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��Louis; m. (1st) Col. T. D. McCIure, of the Civil War; children: Florence McClure, b. Mar. 23, 1861; and William C. McClure, b. Aug., 1865; m. (2d), Earlville, 111., Orr Legge, son of Col. Andrew Legge, of Civil War fame. Was engaged in music teaching for 11 years of wido-whcod. Devoted 25 years (officially and otherwise) to the first great charity of Denver in executing and maintaining the Old Ladies' Home. Pioneer mem. and worker in building the Westminster Church, in which has a memorial window for her son. Promoter, student leader of the first Chautauqua movement of Denver (white seal diploma for flve-years' course). Mem. Baltimore Mother Chapter of D.A.R. For 12 years pres. and leader of Shakespeare Club of Denver; -two years vlce-pres. of Clio Club; student three years of Round Table Club; promoter Universal History Club. Ass't author and publisher of a book on Allen Genealogy of Revolutionary fame (mother's family). LEGGETT, LiUian Keicham (Mrs. George H.

Leggett), 133 W. 123d St., N.Y. City.

Born Woodhaven, L,I. ; dau. Virgil Howard and Mary Ryer (Eldert) Ketcham; ed. Brooklyn high schools; m. Woodhaven, Dr. George H. Leggett. Interested in various private charities. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Second Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church of Harlem, Harlem Philhar- monic Soc. Mem. Clio Club, City Fed. of Women's Clubs, Equal Suffrage League. LEGGETT, Mary Lydia (Rev.), 46 Liberty St.,

Revere, Mass.

Minister; b. Moravia^ Cayuga Co., N.Y. ; dau. Rev. William and Freelove (Frost) Leggett; ed. Monticello (111.) Sem. and Harvard Divinity Bchool, with special study and travel in Egypt, Greece and Italy. Pastor ait Beatrice, Neb. ; Green Harbor and Dighton, Mass.; Fort Collins, Colo.; Wolfsboro, N.H., and Revere, Mass. Has been actively Interested In social settlements and equal suffrage. Unitarian. LEIDING, Harriette Kershavp (Mrs. Herman G.

Leldlng), Charleston, S.C.

3orn Sewanee, Tenn., 1878; dau. John Kershaw, ! .D. (rector of St. Michael's), and Susan (De Baussure) Kershaw (granddaughter of G«n. Joseph Brevard Kershaw, C.S.A., and of Gen. Wilmot G. De Saussure) ; ed. Sumter Inst., Sumter High School, Peabody Normal Coll. and Univ. of Nashville; m. Charleston, B.C., June 28, 1902, Herman G. Leiding. Taught school for four years. Lake City, S.C; Norths, S.C; Con- way High School and Latin and music at Miss Bull's Acad., Charleston, S.C First vice-pres. Civic Club (also chairman of com. to meet legislative delegate and mem. Press. Com.); first vice-pres. Carolina Arts and Crafts Ins.; sec. and treas. Municipal Bath Commission. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Cries of an Old South- ern City; A Walk Around Ye Olde Historic Charleston; A Day With the Fisher Folk; also about 350 netwspaper articles and several maga- zine articles. Episcopalian (mem. Woman's auxiliary). Recreations: Yachting, hunting, fish- ing, music, painting, writing. Mem. Musical Art Club, Wednesday Morning Club (music), Caro- lina Art Ass'n (art), Civic Club, City Federa- tion. LEIGIITON, Etta Veronica, 226 Dexter St.,

Lonsdale, R.I.

Teacher, writer, lecturer; b. Valley Palls, R.I., June 30, 1880; dau. Thomas and Mary (McCabe) Leighton; grad. Central Falls High School; R.I. Normal School; Brown Univ. (special courses). Director Social Centre Work of Passaic, N.J. ; organizer of Cumberland Civic Guards and of the National Campaign for State Flags. Favors woman suffrage. For three years school news editor In Popular Educator. Author: Teachers as Tourists; Poor Pierre; Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island, and articles pub- lished in Volta Review, Primary Education; Normal Instructor; Primary Plans. Mem. R.I. Inst, of Instruction, N.J. State Teachers' Ass'n, Nat. Soc for Promotion of Industrial Education, Audubon Soc. Recreations: Tennis, travel. Mem. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Club, R.I. Normal Club. Lecturer on travel: Through EJurope With the Poets.

