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Rh Sept. 29, 1892, Frank H. Clum; children: Paul Stover, Daniel Franklin. Interested in Loyal Temperance Legion and Boy Scouts. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. W.C.T.U., N.Y. State Federation, Valley Falls Political Equality Club.

CLUM, Florence Brewster Corse (Mrs. Harold D. Clum), Saugerties, N.Y.

Born Saugerties, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1880; dau. Henry and Jeanette (Knapp) Corse; grad. Cornell Univ., A.B. '02; m. Saugerties, N.Y., Nov. 8, 1910, Harold D. Clum. Taught French and German in White Plains High School, White Plains, N.Y., 1904-10. Episcopalian.

COALE, Esther Colston (Mrs. William Ellis Coale), Overhill Road and Kittery Lane, Roland Park, Md.

Born Baltimore, Md., Oct. 4, 1869; dau. Frederick M. and Clara (Campbell) Colston; ed. private tutors and Miss Adams' School in Baltimore; m. April 2, 1891, William Ellis Coale. Protestant Episcopal.

COARD, Mary McKee Smith (Mrs. Robert D. Coard), 6334 Howe St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh; dau. Samuel P. and Annie E. (Freetly) Smith; grad. from Sharon High School, then went to Pa. State Normal School at Edinboro and afterward to Chicago Normal School, Normal Park; graduated from University Extension and Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle; studied Art in Paris; m. April 4, 1900, Robert D. Coard, banker; one daughter, Catherine Denise, b. Feb. 6, 1904 (deceased). Mem. of many clubs, vice-pres. State Federation of Pa. Women; pres. New Era Club of Western Pa. (200 members); former pres. Woman's Club of Pittsburgh; hon. pres. Congress of Woman's Clubs (was pres. for three years). Suffragist, one of auditors State Pa. Suffrage Ass'n. Presbyterian. Mem. Alliance Française, Acad. Science and Art; mem. Advisory Board Ass'n for Work for the Blind. Mem. New Era Club of Western Pa.; Woman's Club of Pittsburgh; Woman's Club of Kiskiminetas, Teachers' Art, Shakespeare, Pocohontas Memorial and Anthony Memorial Clubs, Civic Club of Allegheny Co., Pittsburgh Playgrounds Ass'n. Recreations: Reading, lectures and travel.

COAT, Fannie Lorah (Mrs. Harvey H. Coat), Mason City, Ill.

Born Havana, Ill., Aug. 6, 1865; dau. Peter Esbom and Harriet Ann (Goodman) Lindberg; ed. Havana (Ill.) High School; m. Havana, Ill., Oct. 7, 1886, Harvey H. Coat; children: Bessie, b. Oct 26, 1887; Ethel, b. Aug. 3, 1889; Lyman Spear, b. May 29, 1895. Mem. Madeline Chapter, Order of Eastern Star (Worthy Matron, 1906-07; sec. and treas. Parents and Teachers Ass'n 1908-10, treas. Public Library Com. 1908-11; pres. of Woman's Improvement Soc. of the Presbyterian Church 1904-05. Presbyterian. Social worker. Mem. Missionary Soc. Presbyterian Church; pres. Mason City Woman's Club. Favors woman suffrage.

COATES, Florence Earle (Mrs. Edward Hornor Coates), 2024 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Poet; b. Philadelphia; dau. George H. and Ellen Frances (von Leer) Earle; ed. private schools and at Convent of the Sacred Heart, Paris; m. Philadelphia, Jan. 7, 1879, Edward Hornor Coates (several years pres. Pa. Acad. Fine Arts). Author (verse): Poems, 1898; Mine and Thine, 1904; Lyrics of Life, 1909; Ode on the Coronation of George V., 1911. Mem. Browning Soc. (former pres.), Soc. Colonial Dames, Soc. Mayflower Descendants. Mem. Contemporary Club, New Century Club (Philadelphia), Lyceum Club (London) and Woman's Literary Club (Baltimore).

COATES, Mildred Aspinwall (Mrs. George Morrison Coates), 2531 South Cleveland Av., Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Philadelphia, Mar. 24, 1881; dau. Rev. George Wooisey Hodge (rector of Church of Ascension) and Mary De Veaux (Powell) Hodge; ed. Miss Hills' School, Philadelphia; m. Philadelphia, Nov. 17, 1910, in Church of the Ascension, Dr. George Morrison Coates. Interested in church work of the Protestant Episcopal church. Recreations: Motoring, tennis. Mem. Philadelphia Indoor Tennis Club.

