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Rh, Ia. Conducted mercantile business, Clarksville, Iowa, 1900-02; clerk State Land Office, Bismarck, N. Dak., 1904-08; secretary and director North Dakota Library Commission since 1907. Interested in State Federation of Women's Clubs. Author: Plan of Organization for Small Libraries, 1910; also miscellaneous magazine articles, historical sketches, fugitive verse, North Dakota song. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. Fortnightly Club of Bismarck, N.Dak. Has been chairman of Legislative Com., also chairman of Literature and Library Com.; now historian of State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Was first woman in N.Dak. to receive appointment on a State commission, being appointed by Gov. Burke on the Library Commission at the time of its establishment, 1907; two years later became its secretary.

BUEHLER, Amelia R. Keller (Mrs. Eugene Buehler), 416 Pythian Building, Indianapolis, Ind.

Physician; b. Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1871; dau. Frederick and Elizabeth (Remele) Keller; ed. Indianapolis High School; Coll. of Physicians and Surgeons (Nu Sigma Phi); m. Indianapolis, 1889, Dr. Eugene Buehler; one son: Eugene Otto. Associate prof, diseases of children, Med. Dep't of Indiana Univ. Lecturer on civic matters and eugenics. Mem. Indianapolis Historical Soc.; pres. Indianapolis Local Council of Women. Favors woman suffrage; pres. Woman's Franchise League of Indiana.

BUEL, Elizabeth Cynthia Barney (Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel), East Meadows, Litchfield, Conn.

Born N.Y. City, Feb. 16, 1868; dau. Newcomb Cushman and Elizabeth Jackson (Sturgis) Barney; ed. St. John's School (private), N.Y. City; grad. with marked distinction, Columbia Coll., N.Y. City, A.B. (fourth woman to grad. from Columbia in days before Barnard Coll. was founded); m. N.Y. City, May 28, 1895, John Laidlaw Buel, M.D.; one daughter: Katharine Barney Buel, b. April 8, 1905. State regent of Conn. D.A.R., having 49 chapters and 4,700 members; activities are mostly patriotic and educational, chief work being education of immigrants in Am. life and citizenship and of Southern mountaineers, and all classes of young people, native and foreign, in the ideals of Am. institutions. Author: Tale of the Spinning Wheels. Editor: The Chronicles of a Pioneer School (compiled by Mrs. Emily Noyes Vanderpoel); The Ellsworth Homestead, Past and Present, and numerous unpublished historical patriotic and memorial papers and speeches. Congregationalist. Mem. Conn. Soc. Colonial Dames of America, Soc. of Mayflower Descendants in State of N.Y.; rec. sec. Litchfield Historical Soc; sec. Litchfield Chapter Am. Red Cross since Spanish-American War; first vice-pres. (formerly pres.) Litchfield Auxiliary of Woman's Board of Foreign Missions. Mem. Mary Washington Memorial Ass'n. Honorary regent Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter D.A.R. (Litchfield), Litchfield Lawn Club; sec. Litchfield Dramatic Club; mem. Woman's College Club of Litchfield Co.; honorary mem. Litchfield Co. University Club, Pocahontas Memorial Ass'n. Recreations: Reading, social duties.

BUELL, Caroline Brown (Mrs. F. W. H. Buell), East Hampton, N.H.

Lecturer, writer; b. Marlboro, Mass., Oct. 24, 1843; dau. Rev. Thomas Gibson Brown; ed. public schools; m. East Hampton, Conn., Aug. 25, 1862, F. W. H. Buell (lieut. Conn. Volunteers, died in Civil War). Lecturer and writer on temperance and suffrage. Identified since 1875 with Conn. W.C.T.U. (cor. sec. until 1886, pres. 1904); with Nat. W.C.T.U. since 1878 (ass't rec. sec, two years; cor. sec, 1880-93); planned and took active part in organizing the Loyal Temperance Legion (children's dep't of W.C.T.U.). Contributor to various papers on temperance subjects. Favors woman suffrage: mem. Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Mem. Nat. Purity Ass'n. Mem. Sorosis and Century Study Clubs.

BUELL, Dora Phelps (Mrs. William J. Buell), Capitol, Denver, Colo.