��LEISEW7TZ, Julia 3fargaret (Mrs. Robert Leisewitz), Grace Hall, Whltls Av., Austin. Tex.

Director; b. Freretown, Liberia, West Africa, Jan. 2, 1856; dau. Frederick and Henrietta (Dietrick) Schlenker; ed. London, England; Lau- sanne, Switzerland; Stuttgart, Germany; m. Brenham, Tex., Robert Leisewitz (died 1883). Assisted in the establishment in 1897 of Grace Hall, the home for women students attending the Univ. of Texas, which was built and is owned by the Protestant Episcopal Church of the dio- cese of Texas (founder Rt. Rev. G. H. Kin- solving, D.D.). Director of Grace Hall, Austin, Texas. Active worker In church organizations. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recrea- tions: Music and study of foreign languages.

LELAND, Abby Porter, 511 West 113th St., N.Y. ' City.

Educational worker; b. Mechanlcsville, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1879; dau. John P. and Mary E. (Lynch) Lieland; grad. State Normal Coll., Albany, N.Y., 1900; Barnard Coll., A.B. '05; Columbia Univ., A.M. '06, Ph.D. 'U (mem. Pi Beta Phi). Teacher for seven years, elementary and secondary work; institute instructor in N.Y. State, 1910; fellow in education. Teachers' College, Columbia Univ., 1910-11; ass't principal in N.Y. City public schools, 1911 —. Chairman Social Service Com. of N.Y. Branch Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae; instructor Teachers' Training Class of Union School of Religion, Union Theological Sem., N.Y. City; Instructor in Summer School, W.Va. Univ., Morgantown, W.Va., 1913—. Author: The Educa- tional Theory and Practice of T. H. Green, 1911. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Nat. Religious Education Ass'n of N.Y. City, D.A.R., Women's University Club (N.Y. City). Protestant Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

LEMLY, Elizabeth Gary, North St., Jackson,

Miss.

Artist, teacher; b. Jackson, Miss., June 4, 1871; dau. William Steele and Sue Jane (Smith) Lemly; ed. in private schools at home; grad. Whitworth Coll.; art education in art schools and from private teacher In N.Y. City. Has taught art In schools and in private lessons; now su- pervisor of drawing in city schools of Jackson. Pres. Mississippi Art Ass'n, organized 1910; mem. Miss. State Fed. Women's Clubs, Am. Federa- tion of Arts; pres. since organization, 1910, of Jackson Art Study Club. Exhibited in local and New Orleans exhibitions; was at one time on Advisory Board Nat. League, of Mineral Painters. Presbyterian.

LENT, Mary Simons, 1628 Corcoran St., Wash- ington, D.C.

Pianist and teacher; b. June 13, 1865; dau. Francis A. and Helena E. (Comstock) Simons; musical education, Washington, D.C., under Harry Sherman, Anton Gloetzcer; Vienna, Alfred Gruenfeld; Berlin, Hans Bischof, Moritz Mosz- kowsky. Children: Wilmar F., b. 1889; Rudolf E., b. 1891; Margarete. b. 1896; Sylvia, b. 1903. Soloist ot Boston Symphony Orchestra at Bos- ton on occasion of Rubinstein Memorial Concert, Dec. 14 and 15, 1894; soloist Boston Symphony Concert, Washington, D.C, Feb. 25, 1895.

LENTE, Ellen Kemble, 251 W. Nlnety-Hrst St.,

N.Y. City.

Teacher o* piS.no; b. Cold Spring, Putnam Co., N.Y.; dau. Frederick Dlvoux Lente, M.D., and Mary (Kemble) Lente. Mem. Soc. of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, Consumers' League, Art Students' League (at one time mem. of Board ol Control), Synthetic Guild, Housewives' League, Ohurch Ass'n in the Interest of Labor, Ass'n for Labor Legislation. Mem. Badminton Club. Rec- reations: Tennis, golf, bicycling. Episcopalian. Worker for woonan suffrage; chairman 2Gth Sena- torial DIst. Com. of the Women's Political Union; chairman of all Putnam Co. branches of the Women's Political Union; mem. State Com. ol the Women's Political Union; mem. Equal Fran- chise Soc. and Woman's Suffrage Party of N.Y. City.

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