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Rh BROWN, Bertha Millard, 15 Hazleton St. (Mattapan), Boston, Mass.

Teacher and author; b. Boston, Jan. 15, 1870; dau. Eben F. and Mary (Boothby) Brown; ed. Girls' High School, Boston; Mass. Inst. of Technology, '92; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Teacher in Brookline High School, Vassar Coll., State Normal School, Hyannis, Mass., and the Garland School of Homemaking. Interested in school gardens and gardening. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Good Health for Girls and Boys; Health in Home and Town; Physiology for the Laboratory; magazine articles on school gardens and the teaching of elementary hygiene. Unitarian. Recreations: Walking, camping, swimming, gardening.

"BROWN, Caroline," pen-name — see Krout, Caroline Virginia.

BROWN, Carrie Pfeiffer (Mrs. A. A. Brown), 206 Augusta St., San Antonio, Tex.

Born Carrizo Springs, Tex., Aug. 8, 1886; dau. John and Sophie (Goodman) Pfeiffer; grad. San Antonio High School, '02; Univ. of Texas, '06; m. San Antonio, Jan. 10, 1908, Dr. A. A. Brown; one son: Philip Pfeiffer Brown. Interested in club work and educational and philanthropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. San Antonio Chapter Southern Ass'n of College Women, Council of Jewish Women, Kindergarten Ass'n, Literary Soc., Texas State Fed. of Women's Clubs.

BROWN, Charlotte Harding, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pa.

Illustrator; b. Newark, N.J., 1873; dau. Joseph and Charlotte Elizabeth (Matthews) Harding; ed. Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts; m. Philadelphia, 1905, James Adams Brown; one daughter: Charlotte Adams Brown. Silver medal, London, Eng., Woman's Exposition, 1900; silver medal St. Louis Exposition for illustrations. Illustrations for magazines and books, Century, Harper's, McClure's, Collier's Weekly, Harper's Bazar, etc. Mem. the Fellowship of the Pa. Acad. of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.; Plastic Club, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Water Color Club.

BROWN, Cornelia B. Officer (Mrs. William Winfield Brown), Sierra Vista Ranch, Terra Bella, Cal.

Born St. Paul, Minn., Mar. 18, 1876; dau. Harvey and Henrietta Low (Paterson) Officer; ed. Univ. of Minn. (Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 10, 1898, William Winfield Brown; children: Winfield Paterson, b. 1899; Milton Goodnow, b. 1902; Harvey Officer, b. 1907. Protestant Episcopal.

BROWN, Cornelia E., 362 Lexington Av., N.Y. City.

Physican; b. Chillicothe, O.; dau. P. T. C. Brown and Elizabeth (Lille) Brown; ed. private schools; Ohio State Univ., Columbia Med. Coll., M.D. Engaged in general medical practice in N.Y. City; attending physician to Damiet Dispensary since 1887. Mem. Daughters of Ohio, City and State Women's Med. Ass'ns, Professional Woman's League, Theatre Club.

BROWN, Demetra Kenneth (Mrs. Kenneth Brown), 37 Chestnut St., Boston, Mass.

Author; b. on Island of Bouyouk-Ada in Sea of Marmora, 1877 (Byzantine Greek); ed. in Greece, came to U.S. 1894; m. N.Y. City, April 21, 1904, Kenneth Brown, journalist and author. Worked on staff of Atlantis, daily Greek newspaper in N.Y. City; afterward teacher of French at Comstock School until her marriage. Author (pen-name "Demetra Vaka"): Haremilk; Finella in Fairyland; In the Shadow of Islam (in collaboration with Kenneth Brown); The First Secretary; The Duke's Price; contributor to magazines.

BROWN, Elena Rhodes (Mrs. Robert Grenville Brown), 200 Thayer St., Providence, R.I.

Born Providence, R.I.; dau. James Aborn and Rosa Merlano (d' Costa) Rhodes; ed. New York, Mrs. S. Reed's School; governesses at home; m. Providence, R.I., 1895, Robert Grenville Brown; one son: Grenville P. N., b. 1896 (died 1896). Clubs: Agawam Hunt, Bristol Casino. Against woman suffrage; mem. R.I. Ass'n Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

BROWN, Elizabeth Leiper (Mrs. George Brown), The Mill Farm, Brooklandville, Md.

