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Rh CURTIS, Constance, 331 W. Seventy-sixth St., N.Y. City.

Artist; b. Washington, D. C; dau. Edward and Augusta L. (Stacey) Curtis; ed. in N.Y. City, Art Students' League. Exhibited at Paris Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair, at London and in principal art exhibitions in U.S. Pres. Art Workers' Club for Women. Episcopalian. Mem. Art Students' League of N.Y., Women's Municipal League, Women's Political Union. Favors woman suffrage.

CURTIS, Elizabeth, 27 W. 47th St., N.Y. City (summer, York Harbor, Me.).

Artist; b. N.Y. City; dau. William Edmond (chief justice of the Superior Court in N.Y. City) and Mary Ann (Scovill) Curtis. Studied under William M. Chase, John Twatchman and Claude Monet. Exhibited at Am. Artists in N.T2. City and Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

CURTIS, Elnora Whitman, Bigelow Hill, Worcester, Mass.

Born in Worcester, Mass., daughter of Edwin Prentice and Harriet Augusta (Bigelow) Curtis; ed. Worcester public schools and Burnham School, Northampton, Mass.; Smith Coll., B.A.. '92; Clark Univ., M.A. '08, Ph.D. '10. Author: The Dramatic Instinct in Education, Sept., 1908 (Pedagogical Seminary); Out-Door Schools (Pedagogical Seminary, June, 1909); The American City, Dec., 1909, and Jan., 1910.

CURTIS, Emma Ghent (Mrs. James Curtis), Cyanide Av., Canon City, Colo.

Born Frankfort, Ind., May 18, 1860; dau. Ira K. and Mary (Palmer) Ghent; grad. of Frankfort (Ind.) High School, class of '77; m. Canon City, Jan. 2, 1882, James Curtis (ranchman); children: Benjamin K., Mary M. For three years was commissioner of Colo. State Industrial School for Boys. Favors woman suffrage; was active in campaign that brought woman suffrage to Colorado. Author (novels): The Fate of a Fool; The Administratrix; also many poems and short stories in different periodicals. Progressive. Interested in raising flowers. Mem. of one neighborhood historical and literary club, all members being ranch women.

CURTIS, Frances (Mrs. Thomas Pelham Curtis), 447 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Born San Francisco, Cal, 1871; dau. Gen. M. P Small, U.S.A., and Mary (Pratt) Small; m Baltimore, Md., Aug. 4, 1892, Thomas Pelham Curtis; children: Clarissa, T. J., H. Pelham. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Boston Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Exec. Board Mass. Suffrage Ass'n, Ways and Means Com. of Woman Suffrage Party; leader of Ward 11, Boston.

CURTIS, Georgina Pell, 5000 N. Ashland Av., Chicago, Ill.

Author; b. N.Y. City, Feb. 19, 1859; dau. Alfred Leonard and Maria Elizabeth (Hill) Curtis; ed. St. Mary's (P.E.) School, N.Y., grad. with honors Author: Trammelings; The Romance of a Chap-Book. Editor: Some Roads to Rome in America; The American Catholic Who's Who. Catholic (convert). Contributed to The Catholic World, Ave Maria, The Messenger, Magnificat, The Rosary, Harper's Bazar, and Harper's Young People. Recreation: Travel (coaching in Europe). Of Colonial Dutch and Mayflower descent; direct descendant of Peregrine White, first white child born after parents landed from the Mayflower. Also descended in direct line from Jacobus Van De Water, mayor of New Amsterdam in 1673.

CURTIS, Ida Maynard, 25 Kinross Rd., Boston,

Art teacher; b. Lewisburg, Pa.; dau. Thomas Turner and Anne (Turner) Custer; ed. Boston schools and Cornell Univ. B.L. Commenced as teacher of science, devoting much time to chemistry, working gradually in art lines with 2 years' study in Paris, until drawing and painting has become her exclusive work; now art teacher in a Boston high school. Fond of travel both in this country and abroad, and of wild ranch life, canoeing, camping, etc. Unitarian. Mem. Copley Soc. of Artists, Browning Soc., Teachers' Club of Boston.

