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Rh of Sophocles. Recreations: Motoring, reading, horse-backriding. Roman Catholic.

ANGSTMAN, Charlotte Smith (Mrs. Oscar E. Angstman), 277 Putnam Av., Detroit, Mich.

Born Barnet, Vt., Dec. 23, 1859; dau. John Mason and Emeline (Warner) Smith; ed. public schools and Union High School of Pontiac, Mich.; grad. from Univ. of Mich., '79; m. Pontiac, Mich., June 1, 1881, Oscar E. Angstman; children: Charlotte, b. June 15, 1886; Roger Warner, b. Oct. 10, 1887. Founded Anti-Cigarette work for boys under auspices of the Twentieth Century Club of Detroit in 1900. Favors woman suffrage. Author of brochure: The Power of the Tobacco Habit, also College Women and the New Science (Popular Science Monthly), The Story of a Houseworker (N.Y. Independent), and articles in other magazines. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, D.A.R., College Equal Suffrage League, Mich. Alumnae Ass'n, Health Education League of Boston, Y.W.C.A., Soc. for Prevention of Tuberculosis, District Nursing Soc., Consumers' League, Twentieth Century Club of Detroit.

ANNAN, Anna Bright Green (Mrs. Roberdeau Annan), Frostburg, Md.

Born Reading, Pa.; dau. Albert G. and Rebecca (Dickinson) Green; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B.; m. Reading, Pa., 1897, Raberdeau Annan; children: Virginia Raberdeau, Henry Green. Interested in the Civic Club. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

ANSLEY, Elizabeth, care David C. Cook Publishing Company, Elgin, Ill.

Editor; b. Flesherton, Ontario, Canada; daughter of James Marcus and Jane Elizabeth (Flasher) Ansley; ed. in Ontario public schools (grad. high school), and by private instruction. First editorial work was in 1900-01, as ass't to John W. Leonard on the 1901-02 edition of Who's Who in America; in Dec, 1901, went to Elgin, Ill., doing editorial work on The Boys' World, published by the David C. Cook Publishing Co.,. and since Mar., 1904, has been assoc. editor of that publication. Since Mar., 1906, one of the managing editors of The Mothers' Magazine. Mem. Church of England (Protestant Episcopal).

ANSON, Mae Harris, 127 E. Fourteenth St., Minneapolis, Minn.

Magazine writer; b. Niles, Mich.; dau. Austin and Anna (Harris) Anson. Served on staff of Minneapolis Journal as N.Y. and Washington correspondent, and later as editor of The Journal Junior (children's supplement to the Journal). Contributor to various publications.

ANSPACHER, Kathryn Kidder (Mrs. Louis Kaufman Anspacher), 142 E. Eighteenth St., N.Y. City, and Tuckahoe, N.Y.

Actress; b. Newark, N.J.; dau. Henry Martyn and Sarah (Ravenhill) Kidder; ed. privately, then prepared for the stage by studies in Paris and London; m. 1905, Louis Kaufman Anspacher. Debut in 1885, with Frank Mayo; played Streets of New York, Nordeck, Little Lord Fauntleroy (Dearest), then Rachel Macreery in Held by the Enemy. Then followed several Shakespeare seasons, playing Ophelia, Desdemona, Hermione and Perdita, Lady Macbeth, and all the popular Shakespeare plays; then Madame Sans-Gene; following this, started in several Shakespeare revivals and old English comedy; School for Scandal, The Rivals, The Country Girl, then Salambo of Flaubert, and following this several modern plays, including The Embarrassment of Riches (Wallack's); The Woman of Impulse (Herald Square); The Glass House (Chicago), and, season 1912-13, The Washerwoman Duchess, a new one-act comedy, in the character of Mme. Sans-Gene. Favors woman suffrage. Recreation: Gardening.

ANTHONY, Alice, Denbigh Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Born Providence, R.l.; ed. Friends School, Providence, R.I.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '89. Ass't in the Church Settlement, St. Peter's House. Philadelphia, 1894-97; resident Calvary House Settlement, N.Y. City, 1897-1900; warden of Denbigh Hall, Bryn Mawr Coll., since 1901. Episcopalian.

