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136 and Rosa (Schultz) Mayer; ed. public and high schools at Kansas City, Mo.; grad. Fulton and Trueblood's School of Oratory, Kansas City, Mo.; m. St. Louis, Mo., June 10, 1901, Phil Brown; children: Ruth Winifred, b. June 21, 1902; Doris Leona. b. Aug. 29, 1904; Jerome Alexander, b. May 9, 1905. Vice-pres. Okla. State Fed. Women's Clubs: pres. two years of Charity Union Musical Club, Eufaula, Okla.; past vice-pres. State Conference of Charities and Correction; past pres. Twentieth Century Club, Eufaula, Okla.; hon. mem. Pioneer Club; mem. Gen. Fed. Child Labor Com.; past chairman Child Labor Com., which helped to pass the law in Okla.; twice delegate to Nat. Child Labor Conventions from Okla. (appointed by Governor). Favors woman suffrage. Has written many articles in magazines and newspapers on child labor, playgrounds, social welfare, libraries, kindergartens and civic improvement, and has spoken publicly at clubs on these subjects. Society editor home paper. Mem. Eastern Star; treas. Library Board, Eufaula, Okla.; founder of library, and of the playground movement in Eufaula; organizer of two federated clubs in Eufaula; founder of civic work in Eufaula and laying of sidewalks by efforts of club women. Chairman four years of Oklahoma State Club Extension Com., was instrumental in getting 100 clubs into the State of Okla. Fed.; delegate from Okla. to Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs at St. Louis, Boston, Cincinnati and San Francisco conventions; delegate to State Charities and Correction Convention at St. Louis from Okla.

BROWN, Kate Louise, 163 Massachusetts Av., Boston, Mass.

Teacher, writer; b. Adams, Mass., May 9, 1857; dau. Edgar M. and Mary T. (Brown) Brown; ed. in high school at Reading, Mass.; State Normal at Bridgewater, Mass., and special classic in kindergarten work. Engaged in teaching at Reading, Wakefield, and Milton, Mass.; since 1896 in Boston, where she has been much occupied as writer and editor of school readers, kindergarten and other children's songs and music, and as contributor to juvenile and other magazines. Composer (in collaboration with Elizabeth Usher Emerson) of the cantatas: Santa Claus Sure, and The Tables Turned; also (with same) stories in song. Author: Little People; The Plant Baby and Its Friends; Alice and Tom.

BROWN, Katharine Holland, Quincy, Ill.

Author; b. Alton, Ill.; dau. Horace Safford and Elizabeth (Holland) Brown; ed. in Washington, D.C., and at Univ. of Mich., A.B. Books: Diane, 1904; Dawn, 1907; Philippa at Halcyon, 1910; The Messenger, 1910; White Roses, 1910; Uncertain Irene, 1911.

BROWN, Laura Amanda, West Acton, Mass.

Painter in landscape; b. Littleton, Mass., Feb. 17, 1852; dau. James Madison and Amanda Melvina (Pingrey) Brown; ed. in common schools and by private teachers in literature and languages, Lowell School of Design (John J. Enneking's studio) and School of Expression, Boston. Reader for club, church and parlor entertainments. Writer of poems and stories in magazines and papers. Baptist. Recreations: Embroideries, lace-making, raffia and grass baskets. For sixteen years pres. West Acton Woman's Club; mem. Art Com. of the Mass. State Federation of Women's Clubs. Opposed to woman suffrage.

BROWN, Margaret Lesley Bush, 1729 G St., Washington, D.C.

Artist painter; b. Philadelphia 1857; dau. Peter and Susan I. (Lyman) Lesley; ed. Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts, Ateliers of Carolus Duran and Julien under Jules Lefebvre and Boulanger, Paris, 1880; m. 1886 Henry K. Bush-Brown, sculptor; children: Lydia, Harold, Malcolm, James. Portrait and picture painter; exhibited on the line in Paris Salon of 1882, received honorable mention at Pa. Acad. Fine Arts for portrait of Prof. Lesley, 1887; decorated one panel in Pa. Building at Columbian World's Fair. Received medals for miniature and oil paintings at Columbus, S.C., Knoxville and other places. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Nat. Arts Club. N.Y. City.

