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220 Peary in the polar controversy. Mem. Grad. Council of Wellesley Coll., Eliot Branch Nat. Alliance of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian Women, Civic League of St. Louis, Soc. for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Hosmer Hall Alumnae Ass'n, Consumers' League, Wellesley Club of St. Louis, College Club of St. Louis, Wednesday Club. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage League.

CRUNDEN, Elizabeth Chittenden (Mrs. Frank Payne Crunden), 4426 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Keokuk, Ia., June 21, 1865; dau. A. B. and Elizabeth Talcott (Bates) Chittenden; ed. Keokuk High School; m. Keokuk, Ia., Aug. 25, 1886, Frank Payne Crunden; children: Walter Morgan, b. June, 1887; Mary, b. June, 1890; Elizabeth Bates, b. Sept., 1892; Arthur Chittenden, b. Nov., 1894; George Fauchon, b. 1898; Catherine, b. 1903. Mem. Ethical Soc., Wednesday Club, Social Service Conference, Artists' Guild, Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Civic League, Colonial Daughters, Daughters of Governors, pres. St. Louis Equal Suffrage League.

CUDEBACH, Edith E. (Mrs. G. L. Cudebach), 112 Colorado Av., Lorain, Ohio.

Club woman; b. Lake Breeze, O., Jan. 31, 1874; dau. Arthur and Fannie (Smith) Austin; grad. Lorain High School 1893; m. Lorain County, Jan. 6, 1897, Capt. G. L. Cudebach. Teacher of a Sunday-school class of high school girls for past 10 years. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Woman's Ass'n of the Congregational Church, Social Settlement Organization, the Public Library Board. Recreation: Trips up the Lakes. Clubs: The Lorain Sorosis (pres. 1911-12), The Round Table (conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Cudebach).

CUINET, L. Adele, 152 Henry St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dental surgeon; b. Hoboken, N.J., 1860; dau. L. Constant and Zenobia (Humbert) Cuinet; grad. Model School, Trenton, N.J., '81, Pa. Coll. of Dental Surgery, D.D.S. '85; delegate to Dental Convention, World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. Lectured for several years to Nurses of Memorial Hospital for Women and Children; lecturer on hygiene of mouth and care of teeth. Author of various articles for newspapers and magazines. Episcopalian. Mem. 2d District Dental Soc. of N.Y. City; vice-pres. Memorial Dispensary for Women and Children. Mem. Physicians and Surgeons branch of the Woman's Political Equality League, Women's Suffrage Party, Women's Political Union, People's Equality League of Brooklyn. Recreations: Traveling and week-ends in country home at Valley Stream, L.I.

CULBERSON, Mrs. Sherwood Franklin, Portales, N.Mex.

Teacher; b. Aberdeen, Miss., 1846; dau. Rev. George W. and Eva (Prewett) Coopwood; ed. primary schools and Aberdeen Female Coll., M.E.; m. (1st) John A. Morgan; (2d) Dr. S. F. Culberson; children: Annie J. Morgan (now Mrs. R. F. Culberson), Davis H. Morgan (deceased), Lois Morgan (deceased). Teaoher (now county sup't of schools of Roosevelt Co., N.Mex.); was reelected to second term of office, Nov., 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. M.E. Church, South. Democrat (voter in school elections). Mem. Eastern Star, Woman's Club of Portales; chairman of Educational Com. of N.Mex. State Fed. of Women's Clubs.

CULBERTSON, Anne Virginia, Zanesville, Ohio.

Writer, author, reader; b. Zanesville, Ohio; daughter of Surgeon Howard Culbertson, U.S.A., and Marie Louise (Safford) Culbertson; grad. Putnam Sem., Zanesville. Made debut as author and reader at house of Postmaster General Wanamaker, and since then has appeared in all the principal cities, at many Chautauquas, before prominent clubs, and in private salons, reading her own productions in prose and verse. Favors woman suffrage. Books: Lays of a Wandering Minstrel; At the Big House; Banjo Talks; contributor to various magazines and periodicals. Episcopalian. Mem. The All Around Club, Zanesville. Writer and interpreter of various dialects. Including that of the Middle West, negro dialect, and the speech of the mountain whites of the South.

CULBERTSON, Belle Caldwell (Mrs. John Newton Culbertson), 1358 Quincy St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Born Wheeling, W.Va., Feb. 23, 1857; dau. James Yarnall and Mary Travis (Newman) Caldwell (Scotch-Irish and English Quaker descent; direct descendant from Hon. Francis Yarnall ol the Provincial Legislature of Pa., 1744-48); ed Hollidaysburg (Pa.) Female Sem.; grad. State Normal School, Fairmont, W.Va., '76; Wheeling Female Coll. (valedictorian), '77; m. Bangkok, Indo-China, Jan. 9, 1880, Rev. John Newton Culbertson, Presbyterian minister; children: Agnes Breckenridge, Keren Whittier, John Travis M., Helen Wilson, Robert C, Gladys Isabel. Taught in Wheeling Female Coll., one year; in 1878 went as missionary, under Presbyterian Board of Missions, to Indo-China, and was for two years principal of the Girls' Boarding School at Bangkok, Siam; owing to her ill health the family returned to America, 1881; located in S.Dak., where a home mission church was established in charge of her husband and herself; resident of Washington, D.C, since 1887, where is active in religious and philanthropic work. Pres Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of Presbytery of Washington City; pres. Woman's Inter-Denominational Missionary Union of Dist. of Columbia since 1906; mem. Exec. Boards of Anti-Saloon League, W.C.T.U., and for several years past has been vice-pres. Mothers' Congress of D.C. Especially active in efforts to promote interdenominational Christian unity. Writer for religious press; translator of German fiction, notably: Sunnyheart's Trial; A Christmas Story for Children, translated from the German of Emily von Rhoden, which ran as a serial in the Lutheran Observer, 1910. Recreation: Music.

CULBERTSON, Eliza Mary, Post Bldg., Appleton, Wis.

Physician; b. Grenville, Wis., Feb. 11, 1866; dau. John and Rachel Esther (Prentice) Culbertson; ed. Oshkosh Normal School, Am School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. (mem. Axis Club). Treas. of Wis. State Osteopath Ass'n seven years; mem. Nat. Ass'n. State Ass'n and of the Fox River Valley Ass'n. Leader Health Culture Club of Appleton. Mem Deborah Rebekah Lodge, No. 13. Favors woman suffrage.

CULBERTSON, Emma V. P. B., 33 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.

Physician; b. New Albany, Ind., Dec. 2, 1854 dau. John Craighead and Mary Pintard (Bicknell) Culbertson; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '77 (Phi Beta Kappa), M.A. '81; Woman's Med Coll. of Pa., M.D., 1881. First woman elected to the American Academy of Medicine; attending surgeon New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston. Mem. Mass. Suffrage Ass'n, Equal Suffrage Ass'n for Good Government Coll. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Unitarian. Mem New England Hospital Medical Soc, Mass Med. Soc, Am. Acad. Medicine, Woman's Municipal League, Nat. Geog. Soc, Am. Forestry Ass'n, School Voters' League, Boston. Clubs: Coll. (Boston), Univ. (N.Y. City), Pentagon (Boston).

CULVER, Eugenia Margaret, Glencoe, Ill.

Physician; b. Chicago, Ill., Dec 16, 1868; dau Morton and Eugenia Marcey (Taylor) Culver; ed. Glencoe public school; Northwestern Preparatory, Evanston, Ill., also Evanston School; Ill. Med. Coll., Chicago; Ill. School of Electro-Therapeutics, Chicago; Mary Thompson Hospital School for Nurses. Upon receiving M.D. took the interneship in Mary Thompson Hospital after which became mem. of the staff. Health commissioner of Glencoe. Pres. of Altar Guild of St. Elizabeth. Glencoe; pres. of Woman's Auxiliary of St Elizabeth. Glencoe. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Woman's Library Club of Glencoe, Ill.


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Rh CULVER, Helen, Lake Forest, Ill.

Philanthropist; b. Little Valley, N.Y.; dau. Lyman and Emeliza (Hull) Culver; grad. Randolph Acad., N.Y., 1853; established private school at Sycamore, Ill., 1853; principal primary school and teacher in grammar and high schools, Chicago, 1854-61; matron Military Hospital at Murfreesboro, Tenn., under the Sanitary Commission, 1863; entered real estate business with her relative, Charles J. Hull, of Chicago, 1868, and after his death, in 1895, built and endowed the Hull Biological Laboratories of the University of Chicago; also founded the Helen Culver Fund for Race Psychology, 1910. Trustee of Hull House Ass'n from its organization in 1898. Favors woman suffrage.

CUMINGS, Mrs. Henry Harrison, Tidioute, Warren Co., Pa.

Born Rome, N.Y., April 25, 1846; dau. Andrew Jackson and Sarah (Rue) Sink; ed. public schools of Rome and Chicago, Ill.; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., Apr. 17, 1867, Henry Harrison Cumings; children: Sadie C, Ralph H., Laura F., Benjamin Rue, Abigail L. Communicant of Episcopal Church. Much interested and active in D.A.R., of which is now State Regent of Pa. Mem. Com. of Nat. Highway from Coast to Coast. Mem. and past dep't pres. Woman's Relief Corps (has held some Nat. offices). Ex. mem. Andersonville Prison Board. Episcopalian, Mem. Shakespeare Literary Club, Tidioute, (Pa.) Nat. Council of Women, Philomel Club (musical), Warren, Pa., Mendelssohn Club (music) of Tidioute, Pa.

CUMMIN, Ellen Pearson (Mrs. Robert Irvin Cummin), 902 Summers St., Dayton, O.

Born Meadville, Pa., Dec. 10, 1849; dau. Gaylord and Anna (Pearson) Church; ed. private schools, Meadville, Pa., and Riverdale, N.Y.; m. Meadville, Pa., June 15, 1881, Robert Irvin Cummin; children: Gaylord Church, Edith Pearson, Hart, Pearson Church. Has been associated with various religious, social and philanthropic activities, and six years treas. and mem. Board of Managers of Dayton (O.) Y.W.C.A. Episcopalian. Mem. Dayton Country Club, Dayton City Club. Against woman suffrage.

CUMMING, Ellen King, Fredonia, N Y.

Teacher; b. Fredonia, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Fredonia, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '96. Teacher Schuylerville, N.Y., 1897-98; Saratoga, N.Y., 1898-99; Plainfield, N.J., 1900-09.

CUMMING, Mary Gairdner (Mrs. Bryan Cumming), The Hill, Augusta, Ga.

Born Elberton, Ga., 1866; dau. Charles Shaler and Mary Gordon (Gairdner) Smith; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis, Mo.; m. The Hill, Augusta, Ga., 1889, Bryan Cumming; children: Mary Shaler, Joseph Bryan Jr. Interested in social and philanthropic work and in sociological questions, concentrates energies on Children's Hospital (pres.), also a library and tea room, conducted for the benefit of the hospital and known as Cranford Club (pres.). Episcopalian. Democrat. Recreations: Golf, general society, music. Mem. Country Club.

CUMMINGS, Anna S., Marshall College, Huntington, W.Va,

Teacher; b. Fairfax, Vt., 1860; dau. Mark A. and Jane A. (Park) Cummings; ed. Colby Univ., A.B., A.M.; grad. study Leland Stanford Jr. Univ., Univ. of Grenoble, Sorbonne Univ. of Paris (Sigma Kappa). Private and high school teacher until 1893; six years as lady principal at Vt. Acad., Saxton's River, Vt.; nine years as head of training dep't, Marshall Coll., Huntington, W.Va.; State Institute instructor for W.Va.; public speaker on educational questions. Mem. D.A.R., Am. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, State Labor Ass'n, State Educational Ass'n, Nat. Educational Ass'n. Mem. Huntington Woman's Club. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.

CUMMINGS, Emily (Mrs. Willoughby Cummings), 44 Dewson St., Toronto.

Born Port Hope, Canada; dau. Rev. Dr. Jonathan and Isabel (Harper) Shortt; ed. Port Hope and Montreal private schools; m. Port Hope, 1871, Willoughby Cummings. Sec Nat. Council of Women of Canada; convener of Internat. Council at Toronto in June, 1909. Writer for ten years on editorial staff of Toronto Globe, also Canadian Magazine. Managing editor of official organ of the Women's Missionary Soc. of the Church of England in Canada. Recreations: Photography, bookbinding. First Canadian woman to receive an honorary degree from a Canadian Univ., King's Univ. (Nova Scotia) having given her the degree of D.C.L. in Sept., 1911, at the same time that honorary degrees were conferred upon the Bishop of London (England), Judge Macdonald, Hubert Castleton and others.

CUMMINGS, Lucretia Stow Cummings, Plantsville, Conn.

Born Southington, Conn.; ed. in schools of Plantsville, Conn.; Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '74; m. Plantsville, Conn., Oct. 18, 1876, William H. Cummings; two daughters, two sons. Editor of weekly paper, 1875-76; sup't of schools, Southington, Conn., 1906-07.