CURTIS, Isabel Gordon (Mrs. Francis Curtis), The Woodley, Washington, D.C.

Author; b. Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, April 24, 1863; dau. Peter and Elizabeth (Ragg) Gordon; ed. Gordon School, Huntly; Milne's Acad., Fochabers, Scotland; m. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 6, 1896, Frances Curtis. Came to America, 1886, entered newspaper work in Springfield, Mass., continuing the profession until marriage. Did editorial work on husband's paper in Binghamton, N.Y., four years; became associate editor on Good Housekeeping in 1900. Seven years later went on the editorial staff of Success Magazine. Has done much work upon magazines—short stories, interviewing and special articles; has now relinquished editorial connections to devote time to fiction and short story writing. Author: The Making of a Housewife; The Woman from Wolverton; Old Luce; The Lapse of Enoch Wentworth. Against woman suffrage.

CURTIS, Laura Elizabeth (Mrs. E. L. Curtis), 91 Linden St., New Haven, Conn.

Born St. Helena, Cal., Nov. 27, 1859; dau. Ben E. S. and Elizabeth E. (McElroy) Ely; grad. Rockford Coll., '81; m. April 27, 1882, Edward Lewis Curtis, Ph.D. (prof. of Hebrew and Old Testament Theology in Yale Univ.); children: Elizabeth Eudora, Margaret, Edward Ely, Laura Dorothea. Interested in foreign missions, having been vice-pres. New Haven Branch of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, also interested in philanthropic work, and in the Conn. Fed. of Women's Clubs (former mem. Exec. B'd). Against woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Study Club of New Haven.

CURTIS, Mabel Gair, 49A Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Mass.

Teacher of Latin; b. Boston, 1866; dau. Nelson and Jane E. (Gilbert) Curtis; ed. Newton, Mass.; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '90 (mem. Phi Sigma). Sec. of Boston Wellesley College Club; chairman of Program Com. of Somerville (Mass.) Teachers' Club; chairman of directors of Denison House; pres. of class of 1890, Wellesley. Doing research work for Women's Appointment Bureau of Educational and Industrial Union, Boston; mem. College Settlement Ass'n, Classical Ass'n of New England, Boston Wellesley College Club, College Club of Boston, Somerville Teachers' Club. Recreations: Skating, snowshoeing, tramping, theatre, concerts, opera. Congregationalist. Against woman suffrage. Progressive in politics.

CURTIS, Mrs. Nannie Webb, Waco, Tex.

Lecturer; b. Hardin Co., Texas, 1861; dau. Rev. D. J. and Julia Ann (Couch) Austin; ed. public schools of Mississippi and North Texas Female Coll., Sherman, Tex.; m. (1st) 1881, W. J. Webb; (2d) 1893, I. S. Curtis; children: W. Earl Webb, Roy Orson Webb, Clyde Lee Webb. Entered the service of the W.C.T.U., 1900, as State organizer for Texas W.C.T.U.; was made national organizer and lecturer, 1907; was elected, 1909, and still is pres. of Texas W.C.T.U. Made a mem. of the Sociological Conference, Nashville, Tenn., 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Lincoln Lyceum, lecturing in Chatauqua on "Woman, Her Progress and Future" and "The Country's Greatest Need"; mem. Internat. Lyceum Ass'n. Editor Texas White Ribbon, Austin; collaborator Red Back medical journal, Austin, Tex. Methodist (South). Mem. Child Welfare Conference, State sup't of temperance in International Sunday-School Ass'n for Texas; Nat. vice-pres. W.C.T.U.

CURTIS, Natalie, 33 W. 69th St., N.Y. City.

Musician, author; b. N.Y. City; dau. Dr. Edward Curtis and A.L. (Stacey) Curtis; ed. N.Y. City; studied music in France and Germany, and traveled extensively in the United States studying and collecting the songs of the Am. Indians. Lectured frequently before scientific and educational insts. Sec. Schola Cantorum of N.Y.; vice-pres. Music School Settlement for Children; mem. Ladies' Auxiliary of the N.Y. Philharmonic Soc, of the Auxiliary of the Inst. of Music Art; mem. Executive Com. of the Symphony Concerts for Young People; mem. of