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Rh Virginia; lawyer) and Jane C. (Alston) Cabell; ed. private schools in Richmond, Va., and in N.Y. City; m. Richmond, Va., Feb. 1, 1862, Major Herbert Augustine Claiborne (Major Confederate States Army, lawyer, pres. Mutual Assurance Soc. of Va.); children: Jeanie Alston, Herbert Augustine, and Hamilton Cabell Claiborne; m. Richmond, Va., June 21, 1905, William Ruffin Cox (general in Army of Northern Virginia; mem. 47th, 48th and 49th Congresses; sec. U.S. Senate; Judge Circuit Court of North Carolina). Sec. Female Humane Ass'n of the City of Richmond; mem. Woman's Christian Ass'n, Woman's Auxiliary. Episcopalian. Pres. Nat. Soc. Colonial Dames of America; pres. Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia; vice-pres. Ass'n for Preservation Virginia Antiquities; regent for South Carolina Confederate Memorial Literary Soc; chairman for Virginia Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors; mem. Order of the Crown, First Families of Virginia, 1607-20; George Washington Memorial Ass'n, D.A.R. United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mem. Woman's Club, Country Club (Richmond, Va.), Club of Colonial Dames (Washington, D.C.).

COX, Lenore Hanna (Mrs. Lewis J. Cox), The Roost, Terre Haute, Ind.

Born Wooster, O.; dau. John and Mary (Huffman) Hanna; grad. Univ. of Wooster, A.B. '85, A.M. '87 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Wooster, O., Aug. 20, 1889, Lewis Joseph Cox; children: Robert Sayre, Dorothy H., Lenore Hanna, Jr., Elizabeth H. Teacher Latin and Greek one year Central Normal School, Danville, O.; three years at Monticello Sem., Godfrey, Ill. Pres. and sec. of Terre Haute Civic League; first vice-pres. Ind. Federation of Clubs, active in Art Ass'n. Pres. Terre Haute branch Women's Equal Franchise League. Mem. Country Club, Terre Haute Woman's Club, Art Section, and Ind. Alumna? of Kappa Alpha Theta. Recreations: Golf, bridge whist.

COX, Louise Howland King (Mrs. Kenyon Cox), 130 E. 67th St., N.Y. City.

Painter; b. San Francisco June 23, 1865; dau. James and Anna (Stott) King; ed. Nat. Acad. of Design and Art Students' League, N.Y. City; m. Belmont, Mass., June 30, 1892, Kenyon Cox; children: Leonard, Allyn and Caroline. Associate of Nat. Acad. of Design (elected 1902). Awarded third Hallgarten prize Nat. Academy Design 1896; bronze medal, Paris Universal Exposition, 1900; silver medal, Pan Am. Exposition, Buffalo, 1902; Julia Shaw memorial prize, Soc. Am. Artists, 1903; Silver medal, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. Represented in Nat. Gallery of Art, Washington. Recreation: Gardening. Against woman suffrage.

COX, Luella Alice Carr (Mrs. Frank Henry Cox), Farmer City, Ill.

Born Whitehall, Greene Co., Ill., Sept. 27, 1862; dau. William and Theresa Octavia (Smith) Carr; ed. Whitehall public school; m. Whitehall, June 6, 1880, Frank Henry Cox; children: Melissa, Theresa, Clay W., Lafayette, Honora Harriet. Universalist. Mem. Order of Eastern Star (worthy matron), Shakespeare Club, Easy Chair Club, O.E.S. Club of Farmer City.

COX, Mary Brannon (Mrs. George Harvey Cox), 314 E. Fourth St., Owensboro, Ky.

Born Owensboro, Ky., March 81, 1858; dau. John H. (of Va.) and Elizabeth (Walden) Brannon; ed. private schools, three finishing years in Vaughain Sem. (now extinct), Owensboro; m. Owensboro, Nov. 29, 1876, George Harvey Cox; one son: E. Pettit. Organized Current Events Club. Elected pres. every year since its organization in 1907; one of four to organize Woman's Club, in 1908; served two years as sec; has been and is on several State Federation corns. Baptist. Democrat. is interested in all church matters; worker and teacher in Sunday-school; mem. all church societies, and especially active in its philanthropic work.

