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Rh Union, Children's Aid Soc., City Hospital Supply Soc, Civic Art Com., Century Club, Tuesday Reading Club, Wellesley College Club. Recreations: Designing and painting. Baptist. Against woman suffrage; pres. Rochester Soc. Opposed to Woman Suffrage; mem. N.Y. State Organiation Com. Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Lecturer on anti-suffrage.

BURWELL, Ethel Irene, 48 Race St., Bristol, Conn.

Teacher, librarian; b. Mercer, Pa.; ed. in schools of New Brunswick, N.J., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '99. Engaged in teaching, New Brunswick, N.J., 1899-1900; Woodbridge, N.J., 1900-02; Cleveland, Ohio, 1908-09; librarian of Normal School, Cleveland, 1909-11.

BUSBEY, Katharine Olive Graves (Mrs. L. White Busbey), 2336 Massachusetts Av., Washington, D.C.

Author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 16, 1872; dau. Horace and Annie A. (Hall) Graves; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '94; m. June 10, 1896, Leroy White Busbey, journalist (then Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean); children: Leroy White Jr., b. 1897; Horace Carleton, b. 1899. Writer on economic subjects; made economic study of lives and surroundings of women employees of factories in England for U.S. Dep't of Commerce and Labor, 1910. Author: Home Life in America, 1910; also short stories in the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and other magazines.

BUSEY, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. S. T. Busey), Elm St., Urbana, Ill.

Born Delphi, Ind., June 21, 1854; dau. Abner H. and Catharine J. (Trawin) Bowen; ed. Delphi High School and Vassar Coll.; m. Delphi, Ind., Dec. 25, 1877, Gen. S. T. Busey; children: Marietta, Bertha, Charles Bowen. Mem. Urbana Public School Board eight years; mem. Board of Trustees of Univ. of Ill. Mem. Board of Trustees of Presbyterian Church. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Dames of Loyal Legion, Ill. State Suffrage Ass'n. Recreation: Travel.

BUSH, Bertha E., Osage, Ia.

Writer; b. Galva, Ill., May 30, 1866; dau. Henry Hudson and Minerva (Wright) Bush; ed. Grinnell (Ia.) Coll., Ph.B. '91, A.M. '94. Teacher, 1891-1904. Since then a writer, especially children's stories in journals and Sunday-school papers. Author: A Prairie Rose; Special Days with Little Folks; Old English Heroes; Stories of Courage; Story of Napoleon; Indian Myths; Famous Early Americans; Later English Heroes; Great European Cities; Indian Children Tales; Children

BUSH, Emma Danforth, 1301 Pennsylvania Av., Wilmington, Del.

Born Wilmington, Del., Apr. 4, 1881; dau. Lewis Potter and Margaret (Whiteley) Bush; ed. The Misses Hebh's School, Wilmington, Del., and Bryn Mawr Coll. Corresponding sec. New Century Club of Wilmington. Presbyterian. Clubs: New Century, Wilmington County, Brandywine Canoe.

BUSH, Emma Louise, Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg. Pa.

Teacher; b. Waverly, Iowa; ed. in schools of Arcade, N.Y.; Vassar Coll., B.A. '81. Teacher Mt. Carroll, Ill., 1881-82; Oxford, N.C., 1882-84; Ishpeming, Mich., 1885-90; Montour Falls, N.Y., 1890-1901; Stetson Univ., 1902-04; Bucknell Univ. since 1900.

BUSH, Florence Lillian, 334 Maple St., Battle Creek, Mich.

Writer; b. Battle Creek, Mich., 1865; dau. Martin Luther and Elizabeth Ann (Fellows) Bush; grad. Battle Creek Coll., 1885; Mich State Normal, 1889; Art Inst, of Chicago, 1895. Supervisor of drawing. Little Rock, Ark; Manitowoc, Wis.; teacher in Berea Coll., Ky. Favors woman suffrage. Chairman of City Press Com. in Battle Creek, Mich. Author: Goose Creek Folks, written in collaboration with her sister (1912); Concerning Peter and the Crowd (now ready for the press); special articles, one in Country Life in America (April, 1913); short stories for Forward, Youth's World, Young People's Weekly, Christian Endeavor World, etc. Serials for all the above publications. Goose Creek Folks was adopted among the 100 best books for missionary purposes to be sold at The World In Chicago. Presbyterian. Mem. Mich. Press Ass'n.

