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Rh pal officers and citizens interested in the enforcement of the laws, and is always found willing and ready in furnishing information and helping to solve their local problems. It is no exaggeration to say that she has the necessary authorities at her finger tips, and her advice proves to be of inestimable value in such cases.

In Miss Brown the temperance interests have a careful and wide-awake guardian and the liquor forces as uncompromising and unrelenting a foe as Mr. Faxon himself ever proved to be.

Miss Brown is one of the directors of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, serving upon all of its important committees. The position of clerk of the corporation, which she held for many years, she resigned in 1901.

NNIE HINCKLEY STONE LEIGHTON (Mrs. Llewellyn Morse Leighton), of Portland, Me., was born at Oldtown, August 11, 1854, the daughter of Alfred M. and Nancy C. (Atkins) Stone. Her great-grandfather in the maternal line, Captain Nathaniel Atkins, of Truro, Cape Cod, Mass., in one of the closing years of the eighteenth century sailed from Castine as master of the brig "Polly," and was taken by the French. Through this wrongful seizure Mrs. Leighton became one of the French spoliation claimants of the latter part of the nineteenth century. Her grandfather, Nathaniel Atkins, Jr., also a seafaring man, was among the tlefenders of the nation in the War of 1812 with Great Britain.

Educated in the public schools and the old academy at Corinna, Annie Hinckley Stone, al fifteen, on account of the proficiency in her studies shown when she appeared before the board of examiners, was granted a certificate to teach school. This was two years before she attained the age prescribed by the law of the State for the exercise of that vocation. In 1871, at Corinth, Me., she became the wife of Llewellyn Monse Leighton, then of Exeter. In 1877 they removed to Portland, where Mr. Leighton is actively engaged in the real estate business, being specially interested in developing the beautiful suburbs of the city.

Mr. and Mrs. Leighton have two children: Marshall Ora Leighton, chief of the department of hydro-economics in the Geological Survey, of Washington; and Florence Leigh- ton, now Mrs. Josiah H. Johnson, of Portland. Mrs. Leighton's marriage was an early one. Her education, however, still went on. She was an enthusiastic student of elocution and of physical culture, which she taught after her children were of school age. In the church, philanthropic, club, and social life of Portland she is acknowledged an important factor. The Young Women's Christian Association of Portland was organized through her efforts in 1893 and incorporated in 1894. She was its first president, and in the face of many discouragements placed it on a basis from which it has advanced to an assured position of usefulness. The Chautauqua movement early received her support. In the Civic Club Mrs. Leighton is secretary of the Department of Trees and Parks, created at her suggestion. Japheth Club, a progressive literary organization, was founded by her.

ARAH SWEET WINDSOR, M.D., is a native of Rhode Island, being the daughter of Benjamin Angell and Sarah (Sweet) Windsor, of Smithfield, that State. On the paternal side she is descended from Joshua Windsor, who came to this country from England at an early date, and was one of the thirteen signers of the civil compact adopted at the town meeting held in Providence, August 20, 1637, the year after the settlement was begun; and she is also descended from Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, through his daughter Mercy, who in 1677, as the widow of Resolved Waterman, became the wife of Samuel2 Winsor, Joshua Winsor's only son.

Dr. Windsor obtained her early education in the public schools of Providence. In 1885 she received her medical degree from the Boston University, graduating as speaker of her class. She spent one year as house phy-