text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/160

172 CHAPMAN, Katharine Hopkins (Mrs. John T. Chapman). 818 Lapsley St., Selma, Ala.

Writer; b. Selma, Ala., Mar. 4, 1872; dau. Thomas Holmes and Mary Elizabeth (Glass) Hopkins; grad. Shorter Coll. (Rome, Ga,), '89; m. Oct. 8, 1891, John T. Chapman, M.D. Contributor of short stories to the current magazines. Author: Love's Way in Dixie; The Fusing Force—An Idaho Idyll.

CHAPMAN, Millie Jane, Springfield, Pa.

Physician; b. Beaver, Crawford County, Pa., July 23, 1845; dau. Lewis Keeler and Robey Ormsbee (Thompson) Chapman; ed. public schools; State Normal School at Edinboro, Pa.; grad. Homoeopathic Hospital Coll., Cleveland, Ohio, M.D. Began practice in Pittsburgh, February, 1874. Mem. staff of the Homoeopathic Hospital. Taught school 12 years prior to entering medical college. Mem. city, county, State and national medical societies. Director of Pa. Memorial Home, Brookville, Pa. Mem. D.A.R., Nat. Soc., U.S. Daughters of War of 1812, Woman's Relief Corps. Has traveled through the principal cities of the United States and Europe; enthusiastic worker in the home and foreign missionary societies. Methodist. Mem. New Era Club, Woman's Club.

CHAPMAN, Nellie Stanley (Mrs. John B. Chapman), Northfield, Ohio.

Born Northfield, Ohio, Mar. 6, 1863; dau. Morris Wesley and Phebe Rainey (Clifford) Stanley; ed. Villa Angala (convent), Nottingham, Ohio; m. Oct. 20, 1880, John B. Chapman (lawyer); children: Hazel Marie, b. Aug. 17, 1883; Henry Stanley, b. Feb. 23, 1885. Interested in social settlement work, the temperance question and all economic moral questions. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Golf, whist. Mem. Twentieth Century Club (Pittsburgh), Woman's Club (Bradford, Pa.).

CHAPMAN, Rosamond Low (Mrs. John H. Chapman), The Rectory, Ridgefield, Conn.

Born Fair Haven, Mass., Aug. 18, 1882; dau. William G. and Lois R. (Curtis) Low; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 1, 1905, Rev. John H. Chapman; children: Eustace Blackwell, Robert Low. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian.

CHAPMAN, Mrs. Woodallen, 651 West 179th St., N.Y. City.

Writer, lecturer; b. Lakeside, Ohio; daughter of Chilion B. Allen and Dr. Mary Wood-Allen; ed. Lake Erie Coll., Painesville, O., and Univ. of Mich.; m. Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 19, 1902, William Brewster Chapman; one son: Bruce Woodallen Chapman. Began writing 1895; ass't editor American Motherhood, 1905-08; had charge of dep't in Ladies' Home Journal, entitled How Shall I Tell My Child, 1910-11. Nat. sup't Purity Dep't of the W.C.T.U., 1907-10. Author: The Moral Problem of the Children, 1908; How Shall I Tell My Child?, 1912. Mem. Woman's Press Club of N.Y. City, 1905-10. Clubs: Pen and Brush, Theatre, Am. Playgoers, The Californians in N.Y. Congregationalist, Favors woman suffrage.

CHAPPELL, Sara Lyon (Mrs. Hugh Bond Chappel), 204 W. 108th St., N.Y. City.

Born Cincinnati, O., 1875; dau. Theophilus and Anna (Hagan) Lyon; ed. public and private schools of Cincinnati; m. Cincinnati, 1899, Hugh Bond Chappell. Active in church and club work. Mem. Christian Science Church. On Governing Board of Daughters of Ohio in N.Y.; mem. Woman's Press Club, Century Theatre Club and N.Y. City Federation. Favors woman suffrage.

CHARD, Marie Louise, 616 Madison Av., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. N.Y. City, 1868; dau. Richard John and Evelyn (Chamberlain) Chard; grad. Packer Collegiate Inst., '88; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '95. Attending gynecologist N.Y. Infirmary. Interested in rescue work. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Women's Political Union and Equal Franchise Soc. Baptist. Mem. Acad, of Medicine, Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y., County Med. Soc., N.Y., State Med. Soc, Woman's Med. Soc. of N.Y. State, Woman's Med. Soc. of N.Y. City, Packer Alumnae Ass'n. Mem. N.Y. City Fed. of Clubs.

CHARLES, Carrie Lane Riggs (Mrs. Arthur M. (I Charles), Richmond, Ind.

Born in Indiana; grad. Earlham Coll., Ph.B. '94; graduate scholar in German and Teutonic philology, Bryn Mawr, 1898-99; student Univ. of Jena, Germany, summer term, 1898; Univ. of to Munich, 1902-04; Univ. Besançon, summer term, 1903; m. 1899, Arthur M. Charles. Teacher in Madison Inst., Richmond, Ky., 1894-97. Mem. Society of Friends.

CHARLES, Christina Howell (Mrs. Frederick Lyon Charles), Cuba, N.Y.

Born Alfred, N.Y., July 19, 1864; educated at Alfred (N.Y.) Univ. and New England Conservatory of Music; pres. Alfredian Lyceum while in univ.; m. Dec. 15, 1885, Frederic Lyon Charles. One of the three organizers of the Shakespeare Club of Cuba, N.Y., and was its president eleven years; organized and was counsellor of the Second Shakespeare Club of Cuba, N.Y., the Shakespeare Amateurs, which met in her drawing room every Wednesday night for 14 years. Mem. Scibblers Club (Buffalo); life mem. Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Buffalo; mem. Twentieth Century Club of Buffalo. Was first pres. Western N.Y. Literary and Educational Organization (which covered a territory of 34 counties), elected 1896 and re-elected at three annual meetings; was a vice-pres. of N.Y. State Federation of Women's Clubs, and has served on nominations com. of General Federation of Women's Clubs. Author of numerous papers relating to organized efforts: Federation in Its Principle; The Nature and Value of the Local Federation to the Larger Body, Either State or National; Working Together; Types; Balance. Known as skillful parliamentarian.

CHARLES, Frances, 370 Twenty-sixth Av., San Francisco, Cal.

Author; b. San Francisco, Apr. 10, 1872; dau. Harry Asa and Martha Geno (Robinson) Charles; ed. San Francisco public schools. Author: In the Country God Forgot; The Siege of Youth; The Awakening of the Duchess; Pardner of Blossom Range. Episcopalian.

CHARLTON, Wilhelmina Howell (Mrs. Thomas Jackson Charlton), 220 Oglethorpe Av., East, Savannah, Ga.

Born Mariette, Ga.; dau. Archibald and Emily (Cleland) Howell; ed. at home by governesses and tutors and in high school; Marietta Female Coll.; m. Marietta, Ga., Dr. Thomas Jackson Charlton (distinguished physician and surgeon); children: Catharine, Thomas Jackson Jr. Prominent in religious, social and philanthropic work and societies of Protestant Episcopal Church. Mem. Huntingdon Club.

CHASE, Adelaide Cole (Mrs. William Chester Chase), 8 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Portrait painter; b. Boston; dau. J. Foxcroft and Irma (de Pelgrom) Cole; ed. Boston schools and Art Museum School, and in Paris as pupil of Carolus Duran; m. Boston, June 27, 1892, William Chester Chase. Has exhibited portraits in Paris and U.S.; silver medalist of Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904; associate Nat. Acad. of Design.

CHASE, Elizabeth Hosmer Kellogg (Mrs. Irving Hall Chase), Rose Hill, Waterbury, Conn.; Miramar, Narragansett Pier, R.I.

Born Waterbury, Conn.; dau. Stephen Wright and Lucia Hosmer (Andrews) Kellogg; ed. Saint Margaret's School, Waterbury; Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's School, N.Y. City; m. Feb. 28, 1889, Irving Hall Chase; children: Marjorie Starkweather, Eleanor Kellogg, Lucia Hosmer, Elizabeth Irving, Dorothy Mather. Interested in the Waterbury Hospital, Boys' Club, Day Nursery, Industrial School. Mem. Soc. of Mental Hygiene, Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n, St. Margaret's Graduate Ass'n, Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. Mem. Country Club of Waterbury, Joint Judith Country Club. Recreations: Golf, tennis, swimming, horseback riding, driving, dancing, motoring. Congregationalist. Against woman suffrage. Republican.


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/161

Rh CHASE, Fannie Scott Hubbard (Mrs. Walter Greenough Chase), 279 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Born Liverpool, England, Feb. 10, 1875; dau. Joseph Tucker and Fannie Thaxter (Scott) Hubbard; ed. Charleston, S.C.; grad. Miss Smith's School, '93; m. Wiscasset, Me., Oct. 20, 1906, Dr. Walter Greenough Chase; children: Charles Greenough, b. June 3, 1908; Judith Thaxter, b. July 7, 1910. Mem. Huguenot Church of Charleston, S.C; New England Historic-Genealogical Soc.; sec. Mayflower Descendants; former mem. Country Club of Charleston. Against woman suffrage.

CHASE, Grace Amelia Slafter (Mrs. George W. Chase), East Thetford, Vt.

Born East Thetford, Vt., Jan. 31, 1878; dau. Carlos and Lydia R. (Hagan) Slafter; ed. Thetford Acad., class of '96; m. Thetford, Vt., Aug. 4, 1902, George W. Chase. Mem. Grange, Ladies' Benevolent Soc. of Thetford. Thetford Kitchen, Thetford Acad. Alumni Ass'ri, Thursday Club of East Thetford, Vt. Recreations: Reading, nature study. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

CHASE, Jessie Anderson, "Hundridge," West Newbury, Mass.

Author; b. Cincinnati, May 6, 1865; dau. Rev. James M. Anderson, D.D., and Elizabeth (Robbins) Anderson; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '86; m. Duluth, Minn., 1897, Robert Savage Chase; children; Elizabeth LeBaron, Charles Chauncey, Josephine Leverett. Author: Three Freshmen (first published serially in St. Nicholas); Mayken; A Study of English Words; A Daughter of the Revolution; also stories in St. Nicholas, Life, American Magazine, etc. Episcopalian. Mem. Woman's Club of Newburyport.

CHASE, Jessie Clara, 31 Edmund Place, Detroit, Mich.

Chief of branch libraries, Detroit Public Library; b. Jan. 15, 1860; dau. Theodore Russell and Ellen Augusta (Smith) Chase; ed. in city schools of Cleveland, O., and Wells Coll., B.S. Has been connected with charitable and religious activities; sec. Soc. of Mayflower Descendants in Mich.; mem. D.A.R., Daughters of Founders and Patriots, Eastern Ass'n of Wells Coll., Y.W.C.A., College Club of Detroit. Episcopalian.

CHASE, Lauretta Adelaide Hanford (Mrs. George Thorndike Chase), 62 W. 130th St., N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; dau. George Fordham and Emma L. (Whitlock) Hanford; ed. private and public schools and Normal Coll. of N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, June 12, 1895, Dr. George Thorndike Chase (Harvard '80; visiting surgeon Knickerbocker Hospital, formerly J. Hood Wright Hospital, N.Y. City); children: George Abbot, b. Sept. 15, 1898 (died Mar. 25, 1899); George Thorndike Jr., b. Jan. 17, 1903. Sec. Knickerbocker Chapter Daughters of Revolution; mem. N.Y. Peace Soc, Nat. Soc. New England Women, and various social clubs (cards and literary). Protestant Episcopal. Favors woman suffrage.

CHASE, Mabel A., Mt. Holyoke Coll., South Hadley, Mass.

College professor; b. Lyndonville, N.Y., Oct. 11, 1865; dau. Frederic Augustus and Julia Augusta (Spence) Chase; grad. Oberlin Coll., A.B. '88; Cornell Univ., M.A. '90; Univ. of Chicago, 1897-99, 1900-01; Imperial Coll. of Science, London, 1912 (mem. Oberlin Coll. Ladies' Literary Soc.). Instructor Wellesley Coll., 1893-97; Mt. Holyoke Coll., 1902-07; associate prof. physics, Mt. Holyoke, 1907-. Congregationalist. Democrat. Associate mem. Physical Soc. Favors woman suffrage.

CHASE, Mary Ayer (Mrs. Samuel Thompson Chase), Lake Forest, Ill.

Born Chicago, Jan. 18, 1872; dau. Benjamin F. and Janet (Hopkins) Ayer; ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; m. Chicago, 1897, Samuel Thompson Chase; children: Polly Elizabeth, Janette. Pres. Scribblers' Club; chairman of Woman's Golf Committee; mem. Friday Club of Chicago. Strongly opposed to woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recreations: Golf, riding, tennis.

CHASE, Mary Wood, Mary Wood Chase School of Musical Arts, 630 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.

Concert pianiste and director and pres. of the Mary Wood Chase School of Musical Arts, Chicago; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Alonzo and Cordelia M. (Wood) Chase; grad. Ithaca (N.Y.) High School, '84; New England Conservatory, Boston, '87; in Berlin, Germany, artist pupil, 1893-96, of Oscar Raif. Director music, Logan Coll., Russellville, Ky., 1889-93; associate director of music, Columbia School of Music, Chicago, 1902-06; director of music, Iowa State Univ. School of Music, 1906-08; director Mary Wood Chase School of Artistic Piano Playing, 1906-11; Mary Wood Chase School of Musical Arts, 1911-. Played with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, and various other prominent orchestras; the Kneisel and other string quartets; in recitals and other concert engagements before the principal clubs, societies and colleges of the country. Author: Natural Laws in Piano Technic; also articles and contributions to Music (magazine). Mem. Lakeview Musical Soc. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

CHASE, Nellie Gertrude, 16 Prescott St.. Newtonville, Mass.

