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��1859, under the Am. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. First principal of Girls' Boarding Scliool, Aintab, 1859-78; furloughs in 1S68 and 18(4 spent largely in working for Woman's Board of Missions. In 1878, with an associate, was appointed sup't of twenty-seven schools connected with Aintab Station that were partly supported ty the Woman's Board of Mis- sions; returned to America in 1S83; was in employ of the board until 1885. Taught English, 1897-1910, to evening classes of Armenians. Favors woman suffrage. Author of several books for children. Translator from English into Turk- ish of Cutter's Physiology, Warren's Physical Geography and an abridgement of Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching. Congregationaiist. Recreations: Horseback riding, simple games. PKOCTOB, Nona Gregory (Mrs. Charles E.

Proctor), Great Neck, L.I.

Born Norfolk, Va., June 22, 1874; dau. William Gregory and Josephine Stuart (Risley) Jones: ed. Adelphi Acad., Brooklyn, N.Y. ; m. Plaza Hotel, N. Y. City, Jan. 16, 1901, Charles E. Proctor. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage. PROPER, Ida Sedgwick, 96 Fifth Av., N.T.

City.

Painter; b. Des Moines, Iowa; dau. Rev. Datus Dewitt Proper, D.D., and Amanda (Dodds) Proper; ed. Art Students' League, Chase School, Walter Thor and Obrist Schule, Munich; Stein- leu, Castalucchia, Prinet and Richard Miller, Paris. Exhibitor in Paris Salons, 1908-10; ex- hibitor Pa. Acad, of Fine Arts, 1908-11. In- terested in suffrage and politics; captain of 17th Election Precinct, 2oth Assemibly Dist., Woman Suffrage Party, N.Y. City; art editor. The Woman Voter. Recreation: Travel. PROSEUS, Edna Louise, 409 Jefferson Av.,

Rochester, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Rochester, N.Y., Apr, 22, 1877; dau. George and Margaret (Connelly) Proseus; ed. Geneseo State Normal School; Cornell Univ., A.B7 (mem. Wayside Soc). Favors woman suffrage. Roman Catholic. Mem. College Woman's Club, Rochester; sec. Cornell Women's Club of Roch- ester. PRUDDEN, LilUan E., 372 Orange St., New

Haven, Conn.

Born Southbury, Conn., Dec, 1852; dau. George Peter and Eliza Ann (Johnson) Prudden; ed. New Haven High School; West End Inst.; Vassar Coll. Pres. Visiting Nurse Ass'n (New Haven), New Haven Branch Woman's Board of Missions; active in direction of Welcome Hall Settlement and Missionary Enterprise, New Haven. Author: \ Family History — Peter Prudden and Some of His Descendants; also numerous reports and pa- pers for various philanthropic and missionary so- cieties. Congregationaiist. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, Collegiate Alumnae Ass'n. Recrea- tions: Gardening, walking, reading, society. Mem. Fortnightly Ladies' Literary Club. PRYOR, Alice Knight (Mrs. William Lee

Pryor), 2326 S. 21st St., Philadelphia, Pa,

Born MilTvaukee, Wis., March 14, 1879; dau. Austin Melvin Knight (rear-admiral U.S.N.) and Alice Phinney (Tobey) Knight; ed. Mrs. Von Tassel's School in Milwaukee, Hyde Park High School, Chicago Univ. of Chicago, Ph.B. 1899 (mem. Mortar Board and Nu Pi Sigma); m. Chicago, 111., June 22, 1904, William Lee Pryor, U.S.N. ; children: William Lee Jr., b. Sept. 23, 1905; Knight Pryor, b. June 5, 1908. Episco- palian. Mem. D.A.R., Woman's Army and Navy League, Army and Navy Relief. Recreations: Swimming, dancing. Mem. Chevy Chase Club of Washington, Acorn Club, Philadelphia. PRYOR, Louisa Isabelle, 275 Miller Av., Ports- mouth, N.H.

Teacher; b. Portsmouth, N.H., Sept. 18, 1884; dau. Frank L. and Helen (Philbrook) Pryor; ed. Portsmouth High School (medal for four years' work in science), 1902; Salem (Mass.) Normal School, 1904; Simmons Coll. (special), 1910-11. Head of Household Economics Dep't of Keene (N.H.) Normal School, 1911-12; dean of Nasson Inst., Springvale, Me., since 1912. Communicant of Episcopal Church. Mem. Nat. Consumers' Lieague. Maine Teachers' Ass'n, Am. Jnst. of

��Instruction. Recreations: Camping, boating. Mem. Springvale Woman's Club, Searchlight Club of Sanford. Organizer of vocational train- ing for girls; speaker for clubs and institutes upon topics related to household economics. PUFFER, Kate Fairbanks, 45 Irving St., Cam- bridge, Mass.

Educator; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. 190O; student of psychology and education, Radcliffe Coll., 1905-09. Teacher in Rogers Hall, Lowell, Mass., 1900-03; Boston, 1903-04; psychology in Keene (N.H.) Normal School since 1909. PUGSLEY, Clara Elizabeth Holbrook (Mrs. Charles Pugsley), Montlcello, Fla. Born Buffalo, N.Y., 1855; dau. Edwin A. and Elizabeth (T-weedy) Holbrook; ed. Mrs. Reed's School, N.Y. City and Wells Coll.; m. San Francisco, Cal., 1884, Charles Pugsley; one son, Edwin Pugsley. Episcopalian.

PULLEN, Elisabeth (Mrs. Stanley T. Pullen), The Lafayette, Portland, Me. Author; b. Portland, Me. ; dau. Charles and Anna T. (Davies) Jones; ed. in private scnoors and under excellent masters of music; special- ized in Italian language and literature; m. Portland, Me., Sept. 8, 1894, Stanley T. Pullen. Engaged in musical criticism and literary review work for several years with Portland Daily Press, and later staff contributor to the Lit- erary World of Boston. Writer of short stories of Calabrian life and customs (later collected under the title of "Don Finimondone") and also two serial stories, published in the Atlantic Monthly: The Man from Aidone, and Rocco and Sidora, all under pen-name of "E. Cavazza." Since marriage writing under name of "Elisa- beth Pullen. Author: Mr. Whitman, 1902; also critical articles, verses and short stories in various magazines; besides numerous transla- tions from French and Italian. Interested in protection of animals and hospital work. Mem. Maine State Soc. for Protection of Animals, Portland District Nursing Ass'n, Colonial Dames of State of Maine. Against woman suffrage. Unitarian. Recreations: Needlework, walking. PULStFER, Jnlia, 8 Hamilton Av., Auburn, N.Y.

Sup't of Luncheon Service; b. Auburn, N.Y., 1878; dau. Frank Hamilton and Julia (Patten) Pulsifer; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. 1901; studied also at Mass. Inst, of Technology, Boston Univ. and Chicago Univ. Sup't of Luncheons in high schools of Boston. Mem. Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston; also Am. Ass'n of Home Economics. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Boston College Club. PUNTENNY, Minnie Ethel, Lee Huckins Hotel, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Teacher, lecturer, writer; b. Litchfield, 111.; dau. James Nelson and Mary Antoinette (Ham- lin) Puntenny; ed. Northern State Normal, Normal, 111.; Central Normal Coll., Danville, Ind. ; Univ. of Chicago, 1904, B.S., Pd.B. Gave lectures to teachers in Illinois for twelve years. Did Chautauqua work in Ohio, lectures in Okla- homa, held positions as head of training dep't in normal schools and universities. Mem. of first Y.W.C.A. organized in U.S., first Christian En- deavor in Montgomery Co., 111.; first Epworth League (delegate of first State convention, Illi- nois, and delegate first national convention); mem. of first faculty of Worcester Acad., Ep- worth Univ., College for Young Ladies. Held the highest position for training teachers in the State of Oklahoma. Interested in all public questions. Author: Puntenny's Primary Arithmetic; Pun- tenny 's The Forget-Me-Not Primer; and articles for magazines. Mem. Foreign Missionary Soc. Interested in the uplift of humanity. First woman author of Oklahoma to be recognized In a State adoption of a text-book (book Is Two Years' Work in Numbers). Inventor of a teacher's desk. Including an organ, globe attachment and book apartments.

PURCELL, Martha Grassham (Mrs. Clyde Edi- son Purcell), 321 N. 5th SC, Paducah, Ky. Born Dycusburg, Ky., Feb. 24, 1867; dau. Montgomery and Martha Elizabeth (Mahan) Grassham; ed. National Normal Univ., Lebanon,

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��Ohio; Southern Normal, Huntingdon, Tenn.; took teacher's commercial scientific and classic courses; m. Huntingdon, Tenn., Feb. 20, 1899, Dr. Clyde Edison Purcell; children: Ewarc E. G. (deceased), S. LaVerne, E. Lois. Teacher for twenty years in graded schools and universi- ties; conducted Teachers' Institutes, Summer Normal; mem. Board of Examiners for Teachers, twelve years; mem. Board of Education, Padu- cah, Ky. Author: Settlements and Cessions of Louisiana; Kentucky Kernels; A History of Livingston Co., Ky.; An Outline of American Literature, 1608-1913; Paducah in History, also numerous poems. Introduced resolution in local cluh that secured indorsement of city, county and State health oflBcers, that resulted In law pro- hibiting public drinking cups in Ky. Interested in the Woman's Hospital League (founder and pres. since organization; recently elected pres. for life), chairman Year Book and of Education in United Daughters of Confederacy; mem. Board of Education of Paducah, Ky. ; mem. of Jefferson School Improvement League. Mem. Church Furnishing Soc, Woman's Club of Paducah, Ky. Democrat. Chairman of the Leg- islative Com. State Fed. of Women's Clubs of First Congregational District of Ky. Favors woman suffrage.

PUBDON, Josephine Wilson (Mrs. James Pur- don), 541 Commonwealth Av., Boston, Mass. Born Boston, June 28, 1874; dau. Cecil P. and Josephine (Nourse) Wilson; ed. Mrs. Quincy Shaw's School, Boston; Paris, France; m. Bos- ton., Dec. 12, 1905, James Purdon; one daughter: Josephine Nourse. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recreations: Singing, painting, tennis.

PURDUE, Ida Pace (Mrs. Albert Homer Purdue), 1805 Eighteenth Av., South, Nash- ville, Tenn.

Born Harrison, Ark., Jan. 4, 1869; dau. William Fletcher and Sarah Jane (Howell) Pace; ed. Univ. of Ark., B.A., '88 (mem. Chi Omega), grad stu- dent Cornell Univ., 1894-95; Univ. of Chicago, '97; m. Harrison, Ark.. Dec. 22, 1898, Dr. Albert Homer Purdue; children: Branner Pace, Richard Howell. Teacher Union Coll., Oxford, Miss., 1890-91: Valley Sem., Waynesboro, Va., 1891-92; Central Coll., Lexington, Mo., 1893-94; Univ. of Ark., 1895-98. Editor of Eleusis of Chi Omega, 1899-1904; Nat. pres. of Chi Omega, 1904-10. Pres- byterian. Mem. United Daughters of the Con- federacy.

PUKINGTON, Beulah Frances, 9A Mechanic

St., Attleboro, Mass.

Teacher; b. Mechanic Falls, Me., July 5, 1883; dau. Francis O. and Addle P. (Smullen) Purington; grad. Colby Coll., A.B. 1906, magna cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa (mem. Chi Omega). Taught in South Paris (Me.) High School, 1906- 07; Llvermore Falls (Me.) High School, 1907- 1910; Edward Little High School, Auburn, Me., 1910-11; head of English Dep't, Attleboro (Mass.) High School, 1911 —. Congregationalist. Mem. Attleboro Teachers' Ass'n, Attleboro Woman's Club.

PURINGTON. Louise C. (Mrs. D. Purington),

23 AUston St., Dorchester, Mass.

Temperance worker; b. Madjson, N.Y., July 3, 1844; dau. Isaac and Harriet (Putnam) Chamber- lain; grad. Mt. Holyoke Sem. (now college), '64; Hahnemann Med. Coll., Chicago, M.D. '74; post- graduate study in New York hospitals. Ac- tively interested in temperance work since medi- cal college days, colaborer with the late Frances Willard In the early movements and efforts; ap- pointed Nat. Sup't of Dep't of Health and Heredity of the Nat. W.C.T.U.; edited mission- ary W.C.T.U. papers; appointed at World's W.C.T.U. Convention in Geneva, Switzerland, as World's Sup't of Cooperation with Missionary Societies. Writer of numerous manuals, book- lets and magazine contributions on many phases of the temperance question. Always a suffragist.

PUBINTON, Alice »Iaj, Waterville, Me.

Bom Waterville, Me., Apr. 15, 1877; dau. Hor- ace and Clara M. (Preble) Purlnton; ed. Colby Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '99; Boston Normal

��School, kindergarten dep't (mem. Sigma Kappa). Sec. Waterville Woman's Club, 1910-12. Baptist. Taught in Boston, Mass., public kindergarten, Charlestown district, 1902-04; now engaged in clerical work with Horace Purinton Company.

