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38 Soc, Nat. Geog. Soc. Recreations: Gardening, sewing, motoring, canoeing. Mem. Thirteen Club (Los Altos, Cal.).

ADAMS, Mary Dean, 160 E. Ninety-first St., N.Y. City.

Investigator of social conditions; b. Lowell, Mass.; dau. Landon and Elizabeth (Dean) Adams; ed. public schools of Lowell, Smith Coll. B.L., 1899. Has been engaged in many investigations, including those in New York and Philadelphia of Immigrant Women; Italian and Jewish Banks; Home Conditions of Underfed School Children; Recreations; also many others, much being of a secret character and not for publication. Against woman suffrage; in Feb. 1909, read a paper at the suffrage hearing in the Capitol at Albany arguing against votes for women, and also wrote another anti-suffrage pamphlet entitled Wages and the Ballot. Both pamphlets have been published by the N.Y. State Ass'n Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Unitarian.

ADAMS, Mary King Humphrey (Mrs. Burton A. Adams), 41 Irvington St., Springfield, Mass.

Missionary worker; m. Dec. 31, 1901, Burton A. Adams; children: Margaret Humphrey, b. Oct. 27, 1904; Dorothy Wright, b. Mar. 16, 1906. Missionary worker for Am. Bible Soc. in Chicago, Ill., 1895-96; teacher of science in Talladega (Ala.) Coll., 1896-1901.

ADAMS, Maude (Kiskadden), 20 E. Forty-first St., N.Y. City; summer, Ronkonkoma, L.I., N.Y.

Actress; b. Salt Lake City, Nov. 11, 1872; dau. James Kiskadden (business man) and Annie (Adams) Kiskadden (actress); ed. Cal. schools, 1878-88. As a child of five years old appeared in a speaking part, Little Schneider, with J. K. Emmet in one of his "Fritz" plays at the old Bush St. Theatre in San Francisco, also at the Baldwin Theatre as Chrystal in David Belasco's "Chums." On leaving school in 1888 appeared at the Madison Square Theatre, N.Y. City, as a school mistress in Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell"; later played in "Men and Women," and created the part of the crippled girl in "The Lost Paradise," in which she first attracted attention. Went under the Frohman management, 1890, as Evangeline Bender in William Gillette's comedy, "All the Comforts of Home"; leading woman with John Drew, 1892-97. Began her career as a star in 1897 as Lady Babbie in Barrie's "The Little Minister," which she created in England and America; in 1900 starred in Charles Frohman's special production of "Romeo and Juliet"; in 1901 in "L'Aiglon"; in 1902 in "Quality Street"; in 1903 in "The Pretty Sister of José"; after a season's rest revived "The Little Minister," and appeared also in " 'Op o' My Thumb" in 1905, and Nov. 6, 1905, opened at the Empire Theatre, N.Y. City, in Barrie's "Peter Pan," which ran two seasons; following this she appeared in "The Jesters," and later in "What Every Woman Knows," 1908-09; "Joan of Arc," 1909-10; as Rosalind in "As You Like It," 1910; then in "Chanticler," first produced at the Knickerbocker Theatre, N.Y. City, Jan. 23, 1911.

ADAMS, Ninette Forehand (Mrs. George J. Adams), Pender, Neb.

Born Poweshiek Co., Ia., July 16, 1871; dau. Lloyd D. and Flora E. (Andrews) Forehand; ed. Univ. of Nebraska; m. Omaha, Neb., June 30, 1898, George J. Adams; children: Charles Forehand, Margaret Elizabeth. Ex-pres. Pender Woman's Club; ex-pres. Ladies' Guild of Presbyterian Church; chairman Public Library Com. Presbyterian. Recreation: Travel. Mem. Woman's Club.

ADAMS, Sallie Harp (Mrs. Richard F. Adams), 134 S. Second St., Palatka, Fla.

Club woman; b. Crescent City, Fla., Jan. 5, 1873; dau. John H. and Mary E. (Mott) Harp; ed. Fla. High Schools; grad. Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga., A.B., 1892; m. Crescent City, Fla., Oct 11, 1893, Richard F. Adams. Resident Palatka, Fla., since 1893; charter mem. Woman's Club of Palatka (two years sec., one year vice-pres., three years pres.); recording sec. Fla. Federation of Women's Clubs 1900-1902; corr. sec 1902-1904: pres. 1904-1906; State sec. to Gen. Federation 1908-1910. Presbyterian, active in church work, leader of choir 16 years. Mem. United Daughters of Confederacy (vice-pres. Patton Anderson Chapter, Palatka, since 1904); sec. Palatka Library Ass'n since 1902.

