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��r-EONAKD, Carrie Boyd, care David C. Cook

Co., Elgin, III.

Editor; b. Wellsville. N.Y., Feb. 21, 1856; dau. Dr. Rensselaer and Sarah S. (Boyd) Leonard; grad. Elmlra Coll., Elmira, N.Y., A.B. '76, A.M. '84 (mem. Phi Mu). Teacher 1877-85 at Mauoh Chunk, Pa. L.esson writer (Sunday-school Helps) since 1889. Managing editor Lesson Help Dep't David C. Cook Co. (Elgin, 111.) since 1898. Interested iu Sunday-school and missionary work. Author of New Century Sunday-school Teachers' Monthly, Comprehensive Illustrated Studies (quarterlies). Home Department Visitor. Pres- byterian. Mem. D.A.R., Elmira College Alum- nae Ass'n, College Settlement Ass'n, Womaji's Clttb of Elgin, 111. Against woman suffrage. liEONAKD, Mary Cleavland Johnston (Mrs.

James H. Leonard), East Av., Elyrla, O.

Born La Grange, 0., Dec. 20, 1857; dau^t Charles W. and Mary Elizabeth (Fisher) John- ston; grad. Young Ladies' Inst, (now united with Denison Univ., Granville, O.), 1878; m. Bridge- water, Mass., Jan. 11, 1882, James H. Leonard; one scwi: Charles Manning Leonard. For 20 years active with various offices in the religious and clulb work of the community and State. Devoted alumna of Denison Univ. Favors woman suffrage. Pres. Political Study Club of Elyria, 0. (devoted to civic and social welfare). Congregationallst. Mem. 28 years of Kozy Club (literary club of men and women). LEONARD, Mary Finley, 1407 JFourth Av.,

Louisville, Ky.

Author; b. Philadelphia, Jan. 11, 1862; dau. Lafayette and Elizabeth (Finley) Leonard; ed. In Louisville, Ky. Author: The Story of the Big Front Door, 1898; Half-a-Dozen Thinking Caps, 1900; The Candle and the Cat, 1901; The Spectacle Man, 1901; Mr. Pat's Little Girl— A Btory of the Foresters, 1902; How the Two Ends Met, 1903; Pleasant Street Partnerships— A Neigh- borhood Story, 1903; It All Came True, 1904; On Hyacinth Hill, 1904; Everyday Susan, 1912. LiEONABD, Pauline Wiggin (Mrs. William

Jackson Leonard), 36 University Driveway,

Morgantown, W.Va.

Bom Oct. 10, 1869; dau. Joseph H. and Susan Ann (Rogers) Wiggin; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '90; Radcllffe Coll., A.M. '95; N.Y. State, Library School, B.L.S. '02; m. Truro, Mass., Sept. 5, 1906, Prof. "William Jackson Leonard; one son: William Wiggin. Instructor in English, Vassar Coll., 1895-97; Wellesley Coll., 1897-99; ass't his- tory dep't, N.Y. SUte Library, 1901-02; librarian Univ. of W.Va., 1902-07; sec. Associated Charities, Morgantown, W.Va. Author: Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays. Uni- tarian. lieROY, Faaay Wayne (Mrs. Frederick Geb-

bard LeRoy), "The Lindens," Tarrytown,

N.T.

Bom Newtown, Pa., April 19, 1863; dau." Thomas Preston and Hannah Hough (Barnsley) Chambers; ed. St. Gabriel's School, Peekskill, N.Y.; St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N.J.; m. (1st) Titusville, Pa., Feb. 17, 1886, Major Robert E. Hopkins; (2d) Newtown, Pa., Oct. 16, 1906, Fred- erick Gebbard LeRoy; one son: Robert E. Hopkins Jr., b. Titusville, Pa., Mar. 25, 1888. Has been identified with the social and philan- thropic life of Tarrytown, N.Y. Mem. Washing- ton H^hts Chapter D.A.R. EJpiscopalian. Against woman suffrage. IjEISLIE, Amy (pen-name), see Buck, Llllle

West. LESLIE, Mrs. Frank (Baroness de Bazus), 222

W. Twenty-third St., N.Y. City.

E^tor, publisher; b. New Orleans, 1861; ed. at home by her father In French, Spanish, Italian, German and Latin. Began writing for publica- tion at the age of thirteen; m. Frank Leslie. In 187'? made transcontinental trip from which grew Ixer work: From Gotham to the Golden Gate; also author: Itza, the Unexplored Regions of Central America; Rents in Our Clothes; Are We All Deceivers? and magazine articles on travel and social topics, poems, etc.; translates from the Frencii, Spajiiah and Italian.

��LESLIE, Mary, Rockwood, Ont.

Writer; b. Wellington Co., Ontario; dau. John Leslie, artist engraver, and Elizabeth (Griffin) Leslie; ed. by private tutors; studied art undei her father, went to England and European CoU' tinent, 1867, and studied art and taught drawing in Holland. Believes that women who are tax- payers should have the franchise. Author: Rhymes of the Kings and Queens of England, 1896; Historical Sketches of Scotland, with an Account of Forty-eight of the Highland Clans, 1905; was regular writer for the McClure Syn- diate, 1901, and has contributed to various periodicals in verse and prose. L'ESPEKANCE, Elsie Strang (Mrs. David A.

L'Esperance Jr.), 109 W. Forty-fifth St., N.Y.

City.

Physician; b. Yorktown, N.Y. ; dau. Albert Strang, M.D., and Kate (Depew) Strang; grad. St. Agnes' School, Albany, N.Y., 1894; Woman'a Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children, M.D. '99; m. Peekskill, N.Y., Nov. 7, 1900, David A. L'Esperance Jr. Engaged in N.Y. City Dep't of Health Research Laboratory, Tu- berculosis Commission, lao8-10; ass't in pathology and librarian Cornell Laboratory, 1909-11; in- structor in pathology, Cornell Univ. Med. Coll., 1911-13; pathologist N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children, 1910-13; Mary Putnam Jacobi fel- lowship, 1913—. Author several publications on medical topics. Presbyterian. Mem. Harvey Soc, N.Y. Pathological Soc, Serological Soc, Woman's Med. Ass'n of N.Y.

LESSLEY, Eliza Popjoy (Mrs. Samuel W. Less- ley), Sparta, III.

Born Marcus Hook, Pa. ; dau. Walter and Mag- gie H. (Talman) Popjoy; ed. Creston, la.; m. Des Moines, la., Sept. 26, 1900, Samuel W. Less- ley. Favors woman suffrage. Christian Scien- tist. Prohibitionist. Mem. W.C.T.U. Mem. Monday Club, Current Reading Circle, Entre Nous Club. LESTEK, Fanny Boggs (Mrs. Albert Greene

Lester), 5819 Washing-ton Av., Chicago, 111.

Born Chicago, 111., Dec. 2, 1858; dau. Charles Towar and Virginia Ann (Clark) Boggs; ed. Chicago public school, academy at Winnetka, 111.; Univ. of Chicago; m. Chicago, 111., April 5, 1881, Albert Greene Lester; children: Helen Les- ter (Mrs. Emory S. Rockwell), Ruth Virginia Lester. Interested in Hyde Park Center Church (philanthropic) and Home Mission work. Bap- tist. Pres. of Woman's Am. Baptist Home Mis- sion Soc. (a co-operating soc. of the Northern Baptist Convention). Recreation: Golf. Mem. Woman's City Club, Chicago. LETTS, Cora Perkins (Mrs. Frank Crawford

Letts), 1100 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111.

Born Oswego, Kan., April 4, 1874; dau. Hon. Bishop W. Perkins (Congressman and U.S. Sena- tor) and Louise (Cushman) Perkins; ed. Mount Vernon Sem., Washington, D.C. ; Goucher Coll. of Baltimore (Alpha Phi); m. Washington, D.C, Nov. 11, 1897, Frank Crawford Letts; children: Courtney, b. June 17, 1899; Hollis, b. July 12, 1902. Local vice-pres. of 111. Children's Home and Aid Soc; director Woman's City Club, Woman's Aid Soc. of Passavant Hospital. Has contributed article as "Antonio" on Paradoxical Socialism and some verses. Mem. Woman'a Athletic Club. Recreation: Golf. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. North Side Branch of 111. Woman's Suffrage League. Le VALLEY, Laura A. Woodin (Mrs. David Wil-

ford LeValley), 15 Cutting Flats, Ann Arbor,

Mich.

Christian Science practitioner; b. North Gran- ville, Washington Co., N.Y. ; dau. Daniel Woodin and Sarah J. (Palmer) Woodin; ed. Dickenson Inst., Romeo, Mich.; Falley Sem., Fulton, N.Y. (music); grad. Lyons Musical Acad. (Sherwood's); tfniv. of Mich. Law Dep't, LL.B.; m. Romeo, Mich., Dec. 28, 1882, David Wilford LeValley, lawyer; children: Florence E. (now Mrs. Theo- dore W. Widenmann), Sarah LeValley. Former Congregationallst, but now a Christian Scientist. Favors woman suffrage. Life mem. of D.A.R. ; charter mem. of Saginaw Chapter; mem. Drama League of America, Woman's Club of Ann Arbor, Mich.

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��LEVERrOGE, PhyllLs Mayer (Mrs. Silas Pearson

Leveridge), 277 E. Broadway, N.Y. City.

Bom Baden, Germany, Dec. 21, 1S6S; dau. John and Marie Madelaine (Schelhor) Mayer; ed. Girls' Acad., Baden-Baden; Normal Coll., N.Y. Cil-.y; m. April 3, 1SS9, Silas Pearson Leveridge; children: Ethel Sylvia, Robert Mackenzie, Gladys Phyllis. Actively interested in educational prob- lems. Against woman suffrage. Catholic. Mem. Bmbla Club, City Fed. of Women's Clubs, Woman's Democratic Club, Political Study Club, Municipal Art Club, City Mothers' Club, The New Yorkers. LEVERING, Gra«e Wade (Mrs. Ernest Douglas

Levering'), 113 W. Lanvale St., Baltimore,

Md.

Bora Springfield, Mass., Nov. 6, 1S83; dau. William R. and Rieka M. (Smith) Wade; ed. Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '06; m. Oct. 1, 1908, Ernest Douglas Lever- ing; children: Joshua III, b. July 14, 1909; Eimest D. Jr., b. Aug. 31, 1910. Against woman suffrage. Baptist. Has served on Exec. Board of Consumers' League of Md. Recreations: Ten- nis, hockey. Mem. Baltimore Country Club. LEVERING, Julia Henderson (Mrs. Mortimer

Levering), "Devon," Amagansett, L.I., N.Y.

Born (Covington, Ind., May 5, 1S51; dau. Albert and Lorana (Richmond) Henderson; ed. La Fayette, Ind.; La Fayette High School; m. Oct. 2, 1872, Mortimer Levering, distingruished live- stock man (died Dec. 1, 1908); one son: Rich- mond Levering of N.Y. City. Has served on various boards oif philanthropic and civic so- sieties. Favors woman suffrage. Author: His- toric Indiana, and magazine and newspaper ar- ticles on educational, philanthropic, prison re- form and sociological topics. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Horseback riding, gardening. LEVI, Kate Everest (Mrs. Ernest Reese Levi),

Oakmont, Pa.

Born Fond du Lac, Wis., Jan., 1859; dau. Asaph Cook and Thankful Mary (Abercrombie) Everest; ed. Fond du Lac High School; Univ. of Wis.. B.A. '82; M.A. '92; Ph.D. '93; m. Apr. 21, 1896; children: Dorothy E., Helen B. Teacher Markham's Acad., Milwaukee; La Crosse High School; Lawrence Univ., Appleton, Wis., 1885-91; tello'W Univ. of Wis., 1891-93; head of Kingsley House, Pittsburg'h, Pa., "1S93-96. Favors woman suffrage. Author of three monographs: How Wiscon^n Came by Its Large German Element; Geographical Distribution of Germans in Wiscon- sin; Early Lutheran Emigration to Wisconsin; also articles on education. Unitarian. Mem. Pittsburgh branch of Collegiate Alumnse Ass'n; former mem. Oakmont Women's Club and Twen- tieth Century Club. LEVIEN, Sara A., 50 Madison Av., N.Y. City.

Editor; b. in Russia, Dec. 25, 1888; dau. Julius and Frances (Shapiro) Levien; ed. N.Y. City public schools; N.Y. UbIv. Law School, LL.B. '09. Practised law in N.Y. City. Ass't editor of Success Magazine three years; managing editor Woman's Journal one year; now Educa- tional Sec. of The People's Inst, N.Y. City. Interested in settlement work and socialistic the- ories. Favors woman suffrage. Author of spe- cial articles and short stories in N.Y. magazines and newspapers. Mem. Nat. Woman's Suffrage Ass'n, N.Y. Bar Ass'n, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc., Univ. Settlement of N.Y., Women Lawyers' Ass'n, College Club of Boston. LEVY, Beatrice A., 956 Bldwell St.; office, 570

Granville St., Vancouver, B.C., Can.

Born Montreal, Dec. 27, 1890; dau. Lewis and Bella R. Levy; ed. Montreal. Engaged In neTVS- paper and magazine work, first in Montreal, but more recently in Vancouver. Wrote poetry and prose at age of 13; at age of 14 issued Collector's CJompanion; when 16 started publication of Levy Magazine, recently Incorporated her enterprise as Beatrice A. Levy, Limited. Recreations: Lit- erature, music, canoeing, driving. Mem. Cana- dian Women's Press Club.