College instructor in English; b. Salem, Mass., June 16, 1875; dau. Stephen Freeman and Ellen Maria (Doe) Chase; ed. Allen School, West Newton, Mass., 1888-91; New (Mass.) High School, 1891-94; Smith Coll., B.L. '98 (mem. Phi Kappa Psi); Cornell Univ.; M.A. '05. At Wheaton Sem., Norton, Mass., sec. to pres., 1901-02; teacher, English and history, 9th grade, Wilson School, Natick, Mass., 1902-03; teacher, English and history, etc., E. Bridgewater, Mass., 1903-04; teacher, college preparatory, English, Wheaton Sem., 1905-09; instructor in English, Wells Coll., 1909-. Congregationalist. Mem. Smith Alumnae Ass'n, Aurora Country Club. Recreations: Golf, tennis.

CHASE, Susan Frances, 11 Ketcham Place. Buffalo, N.Y.

Educator; b. in China; father an American merchant; mother an Indo-Eurasian; both parents of marked culture. Sent to America when three years of age; grad. Univ. of Wis., B.L.; Milton Coll. M.A.; Buffalo Univ.; Teachers' Coll., Pd.D. Has taught in country schools and public schools; now teacher of psychology in the Buffalo State Normal, instructor in State institutes and lecturer on educational topics; also a contributor to educational journals and to general and educational literature.

CHASSELL, Mary Calkins (Mrs. E. D. Chassell), Le Mars, Ia.

Born Wyoming, Ia., Dec. 13, 1865; dau. Dr. M. H. and Lucinda (Louden) Calkins; ed. Mt. Carroll (Ill.) Sem.; Chicago and Boston; pupil of Mme. Hall, George C. Osgood, Frank L. Robertshaw; m. Dec. 19, 1906, E. D. Chassell. Once had charge of vocal music dep't in Cedar Valley Sem., Osage, Ia.; Drake Univ., Des Moines, Ia.; Bethany Coll., Topeka, Kan. Was cor. sec. Iowa State Federation of Women's Clubs; now chairman of its music com. Mem. D.A.R. and P.E.O., Des Moines, Ia. Clubs: Des Moines Women's, Review.

CHATFIELD, Helen Huntington (Mrs. Albert Hayden Chatfield), Madison Road, East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O.

Born Cincinnati, O., 1864; dau. Frederick Gilbert and Mary L. (Fletcher) Huntington; ed. in this country and abroad; m. Albert Hayden Chatfield; children: Frederick Huntington, William Hayden, Albert Hayden Jr. Mem. Board of Directors of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Ass'n. Mem. Colonial Dames in States of Conn, and Ohio, Soc. of Mayflower Descendants, Historical and Philosophical Soc. of Ohio, Alliance Française. Chilton Club (Boston), Mepenticook Golf Club (Camden, Me.).

CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, Rose Farwell (Mrs. H. C. Chatfleld-Taylor), Fairlawn, Lake Forest, Ill.

Born Chicago, Mar. 7, 1870; dau. Hon. Charles B. (Congressman, U.S. Senator) and Mary E. (Smith) Farwell; ed. Ferry Hall (girls' school),

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/162

174 and Lake Forest Coll., A.B. (classical course); m. June 19, 1890, Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor; children: Adelaide, Wayne, Otis, Robert. Founded the Rose Bindery, which continued a successful business for eight years. Has contributed articles on bookbinding, golf, sewing, etc., to various magazines. Vice-pres. Friday Club, and mem. Fortnightly Club (both of Chicago); vice-pres. North Side Branch of Illinois Woman Suffrage League, Chicago. Presbyterian. Recreation: Golf (Western Women's golf champion, 1898).

CHEATHAM, Mary Warren Denman (Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Cheatham), 1522 Hastings St., Honolulu, H.T.

Born San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 8, 1879; dau. James and Helen (Jordan) Denman; ed. San Francisco; m. San Francisco, Dec. 7, 1901, Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (U.S. Army); children: Benjamin Franklin, b. July 27, 1903; William Denman, b. Jan. 31, 1905; Helen Virginia Cheatham, b. Oct 22, 1911. Unitarian.

CHEESMAN, Helen M. King (Mrs. James Earle Cheesman), 477 Vose Av., South Orange, N.J.

Born Fort Edward, N.Y., April 2, 1863; dau. Joseph E. King, D.D., and Melissa (Bayley) King; ed. Island Grove School; Fort Edward Collegiate Inst.; Coll. for Women of the Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland; m. Fort Edward, N.Y., Dec. 3, 1891, James Earle Cheesman; children: Ruth Helen, b. June 21, 1893; John King, b. Mar. 29, 1896. Preceptress of Fort Edward Inst., 1888-91. Pres. Travelers' Club, East Orange, 1904-06; pres. Home and School Ass'n of South Orange, 1910-11; vice-pres. of Arts and Crafts of N.J., 1910-11; now pres. Woman's Club of Orange; chairman of Playground Com. of Home and School League, Orange, 1910; sec. Orange Valley Social Settlement, 1908-12. Presbyterian. Mem. Exec. Com. Conference of Charities and Corrections, N.J.; charter mem. Ethan Allen Chapter D.A.R. ; pres. Fort Edward Alumni Ass'n, N.J. Com. of North Am. Civic League for Immigrants. Mem. Orange Musical Art Soc, Mosaic Club, Quartette Club. Especially interested in educational and welfare work for children; chairman of Child Welfare Exhibit held in East Orange, March, 1912. Against woman suffrage.

CHEEVER, Louisa Sewall, Chapin House, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Associate prof.; b. Worcester, Mass., June 10, 1868; dau. Rev. Henry T. Cheever, D.D., and Jane (Tyler) Cheever; ed. Smith Coll. A.B., Columbia Univ. A.M. Teacher at Smith Coll., dep't of English language and literature, since 1900; asso. prof. 1909-. Congregationalism Mem. Ass'n Coll. Alumnae, New England Ass'n of Schools and Colleges, New England Ass'n of Teachers of English; Am. Geographical Soc, Am Modern Language Ass'n, Consumers' League, Nat. Playground Ass'n; Nat. Child Labor Com. Mem. Woman's University Club (N.Y.), College Club (Boston), Lyceum Club (London), Phi Beta Kappa Soc.

CHENAULT, Sarah Gibson Humphreys (Mrs. Christopher D. Chenault), 461 N. Limestone St.. Lexington, Ky.

Born "Sumner's Forest," Ky., Mar. 21, 1858; dau. Joseph Alexander and Sarah T. (Gibson) Humphreys (niece of late Senator Randal Lee Gibson of Louisiana); ed. in private schools in Lexington, Ky.; Boston, Mass., and three years with a tutor; m. Versailles, Ky., Mar. 30, 1892, Christopher D. Chenault; children: Sarah Gibson, Lucy Humphreys. Active farmer and homemaker. Favors woman suffrage; in 1896 was one of the vice-presidents of the Equal Rights Ass'n of Ky. (still mem.). Contributor of short stories and articles to local papers and writer of plays for home talent. Episcopalian. Chapter regent of D.A.R. for ten years; State regent for three years; twice pres. of Lexington and Richmond (Ky.) Chapter United Daughters of Confederacy; State treas. for two years United Daughters of Confederacy; mem. Colonial Dames, Associated Charities, etc. Mem. Woman's Club of Central Kentucky.

CHENEY, Emma Smith Peters (Mrs. George F. Cheney), St. Johnsbury, Vt.

Born Roxbury, Vt, Mar. 31, 1863; dau. Austin Amasa and Betsie Anne (Loomis) Smith; grad. Randolph High School, '82; Wellesley Coll., '87; m. (1st) Randolph, Vt., July 19, 1887, Rev. W. F. Peters; (2d) Randolph, Vt., Dec. 25, 1897, Dr. George F. Cheney; one daughter: Hortense Peters. Pres. Woman's Ass'n of North Congregational Church. Especially interested in Home Mission work. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationaiist. Progressive. Mem. St. Johnsbury Woman's Club; ex-pres. St. Johnsbury Woman's Club, 1905-06.

CHENEY, Irma Genette Port, St. Mark's Rectory, Southboro, Mass.

Lecturer; b. Chenango Forks, N.Y., Dec. 29, 1865; dau. Jesse and Mercy (Heath) Port; grad. State Normal School, Cortland, N.Y., '87; Smith Coll., A.B. '93; grad. work at Wellesley Coll.; m. Chenango Forks, N.Y., Sept 25, 1901, Rev. Robert Francis Cheney. Taught Latin and Greek in Jamaica (N.Y.) State Normal School four years before marriage. Mem. Woman's Club (Southboro, Mass.), branch sec. of Girls' Friendly Soc. of St. Mark's Church, Southboro, Mass.; pres. St. Mark's Girls' Auxiliary; mem. of St. Agnes' Guild. Lecturer before women's clubs on literary themes, also on travel talks, Episcopalian. Recreations: Golf, cards (occasionally), reading, entertainments.

CHENEY, Mary E. (Mrs. Lorenzo L. Cheney), 34 Lindsey St., Dorchester Centre Station, Boston, Mass.

Born Boston, Mass., January, 1845; dau. John N. and Eliza A. (Davis) Kelly; ed. public schools of Boston, Ipswich Female Sem. and private school under charge of Mr. Francis Williams; m. Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1869, Lorenzo L. Cheney. Identified with religious, philanthropic and reform work since 1880, holds several offices in Mass. W.C.T.U., having been ass't rec. sec. for 26 years and sup't of the nat. and State papers 30 years; vice-pres-at-large of Suffolk County W.C.T.U.; pres. Ladies' Benevolent Circle and vice-pres. Missionary Soc. of her church. Favors woman suffrage; active in school suffrage campaigns; was candidate for the school board and polled 2,600 votes, though defeated. Baptist. Mem. Frances E. Willard Settlement, Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Soc, Woman's Foreign Baptist Mission Soc. Recreations: Reading, lectures and social affairs.

CHENOWETH, Caroline Van Deusen (Mrs. Bernard P, Chenoweth), 941 Main St., Worcester, Mass.; summer, Leicester, Mass.

Writer; b. near Louisville, Ky., Dec. 29, 1846; dau. Charles and Mary (Huntington) Van Deusen; ed. collegiate (degree A.M.); m. Col. Bernard Peel Chenoweth (deceased); children: Ernest Bernard (deceased), Arthur Peel, Laura Cromwell (deceased). Her husband, who was U.S. Consul at Canton, China, died there, and she was recognized as vice-consul by the home and Chinese governments, settling the affairs of the consulate. Prof. English literature, Smith Coll., 1883-84; lecturer on English history and literature. Active in D.A.R., of which has founded three local chapters and served as regent, and for two years was historian of the Mass. dep't. Author: Stories of the Saints; Child Life in China; School History of Worcester; An Undistinguished Citizen; History of the Second Church in Leicester, Mass. Associate editor for 16 years, Medico-Legal Journal, N.Y. City; contributor to reviews and magazines. Mem. Boston Authors' Club, Authors' Health League.

CHENOWETH, Catherine Richardson (Mrs. Alexander Crawford Chenoweth), 42 East 28th St., N.Y.

Born in N.Y. City; dau. late Hon. Fernando Wood (Mayor of N.Y. City and mem. Congress), and Ann (Richardson) Wood; ed. N.Y. City at Miss Rostan's French School; m. St. Thomas Church, N.Y., April 19, 1876, Alexander Crawford Chenoweth; one son: Alexander Fernando Wood Chenoweth. Mem. and founder Soc. Daughters of Holland Dames (descendants of the ancient and honorable families of the New


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/163

Rh Netherlands); mem. of the Hospital Ship Maine, London; Atlantic Unions, London; Peace Circle, Hague, Holland; Hungarian Tulip Soc, Hungary; N.Y. Peace Soc; Bellevue Hospital Mission; Stony Wold Sanatarium; Washington Sq. Auxiliary. Mem. of Nat. Committee for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of peace among English speaking peoples, 1915; U.S. delegate to Internat. Peace Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, 1912; and delegate to Hygienic Conference, London, 1912. Episcopalian.

CHENOWETH, Emma Leake, Woodbury, N.J.

Born Millville, N.J., Feb. 12, 1861; dau. Charles Garrison and Mary Page (Lore) Leake; ed. private schools and Millville (N.J.) High School; m. August 31, 1898, George Durbin Chenoweth. Interested in religious activities in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, literary clubs, Red Cross and Home Missionary Soc. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Traveling, tennis. Mem. Woodbury Reading and Fortnightly clubs; vice-pres. N.J. State Federation of Woman's Clubs.

CHERRY, Emma Richardson (Mrs. Dillin Brook Cherry), 608 Fargo St., Houston, Tex.

Painter; b. Aurora, Ill.; dau. Perkins and Frances (Mostow) Richardson; ed. public schools and sem. of Aurora, Art Students' League, N.Y.; Academie Julian, Paris; Atelier Merson; studied also in Rome and Venice; m. Oct. 27, 1897, Dillin Brook Cherry; one daughter: Dorothy Cherry. Won gold medal, Omaha (Neb.) Western Art Ass'n. Has exhibited in Paris Salon, Woman's Art Club, N.Y. Academy of Design, Chicago, St. Louis, etc. Organized Public School Art League of Houston, Tex. Favors woman suffrage and mem. Houston Political Union. Life mem. Art Students' League, N.Y.; associate mem. Soc. Western Artists; mem. Denver Artists' Club, Elizabeth Ney Memorial Art Soc, D.A.R. Recreations: Studying, painting, travel. Hon. mem. Ladies' Reading Club; mem. Settlement Ass'n.

