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Rh College Woman's Club, Rochester. Recreations: Tennis, automobiling and horseback riding.

ARTHUR, Clara B., 96 Boston Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

Social welfare worker; b. St. John, N.B., 1859; dau. Alex. Nevers and Martha Hamm (Lewis) Peters; ed. St. John and Sheffield Acad., Frederickton, N.B.; m. St. John, N.B., Sept. 20, 1882, James Arthur, of Montreal; children: Kenneth Alexander, Nathalie, Muriel. Founder Detroit Playgrounds; chairman Playground and Public Bath Committee of the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs; active in child labor work, serving on many committees to promote welfare of children. First all-year-round public bathhouse in Detroit named for her, in recognition of efforts to establish such in city, "The Clara." Writes short articles and newspaper contributions on philanthropic subjects; issued a pamphlet entitled "Progress Michigan Women." Mem. Detroit Anti-Tuberculosis Soc. (now sec); mem. Board Directors, Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Detroit; charter mem. Twentieth Century Club; mem. Equal Suffrage Club. Has worked in suffrage organizations 27 years; pres. Detroit Suffrage Club, seven years; vice-pres. for seven years, and several years and now pres. Michigan Equal Suffrage Ass'n.

ARTHUR, Mrs. Daniel V. — see Cahill, Marie.

ARTHUR, Helen, office 220 Broadway, N.Y. City.

Lawyer; b. Lancaster, Wis., Mar. 29, 1879; dau. Lemuel John and Mary Emma (Ziegler) Arthur; grad. Evanston (Ill.) Township High School; m. 1897; mem. Northwestern Univ. class of '01, grad. N.Y. Univ. Law School LL.B. '01 (mem. Zeta Beta Pi, high school sorority, and Alpha Omicron Pi, Univ. sorority). Admitted to practice at N.Y. Bar in 1902. Director of the Research Dep't of Woman's Municipal League, 1906-07. Mem. Woman's Trade Union League, Twelfth Night Club, Northwestern Univ. Alumnae, N.Y. State Child Labor Committee, Coll. Equal Suffrage League. Dramatic editor National Magazine; editor To Dragma, official publication of Alpha Omicron Pi.

ASH, Josephine Wharton (Mrs. Percy Ash), 1734 Q St., Washington, D.C.

Born Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Charles and Margaretta (Craig) Barrington; ed. private schools in Philadelphia; m. Philadelphia, June 1, 1901, Percy Ash. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

ASHBAUGH, Delphine Dodge (Mrs. R. H. Ashbaugh), 43 Boston Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

Born Niles, Mich., Feb. 6, 1868; dau. Daniel Rugg and Maria Louise (Casto) Dodge; ed. high school and classical post-graduate course, Univ. of Mich.; m. Detroit, Feb. 4, 1892, R. Henry Ashbaugh. Active in philanthropic, social and New Thought religious interests. Favors woman suffrage. Editor The Club Woman; writer and publisher of verse and prose. Methodist. Pres. Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs; recording sec. Mich. State Federation of Women's Clubs; pres. Detroit Woman's Press Club; mem. Michigan Authors' Ass'n, Michigan Woman's Press Ass'n, and Twentieth Century and Detroit Review Clubs.

ASHCRAFT, Mary Cosby Lewis (Mrs. William D. Ashcraft), Brandenburg, Ky.

Born Brandenburg ,Ky., .Feb. 24, 1878; dau. James William Lewis (lawyer) and Elizabeth (Fairleigh) Lewis; ed. private schools; Potter Coll. (female coll.). Bowling Green, Ky., 1895-97; m. Brandenburg, Dec. 4, 1908, William D. Ashcraft. Active in all church work, such as Sunday-school and local charities. Interested in civic improvement. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Democrat. Mem. and treas. Ladies' Foreign Missionary Soc. and Ladies' Aid Soc. Teacher of literary dept (former pres. two years, now vice-pres.) Woman's Club of Brandenburg.

ASHCROFT, Harriet Elizabeth (Mrs. John Innie Ashcroft), Mackay Institute for Protestant Deaf Mutes, Notre Dame-de-Grace, Montreal, Can.

