N.Y. City; mem. Ways and Means Com. of Woman's Political Union.

Mcdonald, Clara Bird, 3217 Summit St., Kan- sas City, Mo.

Born Carrollton, Missouri, Feb. 14, 1874; dau. Wittien and Clara (Bird) McDonald; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. '96. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate AlumnaB, Smith College Club.

McDonald, Etta Blalsdell (Mrs. James Rich- ard McDonald), 85 Brooks St., West Medford, Mass.

Author; b. Manchester, >I.H., Mar. 20, 1872; dau. Clark and Clara (Murray) Blaisdell; ed. Prospect Hill School, Greenfield, Mass.; grad. State Normal School, Framingham, Mass., '91; m. Brockton, Mass., Aug. 3, 1899, James Richard McDonald. Taught school in Mass., 1891-96; supervisor of primary schools, Brockton, Mass., 1896-99. Author (with sister, Mary Frances Blaisdell): Child Life, 1899; Child Life in Tale and B'able, 1899; Child Life in Many Lands, 1900; Child Life in Literature, 1900; The Blais- dell Spellers, 1901; The Child Life Fifth Reader, 1902; The Wide Awake Readers, Primer, First, Second and Third Readers (pen-name "Clara Murray"), 1904-08; Boy Blue and His Friends, 1907; (with Julia Dalrymple) : Little People Every- where (including' Ume San in Japan, 1909; Kath- leen in Ireland, 1909; Manuel in Mexico, 1909 Rafael in Italy, 1909; Gerda in Sweden, 1910 Boris in Russia, 1910; Betty in Canada, 1910 Fritz in Germany, 1910; Marta in Holland, 1911 Hassan in Egypt, 1911; Donald in Scotland 1912; Josefa in Spain, 1912). Mem. Boston Authors' Club, New England Woman's Press Ass'n, Medford Women's Club. Recreation: Motoring.

MACDONALD, Lucy Maud Montgromery (Mrs. Ewan Macdonald), Leaskdale, Ont., Can. Writer; b. Clifton, P.E. Island, Nov. 30, 1874; iau. Hugh John and Clara (Macneile) Mont- gomery; ed. Prince of Wales Coll., Charlotte- town, P.E. Island; m. Park Corner, P.E. Island, July 5, 1911, Rev. Ewan Macdonald; one son: Chester Cameron. Author: Anne of Green Sables; Anne of Avonlea; Kilmeny of the Or- chard; Chronicles of Avonlea. Mem. Canadian Women's Pri;ss Club. Recreations: Reading, walking. Presbyterian.

HacDONALD, Margaret Baxter, State College, Pa. Teacher; b. Albemarle Co., Va. ; dau. Abram

��Addams and Isabelle Plunket (Mackay) Mac- Donald; ed. Pa. State Coll., 1893-95; Mt. Holy- oke Coll., B.S. '98; Bryn Mawr Coll., Ph.D. '02 (fellowship at Bryn Mawr Coll. and Univ. ol Pa ). Teacher of chemistry. State Normal School, Trenton, N.J. ; instructor in chemistry, Vassar Coll.; chemist Del. Experiment Station; ass't prof, agricultural chemistry. Pa. State Coll. Favors woman suffrage. Has written chemical articles, published in Am. Chemical Journal; and "Agricultural Education for Women," published in agricultural periodicals. Presbyterian. Fel- low A.A.A.S., Maria Mitchell Ass'n. MacDONALD, Margaret Chisholm, Military Hos- pital, Quebec, Can.

Military nurse; b. Bailey's Brook, Nova Scotia, Feb. 26, 1878; dau. Major D. D. and Mary S. (Chisholm) MacDonald; ed. Mt. St. Vincent Acad., Halifax, N.S. Trained in N.Y. City Hos- pital for Nurses. Cor. sec. of N.Y. City Training School Alumna Ass'n, Nursed at Montauk Point during Spanish- American War; In active service in South Africa during Boer War — saw beginning and termination of same. Went out with Canadian troops, returned with them at end of year. Went back to South Africa under Im- perial Government, then had a position in U.S. Health Dt^p't, Canal Zone, just after territory had been acquired by U.S. Entered Canadian Per- manent Army Medical Corps (holds_lieutenant's commission) In 1906; In June, 1911, seiit to Eng- land by Dep't of Militia to make a study of nursing, administration, organization and mobi- lization at the War Office, London, visiting all the military hospitals in England and Scotland; now matron of Military Hospital, Quebec, Can. Supporter of non-militant section of woman suffrage. Roman Catholic. Recreations: Tennis, golf, canoeing, snowshoeing. Mem. Women's Canadian Club, Nova Scotia Historical Soc, Im- perial Order of Daughters of the Empire, and Ass'n of Officers of the Medical Services of Canada.

MACDONALD, Male Tucker (Mrs. Augustln S. Macdonald), 325 Vernon St., Oakland, Cal. Born N.Y. City; dau. Dr. J. C. and Wilhel- mina (Havemeyer) Tucker; ed. N.Y. City and Berlin; m. Oakland, Cal., Jan. 1, 1900, Augustin S. Macdonald; children: Mora, Donald Tucker. Mem. Soc. Daughters Pioneers of CaUfornia, Town and Country Club (San Francisco), Clare- mont Country Club of Oakland. MACDONALD, Mary Bartlett (Mrs. Duncan Black Macdonald), 853 Asylum Av., Hartford, Conn, (summer, Pemaquid, Me.). -

Born N.Y. City, Sept. 14, 1850; dau. Prof. David Ely and Fanny Pomeroy (Hinsdale) Bartlett; ed. privately; m. Hartford, Conn., June 22, 1898, Prof. Duncan Black Macdonald. Had charge of prep, education of four Chinese boys, under Dr. Yung Ming's Chinese Educational Commission; for 20 years taught piano playing and harmony, and private classes in history and literature. Interested in music and in compiling family records; occupied in assisting husband, especially In comparative religion, folk-lore and psychical research; interested in church and Sunday-school work. Has written verses and papers In pe- riodicals and a story, What Hetty Saw (Connec- ticut Magazine). Mem. Conn. Hist. Soc, D.A.R., Ruth Wyllis Chapter (historian and mem. of Exec Com. for several years), Mayflower Soc, Hartford Art Soc. ; associate mem. Hartford Saturday Morning Club. Congregatlonalist. Strongly against woman suffrage. MACDONALD, Mary Catharine Van Vreden- burg Hopkins (Mrs. Robert Dhu Macdonald), Greyacres, Winter Park, Fla, Born SomerviUe, N.J. ; dau. John Richards and Amelia M. (Weed) Hopkins; ed. Packer Coll. Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y. ; m. Brookline, Mass., May 14, 1902, Robert Dhu Macdonald. Lived in N.Y. City until purchased property in South and moved to Florida. Registrar Manhattan Chapter D.A.R. (N.Y. City), 1903-09; three years chair- man Entertainment Com. Women's Republican Club of N.Y. City; cor. sec. Washington Head- quarters Ass'n, three years; charter mem. Nat. Patriotic Women of America (N.Y. City) three years; now mem. Winter Park (Fla.) Board of

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��Trade, and chairman of its Com. on Town Im- provement. Favors suffrage for women (espte- cially taxpayers). Congregationalist.

