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Rh Smith Coll.. B.L. '94; Radcliffe Coll., graduate student, 1895-96; m. Saiem, Mass., June 6, 1899, George Chandler Coit; one dau. Lucia, b. May 14, 1911. Against woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. State and local soc., Anti-Suffrage Ass'n, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae. Mem. College Club, Boston; Fortnightly Club, Winchester; Winchester Smith College Club.

COIT, Ruth, 21 Chauncey St., Cambridge, Mass.

Educator; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Edward Woolsey and Caroline Mattocks (Moore) Coit; ed. Miss Comegys' and Miss Bell's School, and Miss Agnes Irwin's School, Philadelphia, and by later special instruction. Teacher St. Louis, 1894-97, Cambridge, Mass., as ass't to Arthur Gilman 1902-07, and since then head mistress. The Gilman School.

COKENOWER Katharine Eleanor Stalford (Mrs. James W. Cokenower), 1002 Forest Av., Des Moines, Iowa.

Born Rochelle. Ill., April 2 1866; dau George Horton and Minerva J. (Hollenback) Stalford; ed. Simpson Coll., Indianola, Ind.; Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle 1896; mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma; m. Mar 4 1891, Dr. James W. Cokenower. Mem. Board of Directors Home for the Aged, Boys' Club Board Board of Salvation Rescue Home, Board of Directors of Garden Club. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Votes for Women League. Presbyterian. Democrat. Mem. Order Eastern Star No. 89 Abigail Adams Chapter D.A.R Mem. Hyperion Club Des Moines Women's Club; cor. sec. of City Federation, Chauncey Depew Club; pres of the Soc. of the Hall in the Grove; mem of Progressive Circle, Chautauqua Union. Active in all Chautauqua affairs and clubs for betterment of living.

COLBRON, Grace Isabel, 250 W. 78th St., N.Y. City.

Writer, lecturer, playwright; b. N.Y. City; dau. W. J. and Isabel (de Forest) Colbron; ed. in private schools, N.Y. City, Summit, N.J., and Berlin, Germany. Author (with Clayton Hamilton) of play: The Love that Blinds (produced 1906). Translator of plays: The Reckoning ("Liebelei"), from the German of Arthur Schnitzler (produced 1907); Comtesse Coquette ("Infidele"), from the German of Sudermann, 1910; A Marriage (from Björnsterne Björsen (produced 1904-10), published as book, 1910. Translator of books: Joe Müller, Detective; The Man with the Black Rod, and Mene Tekel (all from the German of A. Groner); A Lesson in Marriage (from the Norwegian of Björnsterne Björsen). Editor and chief translator of German and Scandinavian edition of Mystery and Detective Stories (12 vols.); also many stories in German and Scandinavian Section of Masterpieces of Foreign Literature; leading contributor for German and Scandinavian stories to Transatlantic Tales. Literary critic in The Bookman, North Am. Review. The Forum, etc. Contributor to The Public (Chicago) and Single Tax Review (N.Y. City). Active in single-tax propaganda, writing and lecturing. Progressive Democrat in political views; favors woman suffrage. Mem. Woman's Henry George League of N.Y.; Brooklyn Woman's Single-tax Club, German Land Reform League, Woman's Trade Union League, Am. Playgoers.

COLBURN, Anna Coder (Mrs. Thomas A. Colburn), 2725 A St., Lincoln, Neb.

Born Meadville, Pa., June 17, 1869; dau. Major Daniel R. Coder (Pa. Reserve Vol. Corps, three years in Civil War; twice wounded; three months in Libby Prison) and Ellen J. (Ingersoll) Coder; ed. high school, Meadville, and Allegheny Coll., A.B. '92, A.M. '95; graduate work at Univ. of Neb. (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Meadville, July 30, 1896, Thomas A. Colburn; children: Dorothy E.. b. Jan. 24, 1898; Reed Coder, b. Dec. 27, 1899 (died Sept. 15, 1900); Beatrice Adell, b. April 27, 1901. Teacher in Meadville High School; for three years head of the Latin and French dep'ts of Missouri Wesleyan Coll., Cameron, Mo. Interested In Sunday-school, home and foreign missions and social settlement work. Life mem. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. Against woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae Ass'n, Lincoln; Woman's Club of Lincoln, Neb.; organizer and first leader of Outlook Club.