CUMMINGS, Mabel Homer, 71 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Principal of private school; b. Cambridge, Mass., March 28, 1872; dau. Charles H. and Harriet Elizabeth (Whiting) Cummings; grad. Brookline High School, 1891, Smith Coll., B.A. '95. Teacher Chestnut Hill School, Brookline, Mass., 1895-1901, and 1902-08; principal preparatory dep't Vollman School, Boston, 1908-09; associate principal Classical School for Girls, Boston, Mass., 1909-11; principal Classical School for Girls, 1911-12; principal Miss Cummings' School, since 1912. Author: Asgard Stories. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Geographic Soc.

CUMMINGS, Mary Augusta (Marston) (Mrs. Robert Fowler Cummings), 5135 Madison Av., Chicago, Ill.

Born New London, Conn., July 8, 1855; dau. Sanford Kingsbury and Sarah (Field) Marston; ed. Grand Prairie Sem., Onarga, Ill.; m. July 6, 1874, Robert Fowler Cummings; children: Lenore, Marion Marston, Austin Benjamin, Florence, Irene, Marston. Active in civic and philanthropic departments in church and clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Chicago Woman's Club, Arché Club, Travel Class (pres. 4 years), D.A.R., Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Chicago Colony of New England Women (1st pres. and now officer), Friendly Aid Soc. Served 2 years as chairman of a com. on State Board of 111. Federation of Women's Clubs.

CUNNING, Edith May Klett (Mrs. George Albert Cunning), Las Ammas, Colo.

Superintendent of schools; b. Colorado; ed. Univ. of Colorado, 1904-06; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill., 1906-07; Bryn Mawr Coll., 1907-08; m. 1909, George Albert Cunning. Sup't of public instruction of Bent County, Colorado, 1908-11.

CUNNING, Kate Disher (Mrs. C. E. Cunning), 334 N. Sixth SU New Philadelphia, O.

Former teacher; b. New Philadelphia, O., Aug. 7, 1858; dau. John and Martha (Parrish) Disher; grad. Philadelphia Union School, '76; taught in same for seven years; m. Uhrichsville, O., June 21, 1883, C. E. Cunning; children: Helen L. (wife of Rev. J. E. Weinland), Benjamin W. (actor). Vice-pres. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of M.E. Church, New Philadelphia, O. Pres. New Philadelphia Auxiliary to Union Hospital. Mem. Public Library Trustee Board (six-year term), Union Missionary Charity Board, Y.W.C.A. Exec. Com. Moravian. Recreation: Reading. Pres. Buckeye Club. Favors woman suffrage.

CUNNINGHAM, Anna, Smyrna, Del.

Born in Delaware; dau. Dr. John H. and Sarah Elizabeth (Catts) Cunningham, grand-daughter of Gen. John W. Cunningham (general in War of 1812) and great-granddaughter of Capt. Allan Cunningham of the Revolutionary Army, who was a graduate of Trinity Coll., Dublin, and came to America in 1765; ed. in Delaware. Has written short history of Delaware. Mem. United States Daughters of 1812 (registrar, 1902-11, for the State of Delaware), Bridge Club, Whist

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222 Club. Recreations: Music, theatre. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

CUNNINGHAM, Georgia Lee (Mrs. A. D. Cunningham), 5865 Von Versen St., St. Louis, Mo.

Professional singer and teacher; b. Palmyra, Mo.; dau. Woodruff Lee and wife (née Allsman); ed. St. Paul's Coll., Palmyra, Mo.; studied singing under Mme. Mathilde Marchesi In Paris, France, 1894; m. St. Louis, Mo., A. D. Cunningham; one son: Albert Lee (actor, N.Y. City). Sung in grand opera. Concerts Ovationé; sung at the symphony concerts at St. Louis World's Fair, 1904; has appeared in many concerts for charities. Teacher of the art of singing. Episcopalian Recreation: Golf.

CUNNINGHAM, Helen M. Benedict (Mrs. John S. Cunningham), 1919 St. Albans, W.Va.

Born in Pennsylvania; ed. Mrs. Phelps' School, Baltimore; children: Evelyn, Helen, John, Harold. Identified with religious, social and philanthropic activities. Episcopalian. Pres. Thursday Literary Club of Federation. Aided her late brother, Frank Lee Benedict, the novelist, with suggestions and criticism. At present exerts the leading influence in the Prohibtion Dep't of "1919," a journal edited by her son, John Benedict Cunningham, whose chief public benefit design is the political coalition of prohibition, labor unions, socialism and woman suffrage.

CUNNINGHAM, Ida Cary (Mrs. Charles Greely Cunningham), Heath Hill, Brookline, Mass.

Born Boston, Mass., Sept. 14, 1853; dau. William Aylwin and Cynthia (Johnson) Cary; ed. in Boston private schools; m. (1st) 1876, Sydney Heath of Brookline, Mass.; one son: Reginald Cary Heath; (2d) Charles Greely Cunningham. Mem. of many humanitarian societies, Anti-Vivisection, Animal Rescue League, Millennium Guild and others. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. of Exec. Board Brookline Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Progressive. Descendant of John Cotton of the First Church of Boston (1612) and Robert Treat Paine, signer of Declaration of Independence, and of James Cary (came to America 1639).

CUNNINGHAM, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Cunningham), 727 Third Av., New Westminster, B.C.

Born St. Thomas, Ont., July 19, 1841; dau. William and Mary Ann (Pugh) Woodman; ed. St. Thomas Central and Grammar Schools; m. New Westminster, B.C., James Cunningham; children: Herbert: Fred, Maud, Alice and Frances. Was teacher in St. Thomas Central School two years. Mem. Queen's Av. Methodist Church, New Westminster, since June, 1862, and ever since teacher in its Sunday-school, which gave her a jubilee June, 1913; since 1883 officer in provincial and local W.C.T.U. (pres., cor. sec, treas., rec. sec. and first vice-pres.); also pres. and sec. of other societies; Ladies Aid, Woman's Mission Soc, Woman's Council, Woman's Hospital Board; Methodist Church class leader, mission worker; director and hon. pres. Y.W.C.A. Favors woman suffrage. Writer of newspaper articles and personal sketches for publication in pamphlet form. Mem. Canadian Methodist Church; municipal voter for over 20 years. Mem. Political Equality League; sup't Franchise Dep't New Westminster local W.C.T.U. Recreations: Reading, writing, walking, riding, visiting. Mem. Educational Club. Founder and eight years pres. Managing Board of Women's Hospital (under auspices of local W.C.T.U.), now amalgamated with the Columbian Hospital. For 16 years with another lady visited and preached to the prisoners in the New Westminster jail, holding regular Sunday afternoon services in the jail chapel.

CUNNINGHAM, Zella May (Mrs. Edgar Wright Cunningham), Larimore, N. Dak.

Club pres.; b. Fairbury, Ill., Aug. 9, 1875; dau. Samuel Lazzell and Alice (Vergin) Ramsey; ed. Jacksonville (Ill.) Female Coll., '93; m. Jacksonville, Ill., Dec. 30, 1896, Edgar Wright Cunningham; one son: Emory Lazzell. Identified with Presbyterian church work. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Mem. Order of Eastern Star. Pres. Tuesday Club, Larimore, N.D.; chairman Conservation Com., N.D. Federation of Women's Clubs. Mem. Civic League of Larimore. Resident of N.D. from 1905.

CURRIE, Emma Augusta (Mrs. James George Currie), 9S King St., St. Catharines, Ontario, Can.

Born Niagara-on-the-Lake, Nov. 19, 1829; dau. Ursen and Caroline (Hamlin) Harvey; ed. David's public school; Miss Sibbald's private school eight months; East Bloomfield (N.Y.) Acad., two years; Canandaigua (N.Y.) Sem., one year; m. Brockport, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1865, James George Currie. Author of Laura Ingersoll Secord and Canadian Reminiscences, first edition, 1901; second, 1913. Presbyterian. Mem. Woman's Literary and Historical Club; one of the founders of the St. Catherines (Ont.) Orphans' Home. Favors woman suffrage. Liberal in politics.

CURRY, Adeline Jones Spencer (Mrs. Charles Henry Curry), 5 Von Lent Place, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa.; dau. Charles Hart and Mary (Acheson) Spencer; ed. Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Bryn Mawr Coll.; m. Pittsburgh, June 3, 1905, Charles Henry Curry; children: Henry Milo, Charles Henry, Spencer Curry. Against woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Allegheny Country Club, Pittsburgh Golf Club.

CURRY, Mrs. Edwin Rue, 1107 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo.

Born near Danville, Ill.; dau. George Levi and Matilda A. (Rue) Caldwell; ed. Cameron, Mo.; m. Kansas City, Mo., Dr. E. R. Curry. Founder and pres. Community Center, organized Nov., 1911; pres. Kansas City Chapter Internat. Sunshine Soc.; board mem. Council of Clubs for Civic and Social Betterment; mem. com. religious dep't Y.W.C.A.; life mem. Nat. Good Roads Ass'n. Led first campaign for suffrage in Mo., 1912. Author of tracts for social centers, suffrage and children's summer vocational school work. Presbyterian. Progressive in politics. Mem. High Cost of Living Convalescing Com. (charter mem.), Women's Loan Co. (scholarships for girls and boys as a loan). Recreation: Bowling.

CURTIS, Alice Turner (Mrs. I. Curtis), 66 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Author; b. Sullivan, Me.; dau. J. Vinal and Susan A. (Spear) Turner; ed. in public schools of Maine and Massachusetts; m. Boston, May 20, 1895, Irving Curtis. Salaried contributor to Youth's Companion. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Grandpa's Little Girl; Anne Nelson; The Little Runaways; Marjorie's Way, and short stories in Century Magazine. Mem. D.A.R. (Tea Party Chapter, Boston). Recreations: Reading, walking, housekeeping. Mem. New England Women's Club, Boston.

CURTIS, Anna Louise, Swarthmore, Pa,; home, 512 E. Fifty-eighth St., N.Y. City.

Assistant to registrar, Swarthmore Coll.; b. Willoughby, O., Aug. 15, 1882; dau. Grove D. and Lillian (Tryon) Curtis; grad. Swarthmore Coll., A.B. '04; won two oratorical contests. In addition to work as registrar's assistant, does the proofreading and some of the editorial work on The Speaker (a quarterly) and The Public Speaking Review (monthly), published from Swarthmore. Favors woman suffrage. Author of a brief history of the Lyceum, published as part of Who's Who in the Lyceum. Mem. Society of Friends. Recreations: Tennis, reading.

CURTIS, Anna Louise Anderson (Mrs. Chauncey Warren Curtis), Newcastle, Wyo.

Born Kincardin, Ont., Not. 14, 1877; dau. Alexander and Eliza A. (Atchison) Anderson; grad. Ft. Morgan (Colo.) High School, '97; m. Deadwood, S.Dak., Mar. 25, 1899, Chauncey Warren Curtis. Presbyterian. Republican. Recreations: Out-door sports, horseback riding, skating, autoing, basket-making. Mem. Twentieth Century Club, Weston County Library Club. Favors woman suffrage.


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Rh CURTIS, Constance, 331 W. Seventy-sixth St., N.Y. City.

Artist; b. Washington, D. C; dau. Edward and Augusta L. (Stacey) Curtis; ed. in N.Y. City, Art Students' League. Exhibited at Paris Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair, at London and in principal art exhibitions in U.S. Pres. Art Workers' Club for Women. Episcopalian. Mem. Art Students' League of N.Y., Women's Municipal League, Women's Political Union. Favors woman suffrage.

CURTIS, Elizabeth, 27 W. 47th St., N.Y. City (summer, York Harbor, Me.).

Artist; b. N.Y. City; dau. William Edmond (chief justice of the Superior Court in N.Y. City) and Mary Ann (Scovill) Curtis. Studied under William M. Chase, John Twatchman and Claude Monet. Exhibited at Am. Artists in N.T2. City and Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

CURTIS, Elnora Whitman, Bigelow Hill, Worcester, Mass.

Born in Worcester, Mass., daughter of Edwin Prentice and Harriet Augusta (Bigelow) Curtis; ed. Worcester public schools and Burnham School, Northampton, Mass.; Smith Coll., B.A.. '92; Clark Univ., M.A. '08, Ph.D. '10. Author: The Dramatic Instinct in Education, Sept., 1908 (Pedagogical Seminary); Out-Door Schools (Pedagogical Seminary, June, 1909); The American City, Dec., 1909, and Jan., 1910.

CURTIS, Emma Ghent (Mrs. James Curtis), Cyanide Av., Canon City, Colo.

Born Frankfort, Ind., May 18, 1860; dau. Ira K. and Mary (Palmer) Ghent; grad. of Frankfort (Ind.) High School, class of '77; m. Canon City, Jan. 2, 1882, James Curtis (ranchman); children: Benjamin K., Mary M. For three years was commissioner of Colo. State Industrial School for Boys. Favors woman suffrage; was active in campaign that brought woman suffrage to Colorado. Author (novels): The Fate of a Fool; The Administratrix; also many poems and short stories in different periodicals. Progressive. Interested in raising flowers. Mem. of one neighborhood historical and literary club, all members being ranch women.

CURTIS, Frances (Mrs. Thomas Pelham Curtis), 447 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Born San Francisco, Cal, 1871; dau. Gen. M. P Small, U.S.A., and Mary (Pratt) Small; m Baltimore, Md., Aug. 4, 1892, Thomas Pelham Curtis; children: Clarissa, T. J., H. Pelham. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Boston Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Exec. Board Mass. Suffrage Ass'n, Ways and Means Com. of Woman Suffrage Party; leader of Ward 11, Boston.