MacDONALD, Muriel Irwin (Mrs. Norman Mac- Donald), The Homestake, Franklin Turnpike, Ridgewood, N.J. ; office, Housewives I^eague Magazine, Inc., 31 E. 27th St., N.Y. City. Editor Housewives League Magazine; b. New- market, Ont., Can., July 1, 1867; dau. Benonl Irwin, A.N. A. (painter), and Elizabeth Beardsley (Bunner) Irwin; ed. at home and by tutors; m. Aug. 18, 1901, Norman MacDonald, civil engi- neer (died February, 1903); one daughter: Isabel Katharine Bunner, b. Aug. 7, 1902. Reporter, special writer, dramatic critic and Sunday editor of the Loa Angeles Times, 1895-1900; managing editor and, later, contributing editor of The Craftsman, 1905-10; managing editor of The De- lineator, 1911. Editor of Housewives League Magazine from 1913. Favors woman suffrage. Author of magazine articles and editorials, chiefly on polltreal, social and ethical questions. Prot- estant Episcopalian. Progressive in politics. Mem. Housewives League, Woman's Municipal League, Woman Suffrage Party, Pen and Brush Club. Recreations: Music, traveling, ordinary pursuits, amusements of country life.

McDonald, Stella Breyfogle (Mrs. Morton McDonald), 266 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio. Born Loui.sville, Ky. ; dau. Charles W. and Olivia (Mabury) Breyfogle; ed. Univ. of Pacific, Mills Coll., Cal.; two years traveling more than half around the world; m. San Jose, Cal., April, 1896, Morton McDonald; children: E>dwln Charles, John Miller, Ray Morton. Mem. Diet Kitchen, Humane Soc., Y.W.C.A., Needlework Guild. Against woman suffrage. Author: Clear Shining After Rain (book of short stories) ; also about 50 short stories in various magazines. Congrega- tionalist. Clubs: College Women's, Columbus Art, Women's Music.

MacDONKLL, Tochle Williams (Mrs. Robert W. MacDonell), 810 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn.

Missionary secretary; b. Macon, Ga., Sept. 8, 1861; dau. William D. and Nancy (Collier) Williams; ed. Wesleyan Coll., Macon, Ga., B.A. •78 (Adelphian); m. Macon, Dec, 1880, Robert W. MacDonell; children: Dr. William W., Robert W., Mrs. R. W. Balcom. Taught in Georgia Acad, for Blind twelve years, 1889-1900; Wesley Coll., 1898-90; gen. sec. Woman's Board of Home Missions, 1900-10; sec. Woman's Work, Home Dep't Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1910—. Mem. Nashville Equal Suffrage League. Newspaper and church paper correspondent. During the 12 years of her con- nection with the home missionary work of her denomination she has seen' the membership of women in this missionary society quadruple In number, and its missionary collections have In- creased fivefold; have created 20 Wesley Homes (social settlements), three rooms for working girls, a hospital, a Door of Hope and several large settlements.

McDonnell, Nannie Chilton (Mrs. Eugene Mc- Donnell), The Winona, Baltimore, Md. Born Warrenton, Va., Mar. 8, 1860; dau. Dr. John G. and Catherine (Massie) Chilton; entered Hochelaga Convent, Montreal, Can., September, 1873; grad. 1879; m. Warrenton, Va., Sept. 19, 1883, Eugene McDonnell; children: Francis Regis, Catherine, John, Austin, Bdmond. Favors woman suffrage (deeply interested). Catholic. Mem. D.A.R., Daughters of the Confederacy. McDOrCAL, Mary Carmack, 217 South Elm St., Kapulpa, Okla.

Journalist; b. Selmer, Tenn., August, 1891; dau. D. A. McDougal (who, as Reform Mayor of Sapulpa, Okla., inaugurated there the commia- Bion form of government) and Myrtle (Archer) McDougal (cousin to late U.S. Senator Edward Carmack of Tenn.); grad in expression, Kidd- Key Conservatory; North Texas Coll., B.L. 1910; student Woman's Coll., Liberty, Mo.; Oklahoma Univ., Norman, Okla. (Kappa Alpha Theta). Was voungest and most successful editor of the Oklahoma Club Woman, official magazine of Okla. State Fed. of Women's Cluba. Interested

��in making original investigation Into systems of charities and corrections in U.S., with particular empliasis on work in Oklahoma. Has writJten articles in dally newspapers, club Journals and Oklahoma Club Woman. Mem. D.A.R., United Daughters of Confederacy, Y.W.C.A., Library Club of Sapulpa, Okla. ; former mem. Kldd-Key Shakespeare (3lub, Sherman, Tex. Recreation: Walking. Favors woman suffrage; has published articles on suffrage in Oklahoma Club Woman.

McDOUGAL, Myrtle Archer (Mrs. D. A. Mc- Dougal), Sapulpa, Okla.

Author, lecturer; b. Baldwyn, Miss.; dau. O. W. and Jane (Welch) Archer; ed. public and pri- vate schools of Mississippi; took honors in origi- nal literary work and in Greek translations; m. Feb. 12, 1888, D. A. McDougal; children: Jean Myrtle, Mary Carmack, Violet Audrey. Writer many short stories and verses, besides historical articles, etc. Lectures on literary topics, also domestic science. Has organized classes in First Aid to Injured; vitally interested in conserving the time, energy and strength of the modern woman. Now leading a movement In Oklahoma whereby 6,000 women will study causes of high cost of living. Favors woman suffrage. Arrang- ing outline for club study in political science as preparation for citizenship. Mem. Christian Church (Disciples). Democrat. Charter mem. Shiloih Chapter Daughters of Confederacy. Savannah, Tenn., organized to erect monument to Southern dead on Shiloh battlefield; now State U.D.C. director for Okla.; hard worker for Con- federate veteran clubs; served as pres. Indian Territory Fed. before Statehood; served on com. that united two federations harmoniously, and is now serving third year as pres. Oklahoma State Federation of'Women's Clubs.