PUBSELL, Anna Ford (Mrs. Charles W. Pur- sell). 916 Hays St., Boise, Idaho. Born Maineville, O., Feb. 27, 1860; dau. Nathaniel and Mary E. (Smith) Ford; descendant of Mayflower ancestors (James Chilton and Stephen Hopkins); ed. Washington High School; m. Washington C.H., 0., Jan. 6. 188U, Charles W. Pursell; children: Georgia, Harry Burton, Helen. Student of literature; interested in phil- anthropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Meth- odist. Republican; takes active interest in poli- tics. State regent of D.A.R. (formed the first chapter in Idaho).

PUBVIN, Jennie Franltlin (Mrs. Moses L. Pur-

vin), 4019 Lake Av., Cliicago, 111.

Born Chicago, Aug. 23, 1873; dau. Henry B. and Hannah (Mayer) Franklin; ed. North Divi- sion High School and Univ. of Chicago; m. Chi- cago, Oct. 19, 1899; children: Janet Fredericka, Nata Jule. Club woman; chairman, 1911-12, Oakland School Parents' and Teachers' Ass'n; mem. and sec, 1909-11, Ruth Home for Work- ing Girls. Favors woman suffrage; mem. 111. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Departmental editor. The Sentinal, weekly Chicago paper. Jewish. Mem. Woman's City Club; pres., 1911-15, Chi- cago Woman's Aid, an organization of 935 women interested in civic and philanthropic activitieE; mem. Advisory Board Oakland Branch of the Juvenile Protective Ass'n; chairman Civic Com., 111. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1912-14.

PUTEBBAUGH, Margaret May Lohr (Mrs.

William L. Puterbaugh), MilledgevUIe, 111.

Born Mt. Carroll, 111., Oct. 26, 1873; dau. Solo- man and Sarah Belle Puterbaugh; grad. Mt. Car- roll High School and Frances Shimer Acad., Mt Carroll; m. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 23, 1901, William L. Patei'baugh. Deeply interested in Sunday- school work, teaching an organized class of 60 women. Favors woman suffrage; sup't suffrage dep't in local W.C.T.U. Mem. of the Brethren Church. Recreations: Walking, automobiling. Charter mem. and now cor. sec. Milledgeville Woman's Club; sec. Household Science Dep't Carroll Co., 111., Farmers' Inst, past three years.

PUTN.4JVI, Bertha Haven, Mount Holyoke Coll.,

South Hadley, Mass.

Teacher; b. N.Y. City, Mar. 1, 1872; dau. George Haven and Rebecca (Shepard) Putnam; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '93; Columbia Univ., Ph.D. '09. Instructor in history at Mount Holyoke Coll., 1908-12; on leave of absence for a year, and engaged in historical research work in London, 1912-13, and holder Alice Freeman Palmer me- morial fellowship; teacher Latin, Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, Md., 1893-95; Brearley School, N.Y. City, 1895-97. Favors woman suffrage. Au- thor: The Justices of Labourers in the Fourteenth Century, 1906; The Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers During the First Decade After the Black Death, 1908. Mem. Am. Economic Ass'n, Am. Historical Ass'n, Am. Ass'n for Labor Legis- lation, Selden Soc. (England), N.Y. Consumers' League, College Settlements Ass'n, Ass'n of Col- legiate Alumnae, Bryn Mawr Alumnae Ass'n. Clubs: N.Y. Women's University, N.Y. Bryn Mawr.

PUTNAM, Bessie Lucina, Harmonsburg, Pa.

Born Harmonsburg, Pa., Aug. 2, 1859; dau. Levi and Elizabeth (Whiting) Putnam; ed. Alle- gheny Coll., Meadville, Pa., A.M. '88 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). Contributor to Scientific American, Suburban Life, Llppincott's Magazine, Housekeeper, Forest and Stream. Out-door Life, Success, Good Housekeeping, Delineator, Modern Priscilla, MeClure's syndicates. Mothers' Maga- zine, Park and Cemetery, Education, Journal of Education, Botanical Gazette, etc., and many agricultural and other papers. Recreations: Botany, natural history In all phases, birds (an advocate of their protection). Has edited dep'ts in several educational periodicals and furnished editorial copy regularly to others.

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N.T. City.

Sculptor; b. Minneapolis, Minn.; dau. Herbert and Elizabeth (Munroe) Putnam; ed. private schools in Cambridge, Ma.ss. ; Freiburg, Breis- gau, Paris, and student in art school of Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Students' League, N.Y. City. Has made exhibits of sculpture during several years past in the Nat. Acad, of Design, N.Y. City; Acad, of Fine Arts, Phila- delphia, and at the International Exposition at Rome, 1911. Recreation: Music. Favors woman suffrage.

PUTNAM, Carolyn Elizabeth, 525 E. 10th St.,

Kansas City, Mo.

Homoeopathic physician; b. Rochester, N.Y., Jan. 28, 1857; dau. George C. and Elizabeth F. (Force) Putnam; ed. Rochester common and high schools, "Kansas City Hahnemann Medical Coll., M.D. Prof, children's diseases and chil- dren's clinic, 1897-1902; prof, materia medlca since 1897 in Kansas City Hahnemann Medical Coll. Mem. Kansas City Homoeopathic Med. Soc., Mo. Inst, of Homoeopathy, and Homoeo- pathic International Congress. Universalist. PUTNAM, Clara Belle Rood (Mrs. Thomas N.

Putnam), Carrington, N.Dak.

Born Otho, near Fort Dodge, la., Nov. 27, 1861; dau. James Rood (killed in Civil War) and Elizabeth (Greenside) Rood (after mother's sec- ond marriage, to A. W. Wier, adopted stepfather's name until married); ed. in various schools in Davenport, and Grinnell, la.; m. Clear Lake, la., June 24. 1886, Thomas N. Putnam; children: Les- lie R., Clara Belle (deceased), Hugh R., Frank L. Before marriage taught school at Rockwell and Clear Lake, la., ass't principal at latter. Treas. Ladies' Aid; mem. Civic Improvement League. Favors woman suffrage. Congrega- tionalist. Republican. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Woman's Literary Club.

PUTNAM, Dora Park (Mrs. Wilton F. Putnam), 577 Wentworth Av., Milwaukee, Wis. Born Owatonna, Minn., Jan. 28, 1859; dau. John W. and Sarah L. (Thomas) Park; ed. Lakeside Seminary, Oconomowac, Wis.; Milwau- kee Coll.; m. Mukwanogo, Wis., Dec. 21, 1879, Wilton F. Putnam; one daughter: Daphne W. (Mrs. Henry Otjen), b. Dec. 7, 1880. Artist, with studio In Waukesha, Wis., for twenty years, with large classes of pupils in oil, water color and china painting. Has sold a great many original paintings to summer tourists, also painted, in Layton's Gallery, Milwaukee, copies of the old masters. Owned a business block and fine residence in Waukesha— results of art work; now lives with daughter in Milwau- kee. Has painted in oil many hundreds of il- lustrations enlarged from photographs for Union Sunday-school workers. Favors woman suffrage. Author of club papers on art and nature sub- jects. Unitarian. Mem. Woman's Club of Wau- kesha, Friday Afternoon Club, Milwaukee. PUTNASI, Elizabeth (Mrs. William Lowell Put- nam), 49 Beacon St., Boston, and Manchester,

Born Boston, Feb. 2, 1862; dau. Augustus and Katharine Bigelow (Lawrence) Lowell; ed. pri- vate schools in Boston; m. Brookline, Mass., June 9, 1888, William Lowell Putnam; children: George, Katharine Lawrence, Roger Lowell, Har- riet Lowell, Augustus Lowell. Chairman Exec. Com. Mass. Milk Consumers' Ass'n; chairman Dep't of Public Health of Women's Municipal League of Boston; chairman Com. on Prenatal Care of Women's Municipal League of Boston. Against woman suffrage; chairman of Education and Organization Com. of Mass. Ass'n Opposed to Further Extension of the Suffrage to Women. Author of articles in magazines on milk and pre-natal care. Christian (undenominational). Recreation: Gardening. Mem. Chilton Club, Mayflower Club, Tuesday Club, Manchester Woman's Club.

PUTNAM, Emily James Smith (Mrs. George Haven Putnam), 335 W. Eighty-sixth St., N.T. City. Educator, author, critic; b. Canandalgua, N.Y. ;

��dau. James C. and Emily Ward (Adams) Smith; ed. Canandaigua, N.Y. ; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '89; Girton Coll., Univ. of Cambridge, England, 1889-90; fellow in Greek, Univ. of Chicago, 1893-94; m. Apr. 27, 1S99, George Haven Putnam. Teacher of Greek, Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1891-93; dean of Barnard Coll., 1894-1900; trustee of Barnard Coll., 1897-1906. Writer of reviews for the Nation (N.Y. City). Author: Selections from Lucian, 1891; The Lady — Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History, 1910. Mem. League for Political Education (ex- pres.), Women's University Club of New York (vice-pres. and manager, 1907-09).

PUTNAM, Helen C, Rhode Island Av., Provi- dence, R.I.

Physician; b. Stockton, Minn., Sept. 14, 1857; dau. Herbert Asa and Celintha T. (Gates) Put- nam; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '78; Woman's Med. Coll. of Pa., M.D. '89; Neiw England Hospital for Women and Children, 1890; grad. Sargent Nor- mal School of Physical Trainmg, Harvard Univ., 1885; Philadelphia Polyclinic, 1889; Western Re- serve Univ., LL.D. Mem. Children's Gardens Com. of Rhode Island. Favors woman suffrage; mem. R.I. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; vice-pres. R.I. Progressive League; sec. Summer Play- grounds and Vacation School Com. (Providence), 1893-1900; sec. Citizens' Com. R.I. Reformatory Work for Women, 1904-05; mem. Board of Vis- itors to State Institutions, 1903-04. Lecturer. Au- thor of numerous reports, studies, papers and addresses published in Government volumes, mod. and educational journals; transactions of societies and congresses, chiefly in medical sociology, such as school inspection, janitor serv- ice, teaching hygiene, vacation schools, continu- ation schools, playgrounds, eugenics, birth regis- tration, reformatory work for men and women, school gardens; also of a series on Child- Hygiene, in Child Welfare Magazine. Mem. Am. Public Health Ass'n, 1S95—, Am. Med. Ass'n; vice-pres. Am. Ass'n for Advancement of Physi- cal Education, 1885-SS; fellow Am. Acad. Medi- cine (vice-pres., 1S94, 1897; pres. 1908; Exec. Com. of Conference on Prevention of Infant Mor- tality, 1909; delegate Second Internat. Congress on School Hygiene, London); mem. Am. Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Nat. Council o£ Playground Ass'n of America, Board of Directors Am. Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, council Am. School Hygiene Ass'n, Am. Soc. of Sanitary and Moral Prophy- laxis, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Educa- tion Ass'n; vice-pres. Dep't of Child Hygiene, State director, chairman Com. on School Janitors; mem. Nat. Council of Education; delegate to Fourth Internat. Congress on "School Hygiene. Author: School Janitors, Mothers and Health (Am. Acad. Medicine Press). Mem. A.A.A.S.; honorary fellow Lehigh Valley Medical Ass'n; American Home Economics Ass'n; councillor Permanent Bureau Internat. Union for Protec- tion of Children; delegate to loth Internat. Con- gress on Hygiene and Demography, Washington, D.C. Director gymnasium Vassar Coll., 1883-90; physician and surgeon to North End Dispensary, Providence, 1893-99.

PUTNAM, Kathrine Scobey (Mrs. Walter Put- nam), Pasadena, Cal.

Born Chicago; dau. Madison Crandall and Agnes (Bensley) Scobey; ed. Chicago public schools, Univ. of Chicago (mem. Spelman House); m. Chicago, April 22, 1908, Walter Put- nam; one daughter: Barbara. Favors woman suffrage. Joint author (with Olive B. Home): Stories of Great Artists; Stories of Great Musi- cians. Christian Scientist. Progressive.

PUTNAM, Lucy Chase (Mrs. Osgood Putnam),

3255 Pacific Av., San Francisco.

Born N.Y. City, Jan. 9, 1859; dau. Rufus and Julia Elizabeth (Ritter) Chase; ed. Packer Col- legiate Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y., '79; Bryn Mawr Coll., special course, 1888-89; m. first, Oct. 18, 1893, William Burger Boorun; second, Oct. 14, 1908, Osgood Putnam. Teacher of mathematics. Packer Collegiate Inst, 1889-93. Regent Cal. Chapter D.A.R., 1915-13; mem. Packer Alumnae Ass'n, Colonial Dames of America, Descendants

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PUTNAM, Mary B. (Mrs. Charles Henry Put- nam), B. 603 Nora Av., Spokane, Wash. Born Dorchester, Mass., Aug. 20, 1872; dau. Charles Henry and Martha C. (Price) Clark; ed. St. Paul High School, Smith Coll., A.B. ; m. St. Paul, Minn., June 18, 1901, C. H. Putnam; children: Martha Clark, b. 1903; Henry Homer, b. 1905. Mem. Parent-Teachers' Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae and Spokane branch of same. Sunday-sdhool teacher. Favors woman sufifrage. Unitarian. Republican. Recreation: Volley ball.