CURTIS, Georgina Pell, 5000 N. Ashland Av., Chicago, Ill.

Author; b. N.Y. City, Feb. 19, 1859; dau. Alfred Leonard and Maria Elizabeth (Hill) Curtis; ed. St. Mary's (P.E.) School, N.Y., grad. with honors Author: Trammelings; The Romance of a Chap-Book. Editor: Some Roads to Rome in America; The American Catholic Who's Who. Catholic (convert). Contributed to The Catholic World, Ave Maria, The Messenger, Magnificat, The Rosary, Harper's Bazar, and Harper's Young People. Recreation: Travel (coaching in Europe). Of Colonial Dutch and Mayflower descent; direct descendant of Peregrine White, first white child born after parents landed from the Mayflower. Also descended in direct line from Jacobus Van De Water, mayor of New Amsterdam in 1673.

CURTIS, Ida Maynard, 25 Kinross Rd., Boston,

Art teacher; b. Lewisburg, Pa.; dau. Thomas Turner and Anne (Turner) Custer; ed. Boston schools and Cornell Univ. B.L. Commenced as teacher of science, devoting much time to chemistry, working gradually in art lines with 2 years' study in Paris, until drawing and painting has become her exclusive work; now art teacher in a Boston high school. Fond of travel both in this country and abroad, and of wild ranch life, canoeing, camping, etc. Unitarian. Mem. Copley Soc. of Artists, Browning Soc., Teachers' Club of Boston.

CURTIS, Isabel Gordon (Mrs. Francis Curtis), The Woodley, Washington, D.C.

Author; b. Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, April 24, 1863; dau. Peter and Elizabeth (Ragg) Gordon; ed. Gordon School, Huntly; Milne's Acad., Fochabers, Scotland; m. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 6, 1896, Frances Curtis. Came to America, 1886, entered newspaper work in Springfield, Mass., continuing the profession until marriage. Did editorial work on husband's paper in Binghamton, N.Y., four years; became associate editor on Good Housekeeping in 1900. Seven years later went on the editorial staff of Success Magazine. Has done much work upon magazines—short stories, interviewing and special articles; has now relinquished editorial connections to devote time to fiction and short story writing. Author: The Making of a Housewife; The Woman from Wolverton; Old Luce; The Lapse of Enoch Wentworth. Against woman suffrage.

CURTIS, Laura Elizabeth (Mrs. E. L. Curtis), 91 Linden St., New Haven, Conn.

Born St. Helena, Cal., Nov. 27, 1859; dau. Ben E. S. and Elizabeth E. (McElroy) Ely; grad. Rockford Coll., '81; m. April 27, 1882, Edward Lewis Curtis, Ph.D. (prof. of Hebrew and Old Testament Theology in Yale Univ.); children: Elizabeth Eudora, Margaret, Edward Ely, Laura Dorothea. Interested in foreign missions, having been vice-pres. New Haven Branch of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, also interested in philanthropic work, and in the Conn. Fed. of Women's Clubs (former mem. Exec. B'd). Against woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Study Club of New Haven.

CURTIS, Mabel Gair, 49A Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Mass.

Teacher of Latin; b. Boston, 1866; dau. Nelson and Jane E. (Gilbert) Curtis; ed. Newton, Mass.; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '90 (mem. Phi Sigma). Sec. of Boston Wellesley College Club; chairman of Program Com. of Somerville (Mass.) Teachers' Club; chairman of directors of Denison House; pres. of class of 1890, Wellesley. Doing research work for Women's Appointment Bureau of Educational and Industrial Union, Boston; mem. College Settlement Ass'n, Classical Ass'n of New England, Boston Wellesley College Club, College Club of Boston, Somerville Teachers' Club. Recreations: Skating, snowshoeing, tramping, theatre, concerts, opera. Congregationalist. Against woman suffrage. Progressive in politics.

CURTIS, Mrs. Nannie Webb, Waco, Tex.

Lecturer; b. Hardin Co., Texas, 1861; dau. Rev. D. J. and Julia Ann (Couch) Austin; ed. public schools of Mississippi and North Texas Female Coll., Sherman, Tex.; m. (1st) 1881, W. J. Webb; (2d) 1893, I. S. Curtis; children: W. Earl Webb, Roy Orson Webb, Clyde Lee Webb. Entered the service of the W.C.T.U., 1900, as State organizer for Texas W.C.T.U.; was made national organizer and lecturer, 1907; was elected, 1909, and still is pres. of Texas W.C.T.U. Made a mem. of the Sociological Conference, Nashville, Tenn., 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Lincoln Lyceum, lecturing in Chatauqua on "Woman, Her Progress and Future" and "The Country's Greatest Need"; mem. Internat. Lyceum Ass'n. Editor Texas White Ribbon, Austin; collaborator Red Back medical journal, Austin, Tex. Methodist (South). Mem. Child Welfare Conference, State sup't of temperance in International Sunday-School Ass'n for Texas; Nat. vice-pres. W.C.T.U.

CURTIS, Natalie, 33 W. 69th St., N.Y. City.

Musician, author; b. N.Y. City; dau. Dr. Edward Curtis and A.L. (Stacey) Curtis; ed. N.Y. City; studied music in France and Germany, and traveled extensively in the United States studying and collecting the songs of the Am. Indians. Lectured frequently before scientific and educational insts. Sec. Schola Cantorum of N.Y.; vice-pres. Music School Settlement for Children; mem. Ladies' Auxiliary of the N.Y. Philharmonic Soc, of the Auxiliary of the Inst. of Music Art; mem. Executive Com. of the Symphony Concerts for Young People; mem. of


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224 com. Dep't of Ethnology of the Brooklyn Inst. of Arts and Sciences. Favors woman Suffrage. Author of The Indians' Book; contributor to magazines and periodicals. Mem. Am. Folk-Lore Soc.; Am. Indian Ass'n, The MacDowell Club of N.Y. City.

CURTISS, Alice Bond (Mrs. Walter L. Curtiss), Woodfast, Fort Erie, Ontario.

Born Utica, N.Y.; dau. James W. and Mary (Marshall) Bond; ed. Utica Sem., Wells Coll.; m. Utica, 1877, Walter L. Curtiss; children: James Bond, Emily Marshall, Margaret. Actively interested in Canadian Woman's Ass'n. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Republican. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Cultivating flowers and nature study. Mem. Buffalo Tuesday Study Club.

CURTISS, Emma Frances Purington (Mrs. Charles E. Curtiss), Rockford, S.Dak.

Teacher; b. Embden, Me., 1854; dau. Elisha and Sarah C. (Williamson) Purington; ed. Hebron (Me.) Acad., '74; Wellesley Coll., B.A.; student of Staley School, Chicago, 1903; now student Landon Corr School of Art, Cleveland, O., and People's University., St. Louis, Mo.; m. Fairfield, Me., 1888, Charles E. Curtiss. Taught six years in rural and high schools of Maine; five years instructor of Greek and Latin in both Hebron and Bridgton Academies, Maine; five years preceptress and instructor of Latin and mathematics in both the State Normal School at Madison, S.Dak., and the State Normal at Weston, Ore.; instructor of Univ. Extension Courses in Clinton, Wis., and in Chicago; instructor of private classes in history and literature, Chicago. As club pres. and district vice-pres. became interested in various movements in Chicago for social betterment; was a mem. of com. working for compulsory education, vacation schools, juvenile court and other reforms. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae; charter mem. Woman's National League. Active and hon. mem. of the Millard Av. Woman's Club of Chicago. Recreations: Nature sketches with brush and pencil, horseback riding, long walks. Favors woman suffrage.

CURTISS, Lota Norton (Mrs. C. L. Curtiss), 470 Lake Av., Manchester, N.H.

Born East Hartford, Conn., Dec. 18, 1879; dau. Rev. William P. and Alice E. (Williams) Clancy; grad. Kimball Union Acad., '95; Mt. Holyoke Coll., B.A. '99; m. Northampton, Mass., June 23, 1905, Dr. Charles Lester Curtiss. Taught for five years in high school and business school. Mem. N.H. Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Ass'n, New Century Club; sec. N.H. Settlement Ass'n; pres. Manchester Fed. of Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Progressive Party and College Equal Suffrage League of N.H. Congregationalist. Recreations: Golf, tennis, driving an auto, skating, playing piano.

CUSHING, Eleanor Philbrook, 76 Elm St., Northampton, Mass.

College professor; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '79, M.A. '82. Teacher Bath (Me.) High School, 1879-80; Miss Bangs' School, New Haven, Conn., 1880- 81; prof, mathematics, Smith Coll., 1881-83; head mathematics dep't Smith Coll. since 1883. Pres. Smith Alumnae Ass'n, 1881-83.

CUSHING, Mary Gertrude, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

Teacher; b. Montreal, Canada, April 7, 1870; dau. Charles Breck and Mary Elizabeth (Chick) Cushing; ed. in private schools, Boston, Mass., Wellesley Coll., B.S. '92; M.A. '95; Columbia Univ., Ph.D. '08; research work in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Teacher French and Latin, Walnut High School, Natick, Mass., 1898-1900; instructor Hadley, Mass., 1905-08; asso. prof. 1908. Author (Ph.D. thesis): Pierre Le Tourneur, Congregationalist. Mem. New England Modern Language Ass'n; Alumnae Ass'n of Wellesley Coll., Phi Sigma Soc. of Welesley Coll., Intercollegiate Equal Suffrage League. Recreations: Walking, boating, swimming, travel, housekeeping, gardening. Traveled extensively in Europe.

CUSHING, Nellie I. Ferrell (Mrs. Matthew Marble Cushing), Cushing Ranch, Saratoga, Wyo.

Columbus, O.; dau. Charles B. and Mary E. (Brown) Ferrell; grad. Central High School, Columbus, O.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '97; m. Columbus, O., June 5, 1906, Matthew Marble Cushing. While in Columbus actively interested in Fruit and Flower Guild and church work. After marriage home was in Brookline and in Fitchburg, Mass.; while there was a mem. of the Fitchburg Woman's Club, Alpine Golf Club; one of the directors and sec. of B'd of Direction of the Fitchburg Union Aid Home for Children; sup't Cradle Roll of Congregational Church. Mem. D.A.R. Congregationalist. Mem. Washington Gladden Church in Columbus; mem. College Club of Boston. Lives on ranch in Wyoming, where she is spending the greater part of her time.

CUSHMAN, Ella R. Wylie (Mrs. William F. Cushman), 535 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Ophthalmic surgeon; b. Waterbury, Vt.; dau. Julius Harrison and Emeline (Gilman) Joslyn; ed. Waterbury (Vt.) graded school; Tufts Coll. Med. School, M.D. '94; m., first, Northfield, Vt., April 29, 1874, A. T. Wylie; m., second, 1910, William F. Cushman, of Boston. Clinician at Trinity Dispensary four years; ass't clinician at Pope Dispensary, Boston, two years. Unitarian. Republican. Mem. Mass. Med. Soc, Women's New England Hosp. Soc, Am. Med. Ass'n., Nat. Geog. Soc, Nat. Automobile Ass'n, Women's Suffrage Ass'n, Women's Municipal League. Recreations: Travel, motoring, golf. Clubs: Professional Women's, Daughters of Vt. in 1896, while in London studying, was instrumental in gaining for women medical graduates admittance and registration as students on an equal footing with men at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hosp.

CUSHMAN, Jessie Rathbun Manley (Mrs. Blin Sill Cushman), 306 Elm St., Ithaca, N.Y.

Farming; b. Jersey City, Nov. 12, 1870; dau. Adoniram Judson and Dorliska (Rathbun) Manley; ed. State Normal, Fredonia, N.Y., Cornell Univ., B.S. '96 (Alpha Phi); m. Dunkirk, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1897, Blin Sill Cushman; children: Robert Alden, Margaret Alberton, Blin Sill. Has been instrumental in founding a cooperative home for Cornell women, known as the Cornell Alumnae Home Ass'n, also forming a Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. of Progressive Party and delegate to Progressive State Convention at Syracuse. Mem. Ithaca Federation of Woman's Clubs, Child Study Club, Cornell Woman's Club, Alpha Phi Alumnae Club, Cornell Campus Club.

CUSHMAN, Lucy D. C. (Mrs. Henry Irving Cushman), 26 Pitman St., Providence, R.I.

Born Providence, R.I., Dec. 14, 1861; dau. Charles Earl and Adeline F. (Greene) Carpenter; ed. Providence public schools, English High School, Berlitz School of Languages; m. Providence, July 27, 1904, Henry Irving Cushman, D.D. Director and alto soloist of church choir; sup't of First Universalist Sunday-school, 1898-1910; pres. of Women's City Missionary Soc, 1905—; res. East Providence Branch of Needlework Guild, 1911-13; mem. R.I. Women's Club since 1893, Arion Club; pres. R.I. State Fed. of Women's Clubs for term 1912-14. Recreations: Music, amateur dramatics. Universalist.

