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Rh Louise J. (Lynde) Bacon; ed. Boston public schools; grad. from Melrose High School; attended Wilbraham Acad.; grad. New England Conservatory (oratory dep't); m. Washington, D. C. May 1, 1883, Charles H. Bond; children: Edith L., Mildred, Kenneth Bacon, Charles Lawrence, Priscilla Isabelle. Before marriage, read two years in public through New England and in Washington, D.C., and vicinity. Subscriber to many organizations for civic improvement and betterment of the unfortunate; special personal work is assisting in educating individuals for certain lines of work or profession for which they are adapted. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage Ass'n for Good Government. Has served on Saugus School Board. Has published two volumes on travels (private editions): Quick Trip to Europe; Snapshots of Europe. Mem. First Church of Christ (Scientist). Vice-pres.gen. from Mass. of the Nat. Soc. D.A.R.; pres. Beneficent Soc. of New England Conservatory; mem. Bostonian Soc, Mayflower Descendants, Professional Women's Club, Charity Club of Boston, Twentieth Century Club.

BOND, Mabel Cornish (Mrs. Samuel Hazen Bond), "Dumblane," Forty-second and Warren Sts., Washington, D.C.

Born Washington, D.C, Aug. 24, 1867; dau. George Gordon and Ann Araminta (Dougherty) Cornish; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '89; Woman's Medical Coll. of the New York Infirmary, M.D. '92; m. Washington, D.C, Nov. 26, 1897, Samuel Hazen Bond. Resident physician Babies' Hospital, N.Y. City, 1892-93; mem. staff Woman's Clinic, Washington, D.C, 1893-97. Favors woman suffrage.

BOND, Octavia Zollicoffer (Mrs. John Brien Bond), Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.

Lecturer, author; b. Gordon's Ferry, Hickman Co., Tenn., April 18, 1846; dau. Gen. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, C.S.A., and Louisa Pocahontas (Gordon) Zollicoffer; ed. Nashville Female Acad., and private schools in Nashville, Tenn.; m. Columbia, Tenn., June 10, 1869, John Brien Bond (attorney). Delivered original poem at Atlanta Exposition, 1895, on Tennessee Day, Oct. 5, original poem in the Capitol at Nashville, June 23, 1897, at reunion of Confederates. Lectured before Vanderbilt History Class, Nashville; N.Y. Indian Ass'n, N.Y. City, and to audiences in Washington and other cities, winter 1910-11. Mem. Woman's Board of the Tenn. Centennial Exposition, 1896-97. Author: Old Tales Retold (history tales, adopted as a supplementary reader in the city public schools of Tenn.); Yester-Nashville Names (appeared serially in Nashville daily; will be published in book form); short stories: Voodooism in Tennessee (Atlantic Monthly); The Rule that Worked Both Ways (Black Cat), and other stories. Episcopalian. Mem. United Daughters of Confederacy, Watauga-Cumberland Ass'n (vice-pres.), Tenn. Historical Soc. (first woman member admitted). Recreations: Social life. Mem. Browning Club of Nashville. Granddaughter of Capt. John Gordon of the Spies, noted Tennessee pioneer and Indian fighter under General. Jackson, and through maternal grandmother descended from Pocahontas of Virginia.

BONHAM, Eleanor Milton, 152 E. Market St., York, Pa.

Born York, Pa., Dec. 31, 1881; dau. Horace and Rebekah (Lewis) Bonham; grad. York Collegiate Inst., '97; Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Peebles and Thompson School, N.Y. City (grad. 1899). Formerly actively interested in local Juvenile Court Soc; one of the founders of St. John's Club, York, Pa., for boys and young men, and mem. of its permanent advisory board. Club: Woman's (York, Pa.). Recreation: Riding, swimming, dancing. Episcopalian.

BONNER, Genevieve Vollmer (Mrs. John M. Bonner), Lewiston, Ida.

Born Lewiston, Ida., 1879; dau. John Phillip and Sarah Elizabeth (Barker) Vollmer; ed. Miss Jaudon's School, N.Y. City; Bryn Mawr Coll., '03; m. Lewiston, 1912, John M. Bonner; one daughter: Sally Elizabeth. Interested in library extension, improvement of property rights for women and in the child labor question. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Republican. Recreation: Horseback riding. Pres. Tsceminicum Club, 1911-12.

