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 , as well as pianoforte music; some of the appliances are: Miss Keyboard's School, a device for teaching notation and sight reading (patented 1904); The Broken Globe, a device for teaching meter or time; The Twelve Scale Boys, a device for teaching scales and chords (patented 1903); Meter Fractions and Meter Blocks, for teaching meter, etc. Author: Kindergarten Class Songs, 1901; Modern Music Methods, 1902; Some of the Knowledge Which a Music Teacher of Children Should Possess, 1906; Teachers' Manual of the Burrowes Course of Music Study, 1910; Tales of the Great Composers, 1911. Composer: Short Pieces for Small Hands (piano), 1904; Playtime Pieces (piano), 1904; Forty Reading Studies (piano), 1904; The Girls and the Doves (vocal), 1905; The Five Squirrels (vocal), 1906. Episcopalian. Mem. Tuesday Musicale of Detroit. Recreations: Reading, concerts, theatre. Favors woman suffrage.  BURROWES, Verlista Shaul (Mrs. Charles W. Burrowes), Kinderhook, N.Y.

Born Sharon Springs, N.Y.; ed. schools of Sharon Springs, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., B.A. '87; m. July 7, 1896, Charles W. Burrowes. Teacher Glade Springs, Va., 1889-90; examiner Regents' Office, Albany, N.Y., 1888-89 and 1890-96. BURROWS, Frances Peck (Mrs. Julius C. Burrows), The Elms 315 Woodword Kalamazoo, Mich, and 1406 Massachusetts Av., Washington D.C.

Daughter of Horace M. and Emilia (Barnes) Peck; grad. Forest Hill Sem; Rockford Coll.,1864 one of the three distinguished essayists who read essays on graduation day (mem. Rockford Coll. Ass'n); m. Richland, Mich., 1864, Julius C. Burrows (U.S. Senator, 1895-1911). Mem. Congregational Church. First State regent D.A.R.; vice-pres. gen. of Nat. Soc. D.A.R; nat. pres. of Children's Soc. D.A.R.; mem. Colonial Dames Howells of America. Interested in church work and philanthropy. Favors woman suffrage (with educational and property qualification). Mem. Colonial Dames Club (Washington); Book Review Club (Kalamazoo). During husband's service as Congressman and Senator has spent 33 winters in Washington.  BURROWS, Marion Cowan (Mrs. Charles Irving Burrows), 68 Ocean St., Lynn, Mass.

Physician; b. Scranton, Pa.; dau. James Cowan and Jane (Cary) Cowan; grad. Scranton High School; Mass. Coll. Pharmacy, Ph.G. and Ph.L.; grad. Tufts Med. Coll., M.D.; m. Aug. 26, 1909. Charles Irving Burrows. Chemist and bacteriologist for city of Lynn, Mass., 1900-05; medical inspector to schools, 1905-10. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Republican voter for school com. Mem. Order of Eastern Star. Recreations: Automobile, golf, music. Mem. North Shore Club of Lynn, Mass.  BURT, Helen Tyler (Mrs. William A. Burt), Lock Box 818, Huntington, W.Va.

State commander for Maccabees of the World for W.Va.; b. Almont, Mich.; dau. Walter P. and Martha (Stacy) Leach; ed. high schools of Ypsilanti, Mich.; St. Mary's Acad., Windsor, Ont.; m. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1880, William A. Burt; children: Orand Walter, b. 1882; Lenden Beach, b. 1887; Edith A., b. 1889. Worker for the Maccabee order, of which she is head in the State of W.Va. Against woman suffrage unless an educational test be established for both men and women.  BURT, Laura (Mrs. Henry Stanford), Stanford Lodge, Great Kills, Staten Island, N.Y.

Actress; b. Ramsey, Isle of Man, England, Sept 16, 1881; dau. Capt. Brown and Anna Lloyd (Welsh) Burt; ed. Am. Acad. Dramatic Arts; m. N.Y. City. Mar. 2, 1902, Henry Stanford. Roles include June in Blue Jeans; Madge in Old Kentucky; Susanne in A Scrap of Paper; Rosalind in As You Like It; Helen of Swabia in Dante; with Sir Henry Irving at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, also on his last tour in America; starring in Dorothy Vernon, 1906-07; The Walls of Jericho, 1907-08; created role of Nurse in Brieux play of Damaged Goods at the Fulton Theatre, N.Y. City. Life mem. Professional Woman's League, Twelfth Night Club.  BURT, Mary Elizabeth, Coytesville, N.J.