CUTLER, Anna Alice, Tyler House, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Prof. philosophy; b. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 24, 1864; dau. Evarts and Ellen (Knight) Cutler; ed. private schools, New Haven High School, Smith Coll.; Smith Coll., B.A. '85; M.A. '89; Yale Univ., Ph.D. '96. Held chair of philosophy Rockford Coll., 1892-93; Smith Coll. instructor 1893-95, 1897-1902; asso. prof. 1902-05; full prof. 1905-. Interested in activities of First Church, Northampton; Center Church, New Haven; Women's Board of Foreign Missions, also Y.W.C.A, S.P.C.C., Smith Students' Aid Soc, etc. Has published only her Ph.D. thesis: The AEsthetic Factors in Kant's Theory of Knowledge, in Kantstudien, a German review, and has had one or two brief book reviews in the Philosophical Review. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n Coll. Alumnae, Am. Philosophical Ass'n, Coll. Settlements Ass'n, Smith Coll. Alumnae


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CUTLER, Mary Goodnow (Mrs. Roland Rogers Cutler), South Sudbury, Mass.

Born South Sudbury, Mass., Aug. 1, 1874; dau. Nahum and Isadore F. (Thompson) Goodnow; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. '99; m. South Sudbury, Mass., June 24, 1908, Roland Rogers Cutler; children, Isadore Goodnow Cutler, b. Apr. 21, 1909; Roland Rogers Cutler, b. Sept. 19, 1910; Richard Thompson Cutler, b. Feb. 22, 1912. Interested in Congregational Church charities, missions, home and foreign. Congregationalist. Mem. Woman's Club, College Club of Boston, Smith College Alumnae Ass'n.

CUTLER, Mary Helen, Mills College, Cal.

Teacher; b. New Ipswich, N.H., Sept. 29, 1865; dau. Calvin and Sarah Daniels (Sanford) Cutler; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '88; Radcliffe, M.A. '09 (mem. Shakespeare Soc, Wellesley). Head Greek dep't, Mt. Harmon Boys' School; teacher of classics and history, Manchester, N.H.; Arlington, Mass., and Newton, Mass., high schools; history and economics, St. Agnes School, Albany, N.Y.; Wheaton Sem., Newton, Mass.; head of history dep't. Mills Coll., Cal. Congregationalist. Mem. Am. Historical Ass'n, Am. Political Science Ass'n, Am. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Wellesley Alumnae Ass'n, Radcliffe Alumnae Ass'n.

CUTTER, Anna Wheeler Alberger (Mrs. Chester Guild Cutter), 35 Mill St., Nyack, N.Y.

Born Buffalo, N.Y., July 16, 1864; dau. Col. William C. and Frances A. (Tryon) Alberger; ed. Acad. of Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, Mo.; m. Oakland, Cal., Feb. 4, 1885, Chester Guild Cutter of Boston, Mass.; one daughter: Nina Redding Cutter. Episcopalian. Mem. Nat. California Club in New York, City Federation of Women's Clubs (N. Y. City), and Congress of State Societies.

CUTTING, Elizabeth Brown, 247 President St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 1, 1871; dau. Churchill Hunter and Mary (Dunton) Cutting; ed. Brooklyn Heights Sem.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '93; Columbia Univ., A.M. '97. Pres. N.Y. branch Vassar Alumnas Ass'n; third vice-pres. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae. Mem. Exec. Com. Brooklyn Armstrong Ass'n, Vassar Hist. Ass'n. Mem. Women's Univ., Board of Managers Twentieth Century, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Barnard, Brooklyn Heights Sem., City History Club. Since 1907 on editorial staff of Harper's Bazar, N.Y. City. Author: Old Taverns and Posting Inns.

CUTTING, Mary Stewart Doubleday (Mrs. Charles Weed Cutting), 17 Evergreen Place, Orange, N.J.

Author; b. N.Y. City, June 27, 1851; dau. Gen. Ulysses and Mary (Stewart) Doubleday; ed. Hobart Hall, N.Y. City; Moravian Sem., Bethlehem, Pa.; m. N.Y. City, Dec. 29, 1875, Charles Weed Cutting (died 1893). Author: Little Stories of Courtship; Little Stories of Married Life; More Stories of Married Life; The Suburban Whirl and Other Stories of Married Life; Heart of Lynn; The Wayfayers; Just for Two; Lovers of Sanna. Episcopalian. Mem. Pen and Brush Club.

CUTTING, May Van Horne (Mrs. Leonard M. Cutting), Jerseyville, Ill.

Born Jerseyville. Ill., May 1, 1867; dau. Augustus Knapp and Elizabeth Sloan (Bacon) Van Horne; ed. Jerseyville public schools, Univ. of Michigan (Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Jerseyville. Ill., Oct. 28, 1896, Leonard M. Cutting. Has given household science talks at women's clubs and has told children's stories. Mem. King's Daughters, Provident Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage, but not active. Author: Foreign Flashlights. Episcopalian. Recreations: Travel, reading. Clubs: Musical, Domestic Science.

CZARNOMSKA, Marie Elizabeth Josephine, 88 Hilton Av., Hempstead, L.I.

Educator; b. N.Y. City; dau. Isydor Czarnomski and Letitia (Coakley) Czamomska; grad. Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y.; later education by tutors; A.M. Smith College, 1904. Principal girls' dep't. Classical Inst., Schenectady, N.Y., 1875-77: teacher St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C., 1877-80; Packer Inst., Brooklyn, 1880-81; lady principal, St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C., 1881-88; prof. English literature. Smith Coll., 1888-1904; dean of women and lecturer on English and Biblical literature, Univ. of Cincinnati, 1904-09; lecturer on art and archaeology, 1909. Favors woman suffrage. Charter mem. Univ. of Cincinnati branch of the College League for Equal Suffrage. Writer for magazines. Episcopalian. Independent in politics. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Southern Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Geographic Soc, Soc. Biblical Exegesis and Literature, Egypt Exploration Fund (hon. sec). Recreations: Chess, golf, traveling, etc. Member of Women's University Club, N.Y. City.

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DABNEY, Edith, 1530 Fifteenth Av., Seattle, Wash.

Teacher; b. Minnesota; ed. Central High School, St. Paul, Minn.; Brearley School, N.Y. City; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '03. Teacher of history, English and French in Milton (Mass.) Acad., 1903-06; history, English and mathematics in Washington Preparatory School, Seattle, Wash., 1906-08, and 1908-10, and in the St Nicholas School, Seattle, since 1910.

DABNEY, Julia Parker, Brookline, Mass.

Artist and author; b. Fayal, Azores, Sept. 2, 1850; dau. William Henry and Mary A. D. (Parker) Dabney (both Americans); early education at Teneriffe, Canary Islands, later in Boston schools. Author: Little Daughter of the Sun; The Musical Basis of Verse; Poor Chola; Songs of Destiny and others.

DADMUN, Frances May, 7 Symmes Road, Winchester, Mass.

Teacher; b. Marlboro, Mass., Sept. 17, 1875; dau. William E. and Marion R. (Estabrook) Dadmun; ed. Marlboro public schools; Wellesley Coll., A.B. '99, A.M. '01; Summer School of Charles Herbert Woodbury at Ogunquit, Me. (mem. Alpha Kappa Chi, Wellesley). Teacher in Norwich Art School, 1903-04; instructor in art, Swarthmore Coll., 1905-08; professional Sunday-school sup't, 1910-13; lecturer in Italian Renaissance painting. Sec.-treas. Boston Alumni Chapter, Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Favors woman suffrage. Author of primary lessons in Scattered Seeds, 1910-13. Mem. Society of Friends. Associate mem. Child Labor Com., Religious Education Ass'n, Tuckerman Associates, Isles of Shoals Summer Meetings Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

DAFFAN, Katie, Austin, Tex.

Author; b. Brenham, Tex.; dau. L, A. and Mollie (Day) Daffan; ed. high school, Corsicana, Tex.; Hollins (Va.) Inst. Pres. State organization United Daughters of the Confederacy; pres. State organization Texas Woman's Press Ass'n; State historian D.A.R.; pres. of dep't in Southern Educational Ass'n; first vice-pres. Texas Historical Ass'n; sup't of Texas Confederate Woman's Home, Austin, Tex. (State institution). Favors woman suffrage. Author: Woman In History; The Woman on the Pine Springs Road; As Thinketh a Woman; Texas Heroes (a school book); My Father as I Remember Him. Writer for Texas newspapers, author of articles published in magazines, and poems published in Texas and elsewhere. Lecturer on subjects of interest to women and upon subjects in English and Am. literature. State sponsor for United Confederate Veterans; sec. for life of Hood's Texas Brigade, Chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy at Denton, Tex., is named the Katie Daffan Chapter. Vice-pres. of Texas Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n; delegate to Nat. Congress on Hygiene and Demography; delegate to Child's Welfare Congress. Has addressed audiences in various cities on civic, philanthropic and literary subjects; made frequent commencement addresses in educational


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226 institutions and addresses to soldiers of the Confederacy. Appointed "Sponsor for the South" by Commander-in-Chief of United Confederate Veterans for General Reunion of Soldiers of the Confederacy at Chattanooga, 1913.

DAGGETT, Evelyn Eleanor Cutler, 60 Wall St., New Haven, Conn.

Born New Haven, Conn.; grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '92; student of Greek, Yale, 1892-95; English, 1896-98. Teacher, New Haven, Conn., 1892-1905. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n (vice-pres. 1903-05); Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

DAGGETT, Jeannette, Far Hills, N.J.

Teacher; b. Palmyra, N.Y., 1852; dau. David Patterson and Hannah (Hildreth) Daggett; ed. Howland Sem., Union Springs, N.Y.; Wells Coll., A.B. '69. Sec. of All Angels' Parish Guild for three years. Mem. Wells College Eastern Ass'n. Club: Wells. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

DAGGETT, Mabel Potter (Mrs. John D. Daggett), 445 Twenty-first St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Syracuse, N.Y.; dau. Albert P. and Sara L. (Hobbie) Potter; grad. Syracuse Univ., A. B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '95 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Philadelphia, Nov. 2, 1901, John D. Daggett. Editor of woman's page, Syracuse Post-Standard, 1895-1901; editor woman's page, Philadelphia Sunday North American, 1901-02; writer of special articles in N.Y. Sunday World and other papers, 1902-07; associate editor, Broadway Magazine, 1907; associate editor, the Delineator, 1908-11; contributor of special articles to World's Work, Good Housekeeping, Hampton's Magazine, Pictorial Review, Delineator, Woman's Magazine, To-Day Magazine and other magazines since 1911. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Party, N.Y. City. Author: In Lockerbie Street; Where One Hundred Thousand Children Wait (pamphlet widely circulated in this country and England). Unitarian. Mem. N.Y. Alumnae Ass'n of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Writers' Club.

DAGGETT, Mary Stewart, Columbia Hill, Pasadena, Cal.

Author; b. Morristown, Ohio; dau. Rev. John B. Stewart, D.D., and Nancy (MacGregor) Stewart; grad. Steubenville (O.) Sem., valedictorian 1873; m. 1875, Charles Daniel Daggett; children: Ruth, Mrs. Byron S. Harvey, Helen, John Stewart, Maud, Daggett. Author: Mariposiila; The Broad Aisle; The Higher Court; contributor to magazines and The Outlook. Episcopalian. Recreations: Travel, music, social intercourse.

DAKIN, Bertha Louise Kirkland (Mrs. Wilson Sheldon Dakin), 31 Norfolk St., Hartford, Conn.

Former teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '97; student in Sauveur Summer School of Languages, Amherst, Mass., 1898; student in French, Alliance Française, Paris (summer), 1901; m. June 9, 1904, Wilson Sheldon Dakin; children: Louise Parsons, b. Dec. 11, 1905; Irene Sheldon, b. Mar. 2, 1909. Teacher of French, Leicester (Mass.) Acad., 1898-99; Manchester (Mass.) High School, 1899-1900; New Britain (Conn.) High School, 1900-02; supervisor of French in Springfield (Mass.) public schools, 1903-04; teacher in Dumaguete (P.I.) Secondary School, 1904. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n.

DAKIN, Emma Sahler (Mrs. Arthur H. Dakin), 364 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.; summer, Darley-in-the-Dale, Amherst, Mass.

Daughter D. DuBois and A. F. (Merriam) Sahler; ed. in N.Y. City, Mrs. Roberts' and Miss Walker's School for Girls; m. N.Y. City, October, 1903, Arthur H. Dakin; children: Arthur Hazard Jr., Winthrop Saltonstall. During residence in New York belonged to many social clubs and was director of Y.W.C.A. ; active in Consumers' League, etc.; after marriage lived in Boston and was director of charitable and social organizations. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Mass. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Has written magazine articles on folk-lore.

DALE, Anna, Lewisburg, Pa.

Born Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Pa., April 19, 1851; dau. James J. and Elizabeth A. (Dosler) Dale (granddaughter of Judge Samuel Dale of Lancaster, Pa.); ed. Irving Female Coll., Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Oakland Sem., Norristown, Pa., 1864-68. Vice-pres. of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. of the First Presbyterian Church, Lewisburg. Has been regent of Lewisburg (Pa.) Chapter D.A.R., and has held office for 20 consecutive years, being a charter mem. and its first sec. Pres. Sarah Battles Whist Club; treas. Lewisburg (Pa.) Civic Club; mem. Board of Management Lewisburg Park Ass'n. Recreations: Cards, out-door games. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

DALE, Mary Thompson (Mrs. O. H. Dale), State College, Pa.

