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DENNETT—DERICK Nat. Postal Progress League. Mem. Twentieth Century Club (Boston), Manhattan Single Tax Club and Woman's Henry George League (N.Y. City), Boston Equal Suffrage Ass'n for Good Government, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc (N.Y. City).

DENNETT, Maybelle Raymond (Mrs. Tyler Dennett), 1307 W. Forty-seventh St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Born Philadelphia; dau. Prof. George L. and Mary E. (Blake) Raymond; ed. Mt. Vernon Sem., Washington, D.C.; m. Pasadena, Cal., Mar., 1911, Rev. Tyler Dennett. Interested in church work. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. Nat. Soc. Colonial Dames of America, Soc. of Colonial Governors, Soc. Mayflower Descendants of Washington, D.C; life mem. Archaeological Soc Recreation: Electric motoring. Mem. Friday Morning Club and Woman's City Club of Los Angeles, Cal.

DENNEY, Jane Franklin (Mrs. George W. Denney), 504 Randolph St., Knoxville, Tenn.

Born Knoxville, Tenn., May 12, 1878; dau. Daniel C. and Sarah (Havely) Hommel; ed. Public schools and East Tenn. Inst., Knoxville; m. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 3, 1899, George W. Denney; one son: Joseph F. Mem. Suffrage Club of Knoxville, Tenn. Methodist. Elected and served as chairman of Women's Congresses (opened by Speaker Champ Clark) of the Appalachian Exposition, Sept. 12-Oct. 1, 1911. Prominent in civic improvement and school improvement work through Mothers' Ass'n. Pres. of Ossoli Circle, 1912-13, the oldest federated club in the South. Treas. of Bonny Kate Chapter D.A.R. Mem. United Daughters of Confederacy (two terms pres. Knoxville chapter, one term State sec); delegate to Nat. conventions; served one term as Gen. Fed. Sec. for Tennessee, and delegate from that State to Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs, and delegate to Gen. Fed. from Tenn.

DENNIS, Agnes Miller (Mrs. William Dennis), Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Born Halifax, Nova Scotia; m. William Dennis, now proprietor of the Halifax Herald; two sons, five daughters. Mem. and was five years pres. Halifax Local Council of Women. Has been active in work for the Children's Hospital in Halifax, in home gardens for school children, and the supervision of playgrounds and the industrial education of girls; also interested in measures for the welfare of the feeble-minded. Took part in the organization of the Victorian Order of Nurses, and was for six years pres. of its local council in Halifax. Presbyterian; active mem. of Women's B'd of Foreign Missionary Soc. of Presbyterian Church.

DENNIS, Clara Ellen (Mrs. Joseph Gifford Dennis), Portsmouth, R.I.

Teacher 50 years, newspaper correspondent 17 years; b. Jamestown, R.I., Mar. 6, 1844; dau. Edmund Dexter and Catherine Dart (Burdick) Barker; ed. Mystic River Sem., 1861; completed at Conn. Literary Inst. Suffield, Conn.; m. Mystic Bridge, Conn., Dec. 6, 1868, Joseph Gifford Dennis of Portsmouth, R.I. Interested in activities of Christian Church, Friends Church and Episcopal Church, Ladies' Aid and Ladies' Ass'n, Benevolent Soc. of Portsmouth; mem. Y.M.C.A. Auxiliary of Newport, D.A.R., Missionary Soc, Portsmouth. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Newport County Woman Suffrage League (reporter). Protestant Episcopal. Republican. Mem. Unity Club, Oliphant Club, Current Topics Club; director Board of R.I. State Fed. Women's Clubs (chairman Patriotic Education Com.).

DENNIS, Fannie A. Murdoch (Mrs. I. Upshur Dennis), 605 Park Av., Baltimore, Md.

Born Port Gibson, Claborne Co., Miss.; dau. John and Frances Louise (Bristoe) Murdoch; ed. by private governesses and tutors, also in N.Y. City school (Mrs. Judge Hoffman's), Dresden and Paris, France; m. Baltimore, 1881, Judge t. Upshur Dennis; children: J. Murdoch, Frances Louise, Dora Louise. Member of the Society of King's Daughters. Actively opposed to woman suffrage (mem. Maryland anti-suffrage organization). Presbyterian (Southern Assembly). Deeply interested in the work for the young of all classes, and in sympathy with every effort to revive the old-time study of the Bible and reverence for the purity of Sunday-keeping in North America.

