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196 (Sammis) Colton; grad. Packer Coll. Inst. Authos: Annals of Switzerland; Annals of Old Manhattan. Congregationalist, Against woman suffrage.

COMAN, Charlotte Buell, The Vandyke, 939 Eighth Av., N.Y. City.

Artist; b. Waterville, N.Y.; dau. Chauncey and Sarah (Winchell) Buell; studied in Paris with Harry Thompson and Emille Vernier, and painted in France and Holland; widow. Artist in landscape; won Shaw memorial prize, Washington Soc. of Artists' prize. Represented in permanent collection of William T. Evans in Nat. Art Gallery of Washington, in the Metropolitan Museum, N.Y. City, and in permanent collection of Denver, Colo.; in San Antonio, Tex., and in exhibits in various cities. Favors woman suffrage. Christian Scientist. Has been awarded general art prizes in Woman's Art Club. Clubs: Water Color, Ass'n of Women Painters and Sculptors (formerly Woman's Art Club), Pen and Brush, Art Workers'.

COMAN, Katharine, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

College professor, author; b. Newark, O., Nov. 23, 1857; dau. Levi P. and Martha (Seymour) Coman; grad. Univ. of Mich., Ph.B., '80. Prof, history and economics, Wellesley Coll., 1883-1900; prof, political economy and of political and social science, Wellesley, since 1900. Author: The Growth of the English Nation, 1895; History of England, 1899; History of England for Beginners, 1901; Industrial History of the United States, 1905; Economic Beginnings of the Far West— How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi (two vols.), 1912; also (in collaboration with Prof. Katharine Lee Bates) English History as Told by English Poets, 1902.

COMAN, Mary (Mrs. Charles Wynkoop Coman), Covina, Cal.

Born Philippopolis, Bulgaria, Aug. 27, 1861; dau. William Ward and Susan (Dimond) Herlam; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '84; m. Newark, O., Nov. 27, 1884, Charles Wynkoop Coman; children: William, Mary Caroline, Harriet Mosher, Ellis Seymour, Edward Charles. Interested in general writing, newspaper and magazine work; State editor of Southern Cal. W.C.T.U. White Ribbon since 1906; long identified with club work; pres. of Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, 1907-08; active in establishment of kindergartens and manual training work in Pasadena schools; on press com. of Nat. and State Mothers' Congress; many years pres. Southern Cal. Wellesley Club. Lecturer on domestic economy. Officer for years in Humane Soc. of Pasadena. Recreations: Camping, mountain climbing, studying, investigating public amusements. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Prohibition; progressive. Mem. of board College Woman's Suffrage Club of Southern Cal.

COMER, Cornelia Atwood Pratt (Mrs. William D. Comer), Box 575, Seattle, Wash.

Journalist, author; b. Bryan, O.; dau. Albert Mansfield and Elizabeth C. (Atwood) Pratt; grad. Vassar, A.B. '87; m. April 26, 1905, William D. Comer. Magazine and newspaper writer; was on staff of N.Y. Critic; later editorial writer St. Paul Globe and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Author: A Book of Martyrs; The Daughters of a Stoic; A Letter to the Rising Generation; Preliminaries, and Other Stories.

COMFORT, Anna Manning (Mrs. George Fisk Comfort), 160 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Trenton, N.J., Jan. 19, 1845; dau. Alfred Curling and Elizabeth (Price) Manning; general education in Boston; grad. N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women, M.D. '65; traveled extensively in Europe, visiting hospitals and other medical institutions in 1887 and again in 1891; m. Jan. 19, 1871, Prof. George Fisk Comfort, L.H.D., LL.D (educator and art critic; died May 5, 1910); children: born— Ralph, Frederick, Arthur; by adoption— Silas, Grace. Was first woman medical graduate to practise medicine in State of Connecticut; afterward became lecturer in gynecology in N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women and practised medicine as specialist in gynecology in N.Y. City and in Syracuse, N.Y. Favors woman suffrage. One of the pioneer leaders in the cause of woman suffrage. Author: Woman's Education and Woman's Health, and contributions on medical subjects to the professional journals, also in prose and verse to various publications. Pioneer club woman; mem. Sorosis since 1878.

COMFORT, Bessie Marchant (Mrs. J. A. Comfort) — see Marchant, Bessie.

COMFORT, Marian Coleman, la Bruselas, No. 5, Mexico City, D.F., Mex.

Teacher; b. Juarez, Mex., April 19, 1884; dau. Roy Edward and Amelia (Coleman) Comfort; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '06. Teacher of sciences in Spanish in Methodist Mission School for Girls. Works in the English Methodist Church in Mexico City; has composed plays to make money for the society. Studies singing, and has sung in amateur productions of operas; sings in church choir; interested in housework and sewing; attends many receptions, dinners, parties, etc. Mem. Ladies' Aid of church. Recreations: Golf, dancing, bridge, traveling. Mem. College Club, Country Club, Current Topics Club.

COMINGS, Lydia J. Newcomb, Fairhope, Ala.

Born Spring Lake, Mich., July 25, 1850; dau. John H. and Frances (Sinclair) Newcomb; ed. Chicago grammar and high school and Mrs. L. H. Stone's Sem., Kalamazoo, Mich.; m. Chicago, 1902, S. Huntington Comings (died 1907). Teacher Ravenswood (Chicago) public school, 1876-85, Moravian Sem., Bethlehem, Pa., 1895-98 (elocution and physical culture). Lecturer on physical culture, dress, voice and kindred subjects from 1898. Now lecturing on Organic Education. Founder and incorporator (with 5 other women) of the School of Organic Education, Fairhope, Ala., 1907; pres. Board of Trustees from its inception (this is an experimental school for both day and boarding pupils where there are no requirements for the younger pupils and but few for the older ones, where no books are used until pupils are 9 or 10 years of age and health and individuality are preserved, and cultivated above all else). Author: Muscular Exercises for Health and Grace. Pres. Fifth Thursday Club of Fairhope, Ala., since its beginning in 1904. This club is a Federation of the various clubs in Fairhope. Recreations: An eighteen months' stay in Europe, Italy, Vienna and Germany, with a series of lectures in Naples and Rome. Pres. Library Ass'n of Fairhope. Favors woman suffrage.

COMMANDER, Lydia Kingsmill (Mrs. Herbert N. Casson), winter, St. George Hotel, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.; summer, Pine Hill-in-the-Catskills, N.Y.; office, Room 2307 Woolworth Bldg., N.Y. City.

Author, editor, minister, lecturer; b. Clinton, Ontario, Can.; dau. Charles Richard and Lydia (Kingsmill) Commander; ed. Collegiate Inst., Stratford, Ont.; Western Univ., London, Ont.; took course of Meadville (Pa.) Theological Coll. under tutors, privately; m. Ruskin, Tenn., Mar. 5, 1899, Herbert Newton Casson. Ordained pastor Free Congregational Church (Unitarian), 1897; in 1898 went to Ruskin, Tenn., a co-operative colony based on the ideas of Bellamy's Looking Backward; with her husband edited the colony paper, The Coming Nation; in 1899 went to Toledo, O., assisted in the election of the "Golden Rule Mayor," Samuel M. Jones. Was one of the speakers at the International Congress of Women at Berlin, 1904; Germany and Toronto, Can., 1909; organized a committee to help the women thrown out of employment as a result of the panic of 1907, and secured positions for 2,000; has lectured on this subject at the State Fair at Syracuse, N.Y.; delegate to Nat. Peace Conference, N.Y. City, 1907; Chicago, 1909. Author: Marred in the Making, 1902; The American Idea, a Study of Race Suicide, 1907; has written many pamphlets and articles in magazines on social problems. Mem. Am. Sociological Soc, National Peace Soc, Woman's Trade Union League, League for Political Education; life mem. of the Nat. Council of Women of America, Lyceum Club of London, England. Recreations: Architecture, farming; is building


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Rh up a summer colony and operating a farm in Catskill Mountains. Leader in introducing in this country the active or "suffragette" propaganda for woman suffrage, 1908-09; mem. International Woman Suffrage Ass'n, Equality League; was pres. Nat. Progressive Suffrage Union, 1908-09; in 1909 lectured on Universal Peace and on woman suffrage through several States and at Univ. of Wis.

COMPTON, Irene Lathrop Smith (Mrs. Paul Compton), 5484 Kensington Av., St. Louis, Mo.

Born St. Louis, Mo.; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '01; m. St. Louis, Jan. 4, 1906, Paul Compton; children: Pauline and Josephine Lathrop (twins), b. Dec. 13, 1905. Kindergartner in Normal course of St Louis public school, 1901-03. Was secretary and hostess of the Temple of Fraternity at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1903-04.

COMSTOCK, Ada Louise, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Teacher; b. Moorhead, Minn., Dec. 11, 1876; dau. S. G. and Sarah (Ball) Comstock; grad. High School and State Normal School, Moorhead, Minn.; Univ. at Minn., Smith Coll., Columbla Univ., B.L., Smith, '97, M.A., Columbia, '99 (Delta Gamma); honorary Litt.D., Mount Holyoke Coll., 1912. Appointed ass't in Dep't of Rhetoric at the Univ. of Minn., 1899, promoted to positions of instructor, ass't professor, professor, and made dean of women in 1907; made dean of Smith Coll., 1912. Mem. Alumnae Ass'n Smith Coll., Alumnae Ass'n Univ. of Minn., Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae. Mem. Women's Club of Minneapolis.

COMSTOCK, Anna Botsford (Mrs. John Henry Comstock), 43 East Av., Ithaca, N.Y.

Natural history artist, teacher; b. Otto, N.Y., Sept. 1, 1854; dau. Marvin S. and Phoebe (Irish) Botsford; prepared for college at Chamberlain Inst., Randolph, N.Y.; grad. Cornell, '85 (Sigma XI, Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Otto, N.Y., Oct, 7, 1878, John Henry Comstock. Wood-engraver; elected to membership of Soc. of American Wood-Engravers; received a medal at the Pan-American Exposition for engravings exhibited; for 15 years a teacher in Cornell Univ.; extension writer of Home-Nature Study pamphlets, published at Cornell, 1903-11; lecturer in Nature Study in Cornell Univ. since 1903; lecturer in Nature Study in Stanford Univ., and in summer school term of Cal. State Univ. Author: Ways of the Six-Footed; How to Keep Bees; Confessions to a Heathen Idol; Handbook of Nature Study; Illustrator and engraver of Manual for the Study of Insects and Insect Life. Mem. Audubon Soc., Soc. for Preservation of Wild Flowers, Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Am. Breeders' Ass'n, A.A.A.S., Woman's Alliance (Unitarian). Recreation: Walking. Unitarian. Favors Intelligent woman suffrage; against unrestricted suffrage.

COMSTOCK, Clara Elizabeth, 550 Broad St., Providence, R.I.

Born Providence, R.I., Nov. 6, 1866; dau. Andrew and Juliette (Paine) Comstock; ed. Brown Univ., Ph.B., 1895, A.M., 1897. Liberal contributor to philanthropy and education: influential promoter of social welfare work and the higher education of women. Mem. R.I. Soc. for the Collegiate Education of Women, Ass'n of Coll. Alumnæ, Alumnæ Ass'n of Brown Univ. Mem. R.I. Women's Club. Recreations: Travel, reading and music.

COMSTOCK, Elizabeth, 507 Madison Av., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Sept. 2, 1875; dau. Noah Durham and Ellen Comstock; ed. Univ. of Wis., B.S., '97, Women's Med. Coll. of Pa., M.D. Interne Maternity Hosp. of Women's Med. Coll. of Pa., 1901-02. Externe N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children 1902-03. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

COMSTOCK, Harriet Theresa (Mrs. Philip Comstock), 415 E. Eighteenth St., Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Author; b. Nichols, N.Y.; dau. Samuel Alpheus and Jean (Downey) Smith; ed. Plalnfleld, N.J. ; m. Brooklyn, N.Y.. Philip Comstock; children: Philip Sidney, Albert. Author ot: Molly, the Drummer Boy; Cedric, the Saxon: A Boy of a Thousand Years Ago; A Little Dusky Hero; When the British Came; Then Marched the Brave, and other books for children; also novels: Janet of the Dunes; Joyce of the North Woods; The Queen's Hostage; Tower or Throne. Mem. Am. Unitarian Soc, N.Y. League of Unitarian Women, Pen and Brush Club. Recreation: Outdoor exercises. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; belongs to nearly all the suffrage associations; pres. of the first club of 18th Assembly Dist. of Brooklyn.