Born State College, Pa,, May 15, 1881; dau. Hiram and Elizabeth (Goheen) Thompson; grad. Pa. State Coll., B.S. '05; m. State College, Pa., June 2, 1905, Dr. O. H. Dale; one son: Hiram Thompson. Presbyterian. Mem. Missionary Soc. of Presbyterian Church, State College Woman's Club, Pa. State Alumnae.

DALLAM, Nannie Poultney Fisher (Mrs. C. Braxton Dallam), 708 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.

Born Baltimore, Md., July 30, 1874; dau. Charles David and Nannie Poultney (Dorsey) Fisher; m. Baltimore, Feb. 22, 1898, C. Braxton Dallam; one daughter: Nannie. Interested in various social and philanthropic activities; pres. Fell's Point Free Dispensary; mem. Advisory Com. on Colored Work; charter mem. Women's Civic League. Against woman suffrage. Mem. Colonial Dames, Baltimore Country Club.

DALLIN, Vittoria Colonna (Mrs. Cyrus Edwin Dallin), 69 Oakland Av., Arlington Heights, Mass.

Author, former teacher; b. Lynn, Mass., Nov. 29, 1861; dau. Dr. James W. and Julia Caroline (Smith) Murray; ed. public schools, Boston; grad. Girls' High School and Boston Normal School; m. Roxbury, June 16, 1891, Cyrus Edwin Dallin; children: Edwin Bertram, Arthur Murray, Lawrence. Teacher in Girls' High School, Boston, 1884-88; in Boston Normal School, 1888-91. Interested in playgrounds, vacation schools and school ass'ns. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Sketches of Great Painters; The Pageant of Education; The Pageant of Progress; also magazine articles and poems. Unitarian. Mem. Girls' School Ass'n, Locke School Ass'n, Unitarian Alliance (Arlington), Sunshine Club (Arlington Heights). Recreation: Botanizing. Clubs: Arlington Heights Study Club (pres. two years), Arlington Woman's Club (pres. 1911-12). Honorary mem. Alliance Française, Boston, Cambridge; mem. Art Com. of Mass. State Fed. of Women's Clubs.

DALTON, Ida May Hill (Mrs. William Dalton). R.F.D. No. 2, Schenectady, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, Aug. 26, 1868; dau. Philip Hamilton and Emma D. (Thompson) Hill; ed. Brooklyn public schools, Cornell Univ., B.S. '90 (elected to Sigma Xi); graduate student Vanderbilt Univ. (Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Albany, Sept., 1895, William Dalton; children: Wilfred, John, Elbert, Philip, Richard. Teacher mathematics, Martin Coll., Pulaski, Tenn., 1893-1904; teacher mathematics and physics, Wellesley Coll., 1894-95; pres. Schenectady Consumers' League; manager Ellis Hospital Auxiliary; manager Ellis Hosp. Nurses' Home. Methodist. Charter mem. Nat. D.A.R. Recreation: Farming. Clubs: College Woman's, Mohawk Golf.

DAME, Ella B., Harriman, Tenn.

Born White Plains, N.Y., 1859; dau. W. H. Baldwin, of N.Y. City, and Isabella (Smith) Baldwin, of White Plains; niece of D. H. Baldwin, pioneer piano manufacturer of Cincinnati; grad. High School, Racine, Wis., '78; m. Racine, Wis., 1884, M. L. Dame; children: two boys, who died in infancy. School teacher until married, husband a school principal at Racine, Wis., now a manufacturer at Harriman, Tenn. Much interested in civic housekeeping and has been for years. Universalist. Mem. D.A.R. (also eligible to Colonial Dames, Daughters of the King and Huguenot Soc). Mem. Contemporary Club, now in its third year (was its first pres.).


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DAME, Katharine, 24 N. Allen St., Albany, N.Y.

Librarian; b. Lynn, Mass., Mar. 8, 1874; dau. Owen and Eliza Katharine (Mitchell) Dame; ed. Boston Univ., A.B. '94; Garrett scholar in history, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1894-95; Pratt Inst. Library School, 1899-1900; mem. Gamma Phi Beta. Cataloguer Cornell Univ. Library, 1900-03; ass't librarian Cornell Univ. Library, 1903-10; instructor N.Y. State Library School, 1910-13, and cataloguer N.Y. State Library, 1911-13. Interested in work with the blind. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage League of Albany. Episcopalian. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n, Association of Collegiate Alumna?; associate mem. of Nat. Child Labor Com.; associate mem. of Albany Ass'n of the Blind, N.Y. State Federation of Workers for the Blind; Graduates' Ass'n of Pratt Inst. Library School; life mem. Nantucket Maria Mitchell Ass'n, Woman's Club of Albany. Recreations: Mountain climbing and swimming.

DAMERON, Frances Sublette (Mrs. Edward Caswell Dameron), "Falcion," Clarksville, Mo.

Born St. Joseph, Mo., April 15, 1870; dau. Milton and Katherine (O'Neil) Tootle; ed. privately; m. Edward Caswell Dameron; children: Catherine, Frances. Episcopalian.

DAMMANN, Isabel Adair Lynde (Mrs. J. Francis Dammann Jr.), Winnetka, Ill.

Born Chicago, Oct. 9, 1882; dau. Samuel Adams and Nannie (Pleasants) Lynde; ed. Univ. School for Girls, Chicago; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B.; m. Chicago, 1909, J. Francis Dammann Jr. Interested in Relief and Aid Soc. of Winnetka, Ill.; Practical Housekeeping Centre, Chicago. Clubs: Friday, Chicago; Winnetka Woman's. Favors woman suffrage.

DAMON, Lalia May, 19 Arlington St., Northampton, Mass.

Librarian; b. Williamsburg, Mass.; dau. Edgar Thomas and Lalia Jane (Barnes) Damon; ed. New Haven grammar schools; Northampton high school. First assistant Forbes Library, and in special charge of art and music dep'ts. Mem. D.A.R., Am. Library Ass'n. Clubs: Mass. Library, Western Mass. Library. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

DANA, Florence Hinkley (Mrs. Philip Dana), 723 Maine St., Westbrook, Me.

Born Maine; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '01; m. Nov. 21, 1905, Philip Dana; one son: Philip Jr., b. Aug. 25, 1909. Teacher mathematics, Miss White's School for Girls, Portland, Me., 1904-07; St. Gabriel's School, Peekskill, N.Y., 1907-08. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n.

DANA, Judith Bledsoe (Mrs. Leslie Dana), Greyden, Brentmoor Park, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Kirkwood, Mo., 1880; dau. B. Gratz and Mary (Sunn) Brown; ed. Kirkwood, Mo.; St. Louis School of Fine Arts; m. Kirkwood, Mo., Nov. 6, 1901, Leslie Dana; children: Judith Virginia, George Davis, Mary Leslie. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recreations: Gardening, motoring.

DANCY, Florence Nightingale (Mrs. Robert R. Dancy), 1308 Jackson St., Houston, Tex.

Born Georgetown, P.E.I.; dau. Rev. Robert T. Roche, D.D., and Sara Barden (Palmer) Roche; ed. Bedlock School, Philadelphia, Pa.; St. Ann's Acad., Md.; m. Savannah, Ga., 1880, Robert R. Dancy; children: Robert R., Hibbert H., Marie Millicent. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Texas Woman's Press Ass'n. Chairman State Press Com., Texas Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Press Com. of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs, Texas representative in the General Federation Magazine.

DANDRIDGE, Danske (Mrs. Adam Stephen Dandridge), Shepherdstown, W.Va.

Writer; b. Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 19, 1858; dau. Hon. Henry Bedinger (who at the time of her birth was U.S. Minister to Denmark) and Caroline (Lawrence) Bedinger; orphaned in early childhood; reared by her grandfather, John W. Lawrence of Flushing, L.I.; received boarding school education; m. Adam Stephen Dandridge. Author: Jo and Other Poems, 1900; American Prisoners of the Revolution, 1911; My Garden from Day to Day (serially published), and several historical monographs.

DANDURAND, Josephine Marchand (Mrs. Raoul Dandurand), 548 Sherbrooke St., W., Montreal, Can.

Born St. Johns, Quebec, Dec. 5, 1861; dau. F. G. Marchand (who died in 1900, while Prime Minister of Province of Quebec) and Herzelie (Turgeon) Marchand; ed. St. John's Convent of the Congregation; m. Senator Raoul Dandurand (a barrister, K.C., LL.D., Senator, Exec. Speaker of the Senate of Canada); one daughter: Gabrielle (ed. Villa Maria Convent, Montreal; married to Dr. Gaspe Beaubien, civil engineer, Montreal and has a son: Jacques). Vice-pres. Internat. Council of Women; founded society for the free distribution of books to rural teachers. Favors woman suffrage. Has been for many years a regular contributor to the press on social questions. Has published a book, Nos Travers, and a number of short comedies. Catholic. Appointed by the French Government Officier de l'Instruction Publique.

DANIEL, Alice Maud Mary (Mrs. George W. Daniel), Bon Bungalow, St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Can.

Artist; b. Burmah, E. India; dau. Capt. James and Sarah (Bancroft) Baker, granddaughter of the late Rev. S. Bancroft, B.D., mother (still living) of the old Bancroft family, and is a relative of George Bancroft, the Am. historian; ed. St. Mary's Convent, Clare, Nova Scotia; m. Yarmouth, N.S., Feb. 2, 1882, George W. Daniel, manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia; children: Harry Maynard Daniel, Roy Lancaster Daniel. Has had several recognitions in the U.S. and Canada for miniatures and sketches in water colors and a certificate from the High Holborn Inst., London, Eng., 1886, for landscapes of New Brunswick, Canada. Won prize for the design and plan of a concrete bungalow (built in St. Stephen, N.B.) given by the Concrete Building Ass'n of South Bend., Ind., 1911. Has designed for several magazines, also book-plates, illustrations. Mem. Church of England. Mem. High Holborn Art Institute, London, Eng.

DANIEL, Delphine Lyon Minton (Mrs. Richard B. Daniel), Pengause, Daylesford, Chester Co., Pa.

Born Radnor, Pa., Aug. 4, 1887; dau. Minton and Eleanor (Winckley) Pyne; ed. Miss Hill's School, Philadelphia; Pension Moul de Fos, Paris, France; m. Paoli, Pa., June 1, 1909, Richard Bennetts Daniel. Mem. Church of England.

DANIEL, Fannie V. (Mrs. William R. Daniel), 737 Pickwick Av., Springfield, Mo.

Born New Madrid, Mo., June 26, 1867; dau. John and Lasinia Freeman Edmonson; ed. New Madrid (Mo.) public schools; m. New Madrid, Mo., Dec. 22, 1886, William R. Daniel; two children (died in infancy). Elocutionist. Active worker on philanthropic lines and in religious societies; ex.-pres. 24th Dist. Mo. W.C.T.U.; dist. sup't of suffrage dep't in W.C.T.U. Presbyterian. Prohibitionist. Pres. Pickwick W.C.T.U.; ex-pres. Fed. of W.C.T.U.; pres. Progressive Workers and Pickwick Social Club.

DANIELL, Mary Barnard (Mrs. Frederick Hayward Daniell), 60 View St., Franklin, N.H.

Born Franklin, N.H., Aug. 30, 1862; dau. Daniel Barnard (attorney general of N.H.) and Amelia (Morse) Barnard; grad. Smith Coll., '81; m. Franklin, N.H., June 20, 1889, Frederick Hayward Daniell (died July 28, 1910); children: William Barnard, b. April 1, 1890; Marguerite, b. April 27, 1892. Mem.. Unitarian Church. Mem. Abigail Webster Chapter D.A.R. Against woman suffrage.

DANIELLS, Helen West Kitchel (Mrs. Ralph Peabody Daniells), 857 Virginia St., Toledo, Ohio.

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228 and English, Beloit, Wis., 1902-03; teacher of English, South Division High School, Milwaukee, Wis. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

DANIELS, Coralinn Morrison, Franklin, Mass.

Author; b. Lowell, Mass., Mar. 17, 1852; dau. Abraham B. and Mary Elizabeth (Pond) Morrison; ed. Pondville, Maiden, Mass.; Milford, Del.; Beverly, N.J.; Dean Acad, Franklin, Mass.; m. Oneonta, N.Y., July 10, 1871, Joseph H. Daniels (died 1908). Began literary career with The Golden Rule (Adirondack Murray's paper), Boston; with Hartford Times ten years, general press thirty years. Author: Sardia, a novel; The Bronze Buddha; As It Is To Be; Psychic Philosophy; The Nurse, Mrs. Roberts' Conversion, story; Encyclopaedia of Superstitions and Occult Sciences, 3 vols, (editor); Orriston, a novel; The Windharp and Other Poems; The Philosophy of Omar Khayyam. Mem. Am. Folk-Lore Soc; Royal Asiatic Soc, London, Eng.; Soc. of Science, Literature and Art, London; Theosophical Soc, N.Y. Universalist. Mem. Alden Club, Franklin, Mass. Recreation: Travel.

DANIELS, Harriet McDougal, Clinton, N.Y.

Teacher, settlement worker; b. Clinton, N.Y.; prepared for college by private study; student at Bryn Mawr Coll., 1900-01. Instructor in mathematics, Charlton School, N.Y. City, 1903-05; teacher in George Junior Republic, Freeville, N.Y., summer 1905; teacher of mathematics, University School for Boys, Detroit, Mich., 1905-06; Charlton School, N.Y. City, 1906-10. Resident at Union Settlement, N.Y. City, 1908-10; organizer and director of social centre, Princeton, N.J., since 1910.