COX, Mary Nichols (Mrs. John Cox Jr.), Chappaqua, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Marshall Co., Ia., 1869; dau. Benjamin F. and Lauretta (Hessin) Nichols; ed. Ia. State Coll., B.L. '91, M.Sc. '93 (Junior orator, editor Coll. magazine, graduate fellow), Cornell Univ., D.Sc '96 (mem. Sigma Xi fraternity); m. N.Y. City, June 30, 1900, John Cox, Jr., architect; children: Hope, Martha. Nat. Science teacher in high schools of Des Moines and N.Y. City, Ia. State Coll., Cornell Univ. Summer School, and N.Y. State Insts. Principal Friends private prep, school, and Dame's School for small children, now conducted in own home. Mem. Friends Educational Com. Dist. Nursing Ass'n; school trustee, mem. Village Improvement Soc, Nat. Purity Alliance. Has published scientific researches: Archenial Hairs; Fruiting of Vaucheria; Symplocarpus foetidus; Nuclear Development in Pyrenomycetous Fungi. Mem. Hicksite Friends. Progressive Republican. Mem. Crescent Literary Soc, Cornell Natural History Soc (pres. 1896), Associate mem. A.A.A.S. and Nat. Microscopical Soc Recreations: Skating, tennis, swimming, experimental farming, dancing, bridge. Clubs: Chappaqua (Woman's, Shakespeare, Musical and Literary (Chappaqua). One of the two first women taking the degree of D.Sc. in America; studied, by special permission, in botanical laboratory of Columbia Univ., 1896.

COX, Rose Marion, 659 Mulberry St., Terre Haute, Ind.

Assistant professor of German; b. Terre Haute, Ind.; dau. James and Mary (Engle) Cox; ed. Terre Haute High School; Ind. State Normal; Ind. Univ., A.B.; Cornell Univ., A.M.; Berlin Univ.; Chicago Univ. General assistant in Ind. State Normal, 1900-08; assistant prof, of German in same, 1908-. Pres. Terre Haute Woman's Club. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Franchise League in Normal School.

COYLE, Susan Edmond, 1326 Nineteenth St., Washington, D.C.

Teacher of history and English; b. Princeton, N.J., 1871; dau. Leonidas Edmond and Georgiana (Dunn) Coyle; ed. Ivy Hall, Bridgeton, N.J.; Central High School, Washington, D.C; Smith Coll., B.A.; Yale Univ.; Bryn Mawr Coll. Interested in social work in general. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Nat. Child Labor Com., Am. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Nat. Organization for Public Health Nursing, Am. Historical Ass'n, Am. Political Science Ass'n. Recreation: Walking.

COYNE, Grace Margaret, Tiverton, R.I.

Teacher; b. Woonsocket, R.I., Sept. 11, 1887; dau. John Francis and Jane Elizabeth (King) Coyne; ed. Punchard High School, Andover, Mass. (winner of Goldsmith prize, 1906); R.I. Coll., Kingston, R.I. Prin. Osborn Grammar School, Tiverton, R.I. Lecturer of Nanaquaket Grange Patrons of Husbandry No. 49; director in several Civic Guards; mem. Ladies' Improvement Soc. for Social Good. Recreations: Tennis, basketball. Catholic Favors woman suffrage; mem. Newport Co. (R.I.) Equal Suffrage League.

CRABTREE, Lotta M., 50 W. Fifty-first St., N.Y. City.

Actress; b. N.Y. City, 1849; dau. John Ashworth and Mary Ann (Livesey) Crabtree; ed. by private tuition. Went to California in 1852. First appearance on stage in amateur theatricals, between 1857-58; played Gertrude in Loan of a Lover at Petaluma, Cal. Traveled through California playing English farces in own company, managed by her mother. At fourteen returned to N.Y. City and for many seasons appeared in all the cities of the U.S. in Little Nell and the Marchioness, Pet of the Petticoats, Zip, Bob, Musette, Firefly, etc, until retirement. Recreations: Painting, automobiling, out-door life.

CRAFT, Marthanna (Mrs. F. G. Craft), Liberty, Ind., R.D. No. 4.

Born Liberty, Ind., Jan. 7, 1868; dau. Corydon Richmond and Mary (Tappan) Brattaire; ed. Liberty High School; m. April 6, 1887, F. G. Craft; children: Leo Corydon, Harry William. Assists husband, who is manager of the Liberty Creamery Co. (an extensive enterprise), in the clerical work, and in conducting the well-equipped dairy farm on which they live. Reared in Quaker faith, but now Presbyterian. Mem. Pythian Sisters, Order of Eastern Star, Woman's Missionary Soc, Mothers' Club and other