MacDOUGALL, Charlotte Sackett Stone (Mrs. William D. MacDougall), 1323 Twenty-first St., Washington, D.C.

Bom Syracuse, N.Y., June 9, 1873; dau.' Charles Luke and Zilla Buttrick (Sackett) Stone; ed. private schools, high school and Smith Coll., B.L.; m. Syracuse, N.Y., Dec. 22, 1898, William D. MacDougall; children: Charlotte Stone, Zilla MacDougall. Mem. of several social and philan- thropic clubs. Presbyterian.

JIcDOUGAXL, Marion Eliza (Mrs. J. Lorn Mc- Dougall), 560 Parkdale Av., Ottawa, Ont., Can. Bom Burnstown, Ont, Dec. 29, 1851; dau. Peter and Helen (Baillle) Morris; ed. Burnstown and Ottawa, Ont.; m. Ottawa, Sept 7, 1870, J. Lom McDougall, M.P. for Renfrew; children: John Lorn, Helen, Samuel, Alexander, Kate, Morris, Anne, Marlon, Archie, Kenneth, Jean, Shlela, Pres. Home Missionary Soc. ; first vice-pres. Foreign Missionary Soc. of Bethany Church, Ottawa; first vice-pres. of Woman's Canadian Club, Ottawa, and Women's Canadian Historical Soc, Ottawa; pres. Social Service and Moral Reform Soc, Ottawa; pres. Journal Christman Charity Fund for two years; mem. Board ol Maternity Hospital, also Women's Hostel and Travelers' Aid. Favors woman suffrage. Author: An Account of the Early Settlers of the County of Renfrew; Settlement of Leeds Co. by the Unite-3 Empire Loyalists (these pamphlets printed by Women's Historical Soc, Ottawa). Presby- terian. Mem. Local Council of Y.W.C.A., Or- phans' Home, Ladles' Aid of St Andrew's Church. Recreation: Gardening.

McDowell, CecUe Rebecca (Mrs. Charles B.

McDowell), 815 High St., Logansport, Ind.

Teacher of vocal music; b. Eaton Rapids, Mich., April 4, 1880; dau. Calvin L. and Barbara (Miller) Powers; grad. of Baton Rapids High School in Latin course; Mich. State Normal Ooll., 1899, obtaining life certificate to teach; m. Eaton Rapids, Mich., Oct. 28, 1903, Charles E. Mc- Dowell ; one son : Ralph Leroy, b. Aug. 11, 1907. Took two years' post-grad, course In conserva- tory work; later Instituted music course In Fair- bury (Neb.) public school. Soloist in tl^ First Presbyterian Church; for last three years soloist In the First Church of Christ (Scientist). Mem. (Hill Top Branch). Mem. Twentieth Century Eastern Star, Art Ass'n, Woman's Progressive Club; past pres. Mental Culture Club, Woman

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 Suffrage Club. Recreations: Out-door sports, rowing, good books, lectures, opera. Christian Scientist.

MCDOWELL, Clotilda Lyon (Mrs. William Fraser McDowell), 1936 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Ill.

Missionary official; b. Galion, Ohio; dau. Aaron J. and Olive W. Lyon; grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., B.L. 80, A.M. '11; m. Sept. 30, 1882, Rev. William Fraser McDowell, now bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Always actively interested in mission work of the Methodist Episcopal Church and since 1908 has been president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of that church, and with her husband visited in 1910 and 1911 many of the mission stations of the M.E. Church in the Philippine Islands, Japan, Korea, China, India and Europe. Delegate to Edinburgh Missionary Conference, 1910; editor of Our Work for the World, 1913.

MCDOWELL, Elizabeth Estill (Mrs. John Irving McDowell), Big Springs, Tex.

Born Waynesboro, Va., 1873; dau. Charles P. and Kate (Fishburne) Estill; ed. high school and Sam Houston Normal Inst., Huntsville, Tex.; m. Huntsville, Tex., Jan. 17, 1894, John Irving McDowell. Presbyterian. Mem. Missionary Societies, charity ass'ns and Hyperion Club of Big Spring.

McDOWELL, Emma M. Scott (Mrs. George S. McDowell), 1118 Myrtle Av., Cincinnati, O.

Born New Britain, Pa., Oct. 29, 1857; dau. James D. and Ellen (Mathews) Scott; grad. Bucknell Coll. (class valedictorian); m. Aug. 9, 1882, George S. McDowell; children: Eleanor (Mrs. E. L. Ryan), George Scott, Robert, James, Kenneth. Occasional contributor to newspapers and magazines. Pres. Woman's Press Club, Cincinnati. Baptist.

McDOWELL, Louise Sherwood, 6 Norfolk Terrace, Wellesley, Mass.

Professor of physics in Wellesley College; b. Wayne, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1876; dau. Francis M. and Eva (Sherwood) McDowell; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '98; Cornell Univ., M.A. '07, Ph.D. '09. Teacher, Northfield Sem., 1898-1901; Warren (Ohio) High School, 1901-06; student Cornell, 1906-09; instructor in physics, Wellesley Coll., 1909-10; assoc. professor, 1910-12; professor of physics, 1912—. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ, A.A.A.S, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa Ass'n, Am. Physical Society.

MCDOWELL, Mary Eliza, University of Chicago Settlement, 4630 Gross Av., Chicago, Ill.

Head resident University of Chicago Settlement; b. Cincinnati, O., Nov. 30, 1854; dau. Malcolm M. and Jane Welsh (Gordon) McDowell; ed. in public and private schools. Since 1894 head of University of Chicago Settlement in the Union Stockyards dist.; made by trustees of the university a member of the faculty and an associate in the department of sociology. Mem. Nat. Soc. of Charities and Corrections, the Religious Educational Ass'n, Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Am. Sociological Soc., the Nat. Public School Extension, Nat. Child Labor Com., Nat. Playground Ass'n, the Immigrant Protective League, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of the Colored Race, Chicago Peace Soc., Methodist Episcopal Fed. for Social Service; charter mem. and mem. Exec. Com. Nat. Woman's Trade Union League; was first pres. now vice-pres. Ill. Woman's Trade Union League; mem. Nat. Consumers' League, Nat. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Ill. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Ill. Consumers' League, the Ill. Fed. of Women's Clubs (chairman Internat. Com.), the Nat. Indoor Games Ass'n, Cook Co. Com. of the Progressive Party. Favors woman suffrage; mem. many suffrage societies; chairman Industrial Com. of Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Author of chapters in Social Ministry and the Socialized Church; contributor to The Survey and The Continent. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Progressive Party Com. and spoke during campaign of 1912. Mem. of most of the economic, sociological and church societies, Chicago Woman's Club Chicago Woman's City

Club, Hull House Woman's Club. University of Chicago Settlement Woman's Club. Has given lectures before women's clubs, religious bodies, Am. Federation of Labor, universities and col- leges, and hearings before legislative bodies.

