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266 Colonel Francis L. Lee, and was in continuous active service in the campaigns in North Carolina under General Foster and General Burnside in 1862 and 1863.

Mr. and Mrs. Fielding reside on Berkeley Street, near Sprhig Hill, Somcrville. They have no children.

LEANOR LOUISE SWAIN was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, November 6, 1868, came to America at the age of five years, and is a decided New Englander in her tastes and manners. She is the daughter of John and Sarah (Plunkett) Conway. Her father was a soldier in the English army. Her childhood and youth were passed in Lawrence, Mass., and she received her education in that city. On December 24, 1890, she married Eugene Henry Swain, of Waltham, Mass., residing at Martin Square. They have two children: Grace Abbott, born February 11, 1892; and Eugene Conway, born January 19, 1895. In the Deborah Rebecca Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Waltham, she has filled the following offices — Warden, Vice-Grand, Noble Grand, Past Noble Grand, Chaplain, and Special Deputy of the Grand Master of the State. She is a member of the Woman's Club and the Emerson Browning Club and an active worker in the Universalist church. Mrs. Swain entered the Emerson School of Oratory in 1898, and was graduated with high honors in 1901. She then took a post-graduate course, winning class honors, and is now a teacher of elocution, oratory, and physical culture in Waltham, conducting large classes also in Boston. Mr. C. W. Emerson, proprietor of the Emerson College of Oratory, says of Mrs. Swain: "She has accomplished much during her three years’ course, and has proved herself to be a student of unusual power. Possessing a mind responsive to high ideals, she has been an inspiration both to her teachers and her classmates. I have great confidence in her teaching, and extend to her our cordial recommendation."

Besides having a fine presence, Mrs. Swain is gifted with much personal magnetism. which is no doubt one of the reasons why the meets with such marked success in both public work and teaching. Mrs. Swain and her husband rank among the active, influential citizens of Waltham, Mr. Swain being the proprietor of the Waltham Horological School.

UNICE DRAPER KINNEY, M.D., who has attained a gratifying success in her profession and in educational work, was born in Southampton, York County, N.B., daughter of James and Catherine (Schriver) Draper.

She is a great-grand-daughter of Isaac Draper, an Englishman who settled in Ireland in the first half of the eighteenth century, and engaged there in manufacturing industries. He was for a tune very successful, owning several linen factories and over, fifty houses, but was completely ruined by the invention of the spinning-jenny in 1767.

His son, James Draper, Sr., born May 22, 1781, was married October 22, 1814, in. the cathedral church of St. Finbarr, in the liberties of the city of Cork, and according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England and Ireland, to Eliza Homan, who came, it is said, of a long paternal ancestry dating from the time of William the Conqueror. The Homans in general were a tall and spare race, the Norman blood evidently predominating, while the Smiths (her maternal ancestors) were large and heavy, most of the men being six feet or more in height. James Draper, Sr., after losing all his property owing to the rapid change in industrial conditions, migrated to New Brunswick. Here for some years his wife supported the family by keeping a private school. In course of time they attained to more comfortable circumstances, though not to wealth, and resided for many years in the country of their adoption. James Draper, Sr., died February 9, 1866, and his wife Eliza on February 5, 1872, when eighty-three years old. They are buried at Southampton, York County, near the St. John River.

James Draper, Jr., son of James, Sr., and Eliza Draper, and father of Dr. Kinney, learned the baker's trade, which, however, he aban-O