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Rh ANDERSON, Helen Elona, National Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Md.

Teacher; b. Tecumseh, Mich.; dau. Seaton W. and Ella (Randall) Anderson; ed. Liggett School, Detroit, Vassar Coll., A.B.; post-grad, work in lectures at Mich. Univ. (mem. Kappa Delta Phi). Taught in the Graham School, N.Y. City, five years; since then Nat. Park Sem., Forest Glen, Md., where is teacher of sociology and history. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Progressive in politics. Interested in Consumers' League and in settlement work. Recreations: Tennis, riding. Mem. College Woman's Club, Washington, D.C.; Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Vassar Students' Aid (Washington branch).

ANDERSON, Henrietta E. (Mrs. Charles P. Anderson), Alta, Ia.

Born Winterset, Ia., Aug. 5, 1859; dau. Solomon and Sarah J. (Harlan) Pontions; ed. country schools of Buena Vista Co. Taught a few terms in country; m. Alta, Ia., Nov. 19, 1879, Charles P. Anderson; children: Merritt W., b. July 30, 1883; Edith G., b. Aug. 30, 1887. Mem. Christian Church. Recreations: Traveling, auto trips. Mem. La Coterie Club.

ANDERSON, Jessie Isabel Calhoun (Mrs. W. H. Anderson), 21 Lakeview Av., Venice, Cal.

Born Calhoun's Valley, Cal.; dau. Judge Noble Ezekiel Ewing and Lura Butler (Davis) Calhoun; ed. in schools of San José and by private tutors there and later in London and Paris; voice training under Emil Behnke of London; dramatic training under supervision of her sistor, Eleanor Calhoun (now Princess Lazarovich); belles lettres and Greek art under Sir Charles T. Newton, and archaeology under Reginald Stewart Pool of the British Museum; m. Mar. 5, 1895, Hon. William Henry Anderson; ass't attorney-general of California; children: Laura Patricia Calhoun, Eleanor Jessie Calhoun, Virginia Isabel Calhoun. Had chair of elocution and oratory, Univ. of the Pacific, Washington Corners, and Livermore Coll.; founded dramatic school in San Francisco, gave lectures, dramatic recitals and instruction at Stanford Univ., under private arrangement with Pres. David Starr Jordan; originated and produced pantomime and classic dancing as Illustrated Oratorio at Grand Opera House, San Francisco; lectures, readings, Biblical pantomime and Greek dancing at Chautauqua Assembly, Pacific Grove, Cal.; also many other places for church and charity funds. Has presided at mass meetings of clergy, clubs and Ass'n of the Santa Monica Bay District to prevent the showing of Jeffries-Johnson prize-fight films on the Bay, to discuss methods for better social conditions and to found the Santa Monica Bay Free Bed Ass'n. Prominent in social life; was presented at the Court of St. James, England, by Lady Archibald Campbell. Worked for woman suffrage as treas. Pacific Political Equality League of Santa Monica Bay cities, and made public speeches during campaign that won women the ballot in Cal. Mem Episcopal Church. Progressive voter; first vice-pres. Roosevelt Progressive League of Venice, Cal.; mem. Venice Men's and Women's Civic League, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fine Arts League, Santa Monica Free Bed Ass'n, Southern Cal. Civic League. Recreations: Riding, mountain tramping, rowing, tennis. Pres. Crescent Bay Woman's Club of Venice; founder Pacific Woman's City Club of Santa Monica Bay; mem. Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, and Ruskin Art Club of Los Angeles.

ANDERSON, Lily Strickland (Mrs. Courtenay Anderson), 423 W. 118th St., N.Y. City.

Composer; b. Anderson, S.C.; dau. Charleton Hines and Teresa Hammond (Reed) Strickland; ed. Converse Coll., Spartanburg, S.C; musical courses in N.Y. under private teachers and Institute of Musical Art; m. Feb. 18, 1912, Courtenay Anderson, A.M., in Columbia Univ. Chapel. Her first song was published when she was sixteen years old; composer of Fate; Since Laddie Went, and Mammy's Prayer, and more than 100 other composition in music. Interested in all questions relating to betterment of humanity; an ardent anti-tobacconist; believes in the normal life; engaged in writing and arranging collection of negro folk songs. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist. Mem. Musicians' Club of N.Y., United Daughters of Confederacy (Dixie Chapter of S.C). Recreations: Literature, art.