CHERRYMAN, Myrtle Koon (Mrs. Esmond G. Cherryman), 440 Sheldon Av., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Public reader; b. Lisbon, Mich., Mar. 7, 1868; dau. Dr. Sherman J. and Mercy M. (Chubb) Koon, ed. high school at Lisbon, and Detroit Training School of Elocution and English Literature; m. Sept. 10, 1899, Esmond G. Cherryman; children: Edna Gladys (A.B., Smith '12) and Rexford Raymond Cherryman. Founded and directed Grand Rapids School of Elocution in 1886-90. Has given public readings throughout Mich, and neighboring States. Active in work among poor, under direction of Charity Organization Soc, and story-telling (semi-professional) at mothers' clubs, in connection with churches and schools; also many of Y.W.C.A. activities. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Songs of Sunshine (book of verse); Mother Goose Meddlings (a small volume of preachments and fables), Universalist. Mem. Grand Rapids Playground Ass'n, Grand Rapids Art Ass'n, Grand Rapids Drama League (board mem. or officer in all these), Y.W.C.A. (conducting elocution and literature classes). Recreations: Play-going, miscellaneous reading, specializing on Shakespeare, Dickens and literary criticism. Mem. Grand Rapids Soc. of Elocution (ex-pres.); served as society editor and musical critic of Grand Rapids Evening Press for twelve years, furnishing many original verses and sketches. Since Mar. 1, 1910, ass't pastor of All Souls (Universalist) Church, conducting many vesper services, much church, club and school work, lecture recitals, readings, story telling, etc.

CHESLEY, Mary Russell (Mrs. Samuel Chesley), Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Born Dartmouth, N.S.; dau. Nathaniel and Agnes D. (Bissett) Russell, ed. in private school, grammar school and high school, Dartmouth, N.S.; m. May 14, 1874, Samuel A. Chesley; one daughter: Mary Albee. For 13 years cor. sec and 4 years pres. Nova Scotia W.C.T.U. 10 years sup't of its franchise dep't, also during the past three years sup't Peace and Arbitration Dep't of the Dominion of Canada W.C.T.U., as well as of the Novia Scotia W.C.T.U. For three consecutive years aided in circulating a petition that was presented to the Provincial Legislature and later (1907) was instrumental in having the first bill for equal suffrage presented. Methodist.

CHEW, Ada Knowlton, Radnor, Pa.

Born West Upton, Mass., Mar. 2, 1876; dau. Daniel W. and Anna (Frost) Knowlton; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. '97; m. June 3, 1908, Oswald Chew. On Women's Com. of Social Service Dep't of Univ. of Pa. Hospital, also Women's Com. of Philadelphia Orchestra. Especially interested in music; played piano at recitals and concerts before marriage. Much interested in suffrage; rec sec. Equal Suffrage Society of Philadelphia. Episcopalian. Recreations: Riding, tennis, golf. Clubs: Woman's University (N.Y. City), College (Boston), College (Philadelphia).

CHEW, Mary Cady (Mrs. Robert S. Chew), 1912 H St., Washington, D.C.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Judge Howard Cleveland and Mary D. (Heard) Cady; ed. N.Y. and Washington schools; valedictorian of graduate class at Archer Inst., Washington, D.C; m. Washington, April 28, 1886, Robert S. Chew; children: Robert S. Jr., U.S.N., Mary Heard (Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard Bell), John J., Richard S. Was active in starting Noel House Settlement in Washington (first vice-pres. of board of managers); has been pres., vice-pres. and sec. of Washington Home for Incurables; has been associated with many church and charitable organizations in Washington, D.C; was nat. sec. Woman's Welfare Dep't of Nat. Civic Federation; mem. Exec Com. Nat. Cathedral Foundation; mem. Exec Com. Washington Home for Incurables; associate mem. Girls' Friendly Soc of America. Episcopalian.

CHILD, Edith, 119 Waverly Place, N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; prepared for college by Dr. W. S. Child, Newport, R.I.; grad. Bryn Mawr Coll., '90. Teacher of Latin and mathematics in Miss Case's and Miss Hallowell's School, Philadelphia, 1891-98; associate principal Miss Case's and Miss Child's School, Philadelphia, 1904-07; principal Miss Child's College Preparatory Class for Girls, Philadelphia, 1904-07. Treas. Bryn Mawr Club of N.Y. City since 1909.

CHILD, Florence Chapman, McKeen Av., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

Physician; b. Philadelphia, Jan. 3, 1883; dau. George Chapman and Suniah Honora (Gossler) Child; prepared by Agnes Irwin School, Philadelphia; A.B. Bryn Mawr Coll., '05; M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., '09 (mem. Zeta Phi Med. fraternity). Interne Syracuse Hosp. for Women and Children, 1910; interne Babies Hosp., N.Y. City, 1911; clinical ass't in gynecology and pediatrics, Woman's Hosp., Philadelphia; ass't Kensington (Philadelphia) Dispensary for treatment of tuberculosis. Licensed by examination to practice medicine and surgery in States of N.Y., N.J., and Pa. Mem. Philadelphia County Med. Soc, Pa. State Med. Ass'n, Am. Med. Ass'n.

CHILD, Georgie Boynton (Mrs. Alfred Thurston Child), Stamford, Conn.

Household engineer; b. Woodbridge, N.J.; dau. Casimir Whitman and Eunice Adelia (Harriman) Boynton; ed. Woodbridge (N.J.) High School; Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa); m. Sewaren, N.J., 1904, Alfred Thurston Child; children: Alfred Thurston Child Jr., Eunice Adelia, Margaret Lyon Child. Business manager of the Perth Amboy Daily Republican for seven years; business manager the Housekeeping Experiment Station, Stamford, Conn.

CHILD, Katherine B., 102 Fenway, Boston, Mass.

Instructor in design; b. Boston, Mass.; dau. Linus M. and Helen A. (Barnes) Child; ed. Dana Hall School; grad. the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., Mr. C Howard Walker, instructor; pupil of Lewis F. Day, London, and student at South Kensington School of Art, London, England. Instructor for one year in design at Wellesley Coll.; also instructor in Normal Art School, in Mass. School of Design and in School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. Pres.


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/164

176 Stuart Club, Boston, Mass.; mem. House Com. of the Business Woman's Club, Boston, Mass. Interested in the housing question for students and professional women and is on various committees. Congregationalist.

CHILD, Mary Lucy, Thetford, Vt.

Born Thetford, Vt., Jan. 27, 1866; dau. William Heaton and Sarah Jane (Howard) Child; grad. from Varnurn Grammar School, Lowell, Mass., '81: high school, Lowell, Mass., '85; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '89. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Owns farm property; engaged in special line of research work.

CHILDS, Caroline Goldsmith (Mrs. John Lewis Childs), Floral Park, L.I., N.Y.

Born Washingtonville, N.Y., May 2, 1867; dau. Runze A. and Juia (Norris) Goldsmith; ed. Cortland (N.Y.) Normal School; m. Washingtonville, N.Y., April 15, 1886, John Lewis Childs; children: Vernon E., Norma D., Jay Lionel, Carlton Hathaway. Mem. and several years on House Com. of Nassau Hosp. Ass'n. Much interested in educating and instructing young musicians. Speaker on club subjects, especially musical interests and activities. Mem. Equal Franchise Soc. Methodist. Mem. Theosophical Soc., Brooklyn Inst, of Arts and Sciences (on music com.). Recreations: Traveling, automobiling. Mem. Sorosis (chairman exec, com.), N.Y. Browning Soc, D.A.R., Floral Park Woman's Club, Sorosis Carol Club (champion of philanthropy), Pioneers of the Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs. Founder and former pres. Floral Park Woman's Club (ten years); ex-pres. Hempstead Woman's Club, chairman of Philanthropy Sorosis Carol Club, former chairman Program Com. for N.Y. State Federation, also Gen. Fed. Sec. for N.Y. State Federation.

CHILDS, Eleanor Stuart (Mrs. Harris Robbins Childs), 149 East 78th St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. East Orange, N.J., June 2, 1876; dau. Edward and Isabel Liddon (Coxe) Patterson; ed. Miss Irwin's School, Philadelphia, and previously by governess; m. N.Y. City, Dec. 15, 1903, Harris Robbins Childs; one son: Edward Patterson, b. in Zanzibar, East Africa, Oct. 12, 1904. Writer for magazines at 16. Pres. of first auxiliary of the N.Y. Symphony Orchestra; has sung much in churches and concerts; was offered position in Vienna opera, but declined in view of parental opinion. Favors woman suffrage. Novels: Stompastures; Averages; The Postscript; best known for short stories; Charm He Never So Wisely (Scribner); The Lieutenant's Messenger; Three Blind Mice; Bibi Steinfeld's Hunting (which the German Emperor praised publicly and which is translated into French and Italian). Episcopalian. Recreations: Riding, music, Oriental travel. Clubs: Women's Cosmopolitan, European. Lived three years in British East Africa. Married the great topographical authority on Africa, H. R. Childs (exporter and importer, head of firm of Childs, Parr & Joseph). Speaks Arabic, Hindostan and Swahili, French, German and English. Speaks Swahili and writes it better than any European woman on the coast.

CHILDS, Mary Fairfax (Mrs. William Ward Childs), Hotel St. George, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Lexington, Ky.; dau. Edward Fairfax Berkley, D.D., and Sarah (Maury) Berkley (of Virginia); ed. Bonham's Sem., St. Louis, Mo.; m. St. Louis, April 21, 1870, William Ward Childs (great-greatgrandson of Betty Washington, sister of Gen. George Washington); children: Mary Berkley, James, Sally Maury, Farley Carter. Author: De Namin' ob de Twins, and Other Sketches from the Cotton Land; The Boys Who Wore the Grey; The Little Nazarene, etc. Episcopalian. Mem. and historian Mary Mildred Sullivan Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy, N.Y. City; historian of Soc. of Ky. Women of N.Y.; poet of Stonewall Jackson Chapter, Children of the Confederacy; mem. N.Y. Auxiliary of the Southern Industrial Educational Ass'n (headquarters in Washington, D.C.). Mem. Minerva Club, N.Y. City.

CHIPMAN, Edna Earle Manners (Mrs. James Henry Chipman), Georgetown, Del.

Born Westville, N.J., Nov. 29, 1878; dau. Jacob Hartwell and Madeline (Calhoun) Manners; parents removed in her childhood first to Springfield, Mo., and later to Rome, Ga., where most of her girlhood life was spent; ed. Shorter Coll., Rome, Ga.; m. Georgetown, Del., Feb. 5, 1902, James Henry Chipman, M.D.; children: James Manners, b. Nov. 13, 1902; Virginia Bess, b. Sept. 24, 1904. Pres. Georgetown Parent-Teacher Ass'n (branch of Mothers' Congress); pres. Georgetown New Century Club; one of executive members Del. State Federation of Women's Clubs. Episcopalian (though brought up a Baptist); ass't sec. Church Guild; mem. St. Paul's Auxiliary. Recreation: Automobiling, and, in season, life at summer home at Oak Orchard on the Indian River, Delaware.

CHIRURG, Martha Mabelle Ames (Mrs. Michael Chirurg), Newton Center, Mass.

Born in Illinois, April 10, 1878; dau. Daniel and Abbie (Scates) Ames; ed. Wellesley Coll., A.B. 1900; Radcliffe Coll., A.M. '02; m. Oct. 16, 1905, Dr. Michael Chirurg (physician); one son: James Thomas. Life mem. Collegiate Alumnae Ass'n; mem. Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Radcliffe Coll. Alumnae Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage League of Mass. Unitarian. Mem. Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft. Recreations: Literature, opera, drama. Mem. Newton Club.

CHITTENDEN, Ida Lunette, Lansing, Mich.

Violet grower; b. Yorkshire, N.Y.; dau. William F. and Mary Jane (Wheeler) Chittenden; ed. TenBroeck Free Acad., Frankville, N.Y.; Geneseo (N.Y.) State Normal School. Active in Y.W.C.A., Women's Civic League and the Michigan Grange. Favors woman suffrage; manager of campaign for equal suffrage by Michigan State Grange during summer and fall of 1912. Occasional contributor to press. Congregationalist. Mem. Y.W.C.A., Grange Civic League, Suffrage Ass'n. Mem. E.M.B. Club, Lansing, Mich. Engaged as violet grower since 1897.

CHIVVIS, Mrs. W. R., 4232 W. Pine Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Andrew J. and Mary (Condon) Chaphe; ed. St. Louis public schools, St. Louis High School (valedictorian); m. Oct. 26, 1886, William R. Chivvis; children: Leland, b. 1887; Norman, b. 1891; Ruth, b. 1894. Pres. Mo. Congregational Board of Foreign Missions; vice-pres. Mo. Federation of Women's Clubs; vice-pres. of Mo. Consumers' League. Recently appointed member of the com. on membership of the Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs; director in St. Louis Anti-Tuberculosis Soc. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Advisory member of Mo. Congregational Conference. Recreations: Reading, writing, travel.

CHOATE, Augusta, Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Teacher; b. Cochran, Ga.; ed. in schools of Atlanta, Ga., and Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '99, A.M. 1900. Teacher, Atlanta, Ga., 1893-96; Mt. Hope School, Fall River, Mass., 1900-01; high school, Washington, D.C., 1902; the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., since 1902. Author (with Gertrude Hartman): Exercises for Parsing and Analysis.

