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294 all the active career of her husband, both political and municipal, Mrs. Stranahan has been a powerful factor and a recognized leader in the city of Brooklyn. Mr. Stranahan received an unusual mark of esteem from the people of Brooklyn who erected, while he was living, in June 1891, a bronze statue to his honor under the title "First Citizen of Brooklyn."

Mrs. Tingley was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, July 6, 1852. Was descended from one of the early colonial families and was the daughter of James P. and Susan Wescott. She attended the public schools and had private instruction. In 1879 she married T. B. Tingley, an inventor. She is the leader and official head for life of the universal brotherhood of the Theosophical Society throughout the world, "an outer head" of the inner school of theosophy, the successor of Blavatsky. From 1896-7 she conducted two theosophy crusades around the world, established relief work for Indian famine sufferers, and founded the International Brotherhood League and a summer home for children at Spring Valley, New Jersey, in 1897. Her claim for fame rests upon the society and academy, or as she calls it, the School of Antiquity and the Raja Yoga Academies, located at Point Loma and San Diego, California. She has founded three academies for boys and girls in Cuba; was one to organize relief corps in New York, and helped to establish a hospital at Montauk Point, New York, for the sick and wounded soldiers of the Spanish American War. She was quite active in carrying on this humanitarian work in Cuba, where the Government granted her permission to establish hospitals both in Cuba and Manila, P. I. She is the owner of the Isis Theatre in California, and of large properties in California, Sweden, England and San Juan Hill, Cuba. She is the editor of the Century Path, a theosophy publication, published at Point Loma, California.

The maiden name of Mrs. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, was Frances L. Peck, daughter of Horace M. Peck and Emilia Barnes of best New England stock. She was born in Michigan, and is a graduate of Rockford College, Illinois. Mrs. Burrows was always active in church work and the club life of Kalamazoo, Michigan, until the election of her husband to the United States Senate, which has necessitated her residence in Washington much of the time.

She is a charter member of the national organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was vice-president-general of that society, was national president of the Children's Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames, was president of the National Relief Association organized at the time of the Cuban War, which accomplished much helpful work.

During Senator Burrows' thirty-two years of official life in Washington, Mrs. Burrows has been one of the most influential women in society, charity, and is prominent in all good works.