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Rh DEY, Sophie Schuyler (Mrs. Henry E. Dey), Pelham Manor, N.Y.

Artist; b. St. Louis, 1872; dau. Rev. Montgomery and Sophie (Norton) Schuyler; ed. St. Louis Art School; studied in Paris one year with Raphael Colin; mem. Art Students' League of N.Y.; m. Sept. 4, 1907, Henry E. Dey, artist. Exhibited pictures in N.Y. Water Color Soc, N.Y. Soc. of Am. Artists, Western Artists; painted decoration in Spanish Church, N.Y. City. Has worked in girls' clubs in N.Y. City. Associate mem. Girls' Friendly Soc. and active in the Pelham branch. Mem. New Rochelle Equal Franchise League and has marched in all N.Y. City parades.

DIBBLE, Wealthy, Saginaw, Mich.

Physician; b. Flint, Mich., Jan. 23, 1854; dau. Samuel and Juliza (Hill) Dibble; grad. Univ. of Mich., M.D., 1886. Has since been engaged in general practice as physician and surgeon at Saginaw, Mich. Mem. Woman's Hospital Staff, Saginaw. Mem. Saginaw Co. Med. Soc., Mich. State Med. Soc, Am. Med. Ass'n, Alpha Epsilon Iota (Beta Chapter), Saginaw Valley Alumni Ass'n of Univ. of Mich. Favors woman suffrage. Recreations: Travel, reading.

DIBERT, Florence M., 601 Franklin St., Johnstown, Pa.

Born Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 1, 1865; dau. David and Lydia (Griffith) Dibert; ed. public schools, private school and English Classical School of Johnstown (grad ). Interested in Parent-Teachers' Ass'n, and all forms of ethics meaning humane interests. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Pa. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Methodist. Republican (Progressive). Mem. D.A.R., Memorial Hospital Ass'n, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, Home Missionary Soc, W.C.T.U., Child Labor Ass'n, Humane Soc, Y.M.C.A. Auxiliary, Associated Charities, Playground Ass'n. Pres. Civic Club, Art League. Board mem. of State Fed. of Pa. Women.

DICK, Allie Luse (Mrs. Samuel Medary Dick), 302 Oak Grove, Minneapolis, Minn.

Musician, artist; b. Clyde, O.; dau. John W. Luse, M.D., and Elizabeth (Patterson) Luse; ed. Oberlin Coll.; Howard Female Coll., A.B.; pupil in music of Madame Emma Seiler, William B. Chamberlain and William H. Sherwood; m. Clyde, O., June 28, 1888, Rev. Samuel Medary Dick, Methodist Episcopal clergyman. Identified with various religious, social, philanthropic and educational activities. Methodist. State vice regent D.A.R.; vice-pres. Thursday Musical; vice-pres. Minneapolis branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc; mem. Minn. State Art Soc, Shakespeare Club. Favors woman suffrage.

DICK, Mary Henrietta (Mrs. Albert Blake Dick), Lake Forest, Ill.

Born Schenectady, N.Y.; dau. Charles H. and Eliza (Sheldon) Mathews; ed. Miss Comstock's School, N.Y. City; m. Geneva, Switzerland, June 1, 1892, Albert Blake Dick; children: Albert Blake Jr., Charles Mathews, Edison, Sheldon. Mem. Friday Club of Chicago* York Club of N.Y. City. Presbyterian.

DICKERMAN, Elizabeth Street, 140 Cottage St., New Haven, Conn.

Teacher; b. West Haven, Conn., Nov. 13, 1872; dau. Rev. G. S. and Elizabeth M. (Street) Dickerman; ed. high school, Amherst, Mass.; Smith Coll., B.A. '94; Yale Univ., Ph.D. '96. Taught in dep't of mathematics, College for Women of Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, O., 1906-07; Ingleside School, New Milford, Conn.; since 1907, mathematics and psychology. Congregationalist. Does not favor woman suffrage.

DICKERMAN, Mabel Stone (Mrs. Charles Kent Dickerman), 530 E. Twenty-fourth Av., Duluth, Minn.

Born Minneapolis, Minn., 1878; dau. Jacob and Kate (Perrin) Stone; ed. Univ. of Minn., B.A. (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Minneapolis, 1902, Charles Kent Dickerman; children: Gilbert Kent, Kate Perrin, Elizabeth Greene. Episcopalian. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae Society.

