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Rh BURR, Marjorie, Williamstown, Mass.

Educator; b. Winsted, Conn.; ed. in schools of Winsted, Conn., and Vassar Coll., B.A. '99. Teacher in the Misses Graham's School, N.Y. Dity, 1899-1900; since 1900 in Normal Coll., N.Y. City.

BURR, Theodora Dudley (Mrs. Ralph H. Burr), 72 Pearl St., Middletown, Conn.

Born Madison, Conn., July 28, 1867; dau. Benjamin and Zerviah (Clark) Dudley; grad. New Haven High School, '86; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '91; m. Madison, Conn., Oct. 29, 1895, Ralph H. Burr; children: Catharine, Antoinette, Theodora, Ralph Jr. Interested in missionary societies connected with the church and Day Nursery and District Nurse Work. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BURRAGE, Edith May, 34 Harrison Av., Northampton, Mass.

Librarian; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '99; student Simmons Coll. Library School, Boston, 1903-04. Apprentice Lancaster (Mass.) Library, 1902-03; library organizer, Bolton (Mass.) Public Library, 1904-05; Wellesley (Mass.) Public Library, 1905-06; Harvard Med. School, January-September, 1907; ass't librarian Clark Univ. Library, 1907-08; ass't librarian Smith Coll. since October, 1908. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n.

BURRAGE, Harriet Greene Dyer (Mrs. Thomas J. Burrage), 139 Park St., Portland, Me.

Born Providence, R.I., Dec. 22, 1879; dau. William Jones and Lillian Pitman (Greene) Dyer; ed. Miss Abbott's School, Miss Bowen's School; m. Providence, R.I., June 12, 1906, Dr. Thomas J. Burrage; one son: Henry Dyer, b. 1910. On board of managers of Female Orphan Asylum. Mem. Maine Soc, Colonial Dames of America. Protestant Episcopal. Against woman suffrage.

BURRELL, Caroline Benedict, 58 Downing St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Chicago, Ill.; daughter of Amzi and Catharine (Walrath) Benedict; ed. Lake Forest Coll., Univ. of Ill. M.Litt.; m. Oct. 18, 1888, Rev. Joseph Dunn Burrell; children: Katharine Benedict, b. Oct. 9, 1889; Monica, b. February 1, 1891. Author: A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl; Margaret's Saturday Morning; Living on a Little; Easy Entertaining; Fairs and Fetes, etc. (all under nom-de-plume). Presbyterian. Mem. Meridian Club of N.Y. City. Writer under her own name and others of essays, fiction, juvenile stories, etc., for magazines and papers.

BURRELL, Clara DeForest (Mrs. David James Burrell), 2 48 W. Seventy-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Born New Haven. Conn., Nov. 19, 1849; dau. George F. and Caroline E. (Sergeant) DeForest; ed. public and private schools of Freeport, Ill.; m. Freeport, Ill., Oct. 18, 1871, Rev. David James Burrell (pastor Marble Collegiate Church, N.Y. City); children: Clara Miriam, Elizabeth Sergeant, David DeForest, Norman McLeod, Eleanor Loudenois, Katharine DeForest. Pres. Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of Reformed Church in America. Against woman suffrage.

BURRELL, Tempe Garfield (Mrs. Harry Clifton Burrell), Lorain, Ohio, R.F.D. No. 1.

Born Sheffield, Ohio, 1870; dau. Halsey and Harriet (Root) Garfield; grad. Oberlin, Ph.B. '97; mem. AEolian Soc; m. Sheffield, Oct. 9, 1894, Harry Clifton Burrell; children: Edward, Dwight, Kenneth, Doris, Virginia, Eleanor. Has helped organize and support a social settlement ass'n in Lorain. Served on school board. Congregationalist Mem. Lorain Sorosis Club, East Side Literary Club.

BURROUGH, Mary Anna, 544 Penn St., Camden, N.J.