COMSTOCK, Sarah, 45 W. Eleventh St., N.Y. City.

Author; b. Athens, Pa.; dau. Walter and Louise (Saltmarsh) Comstock; ed. private school in Kansas City, Mo., and Leland Stanford Jr. Univ., A.B. Staff writer on San Francisco Call, 1899-1903; free lance magazine writer in N.Y. City since 1903. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Woman Suffrage Party; captain in 25th Assembly Dist. Author of many short stories and special articles in various magazines. Editor woman's news page in Collier's, 1909-11; sent by Collier's to the Rocky Mountain States to write two series of articles: The Mormon Woman, and The Woman Who Votes, 1908; articles on The Kansas Farmer's Wife, 1908; also The Soddy, a novel. New York, 1912. Recreations: Walking, photography, cooking. Mem. Pen and Brush Club, N.Y. City. Winner while at Stanford Univ. in short story contest, also while at college author of junior farce (chosen by competition). CONABLE, Florence Easton (Mrs. Morris R. Conable), 415 N. Primrose Av., Monrovia, Cal.

Born Detroit, Mich., Oct 19, 1858; dau. Thomas Marshall and Elizabeth Coffin (Swain) Easton; ed. Coffin School, Nantucket, Mass.; Vassar Coll., B.A., Latin honors and salutatorian (mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Philalethea, Delta); m. Jan. 18, 1888, Morris Robinson Conable; one son: Morris Easton, b. 1889. Teacher, 1882-87. Active in church, treas. V.N.A. since its founding in 1908; prominent in all social affairs. Mem. D.A.R., Ass'n Collegiate Alumnæ, Maria Mitchell Memorial Ass'n, Woman's Club of Monrovia, University Club of Los Angeles, Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles. Episcopalian. Progressive in politics. Favors woman suffrage. First vice-pres. Woman's Progressive League of Monrovia, Cal., 1911-12. CONANT, Charlotte Howard, Walnut Hill School. Natick, Mass.

Principal Walnut Hill School; b. Greenfield, Mass., 1862; dau. Chester C. and Sarah B. (Howard) Conant; grad. Wellesley Coll., A.B. '84. Mem. D.A.R., Boston College Club, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnæ, Boston Wellesley Club. Episcopalian. CONANT, Edith M. (Mrs. Charles B. Conant), Wells, Minn.

Lawyer; b. Wayne, Me.; dau. Woodbury and Frances (Fuller) Stanchfield; ed. High School, Portland, Me., Normal School, Farmington, Me., State Univ. Law Dep't, Minn., LL.B.; m. Portland, Me., Aug. 28, 1880, Charles E. Conant. Admitted to bar in 1894; practiced in Minneapolis and in Wells, Minn. Interested in church and civic matters. Mem. Current Events Club and School and Mothers' Club of Wells; non-resident mem. Woman's Club of Minneapolis. Recreations: Painting, out of door sketching, reading, traveling. Episcopalian.

'''CONANT. Eleanore Glasgow''' (Mrs. George Kimball Conant), 412 North Union St, St Louis, Mo.

Born St. Louis, Aug., 1887; dau. William Carr and Fannie (Englesing) Glasgow; ed. Mary Inst, St. Louis, Mo.; Gilman School for Girls, Cambridge, Mass.; m. St Louis, April 18, 1911, George Kimball Conant; one daughter: Eleanore Glasgow. Episcopalian.

CONANT, Grace Patten, James Millikin University, Decatur, Ill.

Head department of English; b. Littleton, Mass., June 16. 1873; dau. Albert Francis and Sarah Jane (Patten) Conant; ed. Bates Coll., A. B. '93, and honors including the Warner

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198 prize, $75.00, and graduate fellowship appointment two years at Cornell Univ. and at Univ. of Chicago with reappointment); Cornell Univ., M.A. '97; fellow Cornell Univ., '98; Univ. of Chicago fellow, '99; travel and foreign study, 1900 and 1906; student Curry School of Expression, '96; special at Emerson Coll. of Oratory. Prof, of English, Goucher Coll., Baltimore, Md.; prof. of English. Western Coll., Oxford, O.; prof. English, James Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.; head of dep't of English, Colorado Chautauqua Summer School, Boulder, Colo., 1911-13. Lecturer before clubs, churches and Chautauquas on literary and Biblical subjects (especially interested In modern drama). Several years in Associated Charities of Baltimore. Congregationalist. Mem. Boston Browning Soc., Modern Language Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, D.A.R., Nat. Council of Teachers of English, Drama League of America, Am. Peace Soc. Recreations: Tramping, mountain climibing. Mem. Decatur Art Club, Decatur Woman's Club, Rocky Mountain Climbers' Club.

CONANT, Grace Wilbur, The Ilkley, Cumberland St., Boston, Mass.

Composer, musical editor; b. Boston, Mass; dau. Farley Franklin and Emily (Wilbur) Conant; ed. Boston private schools; studied piano under Ernst Perabo, Boston, Mass., and Ch. René, Paris; harmony and composition, under George W. Chadwick. Has contributed to magazines and periodicals; specialty of part-songs, school and kindergarten songs; editor Songs for Little People; editor musical Dep't of Kindergarten Review since 1908; has in preparation a book entitled, Worship and Song for Young People. Interested in Associated Charities Work; mem. Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft. Recreations: Travel, tramping. Congregationalism

CONANT, Isabella Fiske, Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Daughter Joseph E. Fiske (captain Second Massachusetts Artillery, Civil War) and Abby (Hastings) Fiske; ed. Wellesley, A.B., M.A.; m. Walter A. Conant; one son (died in infancy). Has had summer charge of a settlement. Frequent foreign and home travel. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Gabriel; Songs Before Birth; and contributions, chiefly verse and drama, to general and children's magazines; some of the plays have been read and staged.

CONANT, Mary Ellen Jones (Mrs. David Sloan Conant), Bradford, Vt.

Born Bradford, Vt., May 30, 1867; dau. Charles and Calista (Robinson) Jones; ed. Bradford (Vt.) Acad.; Wellesley Coll., B.S. '89; m. Bradford, Vt., July 6, 1899, David Sloan Conant; children: Dorothy Stewart, b. Aug. 11, 1900; Barbara Allerton, b. Nov. 7, 1902; Katherine Robinson, b. June 1, 1904. Interested in patriotic work in and out of schools. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Order Eastern Star, D.A.R., Oxbox Chapter, Newbury, Vt; past nat. sec. of Woman's Relief Corps. Mem. Fortnightly Club, Woman's Union, Village Improvement Society.

CONARD, Laetitia Moon (Mrs. H. S. Conard), Grinnell, Iowa.

Born Fallsington, Pa., 1871; dau. James H. and Elizabeth (Balderston) Moon; ed. Westtown Boarding School (Pa.); Smith Coll., A.B. '94; A.M. '97; Univ. of Chicago, Ph.D. '99; École des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris, 1897-98; m. Philadelphia, Pa., 1900, Henry S. Conard; children: Elizabeth Moon, Rebecca, Alfred Fletcher. Non-resident instructor in comparative religion in Univ. of Chicago, correspondence study dep't, 1905: in philanthropic work in social and educational lines in Grinnell, Ia., 1907-12; in Philadelphia with the Soc. for Organizing Charity and in the Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae in educational, charitable and social movements, 1900-04; interested in the religion of uncivilized people. Author: Les Idées des Indiens Algonquins relatives a la vie d'outre-tombe, Revue de l'Histoire des Religions; The Idea of God Held by North American Indians; A Visit to Quinault Indian Graves; various articles in local papers and magazines on Indian religion and on practical social and religious questions. Mem. Grinnell Mothers' Ass'n, Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae (Nat.), Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Ass'n of Doctors of Philosophy of Chicago, Westtown Alumni Ass'n (Westtown School, Pa.), Dep't of School Patrons of the Nat. Education Ass'n. Recreation: Camping. Mem. Society of Friends. Favors woman suffrage.

CONDÉ, Bertha, 600 Lexington Av., N.Y. City.

Senior student sec. of Nat. Board of Young Women's Christian Ass'n; b. Auburn, N.Y.; dau. Samuel Lee and Elizabeth L. (Collier) Condé (direct descendant of French Huguenot family of De Condé, conspicuous in French history); ed. Smith Coll., B.A., '95; theological study in Free Church Coll., Glasgow, Scotland. Two years on Faculty of Elmira Coll. in Dep't of Biology, 14 years in Y.W.C.A. work as Nat. student sec, now senior student sec; has represented Student Christian Ass'ns of U.S. on the Exec. Com. of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions; representative for North America on the Gen. Executive of the World's Student Christian Federation; has been delegate to World's Christian Student Conference at Constantinople, and has visited leading universities and colleges in interests of Christian work in America, Europe, the Orient and the Balkan States. Has given addresses in almost every college in the U.S. on subjects relating to Christian faith and service, and has enlisted many students for Christian social service at home and abroad. Organized Central Club for Nurses in N.Y. City. Mem. Woman's Univ. Club. Presbyterian.

CONE, Helen Gray, 51 E. Ninetieth St., N.Y. City.

Educator, author; b. N.Y. City, Mar. 8, 1859; dau. John C. and Julia D. (Gray) Cone; ed. public schools of N.Y. City, and grad. N.Y. City Normal Coll., '76. Prof. English, N.Y. City Normal Coll. since 1899. Writer of verse. Author (poems): Oberon and Puck, Verses Grave and Gay; The Ride to the Lady and Other Poems; Baby Sweethearts; Soldiers of the Light.

CONE, Kate Morris (Mrs. Charles M. Cone), Hartford, Vt.

Born South Dennis, Mass., Sept. 19, 1857; dau. Ephraim and Almira (Nickerson) Morris; ed. Kimball Union Acad., N.H. ; Smith Coll., B.A. and Ph.D.; Radcliffe Coll.; m. Hartford, Vt., Feb. 16, 1884, Charles M. Cone; children: Margaret Morris, Morris Huntington, Alice Weston. Trustee of Smith Coll. five years; trustee of church; leader for 25 years of literary club; mem. exec. com. of Town Forward Movement; mem. exec. com. for Town Pageant, 1911; pres. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, two years. Author: Sketch of Life of Sylvester Morris; editor Vermont Antiquarian; contributor of articles on historical and educational subjects to Outlook, Atlantic Monthly, historical magazines, etc Congregationalist. Mem. Am. Historical Ass'n, New England Historic-Genealogical Soc, Vt. Historical Soc, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, D.A.R. Recreations: Gardening, weaving.

CONEY, Harriot R. (Mrs. John H. Coney), Washington Rd., Princeton, N.J.

Born, Meadville, Pa., 1870; dau. John and Christina (Fautzman) Reitze; ed. Allegheny Coll., A.B. '87, A.M. '90; grad. student Bryn Mwr Coll. 1890-93; (Kappa Alpha Theta, Phi Beta Kappa); m. Meadville, Pa., 1902, John H. Coney (prof. Princeton Univ.); children: Christina, b. 1903; John H., Jr., 1906; Barbara, 1908. Teacher in Miss Stearns' School, Germantown, Philadelphia, 1893-95; principal Pelham School, Germantown, Philadelphia, 1895-98; associate principal Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, 1898-1902. Pres. Princeton Village Improvement Soc 1907-09 (vice-pres. 1909-10, sec. 1910-12); pres. Princeton Present Day Club, 1904-05. Unitarian.

CONGDON, Anne W., 455 Cranston St., Providence, R.I.

Dau. John E. and Kate G. Whipple; ed. public schools; m. William M. Congdon; one son: Mark Whipple Congdon. Library visitor and Director of Traveling Libraries for the State of Rhode Island. Actively interested in women's clubs (carried on the Traveling Library work for the


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Rh R.I. Federation of Clubs for ten years); also in Sunshine work for Providence Branch, Internat. Sunshine Soc. Clubs: R.I. Women's, Four-Leaf Clover. Universalist.

CONGDON, Laura D. (Mrs. Winsor D. Congdon), 209 Harrison St., Newton, Kan.

Born Howard, N.Y., Oct. 6, 1850; dau. Benjamin and Lucinda (Emerson) Jacobs; ed. common schools in Ill.; m. Sedgwick, Kan., Dec. 14, 1875, Winsor D. Congdon; children: Morris Headly, b. Oct. 20, 1877; Orville Garfield, b. Sept. 4, 1881. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Aid Soc, Auxiliary Soc. of Bethel Hospital, Harvey Co. Historical Soc. Favors woman suffrage. Writer of short stories: Ad Astra per Aspera; A Christmas Cupid; Thanksgiving Day on Salem Hill; A Knight of Gideon. Methodist. Republican. Mem. Themian Club (literary), Dist. and State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Has acted as special and regular correspondent of Western newspapers.