COATES, Sara Elizabeth, 13 Bradford Av., Newport, R.I.

Teacher, charitologist; b. Portsmouth, Ohio; ed. in schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Vassar Coll., A.B. '90. Teacher Portsmouth, Ohio, 1891-92; Zanesville, Ohio, 1892-93; Mt. Sterling, Ky., 1893-94; Memphis, Tenn., 1894-95; Dorchester, Mass., 1895-97; sup't of clubs and classes and ass't sup't Frances Willard Settlement, Boston, Mass., 1897-1902; principal Saco (Me.) Industrial School, 1902-03; investigator and ass't agent Charity Organization Soc, N.Y. City, 1903-04; teacher high school, Portsmouth, Ohio, 1904-06; acting agent Washington (D.C.) Associated Charities, 1906; sec. Ass'n for Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Newport, R.I., since 1906. Mem. of several philanthropic societies.

COBB, Alice C. (Mrs. John B. Cobb); home, Macon, Ga.; address, 810 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn.

Missionary secretary; b. Perry, Ga.; dau. Dr. P. B. D. H. Culler and Mary S. (Cobb) Culler; ed. Wesleyan Coll., Macon, Ga. (first chartered college for women in U.S.); grad., took post-grad, in another Georgia college; mem. Adelphean Soc, organized 1851; m. Perry, Ga., 1870, Major John B. Cobb; children: Mrs. Mary Cobb Pilcher, of Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Eugenia Cobb Lowe. Began teaching in Wesleyan Coll., Macon, Ga., and was prof. of English literature until appointed in 1904 to her present position as sec. of the Foreign Department of the Board of Missions of M.E. Church, South, with headquarters at Nashville. Was sent by her church to visit mission fields of Cuba, Mexico, Japan, Korea and China. Engaged in club work in Macon; was vice-pres. of State Fed. of Clubs; pres. of City Fed.; regent D.A.R.; pres. Current Topics Club, College Alumnae Ass'n and of Missionary Soc; was pres. of W.C.T.U. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mem. Daughters of Confederacy, Nat. Geographic Soc.

COBB, Cora Crosby (Mrs. P. L. Cobb), care G. E. Crosby, West Medford, Mass.

Born Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 11, 1873; dau. George E. and Augusta (Hill) Crosby; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '97; m. West Medford, Mass., June 27, 1900, Rev. P. L. Cobb, of Tenn.; children: William Crosby, Catherine Lee, Margaret Augusta, P. L. Jr. College sec. Y.W.C.A. in Southern States, 1898-1900; later missionary to Mexico five years and in conference missionary work for women. Has written several articles on missionary and Sunday-school work. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mem. Woman's Missionary Soc Recreations: Walking, tennis. Mem. Woman's College Club in Mexico City

COBB, Eliza Polhemus, 25 East Twenty-second St., N.Y. City.

Educator, missionary secretary; b. Hopewell, N.Y.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '93. Teacher Halsted School, Yonkers, N.Y., 1895-1902; dean of women and ass't prof. English, Whitman Coll., 1902-04; ass't to lady principal, Vassar Coll., 1904-06; since 1906 sec. Foreign Missionary Soc, N.Y. City.

COBB, Florence Brooks (Mrs. Edward Scribner Cobb), Karasunaru Dori, Kyoto, Japan.

Missionary; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. 1900; student of domestic science in Teachers' Coll., Columbia Univ., 1903-04; m. Sept. 21, 1904, Edward Scribner Cobb; children: William Brooks, b. Jan. 13, 1906; Edward Scribner Jr., b. Dec 27, 1907. Teacher of science, 1900-01; sec, N.Y. City, 1901-04; since 1904 missionary of the Am. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Japan at Niigata, 1904-05, 1906-08; Tokyo, 1905-06; Kyoto since 1908. Congregationalism

COBB, Harriet Redfield, 115 Elm St., Northampton, Mass.

Associate prof. mathematics; b. Peekskill, N.Y., Sept. 10, 1866; dau. Rev. E. G. and Meroa (Redfield) Cobb (descendant of John Alden, and had ancestors in War of 1812 and in the Revolutionary War); ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '89, A.M. '91. Taught in Bartholomew English and Classical