ADAMS, Sarah Jennie Kelley (Mrs. Charles D. Adams), 10 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.

Educator; b. Woburn, Mass.; dau. Joseph and Sarah P. (Marston) Kelley; grad. Woburn High School '71, Vassar, A.B., '75; m. Woburn, Mass., Aug. 3, 1881, Charles Day Adams (A.B. Harvard 73); children: Raymond Marston Adams (A.B. Harvard '05), Helen Day Adams (b. 1884, d. 1888); husband and son both lawyers. Teacher Woburn High School, 1876-81; later taught private pupils; was 11 years mem. and one year chairman Woburn School Board. Helped found Summer Industrial School in Woburn; taught classes (free) in parliamentary law; was member of board of The Burbeen Fund (corporation) for providing free public lectures for people of Woburn; was a vice-pres. of Woburn Home for Aged Women; prior to 1896 was a lecturer before Women's Clubs on Sanitation; after that debarred by illness from all public activities, but during past two years and now again active as a teacher of the principles of Theosophy as set forth by Mrs. Annie Besant. Twice pres. Woburn Woman's Club; first vice-pres. (during presidency of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe) of Mass. State Fed. Woman's Clubs, 1893-95; one of incorporators of College Club (Boston); mem. Vassar Alumnae Ass'n; former mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae. Unitarian. Republican.

ADAMS, Susan Louise, 2983 B. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

High school teacher; b. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 3. 1882; dau. William F. and Susan G. (Harpham) Adams; grad. Wellesley Coll., A.B. '04; mem. Alpha Kappa Chi. Cor. sec. of East Side Settlement Ass'n since 1910. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Detroit branch of College Equal Suffrage League. Universalist. Cor. sec. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae (Detroit branch); mem. Detroit Soc. for Social Hygiene, College Club of Detroit, Detroit New Century Club, Wellesley Club of Detroit, U.S. Daughters of 1812.

ADAMS, Virginia ("Jennie") Claiborne (Mrs. Robert McCormick Adams), Webster Groves, Mo.

Born Rocky Mount, Franklin Co., Va., Sept. 5, 1853; dau. Nathaniel Charles Cole and Mildred Kyle (Morris) Claiborne; grad. with honor from St. Vincent's Acad., St. Louis, Mo.; m. Oct. 21, 1874, Robert McCormick Adams, of Chicago; children: Hugh Claiborne, Mildred Kyle (deceased), Amanda McCormick, Nathalie Claiborne, Virginia Claiborne, Robert McCormick Jr. and Marian Kyle (twins), John Bellingham. Mem. Colonial Dames of Mo. (former historian and cor. sec); was mem. D.A.R. for several years, and formerly mem. Wednesday Club and Monday Club of St. Louis. Favors woman suffrage and first pres. of Equal Suffrage League of Webster Groves.

ADAMS, Winifred Brady (Mrs. John Ottis Adams), "The Hermitage," Brookville, Ind.

Artist; b. Muncie, Ind., May 8, 1871; dau. Thomas Jefferson and Emeline (Wolfe) Brady; ed. Miss Burgess' School, Washington, D.C.; Lasell Sem., Boston; Drexel Inst, and Art Students' League, N.Y. City; m. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 1, 1898, John Ottis Adams; children: Alban, Edward and Robert. Mem. Soc. of Western Artists, Cincinnati Woman's Art Club; work owned by John Herron Art Inst., Indianapolis; Art Ass'n of Muncie, Ind. Universalist.

ADDAMS, Jane, Hull House, 800 South Halsted St., Chicago, Ill.

Social reformer, lecturer, writer, philanthropist; b. Cedarville, Ill., Sept 6, 1860; dau. Hon. John H. and Sarah (Weber) Addams; grad. Rockford (Ill.) Coll., A.B. '81, took post-graduate courses in Europe and U.S.; LL.D. Univ. of Wis. '04, Smith Coll. '10; A.M. Yale '10. Since leaving college has devoted her life to social reforms. In 1889, with Miss Ellen Gates Starr, founded Hull House, long recognized as the most successful exponent of the Social Settlement idea, of which she has from the first