CONGER, Charlotte Metcalf (Mrs. Conger), The Cordova, Washington, D.C.

Writer; b. Orland, Me., June 25, 1860; dau. Samuel P. and Harriet E. (Grendle) Brown; ed. in private schools in Washington, by governesses and two years at Vassar Coll.; m. Washington, D.C, Jan. 14, 1879, Frank B. Conger (divorced); children: Charlotte West, b. Jan. 5, 1881 (died Jan. 8, 1882); Omar D., b. Jan. 10, 1883 (Pay Corps. U.S.N.) ; Emilie W., b. Oct. 16, 1886 (m. Ward Brown, architect); Franklin B., b. Nov. 28, 1889 (midshipman, U.S.N.); Gwyneth H., b. May 17, 1891 (m. A. W. Fitch, lieutenant, U.S.N.); Harriet Grendle, b. Feb. 17, 1893. Mem. Vassar Students' Aid Soc, Consumers' League. Has written for leading papers and magazines.

CONGER, Emily Bronson (Mrs. A. L. Conger), Akron, Ohio.

Doctor of Osteopathy; b. Peninsula, O., May 7, 1843; dau. Hiram Volney and Ruth Lenora (Ranney) Bronson; ed. Rev. Emerson's private coll., Am. School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo.; started coll. at Des Moines Sept., 1898; m. Peninsula, O., Nov. 1, 1864, Col. A. L. Conger; children: Kenyon E. Irving (deceased), Arthur L., Latham H. Practiced osteopathy in Philippine Islands and in ten or twelve other States. Enlisted in many activities of Protestant Episcopal (St. Paul's) Church for 44 years; very active in Relief Corps, Eastern Star and Bethany Shrine. Author: An Ohio Woman in the Philippines. Pres. Nat. Axis Club (Osteopath); vice-pres. Am. Osteopath Ass'n, 1906-07. Recreations: Music, organ, harp, piano, chimes. Favors woman suffrage; holds meetings at home and attends public meetings.

CONGER, Sarah Pike, 105 S. El Molino Av., Pasadena, Cal.

Born Painesville, O., July 24, 1842; dau. Edward William and Laura (Burridge) Pike; grad. Lombard Coll. '63, Bryant and Stratton Business Coll. Chicago, '64; grad. Mass. Metaphysical Coll., Boston, 1901 A devoted student of Chautauqua Circle and an advocate of progressive education for young and older people (mem. Zetecalian Soc., Lombard Coll.); m. Galesburg, Ill., June 21, 1866, Major E. H. Conger (died 1907); children: Laura, Lorentus. Accompanied her husband on his public services as minister to Brazil and China and ambassador to Mexico. Decorated by Empress Dowager of China with special Order of the Double Dragon, on departure from China, 1905. Worker in Associated Charities; mem. Boards of Charity Institutions, Homes for Children and Aged, and Fallen Women, Des Moines, Ia., and for Aged Destitute Women in Peking, China. Sunday-school teacher and advocate of individual thinking and investigation. Worker in the W.C.T.U. organization. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Letters from China (with particular reference to the Empress Dowager and women of China), 1909. Christian Scientist. Republican (a voter).

CONKLIN, Lena D. Wells (Mrs. George L. Conklin), Oxnard, Cal.

Journalist; b. Waupun, Wis., Feb. 17, 1858; dau. Cornelius and Julia (Buttles) Wells; ed. Waupun; m. Waupun, 1880, George L. Conklin; children; Marie, Cornelius, Shirley, Dorothy. Taught in public schools of Waupun before marriage; now engaged in editorial work. Pres. various church societies, Fraternal Aid (insurance), Tuesday Club of Ventura, Cal., Monday Club of Oxnard. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat. Recreations: French, music, out-door sports.

CONKLIN, Viola Percy, 265 Henry St., N.Y. City.

Settlement worker; b. N.Y. City; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '97, and N.Y. School of Philanthropy summer course, 1905. Was ass't agent of the N.Y. Charity Organization Soc, 1905-07, and since 1907 has been sec. and treas. of the Henry St. Settlement, N.Y. City. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae; Smith Coll. Club of N.Y.; Alumnae Ass'n of N.Y. School of Philanthropy.

CONKLING, Grace Walcott Hazard (Mrs. Roscoe Platt Conkling), Apartado 253, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Graduate Smith Coll., B.L. '99; student of physical geography in Harvard Summer School, 1899; music and language in Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany, 1902-03, and Paris, 1903-04; m. Sept. 18, 1905, Roscoe Platt Conkling; one daughter: Elsa, b. Feb. 2, 1909. Tutor South Woodstock, Conn., 1899-1901; teacher of English, Latin and Greek, Graham School, N.Y. City, 1901-02.

CONKLING, Mabel Viola Harris (Mrs. D. Paul B. Conkling), Burleigh Hill, Boothbay, Me.

Sculptor; b. Boothbay, Me., Nov. 17, 1871; dau. Charles Thomas and Orissa Edna (Prebel) Harris; ed. Boothbay Harbor High School, Rudy Inst. and Julian, Vitti, Whistler and Colorossi Academies, Paris; m. Boothbay, Me., Dec. 26, 1901, David Paul Burleigh Conkling; children: Pauline Burleigh, Natalie Burleigh. Work exhibited in Paris Salon, Paris Exposition, 1900; St. Louis Exposition, International Exposition at Rome, Nat. Acad. of Design, Pa. Acad. of the Fine Arts. Mem. Am. Numismatic Soc Recreations: Riding, driving, swimming, golf, forestry. Favors woman suffrage.

CONNELLY, Emma M., 41 E. 29th St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. nr. Louisville, Ky.; dau. John Douthett and Mary (Thacher) Connelly; ed. private seminaries at Georgetown, Ky., and Louisville. On staff of Louisville Courier-Journal prior to 1880, when went to N.Y., since then engaged in magazine and newspaper work, as contributor of serials and short stories. Favors woman suffrage. Interested in the Labor and Capital Contest. Mem. Baptist Church. Recreations: Music and painting. Author: Tilting at Windmills; Story of Kentucky (in "Story of the States" Series); In China Land, etc.

CONNELY, Bertha Lillian, Fifty-third and Berks Sts., Wynnefield, Philadelphia, Pa.

Doctor of medicine; b. Pleasantville, Pa., Jan. 31, 1863; dau. Judge James Lowrey and Sarah J. (Mitchell) Connely; ed. Foster School, Clifton Springs, N.Y.; the Burnham School, Northampton, Mass.; Smith Coll., A.B. '84; Woman's Med. Coll. of Pa., M.D. '97; Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland, 1892-93. Has two nieces, who are her wards; Amy Connely, Eleanor Connely. Has certificate from Zurich Univ. Med. School for two semesters' work in anatomy, physiology, embryology, histology; practiced medicine two years in Denver, Colo.; was on the obstetric staff of the Arapahoe Co. Hospital, being the second woman ever appointed to its service. Favors woman suffrage; during residence in Colorado voted for McKinley and Roosevelt. Methodist Episcopal. Republican. Mem. Alumnae Ass'n of the Woman's Med. Coll. of Pa. Recreations: Out-door exercise, traveling. Mem. the College Club, Philadelphia. Worked in the medical clinics at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Woman's Med. Coll. Hospital of Philadelphia until 1905.

CONNOLLY, Louise, Hobart Av., Summit, N.J.

Teacher, editor, lecturer; b. Washington, D.C., 1862; dau. Thomas C. and Margaret (Williams) Connolly; ed. Washington Normal School, George Washington Univ. (Columbian Coll.), B.S. and M.S. Served as supervisor of schools, Newark, N.J.; sup't of schools, Summit, N. J.; editor, University Publishing Co.; editor with D. C. Heath & Co. Educational expert, Newark Free Public Library. Favors woman suffrage; mem.


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200 Legislative Com. N.J. State Suffrage Assn. Author: Rational Grammar; also newspaper and magazine articles, and State Supplement to Maury's Geography. Presbyterian.

CONNOLLY, Susan Cornelia, Memphis, Tenn.

Journalist; b. Paris, Tex., Feb. 8, 1885; dau. Michael W. and Lulu (Parham) Connolly; ed. public schools; Sacred Heart Convent, Memphis, Tenn.; Holy Angels, Boerne, Tex.; Higher School, and Higbie School, Memphis, Tenn. Began work at the age of nine; contributor to various newspapers and magazines; former owner and ass't editor Elkdom, Memphis, Tenn.; editor children's pages, Commercial Appeal. Mem. Studio Club of N.Y., Nat. Fed. of Theatre Clubs, Girls' Protective League, Nineteenth Century Club. Recreations: Theatres, lectures, out-door amusements, dancing. Roman Catholic. Favors woman suffrage.

CONNOR, Margaret, The New Bloomfield, 3149 Mt. Pleasant St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Scientific assistant in pomology, Dep't of Agriculture; b. Burlington, Ia., Oct. 21, 1890; dau. Edward William and Catharine Celia (Darrow) Connor; ed. Ithaca (N.Y.) High School; Cornell Univ., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa, 1911), A.B. '12; State scholarship at Cornell from Tompkins Co. (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). First woman pomologist in Dep't of Agriculture at Washington, D.C. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Recreations: Horseback riding, tennis, dancing. Mem. Cornell Women of Washington, College Women's Club, Washington.

CONOVER, Charlotte Reeve (Mrs. Frank Conover), Third and Wilkinson Sts., Dayton, O.

Lecturer, writer; b. Dayton, O.; dau. John Charles and Emma (Barlow) Reeve; ed. Dayton High School; Geneva (Switzerland), 1875; studied at Université de Genéve, 1904; m. Dayton, O., Oct. 14, 1879, Frank Conover; children: Elizabeth Dickson, John Charles Reeve, Wilbur, Charlotte Mary. Lecturer on Molière, director of classes in current history, French; economics, etc. Newspaper correspondent, writer of magazine articles. Pres. Woman's Literary Club, 1892-93; leader Bible class; worker for suffrage; formerly chairman Educational Com. Ohio Fed. Women's Clubs. Author: Concerning the Forefathers; Some Dayton Saints and Prophets (character sketches of Dayton people); A Plea for the Prayer Book; My Thought Cure; The Beck Family. Episcopalian. Mem. Young Woman's League of Dayton.

CONOVER, Grace Clark (Mrs. F. K. Conover), 435 Patterson St., Madison, Wis.

Born Madison, Wis.; dau. Darwin and Frances (Adams) Clark; ed. Univ. of Wis., B.D., summa cum laude, '85; m. June 6, 1891, Frederic King Conover; children: Frederic Le Roy, Marion Clarke, Julian Darst, Daphne. Teacher of French in Univ. of Wis. for six years until marriage. Vice-pres. and charter mem. Woman's Club of Madison; sec. Woman's Building Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage.

CONRAD, Margaret May Dickson (Mrs. Warren B. Conrad), North Yakima, Wash.

Trained nurse; b. Montgomery, N.Y.; dau. James M. Dickson, D.D., and Helen A. (West) Dickson; ed. the Misses Graham's French and English School, N.Y. City; Providence (R.I.) High School; one year in Brown Univ.; Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn, and New York State Training School for Nurses; m. North Yakima, Wash., Dec. 25, 1907, Warren B. Conrad; children: Robert Jay, Martin. After graduation engaged as trained nurse, filling important positions in hospital and private practice.

CONRADE, Mary Spencer, 127 Woodlawn Av., Zanesville, Ohio.

Teacher of piano; b. Zanesville, O., Feb. 17, 1863; dau John W. and Eliza A. Ross Conrade; ed. public schools, Putnam Sem., New England' Conservatory of Music, and pupil of Dr. Louis Maas; later pupil of Xavier Scharwenka. Engaged in general teaching, and some concertizing. Composed book of children's songs entitled Songs in Season, used in public schools in many States; also piano compositions. Interested Children's Playgrounds movement and in Mental Science. Composer: When Malindy Sings; Songs in Season; Ivanhoe; At the Circus, etc. Recreations: Nature, walking, bridge, whist. Mem. All Around Club of Zanesville, O.

