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Was born at Adrian, Michigan, July 14, 1847. Daughter of John and Jane Meehan Wynne. After graduating from school she taught for several years, and in 1873 married Dr. James T. Lawless, of Toledo, Ohio, where she has since made her home; has contributed to the Catholic World, Ave Maria, Rosary Magazine, Pilot, New World, and conducted the children's department for a number of years of the Catholic Universe; has also contributed to Frank Leslie's Weekly, Demorest's, American Magazine, Lippincotfs, Golden Days, Detroit Free Press and Travelers' Record. Both she and her husband have been active workers in the cause of Catholic education and the development of Catholic charitable, literary and socialistic societies and institutions. Mrs. Lawless incorporated and took out a charter for the Catholic Ladies of Ohio, the first insurance and benevolent society for women in the United States, and was for six years secretary of this organization.

Daughter of William and Anne O'Brien Lummis, and was born in New York City; was one of the prominent members of the Society of the Children of Mary, and founder of the People's Eucharistic League, an organization in connection with the Catholic Cathedral of New York City, and one of the largest Catholic organizations of New York. She assisted in organizing the Corpus Christi Reunion for Men; was instrumental in the installation of the Fathers of the Blessed Sacrament in the Church of Jean the Baptiste, and in the establishment of the first public throne of exposition in New York. She founded, edited and published the Sentinel of the Blessed Sacrament, a Eucharistic monthly and the organ of the Priests' Eucharistic League ; is also the founder of the Society of the Daughters of the Faith. Miss Lummis is the author of "Daughters of the Faith," "A Nineteenth Century Apostle," several poems and magazine articles dealing with the questions of the day. She is one of the leading Catholic women of the United States.

Was born in County Down, Ireland; is an associate editor of the New World, Chicago; translator of "The Child of the Moon" and "The Task of Little Peter," from the French, and is a contributor to the Rosary Magazine, the New World and Church Extension.

Was born at Troy, Missouri, July 29, 1850, and was the daughter of James H. Britton, at one time mayor of St. Louis. She comes of Revolutionary stock her great-grandfather having commanded the man-of-war Tempest in the American Revolution. Her husband James Mackin, was at one time state treasurer of New York. Mrs. Mackin was created a countess by Pope Leo XIII. She is the author of "A Society Woman on Two Continents," "From Rome to Lourdes," and has contributed to the ''Revue de la Papautc et les Peuples. ''