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832 became a socialist, and was director of the Karl Marx class, which taught the economics of socialism, and this later became the Boston School of Political Economy. She is an acknowledged authority on philosophy, history and economic theories. She wrote, in conjunction with David Goldstein, one of her students, a book entitled "Socialism" and "The Nation of Fatherless Children." She has lectured and written constantly in the interests of socialism for many years. She is at present head of the Boston School of Political Economy. Having become a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, she is to-day one of the most eloquent speakers and writers against the socialistic movement; is a contributor to the National Civic Federation Reziew, Social Justice, and is at work on a book entitled "Twenty-Five Socialists Answered" ; also a work on the "Primal Principles of Political Economy."

Is the daughter of Joseph I. Beaumont, of St. Paul, Minnesota; is a writer on the St. Paul Dispatch, and founder of the Guild of Catholic Women.

Was born January 19, 1859, in Galena, Illinois, and is the daughter of the Rev. Charles Axtell. Her mother was one of the descendants of the Campbells, who took a prominent part in the settlement of Virginia. In 1S84 she married General J. W. Bishop. She was the first president of the Guild of Catholic Women, and founder of the Altar Guild of the Cathedral of St. Paul, Minnesota. She has written several poems and some clever prose.

Was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, October 29, 1869, and is a collateral descendant of Patrick Henry. She has written for magazines and papers short stories, sketches and poems since she was thirteen years of age; was private secretary to John M. Crawford, of Cincinnati, when minister to St. Petersburg. In 1902 she married George L. Bork, of Buffalo, whose aunt is Mother Severine, Superior of three institutions of Sisters of Notre Dame de Providence. She is a member of many prominent clubs and charitable organizations and societies, the Federation of Women's Clubs and the Catholic Women's Clubs. She writes principally under the pen name of Alice Benedict.

Was born in Trinity, Newfoundland, in 1836, and was the daughter of Rev. David and Elizabeth Roper Martin. She was a direct descendant of Thomas Moore, who suffered martyrdom during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. Her husband was a missionary in Newfoundland, acting also as physician. Mrs. Buchanan for some years conducted a publication, The Voice of the Deaf, for deaf mutes, and also was the founder of a mission in England, and contributor to the Catholic World. She was a convert to Roman Catholicism.