CONROW, Georgianna, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Moorestown, N.J., Jan. 26, 1878; dau. George N. and Amy (Roberts) Conrow; ed. Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, '95, Cornell Univ., A.B. '99; studied in Germany, 1899-1900, Sorbonne, Paris, 1900-01; A.M. Cornell, '02 (mem. Alpha Phi). Taught in Olean High School, 1902-03, Summer Inst., Thousand Islands Park, summers of 1903-04, South Orange High School, 1903-05. Instructor in French, Vassar Coll., since Sept., 1905. Favors woman suffrage (mem. of Poughkeepsie branch). Mem. of Soc. of Friends. Mem. Nat. Education Ass'n, N.Y. State Modern Language Ass'n, Women's University Club, N.Y. City.

CONVERSE, Clara Adra, Soshinjo Gakko, Kamagawa, Japan.

Educator; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '93. Teacher of Greek, Latin and rhetoric, Vermont Acad., 1884-90; principal of Soshinjo Gakko, Kamagawa, Japan, since 1890.

CONVERSE, Emma Tudor (Mrs. Frederick Shepherd Converse), Westwood, Mass.

Born Nahant, Mass., Mar. 25, 1872; dau. Frederic Tudor and Louise (Simes) Tudor; ed. Mrs. Shaw's private school; m. June 6, 1894, Frederick Shepherd Converse; children: Louise, Augusta, Marie, Virginia, F. S. Converse Jr. (deceased), Elizabeth. Mem. Ladies' Board of Free Hospital for Women. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. D.A.R., Women's Municipal League of Boston, Chilton Club of Boston.

CONVERSE, Florence, 1 Curve St., Wellesley, Mass.

Author; b. New Orleans, La., April 30, 1871; dau. George T. and Caroline (Edwards) Converse; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.S., M.A. (mem. Wellesley Shakespeare Soc). On editorial staff New York Churchman, 1900-08; on editorial staff The Atlantic Monthly, 1908—. Interested in Settlement work; mem. The Coll. Settlements Ass'n, and spent five years in residence at Denison House, the Boston college settlement. Socialist (mem. Socialist Party); favors woman suffrage. Books: Diana Victrix; The Burden of Christopher; Long Will; The House of Prayer; A Masque of Sibyls; The Children of Light. Episcopalian.

CONVERSE, Mary Eleanor, Rosemont, Pa.

Born in Pennsylvania; ed. Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98, graduate student Univ. of Pa., 1899-1900; student in government and politics of the Civic and Legal Education Soc. of Philadelphia, 1901-02; student of music, 1906-07. Mem. Exec. Com. Public Education Ass'n of Philadelphia, 19J1-03; vice-chairman Social Science Dep't of Civic Club of Philadelphia, 1904-05; mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae's Com. to cooperate with Charity Organization Soc, 1905-06. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

CONWAY, Emeline Hoffman (Mrs. John Gilbert Conway), 501 Washington St., Watertown, Wis.

Born Watertown, Wis., July 25, 1868; dau. Frederick and Amalia (Henze) Hoffman; ed. Watertown (Wis.) public and high schools, Univ. of Wis., B.S. '89, B.L. '90; m. Watertown, Wis,, Nov. 28, 1895, John Gilbert Conway; children: Paul H., b. 1897; Justin F. b. 1901; Mary E., b. 1903; John E., b. 1910. Assistant in the Watertown High School for four years, and in the Milwaukee East Side High School for two years, before marriage. Interested in various local activities, religious, social and philanthropic. Roman Catholic. Against woman suffrage.

CONWAY, Louise Shoenberger (Mrs. Barret Conway), 387 Linden St., Winnetka, Ill.

Born Chicago, Ill., July 4, 1886; dau. George K. and Louise (Reynolds) Shoenberger; ed. Kirkland School, Chicago; m. Chicago, June 1, 1909, Barret Conway; one daughter: Louise Reynolds. Episcopalian.


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Rh COOCH, Mary Evarts (Mrs. J. Wilkins Cooch), Newark, Del.

Born Passumali, Madras Presidency, Southern India, June 18, 1849; dau. Rev. Edward and Nancy Allyn (Foote) Webb; ed. Protestant Seminary, Montreal, Canada, conducted by Mrs. Eleanor H. Lay (valedictorian); m. Glasgow, Del., Apr. 12, 1871, J. Wilkins Cooch; children: Caroline (Mrs. W. S. Schoofield), Francis Allyn, Edward Webb, Levi Hollingsworth. Interested actively in missionary matters (home and foreign) of the Presbyterian Church. Mem. D.A.R. (State Vice-Regent); sec.-treas. and historian of Cooch's Bridge Chapter. Presbyterian.

COOK, Alice Carter (Mrs. O. F. Cook), Lanham, Md.

Born N.Y. City, April 8, 1868; dau. Samuel F. and Alantha P. (Pratt) Carter; ed. Mt. Holyoke Coll., Syracuse Univ. Ph.D., Cornell Univ. M.S.; m. Huntington. N.Y., Oct. 11, 1892, O. F. Cook; children: Samuel Carter, Robert Carter, Elizabeth, Helen Moore. Taught botany in Holyoke Col., 1880-92. Author of articles in Popular Science Monthly, Botanical Gazette, American Anthropologist, Ladies' Home Journal. Mem. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae. Recreations: Horseback riding, music, swimming, croquet.

COOK, Alice Helena, Catawba College, Newton, N.C.; home, Forestville, Chautauqua Co., N.Y.

Teacher; b. Forestville, N.Y., 1877; dau. Albert C. and Augusta A. (Chadsey) Cook; grad. Forestville High School, '95; Univ. of Mich., A.B. 1900. Taught at North East, Pa., in eighth grade for two years; high school one year; Forestville High School, one year as preceptress; Woman's Coll., Frederick, Md., five years. Head of Latin and Greek, Catamba Coll., Newton, N.C. (now in third year as lady principal). Mem. Y.W.C.A., also pres. of North Baptist Missionary Soc. while teaching at Frederick. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist.

COOK, Elizabeth Christine, 83 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, Mass.

College teaching; b. Northampton, Mass., July 29, 1876; dau. Benjamin Ely and Anna Elizabeth (Smith) Cook; grad. Northampton High School, '94, Smith Coll., A.B., '99, Columbia Univ., A.M., '02, Ph.D., '12. Head English Dep't Asbury Park High School, 1903-08; ass't in English Dep't Barnard Coll., 1909-12; Instructor in English, Teachers Coll., 1912. Editor of Dramatization of Silas Marner, made by the Class of '07, Asbury Park High School. Her Doctor's Dissertation, published in the Columbia Literary Studies, was Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers (1704-50). Pres. of Woman's English Club of Columbia Univ., 1911-12. Recreations: Swimming, walking, gardening, reading, opera, theater. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

COOK, Elizabeth Ellsworth, 160 Waverly Place (office, care Harris, Forbes & Co., 56 William St.), N.Y. City.

Business woman; b. Winona, Minn., Sept. 4, 1884; dau. Chas. Button and Lucy Hawley (Ellsworth) Cook; ed. in public schools and high school of Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell Univ., A.B., '08. Sec. to Edward T. Perine, ex-head of the Audit Co. of N.Y., 1905-07; entered employ of Harris, Forbes &. Co., bonds, Sept, 1908, working in sales dep't. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa. Favors woman suffrage; vice-pres. of the Women's Political Union.

COOK, Ellen Parmelee, Smith Coll., Northampton, Mass.

College professor; b. Ripon, Wis., June 21, 1865; dau. Elisba W. and Martha M. (Smith) Cook; ed. Ripon Coll., Wis., Smith Coll., B.S., '93, Columbia Univ., A.M., '06, Univ. of Berlin, 1897-98. Assistant and instructor in chemistry. Smith Coll., 1890-1906; associate prof. chemistry, Smith Coll., 1906. Congregationalist.

COOK, Georgiana Hemingway (Mrs. Joseph Cook), Woodland Road, Auburndale, Mass.; (summer) Cliff Seat, Ticonderoga, N.Y.

Born New Haven, Conn.; dau. Willis and Teresa (Fries) Hemingway; ed. New Haven private schools; m. New Haven, Conn., June 30, 1877, Joseph Cook (author and noted founder of the Boston Monday Lectureship (died 1901). Chiefly interested in foreign and home missions and the temperance and peace movements. Favors woman suffrage. Edited a volume of Joseph Cook's poems, called Overtones, and a centennial address on the founding of Ticonderoga, N.Y. Congregationalist. Executive officer Woman's Board of Missions, Boston; mem. Patriotic League, Boston; Peace Soc, New York Historical Soc, D.A.R. Made a tour of the world, 1880-83, with husband, who lectured in Great Britain, India, Japan and Australia.

COOK, Helen Noyes Currier (Mrs. Roy Arthur Cook), Independence, Ia.

Born Iowa City, Ia., Oct. 1, 1876; dau. Amos Noyes and Celia A. (Moore) Currier; grad. State Univ. of Iowa, '96, B.Ph., M.A. (Phi Beta Kappa); m. Iowa City, June 6, 1906, Roy Arthur Cook; one daughter: Elizabeth. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Walking, driving, reading.

COOK, Isabel Vernon (Mrs. Jerome C. Cook), Colonial Studios, 39 W. 67th St., N.Y. City.

Artist; b. Lafayette Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Thomas Vernon and Ianthe (Steele) Vernon; ed. Adelphi Acad. and at Miss Porter's, Farmington, Conn.; m. Jerome Canfield Cook. Studied at New York League and with Jules Blache and Simon in Paris. Lecturer on art and travel. Mem. Farmington Soc. Recreation: Travel; has lived in China, Japan, India, London and Paris at various times. Mem. New York Art Club, League of Patriotic Women, National Arts Club, and many others. Favors woman suffrage.

COOK, Marguerite (Mrs. David C. Cook), 105 N. Gifford St., Elgin, Ill.

Editor; b. Chicago, 1853; dau. Thomas and Patience Jane (Evans) Murat; ed. Chicago Normal School (teacher's life certificate); m. Chicago, 1874, David C. Cook; children: George E., David C., Jr. Was teacher in Chicago; editor since 1878. Active in philanthropic work, teacher of Young Men's Bible Class, sup't of primary dep't in M.E. Sunday-school for 30 years; pres. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, 25 years; pres. of Primary Sunday-school Union, 14 years. Mem. Board of Settlement work. Ed. Primary Sunday-school Teacher, Junior Sunday-school Teacher, Lesson Picture Roll. Mem. Every Wednesday Literary Club of Elgin, Los Angeles Friday Morning Club (since it began), Elgin Woman's Club (life mem.), Chicago Woman's Club, 1877-78. General (or National) sec. of Young People's Dep't of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Recreation: Travel.

COOK, Martha M. Giltner (Mrs. Vincent Cook), 426 Fifth St., Portland, Ore.

Daughter Jacob 8. and Martha M. (Hause) Giltner; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '85; m. Vincent Cook. Vice-pres. Portland Equal Suffrage League; mem. of Board of Directors of College Equal Suffrage League. Editorial writer on topics of the day, as suffrage, educational and social problems Presbyterian. Mem. Ladies' Relief Soc, Old People's Home, Women's Union.

COOK, May Estelle, 306 N. Kenilworth Av., Oak Park, Ill.

Teacher; b. Chicago, May 26, 1865; dau. Edward and Josephine (Halbert) Cook; ed. Wellesley Coll., A.B.; Chicago Univ., A.M. Mem. Wellesley Shakespeare Soc Book reviewer for Chicago Dial. Congregationalist. Recreations: Music, tennis. Clubs: Nineteenth Century, Oak Park, Suburban, Civics (Oak Park), Chicago Coll., Chicago Woman's City, Wellesley Club.

COOK, Minnie Gathright (Mrs. Henry Lowell Cook), "The Wayland," Milwaukee, Wis.

Born Louisville, Ky.; dau. Owen and Eliza (Austin) Gathright; ed. in Louisville and Univ. of Wis.; m. Louisville, Ky., June 23, 1890, Henry Lowell Cook. Interested in historical research, especially the early history of the Middle West. Has spent years in the study of the manuscript documents in the archives of Great Britain, Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Va., the manuscript collections in the historical libraries of the Univ. of Wis. and the Univ. of Cal., besides numerous private collections. Has in


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202 a history of the Middle West during the American Revolution. Author: History of George Rogers Clark's Memoir; George Roger Clark's Campaigns of 1780; Virginia Currency in the Illinois Country. Mem. Christian (Disciples) Church. Mem. Am. Armorial Ass'n, Founder and governor-general of Order of F.F.V. (First Families of Va.); mem. Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century Colonial Dames; treas. of Benjamin Tallmadge Chapter D.A.R.; registrar Nat. Soc. United States Daughters of 1812 of Wisconsin. Recreation: Travel. Vice-pres. Milwaukee Out-door Art and Improvement Ass'n; was delegate from the Milwaukee College Endowment Ass'n to the Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, San Francisco, June, 1912. Order of the F.F.V. was founded to encourage research for data relating to Virginia during the time she was the only one of the original thirteen colonies (1607-1620, inclusive), and to keep a record of the descendants of those who were literally, as well as socially, the first families of Virginia.

