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��merous short stories since 1S96: The Portrait of a Soul; Mammy's 'Membrances; Clarissy; Mah Yaller Rose, etc. (characters taken principally from old mammy and house servants of Va. home). Episcopalian. Mem. Md. Div., United Daughters of the Confederacy (pres. from 1906) ; first vice-pres. Gen. United Daughters of the Confederacy since 1911; mem. D.A.R. Membership No. 2380 Recreations: Reading, driving, riding, out-door sports. O'DONNELL, Mary Eleanor, Hotel Newberry,

817 Dearborn Av. ; office, Chicago Tribune,

Chicago, 111.

Editor; author; b. Council Bluffs, la., July 28, 1882; dan. John and Ellen (Sheedy) O'Don- nell; grad. St Francis Acad., Council Bluffs, la. Editor woman's section Philadelphia Press and Philadelphia North American; editor of The Designer, N.Y. City, and associate editor of Delineator, N.Y. City; now editor of woman's section of Chicago Sunday Tribune. Pres. 111. Woman's Press Club, Chicago (serving third term). Lecturer and sociologist. Favors woman suffrage. Catholic. Mem. Chicago Woman's Club, Woman's City Club, Catholic Woman's League, 111. Woman's Press Club, State Suffrage Ass'n. OmCEB, Jnlla E., 123 S. Seventh St., Council

Blufts, la.

Real estate investments; born in Council Bluffs, la.; dau. Thomas and Elizabeth Mills (Pusey) OfQcer; of early Pa. families (Scotch Presbyterian and Quaker); grad. Rockford (111.) Coll., classical course, and diploma from musical dep't; also studied music in Boston and Chicago. Was concert pianist, pipe organist in churches and teacher of piano In Chicago, Omaha and Council Bluffs; was mem. Apollo Musical Club, Chicago; was manager of artists for the Dep't of Music of the Trans-Mississippi and Internat. Exposition and Musical Festival at Omaha, en- gaging the Thomas Orchestra and Chicago Apollo Club, with famous soloists, for the festival, which continued several weeks. V/as pipe or- ganist and choir director for three years of First Presbyterian Church of Council Bluffs, la. Par- ticularly Interested in athletics ' for boys and girls; has promoted public supervised play- grounds and employed celebrated speakers from a distance to give free sterewpticon lectures on the subject in Council Bluffs at her own expense. Is actively Identified with local philanthropies; has been active In the campaign for vigorous en- forcement at the liquor laws and gambling laws of Iowa in Council Bluffs. Has made collections of historical pictures of Council Bluffs in pioneer days, and presented them to the Council Bluffs public library. One in a series of Lincoln pic- tures Includes an early-day picture of the drive Abraham Lincoln took, in 1S59, to a high point in Council Bluffs, which view determined the east- ern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad at Council Bluffs. Was charter member of first woman's literary club of Council Bluffs. As- sisted In organizing and held ofiRce of president in the first woman's musical club of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Strongly in favor of votes for women (has voted in Seattle, Wash.). Presby- terian. Progressive Republican. Recreations: Music, walking. OmEUD, Mary Evelyn (Mrs. J. M. Offield),

205 S. Twelfth St., Muskogee, Okla.

Owner and principal of private school ; b. Hedgesville, W.Va., July 4, 1869; dau. Albert and Harriet A. (Murray) Jump; ed. St. Louis, Balti- more, Philadelphia and Lewis Coll., Mo., A.B. '88, later A.M.; m. Independence, Mo., Jan. 12, 1897, J. M. Offield; children: Alice Evelyn, b. 1899; Louis DeLaney, b. 1902. Was teacher in Lebanon, Mo., two years; Sedalia, Mo., as prin- cipal and teacher, nine years; was promoter and pres. of Offield School of Expression in Sedalia; now owner of Offield Home School for Girls, Muskogee, Okla. Was on Chautauqua platform several years as reader. Favors woman suf- frage. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. P.E.O. Sisterhood. Pres. the Ladies' Saturday Music Club (oldest club of Okla.); mem. New Century Club; vice-pres. Nat. Fed. of Music Clubs for Okla. and correspondent for its bational paper. The Monitor.

��OFTXEY, Margaret Agnew (Mrs. Cleland N. ' Offley), Carrel Hall, Annapolis, Md.