LEVY, Florence MigrUtingrale, 215 W. Fifty- seventh St., N.Y. City.

Editor; b. N.Y City, Aug. 13, 1870; dau. Joseph Arthur and Pauline (Goodheim) Levy; ed. pri-

��vate school in N.Y., and Nat. Acad, of Design. Editor American Art Anrual and Who's Who in Art; mem. of the staff Metropolitan Museum of Art; lecturer on art topics. Mem. Board of Directors Am. Federation of Arts; sec. School Art League of N.Y. City. Author: American Art Directory; Directory of Craftsmen, 1912; Cata- logue of Art Dep't, Pan-American Exposition, 1901; Catalogue American Section Hudson-Fulton Art Exhibit, 1909; Catalogue Whistler Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1910; "Painting" and "Sculpture," in New International Year Book; "Industrial Art Schools" in Cyclopedia of Education. Clubs: National Arts, MacDowell. Mem. Nat. Soc. of Craftsmen. Jewish religion. LEW, Harriet Mooney (Mrs. Aleck W. Levy),

605 W. 112th St., N.Y. City.

Writer, elocutionist; b. Lawrenceburg, Ind.; dau. Joseph and Carrie (Epstein) Mooney; ed. Middletown and Cincinnati, O. ; grad. Middle- town (O.) High School; private school, Cincin- nati, O. ; m. Cincinnati, Oct. 1, 1900, Aleck W. Levy. Organized Junior Council, Cincinnati; president of Alumni Club of EJmanuel Sister- hood. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The Ways and Trials of Lovers; also magazine arti- cles. Jewish. Pres. Woman's Progress Club; m-em. New York Fed. of Worpen's Clubs. LEVY, Henrietta Platnauer (Mrs. J. Leonard

Levy), "Seven Gables," Hobart St. and Schen-

ley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Bristol, England, Dec. 18, 1868; dau. M. J. and Sophia (Silverston) Platnauer; ed. Miss Bax- ter's School; Redland High School; Bristol Acad, of Fine Arts; m. Bristol, England^- Dec. 26, 1888, Rev. Dr. J. Leonard Levy; children: Edna Sophie (Bryn Mawr), Ruth Juliette. Mem. Pa. Peace and Arbitration Soc, Universal Peace Union, Tuberculosis League, Pittsburgh Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Jewish. Mem. Kindergarten Ass'n, Federated Charities, Westmoreland (Coun- try Club.

LEWANDOWSKA, Mme. MaideUe de, 1896 Bea- con St., Boston, Mass.

Violinist; b. Somerville, Mass., Feb.' 17, 1876; dau. John Addison and Adele I. (Cummings) Cummlngs; ed. Tufts OoU., Boston Conservatory of Music, and abroad at Tours, Paris and Munich; pupil of Willy Hess and Cliarles Martin Loeffler (mem. Alpha Omicron Pi, Tufts); m. Boston, May 28, 1904, Dr. Joseph de Lewan- dowska. Professionally engaged as concert vio- linist, soloist and violinist of the Lewandowska Trio. Unitarian. Mem. MacDowell Club. LEWAR^, Elsie Singmaster (Mrs. Harold Lew- ars), Harrisburg, Pa.

Writer: b. Schuylkill Haven, Pa., Aug. 29, 1879; dau. John Alden and Caroline (Hoopes) Smgmaster; ed. Cornell Univ.; Radcliffe Coll., A.B. '07; m. Gettysburg, Pa., April 17, 1912, Harold Lewars. Writer of short stories In Cen- tury, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, McClure's, Youth's Companion, Saturday Eve- ning Post. Author (books): When Sarah Saved the Day; When Sarah Went to School; Gettys- burg. Writes under name of "Elsie Singmaster." Lutheran. Favors woman suffrage. LEWI, Emily, Dr., 35 Mt. Morris Park West N.Y. City.

Physician; b. N.Y. City, 1867; dau. David and Julia (Seaman) Lewi; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '88, with honors; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '91. Has been house physician at the Babies' Hospital and various clinics. Mem. N.Y. Acad, of Medicine, N.Y. Co. Med. Soc, Woman's Med. Ass'n. Clubs: Woman's Univ. Club, Fed. of Women's Clubs of N.Y. City.

LEWIS, Alice G., 30 Kounmachi, Mlta Shiba,

Tokio, Japan.

School principal; b. In Iowa; grad. Penn Coll., Oskaloosa, Iowa, A.B. '94, A.M. '97; foundation scholar and student in Biblical literature and history, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1894-95. Associate principal and instructor In Latin and mathe- matics, Ackworth (Iowa) Acad., 1895-96; instruc- tor in Latin, Penn Coll., 1896-97; teacher in pub- lic schools, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1897-98; teacher of English and Latin, East High School, Dos

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��Moines, Iowa, 1S98-1905. Since 1905 in the airls' School of Friends Mission, Tokio, Japan, as missionary and teacher of English, 1905-07, and as principal since 1907. Recorded minister of the Gospel, Des Moines (Iowa) monthly meeting of Friends, 1905. Mem. Exec. Com. of the Council of the Friends of Peace and Arbitration in Japan, 1906-07.

LEWIS, Amanda Kerr (Mrs. John Henry Lewis), 2405 William St., Denver, Colo. Born Washington Co., Pa.; dau. James Mason and Rebecca (Dinsmore) Kerr; ed. Washington (Pa.) Sem. ; m. Bloomington, III., John Henry Lewis; children: William L., ilinnie K., Lewis Haines, Mary Pollock (died). Formerly engaged as mnsi» and science teacher. Author: Half Hours with American Authors; also poems: Col- umbia's Women (given at World's Fair, Chicago, 1S93; The Weavers, and many other poems. Presbyterian. Republican. Pres. Scio Art Club 18 years; reelected pres. for life. In early life was active in church work; later formed clubs for study for women, 1885 (this enterprise had 3,000 women, most of whom went into the great club movement a few years later). Has been called the "Poet Lecturer of the Rockies"; for seven years was treas. Colo. Fed. of Women's Clubs.

LEAVIS, Bessie Hastings Williams (Mrs. Archi- bald Heber Lewis), East Overbrook Av. and Woodward Av., Cleveland Heights, Cleveland, Ohio.

Graduate Smith College, B.A. '93; student of biology, Mass. Inst, of Technology, Boston, '94; Univ. of Leipzig, Germanv, '95; m. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 29, 1901, Archibald Heber Lewis; children: Percy Williams, b. Feb. 16, 1903; Frances Kiloli, b. April 30. 19.06; Gilbert Hastings, b. Mar. 10, 1908. Taught in schools of N.Y. City and Brooklyn, 1S&3-94; teacher of science in Miss Sheldon's School, Providence, R.I., 1894- 95- Prof. Button's Training Class, Brookline, Mass., 1898; Brookline High School, 1S98; head of science dep't. Miss Mittleberger's School for Girls, Cleveland, Ohio, 1899-1901. LEWIS, Carolyn Trowbridge (Mrs. Herbert Rad- nor Lewis), Lynbrook. I.. I., X.Y. Associate editor Good Housekeeping Magazine; b. Boston, Sept. 25, 1S77; dau. D. Austin and Anna M. (Davis) Brown; ed. Mrs. Quincy Shaw's private school, Boston; Miss C. Alice Baker's school, Brookline, Mass., and Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '99; m. Brookline, .Mass., Oct. 11, 1S99, Her- bert Radnor Lewis. Newspaper writer on Phila- delphia Public Ledger; editor of Dress Maga- zine; associate editor Good Housekeeping Maga- zine; contributor to various magazines and news- papers. Author: How to Buy Textiles. Recrea- tions: Walking, swimming, tennis. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

LEWIS, Carrie BuUard (Mrs. Leo Rich Lewis), 20 Professors Row, Tufts College, Mass. Bom Boston, Dec. 26, 1865; dau. Gardner W. and Fannie Kingsley (Field) Bullard (sister of the composer, Frederic Field Bullard, and wife of Prof. L. R. Lewis, of the Music Dep't of Tufts Coll.); ed. Boston public schools, in- cluding Girls' Latin School; also studied in Germany, 1890-02; m. Brookline, Mass., Dec. 21, 1892, Leo Rich Lewis; one son: Philip Bullard Lewis, b. 1895. Interested in the Drama League of Boston, W.E. and I.U. Composer of music (under pseudonyms "Carrie Bullard" and "Caryl B. Rich"): Two children's operettas— One Day's Fun and The Fairy Godmother's Lesson; three collections of children's songs— The Sing- ing Leaves, The Song Child, Nature Songs and Lullabies; numerous songs in sheet form— A Dear Little Goose, The Runaway, A Moon- bath, A Christmas Eve Thought, The Seam- stress, Lullaby Lane, My Lammie, Sport and Rest, Rock-a-bye, Pussie's Answer, The Whis- pered Song, He Calleth Thee (religious). He That Dwelleth (anthem); operetta for mixed quar- tet, the Methodical Music Master; operetta for mixed voices and soli. The Rose and the Ring. Club: New England Women's. Recreations: Swimming, automobillng, social features of col- lege life.

��LEWIS, Cora GUbert (Mrs. James Millon

Lewis), Kinsley, Kan.

Born Cameron, Mo., June 29, 1866; dau. Horace W. and Trescinda (Wren) Gilbert; ed. public schools of Missouri; m. Apr. 26, 1888, James Millon Lewis; children: Loraine, Gilbert, Mac- Arthur, Kelton E. With husband in newspaper work, as associate editor Kinsley Graphic; mem. and was two years pres. Kan. Woman's Press Ass'n; pres. Women's Kan. Day Club; pres. Seventh Dist. of Federated Clubs; mem. Visit- ing Board for State Charitable Institutions (un- der Governor Koch). Clubs: State Historical Soc. ; life mem. Kan. Federation Women's Clubs (was pres. two years). Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; helped in campaign as a speaker in Sept. and Oct., 1915. Recreations: Reading, walking, cribbage. Mem. Red Cross. LEWIS, Edith Rannells (Mrs. Robert L. Lewis),

Gloucester, Ohio.

Born Wilmington, O., July 2, 1885; dau. Charles Allen and Clara (Kirk) Rannells; ed. Wilmington High School, 1903; Hamilton Coll., Lexington, Ky., A.B. '04; Harcourt Place Sem., 1904-05; Wilmington Coll., A.B. '06; Bryn Mawi Coll., 1906-07; m. Wilmington, O., June 22, 1907, Robert L. Lewis, banker; one son: Allen Ran- nells. Prof. Greek and Latin, Wilmington Coll., 1907-08. Favors woman suffrage. Mena. Church of Christ. Jlem. D.A.R., Rothwell Literary Club.

LEWIS, Elise Lathrop (Mrs. Richard W. H.

Lewis), Hillsdale Manor, N.J.

Writer; b. Sumter, S.C., Aug. 28, 1874; dau. Thomas A. and Elise H. (Brohun) Lathrop; ed. Buffalo High School, St. Margaret's School, Buffalo, N.Y. ; Nat. Conservatory of Music, N.Y. City; m. Dec. 2, 1911, Richard W. H. Lewis. Secured interviews (for publication) with Ade- laide Ristori, Tommaso Salvini, Josef Israels. Publications from the German and three original books. For many years a contributor to The Theatre Magazine, Vogue, The Musician, Tha Etude; associate editor 'The Art News; also contributor to and associate editor of Trans- atlantic Tales. Author: Where Shakespeare Set His Stage; Sunny Days in Italy; A Trans- planted American; also several translations from the German. Recreations: Music, opera, travel- ing, art exhibitions. Episcopalian. Againsi woman suffrage.

LEWIS, Elizabeth fMrs. Homer P. Lewis), 3

Monadnock Rd., 'Worcester, Mass.

Born St. Clair, Mo.; ed. St. Louis schools; Washington Univ., two years; Univ. of Mich., B.A.; m. Omaha, "Seh., Homer P. Lewis. Teach- er of Latin and Englisrh in Omaha (Neb.) High School, 1883-91. Traveled in Greece and Con- stantinople, 1900. Author of novel: Lorenzo of Sarzana. Charter mem. of the Mich, branch of the N.Y. Sorosis. LEWIS, Elizabeth Dabney Langhome (Mrs.

John H. Lewis), 609 Court St., Lynchburg, Va.

Born Botetourt Co., Va., 1851; dau. John Scarsbrooke and Sarah Elizabeth (Dabney) Langhorne; ed. Lynchburg schools and by pri- vate instruction; m. Aug. 13, 1873, John H. Lewis (lawyer); children: Lucy (Mrs. William R. Abbot, Jr.), Helen (Mrs. Armistead), Eliza- beth (Mrs. Dexter Otey), ten grandchildren. Teacher in public and private schools; interested in Sunday-school, Free Night School, mission teaching, civic work, philanthropic and literary work, and musical matters. Writer about equal suffrage in newspapers; also on behalf of Co- ordinate Coll. for Women in Va., and has writ- ten some short stories, most notably. The Con- federate Doll. Mem. Cercle Frangaise, Das Deutsche Kranchen, Confederate Memorial Ass'n, W.C.T-U., Civic League. Clubs: Woman's Club of Lynchburg (ex-pres.), Schehlmann (musical) Club (ex-pres.). Recreations: Music, literature, social diversions. Unitarian. Pres. Equal Suf- frage Club of Lynchburg; mem. of the Legis- lative Com. of the Va. State Equal Suffrage League (spoke before the Va. Legislature in 1912 on behalf of equal suffrage), and has given talks on the same subject In various localities of Va.

