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Rh DIEFENBACH, Ruth Sinclair (Mrs. Arthur Charles Diefenbach), 133 Washington St., Benton Harbor, Mich.

Born Tilsonburg, Ontario, Can., April 4, 1878; dau. George and Margaret Jane (Brown) Sinclair; ed. Toronto public school and Collegiate Inst; grad. Port Huron High School, 1896; Olivet Coll., Mich.; Univ. of Mich., A.B. '02 (mem. Sororian, Olivet Coll.); m. Port Huron, Mich., June 30, 1903, Rev. Arthur Charles Diefenbach. Principal Charlevoix High School, 1902-03; pres. Ossoli Club, Benton Harbor, 1911-12; sec. Young People's Work of W.B.M.I., 1912-13.

DIEFENDORF, Mary Biggs, 657 DeKalb Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born town of Minden, Montgomery Co., N.Y., Feb. 17, 1862; dau. John Jacob and Mary (Riggs) Diefendorf; ed. district school, Leonia, N.J.; Englewood Inst., N.J.; Adelphi Acad., Brooklyn, 1879; grad. Cornell Univ., A.B. '83; class poet. Interested in Sunday-school work, home dep't work. Author: The Historic Mohawk, 1910; contributor to various periodicals. Mem. D.A.R, (Fort Greene Chap.), Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century, Nat. Geog. Soc., Cornell Women's Club of N.Y. Congregationalist.

DIETRICH, Margretta Straw (Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich), Hastings, Neb.

Born Philadelphia, Nov. 26, 1881; dau. Dr. William Shaw and Delia (Allman) Stewart; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B.; m. Philadelphia, Oct. 27, 1909, Charles H. Dietrich (Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator). Active in society for organizing charities in Philadelphia before marriage. Sec. of Hastings Civic Board of Charity. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Recreations: Motoring, gardening. Mem. Woman's Club of Hastings, Sedgely and College Clubs of Philadelphia. Editor: Over the Sea and Land (missionary magazine for children) for one year, 1908.

DIETRICHSON, Marthine Magdalena, 530 Center St., Pasadena, Cal.

Concert singer, vocal teacher; b. Christiania, Norway, Nov. 24, 1872; dau. Wilhelm and Gottfrieda (Bockmann) Dietrichson; ed. Christiania, Norway, and Rome, Italy. Concert singer in European and American cities. Has served as prof. of voice culture in Armour Inst., Chicago; De Pauw Univ., Greencastle, Ind.; Iowa Wesleyan Univ. and several schools in California. Favors woman suffrage. Associate editor of the Woman's Bulletin, Los Angeles, Cal. Has contributed articles and stories to European and American magazines and newspapers. Lutheran. Recreations: Reading, corresponding. Mem. Southern Cal. Women's Press Club.

DIGGS, Annie Le Porte (Mrs. A. S. Diggs), 138 Forest Av., West, Detroit, Mich.

Writer; b. London, Can.; dau. Cornelius and Anne (Thomas) Le Porte; m. Lawrence, Kan., A. S. Diggs; one son and two daughters. Served four years as State librarian of Kansas. Chairman Dist. of Columbia delegation to Nat. People's Party Convention, Omaha. Made speech placing U.S. Senator Kyle in nomination for U.S. President. Lecturer and organizer for woman suffrage; served as pres. of Kansas State Suffrage Ass'n; mem. official board of Nat. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Author: Bedrock, the Story of Jerry Simpson. Contributor to American and English periodicals. Co-editor of the Advocate, official organ of the People's Party in Kansas; editorial and syndicate writer for Reform Press for several years at Washington, D.C. Unitarian. Former pres. Kansas Women's Press Club; U.S. delegate to Internat. Cooperative Congress, Manchester, England, 1902; delegate to Internat. Peace Congress, Rouen, France; industrial investigator in Great Britain and on European Continent. Mem. Liberal Club of N.Y. Writer and speaker for temperance, peace, cooperation, garden cities, Farmers' Alliance, Populist Party and on sociology, vocational training and school employment bureaus.

DIGNAM, Mary Ella (Mrs. John S. Dignam), 284 St. George St., Toronto, Can.

