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Rh, M.D. '92. Took graduate study in Johns Hopkins Med. School. Demonstrator of physics, Wellesley Coll., 1888-89; resident physician City Hospital, Philadelphia, 1893; instructor in physiology. Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, 1897; attending physician, N.Y. Infirmary. Author of medical articles.

BALDWIN, Jane North, Vassar Coll., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Physician; b. Keeseville, N.Y., Feb. 10, 1876; dau. Geo. W. and Margaret Jane (Hargraves) Baldwin; ed. Plattsburg High School, Cornell Univ. Med. School; graduate work in Harvard Med. School. Interne N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children; asst physician Vassar Coll. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. State Med. Soc., Woman's Med. Soc. N.Y. State, Woman's Med. Soc. N.Y. City, Dutchess Co. Med. Soc, Stanton Co. Med. Soc. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BALDWIN, Kate M. Shoemaker (Mrs. A. M. Baldwin), Groton, Tompkins Co., N.Y.

Born Belle Center, Blair Co., Pa., 1858; dau. Jasper and Sarah (Dorworth) Shoemaker; ed. private and public schools. Normal and Classical Institute of Muncy, Pa.; National School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia; m. Muncy, Pa., Mar. 17, 1880, Alva Morse Baldwin, M.D.; children: Kenneth Morse, b. 1881; Manning Dorworth, b. 1885 (died 1893). Sec. and treas. Groton branch of the Woman's Auxiliary (to the Board of Missions of Protestant Episcopal Church); elected to serve on Board of Education, 1910-13; elected sec. of board, 1911. Mem. Cayuga Chapter D.A.R.; eligible to membership in the National Soc. of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. Mem. Political Equality Club, Columbian Club (literary and social, founder in 1892). Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; pres. of Suffrage Club.

BALDWIN, Myra Rush (Mrs. Edgar M. Baldwin), Fairmount, Ind.

Newspaper worker; b. Fairmount, Ind., July 4, 1865; dau. Nixon and Louise (Winslow) Rush; grad. Fairmount Acad.; student at Earlham Coll. (both Friends institutions); m. Aug. 23, 1887, Edgar M. Baldwin; one son: Mark Baldwin. Associated with husband in country newspaper work, reporter city newspapers, special article and short story writer. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Friends Church. Mem. Marion Morning Musical Club.

BALDWIN, Nellie Elizabeth (Mrs. Edward Lewis Baldwin), 20 Market St., San Francisco, Cal.

Club woman; b. Muskegon, Mich.; dau. Robert Burnside and Mary Graham (Miller) Patterson; ed. Ludington (Mich.) High School; m. 1887, Edward Lewis Baldwin; children: Robert, Marion D. 'Taught in Ludington schools five years; now conducting drug business in San Francisco. Pres. California Club, 1908-10, State chairman of Civics in Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, 1906-08; vice-chairman Civics Com. Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, 1911-12. Now State chairman School Patrons Com. Nat. Educational Ass'n; chairman Probation Com. Juvenile Court of San Francisco. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. California Club, Juvenile Protective Ass'n.

BALDWIN, Ruth Standish (Mrs. William H. Baldwin), Washington, Conn., and 281 Fourth Av., N.Y. City.

Born Springfield, Mass., Dec. 5, 1865; dau. Samuel Bowles and Mary (Dwight) (Schermerhorn); grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '87; m. Springfield, Mass., Oct. 30, 1889, William H. Baldwin, Jr.; children: Ruth, Standish and William H. Mem. Board of Trustees of Smith Coll., 1906-12, as representative of Alumnae Ass'n; elected permanent mem. of board Feb., 1912. Vice-pres. N.Y. Probation Ass'n; vice-pres. Nat. League on Urban Conditions among Negroes; mem. Committee of Fourteen of N.Y. City, Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Ass'n Coll. Alumnae, Nat. Housing Ass'n, Nat. Municipal League, Nat. Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People; mem. Coll. Equal Suffrage League of N.Y. Mem. of N.Y. Ethical Soc. Mem. Woman's Municipal League of N.Y., Woman's Trade Union League of N.Y., Am. Inst, of Criminal Law and Criminology, Woman's Univ. Club of N.Y., Mayflower Club of Boston.

