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146 BURCHARD, Alice Webb, Wilmette. Ill.

High school instructor; b. St. Louis, Mo., 1875; dau. Mortimer N. and Louise (Webb) Burchard; ed. Chicago public schools; dishing Acad., Ashburnham, Mass.; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '97; Northwestern Univ., 1898-99; mem. Delta Gamma. Taught two years at Chicago Heights High School; teacher of English at New Trier Township High School, Kenilworth, Ill., from 1901. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R., Audubon Soc, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Chicago Wellesley Club. Recreations: Reading, theatre, lectures, traveling.

BURDETT, Elizabeth Terry White (Mrs. Owen Long Burdett), 620 W. 115th St., N.Y. City.

Born San Francisco, Cal.; dau. James Terry and Florence C. (Derby) White; ed. in schools of N.Y. City and Vassar Coll., A.B. '01; m. Dec. 26, 1908, Owen Long Burdett; one daughter. Settlement work in N.Y. City, 1904-05 and 1907-08, and In Jersey City, N.J., 1905-07.

BURDETTE, Clara Bradley (Mrs. Robert J. Burdette), 891 Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena, Cal.

Born East Bloomfield, N.Y., July 22, 1855; dau. Albert Harvey and Laura Orinda (Coville) Bradley; ed. public and high schools, Syracuse, N.Y.; Syracuse Univ., B.S. '76; mem. Alpha Phi; m. (1st) Syracuse, N.Y., July 24, 1878, N. Milman Wheeler (prof. Greek, Lawrence Univ.; died Dec. 6, 1886); m. (2d) Los Angeles, Cal., June 4, 1890, Col. Presley C. Baker (C.S.A.; died Sept. 5, 1893); m. (3d) Mar. 25, 1899, Robert J. Burdette (well-known humorist and lecturer and pastor, 1903-09, of the Temple Baptist Church of Los Angeles, Cal.; one son: Roy Bradley Wheeler, b. Sept. 27, 1882, and a stepson, Robert J. Burdette, Jr. Preceptress in private school for girls, 1876-78; removed to Wisconsin and later to California, Founded the Woman's Exchange in Los Angeles; one of the organizers of the Chautauqua movement in Cal.; trustee Throop Polytechnic Inst, Pasadena, Cal.; mem. Hospital Board of Pasadena Hospital, to which she gave a maternity wing in 1904; one of founders and incorporators of the Southwest Museum of Los Angeles; mem. Associated Charities. Presbyterian; but was active in duties as wife of the pastor of a large Baptist congregation and was an incorporator and first vice-pres. and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Auditorium Company, which built, at a cost of $625,000, building in which that congregation worships. Has made frequent addresses; contributor to magazines and newspapers. Author: The Rainbow and the Pot of Gold, and other booklets. Mem. D.A.R., organized and was first regent of Pasadena Chapter; mem. Am. Social Science Ass'n, Archaeological Inst, of Am., Nat. Geographic Soc. Charter mem. Ebell Club of Los Angeles (pres. 1897-1900) and erected its clubhouse; organized the women's clubs of California in 1900 into the Cal. State Fed. of Women's Clubs (pres. 1900-02); vice-pres. Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1902-04. Mem. Friday Morning Club, Badger Club (Los Angeles); Shakespeare Club (Pasadena).

BURGART, Laverda Adelia, 1506 Eleventh St., Altoona, Pa,

Born Altoona, Pa., July 9, 1883; dau. Joseph and Mary A. Burgart; grad. Altoona High School (first honors); Bucknell Univ., A.B. and A.M. Sunday-school teacher and officer in various church societies; active in Y.W.C.A. work. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Socialist. Recreations: Tennis, walking, gymnasium work.

BURGESS, Frances Elinor (Mrs. Walter Burgess), 68 Commonwealth Av., Boston, Mass.

Born Boston, June 21, 1857; dau. David Rice and Sophia Paine (Dunn) Whitney; ed. Miss Hall's private school; m. May 18 1876, Walter Burgess; one daughter: Mabel Whitney (Mrs. William de Forest Thomson). Interested in study and collection of antique objects of art. Against woman suffrage. Clubs: Cavendish whist, modern whist.

