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Rh Free Hospital and St. Agnes' Home, all of Detroit; Grosse Pointe Mutual Aid Soc. Mem. Garden Club of Mich. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

BROWN, Ophelia S., Tyngsborough, Mass., R.F.D.

Born Sherborn, Mass., Sept. 20, 1871; dau. Rev. William and Salome Stephens (Williams) Brown; ed. Howard Collegiate Inst., West Bridgewater, Mass., 1883-90; Smith Coll., B.L. '94. Sec. of School Com. of Tyngsborough and interested in rural social welfare. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Lowell College Club. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

BROWN, Ray Hyer (Mrs. Robert Houston Brown), McKinney, Texas.

Born Georgetown, Tex., Feb. 22, 1889; dau. Dr. Robert Stewart and Margaret Lee (Hudgins) Hyer; ed. Dep't of Expression, Southwestern Univ., Georgetown, Tex., Ph.B. '09 (mem. Sigma Sigma Sigma); m. Georgetown, Tex., Oct. 26, 1910, Robert Houston Brown. Nat. sec. Sigma Sigma Sigma Sororiety. Reader and impersonator. Favors woman suffrage.

BROWN, Ruth Mowry, 17 Riverside Square, Hyde Park, Mass.

Author; b. Providence, R.I., June 16, 1867; dau. William Augustus and Caroline Eliza (Aldrich) Mowry; ed. Fielding and Chase School, Providence, R.I., high schools of Providence and Boston, Mass.; m. Dorchester, Mass., Edward Waters Brown; children: Mabel Mowry Brown, b. May 25, 1891; Bancroft Huntington Brown, b. Nov. 11, 1894. Interested in church work and settlement work. Author: The Bible in Lesson and Story; also children's stories in various magazines, particularly Child's Hour, Congregationalist, Outlook, etc. Mem. Hyde Park Current Events Club.

BROWN, Sally Eugenia, 1100 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.

Born Canton, Ga.; dau. Hon. Joseph Emerson Brown (War Governor of Georgia, Chief Justice of Ga. and U.S. Senator) and Elizabeth (Grisham) Brown (sister of Gov. Joseph M. Brown, present Governor of Georgia); ed. at home (Atlanta, Ga.), Mrs. Archer's School, Washington, D.C., and private lessons. Life mem. Ga. Baptist Orphans' Home; mem. Atlanta Free Kindergarten, the Atlanta Martha Berry Circle (working for Martha Berry School, near Rome, Ga.), Nat. Child Labor Com. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Mem. D.A.R., Daughters of 1812 (John Floyd Chapter) and United Daughters of Confederacy (Atlanta Chapter). Recreations: Arts and crafts, especially basketry, hammered leather and bookbinding. Mem. Atlanta Woman's Club.

BROWN, Sanford Stella De Land (Mrs. Charles David Brown), 95 Westminster Road, Rochester, N.Y.

Former kindergartner; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '94; student Chicago Kindergarten Inst., 1895; St. Andrew's Kindergarten Training School, Rochester, N.Y., 1896-97; m. Feb. 15, 1902, Charles David Brown; children: Margaret Sanford, b. Jan. 22, 1903; Katharine Sanford, b. Sept. 18, 1905; Priscilla Sanford, b. June 15, 1909. Kindergartener at Akron, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich., 1897-1902. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

BROWN, Sydney E., Mrs., Merrillan, Wis.

Born La Crosse, Wis., July 4, 1867; dau. Allen and Frances Peabody Briggs; ed. La Crosse public school and private musical education in voice culture; m. St. Paul, 1893, Sydney E. Brown. Engaged in millinery business. Mem. Royal Neighbors. Active club woman; organized the Merrillan Woman's Club, Mar. 17, 1910, and it was federated July 23, 1910, and has since been very successful in civic improvement work.

BROWN, Varina Davis, 517 N. Main St., Anderson, S.C.

Born Anderson, S.C; dau. Joseph Newton and Elizabeth L. (Bruce) Brown; ed. Anderson Sem. and Vassar Coll., A.B. Active in philanthropic work among the mill population and in Sunday-school work; interested in foreign mission work (especially in China). Baptist. Mem. Intercollegiate Club of S.C, and Civic Ass'n of Anderson. Pres. of Federation of City Clubs of Anderson, and treas. of S.C. Federation of Women's Clubs, 1904-06; trustee of Anderson Library Ass'n (public library).