McDOWELL, Pauline, 201 Grafton Av., Newark, N.J. Teacher; b. Pluckamin, N.J., Sept. 3, 1874; dau. William Osborn and Josephine (Timanus) McDowell; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '96. First assistant high school, Weston, Mass., 1898-04; grad. study Columbia Univ., 1904-05. Instructor in chemistry, N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women, 1905-06; instructor chemistry, Batten High School, Elizabeth, N.J., 1907. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Charter mem. D.A.R. Mem. College Club of Essex Co.

McELROY, Mary Arthur (Mrs. John L. McElroy), 170 State St., Albany, N.Y.

Born Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y., 1841; dau. Rev. William and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; ed. Mrs. Emma Willard's Sem., Troy, N.Y.; m. Newtonville, N.Y., 1867, John L. McElroy; children: May MeElroy (Jackson), William, Jessie, Charles L. Sister of President Arthur and Lady of the White House from 1882 to Mar. 4, 1885.

MacEUEN, Mary Carnell (Mrs. Edward Allen MacEuen), 3731 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Photographer; b. Glassboro, N.J., 1865; dau. William and Hannah (Gillman) Carnell; ed. Glassboro High School; m. Philadelphia, Nov. 13, 1900, Edward Allen MacEuen. After eight years partnership, in summer of 1990, assumed sole control of studio (1314 Chestnut St.); won prizes and honors at State and National competitive exhibitions of photographic societies, 1900-02; became interested in woman's work; organized the Woman's Fed. of the Photographic Ass'n of America and presided over same three years. Pres. Ladies' Auxiliary Old Guard State Fencibles six years, and reëlected; also pres. three years of a Fortnightly Club; interested in philanthropic work. Mem. Historical Pageant Ass'n of Philadelphia, the Dickens Fellowship, Soc. of Arts and Letters, Photographers' Ass'n of America (Pa. State and Philadelphia section), Philadelphia Soc. for the Prevention of Social and Moral Diseases, Plastic Club (four years mem. Board of Directors). Recreations: Boating, fishing, out-door vacations, reading, theatre, social life. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

MCEWEN, Mary Gilrutn (Mrs. Ernest Lewis McEwen), 1703 Chicago Av., Evanston, Ill. Physician; b. Charlotte, Ia., May 3, 1872; dau. James Henry and Addie (Collin) Gilruth; grad. Cornell Coll., B.S. '04; Northwestern Univ. Woman's Med. School, M.D. '98 (Alpha Epsilon Iota); m. Davenport, Ia., Apr. 23, 1898, Dr. Ernest Lewis McEwen; one son, Ernest George, b. May 6, 1908. Interne Cook County Hosp., 1898-1900; student, Vienna and Berlin, 1904-05; associate prof., 1909-12, and since June, 1912, prof. clinical gynecology, Coll. Phys. and Surg. (Med. Dep't Univ. of Ill.), Chicago; med. direc- tor Marcy Center; attending surgeon St. Francis Hospital, Evanston; author of various published papers on medical subjects; mem. Chicago Med. Soc., Am. Med Ass'n. Chairman Public Health Dep't, Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs; advisory mem. Public Health Dep't, Gen. Federation Women's Clubs; mem. Nat. W.C.T.U., Nat. Geog. Soc., Evanston Woman's Club, Chicago Woman's City Club. Favors woman suffrage.

McFADDEN, Elizabeth Apthorp, 113 Lakeview Av., Cambridge, Mass. Playwright; b. Newport, Ky.; dau. Francis T. and Elizabeth A. (Adams) McFadden; ed. public schools of Cincinnati and Smith Coll., B.L. '98 (mem. Phi Kappa Psi); studied dramatic tech- nique for two years at Radcliffe Coll. under Prof. G. P. Baker. Compiled (with Lillian E. Davis) bibliography entitled, "A Selected List of Plays for Amateurs and Students," 1908; in 1911 her play, "The Product of the Mill," won $509 Harvard-Radcliffe prize, offered annually by John Craig, of the Castle Square Theatre, Boston. Mem. Boston Coll. Club. Favors equal suffrage.


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��MACFARtAND, Mary Parley (Mrs. Charles S. Macfarland), 41 Mountain Av., Summit, N.J. Bom Davenport, la., Mar. 16, 1875; dau. James Griswold and Louisa (Boutwell) Merrill; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. '97; Brldgewater (Mass.) Nor- mal School, '98; m. Mar. 9, 1904, Rev. Charles Stedman Macfarland (sec. Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America); children: Charles Stedman Jr., Lucia Merrill, Jamea Merrill. Teacher of history and Latin In Flsk Univ., Nashville, Tenn., at tijne of meurlage; since then active as pastor's wife In religious, philanthropic and social activities. Mem. Smith Coll. Club, Woman's Club of Summit, and others. Congregationalist.

HACFARLANE, AUce O'Rear (Mrs. George B. Macfarlane), Athens Hotel, Columbia, Boone Co., Mo.

Born Boone Co., Mo., June 14, 1842; dau. Will- iam Tandy and Elvlrajh Frances (Slavln) O'Rear; grad. Christian Coll., Columbia, Mo., '65 (valedic- torian, first honors); m. Aug. 19, 1868, George B. Macfarlane, judge Supreme Court of Mo.; chil- dren: Charles Ray, George Locke, Guy O'Rear. Taught in Model School of State Univ. of Mo. and in Sem. at Mexico, Mo. Deeply Interested In Interuat. Peace Soc., In Sunday-school, Mis- sionary Soc, Civic League, Tuesday Literary Club; regent of Columbian Chapter D.A.R. nine years. State regent Mo. D.A.R. since April, 1912. Mem. U.S. Daughters of 1812, Soc. of Colonial Dames of America in Mo. (througill Va. ancestors). Peace Soc, educational and philan- thropic work. Home Makers' Conference. Favors woman suffrage. Complied: Woods Family Genealogy. Mem. Christian (Disciples) Church. Mem. patriotic societies. Recreations: Reading, attending State and Nat. patriotic meetings. Mem. Tuesday Literary Cluto, Alpha Musical Soc., Art Lovers' Guild.