Teacher; b. Camden Co., N.J.; dau. James and Elizabeth P. (Pine) Burrough; ed. Clarksboro and Camden, N.J., and Philadelphia; grad. Philadelphia Normal School (valedictorian), 1870; Nat. School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia, B.E. '92. Principal of North-East School, 1880; supervising principal of North-East and J. S. Read schools, 1901; sup't of Friends First-day School for many years; pres. of Woman's Park Ass'n for 10 years; pres. Teachers' Club of Camden; county vice-pres. of N.J. Teachers' Retirement Fund; mem. and one of the organizers of Teachers' Insurance Ass'n; mem. exec. com. State Teachers' Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Mem. Camden Principals' Ass'n, Parent Teachers' Ass'n of North-East School, N.J. Congress of Mothers. Recreations: Travel, lectures, musicals, etc.

BURROUGHS, Edith Woodman (Mrs. Bryson Burroughs), Flushing, L.I., N.Y.

Sculptor; b. Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1871; dau. Webster and Mary M. Woodman; ed. Art Students' League, N.Y. City; pupil of St. Gaudens; m. Sittingbourn, Kent, England, Sept. 5, 1893, Bryson Burroughs. Engaged as sculptor in marble, statuettes, busts of children, portraits in low relief, etc., participating in exhibitions in N.Y. City, receiving the Shaw memorial prize, and at the Champs de Mars, Paris. Mem. Nat. Sculpture Soc, etc.

BURROUGHS, Edna McCoy (Mrs. George T. Burroughs), Burley, Ida.

Born Portland, Ore., April 12, 1877; dau. John B. and Harriet (Hald) McCoy; ed. high school, Bellevue, Ida,, and special studies in private; m. Jan. 10, 1900, George Tyler Burroughs Jr. (mining engineer); one son: George Tyler Burroughs, b. 1905. Has been interested in educational and club work for several years; was pres. of Civic Improvement Ass'n, Burley, Ida.; has in co-operation with City School Sup't promoted domestic science work in public schools; on Historical Com. in Idaho Club Work; vice-chairman of Civil Service Com.; taught in public schools for five years. Mem. of leading social organisations in State, Civic Improvement Ass'n, Idaho State and First Dist. Federations. Recreations: Golf, camping, fishing. Christian Scientist, Favors woman suffrage. Republican; vice-pres. of Woman's Republican Club of Burley, Ida.

BURROUGHS, Marie (Mrs. Francis M. Livingston), 64 W. Eighty-seventh St., N.Y. City.

Former actress; b. (Lillie Arrington) San Francisco, 1866; ed. San Francisco schools; m. (1st) 1890, Louis F. Massen; (2d) Robert Barclay Macpherson of N.Y. City (died 1907); (3d) April 8, 1908, Francis M. Livingston. At 17 had been successful in private readings and recitals in native city, at one of which Lawrence Barrett was present, and was so impressed that he telegraphed A. M. Palmer and secured for her an engagement in The Rajah, then playing at Madison Square Garden, and she made her N.Y. debut in the part of Gladys in that play in 1884, assuming the stage name of "Marie Burroughs"; later played Irma in Alpine Roses, and afterward took leading parts in Hazel Kirke, Bssmeralda, After the Ball and Mrs. Winthrop in same company. While in New Orleans played Zieka in Diplomacy with Wallack's company, and afterward played Pauline March in Called Back with Robert Mantell in N.Y. City; then, returning to Palmer's Madison Square Garden company, created part of Queen Gainevere with Alexander Salvini, and later played Lettie in Saints and Sinners. After that, for several seasons, supported E. S. Willard, playing Vashti Dethic in Judah, Mary Blenkarn in The Middleman, Edith Ruddock in Wealth, Kate Norbury in John Needham's Double, Lucy in The Professor's Love Story and Ophelia in Hamlet; starred in Pinero's The Profligate, and in Romeo and Juliet and Leah, 1894-98, and starred in The Battle of the Strong, 1901, then retired from the stage.

BURROWES, Katharine, 246 Highland Av., H. P., Detroit, Mich.

Musician, composer, author, teacher; b. Kingston, Can.; dau. Edwin Annesley and Florinda (Radcliff) Burrowes; ed. privately at home and in Europe; studied music under Prof. J. C. Batchelder in Detroit, Mich., later in Germany under Karl Klindworth (founder with Zavier Scharwenka of the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory of Music). Taught in Detroit Conservatory of Music, 1887-95; established Burrowes Piano School, 1895. Invented appliances pertaining to the Burrowes course of music study, a method for teaching music to beginners by means of songs, stories, games, blackboard work, chart work, competitive drills and mechanical