Writer, editor, teacher; b. Lake Geneva, Wis.; ed. Lake Geneva public school; Anna Moody's Acad.; Oberlin Coll., one year; completed full college course with private teachers. Taught in public schools of Chicago, 1868-90, except one year when was principal grammar dep't, River Fall (Wis.) Normal School; teacher of literature in Cook County Normal School with Col. T. W Parker, 1887-90; private school, N.Y. City, 1893-1905. Chairman Com. on Drawing, Chicago Board of Education, 1890-93; stood for Socratic and Froebelian methods, manual training, equal pay for primary teachers and psychological methods on the teaching of reading. Wrote on educational subjects for Atlantic Monthly Chautauquan, Ill. School Journal, Lake Geneva News, Critic, Inter-Ocean, Unity, etc. Delivered lectures before Nat. Educational Ass'n, 1889, Inst, of Pedagogy, St Louis, 1890; State Teachers Ass'n, Ill., 1889; Boston Educational Meeting, 1892; Teachers Ass'n, Indianapolis, 1892; Coll. for Training of Teachers, Cambridge, England, 1898, etc. Author: Seed Thoughts from Browning, 1885; Browning's Women, 1886; Birds and Bees (edited from the essays of John Burroughs), 1885; Literary Landmarks, 1887; Bees, A Study from Virgil, 1890; Story of the German Iliad, 1892; The World's Literature, 1890; Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers, 1894; Little Nature Studies for Little People, from the works of John Burroughs, who collaborated, 1895; The Child-Life Chart, 1896; The Burt-Markham Primer, Edward Mark ham collaborating, 1908. Initiative editor of the Scribner Reading Series, 1894-1904, collaborating with Z. Ragozin in Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca, and Herakles, Hero of Thebes; with Lucy Cable and G. W. Cable in The Cable Story Book; with Mary Cable In The Eugene Field Book; with Mildred Howells in The Literary Primer and The Howells Story Book; with Lucy Cable in Don Quixote; with Julia Elizabeth Langworthy in Fanciful Tales from Stockton, and with Mrs. Elizabeth Custer in The Boy General; Poems Every Child Should Know, 1904; Prose Every Child Should Know, 1908; The Marvellous Adventures of Pinocchio, 1909; Stories and Poems from Kipling Every Child Should Know, 1910, etc. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Ill. Woman's Press Ass'n, Round Table Club (Teachers College).  BURTIS, Mary E. 530 Lafayette A v.. Buffalo, N.Y.

Literature, linguist, genealogist; b. Cherry Valley, N.Y., Oct. 26, 1836; dau. Arthur and Grace Ewing (Phillips) Burtis; ed. Cherry Valley Acad.; Miss Hill's School (now St. Margaret's), Buffalo. Mem. D.A.R. Mem. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo. Against woman suffrage.  BURTON, Alice (Mrs. Hazen James Burton), Deephaven, Minn.

Born Boylston, Mass., July 21, 1857; dau. Rev. Daniel S. and Hannah Sophia (Cotton) Whitney; ed. public schools of Southborough, Mass.; Normal School, Salem, Mass; m. Southborough, Mass., July 20, 1871, Hazen James Burton, of Boston, Mass.; children: Hazel, Ralph Walter, Ward Cotton, Ariel, Hazen, Hazen James Jr. Director of Maternity Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn., for past 20 years; mem. (treas.) of School Board of Deephaven for 12 years. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Progressive; LaFollette Republican. Recreation: Dairy work, mall riding, sketching. <section end="BURTON, Alice" /> <section begin="BURTON, Marian Williams Perrin" />BURTON, Marian Williams Perrin (Mrs. Henry F. Burton), 70 Dartmouth St., Rochester, N.Y.

Born Titusville, Pa., Aug. 23, 1869; dau. Andrew Norton and Belinda (Williams) Perrin; ed. public schools of Titusville; private tutor for college preparation; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '91; grad. student Univ. of Mich. (mem. Zeta Alpha, Wellesley; Phi Sigma, Univ. of Rochester); m. Rochester, June 14, 1898, Prof. Henry Fairfield Burton; children: Andrew Perrin, b. 1899; Sara Fairfield b. 1900; Henry Fairfield, b. 1901. Lectures on The English Novel, Household Economics, Literature for Children, etc. Writer of miscellaneous contributions to papers and magazines. Mem. Board of Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Board of Woman's Education and <section end="BURTON, Marian Williams Perrin" />