COOKE, Abigail Whipple, 42 Benefit St.; studio, in the Fleur-de-Lys, Thomas St., Providence, R.I.

Artist, journalist; b. Smithfield, R.I.; dau. Edward and Mary (Kelly) Cooke; ed. Providence private schools (diplomas Miss Abbott's School and R.I. School of Design). Studied painting under Sydney Richmond Burleigh and George W. Whitaker. Mem. of Ladies' Advisory Board, Providence Art Club, 1894-97 and 1901-06, inclusive; sec. Providence Water Color Club, 1900-09; vice-pres. R.I. School of Design Alumni Ass'n, 1908-11. Society editor of Providence Journal (daily and Sunday) since 1906. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Providence Art Club, Providence Water Color Club, R.I. Short Story Club.

COOKE, Clara Dwight Sprague (Mrs. Harte Cooke), 10 Jefferson St., Auburn, N.Y.

Graduate Smith Coll., B.A. '01; Albany Normal Coll., Pr.B. '02; m. Sept. 12, 1907, Harte Cooke; children: Warren, b. May 31, 1908; Catherine, b. Nov. 17, 1909. Teacher in Auburn (N.Y.) Central Grammar School, 1902-04; teacher of English, Granger Place School, Canandaigua, N.Y., 1904-06; Roland Park School, Baltimore, 1906-07.

COOKE, Dorothy Soden (Mrs. A. Bennett Cooke), 1809 Broad St., Nashville, Tenn.

Federation president; b. Covington, Ky., Oct. 24, 1868; dau. Charles T. and Henrietta (McGraw) Soden; ed. Louisville Girls' High School and private teachers, also Louisville Normal School; m. Louisville, Ky., July 10, 1894, Dr. A. Bennett Cooke, one daughter: Dorothy, b. May 30, 1901. Pres. Tenn. Fed. of Women's Clubs; vice-pres. Nashville Anti-Tuberculosis League; mem. Exec. Board State Anti-Tuberculosis League; chairman of art, Centennial Club, etc. Favors woman suffrage. Magazine writer (occasionally); wrote: Eugene Field's Message to the Child Lover; Phosphate Mining in Tennessee; Municipal Housekeeping; Municipal Art in Florence; Legends of the Holy Grail and Abbey's Conception of Them. Baptist. Recreation: Motoring. Mem. Centennial Club (dep't club), Browning Club, Review Club, Nashville.

COOKE, Flora Juliette, 330 Webster Av., Chicago, Ill.

Principal Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Ill.; b. Bainbridge, O., Dec. 25, 1864; dau. Sumner and Rosetta (Ellis) Hannum; adopted parents from 1870, Charles E. and Luella (Miller) Cooke; attended elementary school; grad. Rayon High School, Youngstown, O., 1884; special courses in Cook Co. Normal; Chicago Univ.; Armour Inst. Principal Hillman School, Youngstown, O., 1887-89; critic teacher Cook Co. Normal, Chicago, 1891-97; primary supervisor, Chicago Inst., 1899-1900; prin.. Francis W. Parker School, 1901-. Instructor in dep't of education in teachers' institutes in 24 States and in Honolulu, H.I. Written nature myths for children, articles for educational periodicals. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Political Equality League, Chicago.

COOKE, Grace Macgowan (Mrs. William Cooke), Carmel, Cal.

Novelist; b. Gilead, O.; dau. John Encil and Marie (Johnson) MacGowan; ed. at home; m. Chattanooga, Tenn., 1887, William Cooke; children: Helen, Katharine MacGowan. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Mistress Joy, Return, The Grapple, Huldah, A Gourd Fiddle, Son Riley, Rabbit and Little Girl, The Power and the Glory, etc.

COOKE, Helen Temple, Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass.

School principal; b. Rutland, Vt., Apr. 13, 1865; dau. Edmund Foster and Mary Ann (Bardwell) Cooke; ed. Rutland (Vt.) High School, Wellesley Coll., 1894-99. Conducted a private school in Rutland before entering Wellesley; since 1899 principal of Dana Hall School; now also principal of Tenacre School and Pine Manor School, all three schools being located at Wellesley, Mass. Congregationalism Favors woman suffrage.

COOKE, Jane Grosvenor, 114 E, Nineteenth St., N.Y. City.

Author, editor; ed. N.Y. City; student in American and European universities. Has done much editorial work and literary criticism. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Franchise Soc. of N.Y. City. Author: An Interrupted Honeymoon, 1907.

COOKE, Marjorie Benton, The Elms, Chicago, Ill.

Author, monologist; b. Richmond, Ind.; dau. Joseph Henry and Jessie (Benton) Cooke; ed. Univ. of Chicago, Ph.B. (Sigma Club). Interested in social and philanthropic work, doing monologue recitals before working girls' clubs, reform schools, etc. Favors woman suffrage. Has given recitals of original suffrage monologues before at least a hundred suffrage meetings, also before Nat. Woman Suffrage Ass'n Convention in Louisville, Ky., 1912. Author: Modern Monologues; More Modern Monologues; Dramatic Episodes; Plays for Children. Novels: The Girl Who Lived in the Woods; Dr. David; To Mother; The Twelfth Christmas. Recreations: Tennis, golf, theatre. Mem. Women's University Club (N.Y. City), The Little Room, City Club (Chicago).

COOKE, Mary Jenckes (Mrs. George Phelps Cooke), 10 Church St., Milford, Mass.

Born Woonsocket, R.I., Nov. 22, 1859; dau. William Augustus and Adelia E. (Crooks) Jenckes; ed. Medway public schools; preparatory dep't Wellesley Coll.; Wellesley Coll., A.B. '81; m. Medway, Mass., Dec. 27, 1883, Dr. George Phelps Cooke; children: Allan Jenckes, b. 1884; Guenn, b. 1887; Mildred, b. 1890; Mary Janet, b. 1894. Registrar, Wellesley Coll., 1881-83. Interested in present day educational methods. Congregationalist. Mem. Boston Wellesley Club, Ass'n Collegiate Alumni, College Club of Boston.

COOKE, May Perry (Mrs. Walter P. Cooke), 69 Ashland Av., Buffalo, N.Y.

Born Buffalo, May 13, 1869; dau. Leonard B. and Hattie L. (Keeney) Perry; ed. State Normal School, Buffalo, N.Y.; m. Buffalo, June 28, 1894, Walter P. Cooke; children: Katharine, Carlton P. Mem. Board of Trustees of Buffalo State Hospital. Interested in Homoeopathic Hospital. Presbyterian. Mem. Twentieth Century Club.

COOKMAN, Emma Cornelius (Mrs. William Holmes Cookman), 420 W. Price St., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa,

Born Philadelphia, May 8, 1872; dau. John C. and Emily Weaver (Fitler) Cornelius; ed. Walnut Lane School, Germantown; m. Oct, 28, 1898, William Holmes Cookman; one daughter: Emily Cornelius Cookman, b. Mar. 12, 1906. Musician and singer, a great deal publicly, but not professionally. Favors woman suffrage.

COOLBRITH, Ina (Donna), 1067 Broadway, San Francisco, Cal.

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Rh Bohemian Club Library for six years. Author: Perfect Day and Other Poems, The Singer of the Sea, Songs from the Golden Gate; contributor to leading magazines and journals East and West. Associated with the early literary circle of Cal., comprised of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Charles Warren, Stoddard, Joaquin Miller, Prentice Mulford, etc., more especially with the once famous Overland Monthly, when edited by Bret Harte. Woman suffragist. Republican. Mem. Soc. of Women Journalists, London, England; honorary mem. Athenian Club and Ebell Soc, Oakland Cal., Bohemian Club, Century, Floral Soc, Pacific Coast Women's Press Ass'n, and Sequoia Club, San Francisco, and Short Story Club, San Jose, Cal.

COOLEY, Anna Maria, Teachers' College, Columbia University, N.Y. City.

Assistant professor of household arts; b. N.Y. City, Sept. 16, 1874; dau. Charles Wallace and Emma (Davies) Cooley; grad. N.Y. Normal Coll., '93; Jenny Hunter Kindergarten Training School, '95; student Barnard Coll., 1896-97; Teachers' Coll., Columbia Univ., B.S. '03. Principal domestic economy in Hackley Manual Training School, Muskegon, Mich., 1904; instructor Univ. of Tenn., summer sessions, 1905-07; Teachers' Coll., Columbia Univ., since 1904; ass't prof. of household arts since 1910. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Occupations for Little Fingers; Domestic Art in Woman's Education; Text Book of the Household Arts (two volumes). Presbyterian. Mem. Am. Home Economies' Ass'n, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Household Arts Club.

COOLEY, Clara Aldrich (Mrs. D. N. Cooley), 1394 Locust St., Dubuque, Ia.

Born in Vermont, 1830 (of Colonial ancestry); ed. in Chester, Vt. and Newbury Acad. at Montpelier, Vt; m. Judge D. N. Cooley (now deceased); children: Mrs. F. W. Becker (Chicago), Mrs. J. F. Douglas (N.Y. City), Mrs. C. W. Bassett (Baltimore), H. W. Cooley (Chicago). Has been active as leader in literary, church and philanthropic societies; organizer and originator of clubs, including the Monday Afternoon Club, which she founded 22 years ago and over which she still presides at the age of 83, and also founder of the Dubuque Woman's Club, established 1876. In recognition of her work as a pioneer club woman of the Middle West she has been elected an honorary member of Sorosis (N.Y. City), and the Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs, at its biennial meeting at St. Paul, elected her an honorary vice-pres. of the Federation. Honorary State Regent of Iowa D.A.R. Mem. Am. Economic Ass'n, Am. Acad, of Political and Social Science, Nat. Geographical Soc; life mem. Mary Washington Ass'n, and was one of the first officers of the Ass'n for the Advancement of Women, of which the late Julia Ward Howe was president.

COOLEY, Elsie Jones (Mrs. Charles H. Cooley), 703 Forest Av., Ann Arbor, Mich.

Born Englewood, N.J., 1864; dau. S. A. and Maria (Van Brunt) Jones; grad. Univ. of Mich., B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), '88; m. Ann Arbor, 1890, Charles H. Cooley; children: Rutger Horton, Margaret, Mary Elizabeth. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist.

COOLEY, Nellie Wooster (Mrs. Harlan Ward Cooley), 5318 Greenwood Av., Chicago, Ill.

Writer; b. Torrington, Conn.; ed. in schools of Seymour, Conn., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '86; student in Germany, 1888; Paris, 1889; m. Seymour, Conn., Sept. 22, 1892, Harlan Ward Cooley (Yale '88; lawyer); children: Julia, Harlan Wooster. Writer of original poems, and translations in the magazines. Pres. Vassar Alumnae Ass'n.

COOLEY, Rossa B., Frogmore Post Office, St. Helena Island, S.C.

Principal; b. Albany, N.Y., 1873; dau. LeRoy Clark and Rossabel M. (Flack) Cooley; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '93. Teacher in Miss Rounds' School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1893-97; Hampton Inst., Hampton, Va., 1897-1904; principal of Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School. Against woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Am. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Southern Sociological Congress, Nat. Com. on Prison Labor. Mem. Intercollegiate Club of South Carolina.

COOLEY, Winnifred Harper. (Mrs. George Eliot Cooley), 609 W. 127th St., N.Y. City.

