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Rh centre. She was a charter member of the New England's Woman's Press Club, anil has for ten years held some office on the Executive Board. She also belongs to the Authors' Club, the Pentagon Club, and the Professional Woman's League. Her pajier on "The Making of a Critic," which has been given several times in Boston before prominent clubs, was also given at the Congress of Women's Clubs at the World's Fair.

In 1879 she became the wife of Dr. John P. Sutherland, her friend from childhood, the marriage taking place immediately after his graduation from the Medical School of Boston University. After several months' travel in Europe, Dr. Sutherland began the practice of his profession, while she continued her literary work. In 1888 her husband became a member of the faculty of the Medical School of Boston University, and since then he has been actively connectecl with that institution, succeeding Dr. I. Tisdale Talbot as Dean of the Medical School in 1899. Dr. Sutherland is one of the leading physicians of Boston, and is an ex-president of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society. For fourteen years he edited the New England Medical Gazette.

By birth and education, and as wife of the Dean of Boston University Medical School, Mrs. Sutherland holds a distinct and individual position in Boston, while her work as playwright and critic takes her often, and very congenially, over the borders of Bohemia. She counts some of her warmest friends among the leaders in the dramatic world. A'here she sees talent, she is always eager to recognize and foster it. Her Sunday evenings are the property of her "boys," not only of Boston University, but of Harvard and Tech also. At her home they find on Sunday nights a "picnic supper," a warm welcome, and an "open parliament," whose leader is often the honored and beloved Dean.

Dr. and Mrs. Sutherland have two summer residences, one at Nantucket, home of Mrs. Sutherland's kinsfolk two centuries ago, and one, "Clanshome," at Marlow, N.H., between which homes, when not in Dr. Sutherland's native Scotland, she and her husband divide their summer days.

ARY JOHNSON BAILEY LINCOLN, widely known as Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, writer and lecturer on household science, was born in South Attleboro, Mass., July 8, 1844. Her father, the Rev. John Burnham Milton Bailey, pastor of the Congregational church in that place, was the son of William and Susannah (Burnham) Bailey. His mother, who ilied in 1816, was a daughter of Deacon Samuel and Mary (Perkins) Burnham, of Dunbarton, N.H., and sister to the Rev. Abraham Burnham, of Pembroke. Deacon Sanmel Burnham was a native of Essex, Mass., formerly Chebacco parish, Ipswich, and was of the fifth generation (Samuel,* John^^') of that branch of the family founded by John Burnham, who came from England with hi.-? brothers Robert and Thomas, and was living at Chebacco as early as 1638.

The Rev. John B. M. Bailey died in 1851. His wife, Sarah Morgan Johnson Bailey, Mrs. Lhicoln's mother, born in 1810, died June 7, 1885. She was the second daughter of Deacon Caleb and Hannah (Butler) Johnson, of Manchester, N.H.

Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Lincoln's maternal grand-mother, was the fourth daughter of Jacob4 and Sally (Morgan) Butler, of Pelham, N.H., and a descendant of James4 Butler, of Woburn, Mass., the line continuing from James1 through his son. Deacon John3 (born in Woburn, 1677, died in Pelham, 1721); Jacob2 (born in 1718), who married Mary Eames; to Jacob4 (Mrs. Lincoln's great-grandfather), born in 1747, who married his cousin, Sally Morgan, daughter of Jonathan Morgan and his wife, Sarah' Butler, sister of Jacob5 Butler, Sr.

James1 Butler, the immigrant progenitor of the family, came to New England less than forty years after the landing of the Pilgrims, being at Lancaster, Mass., says the historian, as early as 1659 and at Woburn in 1676.

"Jonathan Morgan, Sr.," above named, great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Lincoln, "was Ensign of Captain Dow's company, Colonel Me- serve's regiment, which was sent to Crane's Point in 1756. He was killed in the massacre attending the surrender of Fort William Henry, August 10, 1757."

Jjike Lucy Larcom and many other daugh-