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affairs. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

HEAXY, Mary Lucy UufTman (Mrs. Thomas

Davis Healy), 923 First Av., South, Fort

Dodge, Iowa.

Born Iowa; grad. Parsons Coll., Fairfield, Iowa, B.S., B.A. '89, M.A. '92; Smith Coll., B.A. '90; m. Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 16, 1898, Thomas Davis Healy (died Jan. 15, 1909); children: Hiatt Huffman, b. July 16, 1901, Elizabeth, b. Nov. 14, 1902; Thomas Davis Jr., b. April 27, 1904. Teacher of English and Latin, Fort Dodge (Iowa) High School, 1891-97; principal, 1897-98. IIKAUD, Mary Kathrina, Iowa City, la.

Physician; b. Flushing, Mich., Sept. 17, 1869; dau. Amos B. Heard, M.D., and Amanda J. (Stunt?) Heard; ed. public schools of North East, Pa.; Univ. of Mich,. Ph.C. '92; Univ. of Iowa, B.Ph., M.D. '05, M.S. '07. Physician to young women of State Univ. of Iowa, 1905-12. Con- nected with Med. Coll. of State Univ. of Iowa; assistant prof, in ophthalmology, otology, rhino- laryngology. Sup't of organization of young women in local church, Sunday-school teacher. Mem. Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of Methodist Church and official board of M.B. Church; mem. Order of Eastern Star, King's Daughters, Am. Med. Ass'n, Am. Acad, of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, Iowa State Med. Soc, State Soc. Iowa Med. Women, Iowa Union Med. Soc, Johnson Co. Med. Soc, Pro- fessional Women's League, Friendship Guild, Philosophical Club. Favors woman suffrage. HEARST, Phoebe Apperson (Mrs. George Hearst), Hacienda del Pozo de Verona, Pleas- anton, Cal.

Philanthropist; dau. R. W. Appereon; ed. In Cal.; taught school one year; m. San Francisco, June 15, 1862, George Hearst (who became U.S. Senator from Cal. and died In 1891); one son: William Randolph Hearst, b. April, 1863. Has large mining Interests at Lead, S.Dak. ; Butte, Mont, and elsewhere. Active in philanthropic work for women and girls and in education of young people; has established kindergarten classes in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Lead, S.Dak., where she now maintains kinder- garten classes for 300 children; gave $250,000 to liuild Nat. Cathedral School at Washington, U.C. ; formerly maintained free libraries at Butte, Mont., and Lead, S.Dak., which she later presented to the municipalities. Has made large donations to the Univ. of Cal., where she erected and equipped the large mining building, as a memorial to her husband. Regent of Univ. of Cal. Mem. Golden Gate Kindergarten Ass'n, Mt. Verncn Ass'n (vice-regent for Cal.), Century Club of San Francisco (was its first pres.), Dbell Club of Oakland.

HEATH, Blanche Thayer (Mrs. John Heath), 382 Lincoln Av., Palo Alto, Cal. Born San Francisao, Oct. 3, 1865; dau. WUliaan Newton and Abigail Martha (Davis) Meeks; ed. Paris, France; Oakland, Cal.; Stanford Univ., 1912—; m. Oakland, Feb. 21, 1889, John Heath; children: Constance Adela, John. Organist and concert accompanist. Sec. first Woman's Suf- frage League of Oakland; sec. Woman's Con- gress Auxiliary of Oakland. Christian Scientist, Democrat. Meim. Peninsula Musical Ass'n; hon. mem. Circle Frangaise de Stanford. Recreations: Music, motoring.

HEATH, Ella Conway (Mrs. Perry S. Heath), 2100 S St., Washing-ton, -D.C. Born April 11, 1871; dau. George W. and Mar- garet (Bacon) Con-way; ed. Miss Belle Peer's School, Louisville, Ky. ; m. Louisville. Ky., Sept. 17, 1890, Perry S. Heath (prominent newspaper publisher and editor). Mem. Board of Directors Y.W.C.A. of Washington, D.C. Presbyterian. HEATH, Mrs. Julian, 170 W. Eighty-eighth St., N.T. City.

Born Stonington, Conn., Jan., 1866; dau. Will- lam L. and Mary J. (Church) Dewey; ed. Bridge- port, Conn., and grad. N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, 1892, Julian Heath; one son, Julian Dewey Heath. Began philanthropic work at age of 15, pioneer In settlement, kindergarten, play- ground and fresh air work; active in church

��work as leader King's Daughters. One of three original founders of Jacob Riis Settlement, and pres. of board for 15 years. Founder of tene- ment cooking classes and schools of house- keeping for tenement women; founder and Nat. Pres. of Housewives League, 1911. Episcopalian. Mem. Housewives League, City Federation of Women's Clubs, State Federation of Women's Clubs, Woman's Forum, Nat. Soc. of New Eng- land Women.

HEATH, Marie Barbara Senn (Mrs. Thomas Hunter Heath), 6027 Roxbury Av., Seattle, Wash.

Born Enterprise, Kan., July 6, 1872; dau. Senator M. and Josephine (Meyer) Senn; ed. Kan. State Agricultural Coll., B.S. '90, M.S. '93; m. Lasita, Kan., Jan. 1, 1903, Thomas Hunter Heath; chil- dren: Senn Hunter, b. Jan. 27, 1904; Josephine, b. Aug. 19, 1906; Henry Thomas, b. April 19, 1910. Teacher in grades and high school. Enter- prise, Kan., 1893-94; organized there a summer school of domestic science, 1894; prof, of house- hold economics in N.Dak. State Agricultural Coll., 1894-1902. Has lectured on home economic problems before farmers' Institutes in N.Dak. and Wash., and before Ohautauquas, State suf- frage and W.C.T.U. conventions, women's clubs. State federations of clubs and before schools and churches. Has helped in social center work, Parent-Teachers' League, girls' clubs. Uni- tarian; church trustee in Fargo, N.Dak. and Everett, Wash. Interested in home science and art In ctty schools and of organizing the work for the rural districts in connection with con- solidated schools; agricultural teaching in city and country schools. Mem. Soc. of Social and Moral Hygiene, Civic Improvement Soc, Woman's Club of Rainier Beach, Seattle. Favorg woman suffrage.

HEATH-PROCTOR, Alice Lorraine (Mrs. Chas.

Willis Proctor), 12 Bidwell Parkway, Buffalo,

N.Y.

Osteopathic physician; b. Narsand, N.Y. ; dau. Lorenzo Dow and Augusta Thankful (Hibbard) Heath; ed. Sharon (Pa.) High School; Warrens- burg (Mo.) Normal School; Allegheny Coll., Meadvllle,, Pa., A.B., A.M.; Am. School of Os- teopathy, Klrksville, Mo.; m. Kirksville, Mo., Dec. 31, 1886, Charles Willis Proctor, A.M., Ph.D D.D.; children: Ruth and Willis Heath Proctor.' Interested in several missionary societies, W.C.T.U., McCall Mission, Bethesda Home Soc. of U.S. of America (a mission to lepers), Y.W.C.A. Methodist. Mem. Am. Osteopathic Ass'n, Western Osteopathic Ass'n, Daughters of 1812 (Frontier Chapter), New England Women (Colony No. 2), Eastern Star (Salome Chapter). Recreations: Gardening, motoring. Favora woman suffrage.

HEATON, Lucia Elizabeth, Canton, N.Y.

Physician; b. Canton, N.Y., June 18, 1856; dau. Ira Willmarth and Lucinda (Langdon) Heaton; ed. Canton Union School, St. Lawrence, Univ. and Woman's Med. Coll. of the N.Y. Infirmary, B.S., M.S., M.D. (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). In general practice in Canton, N.Y., since 1892; has done temperance and suffrage work foi years; lectured on health topics under the N.Y. State Department of Agriculture, 1910-12; lecturei on Sex Hygiene for N.Y. State Department ol Health. Superintendent of franchise in the local W.C.T.U. Universalist. Mem. State and County Med. Soc, Woman's Med. Soc. of State of N.Y., Woman's Med. Soc. of City of N.Y., Phi Beta Kappa, Soc. of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, W.C.T.U. Favors woman suffrage.

HEB.\RD, Grace Raymond, Laramie, Wyo.

Professor of economics and librarian at Stat« Univ. of Wyoming; dau. Rev. George D. A. and Margaret E. D. (Marvin) Hebard; ed. State Univ. of Iowa, B.S. '82, M.A. '85; Illinois Wesleyan Univ., Ph.D. '93 (mem. Pi BeU Phi, Iowa Zeta). First woman to be admitted to Wyoming bar, 1898; trustee of the State Univ. of Wyoming, 1891-1903 (sec. of board 1891-1908); draftsman U.S. Surveyor's Office, 1882-86; librarian of Wyoming State Univ., 1S91—. Teacher of political and economic science, Univ. of Wyoming, since 1903. Pres. of State Board of Examiners for Teacbers,

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��1909-10. Trustee of the Wyoming State His- torical Soc. ; lecturer at teachers' institutes; Btory teller at public library and book reviewer tor pupils In public schools of Laramie, Wyo. Author: The Government and History of Wyoming, text-book; The Pathbreakers from River to Ocean; Sacajawea— The Pilot to the White Men; The First Woman Jury; also articles on suffrage and Western developments for maga- Eines and periodicals. Recreations: Held State championship in tennis, singles and mixed loubles, also State championship in golf, singles and mixed doubles. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Independent Republican; was one of the com. of three women, 1889, appointed by a State convention of women to draft a set of resolutions asking the State Constitutional Ck)nventlon to insert clause granting woman suffrage. State historian D.A.R., was first regent of the organization in Wyoming; State historian for Wyoming of Coloniaj Dames of Wyoming; mem. State Fed. of Women's Clubs, Wyoming; officer of State Teachers Ass'n, Wyoming.

HEDDEN, Rose C. del Pino (Mrs. Edward Harold Headen), 465 West End Av., N.T. City. Born N.Y. City, April 19, 1866; dau. Marcos

del Pino and Amalia Sorondo y del Portillo; ed

aA. Madame A. C. Mears',' N.Y. City; m. N.Y.

City, April 21, 1897, Edward Harold Hedden.

Episcopalian.

HEDGEB, Caroline, 29 E. Madison St., Chicago. Physician; b. Ohio, 1868; dau. John and Maria (Caskey) Hedger; ed. Willoughby High School; Berea (Ky.) CoU. ; Wellesley Coll.; Rush Med. Coll., M.D. '04; Northwestern Univ., M.D. '99 (mem. A.E.I.-Medieal). Engaged in baby cam- paign four years for health dep't. Mem. Chicago Woman's Club, Chicago Woman's City Club. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Campaigp Against Summer Diarrhcea (111. Med. Jour.) ; Study on Below Grade Children in the Stock Yards (t&w2); Infant Mortality In Relation to Long Hours of Work (Bull. Am. Acad, of Med.); Tuberculosis in the Stock Yards (World's Work). Mem. Nat. Aaa'n Infant Welfare, Chicago Ass'n Infant Welfare, Am. Med. Aas'n, Chicago Med. Soc.

HEDGES, Agnes Jane, 2389 Hutchinson St.,

Montreal, Canada.

Teacher of French and German; b. Colchester, Bng., Nov. 3, 1873; dau. Edwin Thomas and Marianne (Thompson) Hedges; ed. in schools at Alton, Hants, Eng., 1883-86; passed Trinity Coll. (London) senior exam, in pianoforte playing, and South Kensington exams, in botany and physiology, 1888-89; Girls' High School, Leighton Buzzard, Eng., 1887-88, 1890-92; Villa Bellevue, Brussels, Belguim, 1894-96, and Bonn am Rhein, Germany, 1901-03. Teacher of French and music at King's Hall, Compton, P.Q., Canada, 1897- 1901; private governess to the daughter of Jerome K. Jerome, 1905-06, at Gould's Grove, Walling- ford, Eng.; principal of Dunham Ladies' Coll., P.Q., Canada, Sept., 1909, to Dec, 1910. Mem. Church of England. Recreations: Piano playing, croquet, bridge, photography, reading, needle- work. Clubs: Calanda (St. George's Sq., London, Elng.); New Era (London, Bng.). Former mem. of Ladles' Club (Cape Town, S. Africa). Was Ijanguage Mistress at the Girls' High School, Rondebosh, Cape Torsm, S. Africa.

UEDLEY, Evalena Fryer (Mrs. Thomas Wilson Hedley), 4615 Springfield Av., Philadelphia, Pa.

Writer; b. West Chester, Pa.; dau. John Plum- mer and Mary (Goheen) Fryer; ed. Philadelphia publif schools; Wellesley School, Philadelphia; m. Philadelphia, June 16, 1904, Thomas Wilson Hedley. Editor of Sunday-school papers of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1890-97; on editorial staff of Saturday Evening Post, 1899- 1904; compiler of Glimpses Through Life's Win- dow; contributor to juvenile publications, gen- eral writer on household topics for newspapers. Interested in philanthropic work. Old Folks' Home and hospitals. Gives travel talks, illus- trated with stereoptican views. Mem. Woman Suffrage Soc. of Philadelphia, Bro-wnlng Soc.,

��Pa. Woman's Press Ass'n, Soc. of Arts and Let- ters, University Extension Soc. Presbyterian. HEDRICK, Ellen A., Tale University Librar>-.

New Haven, Conn.

Librarian; b. Washington, D.C. ; dau. Benja- min Sherwood and Mary Ellen (Thompson) Hed- rick; ed. private schools in Washington, D.C; Smith Coll., A.B. '92; N.Y. State Library School, 1901-02. CJataloguer in the U.S. Geological Sur- vey Library, Washington, D.C, 1902-05; Library of Congress, 1905-07; cataloguer and reviser in Yale University Library, 1907 —. Mem. Equal Franchise League of New Haven, Conn. Com- piled: List of References Relating to Irrigation, 1902. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Am. Library Ass'n, Conn. Library Ass'n. Recreation: Walking. HEDRICK, Hannah Fancher Mace (Mrs. Henry

Benjamin Hedrick), Box 736, Tale Station,

New Haven, Conn.