Teacher of deaf mutes; b. County Dublin, Ireland; dau. John Barrett McGann; came from Ireland to Canada with parents; m. July, 1889, John Innie Ashcroft, then principal of School for the Deaf of British Columbia, which he founded (died 1891). Her father founded the first institution for the deaf and dumb in Ontario, and later founded the Protestant School for the Deaf in Quebec, out of which the present Mackay Inst. for Protestant Deaf Mutes and the Blind (Montreal) was developed. She has been a teacher of the deaf from early girlhood, and in 1881 was appointed joint sup't with Mr. Ashcroft of the Mackay Inst., and since his death has been prin. of the institute, in which she has adopted the system of teaching visible speech invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell.

ASHENFELTER, Nettie Bennett (Mrs. Singleton M. Ashenfelter), Silver City, N.Mex.

Born Rock Prairie, Wis., July 21, 1852; dau. Cornelius and Anna Florella (Ross) Bennett; ed. Dubuque (Ia.) public and high schools; m. Silver City, N.Mex.. Nov. 21, 1872, Singleton Mercer Ashenfelter; children: Leoline (Mrs. Walton), Violetta Bertha (Mrs. Wilson), Anna Bennett (Mrs. Brayton). State vice-regent of D.A.R., State director of Children of the American Revolution; State promoter of Daughters of 1812 of New Mexico. Mem. Woman's Club of Silver City, N.Mex. (federated); mem. nat. committees of D.A.R.. for Prevention of Desecration of Flag, Preservation of Historic Spots, Conservation and others. Christian Scientist. Democrat.

ASHFORD, Hallie Quillian (Mrs. W. H. Ashford), Walkinsville, Ga.

Born Mossy Creek, Ga., May 24, 1879; dau. Rev. George K. and Ella (Smith) Quillian; grad. with first honor La Grange Female Coll.. A.B. '96; m. Maxerfs, Ga., Mar. 4, 1897, W. H. Ashford; children: Moselle Catharine, William H. Jr., George Wordson. Organized local Civic Club, local chapter United Daughters of Confederacy; pres. Mothers' and Teachers' Cooperative Club; active worker in church and Sunday-school; mem. W.C.T.U., Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, Home Mission and Parsonage Aid societies. Methodist. Recreations: Walking, driving, reading, painting. Mem. Phoenix Club.

ASHHURST, Sarah Wayne (The Cathedral School), Paseo 137, Vedado, Havana, Cuba,

Missionary teacher; b. Philadelphia, Nov. 29, 1874; dau. John and Sarah Stokes (Wayne) Ashhurst; ed. the Agnes Irwin School, Philadelphia 1883-92. Appointed by the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church for work in Cuba, Jan., 1912; taught in Academia Inglesa, Santiago, Cuba, until June, then transferred to Havana, to the Cathedral School. Teacher of primary class in the Cathedral Sunday-school. Havana; mem. of the Cathedral choir. Havana. Protestant Episcopal Church. Mem. the Woman's Auxiliary of P.E. Church, the Guild of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia; hon. mem. of the Board of Managers of the Home for the Homeless. Philadelphia. Mem. the College Club, Philadelphia.

ASHLEY, Jessie, 60 W. 89th St. (office, 27 Cedar St.), N.Y. City.

Lawyer; b. N.Y. City; dau. Ossian D. and Harriet A. (Nash) Ashley; ed. private schools of New York, Berlin. Germany. N.Y. Univ. Law School, LL.M. (mem. Alpha Omicron Pi). Pres. Collegiate Equal Suffrage League, 2 years; treas. Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; mem. Socialist Party, N.Y. County Lawyers' Ass'n, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc, Industrial Workers of the World, Am. Socialist Soc., Woman's Trade Union League, Am. Soc for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Women Lawyers' Club; lecturer in Woman's Law Class, N.Y. Univ.

ASHLEY, Susan Riley (Mrs. Eli M. Ashley), care of F. P. Ashley, 1159 Corona St., Denver. Colo.

Born St. Mary's. O., May 1, 1840; dau. Hon. James W. and Susan (Ellis) Riley; ed. Ohio public schools; m. Celina, O., Oct. 15, 1861, Eli M. Ashley, of Toledo, O.; children: Franklin Riley, b. 1868; Ralph Earle, b. 1879. Was a pioneer in Colorado, went to Denver; has taken active part in all her civic interests, and is especially