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��LEWIS, Ella Louise Hatch (Mrs. Alexander Lewis), RockhlU Manor, 42 33 Locust St., Kan- sas City, Mo. Born Hudson, Wis., Nov. 19, 1865; dau. William

B. and Lydia (Brockbanli) Hatcli; grad Wellesley

Coll., B.A. '89; m. Aug. 18, 1890, Rev. Alexander

LeTvis. Congregationalist.

LEWIS, Emily Augusta Westwood (Mrs. J. W.

Lewis), 4S4 Lake Av., St. Louis, Mo.

Born Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 14, 1877; dau. Henry C. and Augusta Lucena (Johnson) West- wood; grad. Cornell Univ., A.B. '98, and Bryn Mawr Coll.; post-grad, scholar in England; m. Aug. 28, 1902, Joseph William Lerwis Jr.; chil- dren : William McMillan, Emily Westwood, Joseph William. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The Next-Door, Morelands, 1907. Methodist (Southern). Mem. Wednesday Club, College Club, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

LEWIS, Emily Sargent (Mrs. Wilfred Lewis),

5901 Drexel Rd., Philadelphia, Pa.

Writer; b. N.Y. City, Feb. 26, 1866; dau. George Henry and Sarah (Shaw) Sargent; ed. Anna C. Brackett's School, N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, Jan. 16, 1895, Wilfred Lewis; children: Wil- fred Sargent, Millicent Hacker, Leicester Sar- gent. Pres. Local Board of School Visitors; pres. Board of Corporators of the Woman's Med. Coll. of Pa. Author: The Little Singer, and Other Verses; also magazine verse and stories. Mem. Pa. Soc. Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Pa. Soc. of NsTV England Women; pres. Maria Mitchell Memorial Ass'n of Nantucket; ex-pres. Browning Soc. of Philadelphia, Consumers' League, Acorn Club, Civic Club. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; pres. Equal Franchise t-oc. of Philadelphia. LEWIS, Frances Graham Hoyt (Mrs. Robert

Wilson Lewis), 609 Everett St.. Portland, Ore.

Bom Portland, Ore., Jan. 30, 1874; dau. George Washington and Martha Agnes (Graham) Hoyt; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '98; mem. Zeta Alpha Soc; m. Portland, Ore., April 30, 1900, Robert Wilson Lewis; children: Cicero Hunt Jr., b. June 29, 1901; Robert Wilson Leiwis Jr., b. Sept. 20,

1902. Pres. and mem. Trinity Church choir of Portland (50 menf.). Trinity Altar Guild and Choir Mother; mem. board of local Y.W.C.A. ; chairman of Extension Com. Y.W.C.A.; mem. Board of Northwest Field Com. of Y.W.C.A.; chairman of finance for Oregon; charter mem. Oregon Branch Ass'n Collegiate Alumnse; dele- gate to Alumnse Graduate (Council, 1913 and 1914; mem. Visiting Nurse Ass'n of Portland, Day Nursery Ass'n of Portland, Portland Art Ass'n. Against woman suffrage; was active mem. Oregon Anti-Suffrage Board up to Nov. 12, 1912; mem. Press Com.; edited a page in the weekly paper Spectator for five months; writer of fre- quent letters In papers in regard to suffrage and public school matters. Episcopalian. Interested in Republican politics, but not as a voter; in- terested in school elections and no others. Rec- reations: Music, riding, skating, dancing. Mem. Wellesley College Club of Portland.

LEWIS, Grace Kobblns (Mrs. Charlton M.

Lewis), 425 St. Ronan St., New Haven, Conn. I

Bom St. Paul, Minn., 1877; dau. Daniel M.

and Delia R. (Barton) Robblns; ed. Vassar (Phi

Beta Kappa), A.B. '99; m. St. Paul, Minn.,

1903, Charlton Miner Lewis (prof. English lit- erature at Yale); children: Grace Robbins, Charlton Miner, Penelope. Clubs: New Haven Country Club, New Haven Lawn Club, Wo- men's UnlT. Club, N.Y. Recreation: Tennis. Methodist.

LE^\^S, Isabel Eleanor Martin (Mrs. Clifford S.

Lewis), 1921 Park Road, Washington, D. C.

Computor; b. Old Orchard Beach, Me., July 11, 1881; dau. William Henry and Isabel (Manson) Martin; grad. Auburn (N.Y.) High School, '99; Cornell Univ., A.B. '03; A.M. '05 (specialized in mathematics); m. Dec. 4, 1912, Clifford S. Lewis of the U.S. Naval Observatory. Worked for Prof. Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, 1905-08, upon varied astronomical work; since then in the Nautical Almanac ofBce at the Naval Observa- tory. Opposed to vivisection and interested in all efforts to prohibit It. Favors woman suffrage.

��Taught school. Summit, N.J., 1904. Returned to Cornell Univ. to study astronomy and advanced mathematics, and prepared to take the civil serv- ice examination for the Naval Observatory. Rec- reations: Walking, swimming, skating, rowing and tennis.

LEWIS, Janet Cook, 126 E. Twenty-seventh St.,

N.Y. City.

Restorer of leather bindings; b. Columbus, O. ; dau. William Hall and Eleanor (Clark) Lewis; ed. Toledo High School, and Cooper Union, N.Y. City. Organizer and pres. Toledo Woman's Exchange, 1SS4-90; painter of portraits, 1890-96; pioneer worker in the interests of a woman's apartment house, the Martha Washington Hotel being the outcome of the work done, 1S96; pri- vate sec. and librarian to the late Mrs. Richard Morris Hunt; present work is in the preserva- tion of leather developed through the work in the Richard Morris Hunt Architectural and Art Library. Organizer and treas. Pen and Brush, 1891-1908 (still mem.). Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

LEWIS, Lena Morrow (Mrs. Arthur M. Lewis), care Socialist Headquarters, 249 Pacific Bldg., San Francisco, Cal.

Lecturer; b. Monmouth, 111.; dau. Rev. T. G. and Mary A. (Story) Morrow; grad. Monmouth (111.) Coll., B.S.; m. July, 1903, Arthur M. Lewis. Took part In the suffrage amendment campaign in 1898 in S. Dak., in 1900 in Oregon. In 1903 was arrested in San Francisco for speaking on the streets and throTvn into jail until bonds could be secured a few hours later; has spent weeks at a time speaking in lumber camps and mining districts; has spoken in the most out-of- the-way places as well as In well-known audi- toriums and halls; served as W.C.T.U. district pres. in 111., 1892-98; elected mem. Nat. Com. of Socialist Party from Cal., 1905; was the first woman to be elected mem. of the Nat. Ex. Com. of the Socialist Party; for past seven years a National organizer and lecturer for the Socialist Party, and during that time has spoken in every State in the Union, also throughout Canada, British Columbia and in England; elected dele- gate to International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen, 1909; in the summer of 1912 toured Alaska in the interest of the congressional cam- paign. Author of a pamphlet entitled: The Socialist Party and Woman Suffrage; has con- tributed many articles in the Progressive Woman, The Masses, and other radical pub- lications. Mem. Intercollegiate Socialist Soc, Nat. Woman's Com. of the Socialist Party. Free thinker.

LEWIS, Lina Redwood (Mrs. Henry Byrd Lewis), Cleve Manor, Port Conway, Va, Born Baltimore, Md., Nov. 15, 1850; dau. Will- iam Holman and Catherine Carter (Chowning) Red-wood; ed. Warrenton Female Coll., Eclectic Inst., Baltimore, Md. ; m. (1st) April 30. 1873. Archibald Carlyle Fairfax; (2d) Nov. 29, 1892, Henry Byrd Lewis; children: John Carlyle Fair- fax, b. Dec. 22, 1874; William Redwood Fairfax, b. Dec. 3, 1876. Has taught music (piano) pro- fessionally. Actively interested In church work of Protestant Episcopal Church and In literary work. Author of short stories: His Best (At- lantic Monthly); Lizzie Brabaker (Harper's Monthly); Retaliation (Lippincott's) ; The Mis- fortunes of Brother Thomas Wheatley (Scrlb- ner's), afterward published in Stories by Ameri- can Authors, and has also done work for Youth's Companion and other magazines. Recreation: Piano. Against woman suffrage.

LEWIS, Lorle Mackey (Mrs. Albert Sidney Lewis, 2714 Fourth St., Dallas, Tex. Bom Searcy, Ark., March 6, 1871; dau. Rev. James Marion Mackey, D.D., and Rachel Eliza- beth (Taylor) Mackey; ed. Southwestern Univ., Georgetown, Tex., M.L.; m. June 17, 1891, Albert Sidney Lewis; children: James Mackey, b. 1893; Albert Sidney Lewis Jr., b. 1895; Elizabeth, b. 1899 (died 1906); Lorie Lois, b. 1909. Interested in welfare of young girls In our cities and the children of the poor. Mem. Methodist EJpiscopal Church. Mem. Y.W.C.A., Woman's Missionary Soc, King's Daughters, Poet Followers.

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��LEWIS, Margaret 'A. Read (Mrs. Warren H.

Lewis), 1913 East 31st St., Baltimore, Md.

Teacher; b. Kittanning, Pa., Nov. 9, 1881; dau. Joseph Cable and Martha A. (Walker) Reed; ed. Woman's Coll. of Baltimore (Tau Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa), 1897-1901. Bryn Mawr College, 1901-03; Woods Hole, summers of 1900, 1904, 1912; Berlin and Paris, 1908; m. 1910, Prof. Warren H. Lewis; one daughter: Margaret Nast Lewis, b. 1911; and a son, b. Dec. 28, 1912. Technician, Columbia Univ.; lecturer on zoology, Barnard Coll.; lecturer physiology. Woman's Med. School of N.Y. City; instructor anatomy and jihysiology, .lohns HopViins Training School for Nurses; researcher in Dep't of Anatomy, Johns Hopkins Med. School. Resident worker Warren Goddard Settlement, N.Y. City; Chil- dren's Aid Soc, Baltimore, Md.; Hampton Wood- bury Neighborhood Settlement, Baltimore. Au- thor: Regeneration of First Claw of Cray-fish; Regeneration of Leg of Salamander; Delamina- tion in the Frog's Egg; Blood Picture in Tuber- culosis; Blood Picture in Tuberculosis and Pneu- monia; Growth of Chick Tissues in Artificial Salt Solutions, and several other publications on growth in vitro. Mem. Maryland Soc. for Social Hygiene, Children's Aid Soc, Baltimore; Just Government League, Baltimore. Recreations: Sailing, tennis, walking mountain climbing. Favors woman suffrage. liEWIS, Margaret Cameron (Mrs. Harrison Cass

Lewis), 567 W. 113th St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Ottawa, 111., Dec. X, 1867; dau. Alexander T. and Nancy A. (Nelson) Cameron; ed. public schools, Santa Barbara, Cal. ; private teachers, Santa Barbara, Cal; San Francisco School of Design; also studied music in San Francisco; m. N.Y. City, Sept. 16, 1903, Harrison Cass Lewis. Teacher of piano for many years, accompanist in Cal., officer in various musical organizations in Oakland and San Francisco. Began writing about 1899. Author: Comedies in Miniature. 1903; The Cat and the Canary, 1907- The Bachelor and the Baby, 1908; The Involuntary Chaperon, 1909; The Pretender Per- son, 1911; Tangles, 1912: also several one-act comedies for amateurs. Clubs: MacDowell (N.Y. City), Lyceum (London).

LEWIS, Mary Delia, Smith College, North- ampton, Mass.

Ckdl-^ge instructor; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. 94; student in Univ. of Dresden, 1898-99, and m rhetoric at Univ. of Mich., 1908-09, M.A. 09. Teacher in Stamford, Conn., 1894-98; teacher of English Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., 1899-1904; head of English dep't in Pa. Coll. for Women Pittsburgh, 1904-06; instructor in English, Smith Coll 1906-08, and again since 1909. Ass't in rhetoric, Univ. of Mich., 1908-09. LEWIS, Melissa Ann (Mrs. Thomas Addison

Lewis), 926 Lake Av., Pueblo, Colo.

Born Logansport, Ind., 1848; dau. William A. and Jane Finch (Wilson) Lewis; ed. Logans- port Sem., and St. Mary's of the Wood, Terre Haute Ind.; m. St. Louis, Mar. 4, 1868, Thomas Addison Lewis; children: Leslie, Homer, Lawrence. Pres. Pueblo Soldiers' Aid Soc. during Spanish-American War; interested in civic betterment, children's hospitals and day nursery Mem. D.A.R. Founder of Norton Art Club (pres. 18 years); the club has given two valuable paintings to the Pueblo Library. Has put valuable art reproductions in the public schools; has read papers on art before other clubs and the schools, illustrating them with reproductions of paintings and sculpture. Epis- copalian. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat. LEWIS, Sarah Borden Durfee, P.O. Box 162,

Norwell, Mass.