COLBURN, Iola Burnham (Mrs. M. F. Colburn), 5604 Longpre Av., Hollywood, Cal.

Physician; b. Lincoln, Vt., April 28, 1864; dau. Wolcott H. and Lydia B. (Johnson) Burnham; grad. Univ. of Southern Cal., M.D. 95 m. Riverside, Cal. Dec 23 1884 Rev. M F. Colburn (died 1896). While practising medicine in Minneapolis, was sec. of Women's Med. Ass'n of Minnesota; later assisted to editing Journal of Psycho-Asthenics. At present sup't of Resthaven, the first Psychopathic Parole Society Home in the United States.

COLBURN, Hattie Leonard (Mrs. Edgar Grey Colburn), 1418 Union St., Schenectady, N.Y.

Pianist and teacher; b. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 20, 1858; dau. Charles Egbert and Cynthia (Van Name) Leonard; ed. Chicago public and high school, Sacred Heart Convent, Karl Klindworth school of Music in Berlin, Germany; m. Boston, Mass., Sept. 25, 1895, Edgar Grey Colburn. Had charge of Cornell Coll. Conservatory of Music at Mount Vernon, Ia., for four years; studied with Karl Klindworth, Hans von Bulow and Eugene D'Albert in Berlin, Germany. Founded the music dep't of the woman's club of Schenectady (now pres. for second time of club— 350 members). Organized the Schenectady chapter D.A.R. (regent for the second year). Episcopalian. Mem. Soc. of Mayflower Desendants; Soc. of John Howland Family; Soc. of Andrew Warde Family. Taught piano in Chicago, N.Y. City and Boston, and has been at the head of music in Schenectady for past sixteen years.

COLBY, Clara Bewick, Portland, Oreg.

Lecturer, interpreter of Whitman, writer; b. Gloucester, Eng.; dau. Thomas and Clara Willingham (Chilton) Bewick; ed. Univ. of Wis., Ph.B. Taught in Univ. of Wis., department of Latin and History, edited and published the Woman's Tribune, in Nebraska, 1883-88, Washington, D.C., 1888-1904, Portland, Ore., 1904-09. Delegate to International Congress of Women in London, Eng., 1899, delegated by Governor to represent Oregon in the First International Moral Education Congress, London, 1908, to First International Races' Congress in London, 1911. Vice-pres. Neb. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, from its formation 1881-83, pres. 1883-99. Since formation cor. sec. Federal Woman's Equality Ass'n. Writes magazine articles for Arena, Harper's Bazar, Overland, Englishwoman, etc., and newspaper correspondence. Mem. The Fellowship, International Peace Union, Nat. Woman's Press Ass'n, Oregon Women's Press Ass'n, Higher Thought Center (London), Women's Freedom League, Nat. Political Reform League. Mem. the International Women's Franchise Club, London. Has often appeared before State legislatures and Congressional coms. on behalf of Woman Suffrage. Aided woman suffrage in England in 1908, recently for more than a year, speaking in halls, garden parties, parks, and generally throughout the country.

COLBY, Eleanor, 130 Claremont Av., N.Y. City.

Illustrator, writer, art lecturer; b. Dowagiac, Mich.; dau. Horace Farnham and Lucy Tracy (Perkins) Colby; ed. high school, Oberlin; Chicago Art Inst.; Art Students' League of New York; Pratt Inst., Brooklyn. Ass't supervisor of drawing in St. Louis schools; left this to give lectures chiefly on art topics. Wrote book: Talks to Teachers on Drawing and Painting. Regular contributor of fiction and prose to many women's magazines and editor of girls' pages in the Pictorial Review. Lectures before Women's Club; mem. Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational); pres. of class of 1912 in the Tabernacle. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Talks to Teachers on Drawing and Painting; Stories of the Sextette; The Gregory Twins (Pictorial Review, 1913); has drawn many color pages in the Delineator, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.