Mathematician; b. Walton, N.Y., Jan. 9, 1870; dau. Abram Lansing and Anna (Fancher) Mace; ed. Vassar Coll., B.A. with honor; Yale Univ. grad. school (Qui Vive, Phi Beta Kappa); m. Walton, N.Y., April 30, 1896, Henry Benjamin Hedrick; children: Benjamin Mace, Anna Fan- cher, Eleanor Thompson. Fellow in mathe- matics, Vassar, 1892-93; scholar in mathematics, Yale, 1893-94; computer Nautical AJumnse, 1894. Interested in development of children, scientific efficiency in the home and in her crwn I'np of professional work. Mem. Ass'n Coll. Alumnae. Recreations: Riding, driving, rowing, hunting, tennis. Episcopalian. Favors woman sufir<igt. HEFFERAN, Helen Maley (Mrs. William S.

Hefferan), 6631 Harvard Av., Chicago, II!.

Born Carlisle, Pa., 1870; dau. Thomas E. and Sarah T. (Gibbons) Maley; ed. Chicago Normal School and Univ. of Chicago; m. Chicago, 1892, William S. Hefferan; children: William S. Jr., Thomas E. M., Helen M. Taught as professional training teacher at Chicago Normal School for seven years. Was pres. of 111. Congress of Mothers for four years; life mem. Nat Congress of Mothers; pres. Englewood Woman's Club; pres. Patrons Dep't of Nat. Educational Ass'n; pres. of two parents' ass'ns and organizer of forty. Favors woman suffrage. Catholic. Mem. Fortnightly Club. TIEIFFERAN, Mary, 442 Fountain St., Grand

Rapids, Mich.

Born Bastmanvllle, Ottawa Co., Mich.; dau. Thomas and Emily (Kent) Hefferan; grad. Wel- lesley Coll., A.B. '96, A.M. '98; Univ. of Chicago, Ph.D. '03 (mom. Zeta Alpha, Wellesley; Sigma Xi, Univ. of Chicago). Associate instructor dep't of bacteriology, Univ. of Chicago, 1903-10. Author of biological and bacteriological papers in Archiv. fiir Entwickelungsmechanic der Or- ganlsmen, Zeitschrift fiir Bakteriologie, Biologi- cal Bulletins and Journal of Infectious Diseases. Mem. Woman's University Club, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Household Economics Club, Grand Rap- ids Historical Soc. HEELMAN, Mary Erskine, 1100 Second St.,

Evansville, Ind.

Educator, social worker; b. Evansville, Ind.; dau. George P. and Luna (Fellows) Hellman; ed. Evansville High School; North-western Univ.; Univ. of Chicago, 1906 (mem. Delta Gamma). Instructor In domestic science, John Swaney School, McNabb, 111., 1907-08; Lincoln High School, Portland, Ore., 1908-10; Investigator of housing conditions for Civic Club, Hartford, Conn., 1911-12, to aid In securing the enforcement of the Conn. State Tenement Law. Favors wo- man suffrage. Methodist. Mem. Consumers' League, Portland, Ore.; D.A.R. IIEINKR, Mary Pershing (Mrs. John Haines

Heiner), 107 Standard Av., Butler, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa.; dau. Rev. I. L. Pershing, D.D., and Charlotte (Canan) Pershing; grad. Pittsburgh Female Coll., '74 (first honors); m. Pittsburgh, Oot. 17, 1S7S, John Haines Heiner; children: Mary Charlotte (Mrs. Paul Sturtevant). Helen Graham, John Pershing. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. missionary soi^ie- ties (home and foreign), Ladies' Auxiliary Y.W.C.A., D.A.R. (Pittsburgh Chapter), Pitts-

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HEINIGKE, Jessie Weir (Mrs. Otto Heinigke), 420 Ovington Av., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, N.Y. Born Bay Ridge, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1851; dau. James and Anne (Reynolds) Weir; ed. Packer Coll. Inst., Brooklyn; m. Bay Ridge, N.Y., Oct. 28, 1874, Otto Heinigke; children: Daisy Weir, Otto Weir. Interested in Nat. Indian Ass'n, Church Periodical Club, Consumers' League, Church Charity Foundation, Drama League, Red Cross Soc., Bay Ridge Hospital, Sunshine Soc., and Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. Clubs: Bay Ridge Reading, Woman's (Brooklyn), N.Y. City Federation. Episco- lian.

HEISSIG, Mabel Stevens Haynes (Mrs. Konrad Heissig), Promenade 7, Linz, Austria. Physician; ed. Miss Florence Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and preliminary medical course in Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98; Johns Hopkins Med. School, M.D. 1902; student of medicine in Vienna, 1904-05; m. 1907, Captain Konrad Heis- sig. Ass't in dispensary, Mass. Gen. Hospital, Boston, 1902-03; practising physician, 1902-04, 1905-07; dermatologist in Wilkes St. Free Die- pensary and ass't dermatologist in the Trinity Dispensary, Boston, 1906.

HELD, Anna (Mrs. Florence Ziegfeld Jr.), 86 Faubourg St. Honore, Paris. Actress; b. Paris, Mar. 18, 1877; dau. Maurice and Helene Held; ed. Acad. at Rouen, France; m. Paris, France, Florence Ziegfeld Jr. of Chi- cago. Made début as comedienne in Paris, 1890; sang in Holland, Norway, Germany, Italy and London; starred in the U.S. in The Little Duchess, 1903-04; starred in London in Papa's Wife. Appeared at Knickerbocker Theatre, N.Y. City, in Jeau Richepin's M'lle Napoleon, 1906-07, afterward in Miss Innocence at the New York Theatre, 1909-10.

HELLER, Irma Irene, 310 E. Capitol St., Wash- ington, D.C. Physician; b. Fremont, Ind., Oct. 28, 1870; dau. George and Josephine (Milnes) Heller; ed. Fremont High School; Tri-State Normal Coll., Angola, Ind.; Univ. of Mich., M.D. First woman physician at Government Hospital for Insane at St. Elizabeth, D.C.; first and only physician at Bureau of Engraving and Printing for nine years. Mem. W.C.T.U.; Interested in Florence Critten- ton work. Favors woman suffrage. Prohibi- tionist. Recreations: Out-door life; interested in agriculture, farming, etc.

HELLIER, Mary Harmon (Mrs. Charles E. Hellier), 105 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Born New Haven, Conn., Dec. 9, 1864; dau. George M. and Mary (Baldwin) Harmon; ed. Mrs. Cady's private school, New Haven; m. New Haven, July 8, 1886, Charles E. Hellier; children: Mary Louise, Walter Harmon, Edward Whittier, John. Interested and active in the protection of children, dumb animals, horticulture, etc. Was presented at Court of St. James, May, 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Recreations: Horticulture, travel.

HELLMUTH, Harriet Fowler (Mrs. George W. Hellmuth), 4468 Maryland Av., St. Louis, Mo. Born St. Louis, Mo.; dau. Francis E. and Mary (Harig) Fowler; ed. Sacred Heart Convent in St. Louis, Paris, Rome; m. St. Louis, Feb. 21, 1906, George W. Hellmuth; children: George Francis, b. Oct. 5, 1907; Hildegarde Ihmsen b. Oct. 20, 1909; John Thornton, b. Aug. 31, 1912. Club: Wednesday. Catholic. Favors woman suffrage.

HELM, Jenny M. Hanson (Mrs. James Stone Helm), "Helmcrest," Lexington, Ky. Born Paris, Ky.; dau. Richard Hickman and Evelyn (Talbutt) Hanson; ed. State Univ., Lex- 1 ington, Ky.: m. Nov. 20, 1905, James Stone 1 He!m. Pres. J. M. Hanson's Magazine Agency (said to be largest of its kind), Lexington, Ky.; n pres. Bennett's Newspaper and Magazine n Agency, Chicago, Ill. Regent D.A.R., Lexington N Chapter; mem. Woman's Club of Central Ken- W tucky, Lexington.

HELMER, Bessie Bradwell (Mrs. Frank A. Helmer), Chicago Legal News Co., 32 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.

Lawyer, editor, publisher, president Chicago Legal News Co.; b. Chicago, Ill., Oct. 20, 1858; dau. Judge James B. and Myra (Colby) Bradwell (both lawyers of distinction); grad. Chicago High School (valedictorian), "76; Northwestern Univ., A.B. '80, A.M. '83; Union Coll. of Law, L.L.B. '82 (valedictorian, Phi Beta Kappa); m. Chicago, Dec. 23, 1885, Frank A. Helmer; one daughter: Myra Bradwell Helmer. Editor (associated with her father after her mother's death in 1894) of Chicago Legal News, which was founded by her mother in 1868, and was the first law journal published west of the Allegheny Mountains; since her father's death, in 1907, has been the editor. Waa vice chairman (her mother being chairman) of the Woman's Com. on Law Reform and Government of World's Congress Auxiliary I (Columbian Exposition); chairman for many I years of Fellowship Com. of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ, whose fellows were among the first to receive the Ph.D. degree from German universi- ties. Interested in charitable work. Edited several volumes of Ill. Appellate Court reports; editor of Revised Statutes of Ill. since 1905; writer of magazine articles. Hon. mem. Ill. State Bar Ass'n; sec. Soldiers' Home in Chicago; mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ (at one time pres.), D.A.R., Woman's Western Golf Ass'n. Clubs: Chicago Woman's, Woman's Athletic, Twentieth Century (Chicago). Favors woman suffrage; her mother was the first woman in U.S. to apply for admission to the bar and se- cured many changes in the laws relating to women; her father presided at the meeting when the Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n was or- ganized at Cleveland; opposed to militant methods. Republican.

HELMHOLTZ-PHELAN, Anna Augusta, 612 Tenth Av., S.E., Minneapolis, Minn.

University professor, social worker and writer; b. Sturgeon Bay, Wis.; dau. Otto Wilhelm and Albertine Henriette (Taube) Helmholtz; ed. Stur- geon Bay High School; Univ. of Wis.; elected to Phi Beta Kappa in junior year, A.B. '05, with honors in English literature; graduate scholar, A.M. '06; Mary M. Adams fellow in English literature; ass't instructor, dep't of English, Univ. of Wis., Ph.D. '08; mem. Faculty of Univ. of Minn. since 1908. Special lecturer St. Cath- rine's Coll. Chairman Com. on Conditions Af- fecting Working Women, Minneapolis Woman's Club, 1910-11; chairman Dep't of Social Econom- ics, Minneapolis, 1911-12, 1912-13. Representative of Woman's Club to Minneapolis Infant Welfare Soc.; mem. Minneapolis Social Survey Com., Minneapolis Vocational Survey Com., Minne- apolis Child Welfare Exhibit Com., Organizing Com. of Minneapolis Woman's Welfare League; delegate to Am. Civic Ass'n, Nat. Conservative Congress, Nat. Social Center Conference; mem. Minneapolis Political Equality Club (mem. Edu- cational Com.), Univ. of Minn., Equal Suffrage Club, Illuminati Club. Faculty adviser Woman's Athletic Ass'n, Univ. of Minn.; faculty adviser Woman's League, Univ. of Minn.; organized the Minn. Social Problems Club. Favors woman suffrage. Organized Univ. of Minn. Equal Suffrage Club; mem. Statistical Com. of Chari- ties and Correction Aes'n of Hennepin Co., Univ. of Minn. Senate Com. on Debate and Oratory. Author: The Indebtedness of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Augusta Wilhelm von Schlegel; The Staging of the Court Drama; The Social Ideals of William Morris. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa Soc., Modern Language Ass'n of America. Recrea- tions: Riding, basketball.

HEMINGWAY, Gertrude Clapp, 887 Adelphi St.,Brooklyn, N.Y.

Teacher and translator; b. Troy, N.Y., Oct. 6, 1884; dau. Marshall F. and Clara (Clapp) Hemingway; ed. Troy High School; Cornell Univ.,A.B. '07, A.M. '09; Cornell Fellowship in Romance Languages (Phi Beta Kappa). Mem. Cornell Club, Woman's University Club (Troy,N.Y.), Wayside Club (Brooklyn). Recreations:Walking, skating. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.


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380 HEMINGWAY, Grace Hall (Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway), Kenilworth Av. and Iowa St., Oak Park Ill.

Teacher; b. Chicago, Ill., June 15, 1872; dau. Ernest and Caroline (Hancock) Hall; ed. Chicago private and public schools, 1879-87; Oak Park High School, 1886-91; in N.Y. City with Mme. Cappiani, 1895-96; m. Oak Park, Ill., Oct. 1, 1896, Dr. Clarence E. Hemingway; children: Marcelline, Ernest Miller, Ursula, Madelaine, Carol. Debut at Madison Square Garden Theatre as contralto soloist with the Apollo Club of N.Y. City in 1896. Director of children's vested choir and orchestra of the Third Congregational Church of Oak Park. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Suburban Civics Club. Congregationalist. Mem. Drama League, Kindergarten Ass'n, Fine Arts Soc, Hospital Auxiliary. Recreation: Outdoor sports. Mem. Nineteenth Century Club.

HEMMENS, Elsie Berlin (Mrs. Henry J. Hemmens), 465 "West End Av., N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; dau. Thomas T. and Laura (Berlin) Shaw; ed. Miss Spence's School, N.Y. City; grad. 1904; m. N.Y. City, Nov. 21, 1907, Henry J. Hemmens. Against woman suffrage.

HEMMICK, Laura Alice Pike Barney (Mrs. Christian Hemmiok), Studio House, 2306 Massachusetts Av., Washington, D.C.

Artist painter, writer, playwright; b. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 14, 1860; dau. Samuel Nattalle Pike (who built, at Cincinnati, the first opera house in the West) and Ellen M. Miller (granddaughter of Emanuel Miller, who represented France, and great-granddaughter of Edmund Million, who represented Spain in the negotiations by which Louisiana was ceded to the United States); pupil of Henner, Carolus Duran and later of Whistler (whose portrait she painted, the reproduction of which is in several books published by John Lane & Co.); m. (1st) Albert Clifford Barney of Dayton, O.; m. (2d) Christian Hemmick; two daughters, who live in Paris, France: Natalie Clifford, writer of plays and poems (in French only); Laura Alice Clifford Dryfus-Barney, author of God's Heroes (a Persian poem-play of historical events), and Some Questions Answered (on the Behai belief). Pictures have been exhibited at the different Salon exhibitions in Paris (one picture bought by the French Government); also at Royal Acad., London; private exhibitions at Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, of 80 paintings, also at Knoedler's, N.Y. City, Paris, Boston and London. Has written, staged and taught many plays and Greek Idylls for the benefit of charitable and other organizations (for which they have netted about $55,000). Those given (in Washington and Bar Harbor) include: About Thebes; Queen Elizabeth's Dream; The Man in the Moon; On the Love of Echo; The Enchantress of Streams; The New Leaf; Atlantis, rythmic poem (music by Louie von Laetner, composer of classic music). Has given houses for settlement work, social and industrial. The industrial is now entirely self-supporting by the sale of its silks, rugs and other objects and is known as the Barney Neighborhood House Club (470 N St., Washington, D.C). Strongly in favor of woman suffrage. Follower of the Persian universal religion, Behai.