CHOATE, Miriam Foster, 18 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Teacher, grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '99; student in political science, Columbia Univ., 1900-02, M.A. '02. Teacher of history in Greenwich (Conn.) Acad., 1903-09; Brooklyn Heights Sem. since 1909.

CHRISTENSON, Nellie Grant (Mrs. C. R. Christenson), 1660 W. Minnehaha Av., St. Paul, Minn.

Born Centerville, Iowa, April 8, 1874; dau. Prof. H.L. and Hattie (Reynolds) Grant; grad. Peoria (Ill.) High School, '92; Univ. of Minnesota, B.S. '97, cum laude; m. June 30, 1897, Dr. C. R. Christenson; children: Franklin Grant, Grant Reynolds, Helen Louise. Has taught science and mathematics in Minn. Coll.,


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/165

Rh ; taught in Minn. Summer Teachers' Training School; mem. Minn. Teachers' Examining Board. Interested in church work (Sunday-school teacher), also in temperance and foreign missionary work. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Exec. Com. of Woman's Welfare League of St. Paul. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Societies, W.C.T.U., Woman's Welfare League, Alumni Ass'n of the Univ. of Minn., Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, College Club of St. Paul, Mothers' Club of Hamline, Moccasin Club.

CHRISTIAN, Elizabeth, 10 Kemble St., Utica, N.Y.

Educator; b. Utica, N.Y.; dau. Col. William H. and Mary H. (Timerman) Christian; ed. Utica public schools, Cornell Univ., B.S. '95 (special mention in chemistry), Albany Normal, Pd.B. '98. Teacher of science, Glens Falls (N.Y.) High School, 1899-1901; an examiner in science, N.Y. State Education Dep't, being connected with this dep't during vacations, 1898-1904, and giving whole time to work, 1904-09. Interested in the promotion of health, especially by physical culture or natural means, and through right thinking and auto-suggestion; also much interested in the preservation of the forests and birds; interested in the study of psychology as applied to healing. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Dutch Reformed Church, King's Daughters, Soc. of Christ Church, Utica, N.Y., Utica Branch of the Stevens-Swan Humane Soc; mem. Nat. Ass'n of Audubon Socs., D.A.R. Vacations usually spent in Adirondacks or at Thousand Islands. Recreations: Rowing, walking. Mem. Cornell Alumnae Club of Utica.

CHRISTIAN, Mary (Mrs. Amasa C. Christian), Chesaning, Mich.

Born Wheatfield, Ingham Co., Mich., Feb. 13, 1853; dau. Benjamin and Sophronia (Jennings) Kellogg; ed. in public and high schools of Mich.; m. Dec. 20, 1880, Amasa C. Christian; children: Nora E., b. June 25, 1882; Leila B., b. Oct. 24, 1883. Taught for ten years, part of time in high school. Active in religious work and charities; mem. Baptist Church and for the past ten years sup't of Sunday-school. Prominent in W.C.T.U. (pres. of County of Saginaw, Mich., five years; now pres. Chesaning W.C.T.U.). Active in favor of suffrage. Prohibitionist. Interested in all efforts for advancement of women. Mem. Woman's Club of Chesaning.

CHRISTIE, Carmelite Brewer (Mrs. Thomas D. Christie), Tarsus, Turkey in Asia,

Missionary, educator; b. Lee Center, Ill., Apr. 25, 1852; dau. Rev. James Brewer (grad. Williams) and Elizabeth (Pratt) Brewer (first ancestor in America at Boston in 1630; most famous ancestor Capt. John Brewer, renowned in French and Indian wars, first settler in Tyringham, now Monterey, Berkshire Co., Mass., among whose other descendants are Justice David J. Brewer, of the U.S. Supreme Court, and President Garfield); ed. Rockford Sem. (now Coll.), B.A. '71; m. Lee Center, Ill., Mar. 14, 1872, Thomas Davidson Christie, B.A. (now pres. St. Paul's Coll., Tarsus); children: Elizabeth Norton (died when 3 years old), Anna Carmelite (died when 35), Emerson Brewer, Mary Phelps, Paul Theodore, Agnes Emily, Jean Ogilvy; two grandchildren. Missionary of Am. Board in Asiatic Turkey since 1877. Prepared young men for college, 1877-93, at Marash; since 1893 in charge with husband, of St. Paul's Coll. and Acad. at Tarsus; always in field of the Central Turkey Mission. Works for women and the poor. During and for months after the massacre of April, 1909, in which her son-in-law, Rev. D. Miner Rogers, was killed, rescued and fed thousand of refugees in the coll. buildings and grounds; cared for many wounded and sick, and got money for them by her letters. Uses pen constantly, but seldom for publication; writes hundreds of long letters every year to friends and societies on missionary topics and by this means has helped very many poor boys, orphans and others, through school and college; and has secured funds for needed buildings. Congregationalist. Mem. Y.W.C.A. of Tarsus, Central Turkey Mission. Recreation: Horseback riding. Favors suffrage for unmarried women.

CHRISTIE, Isabella Munro Lindsay (Mrs. Alexander Christie), 802 Avenue C, Bayonno, N.J.

Born Glasgow, Scotland, 1841; dau. John and Elizabeth (Hunter) Lindsay; ed. public school; m. N.Y. City, June 27, 1860, Alexander Christie; children: Marion McAdam, Elizabeth Hunter, Janet Hunter, Isabella Lindsay, George, Alexandra Bertha, Lindsay Robert; has 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Favors woman suffrage. Joined the first woman's suffrage club that ever was organized in N.Y. City (it met in home of Miss Hannah Allen in University Place); about one year later organized the first suffrage club in Bayonne, and remained pres. 20 years. Articles read at suffrage club meetings. Was mem. several years of Felix Adler's Ethical Culture Soc. (N.Y. City). Interested in movement for humane treatment of animals; strongly opposed to vivisection, vaccination or inoculation of any kind; believer in hydropathic treatment of disease, which she has followed with best results in her own family. Mem. Woman's Political Study Club, Bayonne, N.J.

CHRISTY, Grace, Ford City, Pa.

Teacher; b. Ford City, Pa., July 12, 1883; dau. Jefferson Reynolds and Emily (McCormick) Christy; prepared for college at Pittsburgh Acad.; grad. Cornell Univ., A.B. '07 (mem. Delta Gamma). Young People's sec. for Home Missions of Kittanning Presbytery, Synod of Pa. Presbyterian.

CHURCH, Elizabeth Hoyt, 63 Pringle St., Kingston, Pa,

Teacher of mathematics; b. Kingston, Pa., May 26, 1881; dau. William F. and Anne Hoyt (Corss) Church; ed. Wyoming Sem., 1897-1900; Cornell Univ., 1901-05; A.B. '05 (mem. Sennightly Club). Presbyterian. Mem. Coll. Woman's Club of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

CHURCH, Gertrude Lee (Mrs. J. E. Church), 15 Walker St., Cambridge, Mass.

Born Canton, N.Y., July 15, 1864; dau. John Stebbins and Elmira (Bennett) Lee; ed. St. Lawrence Univ., A.B.; Art Students' League, N.Y.; Colorossi Studio, Paris, France (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 24, 1904, James Edward Church. Mem. Cantabrigia Club, Cambridge, Mass. Universalist.

CHURCH, Louise Akerly Husted (Mrs. Eugene Church), 1320 N. Yakima Av., Tacoma, Wash.

Physician; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '88; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '93; m. N.Y. City, Oct. 24, 1901, Eugene Church; children: Anna Edsall, b. Feb. 11, 1903; Louise Husted, b. Aug. 3, 1904; Margaret, b. June 9, 1907. Interne New England Hospital, Roxbury, Mass., May, 1894, to January, 1895; house surgeon, January-May, 1895; house physician N.Y. Infant Asylum, 1895-96; N.Y. Board of Health mercantile inspector, 1896-98; visitor N.Y. Juvenile Asylum, 1898-1901. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

CHURCH, Virginia Woodson Frame (Mrs. John William Church), 920 W. Grace St., Richmond, Va.

Writer; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '98; student in English extension course, Univ. of Cal., 1901; in English, Columbia Univ., 1905, and of illustration in N.Y. Art Students' League; m. Oct. 14, 1908, John William Church; one daughter: Elizabeth Courtenay, b. Feb. 10, 1910. Tutor in N.Y. City, later writer for magazines and on staff of the Theatre Magazine. Mem. Am. Dramatists' Society.

CHURCHILL, Florence (Mrs. John M. B. Churchill), 803 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

Born Boston, Nov. 11, 1873; dau. Gershom C. and Louisa (May) Winsor; ed. Miss Bursley's private school in Boston; m. Dublin, N.H., June 15, 1898, John M. B. Churchill; one son: John M. B., b. June 20, 1899. Vice-pres. Animal Rescue League and one of the Auxiliary Board of Managers of the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children. Unitarian.


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/166

178 CHURCHILL, Julia Patterson (Mrs. Jerome Churchill), Yreka, Cal.

Born Lockport, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1841; dau. Warren and Parnelia (Pierce) Patterson (both of Vt.); ed. in Ill. in primary school; Waukegan Acad, and Roekford Female Sem. (now college); m. Waukegan, Ill., Nov. 14, 1861, Jerome Churchill, native of N.Y., but then of Cal.; children: Jerome P., Jesse W., also one other son and two daughters (deceased). Since 1862 resident of Yreka, Cal. During Civil War was pres. Woman's Union Aid Soc, for making lint and bandages for wounded soldiers and raising funds for their care and comfort; after war was over the society raised money by fairs, concerts and theatricals to rebuild the then only Protestant church in Yreka, and later by like efforts to erect St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Former officer of Sons of Temperance; former pres. Siskiyou Co. W.C.T.U. Charter mem. Pacific Coast Woman's Press Ass'n. Active advocate of woman suffrage since early sixties; former pres. of largest suffrage organization in her county; has been representative delegate to two National and three State suffrage conventions; was active in Woman's Congress in San Francisco, of which she was vice-pres. for First Congressional Dist. Episcopalian. Republican. Recreations: Writing verse, painting landscapes. Mem. and hon. pres. Yreka Civic Club; mem. Yreka Woman's Club, for which she has been representative delegate to two State Federation conventions and to the National biennial in San Francisco, 1912.

CHURCHILL, Lida A., 77 W. 12th St., N.Y. City.

Author, editor, lecturer; b. Harrison, Me.; dau. Josiah and Catherine (Hilton) Churchill; ed. common schools, and one term in private high school; otherwise self-educated, studying alone. Learned telegraphy as stepping-stone to literary career; while in small telegraph office at Northbridge, Mass., wrote first book (My Girls) and many stories. Interested in all broad religious movements; non-sectarian; much interested in so-called New Thought doctrines. Favors woman suffrage. Books: My Girls; Interweaving; The Magic Seven; The Magnet; The Master Demand; A Grain of Madness. Magazine and editorial writer.

CHURCHILL, Liska Stillman (Mrs. Edmund J. Churchill), 1515 Grant St., Denver, Colo.

Dramatic reader and teacher; b. Garnavilla, Ia.: dau. Samuel Allyn and Jane (Burt) Stillman; ed. Louisiana (Mo.) High School, and Neb. State Univ.; studied dramatic art with the late Alfred Ayres of N.Y. City, the late Rose Eytinge, and Walter Clark Bellows; m. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 18, 1888, Edmund J. Churchill; children: Mrs. Flavia Churchill Crowley, Huldah Jane. Director of senior class play at Univ. of Denver annually, 1910 to 1913. Director Young Ladies' Dramatic Circle, South Denver, 1912-13. Interested in development of the schoolhouse as a social center and the open air theatre. Favors woman suffrage. Writer of short stories and miscellaneous poems, including: The Heart of a Woman; Two 'Phones and a Woman; As You Might Like It; The New Book, etc. Recreations: Walking, mountain climbing. Mem. Mothers' Congress, Denver Woman's Club, Denver Woman's Press Club, the Players' Club (pres.).

CHURCHILL, Louise Nye (Mrs. Frank Churchill), 144 E. 89th St., N.Y. City.

Born in Vermont; dau. Russell Woodruff and Mary L. (Meader) Nye; ed. in Vt.; m. Vt., 1882, Dr. Frank Churchill. Interested in Little Mothers; mem. Nat. Soc. New England Women. Presbyterian. Clubs: Rainy Day, Women's West End Republican; New York Theatre, Century Theatre, Rubinstein Club, City Federation of Woman's Clubs, New Yorkers, Theatre Club, The Forum.

CHURCHILL, Mabel Harlakenden (Mrs. Winston Churchill); home, Cornish, N.H.; address: Windsor, Vt.

Born New Haven, Conn.; dau. George B. and Lucretia (Allen) Hall; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Comegy's School, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; m. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 22, 1895, Winston Churchill; children: Mabel Harlakenden, John Dwight, James Creighton. Believes in equal suffrage; mem. N.H. Nat. Woman's Suffrage Ass'n. Episcopalian. Mem. Chilton Club, Boston, Mass.

CHURCHYARD, Ida Thompson (Mrs. J. J. Churchyard), 1555 Niagara St., Buffalo, N.Y.

Born Buffalo, N.Y., May 12, 1856; dau. Thomas and Mary Jane (Bell) Thompson; ed. private and normal schools of Buffalo; m. Buffalo, 1888, Joseph J. Churchyard; children: Constance, Mary Bell, Charlotte, Elizabeth. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian.