Writer and lecturer; b. Terre Haute, Ind.; dau. of Mrs. Ida Husted Harper; grad. Girls' Classical School, Indianapolis, and Leland Stanford Univ., Cal., A.B. (mem. Pi Beta Phi); m. Washington, D.C., 1899, George Eliot Cooley. Wrote Prize Story at Stanford Univ., and was made an editor of all three coll. publications—daily, weekly, and annual. Lecturer before women's clubs and on public lecture course of Greater N. Y., giving travel stereopticon lectures. Traveled in Europe; for two years had adult European Travel Classes. Connected with Boston Lyceum lecture course. Taught English in a Brooklyn High School. For four years has edited a dep't in Nat. Food Magazine, and has written and lectured on pure food. Nat. pres. of Associated Clubs of Domestic Science. Contributing editor (Housekeepers' Page), Philadelphia North American; contributing editor Forecast Magazine; regular Sunday writer Minneapolis Tribune. Recreation: Theater. Honorary vice-pres. of International Pure Milk League; vice-pres. College Women's Club, N.Y. City; mem. Daughters of Indiana.

COOLIDGE, Asenath Carver, 299 Sark Av., Arlington Heights, Mass.

Author; b. Philadelphia, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1830; dau. Alfred and Mary (Townsend) Coolidge; grad. with honors at the Emma Willard Seminary, Troy, N.Y. Author: Independence Day Horror at Kilsbury, Prophet of Peace, Between Two Rebellions, Human Beings vs. Things, Reciprocity, Christmas vs. Fourth of July, Cherry Feasts for Barbarous Fourths, Our Nation's Altar, The Scoundrel of Militarism, On the Watchtower. Booklets. Presbyterian in name and "Friend" at heart. Pioneer advocate of a "safe and sane" Fourth of July, which has now become an accomplished fact in many cities and sections with much saving of life and limbs; opposed to things military, especially for children. Firm believer in woman suffrage and hopes it will be won without further strife.

COOLIDGE, Cora Helen, Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh.

Teacher; b. Westminster, Mass., 1866; dau. Frederic Spaulding and Ellen Drusille (Allen) Coolidge; ed. Cushing Acad., Smith Coll. B.L.; studied at Chicago Univ. and Göttingen, Germany. Was teacher in Fitchburg High School, Mass., in Hartford (Conn.) Public High School, lady principal of Cushing Acad., dean of Pa. Coll. for Women, Pittsburgh, 1906. Gives all time possible, by committee work, lectures, etc., to furthering social and philanthropic work of community; in the college gives attention to interests of Y.W.C.A. and to development of a social service course to train paid and volunteer workers. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Ass'n of Secondary Schools of Western Pa., Social Centre Ass'n of Am., Coll. Club of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Colony of New England Women, Fitchburg (Mass.) Woman's Club. Chief public work is lecturing on literary and educational subjects.

COOLIDGE, Emelyn Lincoln, 850 West End Av., N.Y. City.

Physician (pediatrics); b. Boston, Mass., Aug. 9, 1873; dau. George Austin and Harriet (Lincoln) Coolidge; ed. Boston, Washington, D.C.; New York; Cornell Med. Coll., M.D. Has always practiced as children's specialist; was house physician, Babies' Hospital of N.Y. City; now attending pediatrist to Soc. of Lying-in Hospital, N.Y. City. Author: The Mother's Manual; First Aid in Nursery Ailments; editor of Babies' Dep't of Ladies' Home Journal; contributor to other magazines. Mem. Women's Med. Ass'n of N.Y., Cornell Alumni Ass'n, Authors' League of Com. of One Hundred.

COOLIDGE, F. Gertrude, 92 Union Av., South Framingham, Mass.

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204 B.A. '93. Mem. Framingham Chapter D.A.R. Recreation: Walking.

COOLIDGE, Jennie Adelaide Holmes (Mrs. Marshall H. Coolidge), 1906 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis, Minn.

Born West Pensaukee, Wis., Feb. 9, 1866; dau. Byron M. and Susan M. (Knowles) Holmes; ed. public schools of Green Bay and Stevens Point, Wis., and private teachers at home; m. Milwaukee, June 25, 1883, Marshall Harvey Coolidge; children: Harry Holmes, b. Feb. 15, 1886; Byron Harvey, b. Aug. 4, 1888; Marshall Harvey Jr., b. May 9, 1904. Mem. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Monument Chapter D.A.R., Minnikahda Club. Interested in crippled children. Against woman suffrage. Social chairman of Kenwood Parents' and Teachers' Ass'n. Recreations: Walking, gardening, literature. Former mem. of Clio Club, 1896-1904, and Minn. State Federation of Women's Clubs.

COOLIDGE, Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Roberts (Mrs. Dane Coolidge), Berkeley, Cal.

Writer, lecturer; b. Kingsbury, Ind.; dau. Prof. I. P. Roberts (M. Agr.) and Margaret J. (Marr) Roberts; grad. Cornell, Ph.B. '80; M.S. '82; Stanford, Ph.D. '96 (Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Berkeley, Cal., July 30, 1906, Dane Coolidge, author and naturalist. Teacher of history in public and private schools, 1880-86; in Wellesley Coll., 1886-90; asso. prof. sociology, Stanford Univ., 1896-1903. Research work with Carnegie Inst., 1904-08, Sage Foundation, 1909. Head worker South Park Settlement, San Francisco, 1905-06; pres. of Settlement Council, 1910-12. Favors woman suffrage; campaign speaker in Cal., 1911; now chairman of education for Cal. Civic League, a non-partisan organization for political service. Author: Chinese Immigration, 1909; Reviser of Warner's American Charities; Almshouse Women (Public Statistical Ass'n); Why Women Are So; also numerous magazine articles on sociological subjects. Unitarian. Progressive Independent in politics. Mem. Am. Econ. Ass'n; Am. Acad., Political and Social Science, Nat. Conference of Charities, etc., Cal. Civic League, Nat. Coll. Alumnae, Soc. for Social Hygiene. Recreations: Music, chiefly study and singing folk and ballad music; theatre. Travels with husband in wild and out-of-the way localities.

COOMBS, Susan Bird (Mrs. Robert H. Coombs), Banning, Riverside Co., Cal.

Born Chicago, Jan. 14, 1880; dau. James Francis and Ida (Taft) Bird; ed. Banning (Cal.) public and high schools; Stanford Univ., A.B. '03 (mem., treas. and later pres. Stanford Girls' Glee Club, Sophomore Cotillon Com., Plug Ugly Com.; vice-pres. English Club; mem. Roble Gymnasium Club; chairman Senior Farce Com.; mem. Gamma Phi Beta); m. Banning, Cal., Feb. 15, 1908, Robert H. Coombs; children: Robert Bird, b. May 24, 1909; Richard James, b. Feb. 26, 1911. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Republican. Mem. Southern Cal. branch of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Stanford Univ. Alumni Ass'n, Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Ass'n (vice-pres.), Saturday Afternoon Club (pres.)

COON, Callie Prichard (Mrs. Andrew P. Coon), 2103 S. Sawyer Av., Chicago, Ill.

Born Forreston, Ill.; dau. Miles Norton and Mary (Jackson) Prichard; ed. Park Inst., Chicago, and Dean Coll. of Music; m. Aug., 1885, Andrew P. Coon. Musician; organist 15 years of English Lutheran Church, Forreston, Ill. Soloist in Douglas Park Congregational Church, five years; interested in settlement work. Favors woman suffrage. English Lutheran. Mem. Chicago Culture Club, Chicago Woman's Club; vice-pres. for two years of Sixth Congressional Dist. Ill. Fed. Women's Clubs; pres. two years, Chicago Culture Club.

COONEY, Dotia Trigg (Mrs. James Cooney), 522 Eastwood St., Marshall, Mo.

Author; dau. John Anthony and Amanda H. (Harvey) Trigg; ed. by governess in family and at Central Female Coll., Lexington, Mo.; Howard Coll., Fayette, Mo., and Boston, Mass.; attended New England Conservatory; m. Dec. 21, 1882, James Cooney. An eclectic in religion; reared Southern Methodist Author: A Study in Ebony. Pres. of French Club: Les Preciensea Ridicules. Recreation: Writing.

COOPER, Anna Wellington, Wayland, Mass.

Born Bridgewater, Mass., Oct. 6, 1867; dau. Edward and Emma W. (Batchelder) Sawyer; ed. Bridgewater High School, Bridgewater State Normal School; m. Bridgewater, Mass., Oct. 16, 1890, Frank Irving Cooper; children: Edward I., Francis J. L., Gregory W. Teacher in Stoughton High School. Interested in club work in Wayland and State of Mass., some church work (Unitarian), Morgan Memorial, Tuskegee, Fitchburg Reclaiming Soc, Salvation Army. Pres. Wayland Woman's Club, vice-pres. Wayland Alliance; majority of mem. working for suffrage for women. Unitarian. Mem. Soc. Woman's Unitarian Alliance, Nat. Bridgewater Memorial School Alumni Ass'n, Bridgewater High School Alumni Ass'n, Old Bridgewater Historical Soc., Wayland Improvement Soc., Wayland Soc. of Arts and Crafts, Wayland Woman's Club. Recreations: Symphony and other concerts, opera, theatre, walking, nature observation.

COOPER, Anne Thornhill, 540 W. 122d St., N.Y.; home address, Edgewood, Rutherford, N.J.

Formerly a librarian; b. Rutherford, N.J., Aug. 20, 1873; dau. Joseph Phipps and Alice Elizabeth (Haines) Cooper; ed. principally at home and in private schools. Interested in all ethical and progressive movements, especially in Feminism. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman Suffrage Party. Mem. N.Y. Peace Soc, Equal Franchise Soc, West London Ethical Soc. (of England). Recreations: Reading, cycling, walking.

COOPER, Bessie Dean, Normal College of N.Y. City.

Teacher; b. Oakaloosa, Ia., Dec. 27, 1874; dau. Cary and Susan (Thurston) Cooper; ed. Cornell Univ., Ph.B. '97; student of the Univ. of Paris (Sorbonne), 1907-08, 1910-11; Yale Univ., Ph.D., 1911; fellowship at Yale, 1909-10. Instructor in history, Rhode Island Coll., 1906-07; Normal Coll., of City of N.Y., 1911-13. Interested in historical research in European archives. Against universal suffrage for men or women. Contributor to various periodicals. Mem. Liberal Club of N.Y.

COOPER, Beulah Keller (Mrs. J. C. Cooper), Cameron, W.Va.

Born Cameron, W.Va.; grad Washington (Pa.) Sem. '05; Lutherville Coll., Md.; Spanish School of Languages, Washington, D.C.; m. Aug. 7, 1907, Dr. J. E. Cooper. Interested and active in civic improvement work, tuberculosis campaign and educational work as a club woman. Mem. and past pres. of Woman's Club of Cameron; sec. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. and present worthy matron of Order of Eastern Star (Loraine Chapter No. 9); teacher of young men's Sunday-school class. Baptist.

COOPER, Cottie Albright (Mrs. Charles D. Cooper), Brockport, N.Y.

Born Laurelton, Pa., Jan. 11, 1885; dau. David C. and Amanda (Swengel) Albright; ed. Bucknell Sem., '02; Bucknell School of Music, '06; Bucknell Univ., Ph.B. '05, summa cum laude, pupil of Mary Derr and Elsée Aviragnet; m. Wilmington, Nov. 28, 1906, Prof. Charles D. Cooper; children: Ora Louise, Helen Bordner. Interested in music, historical research, anthropology, civic betterment and pedagogy. Mem. History Club, Civic Club, Music Club. Recreations: Dancing, tennis. Lutheran. Against woman suffrage.

COOPER, Dora Hauck (Mrs. James M. Cooper), 1505 S. Center St., Terre Haute, Ind.

Born Harmony, Ind., April 19, 1870; dau. Gottlieb and Mary (Harsch) Hauck; ed. schools in Terre Haute, Ind.: grad. and gold medalist of Conservatory of Music, Chicago; m. Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 7, 1905, James M. Cooper. Traveled four seasons in the Ladies' Imperial Quartette of Chicago in most of the States. Mem. Round Table Study Club. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.


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Rh COOPER, Emma Lampert (Mrs. Colin Campbell Cooper), 222 W. 59th St., N.Y. City.

