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412 sician at the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, and in 1886 went abroad for study and hospital work in Vienna. Returning to Boston in 1887,. she began practice, being soon after appointed assistant in obstetrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. In 1889 she entered the College of Liberal Arts, and four years later received her degree of A.B.

Dr. Windsor was the first woman president of the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society, attaining that distinction in 1899. In 1902 came another recognition of her ability: she was then appointed as one of the staff at the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital, being the first woman to receive such an appointment for a full term of service. She is one of the directors and a member of the College Club of Boston. At present she is obstetrician to the maternity department of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital and associate professor of obstetrics at the Boston University Medical School.

TELLA EDWARDS PIERPONT DRAKE, now in the ranks of successful New England business women, was born in Sturgis, Mich., December 1, 1855. Daughter of Addison Tuttle and Catherine (McKinney) Drake and the eldest of a family of five children, on the paternal side she is a descendant of Robert Drake, an early settler of Hampton, N.H., and through her mother is a grand-daughter of Mary Edwards, who was a great-grand-daughter of Jonathan Edwards, theologian and metaphysician, characterized by John Fiske as "probably the greatest intelligence that the western hemisphere has yet seen."

Robert Drake came from Colchester, Essex County, England, to New England before 1643, lived for a time in Exeter, N.H., and in 1651 settled in Hampton, N.H. His descendants in colonial times were prominent in public affairs, several of them serving with distinction in the French and Indian War and in the Revolution. The next four ancestors in this line, successively named Abraham, were among the wealthy men of Hampton, N.H., and very active in the affairs of that town and vicinity, where the original Drake farms and homestead may still be seen.

Among the representatives of the family in later days in this vicinity were Samuel Gardner Drake, the antiquary, an early president of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, and his son, Samuel Adams Drake, the well-known author.

The fourth Abraham Drake in direct line, Colonel Abraham,5 born in 1715, married for his first wife Abigail Weare, daughter of Nathaniel Weare, of Hampton, Justice of the Superior Court, and was father of Weare6 Drake, born in 1738, who married Anne Taylor and settled in Effingham, N.H. John7 Drake, son of Weare6 and his wife Anne, was father of Weare8 Drake, who married Lydia Tuttle, and grandfather of Addison Tuttle Drake, who was born in Effingham, N.H., in 1822, and died in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1890.

Catherine McKinney, born in Binghamton, N.Y., in 1834, daughter of James and Mary (Edwards) McKinney, was married to Addison T. Drake in February, 1855. She is now residing in California. Her Edwards ancestry in America began with William1 Edwards (son of the Rev. Richard Edwards, a Welsh clergyman), who came over about 1640, and in 1646 was a landholder in Hartford, Conn. The line continued through Richard,2 born in 1647, and his first wife, Elizabeth Tuttle; the Rev. Timothy,3 born in 1669 (Harvard Coll., A.B. and A.M., July 4, 1691), who married Esther Stoddard, and was pastor of the church at East Windsor, Conn.; Jonathan,4 above named, born in 1703 (Yale, A.B. 1720), who married Sarah Pierpont, was for twenty-five years minister at Northampton, later had charge of a missionary church in Stockbridge, and at the time of his death in 1758 was President of Princeton College; Timothy,5 born in 1738, who married Rhoda Ogden; to Edward6 Edwards, born in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1763, who married Mary Ballard, of Hadley, and was the father of Mary Edwards, born in 1792, who became the wife of James McKinney and mother of Catherine, as noted above.

Sarah Pierpont, a woman of great personal