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Rh been head resident. Constant worker in Chicago for municipal reform and social betterment. Member of the managing boards of numerous national philanthropic organizations as well as local societies for municipal and social uplift; has been active in securing factory legislation, civil service laws, the investigation and amelioration of tuberculosis conditions, and in the campaign against the "white slave" traffic; a leader in the equal suffrage movement and vice-pres. Nat. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; vice-pres. Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n; trustee Rockford College. Congregationalist. Vice-pres. National Executive Committee of the Progressive Party. Has traveled extensively, having spent two years at one time, six months at another and made several other trips abroad; while in Russia made a visit to Count Tolstoy. Clubs: Chicago Woman's, Fortnightly, Twentieth Century, Woman's City. Lecturer and writer on social reforms, contributor to magazines. Author: Democracy and Social Ethics, 1902; Newer Ideals of Peace, 1907; The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, 1909; Twenty Years at Hull House, 1910; A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, 1912.

ADDISON, Julia de Wolf (Mrs. Daniel Dulany Addison), All Saints' Rectory, Brookline, Mass.

Artist, author, composer; b. Boston, Feb. 24, 1866; dau. Franklin and Ann de Wolf (Lovett) Gibbs; ed. in England and Boston, specialized in music and art, also studied art in Italy; m. Feb. 20, 1889, Rev. Daniel Dulany Addison, D.D., rector of All Saints' Church, Brookline Mass. Art specialty is in ecclesiastic and heraldic design and illumination and embroideries; composer of music of songs, carols, etc. Active mem. of Soc. of Arts and Crafts, of which was one of the incorporators. Author of works on art: Art of the Pitti Palace, 1903; Classic Myths in Art, 1904; Art of the National Gallery, 1905; Art of the Dresden Gallery, 1906; Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages, 1906; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1910; The Spell of England, 1912; also two novels: Florestane the Troubadour; Mrs. John Vernon; and several plays. Protestant Episcopalian. Mem. Copley Soc. of Boston.

ADDISON, Kate B. (Mrs. George W. Addison), 201 Linwood Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.

Public school teacher; b. Chickasaw, Ia., Apr. 29, 1863; dau. John E. and Katherine (McNutt) Rowen; ed. public schools of Iowa; private tutors; m. Aug. 20, 1882, George W. Addison; children: Elizabeth, Beula D. Assisted in establishing a working girls' hotel in Kansas City, Mo., and a parental house for Juvenile Court wards in Jackson Co., Mo. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Industrial Home Ass'n, Community Center, Social Workers' Conference, W.C.T.U. Clubs: History and Literature of Kansas City, Mo.; pres. of the Council of Clubs, Kansas City, Mo. Recreations: Reading, nature. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; was pres. of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Ass'n four years.

ADDISON, Margaret Eleanor Theodora, Annesley Hall, Queen's Park, Toronto, Can.

Educationalist; b. Horning's Mills, Can., Oct. 21, 1868; dau. Peter and Mary A. (Campbell) Addison; ed. public and high schools; grad. Univ. of Toronto (Victoria Coll.), first class honors, silver medal in modern languages. Teacher in private school, Collegiate Inst; lecturer in German, Univ. of Toronto (Victoria Coll.); Dean of Woman's Residence, Victoria Coll. Mem. Of Woman's Missionary Soc., Social Union, executive of Alumni Ass'n of Univ. of Toronto, executive of Victoria Woman's Ass'n; ex-pres. University Women's Club. Delegate of Alumnae of the Univ. of Toronto to Imperial Congress of Universities of the Empire, 1912, at London. Mem. National Y.W.C.A. Board of Canada; mem. Equal Franchise League; mem. Methodist Church of Canada.

ADENAW, Charlotte Milnor Gillet (Mrs. Arthur P. Adenaw), 178 Barclay St., Flushing, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, Jan. 10, 1880; dau. G.M. and Susan V. (Milnor) Gillet; ed. by governess and Miss Walker's School, N.Y. City; m. Oct. 14, 1905, Arthur P. Adenaw; children: Charlotte L'Estrange, Arthur Paul Jr., Natalie Gillet. Recreations: Golf, tennis, dancing, swimming. Protestant Episcopal. Against woman suffrage.

