Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/208

220 Peary in the polar controversy. Mem. Grad. Council of Wellesley Coll., Eliot Branch Nat. Alliance of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian Women, Civic League of St. Louis, Soc. for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Hosmer Hall Alumnae Ass'n, Consumers' League, Wellesley Club of St. Louis, College Club of St. Louis, Wednesday Club. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage League.

CRUNDEN, Elizabeth Chittenden (Mrs. Frank Payne Crunden), 4426 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Keokuk, Ia., June 21, 1865; dau. A. B. and Elizabeth Talcott (Bates) Chittenden; ed. Keokuk High School; m. Keokuk, Ia., Aug. 25, 1886, Frank Payne Crunden; children: Walter Morgan, b. June, 1887; Mary, b. June, 1890; Elizabeth Bates, b. Sept., 1892; Arthur Chittenden, b. Nov., 1894; George Fauchon, b. 1898; Catherine, b. 1903. Mem. Ethical Soc., Wednesday Club, Social Service Conference, Artists' Guild, Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Civic League, Colonial Daughters, Daughters of Governors, pres. St. Louis Equal Suffrage League.

CUDEBACH, Edith E. (Mrs. G. L. Cudebach), 112 Colorado Av., Lorain, Ohio.

Club woman; b. Lake Breeze, O., Jan. 31, 1874; dau. Arthur and Fannie (Smith) Austin; grad. Lorain High School 1893; m. Lorain County, Jan. 6, 1897, Capt. G. L. Cudebach. Teacher of a Sunday-school class of high school girls for past 10 years. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Woman's Ass'n of the Congregational Church, Social Settlement Organization, the Public Library Board. Recreation: Trips up the Lakes. Clubs: The Lorain Sorosis (pres. 1911-12), The Round Table (conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Cudebach).

CUINET, L. Adele, 152 Henry St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dental surgeon; b. Hoboken, N.J., 1860; dau. L. Constant and Zenobia (Humbert) Cuinet; grad. Model School, Trenton, N.J., '81, Pa. Coll. of Dental Surgery, D.D.S. '85; delegate to Dental Convention, World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. Lectured for several years to Nurses of Memorial Hospital for Women and Children; lecturer on hygiene of mouth and care of teeth. Author of various articles for newspapers and magazines. Episcopalian. Mem. 2d District Dental Soc. of N.Y. City; vice-pres. Memorial Dispensary for Women and Children. Mem. Physicians and Surgeons branch of the Woman's Political Equality League, Women's Suffrage Party, Women's Political Union, People's Equality League of Brooklyn. Recreations: Traveling and week-ends in country home at Valley Stream, L.I.

CULBERSON, Mrs. Sherwood Franklin, Portales, N.Mex.

Teacher; b. Aberdeen, Miss., 1846; dau. Rev. George W. and Eva (Prewett) Coopwood; ed. primary schools and Aberdeen Female Coll., M.E.; m. (1st) John A. Morgan; (2d) Dr. S. F. Culberson; children: Annie J. Morgan (now Mrs. R. F. Culberson), Davis H. Morgan (deceased), Lois Morgan (deceased). Teaoher (now county sup't of schools of Roosevelt Co., N.Mex.); was reelected to second term of office, Nov., 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. M.E. Church, South. Democrat (voter in school elections). Mem. Eastern Star, Woman's Club of Portales; chairman of Educational Com. of N.Mex. State Fed. of Women's Clubs.

CULBERTSON, Anne Virginia, Zanesville, Ohio.

Writer, author, reader; b. Zanesville, Ohio; daughter of Surgeon Howard Culbertson, U.S.A., and Marie Louise (Safford) Culbertson; grad. Putnam Sem., Zanesville. Made debut as author and reader at house of Postmaster General Wanamaker, and since then has appeared in all the principal cities, at many Chautauquas, before prominent clubs, and in private salons, reading her own productions in prose and verse. Favors woman suffrage. Books: Lays of a Wandering Minstrel; At the Big House; Banjo Talks; contributor to various magazines and periodicals. Episcopalian. Mem. The All Around Club, Zanesville. Writer and interpreter of various dialects. Including that of the Middle West, negro dialect, and the speech of the mountain whites of the South.