Teacher, lecturer, genealogist; b. Boston, Mass., Nov. 28, 1851; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '71; Rad- cliffe Coll., A.M. 1901. Teacher in Fall River, Mass 1876-78; Cleveland, Ohio, 1879-81; Brook- line and Boston, Mass., 18S7-96; Washington, D.C., 1896-99; Cambridge and Boston, 1S99-1S0:I ; Gam- bier, Ohio, 1902-05; North Carolina, 1906-119. Lec- turer in Boston, Concord, New Bedford, etc., 1909- 10- now settled in Norwell, Mass., raising poul- try. Mem. Nat. Geographic Soc, New England

��Historical and (Jenealogical Soc, Ass'n of Colle- giate Alumnse, Boston College Club. Episcopalian. LEXOW, Caroline. Piermont Av., Nyack, N.Y.

Field secretary; b. N.Y. City, 1882; dau. Clar- ence and Katharine Morton (Ferris) Lexow; ed. Barnard Coll., B.A. (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). Favors woman suffrage; field sec. Women's Political Union. Mem. Women's Uni- versity Club of N.Y. City. LIBBEY, Gra<ie E., Pittsfield Me.

Born Pittsfield, Maine; dau. David Freeman and Nancy M. (Bowman) Libbey; ed. Maine Central Inst., Pitts-fleld, Me. Teacher for sev- eral years, principal grammar and high schools in Maine, N.H., Mass., and Conn. Mem. Pitts- field Tuesday Club (literary organization, fed- erated) and pres. two years. Contributor ot prose and verse to papers. LIBBEY, Laura Jean— see Stillwell, Laura Jean

Libbey. LIBBEY, Mary Elizabeth Green (Mrs. William

Libbey), Thanet Lodge, Greenholm, Prince- ton, N.J.

Born Princeton, N.J., Oct. 30, 1859; dau. Will- iam Henry and Elizabeth (Hayes) Green; ed. by governesses; m. Princeton, N.J., Dec. 7, 1880, William Libbey; children: Elizabeth Marsh. Henry Green, Amy Morse, George Kennedy. Pres. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc of the Presbytery of New Brunswick. Mem. Order of the CroTvn of America, N.J. Soc. Colonial Dames of America, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, vice-regent Princeton Chapter D.A.R., State regent N.J. D.A.R. ; vice-pres. Gen. Nat. Soc D.A.R. Clubs: Present Day, Prince- ton. Recreations: Music, reading, travel. Pres- byterian. LIBBY, Harriet Martin (Mrs. Luther I. Libby),

Overlook Rd., Ithaca, N.Y.

Fruit grower; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 18, ISSl; dau. George W. and Emily C. (Doud) Martin; grad Adelphi Coll., Brooklyn, B.A. '02; M.A. 'Oo; Cornell Univ., M.A. '05, Ph.D. '10 (Sigma Xi, Cornell, 1905); m. Ithaca, N.Y., Sept. 15, 1912, Luther I. Libby. Teacher of biology in New Haven High School, 1905-06; teacher of biology in Eastern District High School, Brook- lyn, 1906-08. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Studies on the Effect'of Some Concentrated Solu- tions on the Osmotic Activity of Plants (Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club, 1905; Getting the Most in the Orchard (Garden Magazine), Oct., 1910: An Apple Orchard Survey of Ontario (bounty (Bulletin 307, Cornell Univ.), 1911. LIBBY, Hattie Payson Brazier (Mrs. Ralph G.

Libby), 234 State St., Portland, Me.

Born Portland, Me., Sept. 5, 1888; dau. Daniel and Nellie (Foss) Brazier; de. Waynflete School, Portland, Me.; Wellesley Coll., A.B. '09; honor scholarship Wellesley Scholar (Phi Sigma, Wel- lesley); m. Portland, Me., Apr. 29, 1911, Ralph G. Libby. Sunday-school teacher. Mem. Al- liance Frangaise. Mem. Coll. Club (pres.), Port- land Rossini Club (musical), Portland Country Club, Current Events Club. Recreations: Piano, automobiling, tennis. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

LIBBY, Mary Stokes (Mrs. Walter Gillette Lib- by), Summit, N.J.

Born Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 7, 1879; dau. Dr. Charles and Stella M. (Watson) Stokes; ed. Notre Dame Convent, Philadelphia; Heges et Parent, Brussels; Convent of the Sacred Heart; Trinita del Monti, Rome; and tutored in London, England, Rome; m. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 19, 1901, Walter Gillette Libby; children: Mary Elizabeth, Stella Katharine, Walter Stokes. In- terested in music, social life, several charities, study of languages; in 1898 assisted in libra- rian's work in the library of Univ. of Pa. Char- ter mem. the Swedish Colonial Soc, Philadel- phia. Roman Catholic Favors woman suffrage in some ways. LICHTENSTEIN, Clara, 32 3 Sherbrooks St.,

West, Montreal, Canada.

Musician; b. Budapest, Hungary; grad. Royal Acad, of Music, Budapest; pupil of Liszt and Gobbi; also student Charlotte Square Inst., Edln-

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XPERIENCE is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. But even though experience often woos cynicism, breeds complaisance, and engenders cowardice, it has in it, nevertheless, the seeds of knowledge and wisdom and power.

Some one, if not ourselves, is better, to be sure, for what we know. Some one, if not ourselves, is wiser for what we suffer. A thought in the crucible of life melts into the thought of the world; the footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation; the heroism of an individual becomes the trodden path of a race. Every human action, collective or


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��burgh, Scotland, 1878-81. On staff of Charlotte Square Inst., 1S81-99, as instructor in piano, voire, musical theory and history music; In charge of Dep't of Music in Royal Victorio Coll. for Women, Montreal, 1899-1904; since 1904 vice- director of the McGill Conservatory of Music, Montreal. Has given recitals and musical lec- tures.

LIGGETT, Anna Coatee Wardle (Mrs. Leigh Liggett), 404 Riverside Drive, N.Y. City. College bursar; b. Philadelphia; ed. In schools of Philadelphia and Vassar Coll., A.B. "80; m. 1889, Leigh Liggett (now deceased). Teacher in Detroit Home and Day School, five years; Packer Collegiate Inst., three years. Bursar of Barnard Coll. since 1891.

LIGGETT, Ella Mary, 73 Stimson Place, De- troit, Mich.

Principal oif school; b. Xenia, Ohio; grad. Vas- sar Coll., A.B. '69 (Phi Beta Kappa). Teacher In Pittsburgh, Pa., 1869-71; Topeka, Kan., 1S71- 73; Vassar Coll., 1873-74; Cincinnati, 1874-78; since 1878 principal Detroit (Mich.) Home and Day School.

LIGGETT, Gertrude Irwin (Mrs. Sidney Marx

Liggett), Shields, Allegheny Co.. Pa.

Born Allegheny, Pa., Feb. 2, 1881; dau. Lewis and Emma (Riddle) Irwin; ed. Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; the Misses Masters' School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; m. Oct. 6, 1909, Sidney Marx Liggett. Mem. the Misses Mas- ters' School Soc, Allegheny Country Club. Fa- vors woman suffrage. LIGHTFOOT, Mary VVasbingrton Minor (Mrs.

John B. Lightfoot), 922 W. Grace St., Rich- mond, Va.

Born Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Va. ; dau. Capt. Robert D. Minor, L.S.N., C.S. Navy, Flag officer on Merrimac, and Sandonia (Randolph) Minor; ed. by governess in country home in Fauquier Co., in private schools in Richmond, Va., and in Bpringwood Home School, under foreign teachers; m. Richmond, Va., Feb. 8, 1882, John B. Light- foot. Sec. many years of First Hospital Board In the South; treasurer Great Southern Bazaar which erected monument to soldiers and sailors of South; treas. for fifteen years of Ass'n for Preservation of Va. Antiquities and for a year was chairman of its Jamestown Committee. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recrea- tions: Music, gardening, having an unusual and exquisite selection of roses. LIGHTNEB, Letitia Catherine (Mrs. Joseph

Lightner), Randolph, Wis.

Druggist; b. Dansville, N.Y., June 5, 1849; dau. Morgan and Elizabeth (Price) Epley; ed. in common school, followed by study at home in preparation for State Board examination for druggist; m. Randolph, Wis., 1874, Joseph Light- ner; children: Flora May, Frank Wallace. Reg- istered druggist, 1882. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Order of Eastern Star. Recreations: Painting, music. Clubs: Shakes- peare, Home Economics. L.IGON, Cora Sarah Reed (Mrs. William S.

Llgon), 603 N. Main St., Anderson, S.C.

Singer, voice teacher; b. Anderson, S.C; dau. Jacob Plnckney and Teresa Caroline (Ham- mond) Reed; ed. at Anderson and Charleston; m. Dec 22, 1875, William Slebels Ligon. Sang from babyhood; studied at New England Con- servatory of Music, Boston, and with best teachers In N.Y. City, and Mme. Matilde Mar- chesi of Paris. Church and concert singer. Baptist. Democrat. Mem. D.A.R. (Nat. Chap- ter, Washington, D.C.), United Daughters of Confederacy (Dixie Chapter, Anderson, S.C). Pres. Psyche Culture Club, S.C. Federation Wo- men's Clubs (chairman of music, 1909-12). LIGON, Ellen Lee Barret (Mrs. Greenwood

Llgon), 430 Spring Hill Av., Mobile, Ala.

Physician; b. on plantation in Kemper Co., Miss., Aug. 10, 18G4; dau. Benjamin Temple and Louise A. (Martin) Barret; grad. '78 and took post-grad, work in Bagby High School, Mobile, '79; Am. Coll. of Osteopathy, D.O., Kirksville, Mo., 1900; Ala. SUte Med. Board, M.D., "03; m. Mobile. Ala.. June 9. 1886, Dr. Greenwood Llgon

��(died Mar. 10, 1910); children: Lucile Barret (Mrs. Clinton Rowland Macartney), Margherita. Prac- ticed in N.Y. City five years; in Mobile since 1905. Mem. Y.W.C.A. in Mobile, helping to organize Woman's League for working women to build a club home at Fairhope, also where they can take rest for a nominal sum. Writer of articles in the professional lines; also notable article: The White Woman and the Negro (Good Housekeeping). Charter mem. Mobile (Chapter D.A.R., Soc. of Colonial Dames in Ala. through Va., Daughters of Confederacy, vice- pres. of Lincoln Memorial. Founded first Wo- man's Club in Miss., The Okolona Book Club, 188S; hon. mem. Mobile Shakespeare Club; char- ter mem. Sojourners' Club, Kirksville, Mo.; mem. Country Club, Mobile, Ala. Recreations: Automobiling, gardening, sailing, swimming, f-ards. Episcopalian.

LILLIE, Helen Eva Makepeace (Mrs. Ralph Stayner Lillle), 4243 Sansom St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Gloucester, Mass., July 17, 1876; dau. Rev. Frank and Helen Mary (Viets) Makepeace; ed. in schools of Springfield, Mass., and by pri- vate tuition and grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '99; m. N.Y. City, June 2, 1906, Prof. Ralph Stayner Lillle; children: Frank Rattray, b. Aug. 25, 1908; Walter Makepeace, b. Aug. 10, 1910. Con- gregationalist.

LILLrBEOBS, Katharine Fackenthal (Mrs.

Manfred Lilliefors), Valley, Neb.

Born Dec. 10, 1867; dau. B. F. Fackenthal Sr. and Katharine (Dennis) Fackenthal; ed. Dana Hall Preparatory School, Easton (Pa.) High School, Wellesley Coll., B.A. '95; grad. work at Wellesley School, Froebel Sem., Berlin, Germany; mem. Agora, Wellesley Coll.; m. Rugelsville, Pa., June 3, 1896, Rev. Manfred Lilliefors, Ph.D.; chil- dren: Manfred, Edith, Samuel Dike. Interested in social, educational and philanthropic work. Uni- tarian. Mem. W.C.T.U. and the regular church federations, religious unions, guilds, Monday German Soc, Omaha, Neb. Mem. Clionian Club, Davenport, Iowa: Woman's Club, Valley, Neb.; Neb. Wellesley Club.

LILLY, Lillian Aug:usta Armstrong: (Mrs. Harry Lilly), 224 West 136th St., N.Y. City. Born N.Y. City; dau. William A. and Cor- delia (Forbes) Armstrong; ed. Normal Coll., of City of N.Y., '85; m. N.Y. City, April 16, 1903, Harry Lilly. Taught in public schools, N.Y. City, for ten years, 1892-1903. Recording sec. of Com. on Women's Organizations of N.Y. Milk Com.; incorporator and first vice-pres. of Golden Rule Alliance of America, which aims to care for blind girls; treas. of Anthony Wayne Chapter D.R.; pres. Clio Club, 1908-11. Presbyterian.

LINCOLN, Jeanie Thomas Gould (Mrs. Nathan Smith Lincoln), 1620 Nineteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Author; b. Troy, N.Y., 1846; dau. Hon. George Gould (judge N.Y. Court of Appeals); privately educated; m. Troy, N.Y., Nathan Smith Lincoln; children: Natalie Sumner, George Gould. Au- thor: A Genuine Girl; Marjorie's Quest; A Pretty Tory; An Unwilling Maid; The Javelin of Fate; The Luck of Rathgoole. Also short stories in the magazines. Mem. Soc. Am. Authors.