PUTNAM, Mary Nlcoll (Mrs. Erastus Gaylord Putnam), 219 S. Broad St., Elizabeth, N.J. Born Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 1, 1834; dau. William Amos and Frances Mary (Evertson) Woodward; td. St. Ann's Hall, N.Y. City; m. Keewaydln, N.Y., Jan. 30, 1867, Erastus Gaylord Putnam; children: Mary Evertson, Rosalie Gaylord and Harry Barrows (twins), William Hamilton (all died young). Interested in church charities and missions, preservation of historic spots, child labor, playgrounds. Mem. Recreation Ass'n of America, Civic Welfare Soc, Woman's Branch of N.J. Historical Soc., Charity Organization Soc, Visiting Nurses' Ass'n, Ladles' Aid Soc, Eliza- beth; General Hospital and Dispensary, Eliza- beth, N.J. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R., Soc. of Colonial Dames, Order of the Crown, Huguenot Soc. of America, Daughters of Holland Dames, Americans of Armorial An- cestry, Soc of New EJngland Women; life mem. N.J. Historical Soc; mem. Monday Club of Elizabeth, N.J.

PUTNAM, Mary Perkins, 1100 Santee St., Los

Angeles, Cal.

Teacher; b. River Falls, Wis.; dau. John Day and Catherine Helen (Lovell) Putnam; ed. Los Angeles city schools; Univ. of Cal., B.L. '03; Coumbla. Vice-principal Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, Cal. Interested In social byglene work, public baths for Los Angeles. Fa- vors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suf- frage League. Democrat. Mem. Am. Peace Soc. Recreation: Mountain climbing. Clubs: College Woman's, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Evening City, Sierra.

PUTNAM, Nina WUcox (Mrs. Robert F. Put- nam), 4 W. 45th St., N.Y. City. Author; b. New Haven, Conn., Nov. 28, 1888; dau. Marrion Wilcox, the historian, and EJleanor (Sanches) Wilcox; ed. at home by governess; m. Oct. 5, 1907, Robert F. Putnam. Won a N.Y. Herald short story prize at the age of eleven years. Interested in the reform of system of public education, particularly the curriculums of public schools and tfie introduction of proper instructions in physical hygiene. Invented a one-piece dress as protest against woman's ir- rational clothing. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Woman's Political Union, N.Y. City, and Equal Suffrage League of Madison, Conn., and Rye, N. Y. Author: In Search of Arcady; The Im- possible Boy; also short fiction and verse in Harper's, Munsey^s, Ainslee's, etc. Mem. Poetry Soc. of America. Recreations: Sculpturing, musical composition, athletics.

PUTNAM, Ruth, 2025 O St., Washington. D.C.

Author, historian; b. Yonkers, N.Y., 1858; dau. George Palmer and Victorine (Haven) Putnam; taught at home until fifteen years old, two years at Miss Brackett's School, and four years at Cornell Univ., B.A. ; studied in Paris, Oxford, Geneva, Leiden, London. Favors woman suf- frage. Author: William the Silent (two vols.), 1895; A Mediasval Princess (Jacqueline of Ba- varia, Countess of Holland, Zealand and Halnaut); Charles the Bold; William the Silent (one vol. m Hero series), 1911; Anneke Jans Farm. Editor of Half-Moon Papers; translator of part of BIcyck'g History of Netherland People. Mem. Am. Historical Ass'n; hon. mem. Maat- BchappiJ van Nederlandsche Letterkunde (Society

��of Dutch Settlers of Leiden); mem. Women's University Club.

PTI.E, Annie Sanborn (Mrs. Joseph Gilpin Pyle), Upland Farm, Stillwater, Minn. Born Concord, N.H., June 24, 1S.'j9; dau. George G. and Jane Hale (Abbott) Sanborn; ed. Norwood Hall, St. Paul, Minn.; Miss Putnam's School, Boston; m. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 14, 1900, Jo>--eph Gilpin Pyle. Newspaper work, literary editor and editorial writer on St. Paul Pioneer Press, 1891-1900, under Joseph A. Whee- lock. Interested in Y.W.C.A. work, and mis- sions — foreign and domestic. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Nerw Century Club, St. Paul.

PTLE, EUen, London Grove, Pa.

Born London Grove, Pa. ; dau. Robert L. and Elizabeth (Walton) Pyle; ed. Swarthmore Coll., B.A. '92; Columbia Coll., A.M. '99 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). Principal of Friends' School four years. Sup't Sabbath-sahool, clerk of monthly meeting; mem. Hospital Auxiliary ol Chester Co., Chester Co. Historical Soc, Ken- nett New Century Club.

PYLE, Hannah Cadbury (Mrs. Robert Pyle),

West Grove, Pa.

Born Germantown, Philadelphia, 1872; dau. John Warder and Rebecca (Warder) Cadbury; ed. Friends School, Germantown; Bryn Mawr Coll., 1892-96; m. Germantown, Mar., 1910, Robert Pyle. Director Lucy M. Bruce Industrial School, Pa.; on Publication Com. of the Westonian, a Friends monthly magazine. Favors woman suffrage. Editor of the Quarterly of the Friends Foreign Missionary Ass'n of Philadelphia; also various articles, chiefly in Quaker periodicals in Phila- delphia and England. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Recreation: Canoeing. Mem. Agenda Club (wo- men's social) West Grove. Has been directress of the Casa Ravello (milk station, medical dis- pensary, visiting nurse); before marriage was resident at College Settlement, Philadelphia.

PY1.E, Katharine, 2325 W. 16th St., Wilming- ton, Del.

Author; b. Wilmington, Del.; dau. William and Margaret C. Pyle; ed. at home and private schools. Author: As the Goose Flies; A Christ- mas Angel; A Counterpane Fairy; Prose and Verse for Children (EXjlectic School Readings); The Rabbit Witch; Careless Jane, and Other Tales; Childhood; In the Green Forest; Stories of Humble Friends; Where the Wind Blows, be- ing Ten Fairy Tales of Ten Nations; Nancy Rut- ledge; Fairy Tales from MaJiy Lands; Once Upon a Time in Delaware; also Joint author (with Laura Spencer Portor): Theodora. Has illus- trated most of her own books, and contributed to leading magazines.

PYLE, Margery, London Grove, Pa,

Born London Grove, Pa.; dau. Robert L. and Elizabeth (Walton) Pyle; grad. Swarthmore Coll., A.B. 1900 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). Has spent much time since college on study oi art, also work in music and course in domestic science and domestic art. Mem. Society of Friends. Mem. Somerville Literary Soc, Swarth- more Coll. Alumni Ass'n. Active in small com- munity gatherings, for neighborliness, reading, etc. Mem. College Club, Philadelphia; Century Club (Kennett Square, Pa.), Kappa Alpha Theta Alumni Chapter, Philadelphia.

PYLES, Nellie E. (Mrs. Thomas B. Pyles),

Fountain, Colo.

Newspaper editor and publisher; b. Marietta, Ohio, Sept. 27, 1869; dau. George Albert and Mary B. (Perkins) Sanborn; ed. Glasgow (Ky.) Baptist Coll., Liberty Coll.; m. Hutchinson, Kan., June 12, 1900, Thomas B. Pyles. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Democrat. Active mem. Brotherhood of American Yeomen; head ofl3cer Grand Companion, Companions of tie Forest, both secret, benefit and fraternal orders. Mem. Woman's Club of Colo. Springs (charter mem. and for three years each treas. and auditor, always on executive board). Six years recording sec. of Colo. Fed. of Women's Clubs, now serving fifth year as auditor.

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��QUAIN, Frances Bnim (Mrs. B. P. Qualn), Bis- marck, N.Dak.

Physician; b. Bismarck, N.Dak.; dau. John Piatt and Christina Seley (Styles) Dunn; grad. Bismarck High School; St. Cloud (Minn.) Nor- mal School; Univ. of Mich., M.D.; m. Bismarck, 1903, Dr. B. P. Quain; one daughter: Marion Margaret. Received hospital training in North- western Hospital, Minneapolis; practised three years in Bismarck before marriage and two years after; since then has been sec. Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n; has handled Red Cross seals for entire State; lectured in dietetics at Bismarck Hos- pital; county sup't of schools for two years, 1901-02- mem. Bismarck Board of Education, 1909-12; chairman Health Com. N.Dak. Fed. Wo- men's Clubs, 1908-11; mem. Health Com. Am. Med Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat; votes on school matters. Mem. Civic League of Bismarck, Sixth Judicial Dist. Med. Soc., Am. Med. Ass'n, Michigan Alumnae, N.Dak. AnU- Tuberculosis Ass'n. Individual mem. of State Fed.

QUKCK-BEKNEB, Clarie Lyon (Mrs. Charles A. J. Queck-Bemer), 345 Lafayette Av., Brook- lyn, N.Y. ^^, ., Bom In Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Sberwood Adams and Frances A. (Boland) Lyon; ed. Rutger.s Fe- male College, N.Y. City, A.B.; m. N.Y. City, Sept. 21 1886, Charles A. J. Queck-Berner. In- terested' In Daughters of the King, Indian work In S Dak. Southern industrial education. Lpls- copaiian. Mem. D.A.R., New England Women, Patriotic Women of America, Washington Head- quarters Ass'n, Rutgers Alumns. Mem. Pensa Philosophy Club.

QUIMBT, Althea CoflOn (Mrs. J. Frank Quimby), North Turner, Me. „ „ ^ t^ • i

Bom Norway. Me., Aug. 26, 1858; dau. Darnel and Sarah S. (Collins) Coffin; ed. Auburn, He- bron Acad., grad. Bridgton Acad., '80; special student Bates Coll., 1880-81; m. Auburn Me., May 18, 1884, Hon. J. Frank Quimby; children: Israel Leroy, Clarence Paul and Frank Brooks Quimby. Teacher in Auburn and Turner for ten years, Bridgton Acad, two years. Teacher and sup't Sunday-school, and active in churrti work Many years pres. Church Ladies Aid, connected with various temperance reforms, especially the W.C.T.U.; pres Androscoggin Co W C T U. and vice-pres. State of Maine WCTU Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Vii^-pres. Maine W.C.T.U.; several times to nat. conventions of the W.C.T.U.; In 1905 was delegate from the U.S.A. to the World's Conven- tion, which met In Tremont Temple, Boston. QUIMBY, Harriet, Hotel Victoria, Twenty- seventh St. and Broadway, N.Y. City. Aviator, critic; b. Arroyo Grande, Cal., May 1, 1884- dau. William and Ursula M. (Cook) Quim- by ed by private tutors in U.S. and France. Staff writer for San Francisco Dramatic Review, 1902- special writer for Sunday editions of San Francisco Call and San Francisco Chronicle; since 1906 on staff of Leslie's Weekly, in which she Is editor of woman's page, dramatic critic and edi- tor of aviation dep't. Especially interested In aviation; first person in the world to win mono- plane pilot's license under the revised mles of the Internal. Aero Club, 1910, and first woman to win aviator's license In America (Aug. 1, 1911). Has since made frequent flights. Mem. Aeronau- tical Soc. of America.

QUINBY, Florence Cole (Mrs. Henry Cole Qulnby), 235 West 75th St., N.Y. City. Born Waltham, Mass.; dau. Charles W. and Amv W (Hoag) Cole; ed. Dorchester, Mass., and N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, Henry Cole Quinby. Associate editor: New England Family History. Author: Equestrian Monuments of the World. Mem. various charitable, musical and literary societies.

QUINBY, H. Anna, 207 Union Nat. Bank Build- ing, Columbus, Ohio.

Lawyer, editor; f>. Edenton, Ohio, July 8, 1871; lau. Tbomas M. and BUza (Cramer) Quinby;

��grad. Nat. Normal Univ., Lebanon, Ohio, B.S.; Ohio State Univ., LL.B. Taught elocution, ora- tory and civics in LeMars (Iowa) Coll. ; prof, of elocution and oratory Dennison (Ohio) Coll.; ten years lecturer and organizer Ohio W.C.T.U. Editor and business manager of Ohio Woman (only woman suffrage paper in Ohio owned and controlled by women). First woman from Ohio admitted to practice law before Supreme Court of U.S. Has lectured in every county of Ohio on woman suffrage. Founded and is pres. Ohio Woman's Taxpayers' League; secured 36,000 sig- natures to the Ohio enrollment of men and women who believe in woman suffrage. United Presbyterian.

QUINBY, Lillian Baiter, 90 Mechanic St., West- brook, Me.

Head librarian of the Westbrook Public Li- brary; b. Westbrook, Me.; dau. Charles E. and Mary Quinby; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. (Alpha Kappa Chi). Interested in development of the Single Tax Colony at Halidon, Me. ; has done some work as author's critic and reviser of manuscripts. Has contributed short stories and verse to Munsey's Magazine, Short Stories, the Boston Transcript, and other publications. Club: Portland College Club. Recreations: Horseback riding, swimming, golf, all out-door sports. Opposed to woman suffrage.

