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188 School, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1891-95; in Smith Coll. 1895-. Has taught Young Men's Bible Class for 15 years, now teaching such a class in Edwards Church, Northampton, Mass. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa (Chapter Zeta of Mass.), Alpha Soc. of Smith Coll. Congregationalist. Interested in woman suffrage but does not desire suffrage yet.

COBB, Helen Adele, 221 North Broadway, Yonkers, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.; ed. in schools of N.Y. City and Vassar Coll., A.B. '98. Teacher in St. Katharine's Hall, Davenport, Iowa, 1898-1900; Keble School, Syracuse, N.Y., 1900-01; the Halsted School, Yonkers, N.Y., since 1901.

COBB, Lura Stone (Mrs. E. Schuyler Cobb), 15 Oak St., Winchendon, Mass.

Born Seekonk, Mass., Dec. 29, 1877; dau. Solomon and Ella (Case) Stone; ed. Attleboro High School; Brown Univ., A.B. 1900; m. Seekonk, Mass., Sept. 1, 1903, E. Schuyler Cobb; one daughter: Dorothy Chase Cobb. Mem. Woman's Club. Baptist.

COBB, Mariedna Snell (Mrs. Charles Wellington Cobb), 10 Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.

Born Benicia, Cal.; dau. Richard Bayley and Julia (Ritchie) Snell; ed. Snell Sem., Berkeley, Cal.: special courses at Univ. of Cal. and Oregon Agricultural Coll.; m. June 30, 1910, Charles Wellington Cobb, ass't attorney-general of the State Dep't. Interested in interior decoration; in 1909 taught English at Snell Sem., Berkeley, Cal. Prominent in society in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Mem. Claremont Country Club, Cal. Episcopalian. Republican. Favors woman suffrage.

COBLENTZ, Clara Rankin (Mrs. George W. Coblentz), Clarion, Pa.

Temperance reformer; b. Madison Furnace, Clarion Co., Pa., Aug. 19, 1863; dau. Calvin A. and Emma (Burnside) Rankin; ed. High School, Clarion, Pa,, Carrier Seminary; m. Clarion, Pa., Jan. 19, 1886, George Weber Coblentz; children: Charles Rankin, Howard Burnside. Pres. Non-partisan Nat. W.C.T.U.; pres. Clarion Presbyterian Foreign Missionary Soc.; rec. sec. State Federation of Pa. Women; rec. sec. Woman's Club of Chautauqua, N.Y. In favor of limited suffrage, but thinks women are not ready for it yet. When chairman of Juvenile Court Com. of State Federation 1909-11, prepared a leaflet on juvenile court laws of Pa. for the use of club-women, which was favorably received. Presbyterian. Pres. Home and Foreign Missionary Soc, Clarion. First vice-pres. Chautauqua (N.Y.) D.A.R. Circle; first vice-pres. and trustee class 1907 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Mem. Clarion Woman's Christian Temperance Alliance; also a Sabbath School teacher. Clubs: Chautauqua Woman's, Clarion Woman's, Chautauqua Press. Has taught parliamentary law in home town; has been a newspaper correspondent, and has given addresses on temperance and religious subjects.

COBURN, Abby M. (Mrs. J. Milton Coburn), South Norwalk, Conn.

Born Shrewsbury, Mass., Oct. 27, 1854; dau. Aaron G. and Lucy F. (Nourse) 'Cutler; ed. Oread Collegiate Inst., Worcester, Mass., 1870-1874; m. Shrewsbury, Mass., Aug. 4, 1879, Dr. J. Milton Coburn; children: Harrie Cutler, Aaron Cutler. Patron Day Nursery, Anti-Tuberculosis Dispensary; vice-pres. Woman's Ass'n of the Congregational Church; sec. Relief Com. for Betterment of City's Poor; interested in church and missionary work. Has contributed many articles to the public press on municipal and philanthropic subjects. Mem. Municipal League; pres. County Christian Endeavor Soc; ex-chaplain Windham County Jail; regent D.A.R. Pres. Friday Afternoon Club. Recreations: Traveling, study of social problems. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage; pres. Equal Franchise League. Republican. Mother's people were descendants from the celebrated Rebecca Nours, who was accused of witchcraft and hanged in Salem, Mass.