LINCOLN, Mary Johnson BaiJoy (Mrs. David A.

Lincoln), 204 Huntington Av., Bfiston. Mass.

Domestic economist; b. South Attlcboro, Mass., July 8, 1S44; dau. Rev. John Burnham and Sarah Morgan (Johnson) Bailey: grad. Wheaton Sem. (now Coll.), Norton, Mass., '84; m. Norton, Mass., June, 1865, David A. Lincoln. First prin- cipal Boston Cooking School, 1879-85; lecturer on cooking at Lasell Sem., Wheaton Sem., and most of the large cities in U.S.; culinary editor of Am. Kitchen Magazine, 1893-1903; author Boston Cook Book, 1884; Peerless Cook Book, ISSfi; Carving and Serving, 1886; Boston School Kitchen Text Book, 1888; What to Have for Lurcheon, 1904. Has written several booklets for food manufacturers, and many articles for various magazines. Mem. New England Wo- men's Press Ass'n, Wheaton Sem. Alumnae. Recreation: Travel. Congregationalist.

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��riNXOLX, Xatalie Sumner, 1620 Nineteenth St., Washington, D.C.

Author and editor; b. Washington, D.C; dau. Dr. Nathan Smith and Jeanie (Gould) Lincoln; grad. Mrs. Laura A. Flint's Private School. Author: The Trevor Case; The Lost Despatch; The Man Inside.

rrXD, AUce Adele (Mrs. John Lind), 1775 Col- fax Av.. South, Minneapolis, Minn. Born Berlin, Wis., Oct. 15, 1859; dau, Richard and Rowena (Stratton) Shepard; ed. public and private schools of Minnesota and State Normal; m. Mankato, Minn., Sept. 1, 1879, John Lind (mem. Congress, 1887-93; governor of Minn., 1899-1901; mem. Congress, 1903-05); children: Norman, Jenny, Winifred, John Liind Jr. In- terested in Unity House Settlement, Associated Charities, Minneapolis Improvement League, Garden Club. Universalist. , Recreations: Walk- ing, gardening, horseback riding, motoring, mountain climbing. Mem. Woman's Club, Minneapolis; Lafayette Club.

LINDSAY, Anna Robertson Brown (Mrs. Sam- uel McCune Lindsay). Winter, Chestnut St., Englewood, N.J. ; summer, Stafford Springs, Conn., R.F.D. No. 2.

Born Washington, D.C, Feb. 20, 1864; dau. Rev. William Y. Brown, D.D., and Flora (Rob- ertson) Brown; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '83; M.A. '88; Oxford Univ., England, 1887-8S, 1SS9; Univ. of Pa., Ph.D. '92; mem. Zeta Alpha and Shakespeare Soc. ; m. Philadelphia, April 9, 1896, Samuel McCune Lindsay, Ph.D., LL.D.; children: Flora Robertson, Daniel England, Eleanor Lind- say. Has made addresses on missionary, educa- Lional and literary topics; trustee of Wellesley Coll., 1906; actively interested in several scientific and philanthropic societies. Favors woman suf- frage. Author: What is Worth While? The Victory of Our Faith; Culture and Reform; Giving What We Have; What Good does Wish- ing Do? The Warriors; The Warrior Spirit in the Republic of God; The Spiritual Care of a Child; The Greatest Work in the World; poems, hymns (Hymn before Election), translations from the old English, various literary papers; Gloria Christi (Missionary Text Book). Pres- byterian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnee, D.A.R., Phi Beta Kappa, ZeU Alpha Soc. (Wel- lesley). Recreations: Travel, study, writing, social gatherings. Mem. Woman's Club of En- glewood, N.J. ; the New York Wellesley Club. LINDSAY-W'YKEKOOP, Alice Lois — see Wyne-

koop, Alice Lois Lindsay. LTSTJSEY, Louise M. (Mrs. Ernest Llndsey), 231 W. 9th St., Chester, Pa.

Born Petersburg, Va., April 29, 1872; dau. George S. and Elmira (Ellis) Payne; ed. David- son's Female Seminary, Petersburg, Va. ; m. Oct. 3, 1894, Ernest Lindsey: children: Millard Frances, Louise. Has been pres. Valentine Mothers' Club for five years; pres. Federation of Mothers' Clubs. Against woman suffrage. Epis- copalian. Mem. Board of Directors Juvenile Protective Ass'n; third vice-pres. Civic Improve- ment League (both of Richmond, Va,); William H. Rufiner Club (Richmond).

LINDSEY, Mrs. Washington E., Portales, N.Mex.

Born Trombull Co., O.; dau. Charles and Nancy (Plurd) Houghton; grad. Valparaiso (Ind. Univ.), B.S.; m. Easton, Mich., Oct. 21, 1891, Washington E. Lindsey; children: Howard Wade, Helen, Miguel Roosevelt. Active in church and civic interests. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Parliamentary Law (practice booklet). Christian Scientist. Mem. Woman's Republic of University City, Mo. Recreations: Club work and travel. Mem. Woman's Club, (Portales); chairman Legis- lative Dep't N. Mex. Fed. of Women's Clubs, and in that capacity presented two bills in N. Mex. Legislature, 1913 — one granting a joint interest in community real estate to husband and wife, and another to place women on all consti- tutional boards of the State.

LINDSLEY, Dorlissa Johnston (Mrs. Smith M. Lindsley. The Olbiston, Utica, N.Y. Bom Barryville, Sullivan Co., N.Y. ; dau.

��John W. and Elizabeth (Calkin) Johnston; ed. Mount Hclyoke Coll., 1872; m. Barry^-ille, N.Y., 1873, Smith M. Lindsley (died 1909); children; Lew J., Orma (deceased). Has worked in churci and for various philanthropies. Mem. Colonial Dames, Huguenot Soc., D.A.R., Nat, Soc. ol New England Women (Colony 9, of Utica, N.Y.); regent Oneida Chapter, D.A.R., for three years; mem. New Century Club of Utica (pres. thre« years). Presbyterian.

LINES, Mary Louise, 285 Washington Av.,

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Physician; b. Brooklyn, N.Y. ; dau. Olivei Todd and Amelia (Wilkes) Lines; ed. publia school, Brooklyn; Adelphi Acad., Brooklyn; Univ. of Mich.; Homeopathic Med. Schood; served as ass't to Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa; five years in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hos- pital, N.Y. City; received diploma from N.Y. Post-Graduate School, M.D. Has served since 1SS9 on staff of Memorial Hospital for Women and Children; serves two clinics per week in Memorial Dispensary for Women and Children. Mem. Am. Inst„ of Homeopathy, N.Y. State Homeopathic Soc, Kings Co. Med. Soc, Unity Child Welfare Soc. Club: Brooklyn Women's. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Wo- men's Political Equality League, N.Y. City, and Brooklyn suffrage socs. LINK, B. LUlian, 2S4 West End Av., N.Y. City.

Sculptor; b. N.Y. City, Jan. 28, 1880; dau. David C. and Fannie (Gwyer) Link; ed. Veltin School, N.Y. City; art education in Veltin Studio. Was awarded the Avery prize of the Architectural League, 1907, and sculpture prize of the Woman's Art Club, 1912. Clubs: Mac- Dowell, Woman's Art. LLNN, Edith Lenore Willis (Mrs. S. H. Linn),

243 Alexander St., Rochester, N.Y. ; summer

home, "Eden Glen," Glenora, Seneca Lake,

N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, Feb. 19, 1865; dau. Fred. L. H. Willis, M.D., ajid Love Maria (Whitcomb) Willis; ed. Miss Cushing's School, Boston, Mass.; m. Glenora, Seneca Lake, N.Y., Oct. 6, 1S86, S. H. Linn, M.D.; children: Willis Linn, M.D.; Benja- min F. Linn. One of the founders and continu- ous mem. of the Board of Directors of the Door of Hope of Rochester, N.Y.; ass't sec. of the Woman's Educatioiial and Industrial Union; corr. sec of Irondequoit Chapter D.A.R., Ladies' Aid of Homoeopathic Hospital, Surgical Aid of Homtsopathic Hospital. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Rochester Political Equality Club. Au- thor of a volume of verse and several brochures of verse and poems in various magazines, peri- odicals and newspapers, among which are: Rest- less Heart, Don't Worry So, which has had wide circulation in America and England, been trans- lated into French and Russian, and a sonnet on Silence in Century for August, 1912. Unitarian. Mem. D.A.R., Woman's Alliance of Unitarian Churches. Mem. Monday Reading Club. LINN, Mary Hunter, Beliefonte, Pa.

Born Lewisburg, Pa.; dau. John Blair and Mary E. D. (Wilson) Linn; ed. Beliefonte Acad.; Bryn Mawr Coll., 18S7-S9. Pres. Women's Aux- iliary to the Beliefonte Y.M.C.A. : greatly inter- ested in Mission Sunday-school work. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Dist. vice- pres. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of Hunt ingdon. Recreation. Walking. Mem. Woman's Club of Beliefonte, College Club of Philadelphia. Mistress of Pembroke West, Brvn Mawr Coll., 1S9S-1900.

I.IPM.AX, Clara (Mrs. Louis Mann), 131 River- side Drive, N.Y. City.

Actress, playwright; b. Chicago, 1872; dau. Abraham and Josephine Lipmau; ed. public and private schools; m. Louis Mann, actor. Began in amateur theatricals; made first professional appearance in Kiralfy's The Bat Catcher, then played ingenue role in Mme. Modjeska's produc- tion of (Melte, and continued in that company for the Season, with parts in Camille, Frou-Frou and As You Like It; next joined a German stock company in Chicago and later starred for a sea- son in German comedy, returning to Englkb stage in Incog, under management of A. M.

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��Palmer, playing also In Jim the Penman and other Palmer productions; after marriage starred with Louis Mann in The Laughing Girl, The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown, The Tele- phone Girl, The Girl from Paris, The Girl from the Barracks, All on Account of Eliza, The Red Kloof and Master and Pupil. Temporarily re- tired from the stage, 1902-04, because of injury to her arm resulting from a fall on shipboard. While thus disabled took up playwriting, writ- ing play of Pepl and comedy of Julie Bon-Bon, in which she starred with Louis Mann. Wrote The Italian Girl (in collaboration with Edward Freiburger). Produced Marjory's Mother, 1909. Wrote (in collaboration with Samuel Shipman) : Elevating a Husband (in which Louis Mann starred, 1912-13); It Depends on a Woman (in which she starred, 1911-12); Children of To-day; Flame and Embers; and The Royal Maid.

LIPPINCOTT. Martha Shepard, Station O, Tenth St. and Columbia Av., Philadelphia, Pa. Poet, book reviewer; b. Moorestorwn, Burling- ton Co., N.J. ; dau. Jesse and Elizabeth (Holmes) Lippincott; ed. Moorestown Friends High School and Swarthmore Coll. Began writing poetry when a schoolgirl in 1886; since 1895 has made It iier life work. Author: Visions of Life (poems), 1901; Guide Thou My Bark (sacred Bolo, set to music by H. P. Danks), 1898; other of her sacred songs, set to music, include: Faith and Trust (solo); Thou Wilt Guide My Journey Through (solo); That All Thy Mercies May Be Seen (quartette) ; also many gospel Bongs published in a very large number of col- lections. Secular songs: My Love For All Eternity; For Thy Own Dear Self; To My Valentine. Has also written some stories and prose articles and has had work published in a very large number of publications in the U.S., Canada and England. Book reviewer since 1900. Mem. Society of Friends; widely knoTvn as "The Quaker Poetess." Favors woman suffrage. LIPPINCOTT, Mary Woodward, Rlverton, N.J. Born Rlverton, N.J., Sept. 24, 1881; dau. Heulings and Anna S. (Lippincott) Lippincott; grad. Swarthmore Coll., B.L. '01; M.A. '04; eligible to Lucretia Mott fellowship (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). Manager Children's Summer Home of Cuimaminson, N. J. ; annual contributor to Coll. Settlement Ass'n, Philadelphia; mem. Rlverton Golf League, 1912; sec. Swarthmore Club of West Jersey; pres. Equal Suffrage Sec- tion of Porch Club of Rlverton, N.J. ; chalrinan Library Com., N.J. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; life mem. Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Mem. Soc. of FVlends. Mem. Swarthmore Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Theta Alumnas Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta. Clubs: The New Century (Phila- delphia), Rlverton Porch, Riverton Country, Silver Foils (Pinehurst, N.C.). LIPPITT, Flora K. (Mrs. Julius Llppltt), 69 N. Twenty-third St.. Portland, Ore. Born Stockton, Cal.; dau. Edward David and Betty (Hertz) Kallcher; ed. public schools of San FVancisco; m. San Francisco, Cal., June 2, 1892, Julius Llppltt; children: (31ara. Judith. Identified with philanthropic work In connection with Council of Jewish Women, tending towards civic improvement. Pres. Council of Jewish Women, 1910 — . Mem. Jewish Women's Benevo- lent Soc; Jewish Women's Sewing Soc.; Visiting Nurses A^s'n; Portland Women's Union; Ladies' Aid Soc. (in connection with Children's Home). Favors woman suffrage.

LIPPMANN, Jnlle Mathilde, 17 West Eighty- fourth St., N.T. City.