QUINCT, Mary Adams (Mrs. Henry Parker Qulncy), 452 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Born Boston, Mass.; dau. Charles Francis and Abigail (Brooks) Adamis; ed. by private school and governess in Boston and London; m. Quincy, Mass., June 20, 1877, Dr. Henry Parker Qulncy (died March 11, 1899); children: Dorothy, b. Dec. 4, 1885; Elinor, b. March 11, 1888. Interested in religious and social activities. Against woman suffrage. Protestant Episcopal. Pro- gressive in politics. Mem. Colonial Dames, Woman's Municipal League of Boston, Woman's Welfare Dep't of Nat. Civic Federation, Am. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Nat. Audubon Soc, Arts and Crafts Soc, Boston Soc, Quincy His- torical Soc, Nat. Geographic Soc, Am. Humane Soc. Mem. Chilton Club.

QUINN, Isabel Lowe (Mrs. William W. Qulnn),

Westfield, Wis.

Born Westueld, Wis. ; dau. James and Jane (Russell) Lowe; m. Westfield, Wis., Jan. 3, 1883, William W. Qulnn; children: Edna Le Nore, b. May 22, 1886; Grace, b. March 22, 1893 (died March 26, 1893). Pres. Woman's Study Club, pres. Woman's Aid and Missionary Soc. of Pres- byterian Church; mem. Public Library Board. Against woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Woman's Federated Club.

QUINTRELL, Mary Corinne, 14182 Euclid Av.,

East Cleveland, O.

Born St. Austell, Cornwall, England, Jan. 8, 1839; dau. Thomas and Emma (Brewer) Quin- trell; grad. Cleveland High School, West (classi- cal course), 1857; classmate in school of Mark Hanna and John D. Rockefeller; first young lady graduate of Cleveland High School, West Side, and first to graduate from there who taught in the Cleveland schools. Edited the first paper ever published on the West Side of Cleveland. First to introduce the phonic method of teaching reading in the schools of Cleveland and taught the teachers how to teach the system; also wrote a large portion of the chart they use in reading in the schools of Cleveland. Taught in schools of Cleveland about twenty-five years; first woman Republican candidate for Cleveland School Coun- cil (1895). Has written many papers and poems for Cleveland clubs, several of which have been published. Has supplied the hospitals of Cleve- land with reading matter for over thirty years; working to restore the reading of the Bible in the public schools of Cleveland. Mem. Second Pi-es- byterian Churcti; mem. missionary societies, etc An organizer and charter mem. Cleveland Sorosls (former chairman, dep't of parliamentary law and dep't of art); mem. Novelist Club (critic since 1897); pres. Health Protective Ass'n. Paints in oil colors— chiefly marine pictures. Strongly favors woman suffrage.

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��QCIBK, Lillian DeFrank Park (Mrs. James Quirk), 330 Alameda Drive, San Diego. Cal. Born Grafton, Vt., Aug. 3, 1849; dau. John Avery and Eleanor (Tenney) Park; ed. Univ. of Wis., B.S. 1874 (mem. Castalia Literary Soc); m. Madison, Wis., Aug. 15, 1876, James Quirk; (Alldren: Nellie Faragher, Sliirley Robert Parle (died in infancy), James Paric, Arttiur Gilbert, Earl William. Identified with religious, social and philanthropic activities. Contributor to magazines and papers. Mem. D.A.R. ; early mem. of Ase'n of Collegiate Alumnae; organized Minneapolis District Soc. of Woman's Home Missions and was its first pres. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Churcli, Woman's Club and College Club (Minneapolis), Wednesday Club and College Club (San Diego, Cal.).

��BABB, Kate Mllner (Mrs. Albert Rabb), 620 E.

Eleventh St., Indianapolis, Ind. Author; b. Rockport, Ind., Aug. 9, 1866; dau. Dr. Isaac Livingston and Martha M. (Parsons) Mllner; ed. Indiana Univ., B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) '86; A.M. '88 (Kappa Alpha Theta) ; m. Rockport, Oct. 7, 1891, Albert Rabb (lawyer); children: Albert Livingston, Martha Charlotte. Menu. Consumers' League, Civic League. Au- thor: National Epics; The Boer Boy; The Wit and Humor of ^jnerica (5 vols.); also short stories in Atlantic Monthly, Leslie's Weekly, etc. Unitarian. Mem. Phi B^ta Kappa Soc. (luc'i.inap- olls). Recreations: Walking, amateur theatricals. Mem. Fortnightly Literary Club, Contemporary Club, Players' Club, Theta Alumnse Club, Moth- ers' Clu-b, Local Council of Women. Against woman suffrage.

BADCrrFTE, Jessie Walker (Mrs. Wallace Radcllffe), 1200 K St., Wasliington, D.C.

Born Detroit, Mioh. ; dau. Edward C. Walker, lawyer, and Lucy (Bryant) Walker; ed. Detroit and Boston; m. Detroit, 1887, Rev. Wallace Rad- cliffe, D.D., LL.D.; vlce-pres. Philadelphia Board of Missions, pres. Presbyterian Missionary Soc. of Washington Board of Garfield Hospital, director of Washington Humane Soc. ; mem. executive Com. of Audubon Soc, Alliance Fran- calse, Y.W.C.A. ; chaplain of Needlework Guild; Interested in woman's welfare, people's gardens, playgrounds, etc. Presbyterian. Governor of the Washington Club, 1710 I St. BADd-UTE, Margaret Porter (Mrs. James E.

Radcllffe), 570 63d Av., West Allls, Wis.

Sec. and ireas. Radcllffe Manufacturing Co. ; b. Milwaukee, April 25, 1863; dau. James and Margaret (Killips) Porter; ed. Milwaukee pub- lic schools, High School and Normal; m. Mil- waukee, Jan. 5, 1887, James E. Radcllffe; chil- dren: Margaret (Mrs. David Gardner Park), Marie, Porter. As wife of mem. of Board of EJducsitlon has special interests in school work raid teachers. Active mem. and past matron Order of Eastern Star; mem. Civics Club (on Com. of Legislation); vice-pres. Anti-Tubercu- losis Club. Recreations: Civic work, village and torwn. Charter mem. South Side Woman's Club (Milwaukee), Woman's Club of West Allls, since 1905-13 (past sec. and past pres.); mem. Civics Com. of Wis., State Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mem. Library Board for past six years, now working diligently for new library for which site has been secured. Methodist. Against woman suffrage. BADFOBD, Grace Anna Bennett (Mrs. Walter

Agee Radford), 304 E. 18th St., Hopklnsvllle,

Ky.

Born Louisville, Ky., Nov. 4, 1870; dau J. Heady and Mollie (Dearing) Bennett; ed. public schools of Louisville, Ky.; Young's Female Coll., ThomasvUle, Ga; Hardin Coll., Mexico, Mo., A.B.; m. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 24, 1891, Walter Agee Radford; children: Alice Dearing, b. Jan. 29, 1893; W. T., b. Sept. 22, 1894; Cyrus Sugg, b. June 30, 1896; Carolyn Pendleton, b. Dec. 6, 1898. Interested in Sunday-school, treas. of Hopkinsville Civic League; instrumental In

��securing a Carnegie Public Library; mem. Board of Directors of Public Library. Mem. Library Board of State Fed of Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Mem. Daughters of Confederacy (pres. of Capt. Henry Leavel (Chap- ter of Ky.). Recreations: Driving, rowing. Mem. As You Like It Club, History and Literary Club, Treble Clef Club.

R.VDEKE, Eliza Greene Metcalf (Mrs. Gustav Radelie), 92 Prospect St., Providence, R.I. Born Augusta, Ga., Dec. 11, 1854; dau. Jesse and Helen (Rowe) Metcalf; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '76; m. Providence, R.I., May, 1880, Dr. Gustav Radeke. President R.I. School of Design; mem. advisory com.. Women's Coll. in Brown Univ., advisory com.. Providence Rescue Home for Women. Mem. Gollege Equal Suffrage League. Unitarian. Mem. Providence Art Club, Nat. Arts Club (N.Y. City), Agawam Hunt, Col- lege Club of Boston.

BATF, Emma Scott (Mrs. W. Bryant Raff),

Annesley Hall, Queen's Park, Toronto, Can.

Teacher of expression, voice culturlst, lecturer; b. Waterdown, Ontario; dau. Rev. James and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Scott; ed. Owen Sound (Ontario) Collegiate Inst., Victoria Univ., Toronto Univ. ; special studies in voice and expression In Boston and in London, England; m. Toronto, 1894, W. Bryant Raff, (died 1897). Distinguished in Canada as a dramatic reader; director of Annesley Hall Gymnasium, Victoria Univ.; director Margaret Eaton School of Literature and Expression; principal of the School of Ex- pression in Toronto College of Music; lecturer on voice and interpreter of classic literature, Toronto Normal School. Popular lecturer on Six Mornings in Florence with Ruskin, and other themes. RAGAN, Emily Lee (Mrs. William Henry

Ragan), 210 Tenth St., Washington, D.C.

Writer; b. Madison, Ind., 1839; dau. Monroe Wells and Mary (Dole) Lee; ed. private schools, also public high school of Madison, Ind.; m. (1st) Indianapolis, 1859, Henry Lee Sherwood; (2d) Washington, D.C, 1901, Prof. William Henry Ragan. Engaged in journalism in Washington, D.C, 1888-1900; also contributor to other papers and magazines. Charter mem. D.A.R. ; was cor. sec. 18 years of Woman's Universalist Missionary Soc. (national), then known as Women's Cen- tenary Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Willis Peyton's Inheritance, 18S9; also collab- orator with Mary Smith Lockwood in preparing and publishing The Story of the Records (history of the founding and growth of the D.A.R.). Universalist (mem. Mission Circle and Ladies' Aid). Mem. W.C.T.U. and D.C Fed. of Women's Clubs.

RAGSDALE, Virginia, Jamestown. N.C.

Graduate Guilford Coll., S.B. '92; grad. scholar in mathematics, 1892-93; grad. student, 1893-97; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '96, Ph.D. '06; holder of Bryn Mawr European fellowship, student Univ. of Gottingen, 1897-98; holder of fellowship of Baltimore Ass'n for Promotion of the University Education of Women; grad. scholar. 1901-02, and fellow In mathematics, 1902-03, Bryn Mawr Coll.; reader in mathematics, Bryn Mawr, since 190s! Ass't demonstrator in physics, Bryn Mawr Coll., 189G-97; teacher of science and mathematics! Bryn Ma-wr School, Baltimore. Md., 1898-1900; ass't teacher of mathematics, 1900-01; teacher of mathematics in Dr. J. Sachs's School for Girls. N.Y. City, 1903-05, and in the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.. 1906-11; prof, mathematics. Normal School. Jamestown. N.C. since 1911. Author: Of the Arrangement of the Real Branches of Plane Algebraic Curves (disserta- tion for Ph.D.), 1906. "BAIMOND, C. E." (pen-name) — see Robins,

Elizabeth.

BAINEY, Ellenora McBrlde (Mrs. Henry Thomas Rainey). Walnut Hall. CarroUton, III. Born Princeton, 111.; dau. William Henry and Mary Jane (Alien) McBride; g^rad. Knox Coll., Galesburg, 111.; m. 1888, Henry Thomas Raine>. Sec. 111. State Conference of Charities, 1898-1901; mem. State Board of Trustees Farm School for Delinquent Boys, St, Charles, 111.; mem. Board

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��of Directors Washington (D.C.) Playground Aes'n, and Nat. Junior Republic League. Occa- sional writer on social and economic questions, and contributor to magazines. Mem. Nat. Fine Arts Soc., State Audubon Soc. ; vice-pres. Moth- ers' Congress, Washington, D.C. Recreations: Horseback riding, lawn tennis, cross-country tramps. Mem. Congressional Club. RAXSTON, Fanny Marion, Rockford Coll.,

Rookford, 111.

Director of muisc; b. St. Louis, Mo.; dau. John and Lucy Boyd (Lewis) Ralston; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis, grad. with diploma from New England Conservatory of Music, Boston; private worl^ in composition with Ernest R. Kroeger (St. Louis), Arthur Foote (Boston), Harrison Wild (Chicago) ; private work in piano with Lucy B. Ralston, Fannie Payne and Nellie Strong Stevenson (St. Louis), Carl Faelten (Bos- ton), Walter Perkins (Chicago). Director of music dep't Rockford (111.) Coll. for five years; concert pianist, giving recitals in many of the principal cities of the .country. Sec. and treas. of the com. which formed the Nat. Fed. of Music Clubs; was an officer for several years of Union Musical Club in St. Louis. Mem. Colonial Dames Soc. of America and of D.A.R. Favors woman sufirage. Author of compositions for piano and voice. Piano compositions: Sunbeam; Dandelion; Skipping Rope; Song Without Words; Regret; Ich Liebe Dich; Romance, etc. Songs: Scotch Ballad; 23d Psalm; Claribel, etc. Chris- tian Scientist. Recreations; Tennis, walking, Mem. Mendelssohn Club of Rockford, 111. Has given piano recitals occasionally before the va- rious music clubs of the Middle West; has been soloist with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra and is prominent as lectuter on musical subjects. BAISTON, Sara Bums Bankin (Mrs. Jackson

H. RaJston) 1730 P St., N. W., Washington,

D.C.

