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Rh Brooks; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '83, M.A. '93; student Harvard Annex, 1884-86; m. April 24, 1888, Morgan Brooks, Ph.B., M.B. (now prof. electrical engineering, Univ. of Ill.); children: Henry, b. Sept. 2, 1889; Charles Franklin, b. May 2, 1891; Frances, b. Nov. 7, 1893; Frederick Augustus, b. May 1, 1895; Roger, b. Dec. 22, 1896; Edith, b. Jan. 11, 1899; Frona Marguerite, b. Jan. 18, 1901; Dorothy Prescott, b. Dec. 1, 1905. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BROOKS, Geraldine, 312 East Seventh St., Plainfield, N.J.

Teacher, author; b. Philadelphia; dau. Elbridge Street and Melissa (de Baun) Brooks; ed. Adelphi Acad., Brooklyn, N.Y.; Somerville (Mass.) High School and Radcliffe Coll., A.B. '08. Teacher of English in Leominster (Mass.) High School 1908-12; since Sept. 1912, teacher of English in Plainfield (N.J.) High School. Author: Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days; Dames and Daughters of Young Republic; Dames and Daughters of French Court; Romances of Colonial Days. Unitarian. Mem. Women's University Club, N.Y. City.

BROOKS, Ida Josephine, 219 E. Tenth St., Little Rock, Ark.

Physician; b. Muscatine, la.; dau. Joseph and Eliza (Goodenough) Brooks; ed. St. Louis public schools; Little Rock Univ.; Drury Coll.; Boston Univ., M.D. Resident surgeon Mass. Homoeopathic Hospital; ass't sup't Mass. State Insane Hospital; medical director Little Rock public schools; specialist in psychiatry. Formerly teacher for many years; principal Little Rock High School; prof, of mathematics, Little Rock Univ. Interested in associated charities, civic improvement; mem. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Suffrage Soc. Has written magazine articles, social and professional. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

BROOKS, Jennie, Oxford, O.

Author; b. Cincinnati, O., 1853; dau. E. S. Brooks (Harvard '35, teacher of first classical school in Cincinnati) and Mary Jane (Keller) Brooks; ed. Oxford (O.) Coll. Magazine writer on out-door life, bird study, short stories, essays. Contributor to Harper's, Lippincott's, Outlook, Continent, Educator, Chap Work, also other periodicals and magazines. Author: Under Oxford Trees, 1911. Episcopalian. Recreations: Walking on country roads, nature study.

BROOKS, Julia M. Clark (Mrs. David Brainard Brooks), 16 Huntington St., Hartford, Conn.

Born Hartford, Conn.; grad. Rockford (Ill.) Sem. (now college), '57; m. David Brainard Brooks (now deceased); four sons (one deceased), two daughters (one deceased). Has been active in philanthropic interests in Hartford; served many years on Board of Managers of Woman's Aid Soc. Writer of occasional literary papers. Congregationalist; active in all departments of church work.

BROOKS, Louise Dudley Davis (Mrs. Henry Harlow Brooks), 44 W. Ninth St., N.Y. City.

Educated Dearborn-Morgan School, Orange, N.J.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '97, specializing in chemistry and biology; student in bacteriology in Carnegie Laboratory, N.Y. City, 1896-97; in Health Dep't Laboratory, N.Y. City, 1897-98; m. 1899, Dr. Henry Harlow Brooks. Ass't to the ass't pathologist and director of the Investigation Laboratory of the Health Dep't of N.Y. City, 1898-99.

BROOKS, Luella Jane (Mrs. John Melville Brooks), 503 S. Weadock Av., Saginaw, Mich.

Born Ipswich, Mass., June 30, 1853; dau. Rev. John W. and Martha J. (Rogers) Dadmun; grad. Laselle Sem., '74; m. Winthrop, Mass., John Melville Brooks (lawyer); children: William Campbell, Marion Luella, Melville Dadmun, Harold. Active in church, clubs and music. Director of Mich. State Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1911; pres. of Saginaw Art Club, 12 years (now sec); pres. May Festival Chorus. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Progressive in politics. Mom. Saginaw Country Club, Saginaw Art Club, May Festival Chorus Club, Saginaw Whist Club.

BROOKS, Mary Naomi Willard (Mrs. Bryant B. Brooks) Casper, Wyo.