Author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y. ; dau. Adolph and Marie S. (Polk) Lippmann; ed. in private schools and by tutor. Author: Jock o' Dreams; Miss Wildfire, Dorothy Day; Dearie, Dot and the Dog; Deb's Debt; Everyday Girls; Martha-by- the-Day. Congregationallst. Roosevelt Progres- sive In political views. Favors woman suffrage. Recreation: Music.

LISTLE, Alice Ingersoll (Mrs. J. R. LIstle),

33 Main St., Kallspell, Mont.

Formerly a teacher; b. Malta, 111., July 25,

1876; dau. Thaddeus Sobleski and Bella C. (Bots-

ford) Ingersoll; ed. Sioux City (la.) High School

��and Training School, and Summer School ai Madison, Wis.; m. Cherokee, lorwa, June 6, 1900, J. R. Listle; one son: John. Sunday- school teacher. Mem. Century Club, recording sec. Montana Fed. of Women's Clubs. Recrea- tions: Riding, driving, boating, botanizing. For- mer Episcopalian — now New Thought. Vice- pres. Political Equality Club of Kallspell. LITCHFIELD, Grace Denio, 2010 Massachusetts

Av., Washington. D.C.

Author: b. N.Y. City, Nov. 19, 1849; dau. Edwin Clark asd Grace Hill (Hubbard) Litch- field; ed. Madajn Prevost's (Chegary) School, NY. City, and by private masters at home and abroad. Author (novels): The Knight of the Black Forest; Only an Incident; Criss Cross; A Hard-Won Victory; In the Crucible; The Moving Finger Writes; "The Letter D; 'The Supreme Gift; (short stories): Little Venice and Other Stories; (child story) Little He and She; (dramas) Vita; The Nun of Kent; (poems), Mi- mosa Leaves; Narcissus; Baldur the Beautiful. Against woman suffrage. LITCHFIELD, Mary Elizabeth, 353 Harvard St.,

Cambridge, Mass.

Teacher in the Misses May's school, Boston; ed. Jamaica school, Boston, May 9, 1854; dau. Lawrence and Sarah Mlnot (Lincoln) Litchfield; ed. Boston grammar schools and Miss Caroline Johnson's private school; Latin student with col- lege professors. Author: The Nine Worlds; Stories From Norse Mythology. Editor: The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers From the Spectator; Irving's Sketch Book; Britomart; Selections From Spenser's Faerie Queene; Five English Poets (se- lections). Episcopalian. Mem. Mass. Civic League, Women's Auxiliary of Civil Service Ass'n (Mass.), New England Soc. of Teachers of English, Boston Private School Ass'n. Mem. Ed- ucational and Industrial Union. LITTLE, Alice Cowles, 217 E. College St.,

Oberlln, Ohio.

Bom Janesville, Wis., May 9, 1865; dau. Thomas H. and Sarah F. (Cowles) Little; ed. public schools, Janesville, Wis.; Oberlln Coll., grad. '88. Missionary to Micronesian Islands, 1888-93; State officer of Ohio Branch of Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior. Congrega- tionallst. Mem. D.A.R. LITTLE, Caroline Frances. Summer, Nantucket,

Mass.; winter, Brooklyn, N.T.

Author; b. Elizabeth, N.J. ; dau. William H. and Caroline F. (Cobb) Little; grad. Knox Sem., Galesburg, 111. Writer for papers and magazines. Author: The Three Vocations; Little Winter Green; Thoughts For the Christian Year; Lives of St. Matthew and St. Mark. Episcopalian. Republican. LITTLE, Julia Eveline Lockhart (Mjs. Leoni-

das L. Little), AnsonvlUe, N.C.

Bom Anson Co., N.C, Jan. 6, 1856; dau. Acad, and Coll., Winston-Salem, N.C; m. 1894, Adam and Ann (McDiarmid) Lockhart; ed. Salem Leonldas Ledbetter Little. Episcopalian; pres. Women's AuxiJiary of All Souls' Church, Ahson- ville, N.C. Active In religious, social and phil- anthropic activities. Pres. Eclectic Club of An- sonville, N.C. Against woman suffrage. LITTLE, Marou Brown (Mrs. William Francis

Little), 217 Rahway Av.. Elizabeth. N.J.

Born Charlestown, Mass.; dau. Thomas Webb and Eliza Marou (Yenetchi) Brown; grad. Boston Latin School, '95; Vassar Coll., A.B. '99; m. Kingston, Mass., .July 21, 1910, William Francis Little; one son: William Francis Little Jr. b. July 14, 1911. Taught Latin and Greek, Eliza- beth (N.J.) High School, 1899-1901; head of LaUn dep't. Rye CN.YJ) Sam. Interested In Child Welfare work. Against woman suffrage. E>plsco- palian. Mem. Vassar Alumni Ass'n. Recrea- tions: Walking, riding, sewing. Mem. Shake- speare Club of Elizabeth.

LITTLE, Martha H. Neal (Mrs. James M. Lit- tle), 915 nroadway. Indianapolis, Ind.

Born Cicero, Ind., Nov. 2, 1851; dau. William and Hannah (Railings) Neal; ed. Cicero High School; art in Depauw Univ.; m. Feb. 11. 1872. James M. Little; children: Dr. John W. Little (physician and surgeon, Indianapolis), b. Nov.

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��10, 1872; James Burdette Little Gawyer, Indian- apolis), b. April S, 1S75; Dr. Edward O. N. Lit- tle (physician and surgeon, Kramer, Ind.), b. Jan. 27, 1878. Promoter of women's clubs, W.C.T.U., and W.R.C. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Rebekab, Ladies of the G.A.R., Franchise League, Pythian Sisters, Woman's Relief Corps, Martha Vrashington Club, Ladies' Literary Union, Art Dep't of Indianapolis Woman's Clubs, Fed. of Women's Clubs of Indiana, Woman's Council of Indianapolis; organizer of New Era Club. Methodist. Progressive. Favors woman suffrage. L,ITTLEFIELJ>, Minnie EUa, 181 Mllford St.. Manchester, N.H.

Teacher of elocution and physical culture; b. Manchester, N.H., Feb. 16, 1867; dau. John C. and Mary E. (Baldwin) Littlefield; ed. Manchester public schools, Emerson Coll. of Oratory, Boston, Mass., U.B. (Bachelor of Oratory). Engaged actively in graded Sunday-school work; treas. of Settlement Ass'n of N.H., which maintains a Home for Working Girls in the city of Man- chester; trusee of Colby Acad., New London, N.H. Mem. Review Club, Manchester Fed. of Women's Clubs. Baptist.

tITaXEJOIIN, Rebecca Boiling (Mrs. Robert Malcolm Llttlejohn), 215 Jamaica Av., Flush- ing, L.I.

Bom Wheeling, W.Va., Dec. 15, 1873; dau. William Nicholls and Hannah Lamb (Bonham) Boiling; ed. private schools, Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore. Md., and School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia, Pa.; m. Baltimore, Md., June 2, 1906, Robert Malcolm Llttlejohn; one daughter: Charlotte Townsend Littlejohn. Mem. Md. Soc. Colonial Dames cri America, Baltimore League of Nat. Junior Republic, United Workers, Ekjual Franchise Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. LHTLETON, Ajmle 8. (Mrs. William E. Lit- tleton), 1929 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. Bern Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 28, 1843; dau. Matthew Semple, M.D., and Caroline E. (Wills) Semple; ed. Miss Bayard's school, Philadelphia; m. June 28, 1871, Hon. William E. Littleton (now deceased); children: Grace (Mrs. George M. Gush- ing, Boston), Alice (Mrs. Frank T. Griswold, Philadelphia). Favors woman suffrage. Episco- palian. Mem. historical and artistic societies. LJVERMOiaE, Caroline Sealy (Mrs. Norm.an Banks Llvermore), 1031 Vallejo St., San Fran- Bom' Galveston, Texas, August 7, 1883; dau. Oorge and Magnolia (Willis) Sealy; ed. high schools, Galveston, Texas, Miss Spence's school, N.Y. City; Vassar College, A.B. '05; m. Gal- veston, Jan. B, 1910, Norman Banks Llvermore; one son: Norman, b. March, ISll. Active worker in church. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Com. on Certified Milk and Baby Hygiene, Hos- pital Aid Soc, Town and Country Club (San Francisco), Marin Golf and Country Club (San Rafgel), Girls' Musical Club (Galveston, Tex.). Episcopalian. Democrat. Favors woman suffrage. l,IVEBMOBE, Henrietta J. Wells (Mrs. Arthur Leslie Llvermore), 144 Park Av., Tonkers, N.Y. ; summer, Merryvale Farm, Redding Ridge, Conn.

Born San Francisco, May 22, 1864; dau. Judge Henry J. and Maria A. (Goodnow) Wells; ed. Harvard Grammar School, Cambridge, Mass.; Cambridge Latin School, Wellesley Coll., A.B. '87; A.M. '93 (mem. Shakespeare Soc); m. Cam- bridge, Mass., Oct. 21, 1890, Arthur Leslie Liver- more; children: Henry Wells, Russell Blake. In- terested in educational and civic activities; pres. tor seven years of Yonkers' Child Study Club; active mem. Yonkers' Civic League (chairman of Educational Com.). Interested In all college women's activities, and three years pres. of N.Y. Branch of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae. Pres. Fairview Garden School, where six hundred boys and girls have free garden plots and a large club house. Favors woman suffrage. Pres. Yon- kers Woman Suffrage Ass'n; vice-pres. N.Y. State Woman Suffrage Ass'n; active speaker in behalf of the cause. Author: Fairview Garden Bchool (booklet published by the Sage Founda- tion), and magazine articles on garden schools. Episcopalian. Mem. Anthropological Soc. (men

��and women). Fortnightly CluD (for study of his- tory). Recreations: Farming, motoring. First pres. and a founder of Women's University Club, N.Y. City; ex-pres. Wellesley Cluti of N.Y. LmXGSTON, Alice Delafield (Mrs. John Henry

Livingston), Clermont, Tivoli-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, Jan. 9, 1872; dau. Howard and Alice (Delafield) Clarkson; ed. by governesses at home and St. John's School, N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, Nov. 9, 190€. John Henry Livingston (of the distinguished N.Y. Livingston family, and la mem. of the Society of the Cincinnati and pres. of the N.Y. Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors of America); children: Honoria Alice, Janet Cornelia. Many years officer of Settlement House at 18 Leroy St., N.Y. City. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recrea- tions: Photography, gardening.

LIVrVGSTON, Bettie Phipps (Mrs, D. E. Liv- ingston), 1102 Riverview Av., Kansas City,

Kan.

Bom Petersburg, Ky. ; dau. J. P. and Nettie (Calvert) Phipps; ed. Kansas City (Kan.) High School and Business Coll. ; m. Kansas City, 1905, D.E. Livingston. Mem. Armourdale W.C.T.U. ; sup't of Human Soc; mem. Philanthropic Dep't of Council of Clubs. Active in jail and prison work in Wyandotte Co. and W.C.T.U.; mem. Welfare League. Presbyterian. Mem. Council of Clubs (cor. sec). Excelsior Club, History Club, Kansas Day Club. LIA'rVGSTON, Cfaariotte Lucia, 132 W. Twelfth

St., N.Y. City.

Genealogist, art student; b. N.Y. City; dau. Charles James and Charlotte Lucia (Merry) Liv- ingston; ed. private schools, French and English, N.Y. City, Art Students' League, N.Y.; Acad, of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Registrar Order of O>lonial Lords of Manors; genealogist of Hugue- not Soc. of America; some time secretary-regis- trar Daughters of the Cincinnati; chairman entrance claims Colonial Dames of N.Y. wblle on board. Interested in church and social better- ment work. Against woman suffrage. Author of verses in newspapers. Protestant Episcopalian. Mem. Colonial Dames of N.Y., Order of Colonial Governors, Order of Colonial Lords of Manors, Girls' Friendly Soc. Recreations: Travel, art, camping, boating, opera, drama. Mem. Art Workers' Club, N.Y. City. LIVINGSTON, Clara Dudley (Mrs. John Gris-

«-old Livingston), Woodmere, L.I., N.Y.

Born Lexington, Ky., June 10, 1875; dau. B. William and Maria (Hunt) Dudley; ed. Sayre Inst, and Ky. State Univ., Lexington, Ky., 1SS4- 93; m. Lexington, Ky., Feb. 21, 1903, John Gris- wold Livingston; children: William Dudley, John Dudley, Robert, Cambridge. Protestant Episcopal. LIVINGSTON, Marjorie M. Johnson (Mrs. George

R. Livingston), 1419 National Av., San Diego,

Cal.