BROWN-TURNER, Mae F. (Mrs. J. Willcox Brown), Eloham, Alton, Va.

Born Richmond, Va., Mar. 22, 1846; dau. Hon. W. H. and Nancy (Beirne) MacFarland; ed. Richmond private schools; m. May 21, 1867, J. Willcox Brown; children: Mary, Nannie Beirne, Fanny, Peachy, Poythress, John Thompson, F. Donaldson, Eleanor Plunkett. Episcopalian.

BROWNE, Ellen Van Volkenburg (Mrs. Frederick Maurice Browne), 434 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.

Actress; b. Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 8, 1882; dau. Frank Hoyt and Juliet (Cooper) Van Volkenburg; ed. Univ. of Mich., A.B.; mem. Alpha Phi; m. Chicago, June 1, 1912, Frederick Maurice Browne. Since 1905 giving imitative interpretations of modern plays; ass't director and actress in Chicago Little Theatre Co., 1912-13. Favors woman suffrage.

BROWNE, Ethel Nicholson, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.; permanent, 510 Park Av., Baltimore, Md.

Biologist; b. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 14, 1885; dau. Dr. B. Bernard and Jennie R. (Nicholson) Browne; ed. Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, 1895-1902; Woman's Coll. of Baltimore (Goucher Coll.), A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '06, and holder of senior fellowship 1906-07; Columbia Univ., 1906-08, 1911-12, M.A. '07, Ph.D. '13; holder of fellowship of Baltimore Ass'n for the Promotion of the University Education of Women, 1911-12 (mem. Tau Kappa Pi, Goucher Coll.). Instructor of mathematics and science at Bennett School, Millbrook, N.Y., 1908-11; research ass't in biology dep't, Princeton Univ., 1912-13; investigator at Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Hole, Mass., summers of 1906-12. Author: The Production of New Hydranths in Hydra by the Insertion of Small Grafts (Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1909); Effects of Pressure on Cumingia Eggs (Archiv für Entwickelungsmechanik des Organismen, 1910; The Relation Between Chromosome- Number and Species in Notonecta (Biological Bulletin, 1910); A Study of the Male Germ Cells in Notonecta (Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1913). Mem. A.A.A.S., Am. Soc. of Zoologists, Am. Soc. of Naturalists. Recreations: Tennis, swimming, basketball, bicycling, riding, baseball. Mem. Corporation of Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Hole, Mass. Favors woman suffrage.

BROWNE, Grace Greenwood (Mrs. Burton F. Browne), Harbor Beach, Mich.

Editor and professional writer; b. Kalamazoo Co., Mich., Aug. 18, 1869; dau. A.J. and Sarah Margaret (Dean) Winches; grad. Spring Arbor Sem. (Mich.), '88; Normal Coll., Ypsilanti, Mich., '93; m. Jackson, Mich., Oct. 23, 1895, Burton Fulmer Brown; children: Eiladean Alberta, Vivian Odessa, Burton Wayne. Associate editor Harbor Beach Times since 1898; pres. Mich. Woman's Press Ass'n, 1905-06; national editor for Ladies of the Modern Maccabees, 1910—. Vice-pres. Nat. Fraternal Press Ass'n, 1912; State Chairman of the Press Dep't of Mich. State Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1912. Actively interested in the New Movement Sunday-school work. Mem. Nat. Editorial Ass'n, Mich. Woman's Press Ass'n, the Wolverine Press Ass'n, Nat. Fraternal Press Ass'n, Order of the Eastern Star, Daughters of the Veterans, Nat. Council of Women, the Ladies of the Modern Maccabees, Mich. Woman's Fed. of Clubs. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BROWNE, Hester Singer (Mrs. Jesse D. Browne), The Wyoming, Washington, D.C.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 19, 1887; dau. George Harton and Charlotte C (Smith) Singer; ed. Ogontz School; m. Bryn Mawr, Pa., April 15 1911, Jesse D. Brown; one daughter: Hester Harton Browne

BROWNE, Jennie Nicholson, 510 Park Av., Baltimore, Md.

Physician; b. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 20, 1876; dau. Dr. Bennet Bernard and Jennie R. (