HEMPHILL, Anna Emily (Mrs. H. W. Hemphill), 115 Gramercy Place, Atlantic City, N.J.

Born Philadelphia, Aug. 28, 1874; dau. Harry James and Annie E. (Brotherhead) Shill; ed. public school and Philadelphia Musical Acad.; m. Philadelphia, May 15, 1901, Herbert Warde Hemphill; one son: Harry James. Interested in church work' mem. Music Com. of N.J. State Federation of Woman's Clubs. Clubs: Crescendo (Atlantic City), Philadelphia Music. Recreations: Music, swimming. Protestant Episcopalian.

HEMPHILL, Elsie Beale (Mrs. William Edgar Hemphill), Arden, N.C.

Wood carver; b. Philadelphia, Pa., 1872; dau. Charles Willing and Maria Parker (Tayler) Beale; ed. Arden, N.C., and Paris, France; m. Arden, N.C, September, 1897, William Edgar Hemphill; children: Constance Beale, Margaret Beale. Branch sec. Girls' Friendly Soc.; mem. Woman's Auxiliary; works for Christ School, Arden, N.C, a school for poor mountain boys and girls. Occasional contributor of magazine stories. Episcopalian. Recreations: Tennis, riding, driving, camping, fishing, hunting, sketching and drawing. Mem. Woman's Club, Asheville, N.C; Current Literature Club, Arden, N.C. Against woman suffrage.

HEMPL, Anna Belle (Mrs. George Hempl), Stanford Univ., Cal.

Born Saginaw, Mich., Nov. 6, 1865; dau. Racine and Mary A. (Ripley) Purmort; ed. Wellesley Coll., one year; Univ. of Mich., three years, A.B. '87; m. Saginaw, Mich., July 3, 1890, George Hempl; children: Hilda, Elsa. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive.

HEMPSTEAD, Helen, 10509 Euclid Av., Cleveland, O.

Physician; b. Meadville, Pa.; daughter of Ernest Alexis and Annie (Warner) Hempstead; ed. Allegheny Coll., A.B.; Cornell Univ.; Johns Hopkins Med. School, M.D. Has written medical articles. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Cleveland Med. Soc, Soc. for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, Consumers' League. Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage League. Unitarian.

HEMPSTEAD, Louise, Meadville, Pa.

Teacher; b. Meadville, Pa.; dau. of Ernest Alexis and Annie (Warner) Hempstead; ed. Allegheny Coll., 1896-98; Cornell Univ., 1898-1900, B.S. (Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi); Columbia Univ., 1902-03, A.M. (Kappa Kappa Gamma). Taught Oil City High School, 1901-02; Miss Knox's School, Briarcliff Manor, 1909-11; Mount Vernon Sem., Washington, D.C, 1911—. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

HEMRY, Alice Squire (Mrs. Charles W. Hemry), Box 233, Fairfield, Neb.

Teacher; b. Mantua, O., June 28, 1851; dau. George and Mary C. (Palmer) Squire; ed. Hiram Coll., B.L.; m. Auburn, O., July 25, 1872, Chas. W. Hemry; children: Cora E., Frederick S. Hemry. Taught in rural and village schools, in Northwestern (Ohio) Normal School, in Fairfield College, and in Fairfield High School, where she had charge of the Normal Dep't. Interested in the work of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions, of which she was State pres. for eight years, and in Bible School work. Mem. Fairfield Woman's Club. Recreation: Reading. Mem. Christian (Disciples) Church.

HENDERSON, Helen Weston, Pa. Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.

Artist, writer; b. Philadelphia, Sept. 23, 1874; dau. William Murray and Jane R. (Tagart) Henderson; ed. public school, Philadelphia; grad. Girls' High School. Art and Music editor. The North American, 1900-04; art editor, Philadelphia Inquirier, since 1904. Mem. Fellowship of Pa. Acad. of the Fine Arts (sec. 1897-1908). Author: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Other Collections of Philadelphia, 1911; The Art Treasures of Washington. Episcopalian. Life mem. Woman's Suffrage Soc, Philadelphia.

HENDERSON, Jane Grace Van Woert, 306 Waldorf St., N.S., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa.; dau. Harvey Henderson (lawyer) and Harriet Jane Van Woert (Hogeboom) Henderson (niece of Hon. John J. Henderson, justice of Superior Court of Pa., and sister of Hon. John H. Henderson, lawyer and ex-mem. State Legislature; descendant of Killean Hogeboom, who came from Amsterdam, 1700, to take up a tract of land eight miles square (now including Claverack, N.Y.); ed. Pittsburgh Female Coll., Allegheny Coll., A.B., with honors, '02, A.M. '04 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). Studied law in her father's office and was first woman to apply for admission to the preliminary law examination in Allegheny Co., Pa., but failure of her mother's health at that time compelled renouncement of a professional career and the assumption of domestic duties, which she has since continued. Interested in welfare work for women and children; was mem. of the committee which organized the Juvenile


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Criminal Court of Allegtieny Co. Became pres. HKNlDKIl!;, Lilian Margaret, 21 Drummond St.,

New Era Club of Western Pa., 1899, and did Montreal, Can.

much to widen work of club along philanthropic Teacher; b. Montreal, Can., 1869; dau. Will- lines; largely instrumental in founding the Out- iam and Margaret (Carmichael) Hendrie; ed, look Alliance of Pittsburgh, 1907, and was Its Montreal private school. Girls' High School, pres. four years (now hon. pres.); one ol McGill Normal School (first rank Acad, di- founders, 1910, and first pres. of Housekeepers' ploma), MoGill Univ. Teacher on staff of Traf- Cooperative Ass'n (now hon. pres.) Student of algar Inst. (Montreal) till 1906; prin. of Hall- French, German and English literature; hae fax Ladies' Coll., Halifax, till 1911; since then composed some songs, two of which have been prin. High School for Girls, Montreal. Mem. given In public concerts in Pittsburgh. Uni- Woman's Canadian Club, Internat. Art Ass'n. tarian. Recreations: Country life, golf, riding. Recreations: Books, lecture, society. Presby- walking. Mem. College Club of Pittsburgh, terian.

Tuesday Musical Club, Wednesday Current hENKEL, Alice, 6307 Connecticut Av., Chevy

Events Club; hon. mem. New Era Club of Chase, Md. ; office. Bureau of Plant Industry,

Western Pa. Favors woman suffrage. Dep't of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

HENDERSON, Laura Parker Montgomery (Mrs. Born Cincinnati, Ohio; dau. August Henkel

Charles Henderson), 129 College Av., Troy, (pharmacist) and Eiise (Sander) Henkel; ed.

Ala. public schools of Hamilton, Ohio; Washington,

Born Warrenton, N.C.; dau"!^homas Alexander D.C; Nat. Coll. of Pharmacy, Washington, D.C.

and Sarah Hill (Dowtin) Montgomery; ed. St. Entered U.S. Dep't of Agriculture as sten-

Mary'8 Coll. (Episcopal school), Raleigh, N.C.; ographer. Made a specialty of medical botany

m. Raleigh, N.C., Nov. 7, 1888, Charles Hender- and In 1901 was appointed ass't in charge of

son. Taught improved primary work for two and medicinal plant investigations under Frederick V.

a half years. Active in church work. Pres. Coville, United States botanist. Author (bulle-

Alabama Fed. of Women's Clubs; pres. Woman's tins): Weeds Used in Medicine, 1904; Goldenseal,

Missionary Auxiliary in Episcopal Church at 1905; Wild Medicinal Plants of the United States,

Troy, Ala.; ex-pres. Nineteenth Century Literary 3906; Peppermint, 1906; American Root Drugs,

Club; ex-pres. School Improvement Ass'n; one 1907; American Medicinal Barks, 1909, and

of many vice-presidents of Southern Industrial American Medicinal Leaves and Herbs, 1911. Has

Ass'n, Washington, D.C; one of the five field also contributed special articles to technical

secretaries of Ala. Episcopal Missionary Auxll- publications and magazines. Mem. Am. Pharma-

iarles Episcopalian. ceutlcal Ass'n, Stanton Suffrage Club, Chevy

M¥i'i.ji\^» arkxr Ti,,i*„ r-, „ / nr— -r. t, -a^^ Chase Equal Suffrage League. Recreations:

HENDERSON, Lizzie George (Mrs. T. R. Hen- Gardening, zither playing.

derson). Greenwood, Miss. vjcviucuiiis, ^.., »,» i, aj c.

Born Cotesworth (near Carrollton), Miss.; dau. HENROTIN, Ellen M. (Mrs. Charles Henrotin),

James M. and Elizabeth Brook (Young) George; 754 Lincoln Parkway, Chicago, 111.

ed. Falrlawn Inst., Jackson, Miss.; m. Nov. 12, Bom Portland, Me., July, 1847; dau. Edward

1890, T. R. Henderson, M.D. Interested in and Byam and Sarah Ellen (Norris) Martin; ed.

uniting the women of Mississippi in an effort to U.S. until 1860, then in England, France and

get the State to pass compulsory education laws, Germany until 1868; m. Chicago, 111., September,

to establish a school for the instruction of 1869, Charles Henrotin; children: Edward

juvenile offenders of the law and to make women Clement, Charles Martin, Norris B. Mem. Chi-

eligible as State and county sup'ts of education cago Vice Commission appointed by Mayor

on the school boards and board of trustees for BuRse; elected in 1912 to serve six years as mem.

the eleemosynary institutions of the State. Bap- of the Board of Trustees of the University of

list. Democrat. Mem. United Daughters of the Illinois. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian.

Confederacy (pres. gen., 1905-07); mem. J. Z. Democrat. Hon pres. Gen. Fed. of Women's

George Chapter. Organizer and pres. Woman's Clubs; mem. Fortnightly Club of Chicago, the

Club of Greenwood, Miss., organized March, 1910, Friday Club, the Chicago Woman's Club,

which is divided Into four sections — literary, Woman's City Club.

library, civic and art. This club, with the J. Z. hENBY, Abigail Thomas Mo88 (Mrs. Albert

George Chapter, U D.C has donated the lot and Gallatin Henry), GuntersviUe, Ala.

secured the donation of a library buildmg for ^^^^ Athens, McMinn County, Tenn., Jan. 16,

Greenwood from Mr. Carnegie and will also build ^ggy ^^u. Edward Thomas and Virginia E.

a Confederate Memorial Building in Greenwood. (j^^g) ^oss; ed. private school, Sullin's Female

HENDERSON, Lucia TiCany, Jamestown, N.Y. Sem.; m. Fairview Home, near Atliens, Tenn.,

Librarian; b. Sinclairville, N.Y., 1869; dau. 1886, Albert Gallatin Henry. Honorary regent

William W. and Martha (Tiffany) Henderson; ed. of Daughters at Large in Marshall County;

Jamestown public schools, Bartholom§w School, chairman Jackson Trace Com. for marking the

Cincinnati, Ohio; Library Training School, trace through Alabama. Mem. D.A.R., United

Drexel Inst., Philadelphia, Pa. Cataloguer In Daughters of the Confederacy, Literary Club

the Buffalo Public Library nine years; then (GuntersviUe). Favors woman suffrage.

ass't reference librarian; since 1906 librarian of ^^-^^^ aii„„ „ t if„ o„^ t ok«- iot tvt

the James Prendergast Free Library, Jamestown, ^W^^^' "^e^V^^L^ t1i '

j^ Y Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

,.'^-.[-w^,.^c.r^.^T », »,»-.,, , Journalist; b. Melbourne, Australia; dau.

HENDERSON, Mary N. Foote- (Mrs. John Charles Ferguson and Margaret (Walker) Henry;

Brooks Henderson)^ Sixteenth St. and Florida ed. public schools and Rooding High School.

Av., Washington, D.C. Taught for a few years; for 15 years on the staff

_,,?oj''i N.Y. City, July 21 1844; dau. Hon. of the Argua an* the Australasian, newspapers

Elisha Foote and Eunice (Newton) Foote; pri- m Melbourne. Lectured on the Australian labor

vately educated; studied art in Washington Univ., mov^nent, on woman suffrage and Juvenile

St. Louis; m June 26, 1868, Hon. John Broolcs courta and the care of the defecUve; Joined the

Henderson, then U.S Senator froni Missouri; women's Trade Union League, 1907, Uklng

one son: John Broolcs Jr. Founder of the charge of its editorial and publicity work; editor

^°^^°,L vf *?,°^® ^^.^ organizer of the School Lif^ and Labor. Mem. Soc. of Authors (London),

° ff?o^J'^;„a^^ '° !?/■ ^u's- Favors woman ^at. EpUepUc Ass'n, Women's Trade Union

a5„^^87^ ^A,?f;.^°-T.^'^M Woman Suffrage League (Chicago), Stenographers' and Typists'

™^n»r rflin.,. Th? lH=r^''"'^',^x?°M'i.^ ""^ Ass^n of Chlcago, Commonwealth Club. Unl-

Dlnner-Givlng, The Aristocracy of Health. Parian. Favors wixman suffrage; mem. PoliUcal

IIJONDRICK, Rhoda Grace, Jackson, Mich. Equality League of Chicago. Socialist.

