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162 : Riding, driving, bridge, training colts. Mem. Soc. of Friends.

BUSSERT, Anne Elizabeth (Mrs. Carl Gantvoort), 535 W. High St., Lima, Ohio.

Singer; b. Allan Co., Ohio; dau. Ambrose and Mary (Thomas) Bussert; ed. village school; Ada (Ohio) Univ.; N.Y. City, Paris and Milan for vocal studies; m. March 18, 1913, Carl Gantvoort. Began in church choirs; soloist with important orchestras, concerts, oratorios in U.S., grand opera in Italy, light opera in U.S. upon return. Favors woman suffrage. Protestant. Recreations: Riding, swimming, camping, out-door sports.

BUTCHER, Ida Jane, 30 Court St., Utica, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Utica, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Utica, N.Y., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '87. Engaged as teacher in Utica, N.Y., since 1888. Chairman Education Com. of N.Y. State Fed. of Women's Clubs since 1906; mem. Com. on Literary and Library Extension, Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs.

BUTLER, Anne Balfour (Mrs. Henry J. Butler), 610 Manhattan Av., Manhattan, Kan.

Lawyer; b. La Prairie, Ill.; dau. Nixon and Keziah (Robbins) Balfour; grad. Univ. of Mich. LL.B.; m. Henry J. Butler (died 1893); one son: Carl Balfour. Largest land owner in State of Kansas for a woman; began with the amount of $15,000 which gave her the start. Favors woman suffrage. Author of short novel; Ad Astra per Aspera. Poems: Will o' the West; Just All for Me; Love the Lord of Life; A Kansas Dug-Out; Friendship; The Butterfly, and other poems. Pres. Themian Club; pres. Treble Clef Club; mem. D.A.R.

BUTLER, Cora Waldo (Mrs. Pierce Butler), 2224 Milan St., New Orleans, La.

Born Texas; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '98; student of history, Univ. of Texas, 1900-01; m. June 25, 1902, Pierce Butler; children: Virginia Waldo, b. Oct. 19, 1903; Pierce Jr., b. Nov. 16, 1905; Mary Frances Harrison, b. Feb. 3, 1909. Teacher in private school, Philadelphia, 1898-1900; instructor in English, Univ. of Texas, 1900-02.

BUTLER, Jessie Storrs Ferris (Mrs. William E. Butler), 102 Hodge Av., Buffalo, N.Y.

Writer; b. Black River, Mich., July 28, 1879; dau. William Barton and Elizabeth (Buell) Ferris; ed. St. Margaret's School, Buffalo, 1897; m. Kidder's Point, Lake Cayuga, N.Y., Sept. 3, 1905, William E. Butler; one son: William Storrs. Engaged in newspaper work for three years previous to marriage. Contributor of both prose and verse to Smart Set, Everybody's, Good Housekeeping; jointly with aunt, Minnie Ferris Hauenstein, has written a volume of poems (private edition); author: The Golden Bough (poem), 1912. Club: The Scribblers (Buffalo). Recreations: Writing, camping, stage, music. Presbyterian.

BUTT, Emily, Jackson, Miss.

Teacher; b. Kosciusko, Miss., Sept 2, 1867; dau. John T. and Belinda (Swayze) Butt; ed. private tutors and private schools in Kosciusko; grad. at Hamilton Coll., Lexington, Ky., 1885. Connected with the public school system of the State 25 years. Actively identified with efforts to secure needed juvenile legislation in Miss., particularly the establishment of a juvenile reformatory and the separation of boy offenders from adults; also much work with boy convicts (established Sunday School for them in State penitentiary). Contributor to Miss., Memphis and New Orleans papers concerning juvenile delinquents, educational questions, etc. Received first honors for a short story awarded by the Miss. Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mem. Christian Church. Chairman Miss. Juvenile Reformatory Ass'n; pres. Old Ladies' Home Ass'n; chairman Civil Service Reform Com., Miss. Federation of Women's Clubs.

BUTTENWIESER, Ellen Clune (Mrs. Moses Buttenwieser), 3208 Fredonia Av., Avondale, Cincinnati, O.

