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420 Girls' English High and Normal Schools. She was fitted for the ])rofession of teacher: but, soon after beginning this work, she, as Fanny Wilson, married Dr. William Pelby Jones, a physician and surgeon of Boston, whose father, Dr. Joseph S. Jones, was a prominent surgeon and active in medical and other societies.

After the death of her husband, in 1890, Mrs. Jones moved to Somerville, where she has since resided. She is a member of the Prospect Hill Church, a teacher in its Sunday-school, and interested in all its various work. She is a member of Unity Lodge, L. O. of O. L., and for the past fourteen years has served in all its offices. She has held office in the State Society, and in 1902 was Lady Governess of the order (which includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey), travelling extensively in these States. She is also connected with the Supreme Board.

Mrs. Jones is a member of Erminie Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, and has presided at its meetings as the highest officer, that of Noble Grand. She is a Past Deputy of the Grand Lodges. In 1891 she united with Willard C. Kinsley Relief Corps, of Somerville, and in 1894 was president of the corps. She is the present treasurer, and has been secretary, performing all the duties of the several offices in a thorough manner.

In 1895 Mrs. Jones was secretary of the staff of aides appointed by Mrs. Eva T. Cook, then Department President W. R. C, to exemplify the work in different parts of the State. For the past ten years she has held some position of responsibility in the Department of Massachusetts, W. R. C, and in 1903 was Department Inspector on the staff of Mrs. Clara H. B. Evans, Department President. Mrs. Jones has rendered efficient service as a member for three years of the Department Executive Board, and as Inspector she visited every part of the State. As chairman of the Auditing Committee, as a Department and National Aide, also as Assistant National Inspector and secretary and treasurer of large committees, she has proved to be systematic, capable, and conscientious. In 1903 Mrs. Jones served as a delegate to the National W. R. C. Convention at San Francisco. She journeyed nine thousand miles on this trip, and was a help to her associates in the order, being always ready to sacrifice her own comfort for the happiness of others. A friend has written of her as follows: "Mrs. Jones is very business-like in all her methods, yet always a genial companion and popular with her associates."

Mrs. Jones is treasurer of the Executive Committee of Arrangements for the National W. R. C. Convention in Boston (August 15 to 20, 1904), and is a member of the executive, the floral, and other committees.

Mrs. Jones has one daughter, who is a resident of Hamilton, Mass.

ARTHA PERRY LOWE, poet and journalist, was born in Keene, N.H., November 21, 1829, daughter of General Justus Perry and his wife, Hannah Wood. She was educated in Keene and in the private school of Mrs. Charles Sedgwick at Lenox, Mass., then one of the leading institutions of the kind in New England. She devoted nmch time in her earlier years to music, literature and travel.

In September, 1857, as Martha Perry, she married the Rev. Charles Lowe, a Unitarian minister, who at a later period was known as one of the leading clergymen of that denomination in America.

Mr. Lowe was born in Portsmouth, N.H., November 18, 1828. His parents were John and Sarah Ann (Simes) Lowe. While he was very young, they removed to Exeter, N.H. His paternal grandparents were Elisha P. and Maria (Yeaton) Lowe; and his maternal grandparents, George and Nancy (Hardy) Simes.

The home of his grandfather Simes was for many years the headquarters in Portsmouth of the Universalist ministers, he being an active member of that denomination. Mrs. Elizabeth Yeaton, his father's grandmother, was a devoted Unitarian.

Charles Lowe was fitted for college at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, was graduated A.B. at Harvard University in 1847 and from the Divinity School in 1851. In 1852 he accepted a call from the Unitarian church in New Bedford to become colleague to the Rev. John