Physician; b. Hamburg, Mich., Dec. 16, 1874; .,„,.,».,, « .< •,,, v j. » <• tt

dau. W. W. and Marlon (Jones) Hendrick; HENRY, Anrelia-see Relnhardt, Aurella Henry,

grad. Univ. of Mich., M.D. '98. Sec. of Jackson HENRY, Georgia Johnson (Mrs. Stuart Henry),

Co. Med. Soc. for 7 years; post-grad, course 255 West 97th St., N.Y. City,

and Zeugnis from Univ. of Vienna, lSlO-11, in Born Piqua, O. ; dau. George W. and Margaret

diseases of women and children. Mem. Tourist (Lawder) Johnson; ed. Woman's Coll., Chl-

Club (literary). Methodist. Favors woman suf- cago; also In Paris, France; m. London, Eng.,

frage; sec. of Jackson Co. Equal Suffrage Soc. June 10, 1895, Stuart Henry (author). Mem.

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Pen and Brush Club (N.Y. City). Unitarian. Grant Morden). Author and botanist, lecturer, Republican — voted in Colo. Favors woman suf- musical and dramatic critic. Mem. Imperial frage; mem. of Woman's Political Union. Order Daughters of the Empire. Author: Moun- HEIS-BY, Helen Natalie, Mills College, Cal. tain Wild Flowers of America. Contributor of Regist^, MUls Coll.; b. Canton, China, Sept. special articles to current British and American 22, 1879; dau. Rev. Benjamin C. Henry, D.D., magazines. Meni. Church of England Recrea and Mary Ward (Snyder) Henry; grad. prepara- tions; Shooting, fishing. Mem Woman^^^ tory dep't Univ. of Wooster (O.); Univ. of Cal. Cl^b. Alpme Club of Canada Georgian Club B.L. '03 (mem. Alpha Omicron Pi). Teacher Women's Canadian Club, Country Club. Expert Cal. high schools, 1905-08; president's assistant, Ao^" photographer. Against woman suffrage. 1908-09; registrar since 1909, Mills Coll. Favors HENSON, Nellie Emery (Mrs. Charles Frank- woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Democrat. Mem. lin Hansen), Paola, Kan.

Prytanean Honor Soc. (Univ. of Cal.), Ass'n of Born Paola, Kan., Dec. 27, 1872; dau. William

Collegiate Alumnse, Y.W.C.A., Nat. Geographic AJIen and Francis (Roberts) Emery; ed. Paola

Soc. Recreation: Tennis, philately. High School; teacher in and near Paola over

HENBY, Kate Kearney (Mrs. James L. Henry), ?fl^° /^^"p^U^w^^.-. ^°' ^Iftp' F.P^^^^VfTf^Fplf 2021 I St., Washington. D.C. Henson Clubwoman. State <j-eas Kan. Fed. Born Washington, D.C, April 30. 1840; dau. Women s Clubs; also mem Scholarship Corn- John A. Kearney, U.S.N, (surgeon), and Mary ^^f^'^^^^^.T^ llW nf Mpthn-lil^ M rForrp=;ti Kearnev erad Georeetown Fe- Cradle Roll and primary work of Methodist ^le^'s^f\Jlrm'^wlshingt''on°'^lt5Tca^pl Church, also active missionary worker Favors James L. Henry; children: Mrs Kate K. Mason, ^o^an suffrage Methodist Progr^siveRepub- Malcolm Henry J. William Henry. Charter lican. Recreations: WaJkmg, automobiling mem. D.A.R. (has been vice-pres., general cor. Mem. Pleasant Hour Club, Busy Bees, Paola sec, general and State regent). Regent Mary Musical Club, Kan. Women s Day Club. Washington Chapter; delegate to Continental HENTON, Harriet, Peru Republican, Peru, Ind. Congress (on several committees). Pres. United Newspaper writer; b. Peru, Ind.; dau. Coleman States Daughters of 1812, Colonial Dames Soc, and Caroline (Skinner) Henton; ed. Peru High Gaudeloupe Soc, Ass'n for Preservation of Vir- School, Univ. Extension courses in literature and ginia Antiquities. Episcopalian. Mem. Wash- art. Appointed chairman State Press Com., ington Club, Colonial Dames Club. Opposed to ind. Federation of Clubs, 1912-13. Mem. editorial woman suffrage. Identified with various organi- staff of Peru Republican; special writer for city zations of the church. papers; interested in civic improvement, educa- HENRY, Mary Gibson (Mrs. John Norman tional and conservation work of Ind. Federatiot Henry) 1906 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. of Clubs, club work; organized League anQ Born Jenklntown, Pa., Aug. 15, 1884; dau. J. planned course of study for Peru Drama League, Howard and Susan W. (Pepper) Gibson; ed. by of which is pres. (branch Drama League of private governess and Miss Irwin's School. Phila- America). Mem. Peru Art Club. Recreations: delphia Pa. ; m. April 14, 1909. Dr. John Norman Music, reading, art drama, excursions in the open Henry;' children: Mary Gibson, Josephine Nan- air. Favors woman suffrage.

crede, John Norman Jr. Protestant Episcopal. HEPBURN, Elizabeth Newport (Mrs. Charles

Recreation: Gardening. Clubs: Acorn. Sedgely. Levin Hepburn). The Lexington. 144 East 22d

HENBY-BUmN, Margaret EUen — see Ruffln. St.. N.Y. City.

ilaigaret Ellen Henry. Writer for magazines, short stories, essays,

wirwssTTi-Y «i«nhia Almon fMrs Hubert Arthur verses; dau. John Ellison and Julia (Hull) New-

«ST,' ^^e^^t^Toxi^e ^Hi^r^O^x^fo^rd, P-%o\^cor^aS^l?t ^iS ?n ^^TStoli? ^'.

iufhorf- lecturer; b. Bridgtown. Nova Scotia; g|i«^-^'i,^"e'r ^n'Jw pr^cuting ^''n" a'tf

dau. Henry P^/^f-^ Sarah Frances (DeW^^^^^^ gif ^';?tten"Ss! verirand^fhort sto^ries'^'f^r

Almon; descendant of Cotton Mather througn nntifvik F'vprvhfKiv'<! Smith'q Map-a7ine

Matter Hyles: .4 1. Engl.na and France; ,pe- E^.O""?*- ^TiSri, luStfc. mf N y!

Mather Almon, b. 1895. Resident of N.Y. City suffrage articles.

from 1890 Pres. Soc. for Study of Life, N.Y. HEPBUEN, Katharine Houghton (Mrs. Thdmaa

City. 1896-1904; pres. N.Y. Mothers' Club. 1905; N. Hepburn). 133 Hawthorne St.. Hartford,

sec. N.Y. State Assembly of Mothers, 1898-1900; Conn.

officer in Woman's Press Club, N.Y. City, 1899. Born Buffalo, N."X., Feb. 2, 1878; dau. Alfred Lecturer before women's clubs on: Heredity, A. and Caroline (Garllnghorse) Houghton; ed. Ctild Culture, The Children of the Tenements, Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B., A.M., 1900; m. BalU- etc Believer in Single Tax, municipal owner- more, Md., June 6, 1904, Thomas N. Hepburn; ship, social tolerance, religious freedom and equal children: Thomas Houghton, b. 1906; Katiiarine suftiage. Author: A Woman's Love Letters; Houghton, 1909; Richard Houghton, 1911. Mem. Love and Co., Lt'd; The Heart of a Woman of Publication Com. of Conn. Soc. of Social (poems); Princess Mignon (children's musical Hygiene. Favors woman suffrage; pres. Conn. plays); Women and the Race (under pen-name Woman Suffrage Ass'n, 1910-11 (now on its "Gordon Hart"); also contributions to magazines Exec. Board); pres. of Hartford Equal Fran- and newspapers. chlse League. Became Interested in the suffrage HENSHAW, Flora Alice NewUn (Mrs. Barclay question through studying the causes of prosti- W. Henshaw), 3147 W. Twenty-eighth Av., tution in this country and abroad. Denver, Colo. HEKBEN, Grace Foster (Mrs, Stephen J. Her- Born Indiana, Sept. 3, 1867; dau. John M. and ben), Orange, N.J. Rebecca (Branson) Newlin; ed. Kansas State Bom Lanark', IlL, Sept. IS, 1864; dau. Rev. Univ., A.B. '89; Bryn Maiwr Coll., 1890-91 (Pi John O. Foster, D.D., and Caroline A. (Bolles) Beta Phi); m. Lawrence, Kan., Sept. 13, 1894, Foster; ed. Northwestern Univ., B.L. '89; Alle- Barclay W. Henshaw; children: Mildred, Newlin, gheny ColL, M.A- '90 (mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Lydia, Leland, John, William. Joseph, Flora. Alpha Phi); m. Park Ridge, 111., May 27, 1S91, Teacher (mathematics) Lawrence High School, Rev. Stephen J. Herben, D.D.; children: George 1891-94. Mem. Friends Church. Progressive. Foster, b. Mar. 17, 1893; Stephen Joseph Jr., HENSHAW, Julia W. (Mrs. Charles Grant Hen- b. Mar. 14, 1897. Interested in Woman's For- shavv), 1508 Robson St., Vancouver. British eign and Home Missionary Societies of the Columbia. Can. Methodist Episcopal Church; founded College Born Durham. England; dau. William and Dep't 1905. Favors woman suffrage; contributor Lucy (Durham) Henderson; ed. in England, to various publications. Mem. Woman's For- France and Germany; m. Montreal, Can., Charles eign Missionary Soc, Woman's Home Mission- Grant Henshaw; one daughter: Doris (m. W. ary Soc, D.A.R., Laurean Soc, Anonian Soc,

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��W.C.T.U. Recreations: Wood life in the Adlron- dacka, genealogical research. Mem. Chicago Ass'n of Collegiate Alumna, Chicago College Club, Woman's Club of Evanston, Mosaic Club, Query Circle, etc.; charter mem. New Jersey Woman's Press Club. Head of dep't of music, Jennings Sem., 1881-83; dean of women, Alle- gheny Coll., 1889-91. Delegate to World's Mis- siBnary Conference, 1910. HEKBEKT, Blanche JE. (Mrs. John Herbert), 66

Dartmouth St., Somerville. Mass.

Born Flint, Mich., Aug. 14, 1870; dau. Charles and Ehnma (Covert) Roscoe; ed. in public schools in Flint, In private school and North- Held Sem., East Northfield, Mass.; m. Flint, Mich., June 24, 1895, John Herbert (Boston law- yer); one son: John Willson Herbert. Taught school one winter in Vt. ; did mission work in X.Y. City about two years; was gen. sec. of Y.W.C.A. at Belding, Mich.; editor of the Wo- man's Dep't of Somerville Citizen; two years mem. Heptorean Club of Somerville (was chair- man Literature Dep't three years, vice-pres. one year, pres. three years). Active In church, Sunday-school and Christian Endeavor work; di- lector Woman's Auxiliary of Y.M.C.A. of Som- erville, Mass. ; has been director Visiting Nurse Ass'n, Somerville. Mem. Hillside Club of Som- prville (literary); Appalachian Mountain Club. Has traveled quite extensively in this country and abroad. Vice-pres. Woman's Progressive Club of Somerville. Favors equal suffrage. Congregationalist. HERGESHEIMEB, EUa Sophonisba, 803V4 Broad

St., Nashville, Tenn.

Portrait painter; b. Allentown, Pa., Jan. 7, 1873; dau. Charles Patterson and Amanda (Rit- ler) Hergesheimer (descendant of Charles Wilson Peale, the celebrated portrait painter of George Washington); ed. Philadelphia School of Design; .\cad. of Fine Arts; Colonial School of Art, Paris, l'"rance; private pupil of Prinet and Juncker in Paris, France; also studied in Italy and Spain. Has painted portraits of many prominent men and women of the South. Awarded first perspec- tive prize in Acad, of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; first landscape prize, first Toppan pri.;e, also Cresson scholarship for European study. Ex- hibited in Paris Salon and studied in Europe itiree years. Favors woman suffrage. Lutheran. Elected mem. Union International des Beaux Arts et dea Lettres of Paris, France; mem. Am. Federation of Arts, D.A.R. HEBHOLZ, Ottilie, Vassar Coll., Poughkeepsie,

X.Y.

College professor; b. Saddeck, near Wlllen- Derg, East Prussia, Jan. 31, 1844; dau. Gustav and Hohanna Herholz; ed. Thorn, West Prussia; grad. seminary 1862; post-grad, study in Berlin Univ., '95. Began teaching in Germany; came to the U.S. In 1872. Teacher of German in public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1872-90; instructor of German, 1890-92; prof, of German since 1892, Vassar Coll. HKRO, Ann, 1213 Third St., New Orleans, La.

Professor; b. New Orleans, La., April 21, 1875; dau. Andrew and O. R. (Pugh) Hero; grad. Vas- sar Coll., A.B. '96, A.M. *97; Phi Beta Kappa. Instructor Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, 1898-1903; pro- fessor of chemistry, Newcomb Ck)ll., New Or- leans, since 1904. Pres. New Orleans Branch of College Equal Suffrage League, 1908-09. Mem. Am. Ass'n for the Advancement of Science, Louisiana Section Am. Chemical Soc., Southern Ass'n of College Women.

HERRICK, Ada Elizabeth, 17 Washington

Road, Springfield, Mass.

Writer of fiction; b. West Springfield, Mass., May 24, 1873; dau. Nelson J. and Eleanor M. (Granger) Herrick; ed. Smith Coll., 1890-94, B.A. (Phi Kappa Psi). Assisted in dramatizing Ar- thur Sherburne Hardy's novel, "Passe Rose," tor Senior Class performance in 1894. Mem. of first Editorial Board of Smith Coll. Monthly (1894). Favors woman suffrage. Since 1894 writer of short fiction and magazine articles (pea-name "Elizabeth Herrick"); principal short stories: The Case of Patricia (Century); The Keeper of the Door (Red Book); The By-Product

��(Smart Set); The Making of Men (Smart Set); short stories of earlier years in the New Eng- land and other magazines. Congregationalist. Recreation: Amateur gardening. HERRICK, Christine Terhune (Mrs. James Frederick Herrick), Pompton, N.J. Author; dau. Rev. Edward Payson and Mary Virginia (Hawes) Terhune (well-known writer, "Marion Harland"); ed. by governess, private schools and teachers In Rome, Italy and Geneva, Switzerland; m. Springfield, Mass., 1884, James Frederick Herrick (newspaper man; died 1893); children: Horace Terhune, James Frederic. Since 1885 engaged as writer for newspapers and of books upon domestic and general topics. Au- thor: Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means (cook book); Chafing-Dish Supper; Cradle and Nursery; First Aid to Young Housekeeper; Housekeeping Made Easy; Little Dinner; What to Eat; Th^ National Cook Book (with Marion Harland); Cottage Kitchen; In City Tents; The Expert Maid Servant; Letters of the Duke of Welling- ton to Miss J.; Helping Hand Cook Book (with Marion Harland; "Like Mother Used to Make"; My Boy and I.

