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152 landscapes. She has received medals from the Mechanics' Art Association. Among her former pupils are many of the art instructors at the Pratt Institute, the Cleveland Art School, and other important educational institutions. She was the first woman to be elected supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Massachusetts. She has lectured on art in various cities.

Miss Bailey is a regular attendant of Trinity Church, Boston, and is interested in its several charities. Perhaps her warmest sympathies are enlisted for sailors, to the homes and hospitals for whom many comforts find their way from the hands of the quiet artist in her unostentatious home at the Grundmann Studios. Miss Bailey is a member of the Copley Society of Boston and of the Industrial Art Teachers' Association. She is an apostle of thoroughness and application, and more than one professor of fine arts to-day remembers with gratitude her efficient training.

EBECCA AUGUSTA PICKETT, secretary of the Relief Committee of the Massachusetts Woman's Relief Corps, traces her ancestry back seven generations to John Putnam, who, with his three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel, and John, came from Buckinghamshire, England, to Salem, Mass., received a grant of land in 1G41, was admitted a freeman in 1647, and died in 1662. The line of descent is: John,1 Captain John,2 Captain Jonathan,3 Jonathan,4 Jonathan,5 Nathan,6 Perley,7 and Perley Zebulon Montgomery Pike.5 Jonathan4 Putnam, born in 1691, married Elizabeth4 Putnam, daughter of Joseph3 and Elizabeth (Porter) Putnam and an elder sister of General Israel Putnam.

Nathan" Putnam, of Uanvers, Mass., great-grandfather of Mrs. Pickett, was wounded in the battle of Lexington. He married Hannah Putnam, a daughter of Dr. Amos5 Putnam (John,4 John,3 Nathaniel,2 John1).

Mrs. Pickett's paternal grandfather, Perley7 Putnam, was born in Danvers, September 16, 1778. He was named for his uncle, Perley Putnam, who was killed in the battle of Lexington, and whose name, with those of the other Danvers soldiers who fell on that day, is inscribed on the monument in Peabody.

When in his twenty-first year Perley7 Putnam was employed in building the famous frigate "Essex," the keel of which was laid on Salem Neck, April VA, 1799, the vessel being launched September 30, 1799. By request of Colonel William Ricker, Collector of Customs for the district of Salem and Beverly, he presented a plan for a custom-house and store for the town of Salem on June 19, 1848, which was substantially accepted by the government. The present custom-house was built under his superintendence. He also worked on the first Franklin Building, and erected some of the solid houses on Chestnut and other streets.

He was instrumental in organizing the old Salem Mechanic Light Infantry, of which he was Captain on the occasion of their first parade, in 1807. He was elected Major in 1810, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1811, and was conunanding officer of the day on their fiftieth anniversary in 1857.

In the War of 1812 he was a Major in the United States army and assigned to Colonel Loring's Forty-eighth Regiment. He marched his troops through Salem to Eastport, Me., taking command of Fort Sullivan, but was obliged to capitulate his little garrison of fifty-nine men (eleven of whom were sick) to the British general. Sir Thomas Hardy. Returning to Salem at the close of the war, Colonel Putnam, as he was generally known, gave his time and influence to public measures.

As chairman of the Board of Selectmen (to which body he was elected several years in succession), he was one of the committee that drafted the first city charter. The honor was accorded to him of transferring the keys of the old town house to Leverett Saltonstall, the first mayor of the city in 1836. Colonel Putnam was appointed the first City Marshal of Salem, and held that position until 1847. He was Street Commissioner from 1846 to 1862, and was weigher and ganger for several years in the Salem custom-house. As a lifelong Democrat, he was earnest in his devotion to the principles -of that partv. He died July 4, 1864.