CLAFLIN, Edith Frances, Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill. (home address: 17 Felton Hall, Cambridge, Mass.).

Teacher, author; b. Quincy, Mass., Oct. 6, 1875; dau. Frederick Allan and Narcissa Adelaide (Avery) Claflin; ed. Quincy schools, Thayer Acad., Braintree, Mass.; Radcliffe Coll., A.B. '97, with honors in classics; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.M. and Ph.D. '04; held Garrett European Fellowship of Bryn Mawr, 1899-1900, attending Am. School at Athens, 1899-1900. Instructor in Greek and Latin, Prospect Hill School, Greenfield, Mass. 1901-07; head classical dep't Monticello Sem., Godfrey, Ill., 1907-. Interested in liberal religion, the peace movement, woman suffrage and other social reforms. Author: (doctor's dissertation) The Syntax of the Boeotian Dialect Inscriptions (published as a Bryn Mawr Coll. monograph), 1905. Unitarian. Mem. Radcliffe Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Bryn Mawr Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Classical Ass'n of the Middle West and South; former mem. Bryn Mawr Club, Boston. Recreations: Outdoor sports (such as walking, bicycling, swimming, skating and snow-shoeing), bird study, playing the piano, poetry. Occasional lecturer. Favors woman suffrage.

CLAFLIN, Narcissa Adelaide Avery (Mrs. Frederick Allan Claflin), 1640 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Mass.

Retired minister; b. Boston, July 28, 1846; dau. Alden and Lucinda Miller (Brown) Avery; grad. Boston Girls' High School, '62; private study with Harvard professors, 1864-65; grad. Meadville (Pa.) Theological School, 1896; m. Boston, Nov. 23, 1870, Frederick Allan Claflin (died Mar. 14, 1908). Ordained Unitarian minister at Meadville, Pa., 1897; preached in Connecticut, Canada and the West. Interested in liberal religion, natural science study, literary study and languages; in public school service on School Board of Quincy, Mass., 1884-87; interested in woman suffrage and education of women. Formerly mem. of executive board of Mass. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; connected with Boston Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Has lectured often on suffrage with Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore and Julia Ward Howe; campaigned in R.I., 1886. Author of occasional editorials and articles in Boston dailies, and formerly contributor to Woman's Journal. Recreations: Bird and plant observation, piano, singing, theatre, concerts. Director New England Woman's Club; pres. Boston Castilian Club.

CLAGETT, Mary DuHamel (Mrs. Howard C. Clagett), Manila Post Office, Philippine Islands.

Born Washington, D.C.; dau. Dr. William J. and Elizabeth Hill (Kennedy) DuHamel; ed. Mt. de Sales Acad., near Baltimore, Md.; m. Washington, D.C., Howard C. Clagett; one daughter: Adele (Mrs. Newlands Baldwin). Interested in educational work. Catholic.

CLAGHORN, Kate Holladay, 81 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Lecturer, teacher; b. Aurora, Ill. (came to N.Y. City in infancy); dau. Charles and Martha Holladay; ed. Bryn Mawr, A.B. '92; Yale, Ph.D. '96. Engaged in research work for U.S. Industrial Comm'n, 1890-1901; in U.S. Census Office, 1902; ass't registrar of records, 1902-06; registrar Tenement House Dep't, City of N.Y., 1906-12; lecturer on permanent staff N.Y. School of Philanthropy, 1912—. Author: College Training for Women, 1897; also contributor to magazines. Mem. Women's Political Union, N.Y. Mem. Am. Economic Ass'n, Am. Statistical Ass'n, Soc. for Italian Immigrants, Little Italy Ass'n, Women's Univ. Club. Recreation: Music.


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/167

Rh CLAGSTONE, Cora Kirk (Mrs. Paul Clagstone), Kootenai Ranch, Clagstone, Ida.

Born Chicago, Ill., Dec. 9, 1878; dau. Wallace Forester and Maude (Arrick) Kirk; ed. Mme. Yeatman's Pensionnat, Neuilly, Paris, France, and in private schools in Chicago; m. San Mateo, Cal., May 7, 1904, Paul Clagstone; children: Pauline, b. Feb. 28, 1905; Kirk, b. Mar. 6, 1906. Has spoken to different country life commissions and farm congresses on Women on the Farm; active in legislation bettering conditions of women and child workers. Favors woman suffrage. State chairman of Women's Auxiliary of Nat. Progressive party in Idaho; has started several Progressive county leagues in Northern Idaho. Episcopalian. Recreations: Riding, gardening, dancing, skating.

CLAPHAM, Lizzie Markley (Mrs. Hesser C. Clapham). 227 Gowen Av., Mt. Airy, Phila., Pa.

Born, Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 29, 1863; dau. John Markley and Ruth Anna (La Rue) Hartman; grad. Philadelphia public schools, Girls' High School '82, Teachers' Normal course '83; m. Jan. 27, 1886, Hesser C. Clapham; children: John Hartman and Charles Hesser. Episcopalian. Mem. Girls' Friendly Soc, Philadelphia Chapter, No. 6, Women's Organization; Nat. Ass'n Retail Druggists, Site and Relic Soc. of Germantown, Alumnae Ass'n of Girls' High and Normal Schools of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania State Conservation Ass'n. Mem. Civic Club of Philadelphia. Recreation: Gathering the flowers from garden and distributing them to the sick and poor.

CLAPP, Cornelia Maria, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

Educator; b. Montague, Mass., March 17, 1849; dau. Richard and Eunice A. (Slate) Clapp; ed. Mount Holyoke Sem. (now Coll.), Syracuse Univ. Ph.B.; Chicago Univ., Ph.D., '96. Prof. of zoology, Mount Holoke Coll., investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.; trustee Marine Biological Laboratory. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Some Points in the Development of the Toad Fish, Batrachus tau (Jour. of Morphology, Vol. V, No. 3); The Lateral Line System of Batrachus tau (Jour. of Morphology, Vol. XV, No. 2); Relation of the Axis of the Embryo to the First Cleavage Plane (Biological Lectures, Woods Hole), 1898.

CLAPP, Eleanor Bassett, 505 W. 111th St., N.Y. City.

Editor, writer; b. Pawtucket, R.I.; dau. William Hastings and Emma (Ormsbee) Clapp; ed. private schools of R.I. Editor McCall's Magazine, 1896-1911. Author: The Courtesies, 1904. Has written stories and articles and much unclassified matter under a nom de plume; contributor to various magazines and newspapers.

CLAPP, Mrs. Thomas Calvin, 317 E. St. Clair St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Born Paducah, Ky.; dau. Johnson J. and Rachel O. (Osborn) Fiddick; ed. in Danville (Ind.) schools, Amos O. Lawrence School for Girls, 1873-75; m. Sept. 10, 1879, Hayden H. Martin (died Aug. 23, 1882); one son, Oscar A. Martin, b. Sept. 22, 1881. Married, 2d, July 16, 1884, William J. Wingate (died Feb. 2, 1906); m. 3d, Feb. 17, 1907, T. C. Clapp. Pres. Independent Social Club (devoted to practical philanthropy); treas. Ladies' Literary Union; mem. and press correspondent New Era Club; mem. Local Council of Women, Women's Franchise League, Y.W.C.A. Methodist. Republican. Mem. Ladies' of the G.A.R., Woman's Relief Corps, Pythian Sisters. Occasional contributor to newspapers in verse and prose.

CLARK, Amelia Ray (Mrs. Sidney Williams Clark), 40 Willard St., Hartford, Conn.

Born N.Y. City, Oct. 23, 1859; dau. James Dean and Sarah (McCrosky) Ray; ed. Windsor, Conn.; Mt. Holyoke Coll., '81; m. N.Y. City, April 24, 1894, Sidney Williams Clark; one son: Sidney Ray Clark (died 1896). Treas. Hartford Branch Woman's Board of Missions; mem. Finance Board Union for Home Work; director Consumers' League of Hartford; Alumnae Trustee of Mt. Holyoke Coll., Hartford College Club Settlement (mem. board); mem. various church societies. Against woman suffrage; mem. Soc. Opposed to Woman Suffrage, Hartford, Conn. Congregationalist. Mem. Civic Club, Musical Club of Hartford, Mt. Holyoke College Club of Hartford, Hartford Golf Club.

CLARK, Anna Katherine Perkins (Mrs. Robert Cushman Clark), 17 Green St., Brattleboro, Vt.

Former teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '97; student in English, Hyannis (Mass.) Summer School, 1905; m. Brattleboro, Vt., April 23, 1900, Robert Cushman Clark. Teacher East Walpole, Mass., 1898-99; Norwood, Mass., 1899-1901; Charlemont (Mass.) High School, 1901-02; Brattleboro (Vt.) Acad., 1902-04; Brattleboro High School, 1904-08.

CLARK, Anna Newhall, 48 Garden St., Cambridge, Mass.

Born Somerville, Mass., May 27, 1883; dau. Thomas W. and Anna Russell (Newhall) Clark; ed. Miss Ingal's School, Cambridge, Mass.; the Misses Shipley's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '08. Friendly visitor for Associated Charities, Church Periodical Club, diocesan librarian, assistant to diocesan correspondent, chairman of the House Com. of the Bryn Mawr Club of Boston; mem. of Women's College Com. for the Daily Vacation Bible School. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Board of Directors of College Club of Boston.

CLARK, Annie Maria Lawrence (Mrs. Calvin Clark), Lancaster, Mass.

Writer; b. Still River, Harvard, Mass., Sept. 21, 1835; dau. Jonathan W. and Sarah Ann (Williston) Lawrence; ed. town schools, Lancaster Acad, and private teachers; m. at Still River, Dec. 21, 1870, Calvin Clark; one son: John Calvin Lawrence Clark. Teacher for many years before marriage. Editor of the Hospital Cottage Friend; cor. sec. of Woman's B'd of the Baldwinville Hospital Cottages for Children, mem. of the Lend-a-Hand, Sunshine and King's Daughter's Circles and other philanthropic and charitable societies; chairman of church com., and treasurer of church funds. Author: Olive Loring's Mission; Light from the Cross; The Alcotts in Harvard; Verses and Versions; Poems; Elias Sawyer of the Nashawog Plantation; The Major's Story; Farmer Lawrence's Christmas, etc. Swedenborgian. Mem. Audubon Soc, Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Clinton Historical Soc., Harvard Historical Soc. Recreations: Reading, painting. Pres. Current Topic's Club (Lancaster); mem. Clinton Woman's Club; Shakespeare Class (Lancaster); New Church Woman's Alliance.

CLARK, Bertha Winifred, Bahmo, Burmah; home address, care Mrs. Hattie M. Clark, Hamilton, N.Y.

Missionary; b. West Royalston, Mass., June 6, 1875; dau. Rev. Albert Vinton and Harriet (Baker) Clark; ed. Hamilton (N.Y.) public schools; Colgate Acad.; Silas Neff School of Oratory; Columbian (now George Washington) Univ., grad. 1900, and in Summer School of Cornell Univ. Taught one year in Nashville Freedman's Schools; in Government Indian School at Beauleau, Minn., several years, then spent a year in Haseltine House, Newton Centre, Mass., training for foreign mission work in 1907. Went to Rangoon, Burmah, and taught four years, being then transferred to her present post as missionary at Bhamo, Burmah. Baptist.

CLARK, Clara May, 149 Elm St., Northampton, Mass.

Teacher, librarian; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '84, graduate student geology and biology, Smith, 1885-86; Harvard Summer School, 1889; Mass. Inst, of Technology, 1889-90; Hartford Theological Sem., 1898-99; Library Summer School, 1906. Substitute teacher, Northampton and Hadley, Mass., 1884-87; private teacher, Northampton, Mass., 1888-89, 1890-93; library ass't Forbes Library, 1895-98; settlement worker, Christodora House, N.Y. City, 1899-01; church mission worker, 1901-04; librarian Bible Teachers' Training School, Northampton, Mass., since 1904.


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/168

180 CLARK, Eleanor Phelps (Mrs. Frederick H. Clark), care Charles Henry Phelps, 30 Broad St., N.Y. City.

Born Oakland, Cal., 1881; dau. Charles Henry and Mary (Booth) Phelps; grad. Annie Brown School. N.Y. City, '98; Barnard Coll., '02; Paris (mem. Kappa Kappa, Barnard); m. N.Y. City, Dec. 30, 1908. Frederick Huntington Clark: one daughter: Eunice, b. 1911. Interested in college settlements and in activities of the Church of the Ascension. N.Y. City. Recreations: Riding, swimming, shooting. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

CLARK, Elizabeth Conway Rent (Mrs. Herbert L. Clark), School House Lane, Germantown, Pa.

Born Philadelphia, Pa.; ed. Mlle. de Bonneville's School, Philadelphia, and Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '95; m. 1907, Herbert L. Clark. Private tutor (Greek, Latin and mathematics) at Harrisburg, Pa., 1896-99; teacher in the Misses Seargent's and Bent's School, Harrisburg, Pa., 1897-1906; in Miss Shipley's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1906-07.

CLARK, Elizabeth Morris, 532 Clinton Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Teacher, religious worker; ed. Wells Coll., 1889-90; Bryn Mawr Coll., 1890-91; Univ. of Zurich, 1892-93; Univ. of Leipzig, 1892-94; Geneva, Switzerland, 1909-11. Salvation Army worker, 1894-98; teacher of English and German, Y.W.C.A., Harlem, N.Y. City, 1898-99; educational director of same, 1899-1900; prof. English literature, Huguenot Coll., Wellington, South Africa, 1900-06; traveling sec. Y.W.C.A., 1908-09; sec. for Switzerland of World's Christian Student Federation, 1909-11.