BURGESS, Ida J., 77 Irving Place, N.Y. City; summer, Woodstock, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Painter, writer; b. Chicago, Ill.; dau. William T. and Ophelia (Crosby) Burgess; ed. Art Students' League, N.Y. City; pupil of L. O. Merson, Paris, 1883-85, picture exhibited at Salon, 1885, prize at Chicago World's Fair, 1893. Painted the decoration of woman's reception room, Ill. State Building, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, with mural paintings, symbolic of Progress and Woman's Occupations; the decoration of Orington Lunt Library, Evanston, Ill., 1896, symbolic mural panels and many designs for stained glass. Has exhibited paintings in all the principal exhibitions of America; makes specialty of work in mural decoration and stained glass, but has painted portraits and genre subjects; more recent work is in portraits in stained glass. Author of magazine articles on stained glass, country homes and interior furnishing for American Homes and Gardens, 1912-13; in preparation: The Stained Glass of Italy, with illustrations in color made from the old windows in many cathedrals and churches in Italy. Mem. Woman's Art Club (N.Y. City), Chicago Soc. of Artists, Pen and Brush Club, N.Y. City. Recreations: Gardening, foreign travel. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Political Equality Ass'n; takes part in parades.

BURGESS, Rosamond Tudor (Mrs. W. Starling Burgess), Marblehead, Mass.

Artist; b. Buzzards Bay, Mass., June 20, 1878; dau. Frederic and Louise (Simes) Tudor; ed. private schools; School Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under Benson and Tarbell; m. (1st) Boston, Oct. 9, 1899, A. H. Higginson; (2d) Marblehead, Mass., Oct. 13, 1904, W. Starling Burgess; children: Henry Lee Higginson 2d, Edward, Frederic Tudor. Against woman suffrage.

BURGESS, Ruth Payne Jewett (Mrs. John W. Burgess), Athenwood, Newport, R.I.

Artist; b. Montpelier, Vt.; dau. Col. Elisha Payne and Julia K. (Field) Jewett; ed. Burnham School, Northampton, Mass.; m. Sept. 2, 1885, Prof. John W. Burgess; one son: Elisha Payne Jewett Burgess. Portrait painter; ex-pres. Art Students' League; ex-pres. Woman's Art Club of N.Y. Painted portrait of Prince August William of Prussia, President Butler of Columbia Univ., Hon. A. B. Hepburn, Hon. George A. Plimpton, Prof. March, Admiral Charles E. Clark, etc. Mem. Barnard Club, Art Workers' Club for Women, patron of Metropolitan Museum of Art.

BURGOYNE, Ina Forrest Davis (Mrs. Stephen Hunt Burgoyne), Great Neck, L. I.

Born Middletown, O.; dau. Nelson Austin and Joana (Pendergast) Davis; ed. Northampton (Mass.) High School, Smith Coll. A.B.; m. N.Y. Oct. 26, 1909, Stephen Hunt Burgoyne (great grandson of General Burgoyne of Revolutionary fame). Lives in N.Y. City, Florence, Mass., and Great Neck, L.I. Interested in several charitable and social activities in Northampton, Great Neck, L.I., and N.Y. City. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R., Smith Coll. Alumnae, Western Mass. Coll. Club, Hospital Aid Ass'n. Recreation: traveling.

BURKE, Annie J. Ferguson (Mrs. W. R. Burke), 311 Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto, Can.

Born Cookstown, Ont., Can.; dau. late Isaac Ferguson and granddaughter Lieut.-Col. Ogle R. Gowan, M.P.; ed. Bishop Strachan School, Toronto; m. 1896, W.R. Burke, a distinguished civil engineer (died 1897), only son of the Rev. Canon Burke of Belleville, Ont. Interested in polities and identified with various religious and social philanthropic activities.

BURKE, Asenath Danforth Spalding (Mrs. Charles Horace Burke), Nashua, South End, N.H.

Born Merrimac, N.H., June 26, 1856; dau. Hosea Ballou and Dorcas (Marshall) Spalding; ed. public schools, Nashua, N.H., 1874; m. Nashua, N.H., Sept 7, 1876, Charles Horace Burke; one daughter: Tena (Mrs. Paul A. Weldon), of Cambridge, Mass. Interested in the International Bible Students' organization. Against woman suffrage. Unsectarian.

BURKE, Billie (Ethel Burke), Empire Theatre, N.Y. City.

Actress; b. Washington, D.C, Aug. 7, 1886; dau. William E. and Blanche Burke (both