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Rh of the tenants, and allows none who are in- toxicated to remain.

By making the comfort of her tenants her chief object Mrs. Mitchell believes that every other purpose of her business is best served. Then she feels a conscientious obligation to do good whenever the occasion oflFers in the course of her business relations with her tenants. Among the laboring people she has fre(iuent occasion to give a word of advice in season. Gaudy furniture bought on the instalment plan in the home of a poor family quickly arouses her indignation. She discourages such purchases when she can do so without giving offence. She is also opposed to the practice among many poor famihes of in- suring its members, as constituting a deplorable leak of their slender resources.

Besides caring for dwelHngs as described, she buys, s(*lls, and leases estates, and trans- acts insurance business. In former years her business was carried on under the name of E. A. Williams: it is now conducted under that of E. W. Mitchell. She was married to William Frederick Mitchell, October 15, 1902, in Boston, by the Rev. Henry Martin Saville, of St. Mark's Church, Dorchester.

Mr. Mitchell was born in Auburn, Me., September 2, 1876, son of Almon and Clara (Henderson) Mitchell. His mother was Eng- lish - born. His father, born in Webster, Me., was son of Hiram Mitchell, who was a land-owner and a man of importance in the district. At the Mitchell homestead were preserved sundry ancestral relics, including a bayonet that saw service in the Revolution. Mr. Mitchell was brought up in Sabattus, Me., receiving his early education in the schools, grammar and high, of the district. I^i April, 1890, he obtained employment in the print- ing department of the Hollingsworth & Whitney Company, paper manufacturers. Subsequently he had charge of their stereotyping depart- ment for four years. In the fall and winter seasons of this period he attended evening school. When the late war with Spain began, he enlisted in June, 1898, in the Ignited States Hospital Corps, and went to Fort Myer, Va., arriving there July 5, 1898, and serving in the general hospital for about six months. Then he accompanied the corps upon the United States transport "Sheridan," by way of the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal, to Manila, in the Philippines, where he arrived April 7, 1899, soon after the breaking out of the insurrection of the natives against American control. While there he saw the bombardment of Parana(|ue and the skirmish known as the battle of Quinguia. lie aided in removing the wounded from the field to the "Sheridan" after the last-named action, and subsequently shared in attending to their needs; and he went back to Manila with the body of Colonel Stoutenburg, of a Nebl-aska regiment.

From what he saw of the natives Mr. Mitchell acc^uired a high opinion of their intelligence and of their fitness for self-government. He saw none of the cruelties alleged to have been inflicted on them by our soldiers, whereas he was a witness to the general good treat- ment of Filipino prisoners, especially of the wounded at our soldiers' hands. Returning to Boston in the fall of 1901, he spent the ensuing year in the capacity of nurse at the City Hospital. He also became a law student of the Boston University Class of 1903. He is a member of the following University organizations: the Class Senate, the Quiz Club, the Bigelow Club, and the William E. Russell Club. Since his marriage he has been engaged in the real estate business, it having no connection with that of Mrs. Mitchell. He makes a specialty of looking up titles to real estate. He is a member of the Y. M. C. A. and of the Harvard Improvement Asso- ciation of Dorchester; and he is Prelate in the Cross and Crown Commandery of the Knights of Malta.

In religion Mrs. Mitchell is an Episcopalian, She was a member of the Girls* Friendly Society of Boston and of the Athene Club of Dorchester.

LLA WORTH PENDERGAST, Past Regent of Bunker Hill Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, was born July 25, 1851, in Boston. She is the daughter of Ira Allen and Emily Thomp-