HERRICK, Mabel Hurd Walker (Mrs. Charles E. Herrick), 3816 Ellis Av., Chicago. Born Clinton, N.Y., Sept 16, 1866; dau. Alex- ander and Venetia R. (Hurd) Walker; ed. Rock- ford (111.) Coll., B.A. '86; M.A. '88; m. Rock- ford, 111., Mar. 31, 1887, Charles E. Herrick; one son: Alexander Walker. Trustee of Rock- ford Coll. Congregationalist. Mem. D.A.R. , Daughters of 1812, Rockford Coll. Ass'n of Chicago. Charter mem. Chicago College Club. HERRICK, Sophia M'llvaine Bledsoe (Mrs. James B. Herrick), 508 Central Av., Plain- field, N.J.

Born Kenyon Coll., Gambler, 0., May 26, 1837; dau. Albert Gay lor and Harriet (Coxe) Bledsoe; ed. Cooper Inst., Dayton, O. ; by Miss Margaret Coxe, principal, and self-educated mainly; m. June 27, 1860, Rev. James Buclin Herrick; chil- dren: Albert Bledsoe, b. Mar. 31, 1862; Virginia, b. Sept. 16, 1863; Louise, b. Jan. 4, 1866. Head of school in Baltimore, 1868-72; associate editor Southern Review, Baltimore, 1874-78; assistant editor Scribner's Monthly (now the Century), 1878-1906; assistant editor N.J. Charities and Correction, 1904-06. Pres. Woman's Board of Bayonne Hospital for 10 years. Author: The Wonders of Plant Life; Chapters In Plant Life; The Earth In Past Ages; A Century of Sonnets, and many review and magazine articles. Hon. mem. Woman's Literature Club of Baltimore; mem. Monday Afternoon Club, Plainfield, N.J. Protestaut Episcopal. Against woman suffrage. HERRrSIAN, Abbie Frances (Mrs. Sidney H. Herriman), 9327 Hough Court, Cleveland, O. Artist; b. Bocksvllle, 0.; dau. Samuel and Mary A. (Kimball) Sampson; ed. Wellington High School; Oberlin Conservatory of Music; Cleveland School of Art., grad. '91; m. Pen- field, 0., Sidney H. Herriman; children: LucUle, Frank. Taught piano and voice, drawing and modeling, Cleveland School of Art; drawing and modeling at University School of Cleveland; wood carving and modeling at Miss Mittle- burger's School of Cleveland. Interested in church work, social and philanthropic, and civic through club work. Author: Pencil Sketches, or Europe as I Saw It. Baptist. Mem. Utillan (parliamentary) Club.

Hi^RRIMAN, Helen Strange (Mrs. George Fran- cis Herriman), 31 W. Twelfth St., N.Y. City. Born Toronto, Canada; dau. George William and Elizabeth (Johnson) Strange; ed. St Mary's Ck>llege, London; m. N.Y. City, June 2, 1906, George Francis Herriman. Against woman suf- frage. Episcopalian.

HBRBING, Frances Elizabeth (Mrs. Arthur May Herring), 1117 Hamilton St., New West- minster, British Columbia, Can. Author; b. King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, 1851; dau. John J. and Harriet (Clarke) Herring; grad. as national school teacher; held Arch- bishop's prize for Bible knowledge; m. Arthur May Herring; children: Dr. A. F. Herring of Chicago. 111.; John, electrician; Frances (m. Dr.

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��George T. WUson of McGill Univ.); Philip Sid- ney, farmer of Pitt Meadows, British Columbia. Editor of Home Circle in Commonwealth of New Westminster; correspondent Toronto Globe; descriptive writing in English, Canadian and American illustrated magazines. Has Sunday- sdhool Bible class for girls in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Nerw Westminster; pres. Royal Columbian Hospital Woman's Auxiliary, New Westminster; editor Diocesan Missions (Toronto); mem. Women's Council of Canada. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Canadian Camp Life; Among the People of British Columbia; In the Pathless West; Nan and Other Pioneer Women; Ena, a Story of English Life; The Gold Miners (all published in London), and many short stories and descriptions. Mem. Church of Eng- land. Recreations: Horseback riding, music, raading. HEBBING, Katherine M., The Northumberland,

Washington, D.C.

Physician; b. Butler Co., Iowa, July 26, 1876; dau. George D. and Ann L. (Ward) Herring; ed. public schools of Waterloo; East Waterloo High School, '94; George Washington Univ., M.D. '10 (mem. Columbian Women, Washington, D.C). Resident physician of West Philadelphia Hospital for Women and Woman's Hospital of Philadel- phia; research worker State Home for Feeble- Mlnded Women, Vineland, N.J. FaTors woman suffrage; mem. Dist. of Columbia Suffrage Ass'n, Washington, D.C. Recreations: Riding, fencing, golf. HERRMANN, Elizabeth Adelaide, 2440 Hllgard

Av., Berkeley, Cal.

College instructor in German; b. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 11, 1880; dau. William J. and Eliza- beth L. (Gruner) Herrmann; ed. Univ. of Cal., A.B. '02, M.A. '10; mem. Phi Beta Kappa. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Republican. Mem. Soc. of Collegiate Alumnae. HERRON, Anna Eish (Mrs. William Christie

Herron), 946 Redway Av., Avondale, Cincin- nati, O.

Born Oneonta, N.Y., Jan. 1, 1845; dau. Phineas C. and Jane iDonaldson) Fish; ed. Oneonta pri- vate school; Pittsburgh Coll., classical course, M.L..A., AJM.; Cincinnati Wesleyan Coll., A.M.; m. Cincinnati, June 16, 1886, William Christie Herron. Before marriage was a teacher of Eng- lish literature and history in Northwestern Coll. for Woonen, also in Cincinnati Wesleyan Coll. and Mt. Vernon Sem., Washington, D.C. First vice-pres. Nat. Woman's Home Missionary Soc. of M.E. Church. Mem. Grafters Co. of Cincin- nati, Woman's Civic League of Cincinnati (prea. 1896-98), Cincinnati Woman's Club (prea. 1900- 1902). Methodist. HERSEY, Ada Harvey, 315 Walnut Av., Rox-

bury, Mass. >

Born Boston, Oct. 25, 1858; dau. Charles H. and Sarah Abby (Gray) Hersey; ed. Boston Girls' High School, Mass. Normal Art School. Active in com. work of Roxbury Charitable Soc; director South End Industrial School; mem. Children's Welfare League, Roxbury. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Republican. Mem. Copley Soc. of Boston. Recreation: Painting. Clubs: New England Women's, Twentieth Cen- tury, Pallas Women in Council of Roxbury (pres. since 1911). HERSEY, Annie Eouise (Mrs. Henry Johnson

Hersey), 1327 Gaylord St., Denver, Colo.

Born Warren, R.I., Aug. 1, 1864; dau. Edwin C. and Maria Louise (Sanders) Budlong; ed. Providence (R.I.) public schools; Miss Weeden's Private School for Girls; m. June 15, 1886, Henry Johnson Hersey; children: Helen, b. Feb. 9, 1888; Mary, b. May 2, 1900 (died Jan. 25, 1901); Henry J. Jr., b. May 4, 1902. Interested in social work; sec. Woman's Club of Denver, 1896-97; chairman philanthropic dep't, 1897-99; organized Colorado Branch Congress of Mothers; pres. 1907-10, now honorary pres.; vice-pres. Denver Playground Ass'n, 1909-12. Author of pamphlets, contributions in magazines, etc., on subjects concerning the child in home and school, home life, etc. ; speaks on same subjects. Protestant Episcopal. Republican; voter. Mem. Nat. Con-

��gress of Mothers, D.A.R., Mayflower Soc, Citi- zens' Protective League. Mem. National Arts Club, N.Y. City. HERSEY, Heloise Edwina, 78 Mt. Viernan St.,

Boston, Mass.

Teacher; b. Oxford, Me., Feb. 22, 1855; dau. A. L. (M.D.) and Heloise H. (Keith) Hersey; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '76. Teacher Smith Coll., 1878-83; prin. Miss Hersey's School, Bos- ton, 1884-1900. Editorial writer for Youth's Companion, 1901-12; lectures on literary and ed- ucational subjects. Teacher of Women's Bible Class, Trinity Church, Boston. Author: To Girls— A Budget of Letters. Editor (with Dr. William J. Rolfe): Selections from Poems of Robert Browning; Blot in the 'Scutcheon and other dramas of Robert Browning. Episcopa- lian. Against woman suffrage. HER8HEY, Sylvia Schaffer (Mrs. Omer F.

Hershey), Mt. Washington, Md.

Born Derry Church, Pa., July 29, 1870; dau. Dr. Edwin B. B. Schaffer and Sarah (Ranch) Schaf- fer; ed. AUentown Female Coll., A.B. '89; Maine Wesleyan Coll., Kents Hill, Maine, A.B. '91; m. June 1, 1892, Omer F. Hershey; children: Helen, b. May 9, 1894; Louise, b. Dec. 30, 1895. Interested in local charities and philanthropic activities. Author of essays and children's stories in the Century and other magazines. Recreations: Gardening, tennis, riding, mountain climbing. Pres. Mt. Washington Glee Club; mem. College Club, Baltimore; Baltimore Coun- try Club. Against woman suffrage. HERSOai, Jane Lord (Mrs. Nalium Alvah Her-

som), 106 Pine St., Portland, Me.

Physician; b. Sanford, Me., 1840; dau. Samuel and Sophia Hight (Smith) Lord; ed. public and private schools in Springvale, Me., and Woman's Med. Coll. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; m. Portland, Me., Nov. 25, 1865, Dr. Nahum Alvah Hersom (died 1881); one daughter: Mabel Lord (Mrs. Rufus Harton Jones). Physician to Tem- porary Home for Women and Children (State in- stitution); mem. of County and State Med. Soc, Am. Med. Ass'n; chairman of Section on Pedi- atrics in Me. Acad, of Medicine. Favors woman suffrage. Has been treas. of Me. Woman's Suf- frage Ass'n; pres. of Portland Equal Suffrage Club. Contributor of medical papers in societies and clubs and in literary clubs. Congregatlon- alist. Republican. Recreations: Reading, travel. Mem. Civic Club, Woman's Literary Union, Monday Club. HERTER, Adele (Mrs. Albert Herter), East

Hampton, L.I.

Painter; b. New York City, Feb. 27, 1869; dau. John and Lydia (Matteson) McGinnis; ed. Miss Brackett's and Brearley School; Julian's and Courtols's in Paris; m. Apr. 5, 1893, Albert Herter; children: Everit Albert, Christian Archibald, 2d; Lydia Adele. Favors woman suf- frage. Mem. Woman's Cosmopolitan Club. HERTS, Alice Minnie, 37 W. Ninety-third St.,

N.Y. City.

Writer, founder of the Children's Theatre; b. N.Y. City; dau. Henry B. and Elsther (Moss) Herts; ed. Public School No. 47, N.Y. City; Nor- mal Coll., N.Y. City; Sorbonne, Paris. Founder and manager the Children's Educational Theatre. Author: The Children's Educational Theatre; The Power of Dramatic Impulse; The Economic Value of Imagination; writing on many subjects connected with the dramatic instinct in educa- tion. Jewish.

HERTZBERG, Anna Goodman (Mrs. Ell Hertz- berg), 621 W. Macon St., San Antonio, Tex. Born N.Y. City, Jan. 24, 1864; dau. Soloman and Bertha (Gratz) Goodman; ed. public schools of N.Y. City and Normal Coll.; m. N.Y. City, Nov., 1882 Eli Hertzberg; children: Harry, Lil- lie. State pres. of Texas Fed. Woman's Clubs; founder and life pres. Tuesday Musical Club of San Antonio; pres. San Antonio Section Coun- cil of Jewish Women; honorary pres. Austin Mothers' Club; honorary pres. Bohemian Scrib- blers; founder and pres. San Antonio Symphony Orchestra; ex-pres. Woman's Club; ex-pres. San Antonio History Club; ex-pres. San An- tonia Free Hospital and Dispensary Ass'n. Fa-

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��vors woman suffrage. Author of miscellaneous poems and magazine articles. Jewess. Mem. Texas liistoiiial Club; mem. Y.W.C.A. ; Y.M.C.A. Au.\iliary Ass'n; honorary mem. United Daughters Confederacy; auxiliary mem. of Daughters of Republic; mem. Texas Ajt League. Recreations: Music, theatre, walking, entertaining, travel. Elected mem. Board of Trustees of public schools in 1909; active in all matters that tend to uplift the condition of the State.

HERVEY, Antoinette Bryaat (Mrs. Walter L.

Hervey), 351 W. 114lli St., N.Y. City.

Lecturer; b. Gllbeo-tsville, N.Y.; dau. Henry C. and Rachel (Bggleaton) Bryant; ed. Gilberts- ville Acad.; Granville Acad.; Wellesley Coll.; m. Gilbertsville, N.Y., July 4, 18S7, Walter L. Hervey; one son: Walter Bryant. Interested In child welfare, schools and settlement work; lec- turer on child welfare: Our Schools as Social Centers, and has worked for child welfare ex- hibits; had charge of Stamford (Conn.) Civic Welfai-e ExhiWt. Mem. Public Educational Ass'n, New York Mothers' Clab, N.Y. Wellesley Club, the Round Table. Recreations: Trampiag, opera, all kinds of music. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; vice-pres. Collegiate Equal Suf- frage League; mem. Suffrage Party and Women's Political Union; lecturer on suffrage.

HEBZBKKG, Sarah Pearson (Mrs. R. Monell

Herzberg), Claverack, N.Y.