Born Keokuk, la.; dau. John W. and Sara Dupuy (Thomasson) Rankin of Louisville, Ky. ; ed. Ohio Female Coll., Ky. Coll., Grand Con- servatory of Music and Art League of N.Y. City; m. Keokuk, la., June 1, 1887, Jackson H. Ral- ston; raised one boy for whom is guardian: Jackson F. Ralston. Interested in church mis- sionary societies; mem. Board of Associated Charities; officer of Gentlewoman's League; mem. of many other philanthropic societies; interested in peace societies. Favors woman suffrage. Presibvterian. Recreations: Motoring, walking, sketching, reading, sewing. BAM AGE, Eleanor Dinsmore (Mrs. L. J. Ra-

mage), 811 Line St., Decatur, Ala.

Born Moulton, Ala., Aug. 12, 1883; dau. Dr. William Lewis and Nannie Lee (West) Dinsmore; ed. private and public schools; grad. Decatur High School, 1900; Martha Washington Coll., Abingdon, Va., B.S. 1902; m. Decatur, June 21, 1905, Dr. L. J. Ramage; one daughter: Eleanor Ramage. Mem. Woman's Home and Foreign Mission Soc. of M.E. Church. Methodist (South- ern); Sunday-school teacher. Mem. Stephens Chapter D.A.R., Saturday Club (literary;. B.'VMSAY, Jean Barnett (Mrs. James Ramsay),

New Bloomfieirt, Pa.

Teacher; b. New Bloomfield, Pa., 1868; dau. Hon. Charles A. and Mary J. (McClure) Barnett; ed. Wilson Coll. (Latin salutatorian), '86; post- grad, study in Germany; m. New Bloomfield, 1894, Dr. James Ramsay; children: Corinne Bar- nett, "b. 1895; McCIure Barnett, b. 1S97. Was head of German dep't, Wilson Coll., then ass't principal Bloomfield Acad, until marriage; some private teaching. Actively identified with civic and social interests. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Ft. Mcintosh Chapter D.A.R., Beaver, Pa.; Wayne Chapter Order of Eastern Star, Beaver, Pa. Recreations: Litera- ture, music. Mem. Alter Orchestra, New Bloom- field; Mozart Club, Liszt Club, Woman's Club, Travelers' Club. Pres. Wilson College Alumnae. RAMSAY, Jennie C. Blodget (Mrs. John Ram- say), 204 West Hurlbut Av., Belvidere, HI.

Born In Smithfield, Ohio; dau. Rev. Harvey and Dlantha (Keep) Blodget; grad. from Rock- ford (111) Sem. (noTV college) in the class of '63;

��m. 1874, John Ramsay, merchant, of Belvidere, 111. Taught music for nine years in Rockford Sem. after graduation. Has been active in the musical life and club activities of Belvidere, 111. ; for years pres. of the Amateur Musical Club; also mem. and ex-pres. of the Fortnightly Club (literary). Presbyterian. Mem. Rockford Coll. Alumnje Ass'n (formerly vice-pres.

BAMSEY, Grace Keys (Mrs. Charles Cyrua Ramsey), Beaver Road, Pittsburgh, Pa, Born N.Y. City, Dec. 24, 1875; dau. Elijah Crawford and Elizabeth (Mapelsden) Keys; ed. Miss Chisholm's School for Girls, N.Y. City; m. June 1, 1905, Charles Cjrrua Ramsey (pres. Cru- cible Steel Co. of America); children: Elizabeth Mapelsden Ramsey, b. Feb. 17, 1906; Ellen, b. Nov. 19, 1909. Interested in hospital work In Pittsiburgh, Sewiekley and N.Y. City. Episco- palian ; worker in all church societies. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Peace Soc, Nat. Wom- an's Suffrage Ass'n, Consumers' League of West- ern Pa., Allegheny Country Club, EdgTvorth Club, Woman's Club of the Sewiekley Valley. Recrea- tion: Golf.

RAMSEY, Mary Grant Burrows (Mrs. John Patterson Ramsey), Charlotte, Vt., and Spring- field, 111.

Born Wyoming, O., Jan. 22, 1869; dau. Grant Howard and Clorinda (Jones) BurroTvs; ed. Wyoming High School, Hughes High School, Cincinnati; Bartholomew's English and Classical School, Cincinnati; m. Wyoming, O., Mar. 18, 1892, John Patterson Ramsey; children: Clorinda Burrows, John Patterson. Mem. Woman's Aux- iliary of St. Paul's Church, Springfield, III.; Ladies' Aid, Charlotte, Vt. Favors woman suf- frage. Congregationalist. Recreations: Farming interests and studies. Mem. Womaji's and Wednesday Clubs of Springfield, 111. In 1898 was vice-pres. Texas Fed. of Women's Clubs. Advo- cate of a return to country life; now preparing a New England farm for a permanent home. BAMSDELI., Julia Alice Carter (Mrs. J. Gardiner Ramsdell), 4725 Springfield Av., West Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Winterport, Me. ; dau. Asa and Eleanor (Carlton) Carter (descendant of Rev. Thomas Carter of Woburn, Mass., b. in England, 1610; grad. Harvard, 1635); ed. in Maine; m. Berlin, Mass., J. Gardiner Ramsdell; one son: Gardiner Cassius. Presbyterian. Mem. Daughters of War of 1812; mem. Board Managers and chairman Visiting Com. Daughters of Am. Revolution, Philomusian Club.

BAND. Claire Forbes (Mrs. Herbert W. Rand), Garden Terrace, cor. Garden St., Cambridge,

Teacher, b. Phelps, N.Y., Sept. 21, 1873; dau. Frank and Eliza F. (Browning) Hammond; ed. Girls' Latin School, Boston, Mass., class of '91; Smith Coll., B..'\. '86; m. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 27, 1900, Herbert W. Rand; children: Henry F., Dorothy G. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Cam- bridge Political Equality Ass'n. BAND, Margaret Arnold, 49 Kirkland St., Cam- bridge, Mass.

Artist; b. Dedham, Mass., Oct. 21, 1S6S; dau. Edward S. and Jennie A. (Lathrop) Rand; ed. Miss Ingols' School; studied art under George H. Smillie of N.Y. City, Henry W. Rice and Mrs. Charles Goodyear. Paintings have _been ex- hibited in N.Y. City, Philadelphia and Boston. Mem. Copley Soc. of Boston. Diocesan sec. Girls' Friendly Soc. of Mass. Mem. Mass. Hor- ticultural Soc. Protestant Episcopalian. Rec- reation: Horticulture. Against woman suffrage. EANDAl.,, Florence Hamilton, care Manitoba Free I'ress, Winnipeg, Man., Can. Journalist, magazine writer; b. Compton, Que- bec, Canada; dau. Stephen and Mary (Andrews) Randal; ed. Compton (Quebec) Ladies' Coll. After leaving school wrote for various Canadian newspapers. S.ent by Canadian Government, 1902, to South Africa, after the war, to teach in the Boer concentration camps; resumed journal- ism after return; edited woman's page and was society editor of the Ottawa Journal; later edited woman's page of the Winnipeg Telegram, whence

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��she went to her present position on the staff of the Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg. Contribu- tor in prose and verse to Canadian Magazine, Saturday Night, Globe Magazine, Houselteeper (Minneapolis), and other Canadian and American periodicals. Anglican. Mem. Canadian Women's Press Club. Mem. May Court Club of Ottawa. RAJj^DALL, Adella Miner, 930 Henry St., Alton, III.

Musician; b. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 10, 1872; dau. John Frederic and Elizabeth F. (Stark) Randall; ed. Shurtleff Acad., Alton, 111.; Wellesley Coll., B.A., and School of Music, '95; Univ. of Mich.; Univ. of Berlin; pupil of Teresa Carreiio. Direc- tor piano dep't Pillsbury Acad., Minn.; now director Music School of Shurtleff Coll., 111., and director of Shurtleff Chorus, giving oratorio per- formances; lecturer on musical subjects for four seasons in Alton, 111. Formerly active mem. and on Exec. Com. of Union Musical Club, St. Louis; promotor of Local Option campaign, Alton, 111.; active mem. of Alton Missionary Social Union (formerly on E.xec. Com.). Has published arti- cles in musical and denoriiinational periodicals. Mem. Woman's Council, Alton, 111. Recreations: Mountain climbing, pedestrian tours in Europe. Baptist Favors woman suffrage. R.\lVDALr, Emma Pearson (Mrs. Floyd H. Randall), 200 S. Walnut St., Bay City, Mich. Bom Van Wert, O., Oct. 21, 1874; dau. Richard and Mary (FYeshner) Pearson; grad. Van Wert High School, '92; Ohio Wesley an Univ.; Univ. of Mich., M.D. '99 (mem. Alpha Epsilon Iota); m. Van Wert, O., Oct. 18, 1905, Dr. Floyd H. Ran- dall. FYesbyterlan. Mem. Civic Lea.gue, UnlT. of Mich. Alumnae Ass'n. Against woman suf- frage.

RANDATIi, Evelyn (Mrs. William Bradley Ran- dall, Park Lane, Pelham Manor, N.Y. Born N.Y. City, 1860; dau. Addison P. and Phcebe (Carglll) Smith; ed. N.Y. City public schools; m. 1888, William Bradley Randall; chil- dren: Jerome, Bradley, Phoebe. Mem. Mary Washington Colonial Chapter D.A.R. (cor. sec); treas. Pelham Summer Home for Children. Clubs: Tuesday Afternoon, National Arts, Mac- Dowell, N.Y. Browning. Recreations: Walking, music, art, literature. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Suffrage League of New Rochelle, N.Y. BAXDAXL, Lillian Craig (Mrs. Lynne R. Ran- dall), 4 Hazel Court, 221 Sherman Av., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Hebron, Conn., Aug. 29, 1858; dau. Dr. Adam Gemmel and Emily Sanford (Hotchki&s) Craig; ed. Wurden Acad; Bingham- ton High School; Cortland Normal; Univ. of Buffalo, M.D., and Paris CUnic (mem. medical sorority); m. Nov. 31, 1889, Lynne R. Randall; children: Edna Randall Sams, b. Mar. 19, 18S9; Enid M. Nussersmith, b. Dec. 20, 1891. Founded Riverside Hospital, conducting it for 17 years. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. Surgical Soc, Women's Med. Soc. of State of N.Y. Interested in all welfare work, eugenics and euthenlcs. Favors woman suffrage; speaker for City Suf- frage Party, State Suffrage Party and club for suffrage in 17th Dlst N.Y. City. Author of occa- sional magazine articles. Episcopalian. Pro- gressive Democrat. Mem. D.A.R. and church societies. Recreations: Travel, literature, drama. Mem. N.Y. Browning Soc., Soc. for Political Study, N.Y. Theatre Club, Nat. Fed. of Theatre Clu'bs.

RANDOLPH, Grace Titx, 3 N. Washington Square, N.Y. City.

Artist; b. N.Y. City; dau. Anson D. F. and Frances H. (Clarke) Randolph; ed. private schools; Art Students' League, N.Y. City; Julian Atelier, Paris. Ehdiibited In Fine Arts Soc., N.Y. City, and Pa. Acad, of Fine Arts, Phila- delphia; bronze medal Atlanta E.xposition. Founder and mem. of Woman's Art Club of N.Y. ; mem. the Graham Alumnse Ass'n. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage. RANDOLPH, Harriet, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Teacher; b. Philadelphia; dau. Edward Taylor and Mary (Sharplees) Randolph; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '89; fellow in biology, 1889-90; grad- uate work in Univ. of ZUrlch, 1890-92; Ph.D. '92.

��Teacher of biology, Bryn Mawr Ck)ll. Favors woman suffrage. Contributor of short articles research on worms and injects to technical jour- nals. Mem. of Soc. of Friends. Mem. College Club, Philadelphia, Pa. RANDOLPH, Susan Strong (Mrs. Lester

Charles Randolph), Milton, Rock Co., Wis.