McFABLANE, Flora, Rocky HIU, N.J.

Club president; born N.J. ; dau. Henry and Anne (Buchanan) McFarlane; privately educated. Spends winters in Florida and Is pres. House- keepers' Club of Cocoanut Grove, Dade Co., Fla. Episcopalian; especially interested in Sunday- school work. Favors woman suffrage. McFARLANE, Ida Grace Kruae (Mrs. Frederick

McFarlane), care Peter MacFarlane & Sons

Iron Works Co., 2763 Blake St., Denver, Colo.

University professor, lecturer; b. Bla«k Hawk, Colo.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '96, A.M. '97; studied three years in Europe; m. Frederick McFarlane. Public lecturer on literature and art; supervisor of public schools of Gilpin County, Colo., seven years; prof, of English literature, Univ. of Denver. Favors woman suf- frage. MACFEE, Anna Maria, 152 W. Seventy-second

St., N.T. City.

Physician; b. St. Chrysostome, Quebec, Can.; dau. Col. M. and Catherine (McNaughton) Macfee; graduated M.D., CM., from the Ontario Med. (^oll. for Women, Toronto, later taking triple medical degree at Univ. of Edinburgh. Since November, 1897, resident physician of In- fants' Hospital, Randall's Island, N.Y. City. MACFEE, Janet Donalda, 162 W. Seventy-sec- ond St., N.Y. City.

Principal of private school; b. St. Chrysostome, P.Q., Can.; dau. Col. M. and Catherine (Mc- Naughton) Macfee; grad. McGlll Univ., Montreal, A.B., with first honors; post-graduate courses in Cornell Univ., Univ. of Leipzig, Germany, and Univ. of Ziirich, Switzerland, Ph.D., with honors, 1895. Established the Misses Macfee School, N.Y. City, of which she has since been principal. McGEE, Dr. Anita Newcomb, 9 Panoramic

Way, Berkeley, Cal.

Physician; b. Washington, D.C., 1864; dau. Prof. Simon Newcomb, U.S.N, (distinguished as- tronomer), and Mary Caroline (Hassler) New- comb; ed. private school and in Europe; grad. Columbian (now George Washington) Ui^Jv., M.D. '92; post-graduate course in gynecology, Johns Hopkins Univ.; m. Washington, D.C., Feb. 14, 1888, W J McGee (scientist, died Sept. 4, 1912); .-ihildren: Klotho (daughter), Eric New- comb. Practised medicine in Washington,

��1892-96; as vice-pres. gen. of Nat. Soc. D.A.R., took up. In Apr., 1898, work in connection with Spanish-American War, as director D.A.R. Hos- pital Corps. Acting ass't surgeon U.S.A., 1898- 190O, under direct command of Surgeon-General Sternberg, selecting about 2,000 women nurses for military service and organizing them into tha Nurse Corps, which Congress made a j>ermanent part of the U.S. Army. Served through Spanish War, Philippine insurrection and Boxer cam- paign, and resigned December, 1900, having seen the Nurse Corps through its formative stage. As pres. Spanish-American War Nurses and rep- resentative of Red Cross of Philadelphia, organ- ized volunteer force of trained nurses which served without compensation in Japanese army during war with Russia, 1904, for six months, the members serving in the army's most Im- portant hospital at Hiroshima and on principal hospital shli>s. Appointed by Minister of War as supeirisor of nurses, with rank as officer in Japanese army, and made official inspections and reports upon hospitals in Japan and on the Yalu River (Mancnuria). Received Order of tha Sacred Crown and Russian War Medal, and special decoration of the Red Cross of Japan from the Emperor and the Red Cross Russian War Medal from the Empress of Japan. Mem. Nat. Soc. D.A.R. (has been surgeon-general, librarian-general, vice-pres. general and his- torian general) ; hon. pres. (for life) Spanish- American War Nurses; mem. and former dep't surgeon Spanish War Veterans (only woman eligible for membership); mem. Ass'n of Mili- tary Surgeons of U.S. Contributor to magazines; lecturer in hygiene, Univ. of Cal., 1911. McGIFFERT, Gertrade Hanting:t«n Boyce (Mrs. Arthur Cushman McGlffert), winter, 606 W. 122d St, N.Y. City; summer, "Bayberry Point," W. Falmouth, Mass. Bom Brooklyn, N.Y. ; dau. George Adams and Katharine A. (Rankin) Boyce; ni. East Orange, N.J., Nov. 12, 1891, Prof. Arthur Cushman Mc- OifCert; children: Arthur Cuehman Jr., Katharine Wolcott Director of Studio Club of N.Y. City. Has written many poems in the magazines. Mem. Keats-Shelley Soc. of N.Y., Mary Wash- ington Chapter D.A.R., Round Taljle, Women's Oosmopolitan Club.

McGLLL., Grace Collins (Mrs. John Fauntleroy McGill), care Capt. McGlll, U.S.M.C, U.S. Naval Disciplinary Barracks, Puget Sound, Wash.

Born Chicago, Oct 15, 1885; dau. Judge Lorln Cone Collins Jr. and Nellie (Rabb) Collins; ed. Dearborn Sem., Chicago, and Montlcello Sem.; m. at Colon, Republic of Panama, June 19, 1907, Capt.' John Fauntleroy MoGill (U.S. Marine Corps); children: Elizabeth Randolph, Grace Col- lins. Interested in modeling in clay. Episco- palian. Recreations: Golf, tennis. MacGnX, Helen Gregory (Mrs. James H. Mac- Gill), 1492 Harwood St., Vancouver, B.C. Born HamtKon, Ont., Can. ; dau. Silas and Ehnma (O'Reilly) Gregory; first woman graduate of Trinity Coll., Toronto Univ., bachelor of mu- sic '86, B.A. '89 and M.A. '90; took honors in mental and moral philosophy in arts course; m. (1st) Dr. F. C. Fleslier; (2d) James H. MacGill, M.A. ; children: Eric Gregory Flesher, Frederic Gregory Flesher, Helen Gregory MacGill, Elsie Gregory MacGill. Pres. Vancouver Women's Building, Ltd.; pres. League of Empire; mem. Women's Canadian Clu*; Woman's Musical Club, University Women's Club, Canadian Women's Press Glut), Alpine Glut), Women's Auxiliary Missions, Local Council of Women, Daughters ol the Empire, Mothers' Union; vice-pres. Wo(men'a Forum (municipal voters). After graduation went to Japan for syndicate of papers and maga- zines; later to San Francisco and contributed regularly to the Call and Chronicle of San Fran- cisco, also Harper's, McClure's, Munsey's, etc. Owned and edited two small papers; moved to Minnesota with husband, Dr. Flesher. After his death and until second marriage was exchanga editor and special writer for St. Paul Globe and wrote series of campaign articles for Minneapolia Journal. Vice-pres. Political Ekiuallty Leegue, Equal Franchise Aes'n. Mem. Anglican Church.