Born Washington Court, O., Jan., 1864; dau. Lockart D. and Olive (Clark) Willard; ed. Episcopal School, Lyons, Ia.; m. Mar., 1886, Bryant B. Brooks (Governor of Wyoming, 1905-11); five children, four girls and one boy. Taught school, beginning at Alexandria, Neb., when she was 17, until marriage; since then has lived on the V-V Ranch at Casper, Wyo. Pres. Wyo. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Republican voter. Favors woman suffrage.

BROOKS, Mary Ten Eyck Oakley (Mrs. John Arthur Brooks), Brookwood, Cazenovia, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City; dau. E. Benedict and Elizabeth T. E. (Litchfield) Oakley; ed. private schools in Yonkers and N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, April 16, 1902, John Arthur Brooks; children: Elizabeth Ten Eyck, b. 1903; Evelyn Reed, b. 1906; Arthur Oakley, b. 1911. Mem. Consumers' League of Mass., Child Labor Com. (Nat.), Playground Ass'n (Nat.), Mass. Civic League. Episcopalian.

BROOKS, Sarah Catherine, Martinsburg, Mo.

Teacher; b. Audrain County, Mo., Feb. 16, 1856; dau. Thompson and Zerelda (Fields) Brooks; ed. Ill. (Northern) Normal Univ., 1875-76. Taught in Normal (Ill.) public schools, 1877-78; in Mendota, Ill., 1878-79; in DeKalb, Ill., 1882-85; primary work. Left DeKalb for St. Paul, Minn., 1885, receiving highest salary given in the town. Ass't principal in St. Paul, 1885-87; taught in training school; promoted to primary supervisor, 1889-1902. Principal Baltimore Teachers' Training School, 1902-10. Author: Myers' and Brooks' Arithmetics; Carroll-Brooks' Readers and Manual; biographical sketch of Mrs. Ewing, with educational notes, in The Story of a Short Life; Biographical Sketch and Suggestions to Teachers of Hans Christian Andersen. Episcopalian. Progressive. Mem. Herbart Soc. Recreations: Nature study, literature. Actively engaged in summer schools, 1882-1903, teaching in Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Chautauqua, N.Y.; Bayview, Mich., etc. Favors woman suffrage.

BROOMELL, Grace Browne (Mrs. Clyde Washburn Broomell), San Antonio, Tex.; permanent address, Broomellcroft, Sharon, Me.

Choir director, soloist; b. Cleveland, O., Dec. 12, 1873; dau. Myron Gilbert and Adah I. (Wagar) Browne; ed. Cleveland High School; Women's Coll. of Western Reserve Univ., 1892-93; Smith Coll., B.L. '97; grad. New England Conservatory of Music, '04 (mem. Alpha Soc, Biological Soc. and Philosophical Soc of Smith Coll.); m. Boston, Mar. 21, 1905, Rev. Clyde Washburn Broomell; children: Myron Henry, b. Feb. 27, 1906; Doris, b. Sept. 20, 1910. Active in religious, musical and college club circles. Favors woman suffrage. Contributor to various magazines and periodicals. Mem. Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian). Mem. Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll., Alumni Ass'n of New England Conservatory of Music, Southern Ass'n of College Women (and the San Antonio Chapter of same). Was charter mem. of Cleveland College Club, and mem. Boston College Club.

BROTHERTON, Alice William (Mrs. William Ernest Brotherton), 1015 Locust St., Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Writer of verse and prose; dau. Alfred Baldwin and Ruth Hoge (Johnson) Williams; m. 1876, William Ernest Brotherton; children: Frederick Williams (deceased), John Williams, Isabel Ruth Brotherton. Contributor of poems to many leading magazines and periodicals. Author: Beyond the Veil, 1886; The Sailing of King Olaf, and Other Poems, 1887; What the Wind Told to the Tree-Tops; Prose and Verse for Children, 1887; The Real Hamlet (contributed to Poet Lore), 1905. Unitarian. Republican. Seven years a director of Cincinnati Woman's Club; director and several terms pres. of Woman's Press Club, which is charter mem. of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

BROUSSEAU, Kate, Mills College, California.

Teacher; b. Ypsilanti, Mich., 1862; dau. Julius and Caroline (Yakeley) Brousseau; ed. High and Normal schools, Los Angeles, Cal.; College de