Born Auburn, N.Y., Sept. 13, 1868; dau. William and Ann Amelia (Washburn) Pearson; ed. Acad., Waterloo, N.Y., and Cornell Univ., A.B. 'ftS, with special mention In Latin and Greek, elected to Ph.1 Beta Kappa in senior year; m. Waterloo, -N.Y., June, 1903, R. Monell Herzberg of Hudson, N.Y.; diildren: Pearson (deceased), Robert Wal- dron, Helen Pearson. Teacher of Latin and Greek (private pupils), 1893-95, high school work, 1895-1903. W«ntified with religious and philan- thropic activities for relief and Improvement of social conditions. Against wrnell Woman's Club of N.Y. City.

HESS, Bertha Greyson (Mrs. Henry Christ- man Hess), Williamsburg, Ky. Born Preston, Can. ; dau. W. C. and Margaret (Snyder) Gregson; ed. private sctoool and public schools of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; m. Three Rivers, Mich., July 15, 1885, Henry Christman Hess. Mem. and officer Order Eastern Sta.r, Maccabees (commander); pres. Church Guild; in- terested in the betterment of the rural schools. Against woman suffrage. Has frequently written for the local papers, the David B. Cook publica- tions and others. I^rotestaiit Episcopal. Pres. Civic League; mem. Woman's Club.

HESS, Julia, 661 Grand Av., St. Paul, Minn.

Librarian; b. Kajisas City, Mo.; dau. Emanuel Leo and Etka (Bernstein) Hess. ; ed. in private schools in La., public schools in St. Paul, and Univ. extension courses in socriology and liter- ature. Interested and active in civic and phi- lanthropic movements. Jewess; mem. Council of Jewish Women. Rocreations: Travel, reading, walking. Clubs: Twin City Library, Newsboys', Minn. State Fed. Pod. Women's Cluba.

IIESSLKR, Aland C. (Mrs. John C. Hessler),

1398 W. Macon St., Decatur, 111.

Lecturer; b. Henry, 111., Jan. 6, 1870; dau. Asa V. and Hannah (Stevens) Hntchlns; ed. West Division High School, Chicago, '88; Univ. of Chicago, 19112-05; m. 1891, John C. Hessler; Chil- dren: Margaret C, b. 1892; Herbert E., b. 1894. Addressed Art Conference, Biennial Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, St. Paul, 1906; addressed Bien- nial Gen. Fed. Women's (^lubs at San Francisco, 1912, on: Better Drese Standards. Has written several magazine articles. Mem. Municipal Art League of Decatur, 111.; honorary mem. Muni- cipal Art League of Chicago; mem. Chicago Woman's Club; chairman Art. Com., 111. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1903-05; pres. Arche Club, Chi- cago, 1901-03. Gongregationalist. Favors woman iniffraee.

��HETH, Nannie Randolph, 1906 G. St., Wash- ington, D.C.

Daughter of Gene Harry Heth; ed. Richmond, Va. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R., Colonial Dames. Pres. Southern Relief Soc. of District of Columbia. This is the only society which re- lieves the Confederate veterans and the wives, widows and cliildren of the old soldiers of the South who have no pensions and will help their descendants.

HEUSTIS, Louise Lyons, Lester Studios, 5 3 E.

Fifty-sixth St., N.Y. City.

Portrait painter; b. Mobile, Ala.; dau. Dr. James F. and Rachel (Lyons) Heustis; art educa- tion in Paris, Italy, London and N.Y. City. Pictures exhibited in all the current exhibitions of N.Y. City, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, etc. Illustrated for all the magazines before painting portraits. Favors woman suffrage. IIEWETT, Katlierine Mary (Mrs. W. T.

Hewett), Netherby, Cornell Heights, Ithaca,

N.Y.

Author; b. New Orleans, La., Oct. 6, 1869; dau. Samuel Edward and Olivia Mary (Ellis) Locke; ed. private school in Paris; Conservatory of Music, Berlin, 1887-89; m. Germantown, Pa., Dec. 18, 1889, Prof. W. T. Hewett of Cornell Univ.; one daughter: Gladys Mathilda (died 19(M). Edited Freytag's Verlorene Handschrltt Author: Mediaeval Life in Modern Germany (in Modern Life).

HEWINS, Caroline Maria, Public Library, Hart- ford, Conn.

Librarian Hartford Public Library; b. Roxbury, Mass.; dau. Charles Amasa and Caroline Louisa (Chapin) Hewins; ed. high schools; Boston Athenaeum (library course); one year in Boston Univ.; received hon. A.M., Trinity Coll., Hart- ford, 1911. Librarian in Hartford from 1875, first of the Hartford Library Ass'n and since 1S92 of the Public Library. Sec. Conn. Library Com- mission since 1893. Mem., councillor and former vice-pres. Am. Library Ass'n; mem. and former sec. of Conn. Library Ass'n. Contributor to literary and library papers, as well as to news- papers and periodicals on library topics. Autlior: Books for the Young; Books for Boys and Girls.

HEWLNS, Nellie Priscilla, Clermont Terrace,

Elmhurst, L.I.

Teacher; b. Maspeth, L.I. ; grad. Girls' High School, Brooklyn,. 1895 ; Cornell Univ., B.S. '98 (holder of State scholarship in Cornell, 1895-99); Columbia Univ., A.M. 1900; grad. student Colum- bia, 1906-10; New York Univ., 1910 to date; Teachers' Coll., 190O; Alliance Frangaise, Paris, 1903. Teacher of hlology in the Newtown High School since 1901. Mem. Manhattan Chapter D.A.R., N.Y. City; mem. A.A.A.S., Nat. Edu- cational Ass'n, Independent Ass'n of Women Teachers.

HEWITT, Emma Churchman, Tenafly, N.J.

Author; b. New Orleans, 1850; dau. John and Lydia (Starr) Churchman; ed. private school in Philadelphia, of which city was long resident; widow. Was four years associate editor Ladles' Home Journal, later of Home Magazine, Washing- ton, D.C, and Leisure Hours, Philadelphia; mem. staff of Philadelphia Daily Call., since then In library work. Joint author: Queen of the Home. Author: Ease in (Conversation; Hints to Ballad Singers; The Little Denvers; How to Train the Child; How to Live on a Small Income. Mom. and former pres. Philadelphia Woman's Press Ass'n; mem. Philadelphia Civic Club. HEW^TT, Margaret L., 280 Garside St., New- ark, N.J.

Teacher; b. Bloomfleld, N.J., 1873; dau. Fred- eric and Lucy (Bower) Hewitt; ed. high school, Newark, N.J., 1887-92; Syracuse Univ., 1892-94- Wellesley Coll., B.A. '97; Columbia Univ., M.A.' '07; mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma. Teacher of English In Barringer High School, Newark, N.J. Mem. Essex County Teachers' Guild, N.J. State Teachers' Ass'n, High School Teachers' Ass'n of N.J., Ass'n of Women High School Teachers of Newark, N.J. ; Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n. Mem. High School Alumnae Ass'n of Newark, N.J.; N.Y. Wellesley Club, Contemporary Club

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of Newark College Woman's Club of Essex Co., HICKMAN, Amy Williams HaU (Mrs. Ellwood

N.J. Pavo'rs woman suffrage. S. Hickman), Cedarcioft, Atlantic City, N.Y.

Matron of Horn* of Employees In Atlantic

HEWITT, Martha Elizabeth (Mrs. John Joseph cnty; b. Concord, Delaware Co., Pa., Jan. 19,

Hewitt), 177 Orangre St., Riverside, Cal. 3354; a^u. B. Franklin and Josephine B. (Rowan)

Born Center Co., Pa., Dec. 28, 1841; dau. jjaU; ed. public school; Ercildoun Sem.; grad.

George Woods and Nancy MeCormlck (MUroy) Swarthmore (Joll., A.B. '74; m. Swarthmore, Pa.,

Hutchison; ed. Oliver Inst., Canonsburg, Pa. peb. 27, 1877, Ellwood S.' Hickman (died April 24,

(first honor of class, valedictorian), A.B., also 1904); children: Edith Josephine, Clara C. (now

degree in music (mem. Phllalitheon Soc.); m. jij-g Walter Munshower). Active in religious

Freeport, 111., Dec. 2, 1872, John Joseph Hewitt; and philanthropic works, holding various office:

children: Mrs. Beulah Woods Hewitt Roblee, in i]^q Friends' meeting; sup't of First Daj

Mrs. Ethel Milroy Hewitt Dennis. Teacher of schools; sec. Needlework Guild of America,

piano before marriage. Pres. of Woman's Aux- pres. and other offices la temperance in the non-

iliary of Y.M.C.A. of Riverside, 12 years; pres. partisan W.C.T.U. Against woman suffrage.

Red Cross Soc. of Riverside for several years; Mem. Friends' Church. Mem. Somervllle Literary

active in W.C.T.U. 1884-1900. Presbyterian. Re- goc_ of Swarthmore College. Former mem. West

publican voter. Mem. D.A.R., also Daughters of obeeter New Century Club.

1812. Recreation: Walking. Pounder of Woman's hickMAN, Emily, Welle College, Aurora-on-

Club of Riverside. Cayuga, N.Y.

HEWLETT, Cleora M. (Mrs. Frederick Hew- Educator; b. Buffalo, N.Y., July 12, 18S0; dau.

lett) "El Tacoa," Napa County, Cal.; winter, Arthur W. and Alice (Gregory) Hickman; grad.

Oak Knoll, Pasadena, Cal. Cornell Univ., A.B. '01; fellow in Am. history.

Born Jan 1 185.5; dau. A. P. Whitney (State 1906-88; Yale Univ., fellow in Am. history.

Senator) and Susan (Eastman) Whitney; ed. 1909-19; Ph.D., Cornell, '11 (Alpha Phi). Taught

private schools and St. Mary's Hall, Benlcla, history, Buffalo high schools. 1901-0«; ass't war-

Cal • m Frederick Hewlett; children: Dr. Albion den of Sage Coll., Cornell Univ., 1908-09; warden

Waiter Eugene E Mem. and former pres. summer session, (3omell Univ., 1909; ass't prof.

Century Club of San FranclBco; founder and history. Wells Coll. since 1911. Congroeatlonal-

pres. San Francisco Maternity, a charity work in Ist. Mem. Am. Historical Ass'n, Ass'n of Coll.

the poor section of the city, with wards in the Alumnse.

hospital of the Univ. of Cal. and of the Lane hKCKS, AmauAa Malvima, 2605 College Av.,

(Stanford) Hospital. Charter mem. and vice- Berkeley, Cal.

regent California Chapter D.A.R.; mem. Town Teacher; b. Galida O.. Sept. 14, 1841; dau.

and Country Club (San Francisco), Friday Ezra and Juliana (LincoliO Hicks; ed. high

Morning Club (Los Angeles). Episcopalian, schools in Richmond, Ind. ; Lebanon, O.; Chi-

Against suffrage for women. cago, Oswego, N.Y., and a tsrm. at OT.ford, Eng.

. „, ^, „ . ,,, TIT u Studied under private tutor in Dresden; studied

HEYBCKN, Ghereteln Yeatman (Mrs. Weldon ^^^^^j^ ,g auditor in Unlr. of Cal. Prof. English

Brinton Heyburn), Kennett Square, Chester ^^^ history in Clinton (Ky.) Coll. for six

Co., Pa. .. T-,, T 1, iii„-„>,„ii years; pres. of that coll. lor fourteen years

Artist; b. K^nett, Pa.; dau. John Marshall (continued teaching Ecgliah and history while

and Lavinla (Passmore) Yeatman; ed ^J^^^^, pres.). Teacher of Bible class of over 100 Univ.

High Soh<M)l, Philadelphia; Philadelphia School ^^n and women In Berkeley, Cal.; teacher of

of Design for Women; pupil of Stephen J. Ferns j^iggjon study classes In Y.W.C.A. of Univ. of

of Philadelphia; m. Kennett, Pa.. Aug 12 im cal. Speaker at Mission Circlee; leader of

Weldon Brinton Heyburn (Senator of the Uiuted gjj^j^ ^^^^j ^^ summer conferences; leader in

States from the State of Idaho ; died Oct. 17, 1912) ^^^ victorious temperance fights. Favors wo-

Resided m Wallace, Idaho. Painted portraits of ^^^ suffrage. Mem. Civic Center of Berkeley

Amhassador Bayard for dty of Wilmington Del f^rajtch of SUte organizaUon for instruction of

of John M. Clayton and J"Qes A. Bayajd for ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ voters). Author of A Truce

Capitol, Dover, Del. Mem Nat Geographic Soc Tollers, and othor short poems. Baptist.

Congressional Section of the Women s Welfare proffressive Ronubllcan

Den't of the Nat. Civic Federation, Nat. History iT^ogressive Kepuoacan.

Soc Wilmln^on, Del.; Congr^ional Club, HICKS. Amy MaU. studio. Room 606, 400 W.

Washington, D.C. Recreation: Botany. Quaker. Twenty-third St.; home, 27 W. Eleventh St.,

Favors woman suffrage; votes In SUte of Idaho. ^-J;. y*,. k ^ ,, ^^ a r,

Roniihiipan Artist, writer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. George

K-epuDiii-du. Cleveland and Josephine (Mali) Hicks; ed. Ber-

HIBBARD, Laura AJaBdis, Mount Holyoke Col- nn^ Paris. HonoraWe naention at World's Pair,

lege, South Hadley, Mass. Chicago, 1893, for fricBe of Woman's Building.

Teacher; b. June 18, 1S83; dau. Frederick Alan interested in taxation of land values and in

and Anna (McMullen) Hlbbard; ed. Wellealey, suffrage. Mem. Women's Political Union. Writer

B.A. '05; M.A. '08 (Tan Zeta Bpsilon). In 1103 ^f magazine arUcles on technical subjects in

received Alice Freeman Palmer fellowship of interior Decorator, Scrip, Woman's Maeazlne,

$1,000 for research work abroad. Favors woman Ladies' Home Journal. Mem. Women's Henry

suffrage. Author of monographs: Heywood'a George League, Women's Trade Union League,

"Fair Maid of the Exchange," Authorship and j^j-js and Crafts Soc. (Boston), Manhattan Single

Date (Modern Philology, 1908); Three Middle xax Club. Recreation: Gardening. Mem. Pen

English Romances— Horn, Havelok, and Bevls of and Brush Club. Founded Guild of Arts and

Hampton. Episcopalian. Crafte of New York, 1893; manager of Cran-

HIBBARD. Mary Eastman Gale (Mrs. Charles i^^^ry Island (Me.) rug industry. 1891.

