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Dr. Kinney has attained a high standing in her profession; and her practice, which is increasing, yields her a hheral income. She says: "My work is very inspiiring to me. To stand face to face with Death, and with cool determination to stand between him and his chosen victim, and come out the victor, brings its own reward, and does not become tiresome or monotonous."

Dr. Kinney is medical examiner for the United Order of the Golden Cross, press correspondent of the Woman's Relief Corps, a member of the Count Rumford Historical Society and of the Mycological Club of Boston, and also holds the offices of vice-president and superintendent of narcotics in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Revere. She is also a member of the New England Woman's Press Association, Medical Examiner of the United Order of the Golden Star, and is also a member of three Aiumni Associations,—Tufts College Medical Alumni Association, College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Association, and that of the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses. She was formerly editor of a journal. The Nurse, and was on the editorial staff of the Medical Times, and Register, a progressive medical publication with influence and international circulation. From her parents Dr. Kinney has derived a punctilious regard for honor and integrity. Her love of music and her quiet, firm, fearless, and self-contained manner are a direct ancestral inheritance. She is a member of the Episcopal church and an active church worker at Revere.

ARY GRAY DEANE, Past National Inspector of the Woman's Relief Corps, is the wife of Major John M. Deane, of Fall River, Mass. She was born in Norwich, Conn., November 16, 1S46, and is a daughter of the late Abner T. Pearce, a contractor, who built the first railroad in South America. During the Civil War she was a school-girl in Providence, R.I., and her Ieisu'e hom'S were spent in scraping lint and in other work for the Union soldiers. In 1865 her parents moved to Freetown, Mass., and a year later her marriage took place.

Mrs. Deane has been identified with religious and charitable work in Fall River for more than thirty years, having served on active committees of the First Congregational Church, of which she has been a member since 1868. During the temperance revival in Fall River several years ago Mrs. Deane was a member of the Executive Board of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and, as treasurer of the "Coffee House" which was established and conducted on a large stale by the Union, she rendered valuable aid. She has taken an interest in the Woman's Auxiliary to the Young Men's Christian Association, and for more than twenty years was one of the Board of Managers of the Children's Home at Fall River. A large brick building was dedicated in 1895, in which many destitute orphans receive the comforts of home life. Mrs. Deane co-operated in the efforts for the erection of this building. She is a regular visitor to the home, and is especially interested in the welfare of the children. She is a member of Minnehaha Lodge Daughters of Rebekah, of Fall River.

For the past thirteen years she has devoted her energies largely to work for the Grand Army of the Republic. Through the efforts of Major Deane, a Relief Corps was organized in 1888 as an auxiliary to Richard Borden Post, No. 46, with Mrs. Deane as a charter member. She was chosen its President, and was r(>-elected three years in succession. During the nearly four years of her service as President, Mrs. Deane met with success in her efforts to make the corps one of the best in the State. Upon retiring from the chair she accepted the office of Treasurer, a position she has held continuously, with the exception of one year when other official duties prevented. She was a member of the Executive Committee of Arrangements for the National Convention held in Boston in 1890, and has participated in nearly all the subsequent National Conventions.

In 1891 she was Department Inspector of Massachusetts, and at the annual convention the following year was elected Department