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 and without an eye to see the horizon? What were life without that potentiality of mystery that holds out to us, across the glamors of the mirage and the dusky opacities of reality, when we awaken from the somnambulism of self-consciousness, the nectar of love and assurance and peace.

But we boast nowadays of being free and untramelled; we glory in the right to pursue the light within us, which, under the exigencies of a highly evolutionized society, seldom leads us outside of Self. And we call it the pursuit of happiness. In which forsooth, through the little heart-thrills and heart-aches of experience, we shatter one illusion after another. And we seldom stop to ask ourselves whether such a course makes for a greater freedom and a healthier consciousness. We often forget too that in the cult of the Ego the worship of unconventionality becomes itself a conventionality most rigid and austere. It is, in fact, the conventionality of the elect—the conventionality supreme.

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��McGILI., Mary E. Wilson (Mrs. Andrew R. Mc- Gill), 2203 Scudder Av., St. Paul, Minn. Born Meadville, Pa., Aug. 6, 1863; dan. Dr. Joseph C. and Margaret (Stone) Wilson; grad. State Normal School, Bdinboro, Pa., B.A. '71; instructor In same, 1871-79; m. Edlnboro, Pa., Oct. 1, 1S79, Andrew Ryan McGill, Insurance CommiBsioner of Minn., afterward Gov. of Minn. (died 1905); chiWren: Wilson, b. May 4, 1884; Thomas Martin, b. Nov. 15, 1889. Interested in local charities and pres. St. Paul Branch of Needlework Guild of America. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. State Art Soc., St. Anthony Park Woman's Ass'n, New Century Club (St. Paul), Woman's Welfare League (St Paul).

McGJXVIA, Edith Jennette (Mrs. George B. McGllvla), Baraboo, Wis.

Farmer; b. Baraboo, Wis., Aug. 5, 1855; dau. H. S. and E. Jennette (Johnson) Turney; ed. Baraboo High School; m. Baraboo, Wis., Mar. 18, 1874, George B. McGilvia; children: Clarence, Arthur, Egbert, Bessie, Ethel, Alice, Jennette, Ralph. Is doctor for the family, setting bones (collar and thumb); can paint, do carpenter work, dressmaking, extensive chicken raising and mar- ket gardening; teacher in Sunday-school; county and local pres. of W.C.T.U. ; held a claim part of the time alone in the wilds of S.Dak. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. City Suffrage League, works in literary dep't. Mem. First M.S. Ohurch. Recreation: Riding, swimming, base- ball. Mem. City and Country Club. McGIXNIS, Clara Buchanan (Mrs. Robert Mc- Glnnis), 40 E. Seventy-sixth St., N.Y. City; country residence, Restalrig, Sound Beach, Conn.

Born N.Y. City, April 25, 1859; dau. William and Adele (Jaclard) Buchanan; grad. Acad, of Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, '78; m. N.Y. City, Oct. 16, 1879, Robert McGinnis; children: Robert Buchanan, Marie Josephine (now Madam Mc- Ginnis, R.S.H.), Clara Madeleine (now Mrs. Jose Antonio Reignfes). Founder and pres. Guild of the Infant Saviour. Against woman suffrage. Author of translations from the French and a number of leaflets on religious subjects. Roman Catholic. Active in charities.

McGINNIS, Mary Bladen (Mrs. Homer McGin- nis), 645 E. Washington St., Martinsville, Ind. Born Spencer, Ind., Nov. 1, 1877; dau. Edward R. and Laura (Coffey) Bladen; ed. Spencer pub- lic schools; m. Spencer, Jan. 1, 1901, Homer L. McGinnls; one daughter: Alice, b. Dec. 6, 1904. Mem. Ladles' Aid and Art Soc. (a church so- ciety). Favors woman suffrage. Christian (Dis- ciples) Church. Mem. Woman's Club, Monday Afternoon Art Club.

McGLACHLLN, Elizabeth Gardiner (Mrs. Am- brose Cram McGlachlln), 759 East Av., Roch- ester, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, May 25, 1868; dau. John Lyon Gardiner and Louise R&msen (Gray) Smith; ed. private schools and Wells Coll., A.B. '85; m. Aurora, N.Y., Aug. 10, 1887, Ambrose Cram McGlachlin; children: Thomas Stuart, Donald Douglas. Mem. several church societies, two philantnropic organizations and actively Inter- ested in the work of social betterment. Against woman suffrage. Has done journalistic and magazine work; lectures on social and literary topics. Episcopalian. Clubs: College Woman's, Travelers', Woman's Educational Union, Monday Literature.

McGLA>'NAJJ, Sally Porter Law (Mrs. Alexius

McGlannan), 114 W. Franklin St., Baltimore,

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Physician; prepared by private study and took prelLminary medical course in Bryn Mawr Coll., grad. A.B. '03; Johns Hopkins Med. School, M.D. '07; m. 1910, Dr. Alexius McGlannan. Prac- tised as physician in Baltimore, 1907-09. MacGOWAIf, Alice, Carmel, Gal.

Writer; b. Perrysburg, O., Dec. 10, 1858; dau. John Encill and Malvlna -(Johnson) MacCSowan; ed. public schools of Chattanooga, Tenn., and at home. Author: The Last Word; Return; Huldah; Judith of the Cumberlands. ; Wiving of Lance (jleaverage; The Sword in the Mountains.

��Republican. Recreations: Horseback riding, driving, walking.