Painter; b. Ontario, Canada, 1859; dau. Byron and Margaret Elinor (Ferguson) Williams; ed. in Art Students' League, N.Y.; in Paris with H. Thompson, A. Vollon, Atelier of Raphael-Collin, Olivier Mercon, also in Holland and Venice; m. London, Ontario, John Sifton Dignam; children: Lady Frances van Hoogenhouck Tulleken (The Hague, Holland), William Stanley Trevelyan Dignam, Hugh Molyneux Dignam. Exhibited at Nat. Acad. N.Y. (Royal Canadian Acad., Canada), also in London, Eng.; Paris, France, and other foreign exhibitions. Pres. and founder of the Women's Art Ass'n of Canada. Has worked in the interests of women to create more knowledge and activity in art matters. Arranged the Art and Music Congress for International Congress of Women in Toronto, 1909; delegate to congresses in London, Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen. Interested in social, patriotic and artistic work. Has written various essays on art matters for Am. and Canadian publications, art criticisms for Canadian press covering 25 years. Mem. Women's Inst., London, Eng.; Women's Art Club, N.Y. City; Internat. Art Club, London; vice-pres. Nat. Council of Women of Canada; mem. of Ex. The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire; vice-pres. United Empire Loyalist Ass'n of Canada; pres. and founder of the Women's Art Ass'n of Canada for 25 years; asso. mem. Canadian Soc. of Authors. Clubs: Lyceum, London; Toronto Ladies' Club, Englien Musical, Toronto. Anglican. Favors woman suffrage.

DIKE, Alice Norton.

Teacher of household economics; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '96; student of physics, Harvard Summer School, '96; Mass. Inst, of Technology, 1900-01, and domestic science in School of Housekeeping, 1900-01; Simmons Coll., 1901-02. Teacher Exeter (N.H.) schools, 1896-1900; School of Housekeeping. Boston (household economics), Simmons Coll., since 1902. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n.

DIKE, Cornelia Anthony, 648 W. 158th St., N.Y. City.

High school teacher; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '79, later student in Columbia Univ. Teacher, Ossining, N.Y., 1879-80; Boston, Mass., 1883-96; Cranford, N.J., 1896-98, 1899-1901; Tarrytown, N.Y., 1898-99; N.Y. City High Schools since 1901. Mem. Municipal Art Soc. of N.Y.

DILL, Bessie Williams (Mrs. Samuel L. Dill, Jr.), 33 S. Front St., New Bern, N.C.

Born New Bern, N.C, Mar. 9, 1880; dau. Richard P. and Pauline (Carrington) Williams; ed. New Bern High School, Normal Coll., Greensboro, N.C; m. New Bern, N.C, 1900, Samuel L. Dill; children: Richard S., Jane M., Samuel Lefferts. Pres. Woman's Club, New Bern, N.C. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

DILLA, Harriette May, Lake Erie Coll., Painesville. Ohio.

College professor; b. Jackson, Mich., June 12, 1886; dau. Frank E. and May (Shoemaker) Dilla; ed. Waterloo schools, Ind.; Ann Arbor (Mich.) High School, Univ. of Mich., A.B. '08, A.M. '09; Columbia Univ., Ph. D., '12; mem. Phi Beta Kappa. Professor of history, economics and sociology in Wheaton Coll., Norton, Mass., 1911-12; since 1912 prof, of economics and sociology in Lake Erie Coll. Lectures on social questions of the day; engaged in practical work In juvenile delinquency. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The History of the Politics of Michigan, 1865-78. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae, Am. Hist. Ass'n, Soc. of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, Ohio Branch of Nat. Consumers' League, Women's Research Club, Mich., 1908-09.

DILLAYE, Blanche, 4706 Washington Av., Philadelphia, Pa.

Artist; b. Syracuse, N.Y.; dau. Stephen D. and Charlotte (Malcolm) Dillaye; ed. Misses Bonney and Dillaye's School, Philadelphia; artistic education at Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts and in Europe. One of founders and first pres. of the Plastic Club. Received silver medal at Atlanta Exposition and at the Internat. Exposition at Lorient, France, for works of art Mem. Fellowship of the Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Water Color Club, N.Y. Water Color Club, Chicago