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380 of the Boston Art Club in four successive years. Her work was represented at all the exhibitions of the Portland Society of Art. One of her landscapes was thus mentioned: "The live, graceful treatment of the long ranks of willows, the shadowy foreground, contrasting with the airy, sunlighted middle distance, all suggest the great French master, Corot"; again, "The work is strong, showing almost a masculine touch." Of the three pictures that she exhibited at the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco a critic said, "Tiie man who painted these pictures knew his Inisiness."

She made many sketches while in the Sierras and Yosemite Valley. She has devoted much time to teaching, being instructor of drawing and painting at Westbrook Seminary, Portland, Me. Mrs. Dyer passed the summer of 1902 in Europe, visiting the art galleries and the British Museum in London, the Louvre and Luxembourg in Paris, the Vatican in Rome, also galleries in Florence, Venice, Naples, Milan, Amsterdam, and the Hague. Since her return she has produced from her sketches many interesting pictures of Venice and Holland.

Mrs. U)'er was among the first members of the Society of Art and the Portland Art League. In 1890 she was elected a member of the executive and special committees. Much of her work has been copied to illustrate art catalogues. She has proved herself generous by giving paintings to increase by their sale the funds of needy societies.

Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have one son, James Franklin Dyer. He was graduated from Brown University with the degree of A.B. in 1899, and then studied law at the New York Law School. He married October 20, 1902, Amy Hoppin Aldrich, of Providence, R.I., where they now reside.

OSELTH ADAMS KNAPP was born August 27, 1854, in South Boston, Mass. She is a daughter of the late Joseph Moulton and Abigail (Weed) Adams. Her father, a native of New London, N.H., was the son of the Rev. Theophilus Bradbury Adams, a Baptist clergyman, and a lineal descendant of Robert Adams, an early .settler of Newbury, Mass. Her maternal grandfather was Elijah Weed, of Unity, N.H. Roselth Adams attended a private school in South Boston until she was eight years of age, when her parents moved to Cambridgeport, where she completed her education in the public schools. She also studied voice culture, and for several years was connected with the choir of the Broadway Baptist Church, Cambridgeport. She was a popular singer at musicales and other entertainments, and often sang at social and public gatherings with Allen Brown, donor of the musical library that is kept in the department room known as the Brown Room of the Boston Public Library. She was married in November, 1878, by the Rev. A. E. Winsliip, to Samuel Knapp, of Somerville.

Since her marriage Mrs. Knapp has lived in Somerville. As a member of the Prospect Hill Congregational Church, she is interested in its religious and charitable work. In 1879 she joined the Independent Relief Corps, of Somerville, which was connected with Willard C. Kinsley Post, G. A. R. This was one of the first women's societies in Massachusetts recognized as an auxiliary to a post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Although the corps was very prosperous as a local organization, it decided in 1882 to broaden its work and re- organize as a subordinate corps of the Department of Massachusetts, W. R. C, under the title of Willard C. Kinsley Relief Corps, No. 21. Mrs. Knapp was a charter member, and after serving in several offices was installed as President in January, 1886. With faithfulness and ability she performed the duties of her pffice throughout the year, and by her cordial manner gained many friends in other corps. The appointments of Department Aide, Assistant Inspector, and Installing Officer having been conferred upon her by Department Presidents, she has performed the duties of these several positions with credit. At the annual conventions of the Department of Massachusetts, Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Knapp has been entrusted with important committee work, and in 1886 was elected a delegate at large to the national convention at Columbus, Ohio.