Artist; b. Nunda, N.Y.; dau. Henry and Janette (Smith) Lampert; grad. Wells Coll.; studied at Art Students' League, Cooper Union, and with Miss Agnes D. Abatt In water colors; with Harry Thompson, and at Delacleuse Acad., Paris. Has charge of Art Dep't Foster School, Clifton Springs, two years, and of painting classes at Mechanics' Inst., Rochester, 1893-97; m. Rochester, N.Y., June 9, 1897, Colin Campbell Cooper, artist, of Philadelphia. Has been abroad many times since 1886, painting interiors and street scenes in oil and water colors in France, Holland, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. Mem. N.Y. Water Color Club; Am. Water Color Soc.; Woman's Art Club, N.Y. City; Philadelphia Water Color Club; Woman's Art Ass'n, Canada; one of founders of Eastern Ass'n of Wells Coll., N.Y.; pres. Soc. of Women Painters. Awarded medal World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; bronze medals awarded at the Atlanta Exposition, 1895, St. Louis Exposition, 1904 (for oil and water colors); water color prize Woman's Art Club, N.Y. City, 1907. Representative pictures: Morning Near Riverdale; High Noon, Cape Ann; Mother Claudius Fireside, 1889; The Bread Winner (medal Chicago, and exhibited Paris Exposition, 1900); News of the Day; Weaving Homespun; Swiss Fireplace; Canal at Lisieux, 1909.

COOPER, Jane Barnes (Mrs. Job A. Cooper), 1500 Grant Av., Denver, Colo.

Born Downer's Grove, Ill., Nov. 28, 1843, dau. Rev. Romulus and Olivia (Denham) Barnes; grad. Rockford Sem., Ill., 1863; m. Galesburg, Ill., Sept. 17, 1867, Job A. Cooper, afterward Governor of Colorado; children: Olivia, Mary Louise, Charles J., Genevieve Pearl. Pres. Board of Brotherly Relief Colony for destitute consumptives. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. Descendants of the Mayflower (descending from Gov. William Bradford). Was second treas. of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Denver Fortnightly Club.

COOPER, Ola Beth Capron, 134 Beaver St., Beaver, Pa.

Teacher; b. Ava, N.Y.; dau. Smith M. and Sarah Jane (Jillson) Capron; grad. Boonville High School, N.Y., '87; Cornell Univ., B.L. '91; N.Y. Univ., M.L. '06 (mem. Delta Gamma); m. Roche Harbor, Wash., Aug. 16, 1905, David K. Cooper; children: David K., Jr., b. Feb. 1, 1907; Ola, b. Sept 4, 1908. Teacher of German in Richmond Hill High School, N.Y. City, 1898-1905. United Presbyterian. Mem. D.A.R., Woman's Club of Beaver. Favors woman suffrage.

COPASS, Alice Reynolds (Mrs. James H. Copass), 310 E. Broadway St., Altus, Jackson Co., Okla.

Born Van Alstyne, Tex., Aue. 15, 1882; dau. Frank M. and Texie (Cantrell) Aycock; ed. high school and nomal course; m. Dec. 23. 1901, James H. Copass; children: Jack Malcolm, Emma Leah. Pres. of local chapter, 1910-12, and second vice-pres. Oklahoma Division of United Daughters of Confederacy; charter mem. of chapter of D.A.R., organization now being perfected. Mem. Erolethian Club (pres. 1910-11). Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.

COPP, Evelyn Fletcher (Mrs. Alfred E. Copp), 31 York Terrace, Brookline, Mass.

Musician and originator of Fletcher music method; b. Woodstock, Can., 1872; dau. Ashton Fletcher, Q. C, and Annie (Stidston) Fletcher; ed. in Canada, England, Belgium and Germany; m. N.Y. City, May 8, 1901, Alfred E. Copp; children: Theodore, Colin, Margaret, Eric. Made mem. of Incorporated Soc. of Musicians of Great Britain after lecture before this Soc., 1899; lectured before International Council of Women's Clubs twice in 1910, under presidency of Countess of Aberdeen. Mem. Lyceum Club, London, Eng., Twentieth Century Club, Boston, and many music clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Brookline branch, also mem. of Mass. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Author: A Manual on Music Teaching. Editor of the only magazine for the discussion of music as a means of education for children; has published several articles on music and the child creative ability. Episcopalian.

CORBETT, Gail Sherman (Mrs. Harvey W. Corbett), 443 W. 21st St., N.Y. City.

Sculptor: b. Syracuse, N.Y.; dau. Frederick Coe and Emma Jane (Ostrander) Sherman; ed. Syracuse High School, Anne Brown School, N.Y. City, Art Student's League of N.Y. and in Paris, pupil of Augustus Saint Gaudens; m. Syracuse, N.Y., June 28. 1905, Harvey Wiley Corbett, architect; one daughter: Jean Corbett, b. 1906. Mem. Woman's Municipal League, N.Y. State Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Monuments: Hamilton S. White Memorial, Syracuse, N.Y.; Kirkpatrick Memorial Fountain, Syracuse; bronze doors, Springfield Municipal group, Mass., etc. Mem. Nat. Sculpture Soc, Am. Numismatic Soc.

CORBETT, Mary Schofield White (Mrs. Walter Provost Corbett), 230 Gilmore St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Born Derbyshire, England, Sept. 7, 1865; dau. Rev. Edward and Elizabeth (Bowden) White; ed. Wesleyan Female Coll., Macon, Ga., A.B. '82 (Phi Mu); m. Americus, Ga., Jan. 1, 1886, Walter Provost Corbett; children: Roy Wallace, Alice, Elizabeth, Martha. Mem. Board of Directors of Associated Charities of Jacksonville, Fla.; treas. of the Recreation Ass'n. Jacksonville; ex-pres. Woman's Club of Jacksonville; vice-regent Florida State Chapter Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire in U.S. of America. Episcopalian.

CORBIN, Alberta Linton, 1108 Ohio St., Lawrence, Kan.

College professor; b. Mound City, Kan., April 24, 1870; dau. Myron M. and Lizzie (Linton) Corbin; ed. Univ. of Kan. (Phi Beta Kappa) '93; Yale Univ., Ph.D. '01; studied at Univ. of Berlin, 1910-11. Assistant prof, of German, Univ. of Kan., 1901-10; associate prof., Univ. of Kan., 1911—. Mem. College Equal Franchise League, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Modern Language Ass'n. Recreation: Country walking. Unitarian. Progressive in politics. Active in campaign for Equal Suffrage amendment in Kansas, 1911-12.

CORBIN, Caroline Fairfield (Mrs. Calvin Richard Corbett), 1523 Dearborn Av., Chicago, Ill.

Author; b. Pomfret, Conn., Nov. 9, 1835; dau. Jason Williams and Hanna Dana (Chandler) Williams; ed. Brooklyn Female Acad.; m. Chicago, 1861, Calvin Richard Corbin. Author: Our Bible Class and the Good that Came of It; Rebecca, or Woman's Secret; His Marriage Vow; Letters from a Chimney Comer; A Woman's Philosophy of Love. Pres. Ill. Ass'n Opposed to Woman Suffrage; one of founders of Ass'n for Advancement of Women.

CORBIN, Hetty M. (Mrs. John Corbin), Del Rio, Tex.

Born Germany, 1883; dau. Simon and Julia (Freyer) Fromholz; ed. in Germany, N.Y. public schools, special courses at home, then spent two and one-half years in Germany and England; m. N.Y. City, Oct 23, 1907, John Corbin. Sec. Women's Auxiliary of Y.W.C.A.; mem. Episcopal Church Guild; pres. second year of Women's Club; helped organize Woman's Auxiliary of Y.M.C.A.; mem. New Century Club. Recreations: Driving, riding, out-door exercises. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

CORBUS, Florence Josephine (Mrs. Frederick Godfrey Corbus), 208 Glenn Road, Ardmore, Pa.

Born Madison, Wis., June 29, 1878; dau. Isaac Pope and Josephine Adelaide (Miller) Ketcham; ed. Univ. of Wis., B.L. '01, M.L. '03; John C. Freeman fellowship In English, 1902-03 (junior year, 1899-1900, at Bryn Mawr Coll); m. Jun, 11, 1907, Frederick Godfrey Corbus; one son: Frederick Godfrey Corbus Jr., b. Jan. 15, 1911. Mem. Consumers' League of Philadelphia, Nat. Child Labor Committee, Main Line Housing Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Mem. Nat. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumni, College Club of Philadelphia.

CORCILIUS, Inez, 872 Spring St, Jamestown, N.Y.

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206 dau. Max P. and Melusine (Neuhaus) Corcilius; ed. Jamestown public schools, finishing in high school in 1896, then entering Cornell, grad. A.B. 1900 (mem. Phi Beta Kappa). Has taught in high schools of Richmond Borough since 1900— first in Tottenville High School, then Port Richmond High School, then Curtis High School, New Brighton. Mem. Students' Aid Soc. of Richmond Borough. Interested in Single Tax movement and Socialist movement, in the New Thought Philosophy and Christian Science. Mem. Woman's Suffrage Club of N.Y. City. Recreations: Tennis, water sports, skating, walking, reading, music, theatre.

CORE, Matilda McClure McKeehan (Mrs. Paul Albert Agassiz Core), 108 Le Moyne Av., Washington, Pa.

Born Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 5, 1874; dau. Joseph Hamlin and Mary (Parker) McKeehan; ed. Metzger Coll., Carlisle, Pa., and Bryn Mawr Coll., Bryn Mawr, Pa., also degree from Alliance Française of Paris, France; m. Carlisle, Pa., Sept 12, 1911, Paul Albert Agassiz Core. Interested in playgrounds and all work for children. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian; mem. of a mission circle, also a literary and social society. Recreations: Reading, walking, tennis, hunting, out-door sports, cards, dancing.

COREY, Caroline Heberd (Mrs. Fred Brainard Corey), 245 Maple Av., Edgewood Park, Pa.

Born Homer, N.Y., April 5, 1868; dau. Lyman H. and Clara (Hobart) Heberd; ed. Homer (N.Y.) Acad., Homer, and Cornell Univ., B.L. '93; m. Homer, N.Y., May 23, 1894, Fred Brainard Corey; children: Robert Brainard, Edward Lyman. Mem. Woman's Club of Edgewood. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

COREY, Delia Brigham (Mrs. Edwin S. Corey), Northboro, Mass.

Born Boylston, Mass., 1858; dau. John and Mary S. (Bemis) Brigham; ed. Northborough High School; Framingham State Normal School, Mass.; m. Baltimore, Dec, 1884, Edwin Sawtelle Corey; Children: Florence Ellen, Marjorie Mary, Dorothy. Was school teacher in Amesbury and there met John Greenleaf Whittier socially; later critic teacher at Normal School, Framingham, Mass. Identified with public service in Northborough through Woman's Club, of which is pres.; ex-mem. School Com. of Northborough. Active in woman's dep't of church work. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Progressive. Mem. Grange, W.C.T.U., Northborough Historical Soc. Recreations: Driving, reading, music.

CORKRAN, Anna M. L. (Mrs. Benjamin Withgott Corkran), 200 Goodwood Garden, Roland Park, Baltimore, Md.

Born Baltimore, Md., May 31, 1858; dau. James P. and Anna Maria (Lowe) Lloyd; ed. in the Baltimore schools; grad. Eastern High School, with highest honor in class; m. Baltimore, Mar. 15, 1882, Benjamin Withgott Cockran, Jr.; children: Lloyd Griffith, B. Warren, D. Clarke Corkran. Chairman Social Service Com. of St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church of Roland Park. Mem. Eastern High School Alumnae Ass'n, Consumers' League of Md., Woman's Auxiliary of the Md. Civil Service Reform Ass'n, State Child Labor Com., State School Attendance Com., Civic League of Roland Park and various organizations for philanthropic and social betterment. Mem. Arundell Club, Woman's Club of Roland Park when the club house was built. Baltimore, Neighborhood Improvement Club of Govans, State Fed. of Women's Clubs, Baltimore Country Club. Was pres. Woman's Club of Roland Park when the club house was built. Has just finished three years' term as pres. Md. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; also active in organization of Consumers' League of Md. Pres. Women's Civic League of Baltimore, an organization of over 1,000 women. Favors woman suffrage.

CORLISS, Maria Louisa, 45 Prospect St., Providence, R.I.

Born Greenwich, N.Y., Dec. 13, 1839; dau. George H. and Phoebe F. (Frost) Corliss. Interested in religious education, child welfare, botany, ornithology and St. Elizabeth Home for Incurables and Convalescents. Mem. Audubon Soc, Horticultural Soc, Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions, Art Club, Water Color Club, Arion Club (associate). Recreations: Vocal music, sketching. Episcopalian.

CORN, Hannah (Mrs. J. M. Corn), Norman, Okla.

Missionary work; b. Tenn., Feb. 25, 1854; dau. James and Evylin (Gains) Taylor; ed. Oak Hill Sem. in Middle Tenn.; m. 1882, J. M. Corn of Tenn.; children: James, Ennis, Minnie, Alvah, Lena, Flora, Emmet. Active in church and charity work and in the Aid and Missionary socs. of the Baptist Church; vice-pres. Civic Club of Norman, Okla. Favors woman suffrage.

