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Rh fife corps of the South. Was made poet laureate of the United Confederate Veterans' Ass'n by a change in their constitution to create the office at Mobile, 1910; was made poet laureate for life by the Confederated Southern Memorial Ass'n (women), 1910. Books: The Other Side; Brokenburne; Devil Tales; Serina; Love Songs and Bugle Calls. Wrote official poems for Tenn. Centennial; Jefferson Davis Centennial; Abraham Lincoln Centennial; Admiral Semmes and Gen. Lee Centennials. Contributor to Century, Harper's Mag., Harper's Weekly and Bazar, Delineator and other magazines. Baptist. Mem. Poetry Soc. of America; Ladies' Confederate Memorial Ass'n; Junior C.M.A. Daughters of the Confederacy; mem. Daughters of the Revolution, Colonial Dames, Miss. Historical Soc, Va. Historical Soc. Recreations: Playing with other people's children, walking, boating and photography. Clubs: Woman's Nineteenth Century, Tenn. Press and Authors'.

BOYNTON, Frances Nichols, 46 York Square, New Haven, Conn.

Physician, teacher; b. Lockport, N.Y., April 13, 1868; dau. Thomas Cabot and Martha Whipple (Harwood) Boynton; ed. Lockport (N.Y.) public schools, 1876-87; New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, 1895-96; Harvard Summer School of Gymnastics, 1889-90; Chautauqua Summer School of Gymnastics, 1891-92; Univ. of Mich., dep't of medicine and surgery, M.D. 1899-1903; mem. Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Epsilon Iota (medical) societies. Teacher of physical training, Buffalo Sem., 1891-92; Ogontz School for Girls, 1892-95, 1896-99; in New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics as instructor in physics, histology and the theory and practice of Swedish gymnastics, 1903-. Associate of Girl's Friendly Soc. Author: A Primer of Histology; also contributions to medical journals. Managing editor of the Alumni News of the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Am. Physical Education Soc, also New Haven County and Conn. State Med. societies.

BRACKEN, Clio Hinton (Mrs. William Barrie Bracken), 40 Nottingham Road, Brighton, Boston, Mass.

Sculptor; b. Rhinebeck, N.Y.; dau. Howard and Lucy (Brownson) Hinton; ed. Art Students' League, N.Y. City; studied with St. Gaudens and Macmonnies in Paris; m. (1st) N.Y. City, Jan. 20, 1892, James Huneker; (2d) N.Y. City, May 16, 1900, William Barrie Bracken; children: Erik Huneker, b. 1894; Barrie Bracken, b. 1903; Mona Bracken, b. 1907. Favors woman suffrage. First sec. Greenwich Equal Suffrage League; mem. Woman's Political Union, Brookline Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Ass'n, Boston Equal Suffrage Ass'n for Good Government, Am. Drama Society, Pen and Brush Club of N.Y. City.

BRACKEN, Opal, Corry, Pa.

Born Corry, Pa.; dau. De Witt Lloyd and Ella (Page) Bracken; ed. Corry High School, three years; Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Mass., two years; grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '10. Since graduation bookkeeper for Bracken Bros. Assists in work of struggling Humane Soc., with many homeless children, drunken fathers, beaten and decrepit horses to look after. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Coached basketball in high school for two years. Recreations: Tennis, riding horseback, swimming.

BRACKENRIDGE, Eleanor, R.F.D. 3, San Antonio, Tex.

Director; b. Warwick Co., Ind.; dau. John Adams and Isabella Helena (McCullough) Brackenridge; grad. Anderson Female Sem., New Albany, Ind., '55. Presbyterian. Mem. Philanthropic societies, Y.W.C.A., Social Hygiene. Educational work has been her chief interest; vice-pres. Board of Regents of the State Coll. of Industrial Arts for Girls; supports a colored kindergarten; has held positions on the State and Nat. Educational Com. of the Fed. of Women's Clubs; chairman Patriotic Educational Com. D.A.R., also of the Com. of Laws affecting women and children; chairman the Legislative Com. of the Congress of Mothers; pres. Texas Woman's Suffrage Ass'n; pres. Equal Franchise Soc of San Antonio; has spent money generously to promote the work. Organizer and pres. for seven years of the Woman's Club of San Antonio (the first dep't club in Texas). Mem. Texas State Historical Soc, Am. Acad. of Social Science, Nat. Geog. Soc, Country Club; director of San Antonio Nat. Bank and the San Antonio Loan and Trust Company. Extensive traveler.