Physician; b. Hebron, Conn., Apr. 25, 1867; dau. Levi and Susan Amelia (Backus) Strong; ed. Owego Free Acad., '83; Cornell Univ., A.B. '89; Northwestern Univ. Woman's Med. School., M.D. '93; m. Chicago, 111., Dec. 25, 1890, Lester Charles Randolph; children: Hannah Beatrice, Victor Strong, Kenneth Bowen, Paul Phelps, Howell Sheppard, Doris Amelia. Admitted to practice in Chicago, 111., 1893. Mem. of School Board four years in Alfred, N.Y. ; teacher of Sabbath-school class; conductor of Mothers' Meetings. Writer of occasional newspaper articles. Seventh-day Bap- tist Mem. W.C.T.U., King's Daughters, church societies. Mem. Woman's Village Improvement Club, Milton, Wis.; Allen Civic Club, Alfred, N.Y. Recreations: Reading, gardening, out-door life. Favors woman suffrage; vice-pres. Allen Civic Club, Alfred, N.Y.; mem. Rock Co., Wis., Political Equality League. RANKEN, Ellen Mary Halliday (Mrs. Robert

Ranken), 3154 Magnolia Av., St. Louis.

Born Dayton, 0., Nov. 24, 1854; dau. Franklin and Ellen (Moody) Halliday; ed. Cincinnati (O.) public schools; grad Hughes High School, '73; m. North Bend, O., Oct. 25, 1887, Robert Ranken. Interested in Sunday-school, Young Men's Bible Class, missionary societies. Pres. St. Louis Presbyterian Soc; mem. Y.W.C.A., South Cen- tral Field Com. of Nat. Board; mem. of Evening Dispensary for \vomen. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. W.C.T.U. Recreation: Raising chickens. RAJNKEN-JORDAN, Mary A. L. (Mrs. Clay E.

Jordan), 4950 Lindell Av., St. Louis, Mo.

Born Coloraine, Ireland; dau. Thomas Laughlln and Sara (Patton) Ranken; ed. Victoria Coll., Belfast; m. Richmond, Va., March, 1905, Clay E. Jordan. Interested in religious and philan- thropic works. Presbyterian. Mem. St Louis Symphony, Morning Choral, the King's Daugh- ters. Recreations: Traveling, golf, horseback riding, out-door sports. Mem. Wednesday Club, St. Louis; Woman's Club. RANKIN, Jean Sherwood (Mrs. Albert William

Rankin), 916 Fifth St., S.E., Minneapolis,

Minn.

Writer; b. Dartford, Wis., Jan. 6, 1856; dau. John Chassell and Jane Caroline (Rich) Sher- wood; ed. Ripen Coll., Rlpon, Wis., B.S. 1875; Univ. Minn., 1904; m. Dartford (now Green Lake), Wis., Dec. 31, 1882, Albert William Rankin; chil- dren; Charlotte Sherwood, b. Feb. 1, 1890; Janet Ruth, b. Jan. 25, 1S92. Has written for educa- tional papers; among others. Elementary School Teacher (Chicago) Normal School Instructor, Popular Educator, Educational Work, Primary Education, Primary Plans, also on Public Schools in the Minneapolis Tribune. Favors woman suf- frage. Author: Everyday English (Books One and Two). Unitarian. Progressive In politics. Mem. Minneapolis Improvement League, Minne- apolis Woman's Club, Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Woman's Welfare League. Recreations: Horse- back exercise, rowing, walking, driving. Was pres. of the Minneapolis Improvement League four years. Early life was given to teaching E^Dgllsh; last teaching was in Minnesota Univ. Practice School at Minneapolis. Has been an ardent advocate of reform In educational matters. RANKIN, Martha Clartc (Mrs. Isaac Ogden

Rankin), 69 Centre St., Brookllne, Mass.

Born Hinsdale, -Mass. ; dau. Rev. Perkins Kirk- land and Hannah (Avery) Clark; ed. Springfield High School; Vassar Coll., A.B. '76; m. Spring- field, i"vlass., June 23, 1880, Rev. Isaac Ogden Rankin; children: Hugh, Margaret, Lawrence Avery. Interested In missionary work, social service, etc. Mem. D.R. (regent Van Cort- landt Chapter for several years, also on Board of Managers; now sec. Isaac Gardner Chapter); director Boston Branch Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae. Favors woman suffrage. MagazLoe writer; articles In Outlook, Youth's Companion,

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 the color of our surroundings in self defense. And often aggressively we color our own passions, oblivious of the native pigment hidden in our own consciousness. We want to be what we are not, and we are petulent, moody, when we fail. Albeit, moods, howsoever evanescent, have a spiritual significance—a physical import as well. They are the living cells, as it were, of the psychology of our being. Even the most elusive, the most sudden and unaccountable, has in it the potency of perpetuity. It vanishes into our subconsciousness like a waft of perfume or a whiff of smoke, and there, in the alembic of mystery, is invisibly, insensibly transformed or crystalized. It evades in either instances our mortal ken. Its process of growth can not be detected, however keen our perceptive faculty. And a microscope of moods has not yet been invented. Let us then respect the aura of mystery—the etherial,—spiritual and moral,—emanations of every reality. And the trick of candor and sincerity as well. Our psychological analysis


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��Congregationalist, Ladies' Home Journal, Wom- an's Home Companion, N.Y. Evening Post and various other publications. Congregationalist. Mem. Vassar Alumnas Ass'n, Vassar Students' Aid Soc, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, Nat. Geographic Soc. Recreations: Mountain climb- ing, boating. Mem. (Jet Together Club, Brook- line Friday Club, Boston College Club. BANOU8, Dora Knowlton (Mrs. William V.

Ranous), The Nat. Alumni, 34 Union Sq., N.T.

City.

Elditor, translator; b. Ashfleld, Mass.; dau. Alexander and Augusta (Knowlton) Thompson; ed. private schools and tutors; m. Whitby, Can., May 26, 1881, William V. Ranous; one daughter: Alice Knowlton Ranous. Entered upon literary work, 1898, as editor of educational text-books for Silver, Burdett & Co.; later joined D Appleton & Co., and contributed to Appletou's Annual Cyclopedia and to The Criterion magazine. Edi- tor and translator for M. Walter Dunne of the first complete editions of works of Guy dc Mau- passant (15 vols.) and Gustave Flaubert (10 vols.), and edited a 20-vol. edition of Benjamin Dis- raeli, Earl of Beaconsfleld. For the Maison Mazarin (N.Y. City), under sanction of the Academle Franealse, became editor and translator of The Immortals (20 vols.), masterpieces of French fiction by academicians of the 19th century. In 1906 was editor and translator (with Rossiter Johnson) for the Nat. Alumni (N.Y. City) of The Literature of Italy (16 vols.), also of The Authors' Digest (20 vols.); mem. of edi- torial staff of Funk & Wagnalls' new Standard Dictionary, 1911-12. Author: The Diary of a Daily D6butante, 1910 (first edition published anonymously). Favors woman tuffrage. RANSOM, Alice Ruth Carter (Mrs. Paul C.

Ransom), Rainbow Lake, Franklin Co., N.T. ;

winter: Pine Knot Camp, Cocoanut Grove,

Fla.

Patroness and owner of Adirondack-Florida School; b. Williamstown, Mass., Sept. 17, 1865; dau. Franklin and Sarah Leavenworth (Kings- bury) Carter; ed. Miss Porter's School, Farming- ton, ConiL; m. Orange Mountain, N.J., July 25, 1893, Paul C. Ransom. School year of 1901-02 spent in educational work in Hampton Inst., Hampton, Va. Interested in the Adirondack anti-tuberculosis work and in Bishop Gray's work for Seminole Indians in Southern Florida. Writer of plays published in Harper's Bazar. Olubs: Women's Cosmopolitan Cluto, N.Y. City. Recreation: Canoeing. (Congregationalist. Against woman suffrage; mem. N.Y. State Ass'n Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

RANSOM, Ann Baldwin (Mrs. Charles A. Ran- som), 100 North Munn Av., E. Orange, N.J.

Born Jan. 30, 1871, Baltimore, Md. ; dau. J. Ferdinand and Ann L. C. (Baldwin) Passano; grad. from the Misses Reinhardt's School, Balti- more, 1889; m. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 17, 1907, Chaj-les A. Ransom. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Southern Society of the Oranges. RANSOM, Marlon, Highland Av., Piedmont,

Cal.

Teacher; b. San Francisco, Oct. 5, 1866; dau. Blisha and Mary (Wilson) Ransom; ed. Miss West's School, San Francisco; Vassar A.B. '88; Univ. of Cal.; Radcliffe, 1898-99. Principal Miss Head's School, Berkeley, 1900-04; principal Miss Ransom's School, Piedmont, since 1906. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Republican Pro- gressive. Mem. Vassar Students' Aid, Century Club of San Francisco, Collegiate Alumnae (California Branch), Sierra Club. RANSOME, Amy Cordoba Rock (Mrs. Frederick

Leslie Ransome), 14B5 Belmont St., Washing- ton, D.C.

Born Argentine Republic, April 25, 1872; dau. Miles and Susan (Clark&on) Rock of Lancaster, Pa ; graduated from Washington High School, '88, and Bryn Mawr College, A.B. '9S; ass't In chemical laboratory and grad. student Bryn Mawr Coll., 1893-94; fellow in chemistry, 1894-95; student Univ. of Heidelberg, 1895-96; Univ. of Berlin, 1896-97; in music, Anton Gloetzner, 1881- 65; in Berlin, Frau Joachim, 1896; m. Washing-

��ton, D.C, May 25, 1899, Frederick Leslie Ran- some; children: Janet, b. 1900; Susan, b. 1901; Violet, b. 1903; Alfred Leslie, b. 1910. Made ad- dress before House Com. on District Affairs in Congress in behalf of the Intermunicipal Re- search Com. and of the Ass'n of CoUegis-te Alumn« of Washington, D.C, resulting in pasage of a law for regulation of employment agencies; address before Secretary Wilson and Pure Food Board at public hearing, protesting against bleaching flour, in behalf of House- keepers' Alliance. Interested in constructive philanthropy, social service and especially in the conservation of the home and children's welfare; interested in eugenics, spelling reform, and the Montessori method of educating young children. Author: The Social Service of Homemakers in Washington, D.C. (Bryn Mawr Quarterly), 1905; Relation of the Housewife to the Baker (in sev- eral bakers' journals), 1911. Mem. College Set- tlement Ass'n, Bryn Mawr Alumnae Ass'n, Wash- ington branch of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnee (pres. of branch, 1909-10). Instrumental in found- ing Housekeepers' Alliance (delegate from same to cooperate with Civil Service Council of Wash- ington, D.C); mem. Neighborhood House (Wash- ington) Day Nursery for Colored Children. Mem. Friday Morning Music Club, Washington Bryn Mawr Club, College Woman's Club. Recreations: Singing, music, rythmic dancing, gardening, bird study, natural history (all with the children). Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage Ass'n of Washington, D.C. Democrat. BANSOM-KEHLER, Mrs. Keith, 419 Lake Boule- vard, St. Joseph, Mich.

Lecturer, teacher; b. Dayton, Ky. (Nannie Keith Bean); grad. Vassar, A.B. '98; Albion Coll., A.M. 1904; student Univ. of Mich., summer, 1904; m. (1st) Ralph Ransom; (2d) Mr. Kehler; two daug'hters by first marriage. Prof. English liter- ature in Albion Coll., 1904-05; teacher Niles (Mich.) High School, 1909. Author: Municipal Ownership in St. Joseph, Mich. BATHBUN, Mary Jane, Hammond Court, Wash- ington, D.C.

Curator U.S. National Museum; b. Buffalo, N.Y., June 11, 1830; dau. Charles Howland and Jane (Furey) Rathbun; ed. grammar schools and high school, Buffalo, N.Y. Employed by U.S. Fish Commission, 1884-87; since 1887 in U.S. Na- tional Museum as assistant curator of marine invertebrates. Elas published various papyers in Proceedings of U.S. Nat. Museum, Proceedings of Biological Soc. of Washington, P*roceedlng3 of Washington Acad, of Sciences, Bulletin and Memoirs Mus«um of Comparative Zoology of Harvard Coll., Transactions of Lhmean Soc. of London, Nouvelles Archives Museum d'Hlstolre Naturelles, Paris., etc. Unitarian. Mem. Bio- logical Soc. of Washington, Washington Acad, of Sciences, Soc. of Am. Naturalists; fellow A.A.A.S. Recreation: Walking. RATTENBUBY, Bertha, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Heroine; b. Charlottetown, June 30, 1894; dau. Nelson and Martha J. (Pearden) Rattenbury; ed. Prince Street School, Charlottetown, and now at- tending Mt. Allison Ladles' Coll., Sackville, N.B. English origin. The family was prominent In Okehampton, Devonshire, in 1600. Methodist. Recreations: Swimming, boating, riding, Cana- dian hockey, basketball, tennis. Was aw&rded a silver medal and the sum of $2,000 for educa- tional purposes by the Carnegie Hero Fund Com- mission, November, 1909; also the Canadian Hu- mane Soc. medal and a valuable gold watch and chain from Mrs. W. W. Wellner and family In recognition of her heroism In saving Miss Abigail J. Wellner from death by drowning In Charlotte- town Harbor, Aug. 6, 1909.