CORNELIUS, Mary Ann (Mrs. Samuel Cornelius), 6500 Monroe Av., Chicago, Ill.

Author; b. Pontiac, Mich., Sept. 25, 1829; dau. Lewis Whiting and Elvira (Bagley) Mann; ed. Pontiac Acad.; m. Pontiac Mich., 1850, Samuel Cornelius (died 1886); one son: William Louis, b. 1852. Former pres. W.C.T.U. of Arkansas; always identified with philanthropic work; lived several years at Tacoma, Wash., where she established a free reading room and circulating library for the young. Former director of humane societies at Topeka, Kan., and Tacoma, Wash. Author: Little Wolf; Uncle Nathan's Farm; The White Flame; Why? or A Kansas Girl's Query. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat.

CORNELIUS, Olivia Smith (Mrs. Harry A. Cornelius), 225 Roup St., E.E., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Author; b. Pittsburgh, Pa., July 23, 1882; dau. George Carson Smith, railway official and financier, and Jennie (Prosser) Smith; ed. private schools and Adrian Coll., Mich.; m. Adrian, Mich., Oct. 9, 1901, Harry A. Cornelius. Author: The Eyes at the Window; The Persian Tassel, 1913.

CORNELL, Clara Garfield, 909 Lafayette St., Bridgeport, Conn.

Normal supervisor; b. Bridgeport, Conn., Dec 23, 1880; dau. Major George W. and Maria Theresa (Beach) Cornell; ed. Bridgeport High School, 1894-98; Bridgeport City Normal School, 1898-1900; Ithaca High School, 1902-1903; Cornell Univ., A.B. '06; Yale Univ., 1906-07; Woodford Speaker in Oratory, '06 (Semnightly Soc.), Chairman Educational Com. Y.W.C.A., Bridgeport, Conn.; teacher of Teachers' Training Class, St. John's Sunday-school; talks before various organizations. Writer of articles on varied topics in local papers. Mem. D.A.R., Underhill Soc. of America, Brooklawn Country Club. Cornell Women's Club of N.Y. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Bridgeport Equal Suffrage League.

CORNELL, Emma Butler (Mrs. Franklin B. Cornell), 33 Porter Av., Elgin, Ill.

Born Huntley, Ill., Sept. 4, 1868; dau. David H. and Mary E. (Sharp) Butler; ed. Elgin Acad. (grad. '84) and Lake Forest Coll. (classical course): m. Mar. 8, 1888, Franklin B. Cornell; children: Mary, Emma, Ethel, Margaret. Baptist. Mem. White Shrine, Chicago, Ill. Recreation: Golf. Pres. Kane Co. Fed. of Clubs (600 mem), 1908-10; chairman of Literature and Reciprocity of Ill. State Fed., 1910-12. Against woman suffrage.

CORNELL, Lucinda Vail (Mrs. William T. Cornell), 495 West End Av., N.Y. City.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Thomas L. and Eliza Vail (Moser) Rushmore; ed. Mile. Rostan's School, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '70; m. Mamaroneok, N.Y., Nov. 25, 1874, William T. Cornell; children: Mrs. E. T. Child (Lilian R.), Mrs. J. M. Kent (Florence S.). Episcopalian. Mem. Vassar Alumnae Ass'n (pres. N.Y. branch), Vassar Students' Aid Soc. (twice pres.), Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Nat. Geographic Soc, Mamaroneck Kindergarten Ass'n, N.Y.; Philharmonic Soc, Woman's Guild (All Angels' Church); patron of Metropolitan Museum of Art; mem. Women's University Club and Rubinstein Club.

CORNISH, Ida Galpin Skilton (Mrs. Robert Harrison Cornish), 38 St. Luke's Place, Montclair, N.J.

Graduated from Smith Coll., B.A. '84; m. Aug.


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Rh 16, 1888, Robert Harrison Cornish; children: Margaret Beach, b. Sept. 4, 1889; Ruth Harrison, b. Nov. 7, 1891; Robert Sanford, b. May 9, 1894. Teacher Norfolk (Conn.) Classical School, 1884-86; Wallingford (Conn.) High School, 1886-88.

CORNWELL, Martha Jackson, Virginia Av., West Chester, Pa.

Sculptor; b. West Chester, Pa., Jan. 29, 1869; dau. Robert Thompson and Lydia (Jackson) Cornwell; ed. high school and at West Chester (Pa.), Normal School, West Chester; School of Design, Philadelphia; Art Students' League, N.Y. City; pupil of Augustus Saint Gaudens. For ten years had studio at 152 W. Fifty-seventh St., N.Y., and works chiefly in portraiture; now at West Chester, Pa. Has made a water trough at West Chester, Pa., several portraits in low relief, and portrait medallions; also several small bronze statuettes, principally of children. Mem. Board of Directors of West Chester Public Library. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Fellowship of Acad. of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Art Students' League, N.Y. City. Recreation: Golf. Mem. West Chester Golf and Country Club.

CORRICK, Jeannette R. Trowbridge (Mrs. John H. Corrick), Culbertson, Neb.

Editor, former teacher; b. Hamilton, O., Nov. 26, 1861; dau. Rev. William A. and Mary A. (Pease) Trowbridge; ed. Cincinnati High School and Cal. Normal School; m. Ottumwa, Ia., Sept. 26, 1885, John H. Corrick of Burlington Hawkeye. Teacher until marriage; lived in San Jose, Cal., 10 years; for past 10 years in Western Nebraska. Now associate editor of Culbertson Banner and Palisade Times (both owned by husband). Mem. Neb. State Press Ass'n. Active in church work; mem. W.C.T.U.; much interested in conservation, civics and civil service reform. Favors woman suffrage. Christian. Past State pres. Rebekah Assembly I.O.O.F. of Neb.; mem. Woman's Relief Corps, Home Culture Club, Golden Rod Club, Woman's Club; State officer in Neb. Fed. of Women's Clubs (vice-pres. Fifth Dist.).

CORSON- WHITE, Ellen Pawling (Mrs. Eben Wesley White), 216 S. Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Physician; b. Norristown, 1874; dau. John J. and Rebecca Pawling (Freedley) Corson; grad. Wellesley Coll, '97; Woman's Med. Coll. of Pa., '02; mem. Alpha Epsilon Iota; m. Norristown, Sept. 9, 1904, Dr. Eben Wesley White; children: John J. Corson White, b. Dec. 8, 1905; Henry Freedley Corson White, b. June 5, 1907. Instructor nervous diseases, Polyclinic Hospital and College for Graduates in Medicine, 1906-09; ass't pathologist, Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Philadelphia, 1910-11; pathologist, bacteriologist and serologist, Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Philadelphia, 1912-13. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Studies with Wassermann Reaction; Review of Serum Reactions, etc. (in collaboration with Dr. S. D. W. Ludlum); also in collaboration with Dr. Leo Loeb, various papers on experimental cancer research; monograph: Manual Therapy in Some Minor Disorders, a study of the venom of the Heloderma for presence of antibodies. Episcopalian. Mem. Philadelphia Pathological Soc, Philadelphia Neurological Soc., Philadelphia County Med. Soc.

CORT, Lottie Ambler, 89 Division Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Physician; b. N.Y. City, Jan. 25, 1860; dau. William King and Charlotte A. (Conklin) Cort; ed. Brooklyn grammar and academic schools, with private teachers, and in the N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women, M.D. '83. Elected sec. of Memorial Hospital Staff, 1886, continuing till 1912; treas. of Memorial Hospital staff; pres. Memorial Dispensary staff 25 years. Mem. St. John's M.E. Church, Y.W.C.A. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Political Equality League of N.Y., N.Y. State Woman's Suffrage Ass'n, King's Co. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, Elizabeth Cady Stanton League of Brooklyn. Mem. Kings Co. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. State Homoeopathic Soc, Am. Institute of Homoeopathy. Mem. Chiropean Club of Brooklyn, Woman's Club of Chautauqua, N.Y.

CORTTSSOZ, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (Mrs. Royal Cortissoz), 31 W. Tenth St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. N.Y. City; ed. N.Y. City schools; m. Royal Cortissoz, literary editor and art critic of N.Y. Tribune. Editor: Edmund Clarence Stedman Library of American Literature (11 vols.). Author: Songs and Lyrics.

CORWIN, Mary Beatrice (Mrs. Edwin M. Corwin), 49 Bodman Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Publisher; b. Eddyville, Ky.; dau. David Strauss and Anna Maria (Herr) Holman; grad. Xenia (Ohio) High School; student of Teachers' course and special studies in Lebanon (Ohio) Normal School; student at Antioch Coll.; course in elocution, Cooper Inst., Dayton, Ohio; m. Xenia, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1884, Edwin M. Corwin; one daughter: Louie Estelle, wife of Dr. Darwin B. Pond, Chicago. Former teacher Ohio public schools; journalist and publisher in Cincinnati, Ohio, for 15 years; editor and publisher Club Woman's Magazine five years. Editor "Woman's Clubs" Dep't Daily Cincinnatian-American. Mem. Civic and Suffrage Clubs; actively engaged in W.C.T.U.; mem. Am. Branch of Folk-Lore Soc. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Susan B. Anthony Club and Harriet Taylor Upton Study Club, Cincinnati. Author: How the Promise Was Kept and Other Stories; poems: A New Year's Retrospect; The Old Cathedral; A Birthday Roundelay; The Amulet and the Pearl; When Amaryllis Calls Her Family; A Rose Leaf; Tiny Lou; Ode to the Old Bell, etc. Non-sectarian.

CORY, Sarah Morris (Mrs. Frank Cory), 123 W. Forty-fourth St., N.Y. City.

Artist; b. N.Y. City, Feb. 21, 1852; dau. Alfred and Elizabeth Morris (Van Bokkelen) Roe; ed. Miss Ballou's private school (took five prizes on graduation); Art Schools of Nat. Acad, of Design (honorable mention); studio of Walter Satterlee (money prize) ; School of Applied Design for Women (medal); m. (1st) Nov. 29, 1869, Newton Hoff; (2d) Dec. 2, 1873, Frank Cory. Has exhibited paintings in Paris and other cities. Expert lantern slide colorist. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Equal Suffrage League of N.Y., Soc. for Political Study. Episcopalian. Democrat. Mem. D.A.R., U.S. Daughters of 1812, Order of Eastern Star, Professional Woman's League, Daughters of Rebecca. Mem. Union Literary Club, Woman's Democratic Club, Fortnightly Club, Shakespeare Club.

COSBY, Charlotte Malvina (Mrs. Frank Carvill Cosby), Washington, D.C.

Born Chestertown, Md.; dau. Samuel Wright and Harriet M. (Chapman) Spencer; ed. Mount Holly, Philadelphia; m. Frank Carvill Cosby (Pay Director, U.S. Navy); children: Spencer Frank Clark, Arthur Fortunatus. Mem. Army and Navy League, Washington Club, Woman's Welfare Dep't Nat. Civic Fed. Episcopalian.

COSGROVE, Henrietta C. (Mrs. Aruna Phelps Cosgrove), Joplin, Mo.

Writer, philanthropist, political worker; b. Eckford, Mich., Feb. 9, 1849; dau. William Jackson and Clarissa C. (Dresser) Jackson; ed. common schools and Prof. Olney's School, Fairbury, Ill.; m. South Bend, Ind., Aruna Phelps Cosgrove; children: Chester Colfax, Helen Mar Cosgrove (Strohm). Originator of the movement for Mother Pension Laws in U.S., which have been adopted in several States; vice-pres. for Mo. of the Southern Conference on Woman and Child Labor; inclined to socialism. Favors woman suffrage; vice-pres. Suffrage League. Author of Amateur Art, a general book of instruction for beginners in art, especially in oil, water color and china painting. Progressive in politics.

COSTIGAN, Mabel Cory (Mrs. Edward P. Costigan), 1642 Detroit St., Denver, Colo.

Born Patchgrove, Wis., Aug. 28, 1873; dau. Dr. J. B. and Amanda (McLean) Cory; ed. Denver grade schools, East Denver High School, Denver Normal and Preparatory School; m. Denver, Colo., June 12, 1903, Edward P. Costigan. First vice-pres. of the Woman's Club of Denver; historian of Colo, branch of Nat. Congress of Mothers; mem. Board of Directors of the Woman's Public Service League of Denver; pres.