Born Warkworth, Ont., Aug. 12, 1870; dau. Bartholomew and Ellen (Kennedy) Clune; ed. Queen's Univ., Kingston, 1888-92; Univs. of Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1893-97, Ph.D., Heidelberg; m. January 11, 1897, Dr. Mosea Buttenwieser (prof. Hebrew Union Coll., Cincinnati); children: Paul, Hilda, Ellen, Laurence. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. College Equal Suffrage League, N.Y. City; vice-pres. Woman Suffrage Party, Cincinnati. Author: The Obstinate Child (Pedagogical Seminary, 1911); Studien zur Verfasserchaft des altenglischen Gedichts Andreas (Heidelberg, 1899); also contributions to literary magazines. Mem. Civic League, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BUTTERFIELD, Emily Helen, 614 Stevens Building, Detroit, Mich.

Architect; b. Algonac, Mich., 1884; dau. Wells Duane and Helen (Hossie) Butterfield; ed. Detroit Central High School; Syracuse Univ., B.Arch. '07; mem. Alpha Gamma Delta. Practises with Wells D. Butterfield. Sec. College Woman's Auxiliaries; mem. Woman's Home Missionary Soc. of Methodist Church (reserve field sec). Favors woman suffrage. Occasional magazine contributor as "Cupboards" in Suburban Life. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Recreations: Swimming, sketching, tramping, pansy culture. Mem. Detroit College Club, Detroit Business Woman's Club.

BUXTON, Eva Joanna, Trumann, Poinsett Co., Ark.

Physician; b. Rockport, Ind., Aug. 11, 1863; dau. John X. and Margaretta (Shaw) Buxton; ed. public schools of Ind., Univ. of Mich., Northwestern Univ., M.D. '97; grad. from Louisville Training School for Nurses in 1889. Presbyterian. Progressive Democrat. Mem. Friday Night Club of Rockport, Ind. Practised medicine in Rockport, Ind., 1897-1911. In 1911 moved to Poinsette Co., Ark., to take up homestead.

BYINGTON, Jeannette Gregory (Mrs. Homer Morrison Byington), 5 West Av., Norwalk, Conn.

Born Norwalk, Conn., Dec. 31, 1880; dau. James G. Gregory, M.D., and Jeannette L. (Pinneo) Gregory; ed. Hillside Preparatorry School, Norwalk, Conn.; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '02 (mem. Shakespeare Soc); m. Norwalk, Conn., June 2, 1903, Homer Morrison Byington; children: Homer Morrison Jr., Jeannette Lindsley, James Gregory. Favors woman suffrage. As husband is in American Consular Service (now American Consul at Bristol, England), has resided abroad continuously since marriage.

BYINGTON, Margaret Frances, 105 E. Twenty-second St., N.Y. City.

Born Constantinople, Aug. 3, 1877; dau. Theodore Linn and Margaret (Hallock) Byington; ed. Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn, 1892-96; Wellesley Coll., B.A. 1900; Columbia Univ., M.A. '02. District sec. Associated Charities, Boston, 1902-06; on staff of Pittsburgh Survey, 1907-08; staff Russell Sage Foundation, 1909-. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Homestead (Pittsburgh Survey Series). Congregationalist.

BYRD, Mary Emma, Box 77, Route 9, Laurena, Kan., and N.Y. City Normal Coll., Sixty-eighth St. and Park Av., N.Y. City.

Astronomer; b. Le Roy, Mich., Nov. 15, 1849; dau. Rev. John Huntington and Elizabeth Adelaide (Lowe) Byrd (descendant on father's side from Timothy Edwards, father of Jonathan Edwards, and on the mother's side from Governor John Endicott); ed. high school, Leavenworth, Univ. of Mich., A.B. '78; Carleton Coll., Ph.D. '04. Principal of Wabash High School, 1879-82; first assistant in Observatory of Carleton Coll., Northfield, Minn., 1883-87; director Smith Coll. Observatory, Northampton, Mass., 1887-1906; prof. astronomy in Smith Coll., 1898-1906; now in charge of the astronomical dep't of the Normal Coll. of the City of N.Y. Writer of numerous non-mathematical articles, technical articles dealing with comet positions by pillar micometers; Laboratory Manual in Astronomy, 1899. Mem. British Astronomical Ass'n, Astronomical and Astrophysical Soc. of America. Recreations: Reading, riding. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

BYRNE, Miriam, 4337 Wilcox Av., Chicago, Ill.

Author; b. Chicago, Jan. 13, 1884; dau. James and Hannah (Elliott) Byrne; ed. public schools and high school, Chicago. Appointed librarian and keeper of clinical records in Cook County