RAUH, Flora Mayer (Mrs. Henry Rauh), 2044

N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Bom Cleveland, O., Mar. 7, 1870; dau. Leopold and Rosa (Hexter) Mayer; ed. public schools, 1876-89, and Normal Training School of Cleveland; teacher in Cleveland schools; m. Cleveland, O., Jan. 23, 1900, Henry Rauh. Mem. Indianapolis Civic League, Indianapolis Boys' Club, Falrview Settlement, Children's Aid Afis'n, ConsamerQ'

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��League, German Ladies' Aid Soc., Nat. League

for Medical Freedom, Mothers' Aid Soc., Art

Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Christian

Scientist.

BAVENEL, Florence Leftwlch (Mrs. S. Prioleau

Ravenel), Blltmore. N.C.

Educated Wellesley Coll., 1884-85; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '95, Ph.D. '06, Bryn Mawr; European fellow and student at Sorbonne and College de France, 1895-96; mistress of modern languages, Mississippi Industrial Inst, and Coll., Columbus, Miss., 1896-98; fellow by courtesy In Romance languages, Bryn Mawr Coll., 189S-99; holder of European fellowship of the Baltimore Ass'u for the Promotion of the University Education of Women, and student Univ. of Ziirich, 1S99-1900; grad. student, 1902, fellow in Romance languages, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1902-05. Teacher of French in Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, 1900-01. Author: La Vie Seint Edmund le Rol, An Anglo-Norman Poem of the Twelfth Century by Denis Piramus (dissertation for Ph.D.), 1906.

KAVENEL, Harriott Horry Rntledgre (Mrs. St. Julian Ravenel), 126 Tradd St., Charleston, S.C.

Author; b. Charleston, S.C, Aug. 12, 1832; dau. Edward Cortesworth Rutledge, U.S.N., and Re- becca Motte (Lowndes) Rutledge; ed. at home by private masters; m. Charleston, 1851, Dr. St. Julian Ravenel (now deceased). Author: Ashurst (novel), 1870; Life of Eliza Pinckney, 1896; Life and Times of William Lowndes of South Caro- lina, 1901; Charleston, The Place and The People, 1906. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, United Daughters of the Confederacy.

BA\'ENEL, Margmerite, 2113 Spruce St., Phila- delphia (summer, Highlands, N.C.). Born Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. S. Prioleau and Margaretta (Fleming) Ravenel; ed. Philadelpnia. Presbyterian. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, Daughters of the Confederacy, Highlands (N.C.) Improvement Soc, Huguenot Soc. (Charleston, S.C), Acorn Club, Sedgeley Club.

BAVENHIXL, Alice, Chrachveattle, Shawnlgan

Lake, Vancouver Island, Canada.

Lecturer; b. Sharesbrook, Essex, Eng., Mar. 31, 1859; dau. John Richard and Fanny (Pocock) Ravenhiil; ed. privately; fellow of the Royal Sanitary Inst, of Great Britain and Ireland, Dl- plom^e Nat. Health Soc. of Great Britain and Ireland. Sec. Royal British Nurses' Ass'n, 1894- 97; lecturer County Council West Riding of York- shire, Eng., 1897-1902; County Council, London, 1903-10, and during same period lecturer Univ. Extension Board Univ. of London, Univ. Ex- tension Board Univ. of Cambridge, and in Univ. of London King's Coll. for Women. Lecturer Dep't of Agriculture, British Columbia, 1912; Dep't Education, British Columbia, 1912. In 1900 was sent to investigate methods of teaching hy- giene and the domestic arts in the schools and colleges of the United States, on behalf of the Board of Education of Great Britain and Ireland; studied educational methods In Sweden, Denmark, Holland and other European countries; in 1907 was commissioner to Investigate and report upon character forming influences and moral training In girls' elementary schools of England. Author: Elements of Sanitary Law; Practical Hygiene for Use in Schools; Some Characteristics and Re- quirements of Childhood; Household Administra- tion in the Twentieth Century; Investigation Into Hours of Sleep of 10,000 School Children; Inves- tigation Into Play Interests of 10,000 School Chil- dren, and many contributions to scientiflc and educational journals. Mem. Anglican Church. Mem. Eugenics Education Soc, Rural Housing and Sanitation Soc, Froebel Soc, Nat. League for Physical Education and Improvement, and Child Study Soc. (all of Great Britain and Ire- land), and Nat. Education Ass'n (U.S.). Recrea- tions: Theatre, concerts, literature, photography, gardening. Mem. Alexandra Club (Victoria, B.C.). Favors woman suffrage. RAVENSCBOFT, Mrs. Elizabeth Fish, Paclflc

Beach, Cal.

Born N.Y. State; dau. George A. and Dorcas (Pish) Fish (not relatives); first pupil enrolled lit Wells Coll., N.Y. Went to Kansas and later

��to California. Favors woman suffrage. Active in the suffrage movement in Kansas, acting as sec. of Kansas State Equal Suffrage Ass'n during several years, Including the campaign in which the municipal suffrage was secured; lat«r treas. during the unsuccessful campaign for full suffrage. Christian Scientist. Mem. Paclflc Beach Reading Club.

BAWHOrSER, Minnie Og:Ievee (Mrs. C. D.

Rawhouser), Salem, Iowa,

Assistant; b. Lone Tree, la., Dec 28, 1882; dau. B. M. and Louise B. (Pabst) Oglevee; ed. Lone Tree High School; Muscatine Business Coll.; m. Lone Tree, May 14, 1906, Dr. C D. Rawhouser; one daughter: Bertha Arlene. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationallst. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Salem Woman's Club (pres. 1911- ).

BAWXrVS, Cora Moimier, State Normal School,

Valley City, N.Dak.

Teacher of langauges In State Normal School; b. Guilford, 111., Jan. 8, 1864; dau. Lemmon Parker and Julia (Monnier) Rawlins; ed. North- western Univ., Evanston, 111., A.B. '92, A.M. '93, flOO Bragdon prize for highest scholarship in the classical course; mem. Phi Beta Kappa since graduation, '92. Has taught two years In the high school, Muskegon, Mich. ; one year in Beaver (Pa.) Coll., 11 years in State Normal School, Madison, S.Dak. ; now in seventh year at the State Normal School, Valley City, N.Dak Worker la M.E. Church and Sunday-school. Fa vors woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem W.C.T.U. Recreation: Walking. Several years mem. Cheyenne Club, Valley City, until recently

BAY, Anna Chapin, Tremont, West Haven

Conn.

Author; b. Westfleld, Mass., Jan. 3, 1865; dau Edward Addison and Helen (Chapin) Ray; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '85; M.A. '88; one of first three women students to take, as test, the Yale en trance examination. Writer of novels and ju venlle fiction since 1889; In 1903 and later made close study of the social and political conditions and racial attitudes of the people of Quebec. Books: Half a Dozen Boys, 1890; Half a Dozen Girls, 1891; The Cadets of Flemming Hall, 1892; In Blue Creek Canon, 1892; Margaret Davis, Tutor, 1893; Dick, 1896; Teddy— Her Book, 1898; Phebe— Her Profession, 1899; Each Life Unful- filled, 18S9; Teddy— Her Daughter, 1900; Play- ground Tony, 1900; Uursula's Freshman, 1902; Natalie's Sister, 1903; The Dominant Strain, 1903; By the Good Sainte Anne, 1904; On the Firing Line (with Hamilton Borck Fuller), 1905; Sidney —Her Summer on the St. Lawrence, 1905; Janet— Her Winter in Quebec, 1906; Hearts and Creeds, 1906; Day— Her Year In New York, 1907; Ackroyd of the Faculty, 1907; Quickened, 1908; Sidney at College, 1908; Janet at Odds, 1909; The Bridge Builders, 1909; Over the Quicksands, 1910; Bud- die, 1911; A Woman With a Purpose, 1911; The Brentons, 1912. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnse (treas. Conn, branch, 1893-1903), New Haven Colony Hist. Soc, Conn. Humane Soc, Vacation School and Playground Com. of New Haven, Civic Fed. of New Haven. Mem. Lyceum Club (London).

BAY, Anna Elizabeth — see Robinson, Anna Elizabeth Ray.

BAY, Sybil Dnncan (Mrs. Henry Bascom Ray), 611 S. Arno St., Albuquerque, N.Mex. Bom Galena, 111., 1860; dau. Charles Splcer and Adellmo (Watts) Duncan; ed. Kansas State Univ. and Vassar Coll.; m. Lawrence, Kan., Henry Bascom Ray; children: Margaret Duncan, Ethel Drown. Interested In philanthropic work— for many years has been head of City Charities of Albuquerque, N.Mex.; also interested In civic and library work, and has just succeeded In es- tablishing a children's room in public library. Has written many articles for various magazines and papers. Mem. D.A.R. ; vice-pres. N.Mex. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; one of the found- ers of the Albuquerque Woman's Club. Episco- palian. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat.

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��RATMOND, Edith Eatun (Mrs. Isaac Stuart Raymond), Sidney, Champaigrn Co., III. TeacBer; b. Monmouth, N.J., Sept. 1, 18.53- dau Lucius and Lucy (Cleveland) Eaton; ed. in the public schools, a young ladies' sem. and the Univ. of 111.; mem. the Alethenai Soc. (first organized at Univ. of 111.); m. Philo, 111., Oct. 27, 1875, Isaac Stuart Raymond; children: John Eaton, Ruth Cleveland. Has been an active Sunday-school worker and in the farmers' in- stitutes; was the first county pres. and then Bee. for many years. Has helped organize many clubs and served as treas. for the 19th Dist. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Has written articles for State and national meetings of farmers' institutes and tor the Lake Placid Conference. Mem. Congregational Church. Mem. D.A.R., Alliance Chapter of Champaign and Urbana, Eastern Star, Sidney Chapter. Rec- reations: Traveling, reading. Mem. House Im- provement Club of Philo, 111. Was pres. of the State Domestic Science Ass'n of 111. for two years.

RAYMOND, ETelyn Hnnt (Mrs. John Bradford Raymond), 1110 Mosher St., Baltimore, Md. Author; b. Watertown, N.Y., Nov. 6, 1843- dau. Alvin and Charlotte (Hatch) Hunt; ed. Mount Holyoke Coll.; m. 1869, John Bradford Raymond. Author: Among the Lindens; Boys and Girls of Brantham; A Cape May Diamond; A Daughter of the West; Divided Skates; The Little Lady of the Horse; The Little Red Schoolhouse; Mixed Pickles; Monica, the Mesa Maiden; The Mushroom Cave; My Lady Barefoot; A Pair of Them; Reels and Spindles; A Story of Delight; The Sun Maid; A Yankee Girlin Old California; The Brass-Bound Box; Breakneck Farm, or The Merryman Twins; Daisies and Diggleses; A Daughter of the Forest; The Doings of Nancy; The Honor Girl; Jessica Trent; Jessica, the Heiress; Jessica Trent, Her Life on a Ranch; A Sunny Lit3tie Lass; Dorothy Chester— The Haps and Mishaps of a Foundling; The Heroine of Roseland; Jessica Trent's Inheritance; Doro- thy's Schooling; Dorothy's Travels; Little Miss Evangeline; Carlota of the Rancho; Dorothy In California; Dorothy on a House Boat; Dorothy on a Ranch; Dorothy at Oak Knowe; Dorothy's Tour.

RAYMOND, Mrs. Frances Eflanger, 1049 Phelan

BId'g, San Francisco, Cal.

Born Peru, Ind., June 8, 1863; dau. Judge Rob- ert Patterson and Frances Ann (Barbour) Effin- ger; ed. in Classical School, Indianapolis; Hell- muth Coll., London, Can.; Cook Co. Normal School; Univ. of Chicago, and Gregg School, Chi- cago; one daughter: Lucia Efflnger Raymond. Was successively teacher, newspaper reporter, head of commercial school, magazine writer, lec- turer on commercial subjects; now manager in charge of Pacific Coast, Canadian and Hawaiian business of the Gregg Publisning Co. Vice-pres. Nat. Commercial Teachers' Fed. Occasional writer for newspapers and magazines. Author of a text- book: EJaglish, published by the Gregg Publishing Co. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Democrat Mem. Rainier Chapter D.A.R., Seat- tle; Daughters of Confederacy, San Francisco. Recreation: Travel. Mem. Business Woman's Club (San Francisco).

RAYMOND, Joeephine Hunt (Mrs. Jerome Hall Raymond), 724 Washington St., Evanston, Til. Lecturer; b. Kaneville, 111.; dau. Rev. Eli Les- ter and De'borah (Mead) Hunt; grad. North- vestern Univ., iatt.B. '92; Univ. of Wis., Litt.M. •97; Univ. or Clilcaso. lWl-06 (Kappa Kappa 0«unma, Phi B«t« KApp«>; m. Aurora, 111., Aug. 15, 1895, Jerome Hall Raymond. Teacher of English literature. State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis., 1893-95; lecturer on general literature, Univ. of Chicago, 1908-09; prof, comparative literature, Toledo Univ., Ohio, 1909-10. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Exec. Board of Evanston Political Equality League. Lecturer for woman's cluto, suffrage organizations. University Exten- sion societies and similar organizations. Has traveled extensively In Europe, Canada, U.S. and Mexico.

