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66 ; ed. Le Roy, N.Y.; N.Y. City and Berlin, Germany; student in music, French and German. Taught English in a French school in N.Y. City; m. Sept. 3, 1890. Rev. Edward H. Pound; lived in California most of married life; after his death became interested in club work, then married, Troy, N.Y., July 8, 1910, Frank Gelston Bailey. Gives stereopticon lectures and organizes Junior Civic Leagues. Mem. Junior Civic League of the American Civic Association; gives Browning lectures and recitals. Author of civic articles in magazines: The American City; Life and Health; Washington (last named articles were reproduced by the Countess of Aberdeen in her magazine), and Junior Civic Leagues have been organized in Dublin. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. Am. Civic Ass'n (headquarters Washington). Mem. Sorosis, Social Study Club, Woman's Club (Cleveland). Organized Junior Civic League and gives stereopticon lectures on children's work; has organized Junior Civic Leagues in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Troy, N.Y.; Chattanooga, Tenn., and many other cities and smaller towns in many States. Was pres. Woman's Out-door Art League of Am. Civic Ass'n, 1907-08; since then occupies the position of chairman of Junior Civic League of Am. Civic Ass'n. For seven years mem. (three years chairman) of Civics Com. of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; two years chairman of Civics of the Cleveland Fed.; mem. Municipal School League of Cleveland.

BAILEY, Alice Van B. Foos (Mrs. Theodorus Bailey), 122 W. Seventy-eighth St., N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; dau. Lamar and Mary K. (Fellows) Foos; ed. Peebles and Thompson School, N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, Nov. 1, 1902, Dr. Theodorus Bailey: children: Rosalie Fellows, Dorothy Platt, Gertrude de Peyster, Florence Livingston. Episcopalian. Pres. Peebles and Thompson Alumnae Ass'n. Recreations: Motoring, golf, tennis, bridge. Clubs: Amateur Comedy, Saratoga Golf.

BAILEY, Alice Ward (Mrs. A. G. Bailey), 525 Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.

Writer, lecturer, editor; b. Amherst, Mass., April 30, 1857; dau. Horace and Mary R. Ward; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '83; Coll. of Nature Cure, Chicago, D.N.C. '09; m. 1884, Dr. A. G. Bailey. Author and lecturer, 1884-1906; ass't editor Nature Cure Magazine, 1909; inventor and manufacturer since 1910. Contributor to leading magazines. Author: Verse Fancies, 1889; The Outside of Things, 1899; (novels) Mark Heffron; The Sage-Brush Parson; Roberta and Her Brothers (juvenile).

BAILEY, Almeria Adgrate (Mrs. Charles F. Bailey), Hampton, Va.

Born Irasburg, Vt., Nov. 20, 1864; dau. Luther W. and Almeria (Pitkin) Adgate; ed. St. Johnsbury, Vt. Acad., and Wellesley Coll., A.B. '87; m. B. Hardwick, Vt., Aug. 18, 1891, Charles F. Bailey; children: Almeria Pitkin, b. Oct. 4, 1892; Albert Adgate, b. Sept. 3, 1894; Mary Joyce, b. May 15, 1899.

BAILEY, Anna Leland (Mrs. Alvin Richards Bailey), Newton, Mass.

Born Somerville, Mass.; dau. John Murray and Sophronia Page (Savage) Leland; grad. from complete classical course of Somerville High School and afterward studied music with private teachers and the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston; m. Somerville, Mass., Feb. 14, 1884, Alvin Richards Bailey. Engaged in teaching until marriage and organized several study classes for women which became pioneers of the club movement. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Newton Suffrage League and of the Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. Active in D.A.R., past regent of Paul Revere Chapter and State historian of Mass. D.A.R., in which capacity compiled History of the Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1896; founded the Signal Lantern Soc. of the Children of the American Revolution. Mem. West Newton Women's Educational Club (past pres.), Newton Fed. of Women's Clubs, Appalachian Mountain Club, New England Women, and the Massachusetts Fed. of Women's Clubs.