BROWN, Marguerite Manierre (Mrs. William R Brown Jr.), 1510 Dearborn Parkway, Chicago, Ill.

Born Chicago, Ill., Nov. 17, 1879; dau. William Reid and Julia Orr (Edson) Manierre; ed. Miss Porter's School at Farmington, Conn., 1895-99; mem. Chicago Farmington Soc.; m. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 30, 1903, William Brown Jr.; one daughter: Margery Manierre. Favors woman suffrage. Recreations: Voice culture and the general study of music. Mem. Onwentsia Golf Club.

BROWN, Marguerite Mullin (Mrs. William Johns Brown), Walbrook, Md.

Born Baltimore, 1874; dau. Gregory M. and Rebecca (Donnell) Mullin; ed. private school, public school; grad. high school; special course in Johns Hopkins Univ. and special course at Bard Avon School in literature, expression and art history; m. July 5, 1905, William Johns Brown. Taught in public schools; delegate to the three Am. Peace Congresses, New York, Chicago and Baltimore. Interested in philanthropy, as represented in playgrounds, public dance halls, and the use of schools for recreation centres. Mem. Board of Directors of the Florence Crittenton Home, Board of Managers of Univ. of Md. Hospital. Pres. Equal Franchise League of Md. Episcopalian. Pres. Hospital Ass'n of the Ladies of the Maccabees (represented this organization at the International Congress of Suffragists in Stockholm, Sweden, 1911). Sec. Neighborhood Improvement Ass'n; mem. Am. Acad. of Political and Social Science; pres. Walbrook Fortnightly Club; mem. Arundel Club of Baltimore, Social Service Club: chairman of legislation, State Fed. of Clubs; sup't of press .and sec. W.C.T.U.

BROWN, Marianna, McGregor Hall, Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs, Colo.

College registrar; b. Waynesville, O., Sept. 8, 1852; dau. Samuel and Hannah (Evans) Brown; ed. Earlham Coll., Richmond, Ind., A.B. '76; Cornell Univ., A.M. '94. Registrar of Colorado Coll. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Republican. Mem. Clio Club, Indianapolis; Civic League and Tuesday Club, Colorado Springs, Colo.

BROWN, Marianna Catharine, 35 W. 130th St., N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '93; Columbia Univ., Ph.D., '02. Interested in Sunday-school work. Writer on Sunday-school subjects. Author: Sunday-School Movements in America; How to Plan a Lesson, and Other Talks to Sunday-School Teachers.

BROWN, Mary Mitchell (Mrs. Edward T. Brown), 968 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.

Born Norwalk, O., July 16, 1866; dau. Henry Sparrow and Delia (Yale) Mitchell; ed. Lake Erie Coll., Painesville, O., Coll. of Music, Cincinnati; m. Norwalk, O., July 12, 1887, Edward T. Brown; children: Edward Mitchell, 1889; Marjorie, 1892; Henry Warren Brown, 1895; Mem. Atlanta Woman's Club, History Class of Atlanta, Executive Board of State Federation of Women's Clubs, Daughters of the Confederacy, D.A.R., Atlanta Branch of the Needle Work Guild of America. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BROWN, Mena DeWitt (Mrs. Edward C. Brown), 1186 Lake Av., Rochester, N.Y.

Born White Hall, Ill.; dau. Manning Force and Harriette (Prettyman) De Witt; ed. Illinois Female Coll., Jacksonville, Ill., and private instructors in Washington, D.C; m. Washington, D.C, Feb. 12, 1890, Edward C. Brown; children: Paul DeWitt, Edward Colin, Alan DeWitt. Active in suffrage work; mem. Political Equality Club; ex-pres. Political Equality Club, Rochester, N.Y. Mem. Century Club, Woman's Educational Union, Consumers' League.

BROWN, Olive Marie Mcintosh (Mrs. Edwin Hewitt Brown), Grosse Pointe, Detroit, Mich.

Born Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 22, 1883; dau. Henry Payne and Olive Anne (Manfull) Mcintosh, ed. Miss Mittleberger's School, Cleveland; Mrs. Somer's School, Washington, D.C; Miss Grace Lee Hess's School, Paris, France; m. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1907, Edwin Hewitt Brown; children: Olive Anne, Eleanor. Interested in the District Nursing Soc, Children's