Born Atchison, Kan.; dau. Edward H. and Elizabeth (Fryer) Phelps; ed. Atchison High School; Fulton and Tunblord School of Oration, Kansas City; m. Atchison, 1884, William J. Buell; children: Phelps, Clinton, William J. Buell, Jr. Dramatic reader and teacher of expression in girlhood; public speaker, suffrage and political. Mem. Denver Woman's Club, Northside Club, Equal Suffrage Ass'n and various Reform political clubs. Deputy Comm'n of Immigration of Colorado. Christian Scientist. Active in winning suffrage in Colorado and leader in suffrage movement in State; platform speaker.

BUELL, Irene Cleveland Cox (Mrs. E. Eugene Buell), Chresty Building, Duluth, Minn.

Lawyer; b. St. Peter, Minn., Nov. 13, 1874; dau. Judge E. St. Julien and Mariah H. (Mayhew) Cox; ed. St. Peter's public school; St. Paul Coll. of Law, LL.B. '07; Univ. of Minn., LL.M. '08; m. Iowa City, Iowa., 1894, Dr. E. Eugene Buell. Admitted to United States Supreme Court in 1910. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. State pres. Nat. Soc. U.S. Daughters of 1812; mem. D.A.R.; pres. Woman's Business Club; mem. Woman's Rotary Club, Civics Study Class, Woman's Council, St. Louis County Bar Ass'n, Minn. State Bar Ass'n; pres. Junior Bar Ass'n; mem. Writers' Club.

BUELL, Jennie, Ann Arbor, Mich.

State grange lecturer; b. Cass Co., Mich., Feb. 6, 1863; dau. B. G. and Harriet (Copley) Buell; ed. Mich. Normal Coll. Sec. State Grange for 16 years; now lecturer of same. Five years ass't editor Grange Visitor; Farmers' Institute speaker. Interested in rural life in all phases. Favors woman suffrage; chairman (1912 campaign) of Mich. State Grange Equal Suffrage Com. Author: One Woman's Work for Farm Women; The Gold Bank Combination; articles for farm journals upon rural topics. Swedenborgian. Mem. the Grange and Mich. Woman's Press Ass'n.

BUELL, Martha Merry (Mrs. Charles Edwin Buell), 115 Ely Place, Madison, Wis.

Born Phoenix, N.Y., Aug. 10, 1864; dau. Edmund and Angeline M. (Sweet) Merry; grad. Phoenix Acad., '81; Cornell Univ., '85, B.S.; special student Univ. of Wis. (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Phoenix, N.Y., June 12, 1890, Charles Edwin Buell; children: Pauline, Mary Van Rensselaer, Helen de Yoe, Martha Merry. Pres. Wis. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1906-08; especial interest is in the Home Economics Dep't. Against woman suffrage. Congregationalist.

BUERGER, Mary Bowles (Mrs. Franz G. E. Buerger), 311 W. Eighteenth St., Santa Ana, Cal.

Teacher of modern languages; b. Ottawa, Kan., Jan. 19, 1869; dau. Theodore C. and Mary E. (Pettit) Bowles; ed. high school, Ottawa, Kan.; Washburn Coll., Topeka, Kan.; Wellesley Coll., B.S. '94; m. Kansas City, Mo., June 21, 1900, Franz G. E. Buerger; children: Franz B., Max B., Wilhelm Kieling. Mem. of First Congregational Church of Kansas City, Mo. Treas. Kansas City Branch of Collegiate Alumnae, 1897-1900; mem. various clubs and Am. Woman's Republic, St. Louis, Mo. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist.

BUFFINGTON, Adaline Allston, 26 Grove St., Madison, N.J.

Social worker; b. Alleghany Arsenal, Pittsburgh, Pa.; dau. Gen. Adelbert Rinaldo and Eliza Allston (White) Buffington; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '01; graduate student, 1902-03, A.M. '05. Visitor Newark (N.J.) Bureau of Associated Charities, 1906-07;, visitor and social worker, Madison, N.J., 1908-12; sec Associated Charities, Lansing, Mich., since 1912.

BUFORD, Elizabeth Burgess (Mrs. Elbridge G. Buford), Buford Coll., Nashville, Tenn.

Born Tenn., 1860; dau. J. J. H. and Elizabeth R. (Chambliss) Burgess; grad. the Athenaeum, Columbia, Tenn., A.B.; special studies in music and language; m. Clarksville, Tenn., 1882, Elbridge G. Buford. Taught in various prominent Southern schools. Founder and now regent of Buford Coll., Nashville. Mem. United Daughters of Confederacy.