BALENTINE, Mary Pollok Nimmo (Mrs. David C. Balentine), 922 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Born Ayrshire, Scotland; dau. Claude and Mary (Madden) Nimmo; ed. Presbyterian Sem., Springfield, O.; m. Washington, D.C, Feb. 18, 1896, David C. Balentine. Journalist, writer of verses. Favors woman suffrage. Interested in prison reform, domestic science and civic betterment. Author: Book on Washington; Official Etiquette, etc. Presbyterian. Recreation: Auction bridge.

BALL, Alice Worthington, 213 W. Monument St., Baltimore, Md.

Painter; b. Boston, Mass.; dau. Joshua Dorsey and Emily A (Cole) Ball; ed. Boston and Paris; exhibited for six years in Paris Salon and all the important exhibitions in this country. Has pictures In several collections. Episcopalian. Mem. Maryland Soc. Colonial Dames, Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore Water Color Club, Copley Soc. of Boston. Officer of the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore. Recreation: golf, motoring, driving.

BALL, Bertha Crosley (Mrs. Edmund Burke Ball), Minnetrista Boulevard, Muncie, Ind.

Born Terre Haute, Ind.; dau. Rev. Marion Crosley, D.D., and M. Adella (Swift) Crosley; ed. Springfield High School, Springfield, Mass., and in Vassar Coll., A.B.; m. Oct. 7, 1903, Edmund Burke Ball; children: Edmund Ferdinand, Clinton Crosley, Adella. Pres. Matinee Musical; mem. Art League; director of Y.W.C.A. and Orphans' Home. Favors woman suffrage. Universalist. Recreations: Golf, tennis. Mem. Conversation Club, Indiana Vassar Club.

BALL, Caroline Peddle (Mrs. Bertrand E. Ball), Westfield, N.J.

Sculptor; b. Terre Haute, Ind., Nov., 1869; dau, Charles Rugan and Mary E. (Ball) Peddle; ed. public schools in Terre Haute, Art Students' League of New York; m. New York, 1902, Bertrand Emery Ball; one daughter: Mary Aseneth Ball. Executed Victory in quadriga on U.S. building at Paris Exposition, 1900; Mary Lawrence Eliman Memorial, Flushing, L.I.; Memorial Covels, Grace Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. Recreations: Gardening, propagating dwarf fruit trees. Favors woman suffrage.

BALL, Ida M. (Mrs. J. Frank Ball), 1019 Park Place, Wilmington, Del.

Born Wilmington, Del., 1858; dau. Benjamin F. and Rachel A. (Strahorn) Perkins; ed. Wilmington High School and Cornell Univ.; m. Wilmington, Del., Oct. 13, 1881, J. Frank Ball; children: Jean Ross (deceased), Beatrice (deceased), Ethel, Dorothy. Mem. Board of Lady Managers World's Columbian Commission, 1892-93; Com. on Awards Board of Lady Managers; chairman Com. to Collect and Collate Religious, Philanthropic and Educational Departments Board of Lady Managers; representative from Delaware to Atlanta Exposition. Mem. Daughters of 1812, Territorial Com., Del., Md. and Pa. of the Y.W.C.A.; chairman Wilson and Marshall Organization of Del., Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of the Synod of Baltimore, Nat. Geographic Soc., Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children; treas. Wilmington Y.W.C.A.; mem. New Century Club. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage.

BALL, Isabel Worrell (Mrs. Henry Martyn Ball), 3932 Illinois Av., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Newspaper woman; b. Hennepin, Ill.; dau. James Purcell and Elizabeth (McClung) Worrell; ed. public school and college, Henry, Ill.; State Normal School, Emporia, Kan.; m. Larned, Kan., 1877, Henry Martyn Ball; one daughter: Hazel Winifred, b. 1883 (died 1887). Newspaper woman, Washington correspondent; only woman ever admitted to press galleries of Congress; was there 10 years. Associate editor of National Tribune, the organ of the patriotic societies of the