Bell Hibbard), 176 Pleasant St., Laconla, HICKS, Edith Stoaras (Mrs. J. W. Hicks),

j^_jj. Prentice, Wis.

Born Laconla, N.H., 1860; grad. Swarthmore Bom Monroe, Wis.; dau. John Brown and

Coll AB '82, A.M. '91; grad. student in Latin Fannie B. (Sutherland) Stearns; od. Monroe

and mathematics, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1888-90; m. pubiic s<A»ol8, Unix, of Wis.; A.B. '79; m.

1897 Charles Bell Hlbbard. Teacher of Latin in Monroe, Wis., July £6, 188£, J. W. Hicks; one

Mrs' E L. Head's School, Germantowa, Phila- daughter: Aurelia E. Interested in uplift work

delphia 1889-93; In Miss Florence Baldwin's of all kinds, especially work helping girls to

School ' Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1889-91, and 1895-97; know their own being. Favors woman suf-

mem Board of Education, Laconla, N.H., 1898- fraee; always believed in it. Religious belief

1908 ' expressed in N«w Thoug-ht aa expounded by

Elizabeth Towne. Politically has been Repub-

HIBBARD, Susan Davis FoUansbee (Mrs. Will- jj^^^^^ ^^^ favoi-able to Woodrow Wilson in 1912

iam Gold Hiboard), Wmnetka, 111. contest. Recreations: Horseback riding, rowing.

Born Chicago, 111.; dau. George Alanson and "-, , .^ ,,,.,,. ^

Susan Dana (Davis) Follansbee; ed. Miss Flor- HICKS, -Katharine Adams (Mrs. John Henry

ence Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Hicks), Santa Rosa, N.Mex. ^ „ ^

Brvn Mawr Coll. A.B. '97; m. Chicago, Nov. 8, Born Oberlln, Ohio, May 30, 1871; dau. Edward

1899, William Gold Hibbard Jr. F. and Delia R. (Cooper) Adams; ed. Cogswell

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��Polytechnic Coll., San FYancierco. Cal., 1891; State Normal School, San Jo66, Cal., '93 A.B. (dep't of education); Iceland Stanford Jr. UnlT., Cal., '03; m. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 1, 1906. John Henry Hicks of New MexIccJ. Teacher; principal Mayfleld (Cal.) School, 1895-97; teacher of English and pedagogy. Territorial Normal School, Tempe, Ariz., 1899-1900; organizer and director Temp« Normal Training School, 1900-01. Chairman of New Mexico Joint Com., Dep't School Patrons of the Nat. Educationa.1 Ass'n; sec. Dep't School Patrous of the Nerw Mexico Educational Ass'n; chairman of com. appointed by pres. of local Chapter Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae to invsetlgate milk supply conditions in San Francisco in 1904. Report to the board led to establishment of certified milk dairiee. Favors woman suffrage. Writer of occasional newspaper articles. Christian Scientist. Mem. League for Medical Freedom, Home League (Delineator or- ganization under William Hard), Ass'n of Col- legiate Alumnse.

HICKSON, Lady Catherine, 272 Mountain St.,

Montreal, Can.

Bom Montreal, Canada; dau. Andrew and Mary (Brydle) Dow of Scotland; m. late Sir John Hickson; five children. Interested in many philanthropic societies In Montreal, especially in the Royal Eldward InsL for the Prerention of Tuberculosis, Ladies' Benevolent Soc, Protestant Home of Industry and Refuge, Protestant In- dustrial Rooms. dubs: New York Ladles', Ladies' Empire (London, England). Prertyterian.

HHHDISN, Isabel Dlnwidde* MoKe* {Un. Will- lain H. Hidden), Greenwood, Va. Born Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 7, 1861; dau. Leander and Anna M. (McDoiwell) McKee; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '82; m. May 29, 1899, William H. Hidden (A.B. Harvard, 'SB). Interested in music, pictures,' psychology. Protestant, but not strongly desominatioDal. Recreations: Camping, tramping, tennis, reading, gardening. Against woman suffrage. Mem. Coll. Club (Bos- ton).

HIGBEE, Anna Marie (Mrs. A. E. Higbee), 2324 Gfrard Av., South, Minneapolis, Minn. Born Albany, N.Y., Mar. 14, 1847; dau. John and Nancy (Bliven) Lynch; ed. public and private schools and Hamllne Univ., 1870; m. Minneapolis, Minn., 1872, A. E. Higbee, M.D.; chHdren: Paul A., Helen A., Marjorie A. Teacher in elementary classes In art and English. Resident In Minne- apolis since 1878. Active in Presbyterian church and societies, hospitals, Y.W.C.A., child labor. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Charter mem. Minneapolis Soc. of FMne Arts; mem. Cur- rent Events and Literary Soc; always interested in all social and civic movements In Minneapo- lis; was pres. of the first Free Dispensary Soo. ; pres. of Woman's Council of Minneapolis two years; chairman of the first Educational Com. of Y.W.C.A.

HIGBEE, Lenah Agnew Wiseman Sutcllffe (Mrs.

John Henley Higbee), Apartment 710, The

Rochambeau, Washington, D.C.

Superintendent Nurse Corps, U.S. Navy; b. Chatham, May 18, 1874; dau. Rev. Ingraham and Anna A. Brent) Sutcliffe; ed. Mount Alison Seminary, Sackvllle, N.B.; Hamilton Coll., M.L.A.; special course in English literature and science, Toronto Univ., Toronto, Can. (Ham- ilton Coll. Alumnas); m. N.Y. City, 1899, John Henley Higbee (Lieut. -Col. U.S. Marine Corps). Mem. of the graduate nurses' profession; grad. from N.Y. Post-Graduate Hospital, 1SS9; post- grad, course Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, 1908; appointed mem. of Nurse Corps, U.S. Navy, 1908; appointed chief nurse. Nurse Corps, U.S. Navy, 1909; appointed Sup't Nurse Corps, U.S. Navy, 1911. Mem. of Civic Home Progress Soc. and various guilds connected with the Episcopal Church. Mem. Alumnae of Hamilton Coll., Eclectic Soc, Toronto, Can., Alumnte of the Post-Graduate Hospital, N.Y., Am. Soc. of Su- perintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, Am. Red Cross Soc, Country Club, Toronto. Recreations: IWding, swimming, tennis. Epis- copalian. Favors woman suffrage.

��HIGBEE, Netta Wetherbee (Mrs. E. W. Hig- bee). 8 West St., Northampton, Mass. Born Waltham, Mass.; dau. Andrew and Eliz- abeth (Blake) Wetherbee; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '80 (Alpha Society;; m. Northampton, Mass., May 11, 1886, Dr. E. W. Higbee; one son: Earl Vanvliet. b. Aug. 1, 1893. Teacher for two years In hl^ school, Winchester, Mass. Lady princi- pal, Maplewood Inst., Plttsfield, Mass., 1882-83; 17 years almoner of Whitney Street Fund for worthy poor of Northampton, Mass.; a manager of Home for Aged Women; mem. Coll. Club, Coll. Settlements Ass'n, Students' Aid (Smith), Smith Alumnae Ass'n, Mass. Equal Suffrage and several similar organizations. Civic League. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. HIGGINBOTHAM, Ethel Lattlmore (Mrs. J. M. Hlgginbotham), Dublin, Tex. Born Blue Ridge, Tex., Oct. 24, 1876; dau. John Lee and Sarah Catherine (Shivers) Lattimore; ed. Dublin Hlgli School; Baylor Univ.; m. Dublin, Tex., Feb. 7, 1899, J. M. Hlgginbotham; children: Walter, Laura, Cecil, Rufus. Teacher, 1895-98; sup't of primary dep't of Cradle Roll in Baptist Sunday-school ; pres. Dublin High School Alumni Aes'n; pres Woman's Thursday Club, 1911-13; Interested in charity work and in everything that is for the betterment of public schools. Against woman suffrage. Baptist. Mem. Ladies' Aid, Missionary Soc, W.C.T.U. Mem. Woman's Thursday Club.

HIGGKVS, Alice Louise, 43 Hawkins St,, Bos- ton, Mass.

General secretary Associated Charities; b. Bos- ton, Mar. 28, 1870; dau. Albert H. and Addle A. (Everson) Higgins; ed. private schools. Trained for philanthropic work with Associated Charities of Boston from 1908, becoming district sec. 1902, and gen. sec. from 1902 to present time. Ap- pointed mem. of State Commission to investigate employment agencies, 1910. Mem. and director Mass. Ass'n for Relief and Control of Tuberculo- sis, Mass. Child Labor Com. (Exec. Com.), Mass. Civic League. Unitarian.

HIGGENS, Alma Margaret (Mrs. Irwin Warder Higgins), Deer Lodge, Mont. Born Deer Lodge, Mont; dau. Nicholas J. and Annie (Bogk) Bielenberg; ed. Coll. of Mont. (Deer Lodge), Visitation Convent (St. Paul, Minn.); m. Deer Lodge, Dec. 12, ' 18S9, Irwin Warder Higgins. Four years (1902-06) State or- ganizer for Am. Civic Ass'n; chairman of For- estry and Out-door Art Com., Mont. Fed. Wo- man's Clubs, four years; chairman Civil Ser- vice Reform Com. and Club Extension Com. of same; organizer of Arts and Crafts Soc. at Deer Lodge, 1904; organizer Deer Lodge Chapter Am. Woman's League. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. and State Regent of Mont, of Am. Woman's Republic. Wrote Programs of Arts and Crafts Soc. for seven years; newspaper articles on For- estry, CMvic Improvement and Landscape Gar- dening. Presbyterian; mem. King's Daughters Soc. Chairman Lecture Course Com. four years, for Education Dep't of Arts and Crafts Soc! Recreations: Horseback riding, landscape gar- dening, china painting, pottery. Mem. Woman's Literary Club.

HIG<1INS, Clara Carter (Mrs. John Woodman Higgins), 184 Highland St., Worcester, Mass. Born St. Louis, Mo., July 2, 1S82; dau. Thomas Whitman and Mary Louise (Lupton) Carter; ed. Mary Institute, St. Louis; Smith CJoU. ; m. St. Louis, Jan. 17, 1906, John Woodman Higgins. Treaa. Memorial Hospital Aid Soc. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Wor- cester Employment Aid Soc, Y.W.C.A. Recrea- tions: Golf, tennis, music. Clubs: Woman's, Friday Morning, Alliance Frangaise, Smith Col- lege, Tennis.

HIGGINSON, Ella (Mrs. Russell Garden Hlg- glnson), High St., Belllngham, Wash. Author; b. Council Grove, Kan.; dau. Charles Reeves and Mary A. Rhoads; removed to Pa- cific Northwest in early childhood; ed. Oregon City Seminary; m. Russell Garden Higginson (now deceased). Literary critic Seattle Sunday ■Plmes; writer of short stories, poems and travel sketches; won McClure ?500 prize for beet short

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��etory with: The Takin' In of OW Mis' Lane. Author: Mariella of Out West (novel); Alaska, the Great Country; ateo volumes of short stories: The Flower that Grew in the Sand; From the Land of the Snow Pearls; A Forest Orchid, and three volumes of poems: When the Birds Go North Again; The Voice of April Land; The Snow Pearls. Mem. Nat. Geographic Soc. Favors woman suffrage. HTGGINSON, Mary ITiacher (Mrs. Thomas

Wentworth Higginson), 29 Bucklnghajn St.,

Cambridge, Mass.

Writer; b. Maehiaa, Me., Nov. 26, 1844; dau. Peter and Margaret L. (Potter) Thacher; ed. private schools, Portland, Me. ; Springfield, Mass.; m. West Newton, Mass., Feb. 6, 1879, Thomas Wentworth Higginson; children: Louisa, Margaret Waldo. Author: Seashore and Prairie (sketches), 1876; Room for One More (story), 1879; The Playmate Hours (poems), 1904. Favors woman suffrage. HIGH, Suzanne Frances (Mrs. George Henry

High), 1242 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, III.

Born Chicago; dau. J. Whitney and Amanda F. (King) Farlin; ed. Kirland School, Mrs. Piatt's School, Utica, and Europe; m. Chicago, June 18, 18S9, George Henry High; children: Gwendolyn, Gladys. Presbyterian. Mem. Friday Club. Her grandparents, Tuthill and Suzanne (Gates) King, were early settlers of Chicago, as were her hus- band's parents and grandparents. HIGHET, Mary Elizabeth, Elmira College, El-

mira, N.T.

College professor; b. Cobourg, Ont., Can., 1869; dau. Robert and Elizabeth (Philip) Highet; ed. Victoria Coll., Toronto Univ., A.B. '91; A.M. '92; honor specialist modern languages, Ontario School of Pedagogy; Omell Univ., Ph.M. '94; Ph.D. '95; fellow in Teutonic philosophy, Bryn Mawr Coll. ; post-graduate student Univ. of Ber- lin 1900. Teacher French and German, State Normal School, New Paltz, N.Y. ; prof. Ger- man Literature, Elmira Coll., 1902—. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. Coll. Club, Elmira, N.Y. HIGHLEY, Aida Evans (Mrs. Charles Corson

Highley), Malvern, Chester Co., Pa.

.Librarian; b. WilUston Township, Pa., Feb. 20, 1876; dau. Hon. William and Lydia Ann (Thomas) Evans; grad. Darlington Sem. (girls' school); Swarthmore Coll., B.L., and Drexel Inst. Library School (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Mal- vern, Pa., June 17, 1908, Charles Corson Highley; one son: George Norman Highley, b. Mar. 19, 1910. Cataloguer Haverford Coll. Library, 1899- 1902; ass't librarian Haverford Coll., 1901-02. Mem. Needlework Guild of America and Hos- pital Auxiliaries. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Chester Co. Suffrage Ass'n. Mem. Friends Church. Mem. Chester Co. Historical Soc., West Chester New Century Club, West Chester Golf and Country Club, Malvern Monday After- noon Club. HIGINBOTHAM, Erwiu Hayward (Mrs. George

Mowat Higinbotham), 15 Poplar Plain Road,

Toronto, Ont., Can.