DANIELS, Mabel Wheeler, 198 Babcock St., Brookline, Mass.

Composer and author; b. Swampscott, Mass.; dau. George F. and Maria (Wheeler) Daniels; ed. Boston Latin School; Radcliffe Coll., A.B. 1900 (magna cum laude). Studied in Germany; in 1911 received two prizes offered by Nat. Federation of Musical Clubs for musical compositions; now director of music at Simmons Coll., Boston. Vice-pres. Radcliffe Musical Ass'n. Author: An American Girl in Munich — Impressions of a Music Student; composer of many songs, part songs and larger works. Clubs: Women's University (N.Y. City), Authors' College, Vincent Musical Art, MacDowell, Chromatic (Boston); honorary mem. of Nat. Fed. of Musical Clubs. Recreation: Ice skating. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

DANIELS, Mary Louise (Mrs. Charles Herbert Daniels), 98 Atwood St., Wellesley, Mass.

Born Tolland, Conn., Dec. 24, 1857; dau. Charles and Mary Anthony (Hawkins) Underwood; ed. Smith Coll., special student 1881-83, an alumnae of class '85 (mem. Alpha Soc); m. Tolland, Conn., May 28, 1884, Rev. Charles Herbert Daniels; children: Margarette, Agnes Carter. Pres. of the Woman's Board of Missions (Congregational) since 1906; headquarters 704 Congregational House, Boston, Mass. Congregationalist.

DANIELS, Sarah E., Claverack, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Montrose, Pa., Jan. 29, 1847; dau. David Post and Sarah A. (Best) Daniels; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '69 (Phi Beta Kappa); Rutgers Female Coll., A.M. '84. Taught in Poughkeepsie, 1870-72, and in N.Y. City, 1872-96. Presbyterian. Mem. D.A.R. (N.Y. City Chapter), Nat. Historical Soc, Vassar Students' Aid Soc, the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Ass'n, Ass'n Coll. Alumnae. Recreations: The study of French and German. Has traveled extensively in U.S. and Europe and made a seven-months' trip around the world. Mem. Women's University Club (N.Y. City), College Club (N.Y. City).

DANIELSON, Frances Weld, Danielson, Conn.

Sunday-school editor; b. Saugerties, N.Y.; dau. Joseph and Frances (Weld) Danielson; ed. Hartford (Conn.) High School; Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass.; Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School. Editor of The Mayflower. Author: Graded Sunday-School Lessons for Beginners (Interdenominational); mem. editorial staff of Congregational Sunday-School and Publication Soc. Active in promotion of improved kindergarten work, especially in Sunday-schools; in story telling afternoons for children and in mothers' club work; writer of children's poems and stories for various publications. Author: In Play Land, 1911; Little Animal Stories, 1911; Story Telling Time, 1912.

DANNREUTHER, Nellie Morton (Mrs. Gustav Dannreuther), 315 W. Ninety-ninth St., N.Y. City.

Pianist; b. Buffalo, N.Y., May 25, 1858; dau. Martin and Martha (Gooding) Taylor; ed. in schools of Buffalo, N.Y.; musical education at Leipzig Conservatorium, 1875-76; m. Niagara Falls, N.Y., July 12, 1882, Gustav Dannreuther; children: Walter Taylor, b. May 27, 1885; Martin Taylor, b. May 21, 1889; Gustav Jr., b. April 25, 1891. Teacher of piano at Wells Coll., 1877-81; since then concert pianist and teacher in N.Y. City; in professional work has made a specialty of ensemble playing with the Dannreuther Quartette. Mem. Wells Coll. Eastern Ass'n, Episcopalian.

DARBY, Ada Leonard (Mrs. C. H. Darby), Twenty-first and Mulberry Sts., St. Joseph, Mo.

Born Fayette, Mo.; dau. Judge Abiel and Jeanette (Reeves) Leonard; ed. Howard Coll. and St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N.J.; m. (1st) Bishop Hawks of Missouri; (2d) St. Joseph, Mo., Dr. C. H. Darby; children: Mary E. Hawks, Jeanette Dunbar, Ada Claire Darby. Interested in church work, club work and Y.W.C.A. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Republican. Recreation: Bridge playing.

D'ARCY, Julia Barclay (Mrs. John D'Arcy), 4333 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.

Born St. Louis, Mo., June 16, 1886; dau. George R. and Lillie (Swain) Barclay; ed. Hosmer Hall, St. Louis, and two years at Vassar Coll.; m. Nov. 20, 1911, John D'Arcy. Sec. Junior Auxiliary (Episcopal); interested in various church activities. Mem. St. Louis College Club and Consumers' League. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

DARGAN, Olive Tilford, care Charles Scribner's Sons, 157 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.

Born Grayson Co., Ky.; dau. E. Francis and Rebecca (Day) Tilford; ed. Univ. of Nashville; Radcliffe Coll., Cambridge; m. Blue Ridge, Ga., Pegram Dargan, of South Carolina. Author: Semiramis and Other Plays; Lords and Lovers and Other Dramas; The Mortal Gods and Other Plays; various lyrical contributions to the Century, Scribner's and the Atlantic magazines. Mem. the Poetry Soc of America. Recreations: Rowing, riding, golf. Mem. Radcliffe Club of N.Y. City. Strongly favors woman suffrage.

DARLING, Charlotte Kelsey (Mrs. Joseph Robinson Darling), 2254 Cathedral Av., Washington, D.C.

Born Madison, Wis.; dau. Albert Warren and Jeanette Garr (Washburn) Kelsey; ed. in Switzerland, France and U.S.A.; private teachers; Univ. of Pa., LL.B. 04 (mem. John Marshall Law Club); m. Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Aug. 8, 1907, Joseph Robinson Darling (civil engineer and specialist on business of Latin America); children: Joseph Warren, b. 1908; Jeanette Garr, b. 1909; Albert Kelsey and Charlotte Upton (twins), b. 1911. Author of numerous book reviews. Unitarian.

DARLING, Grace, 7418 Coles Av., Chicago, Ill.

Teacher; b, Hudson, O., July 23, 1867; dau. Rev. George and Catharine C. (Crosby) Darling; ed. Fox Lake; Downer Sem.; Univ. of Chicago Ph.B. '97, Ph.M. '01 (Phi Beta Kappa). Taught in small towns for ten years; since 1895 has taught English in Bowen High School, Chicago; also taught three years in a University Extension course held in Chicago for teachers. In 1907 organized, with help of her aunt Mrs Clara C. Patch, the South End Centre as a settlement home for the region in which she taught (South Chicago), and was head resident for five years, until her health failed. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Clubs: Chicago Woman's, Chicago City, South End Centre


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Rh. Interested in the Chicago English Club; was for two years chairman English section of the high and normal schools. When the New English National Council was formed, was one of the board of directors, and having been chosen a mem. of the exec. com. became one of the staff of the New English Journal.

DARLING, Harriet L. B. (Mrs. Herbert Henry Darling), 22 Keifer St., Brookline, Mass.

Born Napa, Cal., Jan. 12, 1872; dau. Henry A. and Charlotte A. (Blake) Brown; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. '91; Simmons Coll., 1911-13; m. San Francisco, Sept. 5, 1894, Herbert Henry Darling; children: Blake, Adelaide B., Herbert Henry. Interested in Sunday-school Alliance and Settlement. Student at Simmons Coll. Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage Ass'n of Boston. Unitarian. Mem. Boston Branch of Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n. Clubs: College (Boston), College Graduates (Simmons Coll.).

DARLING, Mae Sherman (Mrs. George W. Darling), 309 W. Main St., Marshalltown, Ia.

Born Marshalltown, Ia., Dec. 1871; dau. Charles Winslow and Laura (Taylor) Sherman; ed. Grinnell Coll., Ph.B.; m. Marshalltown, Sept. 30, 1903, George W. Darling. Mem. Visiting Nurse Ass'n. Congregationalist. Mem. D.A.R., Marshall Co. Hist. Soc. Mem. Country Club, Marshalltown Woman's and Entre Nous clubs. Chairman Fifth Dist. Iowa Federation Women's Clubs.

DARLING, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Lorenzo Franklin Darling), 222 E. Arlington Av., Riverside, Cal.

Born Berwick, Nova Scotia; dau. Edward Clark and Harriet L. (Tupper) Foster; ed. private schools, music, drawing and languages by special teachers; m. Halifax, N.S., 1876, Lorenzo Franklin Darling; removed to Riverside, Cal., 1887. Served as pres. of Southern Dist. (Cal.) of Women's Clubs; one year pres. of Cal. Fed. of Women's Clubs, including four other official positions on the State executive; served one year as pres. Down and Out Club (an organization of past officers of Cal. State Fed. of Women's Clubs); still a member. Active in social life, special philanthropies, such as the late San Francisco earthquake and fire disaster, and for the soldier boys in late Spanish-American War (vice-pres. Riverside Relief and Emergency Ass'n). Has contributed articles to the daily press on social and civic questions. Clubs: Victoria Golf, Casa Blanca Tennis, Tuesday Musical, Wednesday Morning. Recreations: Golf, whist. Episcopalian. Republican. Interested in legislative matters regarding women and children; mem. of one of the local legislative committees.

DARLINGTON, Ella Louise Beams (Mrs. James Henry Darlington), 321 N. Front St., Harrisburg. Pa.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y., June 3, 1859; dau. James Sterling and Elizabeth T. (Cosgrove) Beams; ed. by tutors at home; grad. Nassau Inst., 1877; m. Cathedral of Incarnation, Garden City, L.I., July 26, 1888, Rev. James Henry Darlington, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, now Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa.; children: Henry V. B., Alfred W. B. (died), Gilbert S. B., Eleanor Townsend, Elliott C. B., Kate Brampton. Founder of Working Women's Vacation Soc. of Brooklyn, 1885 (pres. 10 years). Author: Mission Study Classes of the American Church. Mem. Woman's Auxiliary to Board of Missions of Episcopal Church, Church Temperance Soc, Civic Club, Wednesday Music Club of Harrisburg, Chiropean of Brooklyn. Recreations: Music, walking, automobiling. Protestant Episcopal. Favors woman suffrage; mem. of Exec. Com. of State Capitol Ass'n of Pa.

DARLINGTON, Isabel, Faunbrook, West Chester, Pa.

Attorney at law; b. Philadelphia, June 22, 1865; dau. Smedley and Mary Edwards (Baker) Darlington; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.S. '86; Univ. of Pa., LL.B., cum laude, '97 (mem. Shakespeare Soc, Wellesley). Admitted to practice law in the several courts of Chester County, Oct. 6, 1897; Superior Court of Pa., Nov. 17, 1902; Supreme Court of Pa., Feb. 6, 1905: actively engaged in practice of law since 1897; since 1899 associated in practice with her brother-in-law, Hon. Thomas S. Butler, Congressman from Seventh Pa. Dist. Was first reader for three years in First Church of Christ, Scientist, in West Chester, Pa., and has been pres. of same church 15 years. Vice-pres. and one of managers of the Wentworth Home for Women, West Chester, Pa. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Mem. Alumnae societies of Wellesley and Univ. of Pa. Recrations: Golf, gymnasium in winter, amateur flower gardening. Mem. West Chester Golf and Country Club.

DART, Maria Elizabeth Bond, 61 Main St., Niantic, Conn.

Born Plymouth, N.H., June 1, 1865; dau. Norman James and Jane (Moody) Bond; ed. East Lyme public schools, Norwich (Conn.) public school, Miss Benton's Select School, Niantic, governess and private instructors; m. Feb. 11, 1886, Frederick Howard Dart, M.D.; one son: Frederick Bond Dart. Sec. and treas. St. John's Mission; pres. Niantic Public Library Ass'n, mem. Com. Botanical Club, Com. Library Ass'n, Civil Service Reform Ass'n. Protestant Episcopalian. Mem. Conn. State Fed. Women's Clubs, Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, Saturday Club of New London, Walking Club. Recreations: Reading, music, gardening, walking, automobiling.

DASCHBACH, Estelle MacCloskey (Mrs. Albert C. Daschbach), Thornburg, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '96; graduate student Oxford, England, 1899-1900; Vassar, A.M. '02; m. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 22, 1903, Albert C. Daschbach; two sons, two daughters. Teacher Thurston Preparatory School, Pittsburgh, 1896-99; tutor three years. Occasional writer of magazine articles.

DASHIELL, Landon Randolph (Mrs. William Sparrow Dashiell), 920 W. Grace St., Richmond, Va.

State director of school and civic leagues; b. Fauquier Co., Va.; dau. Robert Dabney and Landonia (Randolph) Minor; ed. private school in Richmond, Va.; m. Dec, 1883, William Sparrow Dashiell; children: Robert Minor, b. June, 1887; Randolph Grayson, b. Oct., 1888. Organizer and director of leagues in Va. for school and community improvement; vice-pres. Protestant Episcopal Church Home. Author of circulars and pamphlets on community improvement in rural Virginia. Mem. Nat. Municipal League, Colonial Dames of Va., Ass'n for Preservation of Va. Antiquities, Confederate Museum, United Daughters of Confederacy, Richmond Educational Ass'n, Cooperative Education Ass'n of Va.; mem. Woman's Club and Country Club (Richmond).