Bom Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 2, 1870; dau. Archi- bald and Leonora (Agnew) Greenlees; ed. Nor- wood Inst., Washington, D.C.; Augusta Sem., Staunton, Va. ; m. Washington, D.C., July 14, 1891, Cleiand N. Offley, U.S. Navy; children: Archibald Nelson, Margaret Agnew. Mem. Col- onial Dames of America, D.A.R., Woman's Army and Navy League. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

OFFUTT, Nanniene Norton Thomasson (Mrs. Ellwood Offutt), "Hazlehurst," Oakland, Md. Born Chicago, Aug. 14, 1881; dau. Nelson and Nanniene (Norton) Thomasson; ed. Girls' Col- legiate School, Chicago; Misses Masters' School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. ; m. Oakland, Md., Sept. 9, 1907, Ellwood Offutt; children: Daylas Seymour, b. Oct. 13, 1908; Nelson Thomasson, b. Nov. 11, 1910; Nelle Thornton, b. Feb. 26, 1912. Pres. Sanitary Dep't of Oakland Civic Cluib. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Bridge Club.

OGDEN, Ellse Lucy, 941 S St., N.W., Washing- ton, D.C.

Librarian; ed. Girls' High School, Louisville, Ky.; Bryn Mawr Coll., 1891-97; special student, 1893-94; A.B. '95, Univ. of Tenn. In U.S. Dep't of Agriculture since 1897, as histologist and ass't Di\ision of Agrostology, 1897-98, clerk, 1898-1900, and cataloguer, 1900-07 in Library of the Depart- ment; since 1907 ass't in charge of- library. Office of Experiment Stations, Dep't of Agriculture. OGILVIE, Ida Helen, 29 Claremont Av., N.Y. City.

University professor; b. N.Y. City; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City; Woman's Medical College of N.Y. Infirmary, 1896-97; Bryn Mawr Coll., 1897-1900, A.B. 1900; graduate student, Bryn Mawr, 1900; Univ. of Chicago, 1900-01; Columbia Univ., 1901-03, Ph.D. 1903. Lecturer in geology, the Misses Rayson's School, N.Y. City, 1902-03; lecturer in geology, Barnard Coll., 1903-06; tutor in geology, 1906-10; instructor in geology, 1910-11, ass't prof, since 1911, Columbia Univ. ; author of geological papers; active for woman suffrage. O'HATR, Mary McClellan (Mrs. H. J. O'Halr), Coleman, Tex.

Literary work; b. Burton, Tex.; dau. W. R. and Louisa (Ratlifl) McClellan; grad Baylor Female Coll., Independence, Tex., A.B. '86; m. Ledbetter, Tex., Nov. 3, 1887, H. J. O'Halr; children: William Robert O'Hair, b. May 14,
 * g89; Rollle Elizabeth, b. April 2, 1891 (died

June 16, 1891). Pres. Christian Ladies' Aid, Christian Woman's Board of Missions Auxiliary. Has organized three study clubs and actively en- gaged in promoting the Coleman Public Library. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Texas Equal Franchise Soc. Mem. Christian Church. Mem. Texas Woman's Press Ass'n, Self Culture Club: hon. mem. Girls' Study (jlub, Blue Bonnets (mutual improvement club) ; ex-pres. City Fed. of Women's Clubs, Coleman, Tex. O'LAUGHLIN, Mabel Hudson (Mrs. John Callan O'Laughlln), 1777 Massachusetts Av., Wash- ington, D.C.

Born Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 27, 1876; dau. Samuel E. and Edith Everman (Petty) Hudson; fcd. at Dr. Darlington's, West Chester, Pa.; m. Trenton, N.J.. July 15, 1896, John Callan O'Laughlin (well-known journalist). Chairman Amusement Com., Washington, D.C., branch of the Woman's Welfare Dep't of Nat. Civic Fed- eration. Episcopalian.

OLDER, Cora Miranda (Mrs. Fremont Older), The Fairmont, San Francisco, Cal., and Wood- hills Ranch, Cupertino. Santa Clara Co., Cal. Novelist; b. in New York; dau. Peter and Mar- garet (Sibley) Baggerly; ed. by private teachers and at Syracuse Univ.; m. San Francisco, Fre- mont Older (editor San Francisco Bulletin). Author of short stories and three novels: The Socialis>t and the Prince; The Giants; Esther Damon. Interested in the industrial and political situation; made 50 speeches to collect funds for the Lawrence strike, the Ettor and Grovanittl Defense Fund and the free speech fight in San

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