Bom East Troy, Wis., Sept. 10, 1SS4; dau. Dr. T. F. and Marian (Gray) Johnson; ed. San Diego State Normal School, Univ. of Cal., B.S. '10; M.S. '11; m. National City, Cal., Aug. 15, 1912, George R. Livingston. Teacher in grades for three years prior to college life; teacher in Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, 1911-12. Active in Y.W.C.A., League of Social Workers, Com- mittee of Nineteen, Logan Heights Improvement Ass'n, Sunday-school class, Ladies' Missionary Soc. Baptist. Progressive Republican. Recrea- tions: Gardening, walking, housework. Mem. College Woman's Club. Interested in problem of teaching sex hygiene — taught it in high school. LIVINGSTON, Olsa Theodora (Mrs. Herman

Livingston), 497 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Born N.Y. City, Oct. 20, 1884; dau. Frederick and Georgiana L. (Schlotter) Kobbe; grad. Brearley School, N.Y. City, 1903; m. N.Y. City, April 24, 1909, Herman Livingston Jr. Mem. Sewing Circle of 1903 (Boston), The Guild of Emanuel Church, Boston. Recreations: Music, auction-bridge, dancing, reading. Episcopalian. LIVINGSTON, Rose Florence (Mrs. S. B. Liv- ingston), 319 W. Ninety-fourth St., N.Y. City.

Bom San Francisco, Cal.; dau. Joseph and Catherine (Van Meritz) Rich; ed. Shells' Sem.,

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��Oakland, Cal. ; Colgate Baker's Coll., San Fran- cisco, Cal.; m. N.Y. City, March 6, 1S94, S. B. Livingston. Landscaper painter. Interested in club life for tiie public good; mem. City Fed, of Women's Clubs, West End Republican Club, Life as a Fine Art Club, N.Y. Theatre Club. Recrea- tions: horseback riding, golf, walking, out-door sports. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

I.IZ.'IRS, Kathleen Slaefarlane, Alexandra

Apartments. Toronto, Can.

Rorn Stratford, Can.; dau. Judge D. H. and listher (Longworth) Llzars; ed. in Toronto and Scotland. Favors woman suffrage, but not of militant methods. Author (with Robina Llzars): In the Days of the Canada Company; Humours of '37, etc, ; also contributor to magazines and newspapers. Mem. Church of England. Mem. Women's Art Ass'n, Social Science Club, Wom- en's Canadian Club, Toronto; Daughters of the Empire, Toronto; hon. mem. Women's Historical Ass'n, Toronto; Manor House Country Club, Worcestershire, and Victoria League (England).

LLOYD, Caroline Augusta, 214 Nutley Av., Nut- ley, N.J.

Writer; b. Pekin, 111., 1859; dau. Aaron and Maria (Christie) Lloyd; grad. Vassar Coll., A,B. '81. Interest centres entirely on capital and labor problems. Foncerly contributor to the Outlook, Springfield Republican, Chicago Trib- une, Frank Leslie's Weekly, Art Interchange, etc. Author of biography of her brother, Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1912. Mem. West London Ethi- cal Soc, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc, R.I. Woman Suffrage Soc. Mem. Socialist Party.

LLOyiD, Lola Maverick (Mrs. William Bross

Lloyd), Wlnnetka, 111.

Born in Texas, 1875; dau. George Madison and Mary (Vance) Maverick; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis; Smith Coll., A.B. '97; m. San Antonio, Tex., 1902, William Bross Lloyd; children: Jessie Bross, Mary Maverick, William Jr. Favors woman suffrage. Socialist.

LLOYD, Mary Helen Wlngate (Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd), Haverford, Pa. Born N.Y. City, June 3, 1868; dau. George Wood and Susan Prudence (Man) Wingate; ed. privately at home; two finishing years at Misa Round's School; studied in Art Students' League, N.Y. ; Acad, of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, under Chase, Beaux, Blum and Moworay; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., May 6, 1897, Horatio Gates Lloyd of Phila- delphia; children: Horatio Gates, Richard Win- gate. Interested in painting, directing school gardens in Haverford, suffrage work, hospital boards. Director Equal Franchise League; mem. Pa. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Mem. D.A.R., Con- sumers' League, Board of Jefferson Hospital, Board of Cushman Club, Board Franklin Day Nursery, School Garden Committee, The Gardi- uers. Recreations: Theatre, gardening, pictures, motoring. Clubs: Merion Oicket, Plastic, Plays and Players, Acorn, Civic, and Fellowship Pa. Academy.

LLOYD, Mary Sybil (Mrs. Charles B. Lloyd). 207 E. Hall St., Savannah, Ga.

Born Thomasville, Ga., April 16, 1867; dau. William Frederick and Anne Elizabeth (Adams) Penniman; ed. private schools and by governess; m. Brunswick, Ga., Jan. 25, 1893, Charles B. Lloyd. Mem. Colonial Dames, Georgia Society, Daughters of the Confederacy. Against woman Buffrage.

LOBINGIER, Kate Reynolds (Mrs. A. S. Lo- bingler), 611 Westmoreland Av., Los Angeles, Cal.

Physician; b. Troupsburg, N.Y. ; ed. In schools of Wellsboro, Pa.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '77; Wom- en's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '89; m. Nov. 2, 1889, A. S. Lobiniger, M.D.; one daugh- ter. Taugut five years in State Normal School, Mansfield, Pa.; Mt. Pleasant Acad., Mt. Carroll, 111.; engaged in practice as physician, 1889-1902. Contributor of articles to medical journals.

LOCKE, Annette Elizabeth rhilbrick (Mrs. Walter Leonard Locke), 1023 H St., Lincoln, Neb. Born Iowa City, la., 1875; dau. Phlletus Harrej

��and Malah P. (Brackett) Philbrick; ed. In Echools of Iowa City, la,, and Alnswortli, Neb.; grad, Univ, of Neb., B.Sc. (Phi Beta Kappa), '97; graduate work at Neb. State Univ., 18$7-98; Teachers Coll., N.Y. City, with diploma in home economics, 1898-99; fellow in home economics In School of Housekeeping, Boston (now part of Simmons Coll.); graduate work in home eco- nomics at Teachers Coll., N.Y, City, and sum- mer work, with Mrs, Janet M, Hill, 1909-10; m. Sept. 10, 1910, Walter Leonard Locke; one son: Francis Philbrick, b. May 1, 1912. Instructor home economics, 1899-1901, and 1902-06; adjunct prof., 1906; associate prof., 1908, home economies, in Neb. State Univ. Mem. Home Economics Ass'n, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae. Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage League. Unitarian. Democrat (progressive). LOCKE, Etta Ober (Mrs. William W. Locke), 4

Evergreen St., So. Framingham, Mass.

Dentist; b. Nashua, N.H., Nov. 13, 1873; dau. Eugene W. and Ella M. (Taylor) Ober); ed. Nashua High School, 1892; Boston Dental Coll., D.D.S., 1896; m. Nashua, N,H,, Sept. 14, 1898, William W. Locke; children: Florence, b, 1902; Walter, b, 1903; Helen, b. 1906; William Willard, b. 1908. Practised profession in Boston, 1896-98; since marriage has office at home at South Framingham. Mem. Mass. Dental Soc, Mothers' Ass'n of Grace Congregational Church, Neighbor- hood Club. Congregationalist.

LOCKE, Eva M., 11 Amherst St., Nashua, N.H. Physician; b. Nashua, N.H., Jan. 20, 1874; dau. Luther F. Locke, M.D., and Carrie (Barrett) Locke; ed. Nashua public schools, including high school, Wellesley Coll. (partial course), Univ. of Mich,, A,B, '99; M.D. 1900, and N.Y. hospitals. Post-grad, Polyclinic and Mothers' and Babies'. Sec, Nashua Med, Ass'n; mem. Hillsborough Co. Med. Ass'n, New Hampshire Med. Soc., N.H. Surgical Club, Am. Med, Ass'n; mem. staff of Nashua Emergency Hospital and of St, Joseph's Hospital, Nashua, M-em. Pilgrim Congregational Church; acting pres. of Y.W.CA. Board of Di- rectors for several months, Congregationalist. Recreations: Automobile, tennis, Mem. Nashua Auto Club. Favors woman suffrage.

LOCKE, Grace Perley, 179 State St., Portland,

Me.

Born Portland, Me,, Oct. 21, 1875; dau. Joseph Alvah and Florence Elmyr (Perley) Locke- ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B., A.M., and Univ. of Berlin. Interested in education and suffrage; has traveled extensively. Occasional contributor to periodicals. Recreations Landscape, work in a pine forest, canoeing, snow-shoeing, mountain climbing. Mem. Coll. Club of Portland Port- land Suffrage Club, Portland Country Club, Bryn Mawr Club of N.Y., Maine Peace Society. LOCKE, lone Eddy, Springfield, Vt.

Business woman, club president; b. South Shaftsbury, Vt. ; dau. Frederick and Edna Augusta (Stickle) Eddy; grad. North Benning- ton High School, '98; m. South Shaftsburv, Vt., Aug. 9, 1905, Dr. Frank Locke. Mem, Aitrurlan Club, and served as its president, 190G-08, 1910-12, the work cf this club being wholly philanthropic! having helped the public library, the schools, and inaugurated the first class In domestic science in Springfield, Vt. Proprietress of milli- nery and art goods shop. Favors woman suf- frage. Recreations: Nature study, reading. Episcopalian.

LOCKE, Mary Stougrhton, Westwood, Mass.

Teacher; b, Westwood, Mass,, May 5, 1856; dau. Calvin Stoughton and Anne (Lincoln) Locke; grad. Girls' High School, Boston, '74; Smith Coll., A.n, '80; Radcliffe Coll., A.M. '93 (1890-93). Was teacher in Boston public schools. Interested in education and welfare of negroes and in various civic and social reforms, as well as neighborhood work In the North and West Ends of Boston. Favors woman suffrage. Author: American Anti-Slavery Sentiment Before 1808 (Radcliffe Coll, Monograph.<?, No. 11). Mem. Coll. Equal Suffrage League, Boston; School Voters' League, Boston; New England History Teachers Ass'n, Am. Historical Ass'n, Ass'n ot

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��Collegiate Alumnse, Smith College Alumnae Ass'n. Mean. College Club (Boston), Enterprise Club Ihon. mem.). Unitarian. Recreations: Art, music, travel.

LOCBLHABT, Lizzie Marion, 11 North Ninth Av.,

Mt, Vernon, N.T.

Teacher; b. N.Y. City, May 5, 1874; dau. James Nelson and Baizabeth Maria (White) Lockhart; ed. Lockwood Collegiate School, Mt Vernon, N.y., 1885-92 (now Heathcote Hall, Scarsdale, N.Y.); Vassar Coll., A.B. 1892-96; summer courses at Columbia and N.Y. Univ. Interests are chiefly musical. Presbyterian. Mem. of Alum- nas Ass'ns and Mt. Vernon Musical Soc. Recrea- tions: Wallting, music.

rOCKWOOD, Belva Ann Bennett (Mrs. Ezekiel Lockwood), 619 F St., N.W., "Washington, D.C. Attorney and solicitor; b. Royalton, Niagara Co., N.Y., Oct. 24, 1830; dau. Lewis Johnson and Hannah (Green) Bennett; ed. public schools of N.Y., Genesee Wesleyan Sem., Genesee Coll., 1855-57, A.M.; Syracuse Univ., LL.D. 1908; Na- tional Univ. Law School, Washington, D.C, LL.B. '73, and University Extension, Oxford, England, 1870; m. first, Royalton, N.Y., Nov. 8, 1858, Uriah H. McNall; second, Washington, D.C, March 11, 1869, Rev. Ezekiel Lockwood; children: Lura McNail, Jessie B. Lockwood (both de- ceased). Secured passage of folloT^ing bills: Equal pay of women employees of the Govern- ment for the same work with men, 1870; appro- priation of $50,000 to pay bounties of sailors and marines, 1873; admitting women to the U.S. Supreme Court of Claims, 1879. One of a com- mittee of eight appointed by Fed. of Women's Clubs, who secured a law of Congress changing the descent of property rights for women of the District of Columbia. Sent by State Dep't at Washington to represent the U.S. at Geneva, Switzerland, at Congress of Charities and Correc- tions, 1896; securing retiring rooms for women in the district court rooms and appointment of matrons in the jail. Nominated for President of the United States by the Equal Rights Party at San Francisco, Cal., Aug., 1884; contested the election of Cleveland in the Electoral College in the House of Representatives, 1886. Has been a teacher fifteen years and eight years a lecturer. Compiled a list of the peace treaties of the U.S. with other countries. Has written peace pamph- lets, including: The Hague Arbitration Court; A Chapter in History, or the Central American Re- publics; Arbitration, the Growth of Peace Princi- ples; Women in the Professions; Is Marriage a Failure? Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church since 1856. Senator for D.C. in the Am. Woman's Republic (dean, attorney-gen. and pres. White House Chapter, D.C); one of twenty peace am- bassadors to Europe, May, 1913; mem. Dist. Fed. of Women's Clubs, Woman's Nat. Press Ass'n, Dist. of Columbia Woman Suffrage Ass'n; pres. Nat. Ass'n for Promotion of Arbitration. Admit- ted to practice in the Supreme Court of D.C, 1873; U.S. Supreme Court, 1879; U.S. Court of Claims in March, 1879; Supreme Court of N.Y. State, Virginia, and Court of Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, 1896. Helped to equip the Twenty- eighth Reg't, N.Y., 1S61 (Col. Donnelly), organ- ized at Lockport, N.Y. Preceptress of Lockport Union School, 1857-61. Pres. Woman's Aid Soc. of Lockport. Made mem. of Commission of Inter- national Peace Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, 1892 (sec. branch bureau at Washington) ; dele- gate to first Peace Congress in Paris, 1889. Has crossed the Atlantic seven times to be present at other international congresses, and has at- tended three others in U.S. Life-size oil portrait, unveiled by women of D.C, Feb. 10, 1913, now hangs in gallery of New National Museum.