BONNER, Geraldine, 101 E. Seventy-ninth St., N.Y. City.

Author and playwright; b. on Staten Island, N.Y., 1870; dau. John and Mary (Sewell) Bonner; privately educated; went West with parents when 10 years old, living first in Colorado and later in San Francisco. Was for several years on staff of the San Francisco Argonaut as dramatic critic and later as foreign correspondent. Since 1900 in literary work. Contributor of short stories to the Harper publications and other magazines. Author (pen-name "Hard Pan"): Hard Pan; To- Morrow's Tangle; The Pioneer; The Castlecourt Diamond Case; Rich Men's Children; collaborated with Elmer B. Harris on the play Sham and with Hutcheson Boyd on play Sauce for the Goose.

BONNER, Mary Davenport (Mrs. Charles T. Bonner), 524 Houston St., Tyler, Tex.

Born Tyler, Tex., July 19, 1866; dau. Dr. J. W. and Isabell (Dial) Davenport; m. (1st) Col. Thomas R. Bonner; (2d) Charles T. Bonner; children: Thomas D., Herndon P., Davenport H. Interested in church, charity and philanthropic work and in all matters for the betterment of citizen-ship of town and State. Regent of Mary Tyler Chapter D.A.R.; charter mem. of First Literary Club; pres. Third Dist. Texas Fed. of Women's Clubs. Recreations: Horseback riding, walking. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

BONSALL, Elisabeth F., 3430 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Artist and illustrator; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Amos and Anna W. (Wagner) Bonsall; ed. Philadelphia Acad, of Fine Arts, Drexel Inst, and Paris, France. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Philadelphia Woman Suffrage Ass'a. Presbyterian. Mem. Fellowship of Pa. Acad, of Fine Arts, Plastic Club of Philadelphia. Recreation: Walking.

BONSALL, Mary W., 3430 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Portrait painter; b. Fernwood, Delaware Co., Pa.; dau. Amos and Anna W. (Wagner) Bonsall; ed. Pa. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Pa. Acad. of the Fine Arts (first Toppan prize, 1896). Mem. Presbyterian Church. Mem. Plastic Club, Philadelphia, and Fellowship of Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts. Favors woman suffrage.

BONSTELLE, Jessie (Mrs. Alexander Hamliton Stuart), 119 E. Nineteenth St., Studio 63; or W. A. Brady's office, W. Forty-eighth St. N.Y. City.

Actress, manager; b. Greece, N.Y. ; dau. Joseph and Helen (Norton) Bonstelle; ed. Nazareth Convent, Rochester, N.Y.; m. Philadelphia, Alexander Hamilton Stuart. Began as understudy and chorus girl in Augustin Daly's Co., N.Y.; played one season with the famous Madame Janauschek. Went into stock company work and became manager and producer; played in about 700 plays. Succeeded after eight years' trying in securing dramatic rights of Little Women and staged it. One of the directors and promoters of the only municipal theatrical company in America, in the Municipal Theatre at Northampton, Mass. Favors woman suffrage. Christian Scientist. Mem. National Arts Club.

BOOKER, Rev. Edith Hill (Mrs. John Callaway Booker), Newberg, Ore.

Evangelist; b. Somerville, Mass., Oct. 15, 1868, dau. S. E. Hill of Lyman, Me., and Anne Mary (Fishburn) Hill; ed. Emporia, Kan.; ordained a minister of the Gospel in regular Baptist denomination, 1894; m. 1896, John Callaway Booker; one son: Herald Hill Booker, b. 1898. Nat. evangelist of W.C.T.U. for 18 consecutive years; Ambassador to Europe under Am. Woman's Republic. Pastor and builder of Baptist churches, temperance orator. Lectures on Physical Culture, Dress Reform, Child Culture. Active in securing full suffrage in Oregon. Baptist. Prohibitionist. Mem. Am. Woman's Republic Ancestor, Valentine Hill, commissioned under