ANTHONY, Katharine Susan, 119 W. Washington Pl., N.Y. City.

Social service; b. Roseville, Ark., Nov. 27, 1877; dau. Ernest Augustus and Susan (Cathey) Anthony; ed. Univ. of Chicago, Ph.B.; student Univs. of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany, 1902-03. Instructor in English, Wellesley Coll., 1907-08; fellow in Bureau of Social Research, N.Y. City, 1909-12; editorial dep't Russell Sage Foundation publications, 1912. Mem. Woman's Trade Union League. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Political Union, Woman Suffrage Party of N.Y. City.

ANTHONY, Mary Borden, 72 Manning St, Providence, R.I.

Born Providence, R.I., June 19, 1863; dau. John Brayton and Ellen DeForest (Miller) Anthony; ed. Miss Abbott's private school. Gen treas, and pres. R.I. Girls' Friendly Soc. in America; mem. Board of Management of St Mary's Orphanage; mem. Woman's Auxiliary to Board of Missions, and interested in Grace Church Sunday-school. Favors Woman suffrage; auditor R.I. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; elected delegate to Nat. Suffrage Convention in Philadelphia, 1912; mem. Exec Com. R.I. Progressive League; mem. Religious Education Ass'n. Episcopalian. Mem. Colonial Dames, D.A.R.; treas. Miss Abbott's School Alumnae Ass'n.

ANTRIM, Minna Thomas (Mrs. W. H. Antrim), 5922 Christian Av., West Philadelphia, Pa.

Author; b. Philadelphia, 1859; dau. William Preston and Lauretta (Robbins) Thomas (descendant of old Philadelphia Quaker stock); ed. St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N.J.; m. Philadelphia, 1876, W. H. Antrim; children: Ada, Harry, Hollins. Lectured before Woman's Congress at Atlanta Exposition. Contributor to magazines. Author: Naked Truths and Veiled Allusions; Toasts: Wisdom of the Foolish and Folly of the Wise; Sweethearts and Beaux; At the Sign of the Golden Calf; Mazes, Phases and Crazes of Love; Jester Life and His Marionettes; Knocks; Don'ts for Boys; Don'ts for Girls. Episcopalian. Recreations: Music, out-door sports. Mem. Arts and Letters Club of Philadelphia.

APLINGTON, Kate Adele (Mrs. John R. Aplington). Council Grove, Kan.

Author and artist; b. Sugar Grove, Ill., Mar. 1, 1859; dau. Henry H. and Elizabeth M. (Deming) Smith; m. Ottawa, Ill., June 19, 1879, John R. Aplington. Teacher of painting, 1879-86; professional photographer, 1886-1900; received State gold medal in 1899 from Photo. Ass'n; art student and lecturer and founder of Kansas State Traveling Art Gallery since 1900. Wrote the art lectures that accompany the Traveling Art Gallery; also novel: Pilgrims of the Plains. Mem. Gen. Fed. Art Com., P.E.O. Chapter. Vice-pres. Kans. Fed. Women's Clubs. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Has held offices in State Suffrage Ass'n and given lectures on the subject, as well as on literary and educational subjects. Has made special investigations and research on the subject of the old days on the Santa Fe Trail, on which Council Grove (where she has lived since 1880) was the most famous spot.

APPLEBEE, Constance M. K., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Director; b. Chigwell, Essex, England; dau. James Kay and Catherine Anne (Lothmann) Applebee; ed. by private tuition. Director of athletics and gymnastics Bryn Mawr Coll.; introducer field hockey in U.S., 1901. Active in church work, settlement work, philanthropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Church of England. Recreations: Reading, studying and religious, social, philanthropic interests.

APPLEBY, Alice Montague (Mrs. D. C. Appleby), Mt Union, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

Born Shade Gap, Pa., Nov. 14, 1859; dau. Thomas and A. E. (Wilson) Montague (Revolutionary ancestry); ed. Milwood Acad., Shade Gap, Pa., and Chautauqua course (diploma of ten seals, 1892); m. Shade Gap, Pa., 1875, Capt. D. C. Appleby, one of the famous Bucktails, noted for bravery at Gettysburg and other battles. Interested in home and foreign missions, the W.C.T.U.