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HEINIGKE, Jessie Weir (Mrs. Otto Heinigke), 420 Ovington Av., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, N.Y. Born Bay Ridge, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1851; dau. James and Anne (Reynolds) Weir; ed. Packer Coll. Inst., Brooklyn; m. Bay Ridge, N.Y., Oct. 28, 1874, Otto Heinigke; children: Daisy Weir, Otto Weir. Interested in Nat. Indian Ass'n, Church Periodical Club, Consumers' League, Church Charity Foundation, Drama League, Red Cross Soc., Bay Ridge Hospital, Sunshine Soc., and Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. Clubs: Bay Ridge Reading, Woman's (Brooklyn), N.Y. City Federation. Episco- lian.

HEISSIG, Mabel Stevens Haynes (Mrs. Konrad Heissig), Promenade 7, Linz, Austria. Physician; ed. Miss Florence Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and preliminary medical course in Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98; Johns Hopkins Med. School, M.D. 1902; student of medicine in Vienna, 1904-05; m. 1907, Captain Konrad Heis- sig. Ass't in dispensary, Mass. Gen. Hospital, Boston, 1902-03; practising physician, 1902-04, 1905-07; dermatologist in Wilkes St. Free Die- pensary and ass't dermatologist in the Trinity Dispensary, Boston, 1906.

HELD, Anna (Mrs. Florence Ziegfeld Jr.), 86 Faubourg St. Honore, Paris. Actress; b. Paris, Mar. 18, 1877; dau. Maurice and Helene Held; ed. Acad. at Rouen, France; m. Paris, France, Florence Ziegfeld Jr. of Chi- cago. Made début as comedienne in Paris, 1890; sang in Holland, Norway, Germany, Italy and London; starred in the U.S. in The Little Duchess, 1903-04; starred in London in Papa's Wife. Appeared at Knickerbocker Theatre, N.Y. City, in Jeau Richepin's M'lle Napoleon, 1906-07, afterward in Miss Innocence at the New York Theatre, 1909-10.

HELLER, Irma Irene, 310 E. Capitol St., Wash- ington, D.C. Physician; b. Fremont, Ind., Oct. 28, 1870; dau. George and Josephine (Milnes) Heller; ed. Fremont High School; Tri-State Normal Coll., Angola, Ind.; Univ. of Mich., M.D. First woman physician at Government Hospital for Insane at St. Elizabeth, D.C.; first and only physician at Bureau of Engraving and Printing for nine years. Mem. W.C.T.U.; Interested in Florence Critten- ton work. Favors woman suffrage. Prohibi- tionist. Recreations: Out-door life; interested in agriculture, farming, etc.

HELLIER, Mary Harmon (Mrs. Charles E. Hellier), 105 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Born New Haven, Conn., Dec. 9, 1864; dau. George M. and Mary (Baldwin) Harmon; ed. Mrs. Cady's private school, New Haven; m. New Haven, July 8, 1886, Charles E. Hellier; children: Mary Louise, Walter Harmon, Edward Whittier, John. Interested and active in the protection of children, dumb animals, horticulture, etc. Was presented at Court of St. James, May, 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Recreations: Horticulture, travel.

HELLMUTH, Harriet Fowler (Mrs. George W. Hellmuth), 4468 Maryland Av., St. Louis, Mo. Born St. Louis, Mo.; dau. Francis E. and Mary (Harig) Fowler; ed. Sacred Heart Convent in St. Louis, Paris, Rome; m. St. Louis, Feb. 21, 1906, George W. Hellmuth; children: George Francis, b. Oct. 5, 1907; Hildegarde Ihmsen b. Oct. 20, 1909; John Thornton, b. Aug. 31, 1912. Club: Wednesday. Catholic. Favors woman suffrage.

HELM, Jenny M. Hanson (Mrs. James Stone Helm), "Helmcrest," Lexington, Ky. Born Paris, Ky.; dau. Richard Hickman and Evelyn (Talbutt) Hanson; ed. State Univ., Lex- 1 ington, Ky.: m. Nov. 20, 1905, James Stone 1 He!m. Pres. J. M. Hanson's Magazine Agency (said to be largest of its kind), Lexington, Ky.; n pres. Bennett's Newspaper and Magazine n Agency, Chicago, Ill. Regent D.A.R., Lexington N Chapter; mem. Woman's Club of Central Ken- W tucky, Lexington.