��RAYMOND, Katharine Piatt, Simpson Hospital,

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Physician; b. Newport, Ky. ; dau. Daniel Fitch and Katharine (Wheeler) Raymond; ed-. Univ. of Cincinnati, B.S.; Univ. of Mich., M.D. (mem. Alpha Epsilon Iota). Interne New England Hos- pital for Women and Children, 1905-06; resident physician Wellesley Coll. since 1907. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Mass. Med. Soc.

RAYMOND, >Iabel K. (Mrs. Fred Morton Ray- mond), 302 Calkins Av., Grand Rapids, Mich. Born Hubbard, la.; dau. Owen and Melissa (Jessup) Kenworthy; ed. Penn Coll., Oskaloosa, la. ; grad. Grand Rapids Kindergarten Training School, '01; m. Oskaloosa, la., Dec. 30, 1902, Fred Morton Raymond. Mem. of parish of All Souls' Unitarian Church (there being no church of Friends in Grand Rapids); deeply interested in work of Children's Home and similar work. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Mem. of Friends Church. Mem. Order Eastern Star; pres. Grand Rapids Woman's Club, 1911-12, and vice-pres. Parlia- mentary Law Club, 1912-13.

RAYMOND, Mary E. (Mrs. George L. Ray- mond), 24 St. James Park, Los Angeles, Cal. Daughter Grinfill and Elizabeth F. (Perley) Biake; ed. in Europe; m. George L. Raymond (college prof, and writer); children: Perlie, May- belle. Interested in church work. Lady man- ager in Garfield Memorial Hospital and George Washington University Hospital (both in Wash- ington, D.C.). Presbyterian. Republican. Rec- reation: Foreign travel. Mem. Washington Club (Washington), City Club and Friday Morn- ing Club (Los Angeles).

RAYMOND, Maud Mary Wotring (Mrs. Paul Raymond), 802 Spruce St., Boulder, Colo. Born Van Wert, O., June 29, 1S67; dau. Rev. Frederick Rahauser and Martha (Woodman) Wotring; ed. Hastings Coll., A.B. '90; m. Long- mont, Colo., June 26, 1895, Paul Raymond. Taught Greek and Latin before marriage in a college preparatory school at Longmont, Colo. Pres. Colo. Synodical (Presbyterian) Home Mis- sionary Soc. and vice-pres. Presbyterian Wom- an's Board of Home Missions (national), N.Y. City. For 12 years mem. State Com. of Y.W.C.A. ; chairihan since organization (1907) of the Interdenominational Com. of the Rocky Mountain Region, for home and foreign missions; chairman Woman's National Foreign Mission Jubilee, Denver, 1910. Favors woman suffrage. Contributor to various magazines dealing with missions and allied subjects. Author: The King's Business (authorized text-book for 1913-14 for all women's missionary societies of the U.S. and Canada. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Wom- an's Club of Boulder, D.A.R.

RAYNER, Emma, "The Ledges," Goshen, N.H. Author; b. Cambridge, Eng. ; dau. Thomas G. and Mahala (Holmes) Rayner; ed. private schools, Cambridge; grad. Univ. of Cambridge, mathe- matical course, obtaining honors in the Mathe- matical Tripos of 1SS8. On staff of the Youth's Companion, 1896-1902. Author: Free to Serve, 1S97; Castle and Colony, 1S99; Visiting the Sin, 1900; Doris Kingsley, Child and Colonist, 1901; Handicapped Among the Free, 1903; The Dilemma of Engeltie, 1911. Methodist Favors woman suffrage.

REA, Carolyn Morse (Mrs. Paul Marshall Rea),

192 Ashley Av., Charleston, S.C.

Born Manchester, N.H., Feb. 23, 1877; dau. William C. and Matilda H. (Russell) Morse; ed. Medford (Mass.) High School; '^Vellesley Coll., B.A. 1900; Marine Biological Laboratory, 1898-99 (mem. The Agora); m. Medford, Mass., June 28, 1904, Paul Marshall Rea; one son: John Morse Rea, b. Sept. 22, 1909. Assistant in botany, Wellesley Coll., 1898-1900; prof, biology. Western Coll. for Women, Oxford, O., 1900-01; instructor in charge of dep't of biology, State Normal School, and supervisor of nature study in Bart- lett Model School, Lowell, Mass., 1901-04. Active in Civic Club, Charleston, S.C, and in societies and educational work connected with the Charles- ton Museum, collaborating with husband, wlio is

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��prof, biology and director of the museum. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Occasional contributor to newspapers, magazines and Bulletin of the Charleston Museum. Protestant Episcopalian. Mem. Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Charleston Nat. History Soc., Charles.ton Library Soc. Rec- reations: Motor -boating, tennis, swimming, tramping, camping, canoeing. Mem. Civic Club, Intercollegiate Club of S.C.

BEA, Mary Kathleen Coyle (Mrs. Ira Rea), Cal- gary, Alberta, Can.

Writer; b. Eatonville, Liscard, Cheshire, Eng- land; dau. James and Mary Coyle; grad. Wands- worth College, London, England (LL.D. St. An- drew's Univ., 1906); m. May, 1904, Ira Rea of Drew, Ontario. Contributor to newspapers and magazines.

BEAD, Abigail Dickinson Dreer (Mrs. Frank

Read), 4105 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.;

summer home, Twilight Park, Haines Falls,

N.Y.

Born Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Frederick A. and Louisa (Greble) Dreer; private education; m. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 31, 1901, Dr. Frank Read; one son: Clifford Jonathan Dickinson. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, New England Soc, D.A.R. (three times delegate to annual con- gress at Washington, D.C.) ; mem. of Philadel- phia Browning Soc, Geographical Soc; charter mem. "Plays and Players"; life mem. of Fair- mount Park Art Ass'n (and its city branch); stockholder Pennsylvania Acad, of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; vice-pres. and chairman Com. of Productions and Program of the Soc. of Arts and Letters; mem. Drama League; director Philadephla Orchestra; stockholder Academy of Music; pres. Woman's B'd of the Philadelphia Chest and Throat Clinic; mem. Matinee Musical Club, White Marsh Country Club. Episcopalian.

BEAD, EflSe Alberta, Bureau of Chemistry, De- partment of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Physician; b. Haverhill, Mass.; dau. Albert F. and Myra A. (Davis) Read; ed. Mt. Holyoke Coll., 1896-98; Cornell Univ., A.B. (Sigma XI), '03; M.A. '06; Ph.D. '07; George Washington Univ., M.D. '12. Ass't in zoology, Mt, Holyoke Coll., 1898-1901; ass't in histology, Cornell Medical School, Ithaca, N.Y., 1903-07. Microanalyst, Dep't Agriculture (Bureau of Chemistry), Washington, 1907. Contributions to anatomy published In Journal of Anatomy. Mem. A.A.A.S. Episco- palian. Favors woman suffrage. BEAD, Flora AUce, 88 S. Main St., Fond du Lac, Wis.

Physician; b. Lily Lake, 111., 1862; dau. Albert and Catherine E. (Sweet) Read; grad. Rockford Coll., B.A. '86; Northwestern Univ. Woman's Medical School, Chicago, M.D. '95. Has prac- tised profession in Fond du Lac since 1895. Sec Fond du Lac County Med. Soc. since 1902. Mem. Fond du Lac Equal Suffrage Soc. Congregation- alist. Mem. Wis. State Med. Soc, Am. Med. Ass'n, Woman's Club of Fond du Lac.

BEAD, Helen ]L<««ib, Rlverbank Court, Cam- bridge, Mass.

Born St. John, N.B., 1864; dau. Guilford and Ella P. (Berryman) Shaw; ed. In schools of Boston and Cambridge, Mass.; Radcliffe Coll., A.B. '90. First winner of Sargent prize of Har- vard for tbe best translation of an ode of Horace, Book III, ode 29. For many years, until recently, mem. of Exec. Com. of Boston Associated Chari- ties. EJspecially interested in young girls; spare time given to the help of individuals not helped by organizations. Author: Miss Theodora (novel), 1898; Brenda, Her School and Her Club, 1900; Brenda' s. Summer at Rickley, 1901; Brenda's Cousin at Radoliffe, 1902; Brenda's Bargain, 1903; Irma and Nap, 1904; Amy in Acadia, 1905; Brenda's Ward, 1906; Napoleon's Young NeJgh- bor, 1907; Irma in Italy, 1908; also articles in various magazines, poems and stories in periodi- cals. Vice-pres. Boston branch of Am. Folk- Lore Soc, Woman's Education Ass'n, Mass. branch of Women's Auxiliary Civil Service Re- form I>eague, Am. Peace Soc, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Circolo Italiano, Boston Deutsches Gesellsdiaft, Drama League, Copley Soc, Poetry Soc. of London, Atlantic tfnlon (London), etc.

��Recreations: Travel, photography, music. Mem. College Club, Authors' Club, Musical Art Club (Boston), Lyceum Club (London), Authors' League of N.Y. City, College Equal Suffrage League, Women's Municipal League, Equal Suf- frage Ass'n for Good Government, Radcliffe Aiumnse Ass'n, Animal Rescue League. BEAD, Katharine Bell, Hampton Inst., Hamp- ton, Va., also 18 Westminster Av., Roxbury, Mass.

EJxecutive sec; b. South Deerfleld, Mass.; dau. George Mumford and Ellen Hadley (Bowdlear) Read; ed. Howard Sem., West Bridgewater, Mass.; Wellesley Coll., B.A. (mem. Zeta Alpha). Teacher; sec. academic dep't Hampton Inst., Va. Interested In settlement work, child labor legisla- tion, the advancement of the negro and foreign missions. Favors \voman suffrage. Congrega- tionalist. Republican. Mem. College Settlements' Ass'n, Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Nat. Child Labor Com., Missionary Education Soc. Recreation: Travel.

BEAD, Lnella Jane, 302 West St., Shenandoah, Iowa- Born Shenandoah, Iowa, May 8, 1878; dau. Thomas H. and Ermina (Allphin) Read; ed. Ann Arbor High School, Tabor ColL, Univ. of Mich., A.B. '02, Ph.D. '10; Univ. of Berlin, Germany. Mem. Public Library B'd; chairman of Book Com.; sup't Congregational Sunday-school; mem. State Sunday-school Com. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae Ass'n, Religious Education Ass'n. Rec- reations: Automobile driving, photography. Mem. Art Study Club. Teacher, Shenandoah High School, 1898-1900; dean of women and teacher of German, South Dakota State Normal School, 1904-06; active in promoting educational work; gives addresses on travel, literary and religious subjects.

BEAD, Mary Lillian, 620 West End Av., N.Y. City.

Educator; b. Cedar Rapids, la.. Mar. 1, 1878; dau. John A. and Mary Elizabeth (Barlow) Read; ed. High School, Peoria, 111.; Univ. of Chicago; Clark Univ.; Teachers Coll. of Columbia Univ., B.S. Teacher in public and private schools, Wash- ington, D.C; Buffalo, New York and Brooklyn. Social investigator for Federal Immigration Com- mission, N.Y. Child Welfare Com.; organized school of Mothercraft, 1911. Active in resident work In social settlements; lecturer on eugenics. Magazine writer on topics relating to children and social welfare. Mem. Ass'n for Prevention of Infant Mortality, Eugenics Educational Soc, Home E>conomlcs Ass'n, Religious Educational Ass'n, Women's Municipal League. Recreations: Walking, tennis, rowing, camping, gardening, music.

BEAD, Buth Sears (Mrs. Edward Read), 24 Highland St., Cambridge, Mass. Born Boston, Oct. 12, 1S62; dau. Willard Thomas Sears (architect) and May (Motte) Sears; ed. private school, Boston; m. Boston, Jan. 8, 1889, Edward Read (Harvard, '69); chil- dren: Edward Sears, b. 1890; Marian Motte, b. 1893. Director in various religious and philan- thropic activities. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Cambridge Political Equality Ass'n. Unitarian.

BEBASZ, Enrlth Trabne Pattlaon (Mrs. William Mortimer Rebasz), 1 Livingston Road, Roches- ter, N.Y.

Seminary principal; b. New Orleans, La., Oct. 25, 1360; dau. Robert Trabue and Mary Ann (Glennon) Pattlson; ed. in French School of Mme. La Franc, New Orleans, and in Rochester, N.Y., at Livingston Park Sem., grad '79; m. Rochester, Sept. 4, 1S79, William Mortimer Rebasz. Engaged in teaching; since 1900 prin- cipal of Livingston Park Sem.; mem. Board of Supervisors of Rochester Homceopathic Hos- pital. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R.

BEBEB, Anna Marie Walton (Mrs. Joel Howard Reber), Ridley Park, Delaware Co., Pa. Born Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 7, 1882; dau.

Charles Whitman and Margaxetta V. (Dubois)

Walton; ed. Philadelphia public schools; - m.

PhUadelphla, Mar. 3L 1902, Joel Howard Reber.

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