CLARK, Ella Cleveland, 400 South Los Robles Av., Pasadena, Cal.

Born Northampton, Mass., Feb. 22, 1860; dau. William Clark Jr. and Annie E. (Miller) Clark; grad. Northampton High School, '80; Smith Coll., A.B. '84. Congregationalist. Mem. Woman's Church Aid Soc, Woman's Missionary Soc. of First Congregational Church; life mem. Woman's Board of Missions; life mem. Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll.; charter mem. Betty Allen Chapter D.A.R. in Northampton; mem. Pasadena Y.W.C.A., and Bay State Colony (Pasadena), Shakespeare Club (Pasadena), Smith College Club of Southern Cal. From 1886 to 1910 teacher in two private schools, two high schools and private tutor at home, including 10 years as official tutor in mathematics for Smith Coll. Removed from Northampton, Mass., to Pasadena in 1902.

CLARK, Emily Anna, Wushishi, Northern Nigeria, West Africa; home address, care Mrs. Hattie M. Clark, Hamilton, N.Y.

Missionary; b. East Hardwick, Vt., July 30, 1878; dau. Rev. Albert Vinton and Harriet (Baker) Clark; ed. Hamilton public and high schools; Columbian Univ., D.C., while doing census work, 1901-02; grad. Cornell Univ., B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) '05; Toronto Bible College for Foreign Mission Work, 1910-11. Taught public school before entering college; after graduation taught in Chesbro Sem., North Chili, N.Y., 1905-10; missionary to Africa since 1911. Contributor to Light and Life Evangel, Chicago, and The Evangelical Christian and Missionary Witness, Toronto, Can., organ of the Soudan Interior Mission, of which society she is one of the staff. Baptist.

CLARK, Emma Kirkland, 248A Monroe St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Hinsdale, Mass.; ed. in schools of Springfield, Mass.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '75; Univ. of Chicago, A.M. '90. Teacher in Springfield (Mass.) High School, 1875-84; prof. Latin, Elmira (N.Y.) Coll., 1886-99; teacher, Girls' High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., since 1900.

CLARK, Evelyn (Mrs. James F. A. Clark), 960 Park Av.. N.Y. City.

Born London, England, Feb. 9, 1885; dau. Poultney and Edith E. (Jaffray) Bigelow (both well-known authors); granddaughter of John Bigelow (1817-1911), diplomat, publicist and historian; ed. private governesses in Europe and won the mezzo-soprano open scholarship for singing at the Hampstead Conservatoire, London, in competition with all comers; m. London, Dec. 12, 1906, James Francis Aloysius Clark; children: Evelyn Bigelow, John Bigelow. Mem. Church of England. Actively interested in church and humanitarian work, Gerry Soc, Nat. Child Labor Com. and kindergarten work. Protestant Episcopal. Recreations: Writing poetry and prose, reading, needlework, music, study of theology. Mem. Colony Club.

CLARK, Grace Miller (Mrs. Stephen Cutter Clark), 49 S. Euclid Av., Pasadena, Cal.

Educator; b. Newton, Mass., Oct. 18, 1860; dau. William Lyman and Sarah (Eveleth) Greene; ed. Smith Coll., A.B., '82; A.M. '85 (mem. Alpha); m. Malden, Mass., Aug. 22, 1885, Stephen Cutter Clark; children: Grace Eveletta, Julia Adeline, Stephen Cutter, Jr. Teacher Greek and Latin in Classical School for Boys, Pasadena, Cal., 1889-1910; since then tutor in Greek and Latin. Interested in soc. of Daughters of the King. Episcopalian. Mem. Smith Coll. Club of Southern Cal., College Woman's Club of Southern Cal., Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

CLARK, Harriet Merrell (Mrs. John Holley Clark), 231 Sanford Av., Flushing, L.I.

Born Rochester, N.Y., Mar. 10, 1858; dau. Henry Palmer and Frances (Hoadley) Merrell; ed. Rochester, N.Y.; m. Rochester, 1882, John Holley Clark; children: William, John Holley Jr., Merrell, Rosamond, Arthur, Winifred. Interested in the day nursery, hospital, playground and church societies, etc. Mem. Good Citizenship League of Flushing (recently pres.). New York Browning Soc. (chairman of Literature Com.). Episcopalian.

CLARK, Imogen, 302 W. 88th St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. N.Y. City; dau. George Homes and Phillie (Beatty) Clark; ed. Mme. da Silva'a French and English School, N.Y. City, and private tutors. Writer of novels and contributor to magazines. Books: Will Shakespeare's Little Lad; God's Puppets; Victory of Ezry Gardner; Heresy of Parson Medlicott; Santa Claus' Sweetheart; A Charming Humbug; We Four and Two More. Recreations: Driving, amateur photography. Clubs: Barnard, Wednesday Afternoon. Against woman suffrage.

CLARK, Josephine Adelaide, 6 West St., Northampton, Mass.

Librarian; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '80; student N.Y. State Library School, 1888-89. Teacher, Greenfield, Mass., and Rutland, Vt., 1889-90; library ass't, Gray Herbarium, Harvard, 1890-91; botanical bibliographer and ass't librarian, U.S. Dep't of Agriculture, 1891-1900; chief librarian of same, 1901-07; librarian Smith Coll. since 1907. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

CLARK, Julia Gilman (Mrs. Walter H. Clark), 146 Washington St., Hartford, Conn.

Born Hartford, Conn., Nov. 22, 1873; dau. George Shepard and Ellen Maria (Hills) Gilman; grad. Hartford Public High School, '92; Smith Coll., B.L. '96 (mem. Phi Kappa Psi); m. Hartford, Conn., June 26, 1902, Walter Haven Clark; children: Eleanor Mary, b. 1904; Dorothy Gilman, b. 1911. Mem. Conn. Humane Soc, Hartford Smith College Club, College Club of Hartford, Hartford Golf Club. Congregationalist.

CLARK, Kate Upson (Mrs. E. P. Clark), 248A Monroe St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Writer, lecturer; b. Camden, Ala., Feb. 22, 1851; dau. Edwin and Priscilla (Maxwell) Upson; grad. Wheaton Sem., Norton, Mass., '69; Westfield (Mass.) Normal School, '72; m. Jan. 1, 1874, Edward P. Clark; children: Charles Upson, John Kirkland, George Maxwell. Trustee Wheaton Coll. since 1907: mem. Exec. Board Philological Section, Brooklyn Inst. Author: Can Personality Be Acquired? Browning as a Masquer; Browning's Two Theories of Art; Browning as a Prophet; Up the Witch Brook Road; White Butterflies; Art and Citizenship; Bringing Up Boys; The Girl That Wasn't Wanted; Move Upward; The Dole Twins; How Dexter Paid His Way. Contributor to Harper's Magazine, Weekly and Bazar; Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, the


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/169

Rh Youth's Companion, Little Folks, the Independent, the Outlook, the Congregationalist, Leslie's Weekly and other periodicals. Lecturer on current topics and popular reforms. Presbyterian. Pres. Wheaton Club, N.Y.; mem. Meridian (literary) Club, Cosmopolitan Club, Browning Club, Society of N.E. Women, W.C.T.U., Woman Suffrage Party (lectures on suffrage).

CLARK, Mable Peters (Mrs. Hiram P. Clark), Hawkeye, Ia.

Born Hawkeye, Ia., Feb. 10, 1885; dau. Arthur B. and Addie (Chapman) Peters; grad. Hawkeye High School, with class poem, 1901; m. West Union, Sept. 4, 1906, Hiram P. Clark. Teacher and clerk previous to marriage. Pres. Junior Ladies' Aid Soc, M.E. Church. Mem. of Order of Eastern Star; pres. the History and Travel Club of Hawkeye for two years.

CLARK, Margaret Vaupel (Mrs. G. Hardy Clark), E. Fourth St., Waterloo, Ia.

Physician; b. Pleasant Ridge, Iowa; dau. John Christian and Clara (Sandganger) Vaupel; ed. public and private schools, University of Wis., Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, Hahnemann Med. Coll. of Chicago, M.D. post-graduate courses in London, Berlin, Vienna; m. Humboldt, Iowa, June 28, 1886, G. Hardy Clark, M.D.; mem. Public Health Education Committee of Am. Medical Ass'n, Social Hygiene Com. of General Federation of Women's Clubs, Public Health Com. of Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs; med. director Baby Health Contests. Mem. Public Library Board (chairman of its Book Com.), Board of Church Trustees, Iowa State Ass'n Charities and Correction; W. C. T. U. Mem. Executive Com. Waterloo Political Equality Club. Unitarian. State Suffrage Soc, State Audubon Soc, Am. Med. Soc, Iowa State Med. Soc, Women's Professional League, Waterloo Civic Soc. (chairman), Waterloo Women's Club, Chicago Woman's Club. Recreations: Travel, nature study.

CLARK, Mary D. (Mrs. J. R. Clark), 508 N. Weber St., Colorado Springs, Colo.

Born Penn Yan, N.Y.; dau. Nicholas D. and Roxanna (Legge) Suydam; ed. private schools; m. Penn Yan, N.Y., June 29, 1901, John R. Clark. Mem. of church and missionary societies, Woman's Club, Open Progress Club (pres. two years), Music Club. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

CLARK, Mary Kimber (Mrs. Frank B. Clark), Fulton, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Fulton, N.Y., May 10, 1872; dau. Frederick Ambrose and Margaret Anna (Prigg) Kimber; ed. Fulton High School, Cornell Univ., A.B. "96, and summer schools in London, Paris, and various smaller towns in France; m. Fulton N.Y., Oct. 30, 1896, Frank B. Clark; children: Margaret Kimber, Frances Hilda. Interested in local charities, public library, hospitals; likes sewing, embroidery, makes lace baskets, metal work and carpentry. Mem. small local clubs. Recreations: Theatres, cards, motoring, bicycling, walking, sewing.

CLARK, Mary Sheafer Whitcomb (Mrs. Alden Hyde Clark), Ahmednagar, India.

Missionary; b. Boston, Mass.; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. 1900; student Boston Dispensary course, 1902; Biblical courses in Union Theological Sem., N.Y. City, 1902-03; m. May 14, 1904. Alden Hyde Clark; children: Mary Lawrence, b. Nov. 27, 1905; John Alden, b. Aug. 27, 1907. Resident worker Union Settlement, N.Y. City, 1902-03; since 1904 missionary of the Am. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Vadela and Ahmednagar, India. Congregationalist.

CLARK, Mary Vida, 169 E. 62d St. (office, 105 E. 22d St.), N.Y. City.

Ass't sec State Charities Aid Ass'n of N.Y. since Oct., 1895; b. Springfield, Mass., July 6, 1872; dau. David Clark, M.D., and Ellen M. (Cowles) Clark; ed. Miss Porter's School for Girls, Springfield, Mass., 1882-89, Vassar Coll., 1889-93, Radcliffe Coll., 1893-95. Manager Woman's University Club; director Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations; mem. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae, Ass'n Alumnae Vassar Coll., Radcliffe Club, Monday Club, Caroline Country Club. Favors woman suffrage.

CLARK, Minna Minton Dyke (Mrs. Wilfred Adams Clark), "Red Gables," Magnolia Av., Garden City, L.I., N.Y. (office, Rooms 6027-8, 1 Madison Av., N.Y. City).

Clerk civil service; b. North Adams, Mass., daughter of Elijah A. and Margaret (Stewart) Dyke; ed. Drury Acad., North Adams, Mass., N.Y. Univ.; also private tutoring at home; m. North Adams, Mass., April 17, 1895, Wilfred Adams Clark (lawyer, Yale Law School '90; died June, 1904). Sec. Dep't of Buildings, N.Y. City, 1892-1902; sec Board of Examiners, 1 Madison Av., N.Y., from organization to date. Associate Girls' Friendly Soc, St. Michael's Branch; has served on the social service com. of the Girls' Friendly Soc. for diocese of N.Y. for several years. Prepared (for Girls' Friendly Soc) report on "vacation houses" in England and France, 1907. Writer of prose and verse, used anonymously; compiler of reports and statistics for government records. Mem. Nat. Soc New England Women, Portia Club, Post Parliament, Mozart Soc, Alumnae Ass'n N.Y. Univ., Woman's Press Club. % Recreations: Music, reading, needlework, cooking. Protestant Episcopalian.

CLARK, Myra Almeda Smith (Mrs. John Bates Clark), 625 W. 115th St., N.Y. City.

Born Stafford, Conn.; dau. Jotham Graves and Almira P. (Converse) Smith; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '73 (Phi Beta Kappa); m. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 28, 1895, John Bates Clark, Ph.D., LL.D. (now prof. political economy, Columbia Univ.); children: Frederick Huntington, b. 1877; Alden Hyde, b. 1878; Helen Converse, b. 1893. Congregationalist. Mem. Vassar Alumnae Ass'n, Vassar Aid Soc, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Phi Beta Kappa Soc, Barnard Club.

CLARK, Natalie Lord Rice (Mrs. Frank Lowry Clark), 111 North University St., Oxford, O.