BRACKETT, Antoinette Newell (Mrs. Arthur Stone Brackett), 9 Broad View, Bristol, Conn.

Born Bristol, Conn., July 27, 1875; dau. Edward Everett and Piera Henderson (Root) Newell; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '97; m. Bristol, Nov. 20, 1901, Dr. Arthur Stone Brackett; children: Naomi, Mary, Constance. Favors woman suffrage.

BRACKETT, Lavinia Maxwell Prescott (Mrs. I. Lewis Brackett), 50 Pleasant St., Brookline, Mass.

Born Louisville, Ky., July 19, 1844; dau. Frederick William and Emily (Maxwell) Prescott (great-granddaughter of Hon. Oliver Prescott, M.D., of Groton, Mass.; grad. Harvard 1750; maj.-gen. in War of Independence, and a judge of probate in Middlesex Co.); grad. Brookline (Mass.) High School No. 1, in class for final year; later at Miss Tilden's School; had French lessons from Prof. Bôcher, German from Mme. Johanne Wendte; Italian from Prof. Torricelli, and music from Messrs. Tufts, J. C. Parker and B. J. Lang; m. Brookline, Jan. 29, 1880, I. Lewis Brackett. Interested in the protection of birds and animals and Dr. Grenfell's work in Labrador. Mem. Church of the New Jerusalem. Mem. Alliance Française of Cambridge, Salon Français, New England branch of Audubon Soc, Am. Bison Soc, Wilfred T. Grenfell Ass'n, Soc. for Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis, and Mass. Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Recreations: Music, symphony concerts, reading, etc.

BRADBURY, Margaret Jones (Mrs. William Frothingham Bradbury), 369 Harvard St., Cambridge, Mass.

Born Templeton, Mass., Jan. 25, 1835; dau. Abijah and Phebe (Cutting) Jones; ed. Westminster (Mass.) Acad., Mt. Holyoke Sem. (now college); grad. 1856; m. Templeton, Mass., Aug. 27, 1857, William Frothingham Bradbury of Cambridge, Mass.; children: William Howard Bradbury, Marion Bradbury (Hovey), Margaret Seymour Bradbury. Interested in patriotic work in connection with the societies to which she belongs, also in Hospital League, Associated Charities of Cambridge and East End Mission. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Mem. D.A.R., Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Cambridge Historical Soc, Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Ass'n, Woman's Branch Civil Service Ass'n, Daughters of the Founders of D.A.R. Recreations: Lectures, concerts, theatres, etc

BRADFORD, Mary Davison (Mrs. William Rolvin Bradford), 426 Park Av., Kenosha, Wis.

Superintendent of schools; b. Paris, Kenosha Co., Wis.; dau. Andrew Jackson and Caroline G. (Wagner) Davison; ed. Kenosha High School; Oshkosh State Normal School; summer study at Univ. of Wis., Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Nebraska, Clark Univ.; m. Kenosha, Wis., Dec. 2, 1878, William Rolvin Bradford; one son: William Bradford, b. June 24, 1880. Teacher of common schools, city grades and high school; principal training dep't State Normal schools; director primary work, Stout Inst., Menomonie, Wis.; sup't of schools, Kenosha, Wis. Pres. Wis. State Teachers Ass'n, 1911-12. Mem. Kenosha Playground Ass'n, Kenosha Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n, and of Wis. Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n. Organizer and director of first open-air school in Wis. (Kenosha). Favors woman suffrage. Pres. Political Equality League of Kenosha Co.; mem. Advisory Board Wis. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; speaker in Wis. suffrage campaign. Contributor to educational papers and magazines. Author of several pamphlets on educational subjects. Author of section On