DAULTON, Agnes McClelland, 386 Richmond Terrace, New Brighton, S.I., N.Y.

Author, lecturer; b. New Philadelphia, O.; dau. Lewis Robert and Lucy (Warner) McClelland; ed. Oberlin Coll.; m. Cleveland, O., 1900, George Daulton, also a writer, of Chicago. Resided for a time in Chicago, removed with her husband to N.Y. City; began lecturing in 1911 on children and literature. Author: From Sioux to Susan; Fritzi; The Gentle Interference of Bab; 3 St. Nicholas Serials and 6 serials for Little Folks; Philamaclique Stories; Wings and Stings; Autobiography of a Butterfly; Dusk Flyers, and many articles and stories in various periodicals. Hon. mem. Chicago Woman's Club of N.Y.; Staten Island Woman's Club, and Fortnightly Club of Staten Island. Favors woman suffrage.

DAVENPORT, Esther C. (Mrs. Loren C. Davenport), 292 Fifteenth St., Buffalo, N.Y.

Journalist; b. in Erie Co., Pa.; dau. Calvin and Esther Louisa (Baker) Chaddock; ed. Albion Acad., Pa.; m. Loren C. Davenport; children: Ada Louise (now Mrs. F. W. Kendall), Loren Calvin Jr. Editor of social and art dep't of Buffalo Evening News for 20 years; chairman of Women's Com. of Perry Victory Centennial, 1913-. Prominent in affairs of N.Y. State Federation.

DAVENPORT, Frances Gardiner, Dept. of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.

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230, Conn.; dau. Amzi Benedict and Jane Joralemon (Dimon) Davenport; ed. Radcliffe Coll., A.B. '94, A.M. '96; Univ. of Chicago, 1903-04; Ph.D. London School of Economies, 1896-97; fellow Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, 1902-03; fellow in history, Univ. of Chicago, 1903-04. Teacher of history, Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, 1898-1901; instructor in history, Vassar Coll., 1904-05; ass't in Dep't of Historical Research of the Carnegie Inst., Washington, D.C., 1905— Favors woman suffrage. Sec. D.C. Branch Coll. Equal Suffrage Club, 1908-09. Author: Classified list of Printed Original Materials for the Manorial and Agrarian History of England in the Middle Ages, Radcliffe Coll. Monograph (No. 6); The Economic History of a Norfolk Manor; Guide to the MS. Materials for Am. History in London Archives; contributor to Am. Histroical Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Transactions of the Royal Historical Soc., etc. Life mem. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae; mem. Lyceum Club.

DAVENPORT, Gertrude Crotty (Mrs. Charles B. Davenport), Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., N.Y.

Scientific Investigator; b. Denver, Colo.; dau. William and Millia (Armstrong) Crotty; ed. Kansas State Univ.; Radcliffe Coll.; m. Burlington, Kan., June 23, 1894, Charles B. Davenport; children: Two daughters, one son. Instructor in biological laboratory, Brooklyn Inst, of Arts and Sciences. Joint author (with husband): Introduction to Zoology; Heredity of Eye Color in Man; Heredity of Hair Form in Man; Heredity of Hair Color in Man, and other biological monographs. Mem. Am. Soc. of Zoologists, Sigma Xi Soc.

DAVENPORT, Jennie Woolston Rambo (Mrs. Theodore Davenport), Darien, Conn.

Born Red Bank, N.J.; dau. Samuel Stockton and Sarah Elizabeth (Bostwick) Rambo; ed. N.Y. City and Garden City, L.I.; m. June 14, 1903, Theodore Davenport; one daughter, Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1907. Protestant Episcopalian. Mem. Stamford Historical Soc., D.A.R., Civic League of Stamford, Civic League of Darien, Foreign Missionary Soc. of Darien, Associated Charities of Stamford. Mem. Stamford Woman's Club, Friday Afternoon Club of Darien, Whist Club.

DAVIDSON, Adaline White Allen (Mrs. Frank Forest Davidson), 41 Hancock St., Auburndale, Mass.

Graduate Smith Coll., B.A. '90; m. Auburndale, Mass., Oct. 6, 1897, Frank Forest Davidson; children: Frank Forest Jr., b. Oct. 21, 1899; Allen, b. Aug. 4, 1901; also step-children: Mary Richmond, b. Dec. 20, 1885; Louise Allen, b. June 19, 1888; Myrtis Forest, b. Dec. 17, 1891. Teacher, Baltimore, Md., 1890-92; Bridgeport, Conn., 1892-93; Lasell Sem., Auburndale, Mass., 1893-96. Mem. Newton School Board since 1907. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n.

DAVIDSON, Gratia E. Andrews (Mrs. Milon Davidson), Newfane, Vt.

Teacher; b. Mar. 11, 1846; dau. Samuel A. and Rachel (Woodworth) Andrews; ed. New Hampton Inst., Fairfax, Vt.; m. Richmond, Va., Nov. 28, 1864, Milon Davidson; one daughter: Lula E. Temperance worker; editor of Health Calendar, Vermont Home Guards, W.C.T.U. Year Book and newspaper contributor. Interested in prison and jail work; mem. of School Board and active in work of supervisor; Sunday-school teacher. Favors woman suffrage; mem. of local committee to promote the cause; voter since school suffrage was given to women in Vermont. Editor of historical and biographical sketches in Davidson Genealogy, Baptist. Prohibitionist. Pres. of Vermont W.C.T.U. Recreations: Music, painting.

DAVIDSON, Hannah Amelia Noyes (Mrs. Charles Davidson), H. A. Davidson, Study Guide Series, Cambridge, Mass.; residence, Claremont, Cal.

Author, editor (pen-name "H. A. Davidson"); b. Campello, Mass., Oct. 29, 1852; dau. Spencer Williams and Mary (Packard) Noyes; grad. Iowa (now Grinnell) Coll., A.B., A.M.; grad. student finance and economics, Univ. of Minn.; Am. Colonial institutions and politics in Univs. of Cal. and Chicago; instructor in history, civics and history for six years in Belmont School, Belmont, Cal.; special studies in fiction, drama and literary art, 1896-1905; m. Aug. 21, 1878, Charles Davidson; one daughter: Enid Amelia, b. July 28, 1884 (died Sept. 20, 1884). Author of The Study Guide Series for the critical study of literature; The Creative Art of Fiction; Reference History of the United States; The Gift of Genius; Literary Study for Busy People; 1902-06, Summer Classes for the Study of English; The Study of Shakespeare's Plays (four books), prepared by request of State Library Commission of Wis. Editor, with criticisms and historical illustrations of Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables, Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal, Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, George Eliot's Silas Marner, in Riverside Literature Series, and, 1906-12, Irving's Sketch Book and Franklin's Autobiography, in D. C. Heath's Series; also Instruction and Criticism in the Art of Writing Short Stories; Essential Conditions of Success in Study Clubs; Franklin's Services in the Cause of American Independence; also numerous essays, notes, lectures, etc. Mem. Phi Beat Kappa Soc. (Founder's Chapter in Grinnell Coll., Iowa).

DAVIDSON, Mary Brewin (Mrs. Horatio Foster Davidson), Hood River, Ore.

Born Canton, Ill., July 16, 1869; dau. William and Julia (Winiger) Brewin; grad. Canton (Ill.) High School, 1889 (valedictorian—highest honors); Canton Business Coll., 1890; m. Canton, Ill., Sept. 14, 1893, Horatio Foster Davidson; children: Helen, Charles Harry, Merrill Rice (last two deceased). After graduation in 1890 engaged as stenographer. Recording sec. Hood River Woman's Club; recording sec. Oregon State Fed. of Women's Clubs, and mem. of board. Christian Scientist. Recreation: Motoring. Favors woman suffrage.

DAVIES, Caroline Stodder (Mrs. Owen John Davies), 72 Professors' Row, Tufts College, Mass.

Teacher; b. Methuen, Mass., Dec. 3, 1864; dau. Samuel Roland and Jane Breck (Davis) Crocker; ed. Methuen High School, 1878-82; Wellesley Coll., 1882-87; Newnham Coll., Cambridge, England, 1890-91; m. Methuen, Mass., 1895, Rev. Owen John Davies; children: Roland Crocker, Jane Stodder. Teacher of Greek and English, Harcourt Place, Gambler, O., 1887-90, 1892-95, of English, Chicago Latin School (girls' dep't), 1907-09; now dean of Jackson Coll., Tufts Coll., Mass. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. New England Ass'n of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Drama League of Boston College Equal Suffrage League, Boston; Shakespeare Soc. of Wellesley Coll., Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, College Club of Boston.

DAVIES, Hyla Clara Armstrong (Mrs. William Davies), 1270 East Vernon Av., Los Angeles, Cal.

Born New Haven, Conn.; ed. in New Haven schools and Vassar Coll., A.B. '80; m. Aug. 6, 1891, Rev. William Davies; two sons and one daughter. After graduation engaged in teaching ten years in New Haven High School until her marriage.

DAVIESS, Marie Thompson, 1804 Arklen Av., Nashville, Tenn.

Painter of miniatures, author; b. Harrodsburg, Ky.; dau. John B. Thompson and Leonora (Hamilton) Daviess; ed. Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Ky.; Wellesley Coll. and Viti, Delacluse and Julian Schools of Art, Paris, France. Exhibitor of portraits in Paris Salon, 1904-05; engaged in writing and publication of successful novels since 1909. Lecturer on art, literature and domestic science. Favors woman suffrage; vice-pres. and organizer of Nashville Equal Suffrage League. Author: Miss Selina Sue; The Road to Providence; Rose of Old Harpeth; The Treasure Babies; The Elected Mother; The Melting of Molly; Sue Jane. Mem. Pen and Brush Club, Round Table Centennial Club, Tenn. Press and Authors' Club. Recreations: Social pleasure, garden, tramping, travel. Descended from some of the most prominent founders of Nashville


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Rh and deeply interested in the civic developments of the city.

DAVIS, Aloysia Mary Hoye (Mrs. Gilbert Franklin Davis), Windsor, Vt.

Graduate Smith Coll., B.A. 1900; student in zoology, chemistry and botany, Radcliffe Coll., 1900-01; m. Sept. 7, 1904, Gilbert Franklin Davis. Teacher of English history in Dover (N.H.) High School, 1901-04. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n.

DAVIS, Anna Beatrice Carter (Mrs. L. L. Davis), cor. Forbes and Wightman Sts., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Erie Co., Pa., Aug. 12, 1859; dau. Isaiah and Catherine (Sullivan) Carter; ed. Allegheny Coll., 1876-80, A.B. and M.A.; m. North East, Pa., Dec. 30, 1880, L. L. Davis; children: Ralph Carter, Lawrence Llewellyn. Interested in church, society and athletics. Has written for magazines. Recreations: Music, literature, gardening. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

DAVIS, Annie Elizabeth Paret (Mrs. Bradley Moore Davis), 4411 Sansom St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 1869; dau. William Green and Anna Augusta (French) Paret; grad. Smith Coll., B.S. '95; m. Germantown, Pa., Sept. 22, 1908, Bradley Moore Davis; one daughter: Margery French. Unitarian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae. Favors woman suffrage.

DAVIS, Bessie Blanch Scribner (Mrs. Olin S. Davis), 79 Gale Av., Laconia, N.H.

Born Hartsville, Ind., Aug. 20, 1869; dau. Rev. John Woodbury and Mary Ermina (Wray) Scribner; ed. Wellesley, B.A. '91; m. Melvin Village, N.H., July 19, 1905, Olin Sylvester Davis. Teacher; best work done under Congregational Home Missionary Soc. at Rogers Acad., Rogers, Ark., five years; four years in Missouri, chiefly as English teacher in academy connected with Drury Coll., Springfield, Mo. Leader of literature dep't of Laeonia Woman's Club, 1907—. Favors woman suffrage. Recreations: Walking, nature study. Hon. mem. Laconia Woman's Club.

DAVIS, Clara Marie, 514-516 Tussing Bldg., Lansing, Mich, (office); res., 332 Townsend St., Lansing, Mich.

Physician; b. Lansing, Mich., June 4, 1878; dau. Arthur T. and Lucy A. (Corbett) Davis; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., Univ. of Mich. A.B. 1901, M.D. 1904 (mem. Gamma Phi Beta). Held interneship at Woman's Hospital and Infants' Home, Mar. to Sept., 1905; voluntary ass't Kinderasylum, Berlin, summer of 1911. Director Visiting Nurse Ass'n; mem. of Ingham Co. Medical Milk Comm'n. Congregationalist. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Mich. State Med. Soc., Ingham Co. Med. Soc, Visiting Nurse Ass'n, Lansing; Lansing Playground Ass'n, Lansing Hospital Ass'n, Lansing Aid Soc. Mem. Lansing Woman's Club, Lansing Golf Club. Recreation: Motor-boating.

DAVIS, Edith Smith (Mrs. J. S. Davis), 191 Church St., Hartford, Wis.