ANDERSON, Lizzie Pershing (Mrs. William C. Anderson), 400 Biddle Av., Wilkinsburg, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Former teacher and public reader; b. Greensboro, Pa., Apr. 4, 1852; dau. Rev. I. C. Pershing, D.D., and Charlotte L. (Canan) Pershing; ed. Pittsburgh Female Coll. (Mistress of Liberal Arts); m. Pittsburgh, July 10, 1884, William C. Anderson. Taught in preparatory and collegiate dep'ts Pittsburgh Female Coll., also elocution; prin. of private school of elocution, music and literature, Allegheny City, 1886-92; vice-pres. of the Pittsburgh Female Coll., 10 years. Cor. sec. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of Presbytery of Pittsburgh, 12 years; sec. Educational Dep't Civic Club of Allegheny Co., 4 years; sec. Public Education Soc. of Pittsburgh, 2 years. Has written letters from California and other places, for city, religious and secular papers, occasional verse, and a few magazine articles. Mem. D.A.R., Woman's Club of Wilkinsburg (has held offices, including the presidency). Presbyterian.

ANDERSON, Margaret Pauline, 109 Queen St., E., St. John. New Brunswick. Can.

Author; b. St. John, N.B., Dec. 12, 1870; dau. Renwick M. and M. Jane (Hanley) Anderson; ed. St. John public schools and private tuition at home. Interested in religion, temperance and philanthropy. Invalid; confined to bed since 1886 from spinal trouble. Author: Sick Room Thoughts and Gleanings; Leona Chinch, or Lord Kendale's Repentance (novel); also smaller booklets; The Songs of The Angels; Easter Chimes; The Message of The Bells; writer of short stories. Mem. King's Daughters and Temperance Soc., Sons of Temperance. Congregationalist.

ANDERSON, Margaret Steele, 1317 First St., Louisville, Ky.

Critic and public lecturer; b. Louisville, Ky.; dau. Dunning McNair and Susan (Hamilton) Anderson; ed. Louisville High School (Girls'), Wellesley Coll. (special student). Has addressed audiences in Louisville and at the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Inst., Philadelphia, Chautauqua Goodwyn Inst., Memphis; Pittsburgh, Mt. Eagle Chautauqua of the South and in other places. Not interested in woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Woman's Club, Authors' Club, Art Club and Fortnightly (Conversation) Club, Louisville. Subjects of lectures: Art and Literature. For twelve years has been literary editor of Evening Post of Louisville, Ky.

ANDERSON, Margrarethe Urdahl (Mrs. Lewis Albert Anderson), Charleston, Ill.

Educator; ed. Univ. of Wis., B.L. '96; Univ of Berlin, 1898-99; Univ. of Heidelberg and Univ. of Christiana, '99; fellow in Teutonic philology, 1900-02; special fellow, 1902-03, Bryn Mawr Coll., Ph.D. '04; m. 1906, Lewis Albert Anderson. Teacher of German and Latin, Chelten Hills School, Wyncote, Pa., 1903-04; teacher of German and history. Eastern Ill., State Normal School, Charleston, Ill., 1905-06. Author: On Certain U-dipthongs in the Heliand (dissertation for doctorate), Göttingen, 1904.

ANDERSON, Mary Josephine, 11 Frelinghampen St., Battle Creek, Mich.

Born Chicago; dau. John L. and Lucy H. Snyder Anderson; ed. Muncie (Ind.) High School, State Normal, Terre Haute, Ind.; Univ. of Mich. B.L. (Phi Beta Kappa). Taught in Indiana State Normal for twenty years. Interested in the general civic philanthrophies for women and children; pres. Woman's League of Battle Creek Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

ANDERSON, Mary Slater (Mrs. Frank Ernest Anderson), 184 Gibbs St., Newton Centre, Mass.

Born Salem, Mass., Oct. 21, 1856; dau. Rev. Robert Curtis and Mary Sisson (Tiffany) Mills; ed. private schools, Salem (Mass.) High School; m. Newton Centre, Mass., April 29, 1880, Frank Ernest Anderson, of N.Y. City; children: Raymond Mills, Frank Ernest Jr. (deceased),