Sculptor; b. St. Louis, Feb. 24, 1869; dau. Col. George Albigence and Ellen (Erwin) Hayward; ed. Visitation Convent, Georgetown, D.C. ; St. Margaret's School of Boston, Miss Gary's School of Baltimore; m. St. Louis, June 18, 1502, Major George Mowat Higinbotham, M.V.O. Pupil of Bringhurst, St. Louis; Collin and Merson, Paris. Work is chiefly portraits, busts and small figures. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Church of Eng- land. Conservative. Mem. Woman's Art Ass'n of Canada. Recreations: Music, yachting, golf, book-binding.

HIGMAN, Nellie, 456 W. Forty-flrst St., Loe Angeles, Cal.

Born St. Joseph, Mich.; ed. in schools of Sioux City, Iowa, and Vassar CoU., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '96. Engaged in teaching after gradua- tion in Metzgar Coll., Carlisle, Pa., 1S96-99; Pueblo, Colo., 1899-1905; Los Angeles, Cal., since 1905.

"BLCLDASMITH, Josephine" — see Smith, Hilda Josephine.

��HLLDEBRANDT, Cornelia TrumbnU Ellis (Mrs.

Howard I-ogan Hildebrandt), 27 W. Sixty- seventh St^ N.Y. City.

Miniature painter; b. Eau Claire, Wis., 1876; dau. Arthur C. and Eliza (Potter) Ellis; ed. Art Inst, of Chicago; studied with Augustus Koop- man in Paris, also Virginia Reynolds; m. 1902, Howard Logan Hildebrandt. Has exhibited regu- larly at the exhibitions of miniature painters. HTLDBETH, Helen Rebecca, 264 Boylston St.,

Boston, Mass.

Vocational educator; b. LockiK>rt, N.Y., 1864, dau. Charles G. and Helen (Weld) Hildreth; ed. public schools, Lockport, N.Y. ; Normal School, Winona, Minn.; Teachers Coll., Columbia Univ., B.S.; mem. Delta Sigma (local). Executive sec. of Manhattan Trade School for Girls; director of vocational training, Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston; special agent for Mass. State Board of Education (for girls' trade schools). Presbyterian. Mem. College Club, Boston, Mass. HLLL, Alice Polk (Mrs. William C. Hill), 658

Emerson St., Denver, Colo.

Born Shelby Co., Ky., Mar. 22, 1854; dau. Daniel and Elizabeth (Rucker) Folk; ed. Science HiU, Shelby vUle, Ky.; m. William C. Hill, of St. Louis, Mo. (now deceased); one child: F. William Hill (now deceased). Favors woman suffrage; elected, the one woman with twenty men, to the Second Charter Convention to frame charter of the City and County of Denver (per- haps the only woman In the world elected to such a position). Author: Tales of the Colo- rado Pioneers (revised edition now in prepara- tion) ; has written for Denver papers and maga- zines. Christian Scientist. Republican. Mem. D.A.R., Territorial Daughters of Colo. Pres. Round Table Club 22 years; mem. Denver Wo- man's Press Club. HILL, Caroline Miles (Mrs. William Hill),

Bethany College, Bethany, W.Va.

Teacher; b. Pleasant Hill, O. ; dau. Israel and Keturah (Pickering) Miles; ed. Earlhan Coll., A.B. '87; Univ. of Mich., Ph.D. '92; fellow in history, Bryn Mawr, 1891-92; m. Jan. 24, 1895, Prof. Wniiam Hill. Teacher history, Wellesley, 1893-95; In social work, Chicago, 1897-1900; prin. Bloommgdale Acad., 1910-12; prof, history, Bethany Coll., 1912. Interested in settlement work, 1897-98, and club committees. Clubs: Chicago Woman's, Bloomlngdale Woman's. Writer of a few magazine articles. Quaker. Favors woman suffrage; sec. Chicago Municipal Suffrage Com., 1908-09; sec. 111. Equal Suffrage League, 1909-10. HILL, Clara Mossmaa, 40 West Av., Norwalk,

Conn.

Bom Norwalk, Conn., Oct 5, 1871; dau. Hon. Ebenezer J. and Mary BUen (Mossman) Hill; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '95. Teacher of English, 1906-09, Crandon Inst. (Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society School), Rome, Italy. Interested in Sunday-school work, social and Y.W.C.A. work; has done genealogical work in New Eng- land and English ancestry of some New England families. Mem. D.A.R., Conn. Soc. Colonial Dames of America, Vassar Alumnae Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnse, Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Soc, Norwalk Civics Soc., Congressional Club, Washington, D.C. Recreations: Traveling, walking, reading, horseback riding, genealogical work. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage; chairman for 26th Dist. Com., 1910-11; organizer and pres. Norwalk Equal Franchise League, 1911. HILL, Edith Thatcher (Mrs. Randolph W. Hill),

4031 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cal. Bom Hopland, Cal., Oct. 7, 1879; dau. William Wallace and Sara Ellen (Roche) Thatcher; ed. San Francisco Girls' High School, Univ. of Cal., A.B. '01; m. San Francisco, Cal., June 28, 1910, Dr. Randolph W. Hill; one son: Randolph W. HUl, Jr. Five years' work in Southern Cal. High Schools (in Latin and history), and as head of music dep't directed chorus of 200. Pres. Los Angeles Coll. Woman's Club, 1911-12. Recreations: Music, piano and several stringed instruments. Against woman suffrage. Repub- lican.

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��HTLL, Elizabeth Fltz (Mrs. Horace A- Hill),

Derry Village, N.St.

Born Chester, N.H., Mar. 4, 1846; dau. Luther and Elizabeth French (Hazelton) Fitz; e<i. Ches- ter Acad.; m. Chester, N.H., 1869, Horace A. Hill; children: Emma Josephine, Elia May, Albert Lyon. Sup't Stinday-schGol ; mem. Molly Reid chapter D.A.R., Order of Eastern Star, NutfleJd Grange. Writer of poems and articles for the various organizations to which she be- longs. Pres. Derry Women's Club. Congrega- lioualist. Favors woman suffrage. HtJvlL, El9i« Mary, 40 West Av., Norwalk, Conn.

Teacher of French, Washington (D.C.) Central High School; b. Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 23, 1883; ed. Mrs. Mead's School for Girls, Norwalk; French private school, Paris, France, 1900-01; Vassar Coll., A.B. 1908; private study in Italy, 1907-08; mem. Summer School of Phllanthrt^jy, 1906. Mem. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae (Washington branch). Associate Alumnae of Vassar Coll. (Washington branch); mem. Congressional Wo- men's Club, Washington, D.C. Protestant. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Pres. Washington Branch Coll. Equal Sugrage League, 1912; mem. Conn. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, and Elqual Franchise League of Norwalk, Conn. HTLL,, Emma Linton (Mrs. John B. Hill),

Fourth and Indiana Sts., Oswego, Kan.

Physician and surgeon; b. Wilmington, C, 1860; dau. David and Anna (Thomas) Linton; ed. La Cygne (Kan.) High School and State Univ. of Kan.; Kan. Med. Coll., '95; Univ. of 111., med. dep't, M.D. '02; m. Oct. 20, 1881; one daughter: Helen Hill. State chairman Am. Med. Ass'n Com. on Public Health Work. Favors woman suffrage. County pres. of Labette Co. Suffrage Ass'n. Quaker. Progressive in politics. HliL, Janet MeKenzie (Mrs. Benjamin M. Hill),

3T2 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

Editor, lecturer, teacher; b. Westfield, Mass., Dec. 13, 1852; dau. Alexander and Nancy Bald- win (Lewis) MeKenzie; ed. Westfield High School and State Normal School; Boston Cooking School; m. Westfield, July, 1873, Benjamin M. Hill; children; Robert B., Harold MeKenzie. Founder and later part owner of Boston Cooking School Magazine. Assistant editor, auxiliary dep't, Ladies' Home Journal. Author: Practical Cooking and Serving; Cooking for Two; The Up-to-D£ite Waitress; Salads, Sandrwiches and Chafing Dish Dainties; The Book of Entrees. Recreations: Summer school of cookery with va- cation outing at South Chatham, N.H. Mean. New England Woman's Press Club. HIJLI/, Jennie Jnstina Robinson (Mrs. Robert

Thomas Hill), Plymouth Inn, Northampton,

Graduate Smith Coll., B.A. '80, M.A. '87; stu- dent of history and economics, Cornell Univ., 1884-85; m. Dec. 28, 1887, Robert Thomas Hill; one daughter: Justina Hamilton, b. Oct. 1, 1893. Teacher, 1880-86. Mem. Board of Education, Washington, D.C; alumnae trustee of Smith Coll., 1900-06. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n (vice- pres. 1881-84). HILL, Kate Donahue (Mrs. Robert Potter Hill),

Eldridge, Sonoma Co.. Cal.

Born Mercer, Pa., 1870; dau. P. J. and Rose (Conneely) Donahue; ed. public schools; grad. Cal. Kindergarten Training School; m. San Rafael, Cal., 1897, Robert Potter Hill. Sec. of the Sonoma Co. Juvenile Court; mem. Demo- cratic State Central Com. ; past pros. C3al. Fed. of Women's Clubs; honorary mem. Nevada State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Mean. Cal. Grange. Clubs: Sonoma Valley Woman's, Glen Ellen Woman's, honorary mem. Saturday Afternoon of Santa Rosa; honorary mem. Elxtemporaneoue Drill, Riverside, Cal. Catholic. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive Democrat. UJTLL, Kittie C. EUis (Mrs. Robert H. Hill),

Waco, Tex.

Teacher and writer; dau. Edwin Speight and Mary Adrien (Brantley) Ellis; ed. Blue Mountain Woman's Coll., Blue Mount, Miss,, 1S81-87 Betti« May, Robepta, George W., Agnes, Hattie, BnUx, Joseph. Was a delegate to the World's
 * Ennomlan); m. 1891, Robert H. Hill; children:

��r»res3 Congress In 1893. Por four years edited a newspaper; contributor to newspapers since Che age of n.

HXLI., Lronise Bethel] Sneed (Mrs. Crawford HUI), 969 Sherman St., Denver, Colo. Born Tcwnsville, N.C.; dau. William Morgan and Louise (Bethell) Sneed; ed. N.Y. City; m. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 15, 1895, Crawford Hill (only son of U.S. Senator Nathaniel P. Hill of Colo); children: Nathaniel P., Crawford. Repub- lican, always voting at elections, taking an active part hi an Republican women's clubs. L»eader In society of Colorado. Episcopalian.

HELL, Mabel, Mitchell Military Boys' School,

Billerlca, Mass.

Teacher; b. Lowell, Mass., July 23, 1864; dau. Paul and Belinda P. (Hadley) HUI; ed. home school, Bradford Acad., RadcUffe Coll., post- grad, study of history. Taught history In Mitchell's Boys' School in 1885; literature and history at St Mary's School, Concord, N.H., 1886- 97; history, civics and education at State Normal School, Lowell, Mass., 1897-1912; dean of the Mitchell Military Boys' School, at Billerlca, Mass., 1912 —. Mem. Com. of Eight of the Am. Historical Ass'n; Com. on Elementary Educa- tion of the Am. Political Science Ass'n; mem. New England History Teachers' Ass'n; ex- ti-ustee Bradford Acad. Author: Liberty Docu- ments; Lessons for Junior Citizens; American History in Literature, Clubs: Woonen's, Cen- tury. Recreations: Golf, foreign travel, trout fishing. Episcopalian.

HIXL, Marianna Nicholson Buffum (Mrs. Perry Childs HilU, 749 W. Washington St., Jackson, Mich.

Born Portsmouth, R.I., May 6, 1881; dau. David and Marianna (Nicholson) Buffum; ed. Rogers High School, Newport, R.I., and Bryn Mawr Coll., foundation scholar, 1897-99, and 1900-02, A.B. '02; graduate scholar in Lalin, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1906-07, A.M. '07; m. 1908, Perry Childs Hill; children: Perry Childs, Jr., Mary Buffum. Ass't teacher in public schools, Newport, R.I., 1899-1900; teacher of Latin, 1902-06, and 1907-08, and of Greek, 1904-05, in Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Conn. Protestant Episcopalian. Against woman suSrage; mem. local anti-suffrage society.

IJILL., Marion (Mrs. Charles R. Hill), Cresco,

Pa.

Writer; b. Vlcksburg, Miss., Feb. 20, 1870; dau. Barton and Marion (Watts) Hill; ed. by tutors and private French school In San Francisco; m. San Francisco, 1897, Charles R. Hill; one eon: Edwin Robert. Author (books): Pettison Twins; Harmony Hall; Georgette; (serials): June's (Jar- den; Connie; Against the Wall; also short storiee and verse to all current magazines. Episco- palian. Olubs: Cleveland Press, Cincinnati Press. Favors woman suffrage.

ULLL, Mary Dorsey Anderson (Mra. Archibald Alexander Hill), 3669 Seventh St., San Diego, Cal.

Teacher, social worker; b. Maysville, Ky. ; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '89; m. Aug. 15, 1901, Archibald Alexander Hill (now deceased); one son. Teacher, Louisville, Ky., 1890-96; head worker Louisville Neighborhood House, 1896-1901; West Side Neighborhood House, N.Y. City, 1902- 03; AlumnaB Settlement, N.Y. City, 1904-06; teacher in San Diego, Cal., since 1909. Writer of various articles .on settlement work.

HILX, Minnie Spe«r (Mrs. John Emmett Hill),

Azusa, Cal.

Graduate nurse; b. Oanonsburg, Pa.; dau. James F. and Rebecca Ellen (McMillan) Speer; ed. Canonsburg grammar and high school, grad. with third honor; m. (ianonsburg, Pa., C)ct. 12, 1899, Dr. John E)mmett Hill; one son: George Speer. Grad McKeesport HospitaJ Training School for Nurses. Mem. Parent-'Teachers' Ass'n of Azusa, Ladies' Aid Soc. of Azusa First Pres- byterian Church, Aztrsa Woman's Club (prea.,'haa l»een sec). Presbyterian. Favors woman Bof- frage. Progressive Party.

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