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Rh the Historical Society of Hancock, N.H. For four years she was chaplain of the Relief Corps connected with General J. G. Foster Post. Before this corps joined the National Woman's Relief Corps (it being an independent local society previous to 1897), she was chaplain for two years of the corps auxiliary to the post in Walpole, at the same time retaining her membership in the "Independent Corps" of South Framingham. Since the latter has become a part of the Department of Massachusetts, W. R. C, Mrs. Hayward has been active in the State and national work. She is one of the official visitors and directors of the Ladies' Aid Association of the Solders' Home in Chelsea, Mass. She has attended the National Conventions in Western cities as a delegate from the Department of Massachusetts. In 1902 she was president of the corps in South Framingham, where she has resided since the death of her husband, and at the close of her official year was presented with a gold badge as a testimonial of regard. A woman of dignity and culture, she is an excellent presiding officer. She is a National Aide in the Woman's Relief Corps and is now serving the W. R. C. as one of the National Executive Committee, being also on the Finance and Floral Committees of the National Convention to be held in Boston in August, 1904, in connection with the National Encampment of the G. A. R.

ANNAH J. BAILEY, of Winthrop Centre, Me., National Superintendent, W. C. T. U., Department of Peace and International Arbitration, was born in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, July 5, 1839, being the daughter of David and Letitia (Clark) Johnston and the first of a family of eight children. Her father was a minister in the Society of Friends, and her mother one of the most devoted and loving Christian women who ever helped to make a home. Her maternal ancestry has been traced back to Samuel Clark, of whom the compiler of a brief genealogy issued (second edition) in 1897 says: "I find that the probabilities are very strong that Samuel Clark, Sr., came from England in 1630, the year in which Governor Winthrop, the Rev. Richard Denton, Thomas Wicks, and over a thousand others first sailed to America. With the last two named he was closely associated at Stamford, Conn."

During her childhood the subject of this sketch attentled the district schools of Cornwall, until her parents removed to Plattekill, in Ulster County, New York, about seventeen miles from her birthplace. There she became an eager student in another district school, to which she had to walk a mile each day. Afterward she was sent to a Friends' boarding-school in her native State. Here, as well as by her own independent efforts, by much reading and in other ways, she acquired a good practical education, but never ceased to regret her parents' limited circumstances, which rendered it impossible for her to pursue a college course. For nine years after returning home she taught school. She then became the wife of Moses Bailey, a well-known oil-cloth manufacturer, of Winthrop Centre, Me.

After Mr. Bailey's ileath, which occurred in 1882, when their only child was a boy of twelve, Mrs. Bailey showed rare executive ability in conducting his extensive business affairs. This she tlid for nine years.

Being a birthright member of the Society of Friends, always strong in its peace principles, Mrs. Bailey is admirably adapted to interest others in the work of her Department of Peace and International Arbitration. The work accomplished has been mainly of an educational character. Peace bands have been formed among children, clergymen invited to preach in the interest of the cause, and petitions have been circulated. To this work Mrs. Bailey was appointed in 1887 by the National Union and in 1888 by the Wodd's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. As a result of her persistent efforts and those of her co-workers, the Peace and International Arbitration Department of the W. C. T. U. has been organized in twenty-eight States and in the District of Columbia. It is now organized in fourteen cf)untries, and there are also many lands in which effectual work is being done unofficially. The W. C. T. U. Peace Department has taken part in all the