I.OCKWOOD, Bertha Greene (Mrs. Virgil H. Lockwood), 1909 N. Pennsylvania St., Indian- apolis. Ind.

Born Washington Co., Ind., July 28, 1863; dau. Charles Preston and Nancy (Hunter) Greene; ed. by tutors and in private and public schools; m. Indianapolis, July 2, 1889, Virgil H. Lock- wood; children: Ralph Greene, Ruth Greene, Grace Greene. Chairman Com. on Industrial and Social Conditions, Ind. Federation of Wo-

��men's Club!^; vice-chairman and director Ind. Children's Bureau; sec. Ind. Child Labor Com.; chairman Social Welfare Dep't, Woman's Dep't Club of Indianapolis; director Consumers' League, Indianapolis. Lecturer in Indianapolis School of Philanthropy. Principal activity la child welfare work, in legislation for Child Labor bill, child protection from evil social conditions, for industrial education, protection of women in industry, housing conditions, and prison reform. Lectures on these subjects in clubs and schools. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Franchise League of Indianapolis. Presbyterian. Republican. Recreation : Collecting Japanese prints and sten- cils. Clubs: Fortnightly Literary, Women's Re- search, Portfolio (art), Sketch (art), John Heron Art Institute, Woman's Dep't Club.

LOCKWOOD, Katharine Bead, 'Wayside," Char-

mian. Pa.

Writer; b. Wilmington, Del., Oct. 1, 1843; dau. John Alexander Lockwood, U.S.N., and Julia (McLane) Lockwood; ed. in Europe, in Italy and Dresden, and by tutors and governesses at home. Much interested in work among the poor, usually carried on through parochial channels in tha Protestant Episcopal Church. Has always taught (non-professionally) chiefly in languages, as a contribution to general education. Has played in amateur theatricals, usually to raise money for charitable causes. Writer of verses, dating back to The Independent in the '60's. Author of trans- lation of parts of Lubke's History of Art; trans- lation of Lenormant's Origines de I'Histoire dea Souces de le Bible; A Child in Florence (book, reprinted from magazine articles) ; also many short stories. Episcopalian. Interested in suf- frage question so far as it involves woman's work and wages, but fears government duties hamper a woman's usefulness along normal lines.

LOCKWOOD, Laura Emma, "Wellesley, Mass.

College professor; b. Moore's Hill, Ind., Oct. 11, 1863; dau. Samuel Howard and Sarah A. (John- son) Lockwood; grad. Univ. of Kan., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '91, A.M. '94; Yale Univ., Ph.D. '98; mem. Kappa Gamma. Instructor in English, 1S99-1906, and since then associate prof, of Eng- lish language in Wellesley Coll. Author: Lexi- con to the English Poetical Works of John Mil- ion, 1907. Editor of editions of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, 1902, and of Mil- ton's Essays — Of Education, Areopagitica, and The Commonwealth, with Early Biographies of Milton, Introduction and Notes (Riverside Litera- ture Series), 1912. Also (with Amy Ruth Kelly): letters That Live, 1911, and Specimens of Let- ter-Writing, 1911. Methodist.

LOCKWOOD, Sara Elizabeth Husted (Mrs. William E. Lockwood), 410 Eureka St., Red- lands, Cal.

Retired teacher, author of text books; b. Bridgeport, Conn. ; dau Alfred W. and Lucy (Northrop) Husted; ed. New Haven High School; m. 1887, Dr. William E. Lockwood (de- ceased). Taught English language and litera- ture for 14 years in New Haven High School. Author: Lessons in English; Text Book on Com- position and Rhetoric (with M. Alice Emerson).

LODER, Nina S. (Mrs. Percival Loder), Clinton,

Me.

Florist; b. Clinton, Me., June 12, 1880; dau. George A. and Dora (Blaledell) Spearin; ed. Clinton High School; grad. Maine Central Inst., Pitt?field (class prophecy), 1898; m. Clinton, Me., June 12, 1900, C. Percival Loder; one daugh- ter: Hope Louise, b. 1901. Pres. Arcana Llterar- ary Club; warden Laurel (Rebekah) Ledge; mem. exec, board of Wesleyan Club. Methodist; sec. Ladies' Aid; mem. Alumni of Me. Central lost, of Pittsfleld, Fireside Chapter Order Eastern Star.

LODGE, Susan C, Philadelphia Collegiate Inst.,

1720 Arch St-, Philadelphia. Pa.

Teacher; principal Philadelphia Collegiate Inst, since 1897. Treas. Mathematics Ass'n of the Middle States and Maryland; pres. Philadelphia Branch of Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. ot the Methodist Episcopal Church. Chairman of Philadelphia Jubilee Com. of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions.

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��LOEB, Anne Leonard (Mrs. Jacques L,oeb), 193

E. Seventy-eighth St., N.T. City.

Born Easthampton, Mass., May 2, 1862; dau. GrauTille Hall and Eliza (Buffum) Leonard; ed. Wesleyan ColL, Smith Coll., Univ. of Zurich, Si^tterland (Ph.D. Zurich); m. Easthampton, Mass., ISaO, Prof. Jacques Loeb (distinguished ptryslologist) ; children: Leonard B., Robert F., Anne L. Director N.Y. branch Coll. Alumnse Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Monlst.

LOEB, Charlotte, 912 Madison Av., Albany, N.Y. Supervisor; b. Ticonderoga, EJssex Co., N.Y. ; dau. Jonas and Clotilda (Gross) Loeb; ed. Ti- conderoga High School; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. ; N.Y. State Normal Coll., Pd.B. ; Tilly Inst., Berlin (mem. Delta Omega). Teacher of French and German, high school dep't, and supervisor of practice teaching, N.Y. State Normal Coll., Albany, N.Y. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnee, N.Y. State Modern Language Ass'n, Natianaler Deutsehamerikansche Lehrerbund, L'Ass'n Phonetique Internationale. Recreations: Dancing, rowing, bowling. Mem. V£issar Clu'b, Adelphi Country Club.

LOEB, Sara, 912 Madison Av., Albany, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Ticonderoga, N.Y. ; dau. Jonas and Clotilde (Gross) Loeb; grad. Ticonderoga High School; Vassar Coll., A.B. ; N.Y. State Normal Coll., Pd.B.. mem. Delta Omega. Instructor in German, South Orange High School, 1905-07; Dickinson High School, Jersey City, 1907. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Vassar Students' Aid Soc, Vassar AlumnEB Ass'n (N.Y. Branch). Recreations: Riding, golf, tennis, dancing, swimming, rowing.

LOIBEKG, Grace Ethel AVard (Mrs. Kent G.

Lofberg), 185 West St., Mansfield, Mass.

Bom Lynn, Mass.; dau. Henry A. and Martha E. (Abbott) Ward; grad. Lynn Classical High School (head of class); Boston Univ., A.B. Phi Beta Kappa commencement speaker (mem. Gamma Phi Beta); m. Lynn, Mass., June 24, 1909, Kent Godfrey Dofberg. Taught in Lynn Classical High School; later supervisor of Latin in grammar schools of entire city of Lynn. Au- thor: In the Mlz (book of stories for children); contributor to The Craftsman, Country Life in America, and various magazines. Mem. School Com. at Mansfield, Mass.; pres. New Century Club of Mansfield. One of the four honorary scholarships in Lynn Classical High School Is named for Grace E. Ward, these being named for graduates of the school who have achieved special honors in college and special distinction after graduation. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recreations: Out-door sports, gar- dening.

LOGAN, Bertha Allen (Mrs. George Wood Logan), U.S. Naval Acad., Annapolis, Md. Born Lowell, Mass.; dau. Charles H. and Harriet Coleman (Dean) Allen; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '95; grad. work Radclifl'e Coll., 1^96; m. San Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. 25, 1900, Com- mander George Wood Logan, U.S.N. Mem. College Club, Boston.

LOGAN, Grace Kedileld Boynton (Mrs. Ellis Logan), 1253 Irving St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Art lecturer, reader; dau. Joseph H. and Gratia (Redfield) Boynton; ed. Sterling (111.) High School; student of art and music in N.Y. City, Washington and Chicago; m. Washing- ton, D.C, Jan. 2, 1902, Eilis Logan. Sec. of Literature Missionary Soc. of Fourth Presby- terian Church, Washington. Mem. Junior Re- public League; rec. sec. of Nordhoff Guild (hospital) Waldesian Soc. Favors woman suf- frage. Congregationalist-Baptist. Mem. Soc. of Mayflower Descendants. Organizer for D.C. Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims, Nat. Soc. Daughters of Founders and Patriots, Daughters of 1812, Soc. for Preservation of Virginia An- tiquities. Regent of Mary Breed Chapter, D.A.R.; Nat. cor. sec. of the Childmn of American Revolution; mem. John Alden i^oo., Washington Soc. of Fine Arts and W.C.T.U.: first vice pres. D.C. Federation of Women's Clubs; mem. Art Com., Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; pres. Co-

��lumbia Heights Art Club; mem. 20th Century Club, Philo Classlco, Excelsior Literary Club.

LOGAJN, Mary Siiunier»on Cunningham (Mrs.

John Ale.xander Logan), 2523 Thirteenth St.,

Washington, D.C.

Writer; b. Petersburg, Mo., Aug. 15, 1838; dau. Capt. John M. and Elizabeth H. Cunningham; ed. Convent School of St. Vincent, Ky.; m. Nov. 25, 1S55, John Alexander Logan, afterward major- general, U.S. senator and Republican nominee for Vice-President, 18S4 (died Dec. 26, 1SS6;; chil- dren: Mary (Mrs. M. L. Tucker); John Alexan- der, Jr. (major U.S.A., killed in battle, Nov. 11, 1899, at San Jacinto, P. I.). Has been active and prominent in patriotic organizations; since hus- band's death engaged in editorial and literary work as editor of the Home Magazine and con- tributor to other magazines and newspapers on patriotic and wartime subjects and public ques- tions. Devoted to the memory of her distin- guished husband and gallant son, and has given a collection of memorials, trophies and souvenirs to the State of Illinois. Has recently published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine a series of articles pertaining to her reminiscences of Civil War times. Author: Thirty Years In Washington, or Life and Scenes in Our National Capital, 190b; Part Taken by Women in American History, 1912. Mem. Chevy Chase Club.

LOGUE, EmUy, 1526 Callowhill St., Philadel- phia, Pa.

Author and teacher; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Mar. 10, 1879; dau. Edward and Elizabeth (O'NeiU) Logue; ed. Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Philadelphia; Temple Univ., Univ. of Pa. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The Quiet Hour (poems), 1908; also short stories in various magazines. • Roman Catholic. Recreations: Studying Romance philology and literature, ex- pert cooking of desserts and cakes.

LOINES, Elma, 162 Columbia Heights, Brook- lyn, N.Y.

Photographer, amateur astrophysicist; b. Brook- lyn, May 31, 1882; dau. Stephen and Marj' (Hillard) Loines; ed. Friends and Hodman Schools, Brooklyn; Rosemary Hall, Walling- ford. Conn.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '05; Master School of Music, Brooklyn, 1907-11. Treas. Brooklyn Auxiliary of N.Y. City Consumers' League, 1908-13. Mem. Women's University Club, N.Y. City. Interested in educational questions (photography, art, music and literature). Au- thor: The Status of a Professor in Germany (publications of Bryn Mawr Alumnae), Nov.. 1911. Re-creations: (hardening, music, photogra- phy, travel. Favors woman suffrage. LOMB.ABDI, Ethel Peck (Mrs. Maurice Ennis Lombard!), 2331 Le Conte Av.. Berkeley, Cal. Born Stamford, Conn., Jan. 7, 1881; dau. Will- iam Edward and Lily R. (Rogers) Peck; grad. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '04; m. Port Chester, N.Y., June 3, 1909, Maurice Ennis Lombardi; children: Carolyn Ennis (b. 1910), Oliver Maurice and David Ennis (twins, b. 1911). Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Democrat.

LONG, Catherine Stoneman (Mrs. John Harper

Ix>ng), Evanston, 111.

Born McGregor, la., Apr. 24, 1862; dau. John T. and Caroline (Southland) Stoneman; ed. In Evanston Acad., Northwestern Univ. and Univ. of Wis., B.S. (mem. Delta Gamma); m. Ce- dar Rapids, la.. Aug. 24, 1885, John Harper Long (prof, chemistry Northwestern Univ. and author of scientific books); children: Albert S.. Esmond R., Lothar R., Ariel E., Byron S. Contributor of short stories and travel articles to various magazines. Sec. Chicago Public School Art Soc; mem. 111. Woman's Press Ass'n, Evanston Wo- man's Club; vice-pres. 111. Federation of Women's Clubs. Against woman suffrage. LONG, Elizabeth Ballard (Mrs. William Dudley

Long), 57 ChaUaut Apartments, Indianapolis,

Ind.

Born Georgetown, Ky.; dau. J. W. and Mary Bront (Metcalf) Ballard; ed. Science Hill, Shelby- ville (Ky.) Coll. of Music, Cincinnati. Ohio, and Rucker Sem., Georgetown, Ky., 1S80-87; m. Georgetown. Ky., Oct. 4, 1887, William Dudley

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