Born Summit, N.J., May 11, 1880; dau. Archer Nevins and Mary Thomas (Smith) Martin; ed. at home by governesses and at Kent Place School, Summit,. N.J., and Mrs. Comegy's School, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, m. June 5, 1901, George Brown Jr.; children: Harriet de Forest, b. Mar. 24, 1902; Elizabeth Leiper, b. July 20, 1905. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, Junior League, National Junior Republic. Recreations: Gardening, miniature painting. Protestant Episcopal. Favors woman suffrage.

BROWN, Elizabeth Stow (Mrs. J. Stuart Brown), 48 Elm St., Montclair, N.J.

Physician; b. Concord, Mass., 1860; dau. William D. and Martha E. (Swan) Brown; ed. Vassar Coll.; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '85; N.Y. Univ.; m. N.Y. City, 1891, J. Stuart Brown; children: Roger Stuart, John Paulding. Physician at N.Y. Infant Asylum, at N.Y. Infirmary, Out-Patient Dep't; physician to Messiah Home for Children and to babies' wards of Post-Graduate Hospital. Author: Sterilization (International Encyclopedia); Studies in Infant Psychology; Working Women—Their Health and Their Occupation; History of Nutley, N.J. ; Examination of Old Maps of New Jersey; several medical papers. Mem. Woman's Medical Ass'n of N.Y. City, N.J. Historical Soc, Woman's Anthropological Soc. of Washington, D.C, also Altruist Soc., Three o'clock Club and College Woman's Club of Montclair.

BROWN, Ellen W. Babcock (Mrs. William Reynolds Brown), 79 Park Av., N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City, Feb. 1, 1851; dau. Capt. David S. and Charlotte A. (Noyes) Babcock; ed. private school in Stonington, Conn., and Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa); m. May 7, 1872, William Reynolds Brown; children: Warren Day, Cleveland Hall (deceased), Donald Winchester. Pres. White Plains Hospital Board of Managers, 12 years; pres. Associate Alumnae of Vassar Coll., also local N.Y. Alumnae Ass'n, six years; pres. Women's University Club of N.Y. City, four years; mem. N.Y. Diet Kitchen Ass'n, Stonywold Orthopaedic Soc. (country branch), Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae. Against woman suffrage. Has written fugitive newspaper articles. Episcopalian. Bull Moose in political views. Mem. Meridian Club.

BROWN, Emilie Ward (Mrs. Ward Brown), The Dupont, Washington, D.C.

Born Washington, D.C, Oct. 16, 1886; dau. Frank B. and Charlotte Metcalf (Brown) Conger; ed. Washington and Berlin, Germany; m. Washington, June 7, 1907, Ward Brown, architect. Mem. Board of Trustees of Arts and Crafts School, Washington; mem. of the Executive Council of League for the Decoration of Public Schools; mem. of the Play going Com. of the Drama League. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian.

BROWN, Emma Elizabeth, 1925 Massachusetts Av., Cambridge, Mass.

Author and artist; b. Concord, N.H., Oct. 18, 1847; dau. John Frost and Elizabeth (Evans) Brown; ed. Concord schools. Author: Spare Minute Series (five vols.); Popular Biographies (four vols.); From Night to Light; Child Toilers of Boston Streets, Huldah. Episcopalian. Republican. Mem. Castilian Club of Boston.

BROWN, Emma Kate (Mrs. Matt D. Brown), 553 Third Av., Troy-North, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Lansingburgh, Troy, N.Y., 1865; dau. Frederick and Catharine E. (Pierce) Hicks; ed. Troy High School; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '89; mem. Phi Sigma; m. Lansingburgh, N.Y., Nov. 24, 1892, Matt D. Brown; children: Frederic Meade Brown, Matt D. Brown Jr. Taught in Norwich Acad., Norwich, N.Y.; Wellesley Preparatory School, Natick, Mass.; private school, Rochester, N.Y., 1891-92; Lansingburgh High School, as preceptress, 1900-13. Presbyterian. Sec. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, First Presbyterian Church, Lansingburgh, N.Y.; sec. Teachers' Pension Board, Troy, N.Y.; first vice-