ADKINS, Mary Ewart, 6011 Kimbark Av., Chicago, Ill.

Missionary secretary; b. Iowa City, Iowa; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '96; grad. student, 1896-97; ass't in gymnasium, 1897-99, Vassar Coll.; director Women's Gymnasium, Denison Univ. 1899-1900; Y.W.C.A., Elgin, Ill., 1903-08; since 1909 foreign sec. Woman's Baptist Missionary Soc. of the West, Chicago.

ADLER, Helen O. (Mrs. Felix Adler), 162 W. Seventy-seventh St., N.Y. City.

Born Staten Island, N.Y., Sept 4, 1859; dau. Joseph Goldmark and Regina (Wehle) Goldmark; ed. Brooklyn Heights Sem., Brooklyn, N.Y.; m. May 24, 1880, Felix Adler (lecturer Ethical Culture Soc); children: Waldo, Eleanor H., Lawrence, Margaret, Ruth F. Chairman of Com. on District Nursing of Ethical Soc.; founder of first Laboratory Dep't for Modified Milk for Tenement Babies. 1891; mem. Board Manhattan Trade School; mem. Com. of Relief Works, Ethical Society; Woman's Auxiliary to Civil Service Reform Club. Author: Hints for Scientific Study of Children, 1891. Mem. Ethical Culture Soc. Favors woman suffrage, but opposed to militant methods.

ADY, Dora Belle, 114 W. Main St., Sparta, Wis.

Insurance; b. Viroqua, Wis.. Aug. 6, 1862; dau. I. H. and Caroline (Morgan) Ady; ed. Drake Univ., Chicago School of Music. Teacher of music and drawing in public schools. Assumed the insurance business of her father at his death in 1908. Mem. Woman's Foreign and Home Missionary Soc.; lady commander of Spartan Hive, No. 96, of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World. Pres. Seventh Dist of Wis. Suffrage Ass'n. Baptist. County pres. Monroe Co. of the W.C.T.U. Recreations: Music, painting. Mem. and for years sec. Alexandrian Club of Sparta.

AGEE, Fannie Heaslip Lea (Mrs. Hamilton Pope Agee), 1551 Wilder Av., Honolulu, H.T.

Writer; b. New Orleans, La.; dau. James J. and Margaret (Heaslip) Lea; ed. public schools (New Orleans); Newcomb Coll., A.B. post-grad. work in English at Tulane Univ.; m. Mar. 11, 1911, Hamilton Pope Agee, of New Orleans. Author: Quicksands, 1911; Jaconetta Stories, 1912; short stories from time to time, in Harper's, Century, Scribner's, Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, Ainslee's, Smith's, Red Book. Episcopalian. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa. Recreations: Surfing, tramping, dancing. Mem. Authors' League of America, Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe Club, College Club (Honolulu). Favors woman suffrage.

AHEARN, Margaret Howitt (Mrs. Thomas Ahearn), "Buena Vista," 584 Laurier Av., Ottawa, Can.

Born Montreal; dau. Alexander Fleck; ed. McGill Normal School and Ottawa Ladies' Coll; m. 1892, Thomas Ahearn, electrical engineer and capitalist. Pres. Women's Canadian Historical Soc.; pres. Alumni Ass'n of Ottawa Ladies' Coll. Pres. Local Council of Women, Ottawa; pres. Local Board of Management of Victorian Order of Nurses; director Women's Art Ass'n of Ottawa.

AHERN, Mary Eileen, 37 S. Wabash At., Chicago, Ill.

Librarian, editor; b. Marion Co., Ind.; dau. William and Mary (O'Neill) Ahern; ed. public and private schools of Indiana and Illinois Library School. Assistant State Librarian, 1889-93; State librarian, 1893-95, of Indiana. Founded 1896, and ever since editor in chief of the periodical Public Libraries. Lecturer at all the library schools. Writer of magazine articles. Mem. Am. Library Inst, Am. Library Ass'n, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Am. School Peace League, Ill. Library Ass'n. Clubs: Fortnightly (Indianapolis), Women's City (Chicago), Chicago Woman's, Chicago Library. Opposed to suffrage for women.

AHLDAY, Josephine Ford (Mrs. F. W. Ahlday), Wharton, Tex.

Born in Oregon, July 2, 1849; dau. Reuben