Born Danvers, Mass., Dec. 20, 1867; dau. Charles Baker and Claire Austin (Lord) Rice; ed. Danvers (Mass.) public and high school, 1885; Mass. Normal Art School, 1890; m. Danvers, Mass., Aug. 15, 1900, Prof. Frank Lowry Clark; adopted son: Ransom Butler Clark. Between 1891 and 1897 had editorial charge of The Wellspring at different times in the absence of the editor; did editorial work for Our Sunday Afternoon for several years; was assistant editor The Living Age, 1897-1900; did book reviewing for the Boston Journal and other papers. Interested in the student life of Miami Univ.; mem. Of Classical Club and patroness of girls' fraternity and other student societies. Author: The Green Garnet, 1896; Blake Redding, 1903; editor: Beacon Light Series, 1894; short stories in Youth's Companion, Independent, Wellspring, Forward, etc. ; much of work under pen-name of "Hobart Clear." Mem. Mass. Normal Art School Alumni Ass'n, Woman's Club of Oxford, O., Liberal Arts Club (Miami Univ.). Recreations: Walking, sketching, gardening, collecting old embroideries, china and beads. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive.

CLARK, Nora Graves (Mrs. Henry J. Clark). Route 1, Polk, Neb.

Voice teacher; b. Marengo, Ill., Jan. 12, 1877; dau. Daniel and Martha (Loomer) Graves; ed. Kearney Episcopal Coll., Neb.; student State Univ., Lincoln, Neb.; m. Arborville, Neb., Sept. 6, 1899, Henry J. Clark; children: Gladys Lenore, Henry Daniel, Merle Russell, Lucile Marie. Active worker along religious lines, also socially. Mem. Royal Neighbors and several local church and social societies. Mem. Twentieth Century Club, Arborville Township, York Co., Neb.; vice-pres. of the Fourth Dist. of Neb. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Congregationalist.

CLARK, Rose M. (permanent address), Greenville, Ohio; (present address) Belcourt Sem., Washington, D.C.

Born Tontogany, Ohio; dau. Silas and Maria (Williams) Clark; ed. Ohio Normal Univ., B.S. '88; post-grad, work in Boston Univ. and Univ. of Chicago; Columbia Univ., M.A. '11. Principal of Winona Park School for Young Women,


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/170

182 Winona Lake, Ind., 1906-10; preceptress Cazenovia (N.Y.) Seminary, 1911-12, and Belcourt Sem., Washington, D.C., 1912-13. Mem. State Board of the Ind. Y.W.C.A., 1907-10; Board of Directors of Ind. State Fed. of Clubs, 1909-10; State delegate from Ind. to the Biennial at Cincinnati, 1910. Pres. Winona Woman's Club, 1907-09; mem. the Symposium, Findlay, Ohio, 1890-96. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church.

CLARK, Susan Eliza, West Brattleboro, Vt.

Born West Brattleboro, Vt., Nov. 24, 1844, dau. Stanford R. and Eliza L. (Adkins) Clark; ed. Brattleboro Acad. and Glenwood Ladies' Sem. in West Brattleboro, second degree graduate. County officer in the Vermont Branch of Woman's Board of Missions, 1883-1903; identified with various social, religious and philanthropic activities. Congregationalism Republican. Regent of Brattleboro Chapter D.A.R., 1901-02 and 1913-14. Pres. Brattleboro Woman's Club, 1898-1901, 1902-05; pres. Vt. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. 1903-06. Mem. National Geographic Soc. Has traveled extensively in the United States and Europe.

CLARK, Susie Champney, 15 Centre St., Cambridge. Mass.

Writer, lecturer; b. Brighton (now in Boston), Mass., lived in childhood in Quincy, Ill., where began her education, later returned to Cambridge, Mass., where completed her studies. Was for some time reporter on various papers, and has later done work for the spiritual and metaphysical press. For several years past a lecturer in Boston, California and elsewhere on occult, metaphysical, psychic or spiritual themes, and on the science of life as illustrated through color symbolism. Often supplied pulpits for Sunday services; specially well known as an exponent of spiritual healing, which she has practiced for more than 25 years; not allied with any of the healing cults known as Christian, Mental or Divine Science. Spiritualist; for several years a vice-pres. of Mass. State Ass'n of Spiritualists. Author (books): All That Man Should Be Unto Woman; The Open Door of the Soul; John McCullough as Man, Actor and Spirit; A Look Upward; To Bear Witness; Pilate's Query; Lorita, an Alaskan Maiden; The Melody of Life; The Round Trip, and others. Also psychic plays: His To-Morrow; The Power of the Unseen.

CLARK, Virginia Keep (Mrs, Marshall Clark), Virginia Hotel, Chicago; studio, 19 E. Pearson St., Chicago, Ill.

Artist, illustrator; b. New Orleans, Feb. 17, 1878; dau. Charles Borden and Catharine V. (Hynson) Keep; ed. in Indianapolis and at Miss Gibson's School, N.Y. City, and Miss Gordon's School, Philadelphia; m. Oct. 31, 1906, Marshall Clark. Studied four years at Art Students' League, N.Y. City; one year with Howard Pyle in Philadelphia, and criticisms from Sorolla in Spain in 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Illustrator of Two Little Prisoners (by Thomas Nelson Page); all the Live Doll series, and Little Girl Blue (by Josephine S. Gates); decorations for An Old Sweetheart of Mine, by James Whitcomb Riley; makes a specialty of portrait sketches of children. Presbyterian. Recreation: Walking. Mem. of the Art Institute of Chicago, Artists' Guild of Chicago, the Western Artists' Association, Evanston Golf Club, and Saddle and Cycle Club.

CLARKE, Edith Emily, 518 Ostrom Av., Syracuse, N.Y.

Librarian; b. Syracuse, N.Y., 1859; dau. Rev. Joseph M. (D.D.) and Emily (Balis) Clarke; grad. Keble School, Syracuse, 1878, Syracuse Univ. Ph.B., '81 (Phi Beta Kappa), N.Y. State Library School, 1889. Head of catalog dep't Columbia Univ. Library, 1889-90; Newberry Library, Chicago, 1890-94; compiler of catalogs of U.S. Government publication office of Sup't of Documents, 1895-98; Librarian Univ. of Vermont, 1898-1909; instructor in Government publications, Syracuse Univ. Library School, 1910— Associate mem. Girls' Friendly Soc. Compiler of catalogue of U.S. Public Documents, 1893-95, and '85-96. Contributor to periodicals, mostly professional. Episcopalian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Am. Library Ass'n, Bibiiographical Soc. of America, N.Y. State Library School Ass'n, N.Y. State Library Ass'n, sec, Syracuse Library Club. Recreations: Camping, literature.

CLARKE, Elizabeth Crocker Lawrence (Mrs. Samuel Fessenden Clarke), Williamstown, Mass.

Secretary; b. Lancaster, Mass., Nov. 11, 1861; dau. Amos E. and Ann Maria (Crocker) Lawrence; grad. Newton High School, 1879; Smith Coll., B.A. '83, M.A. '89; Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, '91; post-grad, studies Radcliffe Coll. 1883-84, 1886-88; m. Newton Centre, Mass., April 5, 1892, Samuel Fessenden Clarke; one dau.: Elizabeth Lawrence. Sec. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae since Oct., 1901. Chairman Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n and raised money for gymnasium, 1887-92. Chairman com. to raise $100,000, and equal sum given conditionally by Mr. Rockefeller, 1899—; representative of Smith Coll. and treas. since 1899 in Naples Table Ass'n (for promoting laboratory research by women), 1899-. Mem. Anti-Suffrage Ass'n. Contributor to coll. periodicals and articles on gymnastics for girls' gymnasium at Smith College, etc. Congregationalism Mem. Mass. Branch Civil Service Reform Ass'n and Mass. Branch Red Cross, Boston College Club, School Gardens Ass'n of America, Mass. Branch of Nat. Civic Federation. Recreation: Tennis. Alumnae trustee Smith Coll., 1894-1900; vice-pres. 1889-91, pres. 1909-11 Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll.

CLARKE, Georgiana B. (Mrs. C. E. Clarke), 1130 Summit Av., Victoria, B.C.

Born Belleville, Ont.; ed. Ontario high schools and Trinity Univ., B.A. '93, M.A. '04. Was head of mathematical dep't of St. Mary's Coll., Dallas, Tex., 1897-99; assistant in high school, Victoria, B.C., 1902-06; m. Aug., 1906, Capt. C. E. Clarke, harbor master of Victoria; children: Stewart, George, Mary. Mem. of the University Woman's Club of Victoria, B.C. Mem. of the Church of England.

CLARKE, Grace Julian, 115 S. Audubon Rd., Irvington, Indianapolis, Ind.

Writer; b. Centerville, Ind., Sept. 11, 1865; dau. George W. and Laura (Giddings) Julian; ed. Butler Coll., Indianapolis, 1879-89, Ph.B. '84, Ph.M. '85; m. Irvington, Indianapolis, 1887, Charles B. Clarke, lawyer. Edits Club Notes and Woman's page in Indianapolis Star. Mem. Board of Directors, General Federation of Women's Clubs; County Board of Charity, Board of Children's Aid Ass'n, Citizens' Advisory Board, Indianapolis Public Library; Director Indianapolis Local Council of Women. Pres. Indiana Federation of Clubs, 1909-10 and 1910-11. Director Woman's Franchise League of Indiana; speaker on suffrage in Indiana and Ohio. Author: Some Impression (a sketch of George W. Julian), 1902. Unitarian. Mem. Peace Soc, Am. Historical Ass'n, Indianapolis Woman's Club, Irvington Woman's Club.

CLARKE, Helen Archibald, winter, Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Mass.; summer, Ardensea, Isle au Haut. Me.

Author, editor, lecturer; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Dr. Hugh A. and Jane M. (Searle) Clarke; ed. by governesses, private schools, tutors and Univ. of Pa. (two years' course in music and physics). Interested in peace movement; one of the founders of the American Music Soc, devoted to the encouragement of American composition; one of the founders of the American Drama Soc, devoted to progressive movements in the American drama. Has composed many songs and piano music (some published, some unpublished), which frequently have been performed at public concerts and private musicales; the operetta May Queen (words by A. F. Brown), performed in Boston and Philadelphia; play with incidental music, Starrylocks in Butterfly Land, performed in Boston. Author: Browning and His Century; Gethsemane, symbolic rhapsody in verse (set to music by Gustav Strube); Poet's New England; Hawthorne's Country; Longfellow's Country; Browning's England; Browning's


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/171

Rh Italy; Guide to Mythology for Young People; Ancient Myths In Modern Poets; editor, with Charlotte Porter, of Robert Browning's Complete Works; Elizabeth Browning's Complete Works and of Poet-lore. Honorary mem. N.Y. Browning Soc.; honorary mem. and on the Council of Boston Browning Soc; pres. American Music Soc.; chairman of Council American Drama Soc; mem. Boston Authors' Club. Recreations: Sailing, tramping. Favors woman suffrage. Has socialistic tendencies. Independent in religious thought.

CLARKE, Jessie Keziah, Lewiston, Ida.

Oculist and aurist; b. Columbus, O.; dau. William Alexander and Sara M. (Cleveland) Clarke; ed. in high school in Garrett, Kan. Mem. Am. Med. Soc, North Idaho Dist. Soc Clubs: Tsceminicum of Lewiston, Ida.; Outlook of Weiser, Ida. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

CLARKE, Louise Harvey (Mrs. E. P. Clarke), 1046 Orange St., Riverside, Cal.

Physician; b. in Maine, Nov. 8, 1859; dau. James and Lucy A. (Turner) Harvey; ed. Farmington State Normal, Wesleyan Woman's Coll., Kent's Hill, Me., A.B. '82; Woman's Med. Coll., Pa., '92; m. Los Angeles, July 3, 1898, E. P. Clarke. Mem. Y.W.C.A., College Corner Club, Federated Clubs, Woman's Press Club. Favors woman suffrage, Methodist. Mem. State Central Com. of Cal. (Progressive Republican). Mem. Woman's Club of Riverside, County and State Med. societies, Am. Med. Ass'n, Southern Cal. Med. Ass'n. Has given addresses in farmers' and teachers' institutes on health matters.

CLARKE, Rachael Chadsey, 566 Fifteenth St., Des Moines, Ia.

Principal of Miss Clarke's School; b. Rushville, Ill., Nov. 9, 1860; dau. Felix G. and Jerusha N. (Chadsey) Clarke; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '81, A.M. '83 (charter mem. Alpha Soc). Director in the Univ. State Bank. Club: Golf and Country. Recreation: Archery. Episcopalian.

CLARKE, Sarah Jones, Norridgewock, Me.

Writer of juvenile stories; b. Norridgewock, Me., Sept. 12, 1840; dau. Asa and Sophia (Bates) Clarke; sister of late Rebecca S. Clarke ("Sophie May"); ed. in schools of Norridgewock. Contributor of short stories to various magazines. Author: Little Miss Weezy Series (3 vols.); Young Master Kirke; The Merry Five; Boys in Clover; The Happy Six; Boy Donald; Boy Donald and His Chum; Boy Donald and His Hero.

CLARKSON, Anna Howell (Mrs. James S. Clarkson), Sleepy Hollow Farm, Tarrytown, N.Y.

Writer; b. Urbana, Ohio; dau. John Gilson and Eliza Anna (Henkle) Howell; childhood spent at Springfield, Ohio; grad. Iowa Central Univ., A. B., A.M.; later took course in N.Y. School of Art; lived in Pella, Iowa, four years; Des Moines, Iowa, sixteen years; since 1891 in N.Y. City; m. Pella, Iowa, Dec. 26, 1867, James S. Clarkson, then editor of the Iowa State Register, Des Moines; children: Coker Fifleld, Harold Ret, Grosvenor Blaine. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Equal Franchise League. Author: A Beautiful Life and Its Associations; also short stories, political letters and magazine articles. Episcopalian. Republican. Pres. Iowa New Yorkers; mem. Colorado Cliff-Dwellers' Ass'n, Daughters of Ohio, Legislative League, Art Workers' League, Woman's Press Club, Woman's Republican Club (N.Y. City), Woman's Press Club (Des Moines, Iowa).