McGKATH, Bonnie Hill (Mrs. James J. Mc- Grath), 104 S. Liberty St., Canton, Miss.- Former teacher; b. Nashville, Tenn., July 24, 1877; dau. John and Lelia M. (Haynie) Hill; ed. Nashville Coll. for Young Ladies, A.B., B.S. '95, A.M. 96; had lectures and privileges of Vander- bilt Univ.; m. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 3, 1899, James J. MoGrath; children: Kathryn, Lillian, Bonnie, James, Jack, William Harold. Taught in Southern college four years. Interested in civic and public health work, social and child welfare; united with leading social and charitable organ- izations. Mem. King's Daughters, Old Ladies' Home, Anti-Tuberculosis Soc.; pres. Women's Literary and Civic Club, Canton, Miss. ; chair- man Civic Com. of Miss. State Fed. ; vice-pres. Miss. State Fed.; mem. Gen. Fed. Civics Com. Catholic. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat. McGBATH, Mary Carson (Mrs. Hugh Jocelyn McGrath), 810 Porter Av., Eau Claire, Wis. Born In Wisconsin; grad. Rockford Coll., '72; m. Maj. Hugh Jocelyn McGrath, U.S.A. (died I'Tom wounds received in engagement in tha Philippines). Has spent much time in travel in Europe, Egypt, Cuba and all over the United States. Interested in the work of the Associated Charities and the Visiting Nurses' Ass'n. Epis- copalian; active in work of Woman's Guild. McGBAW, Maria Loraine Dickinson (Mrs. Thomas Stanley McGraw), 81 Alfred St., De- troit, Mich.

Philanthropist; b. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 26, 1843; dau. Moses Field and Maria Loraine (Wesson) Dickinson; ed. Ladles' Acad., Miss Sarai Hunt's Select School for Girls, Detroit public high school, 1863-64, and Vassar Coll., A.B. '67; m. Detroit, Nov. 19, 1867, Thomas Stanley McGraw; children: Stanley Dickinson, Sanborn Tenney. Protestant Episcopal; 50 years communicant in St. Paul's Church, four in St. John's; mem. of various church societies In each. Officer in Protestant Orphan Asylum since 1886, Young Woman's Home, Fruit and Flower Guild, College Club of Detroit, United Audubon Societies, Am Historical Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate' Alumns^ Associate Aiumns Vassar Coll., Va;ssar Stu dents' Aid Soc., ESgypt Exploration Fund. Fa vors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suf frage Club, subscriber to Wayne Co. Equal Suf frage League and to Mich. Equal Suffrage Ass'n Recreations: Walking, driving, social gatherings, MacGREGOB, Alma Follansbee (Mrs. Virgil L. MacGregor), 113 Washington Av., Crookston, Minn.

Born Cleveland, O., Aug. 14, 1879; dau. Johr Edward and Julia E. (Root) Follansbee; ed. Oberlin, A.M. '04; m. Cleveland, June 30, 1909, Virgil Lawrence MacGregor; one son: Donald Follansbee MacGregor. Active in club and sociaJ life; pres. the Woman's Club of Crookston; mem. Ladies' Literary Soc. of Oberlin. Con- gregationallst. Opposed to woman suffrage. MacGREGOB, Fanny (Mrs. Archibald Mac- Gregor), 1S9 Fairmont A v., Hyde Park, Mass. Teacher; b. Taunton, Mass., Jan. 30, 1863; dau Edward and Malvina (Cook) Gusher; on mother's side descendant of Francis Cook of the May- flower; on father's of Huguenot descent; ed. Taunton public schools, high school, 1881, with the highest honors (valedictorian) ; m. Taunton. Mass., June, 1891, Archibald MacGregor; one daughter: Elizabeth, b. May 12, 1892. Interested in religious and educational work among for- eigners in Hyde Park, beginning in 1908; chair- man of com. in charge of Sunday services and evening school. Wrote a sketch, acted by the members of the TwUight Club, entitled "The Bow of Promise, or What Shall We Find at the End of the Rainbow?" Mem. Soc. of Colonial Families, Twilight Club. Recreations: Walking, gardening. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage. Independent in politics.

MacGREGOB, Mary Esther Miller (Mrs. Donald Campbell MacGregor), 36 Dalton Rd., Toronto, Can.

Author; b. Rugby, Ontario, Can.; dau. John and Mary (Maclan) Miller: ed. Orillia (Ont) Hish

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��School and Toronto Normal School; m. July 27, 1909, Rev. Donald Campbell MacGregor. Inter- ested in social semice. settlement work, etc.; has a Sunday afternoon class for working girls. Author of novels (pen name "Marian Keith"): Duncan Polite; The Silver Maple; Treasure Val- ley; 'Lizbeth of the Dale; biography, The Black Bearded Barbarian; Life of Dr. G. L. MacKay, Missionary to Formosa, for boys and girls. Pres- byterian. Mem. Presbyterian Women's Social Service Council of Toronto. Recreations: Tennis, golf, walking, canoeing. Mem. Canadian Wom- an's Press Club. Against woman suffrage. McGREW, Julia Bird, 1863 Clayton Av., North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Bom North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1862; dau. George Darsie and Josephine (Kimmel) McGrew; ed. Bishop Bowman InsL, Pittsburgh, and Alle- gheny Coll., Meadville, Pa., 1879-85, A.B. (mem. Kappa Alpha Thetaj. Interested In Sunday- school work; teacher in slum district; teacher of athletics in school for desolate children (work chiefly with boys). Mem. Christian (Disciples) Church; mem. Missionary Soc. Recreations: Music, athletics.

McGCFFEY, Margaret D., Christ Church Par- ish House, 318 E. Fourth St., Cincinnati, O. Librarian, social worker; b. Cincinnati; dau. Alexander H. and Caroline (Rich) McGuffey; ed. In private schools and by tutors, Cincinnati, and N.Y. State Library School, Albany. Head of Delivery Dep't, Boston Public Library, 1S95- 1904; sec. Library of Congress, 1905-08; acting chief of Order (purchasing) Division, Lilarary of Congress, 1908-09; worked with North Am. Civic League for Immigrants, New York City, 1911; socinl worker in Christ Church Parish, (Cincin- nati, 1911 — . Episcopalian. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n. MoGUTRE, Edna Leona (Mrs. William Franklin McGulre), Buena Vista, Colo. Born Lake City, 111., 1878; dau. William G. and Isabelle (Bigger) Odor; grad. high school and Conservatory of Music, Kansas City, Mo. ; m. 1909, William Franklin McGuire; one son: Mervin Mitchell. Interested in social, philan- thropic and musical activities. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Democrat. Recreation: Mu- Bic. Pres. Buena Vista Fortnightly Club. MACHAK, Agnes Maule, 25 Sydenham St., Kingston, Ont., Can.

