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��Dramatic Arts; m. N.Y. CKy, Cliaa. H. Howard. Followed dramatic profession eight years; lectured on dramatic literature and gave dramatic read- ings from works of modern Continental authors. Interested in philanthropic work. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman Suffrage Party, N.Y. State Suffrage Ass'n, Woman's Political Union, Nat. Suffrage Ass'n. English translator of fol- lowing works: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils; Further Adventures of Nils; The Girl from the Marsh Croft; Christ Legends; Home and State; also English translator of August Strindherg's Lucky Pehr, Easter and Stories; has also been a contributor to Am. and Swedish magazines and newspapers. Christian Scientist. Mem. Am. Scandinavian Soc., Fredericka Bremer League of Stockholm. Recreation: Travel. Mem. Woman's Press Club, Professional Woman's League. HOWE, Amelia Ely (Mrs. Walter C. Howe), S03

Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Born Dedham, Mass., Feb. 22, 1874; dau. Fred- erick D. and Eliza B. (Whittier) Ely; ed. Ded- ham public schools, Dana Hall School, Weliesley, Wfcllesley Coll., B.A. '98, M.A. '01; grad. student Oxford, EJngland, 1899-1901; mem. Phi Sigma (Weliesley); m. Dedham, Mass., Feb. 26, 1906, Dr. Walter C. Howe; children: Frederick Ely, Emily Howe. Taught English and Latin in Sayre Inst-> Lexington, Ky., 1901-02; voiuntew worker in college settlements, Boston, three years. Against woman suffrage. E^isc<H)alian. Recreations: Music, travel. Mem. College Club. HOWK, Anna Belknap (Mrs. Henry J. Howe),

6 South Fifth Av., Marshalltown, la.

Club woman; b. Randolph, Vt., May 14, 1849; dau. Lorenzo and Betsey L. (Austin) Belknap; ed. Northfleld Acad., Northfield, Vt. ; m. Northfield, Vt., May 31, 1876, Henry J. Howe. Mem. Iowa Library Commission; ex-viee-pres. Nat. League of Lihrary Commissions; chairman Scholarship and Loan Fund Com. in the Iowa Fed. of Women's Clubs. Mem. Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Am. Library Ass'n, Iowa Library Ass'n (ex- pres.); pres. Marshall County Hist. Soc.; mem. Hist. Soc. of Iowa. Mem. Twentieth Century Club and Woman's Club of Marshalltown, Iowa (ex-pres. of both); ex-pres. Marshalltown Federa- tion of Women's Clubs; honorary pres. Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage. HOWE, Anne Sturm Botan (Mrs. Thorndike

Dudley Howe), 15 Logan St., Lawrence, Mass.

Born Waco, Texas, Apr. 4, 1881; dau. Ed- ward and Kate Sturm (McCall) Rotan; ed. Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Conn.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '02; m. Waco, Texas, Apr. 27, 1904, Thorndike Dndley Howe; one son: Thorndike Dudley Howe, Jr., b. Sept. 20, 1905. Interested in amateur theatricals; has acted in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, as well as numer- ous smaller places, including the Toy Theatre in Boston. Favors wc«nan suffrage. Mem. Lawrence Woman's Club, Coll. Club (Boston), Merrimac Valley Country Club, North Andover Country Club, Bryn Mawr Club of N.Y. City. HOWE, Fannie Gay (Mrs, Henry Marion Howe),

Broad Brook Rd., Bedford Hills, N.Y.

Born Troy, N.Y., April 9, 1851; dau. Willaj-d and Mary (Bishop) Gay; ed. Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's private boarding school, N.Y. City; m. Troy, N.Y., 1874, Henry Marion Howe (metal- lurgist, author, LL.D., Harvard, Knight of St. Stanislaus of Russia, Chevalier Legion d'Honneur of France, etc.). Episcopalian. Mem. Pro- gressive League, District Nursing Ass'n, Bedford Hills Improvement League, Garden Club. Trav- eled extensively in Europe, South America and Egypt; received by H. M. Queen Olga of Greece in private audience, 1890. HOWE, Malvina A., Miss Howe and Miss

Marot's School, Thompson, Conn.

Educator; b. Salisbury, Conn.; dau. Dyer Spencer and Jane (Ocain) Howe; ed. Mt. Holyoke Sem. In charge o* French dep't of Hartford Public High School, 1879-95; sec. Conn. Ass'n of Classical and High School Teachers, 1892-1904; teacher In Miss Porter's School, Farmington, 1895-1905; established with Miss Mary Louise Marot, at Dayton, Ohio, 1905, Miss Howe and

��Miss Marot's boarding and day school for girls; boarding school removed to Thompson, Conn., 1913. Translator: Reclus' La terre 3. vol d'oiseau; Planat's Encyclopedie d' Architecture, etc. Mem. New England Ass'n of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Modern Language Ass'n of America. HOWE, Marie Jenney (Mrs. Frederic C. Howe).