CULBERTSON, Belle Caldwell (Mrs. John Newton Culbertson), 1358 Quincy St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Born Wheeling, W.Va., Feb. 23, 1857; dau. James Yarnall and Mary Travis (Newman) Caldwell (Scotch-Irish and English Quaker descent; direct descendant from Hon. Francis Yarnall ol the Provincial Legislature of Pa., 1744-48); ed Hollidaysburg (Pa.) Female Sem.; grad. State Normal School, Fairmont, W.Va., '76; Wheeling Female Coll. (valedictorian), '77; m. Bangkok, Indo-China, Jan. 9, 1880, Rev. John Newton Culbertson, Presbyterian minister; children: Agnes Breckenridge, Keren Whittier, John Travis M., Helen Wilson, Robert C, Gladys Isabel. Taught in Wheeling Female Coll., one year; in 1878 went as missionary, under Presbyterian Board of Missions, to Indo-China, and was for two years principal of the Girls' Boarding School at Bangkok, Siam; owing to her ill health the family returned to America, 1881; located in S.Dak., where a home mission church was established in charge of her husband and herself; resident of Washington, D.C, since 1887, where is active in religious and philanthropic work. Pres Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of Presbytery of Washington City; pres. Woman's Inter-Denominational Missionary Union of Dist. of Columbia since 1906; mem. Exec. Boards of Anti-Saloon League, W.C.T.U., and for several years past has been vice-pres. Mothers' Congress of D.C. Especially active in efforts to promote interdenominational Christian unity. Writer for religious press; translator of German fiction, notably: Sunnyheart's Trial; A Christmas Story for Children, translated from the German of Emily von Rhoden, which ran as a serial in the Lutheran Observer, 1910. Recreation: Music.

CULBERTSON, Eliza Mary, Post Bldg., Appleton, Wis.

Physician; b. Grenville, Wis., Feb. 11, 1866; dau. John and Rachel Esther (Prentice) Culbertson; ed. Oshkosh Normal School, Am School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. (mem. Axis Club). Treas. of Wis. State Osteopath Ass'n seven years; mem. Nat. Ass'n. State Ass'n and of the Fox River Valley Ass'n. Leader Health Culture Club of Appleton. Mem Deborah Rebekah Lodge, No. 13. Favors woman suffrage.

CULBERTSON, Emma V. P. B., 33 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.

Physician; b. New Albany, Ind., Dec. 2, 1854 dau. John Craighead and Mary Pintard (Bicknell) Culbertson; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '77 (Phi Beta Kappa), M.A. '81; Woman's Med Coll. of Pa., M.D., 1881. First woman elected to the American Academy of Medicine; attending surgeon New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston. Mem. Mass. Suffrage Ass'n, Equal Suffrage Ass'n for Good Government Coll. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Unitarian. Mem New England Hospital Medical Soc, Mass Med. Soc, Am. Acad. Medicine, Woman's Municipal League, Nat. Geog. Soc, Am. Forestry Ass'n, School Voters' League, Boston. Clubs: Coll. (Boston), Univ. (N.Y. City), Pentagon (Boston).

CULVER, Eugenia Margaret, Glencoe, Ill.

Physician; b. Chicago, Ill., Dec 16, 1868; dau Morton and Eugenia Marcey (Taylor) Culver; ed. Glencoe public school; Northwestern Preparatory, Evanston, Ill., also Evanston School; Ill. Med. Coll., Chicago; Ill. School of Electro-Therapeutics, Chicago; Mary Thompson Hospital School for Nurses. Upon receiving M.D. took the interneship in Mary Thompson Hospital after which became mem. of the staff. Health commissioner of Glencoe. Pres. of Altar Guild of St. Elizabeth. Glencoe; pres. of Woman's Auxiliary of St Elizabeth. Glencoe. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Woman's Library Club of Glencoe, Ill.