BUSH, Katharine Jeannette, 203 Edwards St., New Haven, Conn.

Zoologist, lexicographer; b. Scranton, Pa., of the Northland, and other five-cent classics. Dec. 30, 1855; dau. William Henry and Eliza Ann (Clark) Bush, of distinguished New England ancestry; ed. New Haven (Conn.) public, private and high schools; special studies in zoology under Prof. Addison E. Verrill of Yale, received Ph.D. from Yale Univ., 1901. Since 1879 ass't in zoological dep't of Yale Museum; associated for some years with Prof. Verrill in scientific work of U.S. Fish Commission, being the first woman, outside teaching force, to take up scientific work. Was actively identified with the revision work of Webster's Dictionary into the larger and more comprehensive Webster's International Dictionary, published in 1890. Contributor to scientific journals on zoological subjects, chiefly mollusks and annelids, and author of a monograph on The Tubicolous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides (published in Vol. 12 of the Reports of the Harriman Alaska Expedition). Mem. Am. Soc. of Zoologists, Am. Soc. of Naturalists, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

BUSH, Loue Pollock (Mrs. George S. Bush), 529 Belmont Av., N., Seattle, Wash.

Born Weston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1865; dau. George Henry and Louise (Plessner) Pollock; grad. Normal School, Washington, D.C, 1885; Kindergarten Normal Inst., Washington, D.C. (conducted by her mother and elder sister) '86; m. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 4, 1891, George S. Bush; children: George P., b. 1892; Agnes Selene, b. 1895. Teacher in public schools of Washington, D.C, for five years; ass't in Kindergarten Normal Inst. Organized the Woman's Educational Club of Seattle in 1894, and served as first pres. for three years; mem. Progressive Thought Club of Seattle, which she organized in 1905 (served as first pres. two years); mem. Seattle Lodge Theosophical Soc. since 1896, when organized; mem. Seattle Bahai Assembly when organized, 1906. Mem. the Girls' Triad, or Do for Others Soc., Woman's Educational Club. Favors woman suffrage; served at the polls on the day suffrage carried in the State of Washington.

BUSH, Margaret Whiteley (Mrs. Lewis P. Bush), 1301 Pennsylvania Av., Wilmington. Del.

Born Bridgeton, N.J., Sept. 22, 1852; dau. William G. and Nancy P. (Elmer) Whlteley; ed. Bridgeton Sem.; m. Wilmington, Del., May 13, 1879, Lewis P. Bush; children: Emma Danforth, Charles Whiteley, William Whiteley. Manager of the Delaware Hospital. Mem. New Century Club of Wilmington, Del. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage.

BUSHNELL, Florence Ellsworth (Mrs. John Edward Bushnell), 1819 Vine Place, Minneapolis, Minn.

Born Windsor, Conn., June 21, 1866; dau. Eli Phelps and Sarah Morris (Clapp) Ellsworth; ed. Windsor private and high schools; Adelphl Acad., Brooklyn, N.Y.; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 14, 1887, Rev. John Edward Bushnell; children: Ellsworth, b. 1888; John Horace, b. 1892; Paul Palmer, b. 1900. Interested in various religious, social and philanthropic activities. Mem. the Woman's Club of Minneapolis. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage.

BUSSELLE, Harriet Murray (Mrs. Alfred Busselle), Chappaqua, N.Y.

Born Chappaqua, N.Y., May 31, 1880; dau. Robert I. and Phebe Anna (Cock) Murray; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City; Bryn Mawr Coll.; m. Chappaqua, N.Y., Oct. 1, 1903, Alfred Busselle; children: Robert Murray, b. 1904; Alfred, b. 1905; Ann, b. 1910. Interested in District Nursing Ass'n (associate chairman, Chappaqua), Red Cross (associate sec). Plant and Flower Guild, National Progressive Party. Clubs: Fortnightly (Pleasantville), Bryn Mawr (N.Y. City).