BAILEY, Anna Peabody (Mrs. Ayrault Bailey), North Dana, Mass.

Minister; b. Santa Rosa, Cal., Dec. 25, 1866, dau. George A. and Margaret (Tinkham) Peabody; ed. by private tutors; Mt. Holyoke Coll.; Emerson School of Oratory, 1882-90; m. Eastport, Me., 1891, Rev. Ayrault Bailey. Lecturer on international peace, equal suffrage and child protection. Ordained minister. Interested in missions, home and foreign, and Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Favors woman suffrage. Author of short stories, especially for children. Universalist. Mem. Am. Peace Soc, Nat. Educational Ass'n, W.C.T.U. Mem. Woman's Ministerial Club (Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, late pres.).

BAILEY, Bertha, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass.

Principal Abbot Acad.; b. Albany, N.Y., Dec. 17, 1866; dau. Rev. William and Mary L. (Stark) Bailey; grad. Albany Girls' Acad., '84; Wellesley Coll., B.S. '88 (mem. Shakespeare Soc., Wellesley). Teacher of science. Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Ky., 1888-90; Miss Mittleberger's School, Cleveland, O., 1890-93; mathematics and history, the Ruel School, N.Y. City, 1893-1900; head of day school, Miss Brown's and Miss Boesé's School, N.Y. City, 1900-02; Miss Stuart's School, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1902-04; principal Taconic School, Lakeville, Conn., 1904-12; principal Abbot Acad., Andover, Mass., 1912—. Mem. Congregational Church.

BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin, 39 E. 31st St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Hoosick Falls, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1876; dau. Charles H. and Emma Frances (Blanchard) Bailey; ed. private school and Teachers Coll., Columbia Univ. Associate Editor, Wildman Magazine and News Service; Children's Editor, Delineator. Lecturer on Story Telling; story teller in settlements and kindergartens. Author: Daily Program of Gifts and Occupation Work; Firelight Stories; For the Children's Hour; Stories and Rhymes for a Child; Songs of Happiness; Girl's Make-at-Home Things; Boy's Make-at-Home Things; Jingle Primer; Psychology of Story Telling. Contributor to nearly all the magazines. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BAILEY, Edith Lawrence Black (Mrs. Pearce Bailey), 52 West 53d St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. N.Y. City, 1870; dau. Charles Newbold and Mary Keese (Lawrence) Black; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City; m. at Ockanickon Farm, N.J., Pearce Bailey, M.D.; children: Newbold, Pearce, Lawrence, Geraldine. Acting pres. Equal Franchise Soc.; general suffrage speaker. Author: Crecy, by "Edith Lawrence"; Portia Politics; verses and short stories in various magazines. Episcopalian. Clubs: Cosmopolitan, Pen and Brush.

BAILEY, Eliza Randall Simmons (Mrs, William Whitman Bailey), 6 Cushing St., Providence, R.I.

Writer; b. Providence, R.I.; graduated from Providence High School; m. Providence, Mar. 14, 1880, William Whitman Bailey, LL.D., prof. botany in Brown Univ. Writer on educational subjects and author (in collaboration with Professor John Manly) of The Bailey-Manly Spelling Book. BAILEY, Florence Augusta Merriam (Mrs. Vernon Bailey), 1834 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C.

Author, ornithologist; b. Locust Grove, N.Y., Aug. 8, 1863; dau. Hon. Clinton L. and Caroline (Hart) Merriam; ed. Mrs. Piatt's Sem., Utica, N.Y., Smith Coll., special student class of '86 (mem. Alpha); m. 1899, Vernon Bailey. Has had bird classes and given lectures on birds; for years on Board of Managers of Working Boys' Home and also associated with the Playground movement. Author: Birds Through an Opera Glass, 1889; My Summer in a Mormon Village, 18S5; A Birding on a Bronco, 1896; Birds of Village and Field, 1S98; Handbook of Birds of Western U.S., 1902; also various newspaper and magazine articles, including St. Nicholas, The Outlook, Forest and Stream, Bird-Lore, The Condor and