DENNY, Elizabeth Bell Marshall (Mrs. Harmar D. Denny). 811 Ridge Av., Pittsburgh, North Side, Pa.

Daughter Archibald and Mary (Bell) Marshall; ed. Pittsburgh private schools; m. Pittsburgh, June 5, 1884, Harmar Denny Denny; children: Harmar Denny Jr., Archibald Marshall. Mem. Pittsburgh Golf Club, Allegheny Country Club. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage.

DENTON, Clara Janetta, 40 W. Pleasant St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Author; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. David M. Fort, M.D., and Glorvina (Mullowny) Fort; ed. private school for girls in Philadelphia, Pa.; m. Detroit, Mich., L. B. Denton; children: Clinton A., Mamie A., L. Bradley. For some years successful reference librarian at Grand Rapids, Mich. Author: Little People's Dialogues; Little Lines for Little Speakers; From Tots to Teens; Twinkling Fingers; The Brownies' Quest; Topsy on the Top Floor; Entertainments for All the Year; Holiday Facts and Fancies, etc. Episcopalian. Mem. Grand Rapids Woman's Club (founder and first pres.). Recreations: Reading, traveling. Opposed to woman suffrage.

DERBY, Gertrude James (Mrs. Warren Eveleth Derby), Chestnut St., Englewood, N.J.

Born Brooklyn, N.Y., 1867; dau. Darwin Rush and Mary Ellen (Fairchild) James; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. (mem. Alpha Soc); m. Brooklyn, April 3, 1894, Warren Eveleth Derby; children: Eveleth, Gertrude Fairohild, Dorothea. Presbyterian. Clubs: Smith College, Englewood Woman's.

DERBY, Lillie Gill (Mrs. Earle Clarke Derby), Columbus, O.

Born Columbus, O., Aug. 24, 1870; dau. William Alfred and Belinda Strother (Mitchell) Gill; m. Columbus, O., Nov. 15, 1892, Earle Clarke Derby. Trustee Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; former pres. Columbus Art Ass'n; hon. vice-pres. Nat. Arts Club of N.Y. City. Mem. Order of the Crown of America, Pilgrim Soc, Columbus Art Students' League, Columbus Art Ass'n. Against woman suffrage.

DERBY, Margaret Leonard (Mrs. Samuel Carroll Derby), 93 Fifteenth Av., Columbus, O.

Born Hinsdale, N.H., Feb. 18, 1867; dau. William S. and Martha E. (Greenwood) Leonard; ed. Hinsdale High School; Westfield (Mass.) Normal School; Radcliffe Coll., A.B. '98; m. Winchester, N.H., Aug. 29, .1903, Samuel Carroll Derby; one daughter: Margaret Leonard, 1905. Teacher high schools, Hinsdale and Winchester, N.H.; Prospect Hill School, Greenfield, Mass.; Berkely St. School for Girls, Cambridge, Mass. Traveled and studied in Europe, 1901, 1903, 1904. Founder and pres. Columbus Home and School Ass'n, 1911-13; mem. Board of Managers of Associated Charities; mem. Social Worker's Club, Saturday (literary) Club, Women's Club of Ohio State Univ. Author: Home and School (monograph). Pres. Columbus Ass'n Collegiate Alumna?, 1908-09; Radcliffe Alumnae Ass'n, Harvard Teachers' Ass'n, 1898-1903; Boston College Club, 1898-1903; English Club, Radcliffe Club. Recreations: Gardening. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; founder and first pres. College Equal Suffrage League, 1908, Columbus, O.

DERICK, Carrie Matilda, Department of Botany, McGill University, Montreal, Can.

Professor of botany; b. Clarenceville, P.Q., Can., Jan. 14, 1862; dau. Frederick and Edna (Colton) Derick (on father's side descendant of United Empire Loyalists; on mother's from American families of Colton, Curtis and Wilcox); ed. Clarenceville Acad.; McGill Normal School (Prince of Wales medalist); McGill Univ. (Logan gold medalist), B.A. '90, M.A. '96; Harvard Univ.