HELMER, Bessie Bradwell (Mrs. Frank A. Helmer), Chicago Legal News Co., 32 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.

Lawyer, editor, publisher, president Chicago Legal News Co.; b. Chicago, Ill., Oct. 20, 1858; dau. Judge James B. and Myra (Colby) Bradwell (both lawyers of distinction); grad. Chicago High School (valedictorian), "76; Northwestern Univ., A.B. '80, A.M. '83; Union Coll. of Law, L.L.B. '82 (valedictorian, Phi Beta Kappa); m. Chicago, Dec. 23, 1885, Frank A. Helmer; one daughter: Myra Bradwell Helmer. Editor (associated with her father after her mother's death in 1894) of Chicago Legal News, which was founded by her mother in 1868, and was the first law journal published west of the Allegheny Mountains; since her father's death, in 1907, has been the editor. Waa vice chairman (her mother being chairman) of the Woman's Com. on Law Reform and Government of World's Congress Auxiliary I (Columbian Exposition); chairman for many I years of Fellowship Com. of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ, whose fellows were among the first to receive the Ph.D. degree from German universi- ties. Interested in charitable work. Edited several volumes of Ill. Appellate Court reports; editor of Revised Statutes of Ill. since 1905; writer of magazine articles. Hon. mem. Ill. State Bar Ass'n; sec. Soldiers' Home in Chicago; mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ (at one time pres.), D.A.R., Woman's Western Golf Ass'n. Clubs: Chicago Woman's, Woman's Athletic, Twentieth Century (Chicago). Favors woman suffrage; her mother was the first woman in U.S. to apply for admission to the bar and se- cured many changes in the laws relating to women; her father presided at the meeting when the Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n was or- ganized at Cleveland; opposed to militant methods. Republican.

HELMHOLTZ-PHELAN, Anna Augusta, 612 Tenth Av., S.E., Minneapolis, Minn.

University professor, social worker and writer; b. Sturgeon Bay, Wis.; dau. Otto Wilhelm and Albertine Henriette (Taube) Helmholtz; ed. Stur- geon Bay High School; Univ. of Wis.; elected to Phi Beta Kappa in junior year, A.B. '05, with honors in English literature; graduate scholar, A.M. '06; Mary M. Adams fellow in English literature; ass't instructor, dep't of English, Univ. of Wis., Ph.D. '08; mem. Faculty of Univ. of Minn. since 1908. Special lecturer St. Cath- rine's Coll. Chairman Com. on Conditions Af- fecting Working Women, Minneapolis Woman's Club, 1910-11; chairman Dep't of Social Econom- ics, Minneapolis, 1911-12, 1912-13. Representative of Woman's Club to Minneapolis Infant Welfare Soc.; mem. Minneapolis Social Survey Com., Minneapolis Vocational Survey Com., Minne- apolis Child Welfare Exhibit Com., Organizing Com. of Minneapolis Woman's Welfare League; delegate to Am. Civic Ass'n, Nat. Conservative Congress, Nat. Social Center Conference; mem. Minneapolis Political Equality Club (mem. Edu- cational Com.), Univ. of Minn., Equal Suffrage Club, Illuminati Club. Faculty adviser Woman's Athletic Ass'n, Univ. of Minn.; faculty adviser Woman's League, Univ. of Minn.; organized the Minn. Social Problems Club. Favors woman suffrage. Organized Univ. of Minn. Equal Suffrage Club; mem. Statistical Com. of Chari- ties and Correction Aes'n of Hennepin Co., Univ. of Minn. Senate Com. on Debate and Oratory. Author: The Indebtedness of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Augusta Wilhelm von Schlegel; The Staging of the Court Drama; The Social Ideals of William Morris. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa Soc., Modern Language Ass'n of America. Recrea- tions: Riding, basketball.

HEMINGWAY, Gertrude Clapp, 887 Adelphi St.,Brooklyn, N.Y.

Teacher and translator; b. Troy, N.Y., Oct. 6, 1884; dau. Marshall F. and Clara (Clapp) Hemingway; ed. Troy High School; Cornell Univ.,A.B. '07, A.M. '09; Cornell Fellowship in Romance Languages (Phi Beta Kappa). Mem. Cornell Club, Woman's University Club (Troy,N.Y.), Wayside Club (Brooklyn). Recreations:Walking, skating. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.