Winter, 31 W. Twelfth St., N.Y. City; summer,

Siasconset, Mass.

Unitarian minister; b. Syracuse, N.Y. ; dau. Edwin Sherman and Marie Regula (Saul) Jenney; grad. Meadville (Pa.) Theological School (Uni- tarian), B.D. ; m, Syracuse, N.Y., 1904, Frederic C. Howe (lawyer, author and director of People's Institute, N.Y. City). Before marriage was min- ister of First Unitarian Church, Des Moines, la. ; since marriage has lectured on suffrage, child labor, the Consumers' League, etc. After mar- riage removed to Cleveland, O., where was pres. of Ohio Consumers' League and vice-pres. of National Consumers' League. Removed to N.Y. City 1910. Favors woman suffrage; vice-pres. N.Y. State Suffrage Ass'n; leader of 25th Assem- bly DUt. Woman Suffrage Party in N.Y. City.

HOWE, May Louise (Mrs. W. Lewis Howe), 657

Broadway, Everett, Mass.

Born Wobum, Mass. ; dau. Rufus and Ann (Banfield) Lamkin; ed. Maiden, (Mass.) public schools; m. Jan. 1, 1901. Dr. W. Lewis Howe. Catholic Mem. D.A.R., Friday Club of Everett, Mass. ; Vt. Ass'n. HOWELL,, Elizabeth Myra Brown (Mrs. Harold

Rivers Howell), 630 Forty-first St., Des Moines,

Iowa.

State regent D.A.R.; b. Fond du Lac, Wis.; dau. Henry Purchis and Maria Kesiah (Hall) Brown; ed. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, 111., Ph.B. '90, Phi Beta Kappa, June, 1891 (first woman at Northwestern initiated to Phi Beta Kappa), mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma; m. Fond du Lac, Wis., Jan. 12, 1892, Harold Rivers Howell; children: Dorothy Brown, Henry Adam Howell. Mem. Board of Directors Des Moines Women's Club, Roadside Settlement and Abigail Adams Chapter D.A.R., State regent of Iowa D.A.R., 1911-14. Favors woman suffrage. Has written for Am. Monthly historical sketches of the lives of three real daughters of the Revolution, mem- bers of Abigail Adams Chapter, Des Moines. Methodist. Mem. Soc. of Mayflower Descendants, Des Moines Women's Club. HOWELL, Frederica Biirckle Gilchrist (Mrs.

John White Howell), 211 Ballantine Parkway,

Newark, N.J.

Born Jersey City, N.J., Mar. 2S, 1871; dau. Robert and Frederica Raymond (Beardsley) Gil- christ; ed. Misses Wreaks' School, Jersey City and N.Y. City, and Berlin, Germany; m. Newark, N.J., April 23. 1895, John White Howell; children: Frederica, John White Jr., Augusta, Cornelia, Robert Gilchrist. Mem. Acad, of Political Sci- ence, Woman's Welfare Dep't of Nat. Civic Fed- eration, Child Labor Ass'n, Consumers' League, Am. Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, Social Service Commission of the Dio- cese of Newark of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Woman's Auxiliary of Diocese. Inter- ested In woman suffrage. Protestant Episcopal. Mom. N.J. Hist Soc, Y.W.C.A., Sisterhood of St. Margaret's. Recreations: Athletics, associa- tion with children, music Mem. (Contemporary Club of Newark. HOWELL, Mabel Katharine, 28 Blake St., Ashe-

vllle, N.C. (Scarrett Bible and Training

School, Kansas City, Mo.)

Teacher of sociology; b. Newark, N.J. ; dau. Jonn Aimer and Katharine (Smith) Howell; grad. South Orange (N.J.) High School, '90; Cornell Univ., FTi.B. '96 (special mention in history and Latin); CJhicago Univ., special stu- dent In sociology, '02. Teacher of Liatln, Madison Inst., Richmond, Ky., 1891; student in Univ. of Chicago, 1892; teacher of sociology, Scarret Bible and Training School, Kansas City, Mo., 1892- 1913; student In N.Y. School of Philanthropy, summer 1910; abroad, summer of 1911. Mem. Women's Missionary Soc. of Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Actively at work in Institu- tional Church, Kansas City, Mo.; mem. Social

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