DICKERSON, Emeline Fletcher (Mrs. Charles E. Dickerson), East Northfield, Mass.

Born Waterville, Me.; dau. Col. Stephen and Vesta (Marble) Fletcher; ed. Colby Univ., B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa); M. A. class '91 (Sigma Kappa); m. Monson, Me., Aug. 14, 1896, prof. Charles E. Dickerson; one son: Charles E. Interested in Baptist missions and life mem. Am. Baptist Foreign Missionary Soc Baptist. Instructor in Greek in the Northfield schools for four years.

DICKERSON, Mary Cynthia, care Museum of Natural History, N.Y. City.

Zoologist, lecturer, author; b. Hastings, Mich.; dau. Wilbur F. and Melissa R. Dickerson; ed. University of Michigan and University of Chicago, B.S. '97; also student at several periods at U.S. Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. Taught biology in high schools at Grand Rapids, Mich., 1891-94, and La Grange, Ill., 1894-95; head of dep't of zoology and botany in R.I. Normal School, Providence, 1897-1905; instructor in zoology, Leland Stanford Jr. Univ., 1907-08; since 1908 on the scientific staff of Am. Museum of Natural History, N.Y. City, in which is curator of the dep't of woods and forestry, and asso. curator of herpetology. Mem. staff of lecturers under Board of Education of City of N.Y. since 1908. Editor of the American Museum Journal. Author: Moths and Butterflies, 1901; Frog Book — North American Frogs and Toads, 1905; Trees and Forestry, an Elementary Treatise Based on the Jesup Collection of North American Woods in the American Museum of Natural History, 1911; also contributions on nature subjects to Country Life in America and other periodicals. Mem. A.A.A.S., Am. Forestry Ass'n, Am. Ornithologists' Union, N.Y. Acad. of Sciences.

DICKEY, Jane Murdock (Mrs. Alfred Clare Dickey), 802 Aiken Av., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 25, 1875; dau. Alexander and Lydia (McMaster) Murdock; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '98; mem. Phi Beta Kappa (Mu Chapter); m. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 14, 1906, Alfred Clare Dickey. Sec. Home Mission Soc. in Shadyside Church; mem. local Vassar organization and much interested in its work. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Recreation: Travel. Mem. Twentieth Century Club of Pittsburgh.

DICKEY, Louise Atherton (Mrs. Samuel Dickey), 4 Chalmers PI., Chicago, Ill.

Born Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 28, 1881; dau. Thomas Henry and Melanie (Parke) Atherton; ed. Wilkes-Barre Inst., Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '03; m. Feb. 26, 1908, Samuel Dickey, prof. McCormick Theological Sem.; children: Parke Atherton, John Miller. Teacher for eighteen months in a mission school of India; now connected with Olivet Inst., a settlement in Chicago. Mem. Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the Northwest; belongs to the Sagamore Sociological Conference. Favors woman suffrage, but not actively. Published: Himalayan Sketches (Atlantic Monthly, April, 1908). Presbyterian. Recreations: Walking, driving. Mem. Young Fortnightly, Chicago.

DICKEY, Sarah Ida Phillips (Mrs. John Jay Dickey), Stanford, Ky.

School teacher, milliner, deaconess; b. Weston, Nicholas Co., Ky., Jan. 25, 1861; dau. Martin Penn and Nancy D. (Lawson) Phillips; ed. Fleming Co., Ky., and Vermont (Ill.) High School, and Chicago Training School for Home and Foreign Missionaries; m. Flemingsburg, Ky., Jan. 24, 1901, Rev. John Jay Dickey. Teacher 10 years in Ky., Iowa and Ill.; 10 years milliner in Vermont and Table Grove, Ill.; 10 years sup't Sunday-school; pres. Epworth League five years; rebuilt church, supervising the finances and construction at Vermont, Ill. Established Deaconess Home and Hospital at Peoria, Ill., in 1898 (acting financial agent). Pres. Ky. Conference Home Mission Soc, 1902-07; conference cor. sec. of same, 1907-12; chairman of Com. on State Schools of Reform at Lexington, Ky. Favors woman suffrage. Author of articles in church papers and local newspapers. Has written several poems. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Progressive Prohibitionist. Mem. Woman's Missionary Soc, W.C.T.U., Southern Sociological Congress, State Sunday-school Ass'n. Recreations: Music, reading, driving. Mem.