Superintendent of scientific temperance instruction; b. Milton, Wis., Jan. 20, 1869; dau. Richard and Elizabeth (Clayton) Smith; ed. Milton Coll.; Lawrence Univ., A.B., A.M., Litt.D.; post-grad, work in Wellesley Coll. (mem. Phi Sigma); m. Mason City, la., Rev. J. S. Davis, D.D.; children: Mary Alice, Ruth Frances, Richard, Elizabeth Clayton. Editor-in-chief of the Temperance Educational Quarterly; writer of science lessons for the Young Crusader; lecturer on scientific temperance. Author: Two; Christmas Thoughts; A Battle for a Soul; Whether White or Black; A Man. Methodist. Connected with W.C.T.U. from girlhood; was assistant of Miss Frances Willard in the White Cross and White Shield Dep't of Purity Work; was pres. Milwaukee W.C.T.U, when the unions of that city were all in one; now sup't of Scientific Temperance Investigations and Scientific Instruction for World's and Nat. W.C.T.U.; delegate to the meetings of the Congress Against Alcoholism at Stockholm, 1908; London, 1910, and at The Hague, 1912, and at latter was one of the U.S. Government delegates. Aided in raising endowment for Lawrence Univ. Favors woman suffrage.

DAVIS, Edna Holmes (Mrs. James Hornor Davis), 422 W. Pike St., Clarksburg, W.Va.

Born Union town, Pa., Mar. 3, 1870; dau. Mathew Gay (consul to Cheefoo, China, 1871) and Elizabeth (McCleary) Holmes; ed. in high school, Clarksburg, W.Va., 1888, and New England Conservatory of Music, Boston; m. Clarksburg, W.Va., Oct. 19, 1892, James Hornor Davis; children: Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1894 (died at birth); Louise and Ewing (twins), b. Sept. 22, 1894; Virginia, b. Sept. 26, 1896; James Edward, b. June 4, 1901; John Holmes, to. Dec. 26, 1902. Past pres. of Tuesday Club; cor. sec. of State Fed. of Women's Clubs; actively engaged in religious, social and philanthropic work. Presbyterian. Mem. Clarksburg Tuesday Club.

DAVIS, Elizabeth Brown (Mrs. Arthur Powell Davis), 2212 First St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Born Front Royal, Va.; dau. Major Victor M. and Mary (Jacobs) Brown; grad. Columbian (now George Washington) Univ., B.S.; post-grad, work in mathematics at Johns Hopkins Univ. by special permission of the faculty through Prof. Simon Newcomb; m. Washington, D.C, June 20, 1888, Arthur Powell Davis (chief engineer of U.S. Reclamation Service); children: Rena (Mrs. Paul N. Peck), Florence, Dorothy, Elizabeth. Computer in the Nautical Almanac Office; has computed the ephemeris of the sun for 25 years; also other portions of Nautical Almanac; assisted largely in every stage of the preparation of Prof. Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun and Planets; also in other research work. Has written magazine articles on mathematical subjects. Mem. Am. Mathematical Soc, Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Auxiliary Board of Regents of Trinity College.

DAVIS, Elizabeth R., Woman's Home and Hospital, 105 West Ross Av., Tampa, Fla.

Deaconess; b. Arcola, N.C.; dau. George W. and Rebecca J. (Johnson) Davis; under graduate Littleton Female Coll.; grad. Scarritt Bible and Training School, Kansas City, class of 1902; consecrated deaconess in Trinity Church, Atlanta, Ga., April, 1903; deaconess in Southern Methodist Church; sup't Woman's Home and Hospital; sup't of rescue work in Tampa; active worker in Humane Soc Favors woman suffrage. Southern Methodist. Mem. Home and Foreign Mission Societies of Tampa Height Methodist Church, W.C.T.U. of Tampa. Appointed by Board of Home Missions to the Rescue Home, Dallas, Tex., 1902; was employed by International Board of Rescue Workers of Tampa, 1908.

DAVIS, Ella Marion Briggs (Mrs. Nelson Fithian Davis), Lewisburg, Pa.

Born New Haven, Conn., Nov. 10, 1872; dau. George W. and Ellen (Tyler) Briggs; ed. Mt. Holyoke Coll., B.S.; Bucknell Univ., S.M.; Woods Hole, Mass., and Cold Spring Harbor, L.I. (mem. Delta Delta Delta); m. Shelton, Conn., Dec 20, 1905, Nelson Fithian Davis (prof, biology in Bucknell Univ.). Head of biology in New Rochelle (N.Y.) High School previous to marriage. Interested in art; studied china painting under A. B. Cobden of Philadelphia; water color under John Wesley Little, noted landscape painter. Does pastelles, works in leather and brass, colors lantern slides, gives public lectures on travel and popular biological subjects. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Chlamys Plicata, Life Histories of Case Bearers; Pokey Ikey. Presbyterian. Mem. D.A.R., Home and Foreign Missionary Soc, Teachers-Parents' Ass'n; organized Woman's Bible Class. Mem. Bucknell Alumnae Club.

DAVIS, Ethel, 77 Congress St., Bradford, Pa.

Teacher of Latin; b. Ottercliff, Ont, Jan. 13, 1886; dau. John and Maria (Meadows) Davis; ed. Cornell Univ., A.B. '09 (mem. Alpha Omicron Pi). Episcopalian. Mem. Classical Ass'n of the Atlantic States. Club: Bradford Country Club.

DAVIS, Fannie Stearns, 65 William St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Writer; b. Cleveland, O., Max. 6, 1884; dau. William V. W. and Rebecca Frances (Stearns) Davis; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '04 (mem Alpha Soc). Interested in church work and local


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232. Contributor of poems to magazines, principally The Atlantic Monthly, The Century Magazine, Harper's Monthly, etc., also occasional contributor of prose. Congregationalist. Mem. Poetry Society of America, Wednesday Morning Club, Pittsfield, Mass., and other local clubs. Recreations: Anything out-of-doors, mostly walking. Taught English one year at Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., but has not done any regular teaching since.

DAVIS, Florence Harriet (Mrs. Albert A. Davis), Larimore, N.Dak.

Stenographer and librarian; b. Merrickville, Ont., Oct. 26, 1863; dau. Edward and Joanna (Brenniek) Brennan; ed. public schools, N.Dak.; Univ. of N.Dak.; m. (1st) Bathgate, N.Dak., April 12, 1893, Allen Baldwin (died July 1, 1895); (2d) at Governor's residence, Bismarck, N.Dak., Oct. 12, 1908, Albert Davis (mem. State Legislature); children: Elaine Baldwin, b. Feb. 22, 1894; Brennan Briggs Davis, b. July 8, 1912. Favors woman suffrage. For past 10 years editor of Special Day Manuals (Washington and Lincoln's Birthday, Arbor and Bird Day, Memorial Day) for Department of Education, Bismarck, N.Dak.; contributor of articles and poems to same. Library clerk in same dep't for Educational Reference Library; compiler of Library List for public schools of N.Dak. Roman Catholic. Progressive Republican. Recreations: Tennis, skating. Mem. Monday Night Club (Grafton), Fortnightly Club (Bismarck), Tuesday Club of Larimore (pres. for two years); vice-pres. First Dist. State Fed. of Women's Clubs, N.Dak; rec. sec. State Fed., 1909-10.

DAVIS, Frances Lewis, "Kreag-Knoll," Northport, L.I., N.Y.

Housewife; b. New Albany, Ind.; dau. Marcus Watson and Mary Danforth (Butz) Lewis; ed. Bennett Sem., Minneapolis, Minn., B.A.; m. 1st, A. B. Hush, banker, Minneapolis, Minn.; 2d, Frank Fillmore Davis, N.Y. City, Nov. 2, 1900; children: Elsie Stewart Hush, Donald Stuart Hush. Interested in the study and demonstration of psychology in human affairs to harmonize many existing perplexities (scientific uplift); student of the Arts and Crafts and music (vocal). All her life a suffragist, her grandmother, Frances Danforth, and mother, co-workers with Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, and others prominent in their time; now giving her time to the Progressive Party. Mem. Ethical Culture Soc. Mem. Manhattan Chapter D.A.R., Civic Forum, Harmony Club.

DAVIS, Gertrude Kahn, 93 Pitt St., Portland, Me.

Writer, teacher; b. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 10, 1881; dau. Gustave and Anna (Ensor) Kahn; ed. Goucher Coll., A.B. '02, Cornell Univ. A.M. '04 (mem. Epsilon Sigma, Sennightly); m. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 5, 1907, Charles Henry Davis (Williams, '98), Congregational minister. Taught in Baltimore High School, 1903-07, English and Am. literature, rhetoric. Work has been mostly in connection with her husband's parish, a large down-town church. Author: The Principle of Love in Browning's Poetry; received Hiram Corson Browning prize at Cornell, 1903, for paper on Browning's Treatment of Sexual Love; has written many papers on English and Am. literature. Congregationalist. Recreations: Tennis, rowing.

DAVIS, Grace Spencer (Mrs. Robert J. Davis), 2630 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Cal.

Born San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 4, 1867; dau. John Campbell and Alice (Day) Spencer; ed. Van Norman's Inst.; Rutger's Female Coll., N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, Feb. 1, 1888, Robert J. Davis; children: Louis Spencer, Constance. Director in Century Club of Cal.; chairman of Phi Gamma Delta Auxiliary. Mem. the Oakland Civic League. Clubs: Century, Town and Country, San Francisco; Musical, Sketch. Christian Scientist. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

DAVIS, Harriet Winton (Mrs. Charles W. Davis), 1199 Raymond Av., St. Paul, Minn.

Writer; b. Montour Falls, N.Y.; dau. Dr. Nelson and Lucy P. (Goodrich) Winton; ed. private and public schools and academy in N.Y. State; m. Montour Falls, Charles W. Davis (lawyer); children: Helen Amelia Davis (now Mrs. W. A. Orton), Bertha Gerneaux Davis (now Mrs. Albert F. Woods). Writer of short stories and miscellany for various publications, among them The Congregationalist, Country Gentleman, Interior, Zion's Herald, Young People's Weekly, Chicago Advance, Youth's Companion, etc.

DAVIS, Harriett Lobdell, 194 Lenox Av., N.Y. City.

Born Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 1, 1863; dau. Rev. Francis Lobdell, D.D., LL.D., and Julia Alvira (Danforth) Lobdell; ed. The Misses Edwards School, New Haven, Conn.; Misses Notts; St. Margaret's, Waterbury, Conn.; m. St. Andrew's Church, N.Y. City, June 17, 1885, Vernon Mansfield Davis, now Supreme Court judge. Interested in the Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions; pres. St. Agnes' Chapel, branch of Trinity Parish, N.Y. City; mem. Board of Management Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, Executive Board of Diocesan Auxiliary to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Cathedral League. Episcopalian. Mem. Soc. Colonial Dames, 2d vice-pres. N.Y. City Chapter D.A.R., Nat. Geog. Soc, Soc. for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Recreation: Golf.

DAVIS, Helen Lee, Moultonboro, N.H.

Univ. prof.; b. Moultonboro, N. H., Sept. 22, 1876; dau. Eleazer A. and Mary A. (Rolfe) Davis; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '99; Columbia Univ. B.Sc. 1908-10. Mathematical computer, Astronomical dep't, Columbia Univ., 1899-1908; instructor in Home Economics, Univ. of Neb., 1910-12; adjunct prof, in Economics, Univ. of Neb., 1912. Congregationalist.

DAVIS, Helen Lockwood (Mrs. Charles Gay Davis). Madison, N.J.

Born Madison, N.J., Sept. 17, 1865; dau. Jacob S. and Laura (Clark) Paulmier; ed. Packer Collegiate Inst.; m. Madison, N.J., June 1, 1892, Charles Gay Davis; children: Roger A., Katharine P., Elizabeth, Charles Gay Davis Jr. Interested in work of local auxiliary of Y.M.C.A. (chairman of Boys' Work); active in work of N.J. State Federation of Women's Clubs (mem. of several committees). Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage League of Madison. Presbyterian. Trustee and sec. George Junior Republic Ass'n of N.J.; rec. sec. Consumers' League of N.J.; rec. sec. of Presbyterial Soc. of Norris and Orange, N.J.; mem. Fortnightly Jaunts Club and Thursday Morning Club (Madison).

DAVIS, Jennie Eliza, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.

Editor, author, teacher; b. Troy, N.Y.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '78. Teacher Middleburgh, N.Y., 1878-79; Hampton (Va.) Inst., 1879-85, and 1887-99; Vassar, 1885-87. Editor Southern Workman, Hampton Inst., since 1899. Author: Round About Jamestown; also many articles on sociological and race questions.

DAVIS, Kate, The Cumberland, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Writer; b. Bloomsburg, Pa., May 2, 1877; dau. Reuben Miller and Albina Baker (Stewart) Davis; ed. osteopathic course; several hygienic health courses. Practised as osteopathic physician ten years; on staff Natchez (Miss.) State Hospital, 1904. Engaged for years at newspaper and magazine work; associate editor Mothers' Magazine; has made sociological investigations in Italy, Switzerland, France, England and Scotland, as well as U.S. and Canada. For some time past has been on the platform pleading for better conditions in moving picture shows; has lectured in most of the large cities east of the Mississippi River and in six months organized the U.S. in a fight for legal regulation of all moving picture shows, with an advisory board made up of juvenile court judges all over the country (with Judge Ben Lindsay of Denver as chairman) and a publicity com. of newspaper men in all sections of the country. Has lectured before State federations and the great national organizations, which not only endorsed the work, but carried on the campaign in many sections. Succeeded in getting legal regulation