CLATWORTHY, Linda May, 18 Federal St., Dayton, Ohio.

Librarian; b. Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 17, 1876; dau. Rev. Frederick (D.D.) and Emma (Payne) Clatworthy; ed. Vassar Coll,. Northwestern Univ., and grad. Univ. of Ill., Library School Dep't., B.L.S., 1900; mem. Delta Delta, Delta, Northwestern. Cataloguer and head cataloguer, Dayton (O). Public Library, 1900-05; librarian, 1905. Pres. Ohio Library Ass'n, 1911; pres. Alumni Ass'n, Univ. of Ill. Library School, 1907-09. Mem. Central Council of Social Agencies, Dayton; vice-pres. Montgomery Co. (O.) Art Ass'n; hon. mem. Woman's Literary Club; mem. Dayton Ass'n Coll. Women; mem. Advisory Am. Library Ass'n Com. on List of Subject Headings for Use in Dictionary Catalogs. Literary executor of Augusta Payne White for The Paines of Hamilton, a genealogical and biographical record. Contributor to Library Journal and Public Libraries. Mem. Executive Com. Woman Suffrage Party of Montgomery Co. Baptist. Recreations: Horseback riding, tennis.

CLAXTON, Kate (Mrs. Charles A. Stevenson), Larchmont Manor, N.Y.

Actress; b. Somerville, N.J.; dau. Spencer Wallace and Josephine (Martinez) Cone; m. Mar. 3, 1878, Charles A. Stevenson. First professional engagement was with Miss Lotta Crabtree at Chicago in 1870; joined Augustin Daly's Fifth Av. Theatre in fall of same year; became mem. of A. M. Palmer's Union Square Co., 1872, playing principally comedy roles. Created part of Louise in The Two Orphans, and in 1875 began her first starring tour in that character, in which she played for many years.

CLAXTON, Mary Hannah Johnson (Mrs. Philander Priestley Claxton), care of Commissioner of Education, Washington, D.C.

Library organizer; b. Nashville, Tenn.; dau. George S. and Hannah Irdale (Payne) Claxton; ed. Nashville High School, Vanderbilt Univ. and Univ. of Chicago; m. Nashville, April 23, 1912, Dr. Philander Priestley Claxton. Began work of creating a great public library in Nashville, Tenn.; became head of Carnegie Library and its director for 10 years; promoted the Free State Library Comm'n in Tenn.; organized libraries in many small cities; organized civic clubs, literary clubs and Library Ass'n of Tenn; promoted Art Club, and formed the first story-hour in the library for children in State of Tenn. Created and carried out successful system (first in South) for furnishing and sending books to the public schools by the Public Library (a perfect system of cooperation between school and library). Mr. Carnegie recognized service rendered the city by a $1000 gift at her marriage; city also recognized service rendered by commendatory resolutions from the Board of Trade and many prominent organizations, teachers, women's clubs, etc., who passed commendatory resolutions and made valuable presents. Now interested with her husband in National educational problems connected with the Bureau of Education — especially those of rural libraries and rural schools. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n, D.A.R., Tenn. Federation of Women's Clubs (chairman of Literature), Nashville Art Ass'n, Tenn. Library Ass'n, Y.W.C.A., Teachers' Ass'n. Clubs: Centennial, Housekeepers', Friday Morning, Literary, East Side Civic (all Nashville). One of organizers of Nashville Woman Suffrage League (chairman of public work). Occasional contributor to educational journals, newspapers, etc. Episcopalian.

CLAY, Elisabeth Campbell, Godley, Halifax, Yorkshire, England.

Artist; b. Dedham, Mass., April 2, 1871; dau. Joseph and Mary Elizabeth (Campbell) Fisher; grad. Smith Coll., B.L., '92; studied painting Boston Art Museum (N.Y.) School of Art; m. Dedham, Mass., Apr. 20, 1909, Howard Clay; children: Howard Fisher, b. May 6, 1910, Monica Mary, b. April 27, 1912. Exhibited at Boston Art Club, Copley Soc. (Boston), City Club (Boston), Yorkshire Union of Artists. Teacher in Sunday-school; actively interested in boys' clubs and college settlements. Unitarian. Opposed to woman suffrage.

CLAY, Laura, 189 North Mill St., Lexington, Ky.

Farmer; b. Madison Co., Ky., Feb. 9, 1849; dau. Gen. Cassius Marcellus and Mary Jane (Warfield) Clay; grad. with second honors at Sayre Inst., Lexington; one year at Mrs. S. Hoffman's School, N.Y. City; studied for a while at Mich. Univ. and Ky. State Coll. Active in forwarding improvements of laws for women and children, principally in connection with Ky. Equal Rights Ass'n, club work, temperance work, church work, speaker on woman suffrage, civil service reform, and miscellaneous club


text:
Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/172

184 topics and church questions. Has spoken for woman suffrage before constitutional convention of Ky., S.C., La., and Okla.; on church subjects before Diocesan Council of Lexington, Church Congress at St. Louis; addressed Convention of Governors at Frankfort on suffrage. Pres. Ky. Equal Rights Ass'n since its organization in 1888; sixteen years auditor U. S. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; now chairman Membership Com. Writer or occasional articles in newspapers. Episcopalian. Mem. W.C.T.U. (Sup't of State Franchise Dep't), Ky. Educational Ass'n; 4th vice-pres. Ky. Federation of Women's Clubs.

CLAYPOLE, Edith Jane, 2826 Garber St., Berkeley, Cal.

Physician; b. Bristol, England, 1870; dau. Dr: Edward W. Claypole and Jane (Trotter) Claypole; prepared for college by parents; grad. Buchtel Coll., Akron, O., '92; Cornell Univ., Ph.B. (with highest distinction), '93; Univ. of Cal., M.D. '04 (mem. Delta Gamma Sigma Xi, Alpha Epsilon Iota). Taught physiology and histology in Wellesley Coll., 1894-99, acting as head of dep't of zoology, 1896-98; ass't in physiology, Cornell Univ., 1899-1901; instructor in biology at Throop Polytechnic Inst., Pasadena, Cal., 1901-02; practicing pathologist in Pasadena and Los Angeles, 1904-11; occupied in research at Univ. of Cal., pathological dep't, 1912. Author: Blood of Necturus and Crypto-branchus and several articles in scientific journals; in press. Classification of Spreptothricas, Especially in Regard to Bacteria. Independent voter. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Cal. State Med. Soc, Alameda Co. Med. Soc., A.A.A.S. Recreations: Gardening, mountain climbing, tramping, camping. Mem. Civic Club. Favors woman suffrage.

CLAYTON, Mabel Julia Andrews (Mrs. Francis Treadway Clayton), Williamstown, Mass.

Teacher; b. Williamstown, Mass.; ed. in schools of Williamstown, Mass., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '03; m. Williamstown, Mass., Nov. 13, 1906, Francis Treadway Clayton. Teacher, Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Ky., 1903-04; High School, Rome, N.Y., 1905-06; Rollins Coll., Winter Park, Fla., 1909-10.

CLEARWATER, Anna Houghtaling Farrand (Mrs. Alphonso Trumbour Clearwater), 316 Albany Av. Kingston, N.Y.

Born in California, May 30, 1858; dau. Col. William D. Farrand (of San Francisco) and Julia (Houghtaling) Farrand (of Kingston, N.Y.); ed. Old Spanish Convent, Santa Cruz, Cal.; m. 1875, Hon. Alphonse Trumbour Clearwater, of Kingston, N.Y. (distinguished jurist and historian; now Justice of the Supreme Court of N.Y.). Much interested in the history and antiquities of Kingston, N.Y. Author: The Old Senate House of Kingston–Its Traditions and Associations. One of the founders of Wiltwyck Chapter D.A.R.

CLEAVES, Margaret Abigail, Hotel Buckingham, 5th Av. and 50th St. (office, 616 Madison Av.), N. Y. City.

Physician; b. in S. E. Ia.; dau. John T. (M.D.) and Elizabeth (Stronach) Cleaves; ed. Iowa Coll., Iowa State Univ. Med. Dep't; M.D., '73; licensed to practice medicine in Iowa, 1873; Ill., 1876; Pa., 1880; N. Y., 1890; lectures and clinical experience in London, Paris, Leipzig, Berlin and New York; ass't physician State Hosp. for Insane, Mt. Pleasant, Ia., 1873-7; first woman to serve (continuous service) as physician to insane women; subsequently mem. B'd Trustees same institution; physician-in-chief Woman's Dep't State Hosp. for Insane, Harrisburg, Pa., 1880-83; sec'y County and National Med. Organizations (Amer. Electro-therapeutic Ass'n., etc.); pres. Alumni Ass'n Med. Dep't Iowa State Univ. Former instructor in Electro-therapeutics, N.Y. Post-Graduate Med. School and Hosp.; founder and chief N.Y. Electro-therapeutic Clinic Laboratory and Dispensary; pres. Woman's Med. Soc. of N.Y.; mem. N.Y. Acad. of Medicine, Med. Soc. County and State of N.Y., Am. Med. Ass'n, Am. Electro-Chem. Soc, A.A.A.S., Am. Electro-Therapeutic Ass'n, Société Française d-Electrotherapie, Am. Soc. Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, Woman's N.Y. County and State f. Med. Socs., Nat. Geog. Soc, N.Y. Electrical Soc. Editor Asylum Notes, Journal of Nervous & and Mental Diseases, 1891-92. Author: Light Energy—Its Physics, Physiological Action and Therapeutic Applications. American editor of The Journal of Physical Therapeutics, London. Writer of many monographs on subjects connected with electrotherapy, radio-activity in relation to the treatment of disease and physical therapeutics; medical articles in many publications. Inventor of various instruments to be used in the application of electricity, especially to the accessory mucous passages, a controller for the static induced current, etc.

CLEGHORN, Sarah Norcliffe, Manchester, Vt.

Writer; b. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 4, 1876; dau. John D. and Sarah C. (Hawley) Cleghorn; grad. Burr and Burton Sem., Manchester, Vt., '95; special student one year (1895-96), Radcliffe Coll. Interested in socialism, the Emmanuel movement (psychotherapy) child-protection, animal-protection (including anti-vivisection), recreation centres, home and foreign missions, town planning, labor movements, reform of American slaughter houses, prison reform, etc. Favors woman suffrage. Author of a novel : A Turnpike Lady, 1907; and about 100 pieces of verse in magazines. Episcopalian. Mem. Am. Anti-Vivisection Soc, N.Y. Anti-Vivisection Soc, Vivisection Investigation League, Manchester Village Improvement Soc, Bennington County Improvement Soc, Manchester Historical Soc, Consumers' League, Manchester Soc for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Band of Mercy, Burr and Burton Sem. Alumnae Ass'n. Recreations: Walking, bicycling. Mem. Local Reading Club.

CLEMENS, Katharine T. Roland (Mrs. James T Ross Clemens), 3720 W. Pine St., St. Louis, Mo.

Writer; b. St. Louis Co., Mo.; dau. John L. and C. M. (Thomas) Boland; ed. Acad, of the Sacred Heart, St. Louis; Sacré Coeur, Tours, France; m. St. Louis, Mo., May, 1899, Dr. J. R. Clemens (cousin of "Mark Twain"); children: Muriel, Cyril C. Has written for Book Monthly (London), Vogue, House Beautiful, Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers. Mem. Soc of Women Journalists (London), League of American Pen Women (Washington). Recreations: Reading, writing, walking; at present writing a book. Roman Catholic. Favors woman suffrage.

CLEMENTS, Edith Gertrude Schwartz (Mrs. Frederic E. Clements), 800 Fourth St., S.E., Minneapolis, Minn.

Teacher; b. Albany, N.Y.; dau. George and Emma (Young) Schwartz; ed. Univ. of Neb., A.B. '98, later Ph.D. (Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi; Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Lincoln, Neb., May 30, 1899, Frederic E. Clements. Teaching fellow in German, 1898-1900, and assistant in botany, 1904-07, Univ. of Neb.; instructor in botany, Univ. of Minnesota, 1909-. Instructor, Graduate School of Ecology, Minnehaha, Colo, (summers). Author: Relation of Leaf Structure to Physical Factors; Herbaria Formationum Coloradenium; Cryptogamae Formationum Coloradensium; Flora of the Rocky Mountains. Mem. Am. Microscopical Soc, Minn. Mycological Soc, Equal Suffrage League, Humane Soc, Woman's Welfare League. Recreations: Walking, mountain climbing, dancing. Favors woman suffrage.

CLEMENTS, Gabrielle DeVeaux, 241 Biddle St., Baltimore, Md.

Artist; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Richard and Gabrielle (DeVeau) Clements; grad. Cornell Univ., B.S.; studied at Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts, and Académie Julian, Paris. Chief work has been mural paintings in Baltimore and Washington.

CLEMENTS, Sabrella James (Mrs. James R. Clements), Pelham, Ga.

Born Magnolia, N.C., Dec 30, 1875; dau. Robinson and Martha (McArthur) James; ed. State Normal and Industrial Coll., Greensboro, N.C, 1893-97; m. Pelham, Ga., Dec 24, 1903, James R. Clements, M.D, Taught six years in the