Bom Kingston, Ont. ; dau. Rev. John Mac- har, D.D. (one of founders and first principal of Queen's Univ. of Kingston) and Margaret (Maule) Machar; ed. at home, and under tuition of Miss Hannah W. Lyman, first principal of Vassar Coll. Active mem. of several philan- thropic and charitable boards. Humane Soc. of Canada, Y.W.C.A., a private educational board. Women's Art Ass'n of Canada, Social Reform League of Ontario. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Memorials of Rev. Dr. Machar (father); articles and poems (chiefly written under the pen-name "Fidells") in Century, Andover Re- view, Good Housekeeping and other periodicals; Stories of New France, U.S. and Canada; Mar- jorie'.s Canadian Winter; The Heir of Fair- mount Grange; Roland (Jraeme, Knight; Lays of the True North; Stories of the British Em- pire. Presbyterian. Liberal. Mem. mission societies, Children's Aid Ass'n. Recreations: Gardening, country life, snorwshoeing, skating, Eketching, etc.

McHLGil, Kate A., 2219 Dodge St., OmsLha, Neb.

High school principal; b. Galena, 111., Jan. 19, 1855; dau. John and Harriet (Murphy) McHugh; ed. Galena public schools, 111. State Normal. Taught every grade in the schools of Galena, III., and was principal of Galena High School six years; made ass't principal of Omaha Higli Scliool in 1S96, principal in 1910. The only woman lu charge of a high school of 1,750 pupils. Favors woman suffrage. Leader of literary clubs In Galena and Omaha.

McHUGH, Lerah G. (Mrs. P. J. McHugh), 2156 Oak St., Fort Collins, Colo. Born Fort Collins, Colo.; dau. Harris and Elizabeth L. (Parke) Stratton; ed. Colo. Agr'l Coll., B.S.; m. Denver, Colo., Jan. 21, 1892, Dr. P. J. McHugh; children: Keith S., Jerome A.,

��J. Weir. Pres. Colo. Fed. Women's Clubs; mem. Colo. Traveling Library Commission; vice- regent Cache la Poudre Chapter D.A.R.; chair- man Board of Grand Managers, Companions of the Forest (fraternal insurance co.) ; mem. board of Carnegie Library of Fort Collins. Favors woman suffrage. Roman Catholic. Democrat. Mem. D.A.R., Pioneer Women of Cache la Pou- dre Valley, card clubs, church societies, Colum- bian Club.

McHlGH, Olivia Henderson (Mrs. F. M. Mc- Hugh), 104 S. State St., Murray, Utah. Born Louisville, Ky., Dec. 25, 1881; dau. Pey- born R. Henderson, M.D., and Rose (Shanks) Henderson; ed. Girls' High School, Louisville, Ky. ; Ky. State Univ. scholarship, Sargent Normal School of Gymnastics, Cambridge, Meiss. ; Gil- bert Normal School of Dancing, Boston; m. Mur- ray, Utah, Sept. 27, 1910, Dr. F. M. McHugh; one daughter: Olivia McHugh. Teacher in Ran- dolph-Macon Women's Coll., Lynchburg, Va. ; Ky. Inst, for Blind; City Gymnasium, Central Park, Louisville, Ky. ; sec. of Library Board. Favors woman suffrage. Active Socialist, work- ing for equal suffrage. Recreations: Mountain climbing, handball, etc. Mem. Womaji's Club of Murray (pres.).

McLLWKAITH, Jean Newton, care Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N.Y. Author, editor; b. Hamilton, Can.; dau. Thomas and Mary (Park) McUwralth; grad. Ladies' Coll., Hamilton; studied English literature (corres- pondence classes). Queen Margaret Coll., Glas- gow. Author for young people: Shakespeare; Longfellow; Canada, 1898; three historical novels: The Span o' Life (with William McLennan), 1900; The Curious Career of Roderick Campbell, 1901; A Diana of Quebec, 1912; Sir Frederick Hal- dimand (biography), 1904. Presbyterian. Recrea- tions: Out-door sports generally. Left Canada In 1902, and since engaged in editorial work. McINTIKE, Ida Noyes (Mrs. A. W. Mclntlre), 3129 Colby Av., Everett, Wash. Physician, surgeon; b. Tiverton, R.I., Apr. 28, 1859; dau. Alfred and Luclna N. (Sanford) Noyes; ed. public schools of Mich., Detroit High School, Univ. of Mich., Women's Med. Coll. ol Northwestern Univ. (Chicago), M.D. '91; Post- Graduate Med. Coll., N.Y. City, '94; one yeai In Union Theol. Sem., Dayton, O. ; post-graduate work in diseases of women and children, London and Paris, '95; clinical studies In Berlin, Vienna and London, '05; m. Detroit, 1884, B. N. Beavei (since deceased); m. New Haven, Conn., 1S99, ex-Gov. A. W. Mclntlre of Colo. Teacher in Mich, public schools six years (five years w Detroit); matron and preceptress Midland '"oil., Atchison, Kan., 1887-89, resigning to co'jplete medical studies. Pres. med. staff. State Girls' Industrial School, Denver, 1896-97; practiced medicine In Denver; mem. Colo. State Board of Charities and Correction, 1895-98; also mem. Board of Pardons for two years; served a* delegate Nat Conference of Charities and (Cor- rection and Nat. Prison Congress. Chairmao Exec. Com. State Woman's Suffrage League ol Ohio, 1886; active In suffrage work in (3olo. when ballot was gained in that State; three yean mem. Wash. State Suffrage Soc. till suffrage was won In that State; was also pres. local suffrage club, Everett, Wash. Active in church work in M.E. Church, 1871-lSOO; since removal to Washington, 1900, in Congregational Church. During '80's active In W.C.T.U. ; rec. sec. Ohio State W.C.T.U., 1887, and at various times pres. district and local sees. W.C.T.U.; also treas. Girls' Home, and one of the three founders ol the Bethany florae, Dayton, O. ; edited depart- ment for women, Dayton Daily Herald, one and a halt years; contributor to various newspaper! and magazines from 1871; lecturer on medical, civic and social sciehce topics. Republican. Pres Women's Civic League of Everett, Wash.; pres State Women's Republican Club; mem. Wash. State Federation of Women's Clubs, Wash. Stat* Legislative Com., Am. Acad. Political and Social Science, Nat. Geog. Soc; chairman of Exec Com. of Northwest Fed. of Improvement Cluba covering the States of Idaho, Washington, Cali- fornia, Oregon and Wyoming.

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