COBURN, Adelaide March (Mrs. Albert B. Coburn), Stanford Univ., Cal.

Teacher; b. Windham, Me., April 18, 1863; dau. Sumner C. and Melinda (Richardson) March; grad. Gorham (Me.) Normal School, July 7, 1882; m. Mechanic Falls, Me., April 16, 1884, Albert E. Coburn; children: Albert Charles, b. June 28, 1885 (died Mar. 8, 1912). Interested in Woman's Club movement; was sec. two years, vice-pres. one year, pres. two years of Waltham (Mass.) Women's Club, an organization of 400 members. Pres. Boston Branch of Normal Alumnae; now pres. of Mayfield (Cal.) Woman's Club; mem. School Board of Mayfield. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Republican.

COBURN, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (Mrs. Fordyce Coburn), 229 Stevens St., Lowell, Mass.

Writer; b. Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 22, 1872; dau. Rev. Edward Abbott, D.D. (well-known author) and Clara (Davis) Abbott (niece of Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.); ed. private schools and Radcliffe Coll.; m. 1908, Dr. Fordyce Coburn. Contributor of short stories to the leading magazines, including two $1,000 prize stories in Collier's Weekly: The Sick-a-Bed Lady, 1905, and The Very Tired Girl, 1907. Author: Molly Make Believe; The Sick-a-Bed Lady, and other stories. Episcopalian.

COBURN, Ivah Wills (Mrs. Charles Douville Coburn), 1402 Broadway, N.Y. City.

Actress; b. Appleton City, Mo., Aug. 19, 1881; dau. George Browning and Anna (Kuns) Wills; grad. Brookston (Ind.) High School; Chicago Musical Coll.; special course in English, Chicago Univ.; m. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 15, 1906, Charles Douville Coburn. Début on the stage, Garden Theatre, N.Y. City, with E. H. Sothern in Hamlet, autumn of 1900, following year with Amelia Bingham; afterward in several well-known stock companies; Proctor's Fifth Av., 1904-05, playing leading parts. In 1907, with husband, formed company, playing a repertoire of classic plays at all the principal universities in the U.S., and conducted as an exponent of the educational force of the drama. In its repertoire she has played the leading female characters in Shakespearian drama, including Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Beatrice, Rosalind, Viola, Desdemona, Portia and Katharine; also the parts of Electra in Electra and of Iphigenia in Iphigenia in Tauris (both by Euripides) and The Wife of Bath in Percy Mackaye's The Canterbury Pilgrims. The Coburn Players appeared on the White House grounds on invitation of Mrs. Taft. Favors woman suffrage. Author of short stories and articles pertaining to the stage and woman's interests for magazines. Recreations: Dancing and horseback riding. Mem. MacDowell Club, Three Arts Club.

COBURN, Louise Helen, Skowhegan, Me.

Born Skowhegan, Maine, Sept. 1, 1856; dau. Stephen and Helen Sophia (Miller) Coburn; ed. Skowhegan High School, Coburn Classical Inst., grad. 1873, Colby Coll., A.B. '77, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard Summer School, 1880-81, Chicago Univ. 1893; studied languages in France, Germany and Italy; mem. Sigma Kappa Sorority (a founder). State Regent D.A.R. 1909-11; chairman Forestry Com., Maine Federation of Women's Clubs, 1901-03, mem. Arts and Crafts Com., same, 1906-08, State Director Woman's Am Baptist Home Mission Soc, 1911—. Pres. Josselyn Botanical Soc, 1912; pres. Advisory Board, Public Library, 1894-. Park Commissioner Skowhegan, 1906—. Mem. Board of Trustees, Bloomfield Acad. Active in church and Sunday school work, and in various forms of philanthropy. Interested in library work and in studies in literature, language and botany. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Republican. Mem. W.C.T.U., D.A.R., Maine Soc. of Mayflower Descendants, Josselyn Botanical Soc. of Maine, Am. Forestry Ass'n, Nat. Geographic Soc, Skowhegan Woman's Club, Skowhegan Town Improvement Soc, Coll. Women's Club of Washington, D.C. Recreation: Gardening.

COCHRAN, Fanny Travis, 131 S. Twenty-second St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Philadelphia; ed. Miss Florence Baldwin's