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72. Nat. senior vice-pres. (former pres.) and mem. Nat. Exec. Board Woman's Relief Corps; Interested particularly in education, teaching love of the flag and of country. Uses in illustrating her flag addresses 45 Colonial flags, which she made herself, and 35 of the special flags of the United States. Has spoken on this subject in all the large cities of the country and appeared before Congress many times in interest of bill to prevent desecration of the flag. Against woman suffrage. Author of short stories of Western life, syndicated in the larger Eastern Sunday papers. Presbyterian (Scotch-Irish descent). Mem. Ladies of the G.A.R., Daughters of Union Veterans. Recreations: Horseback riding, hunting, singing, chess. Has pioneered in Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona.

BALL, Minnie Warner (Mrs. B. B. Ball), Midland, Mich.

Born Pulaski, N.Y., Aug. 26, 1865; dau. Stephen R. and Marion (Gould) Warner; ed. public schools of Saginaw, Mich.; m. Sable, Mich., Jan. 2, 1890, Benjamin B. Ball; one daughter: Marian. Interested in Sabbath-school, Missionary Soc, Mission Sabbath-school and special work with boys in Sunday-school for 17 years; sec. Library Ass'n nine years; pres. two years, now chairman. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Republican. Recreation: Reading. Mem. Monday Club, for social and mutual improvement; chairman Waterways Com., Mich. State Fed. Women's Clubs.

BALL, Nellie Boeck (Mrs. David Clifton Ball), 622 W. 113th St., N.Y. City.

Born St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 4, 1867; dau. Adam and Mary Elizabeth (Kriechbaum) Boeck; ed. Mary Institute, St. Louis, Mo.; Conservatory of Music, St. Louis School of Fine Arts; m. St. Louis, Mo., Jan., 1892, David Clifton Ball; one son: David Spencer Ball, b. Oct. 18, 1892. Treasurer of Sorosis; mem. Drama and Art Committee of Sorosis. Unitarian. Mem. Sorosis, Sorosis Carol Club, Browning Soc. Recreation: Tramping and canoeing in Adirondacks (summer home: Raquette Lake, N.Y.). Favors woman suffrage.

BALL, Sylvia Ernestine, 337 Hickory St., Warren, Pa.

Teacher; b. Warren, Pa., Aug. 8, 1883; dau. George and Mary Ball; ed. Warren public schools, Warren High School, Cornell Univ. A.B., studied one summer abroad (mem. Delta Gamma). Taught in public school one year, grammar school one year; high school, English and French, four years. Mem. High School Orchestra Conservatory Piano Quartet. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Natural Science Soc., Warren Co. Educational Soc, State Educational Soc, State Teachers League. Recreations: Golf, boating, walking. Mem. Warren Shakespeare Club.

BALLAGH, Josephine Jackson (Mrs. James Curtis Ballagh), 415 Hawthorne Road, Roland Park, Baltimore, Md.

Teacher; b Maryland; ed. St. Timothy's School, Catonsville, Md.; student Bryn Mawr Coll., 1889-91: m. Baltimore, Md., 1897, James Curtis Ballagh. Teacher of Latin and English, St. Timothy's School, Catonsville, Md., 1886-89; Wilford School, Baltimore, 1893-94; teacher of Latin in Edgeworth School, Baltimore, 1895-98; Misses Hall's School, Baltimore, 1903-04; Southern Home School, Baltimore, 1894-1904.

BALLANCE, Harriet N., 256 Randolph Av., Peoria, Ill.

Physician; b. Peoria, Ill.; grad. Vassar, A.B. '98; med. dep't Northwestern Univ., Chicago, M.D. '01. Since medical graduation engaged in practice as physician at Peoria, Ill.

BALLARD, Anna, 648 Fifty-seventh St., Oakland. Cal.

Journalist, lecturer, teacher; b. Athol, Worcester Co., Mass., Oct. 12, 1828; dau. Elijah and Mary (Cutting) Ballard; ed. in collegiate course at Mission Inst., Quincy, Ill., and by tutors in Boston. Teacher of singing, Vassar Coll., 1869-72; miscellaneous daily reporter of N.Y. Sun; its camp-meeting correspondent and writer of Bermuda letters, etc, 1872-79, except two years in Europe. In Ceylon, India, and Burma, 1885-94; correspondent of American newspapers and work for English Oriental publications; in 1895 and thereafter Woman's Club lecturer, etc. Ardent for equal suffrage and for equality in every sort of opportunities, their use to be limited by personal capacity. Author of Fifteen Vocalizes for the Singing Student (published by Ditson); contributor to various publications. Life mem. Am. Bible Soc; life mem. and only woman mem. N.Y. Press Club; hon. mem. Ill. Woman's Press Ass'n.

BALLARD, Frances Anne Keay (Mrs. Thomas P. Ballard). The Headlands, Painesville, O.

Lawyer before marriage; b. Bridgewater, Mass., 1878; dau. Nathaniel Seaver and Anna C. (Hyde) Keay; ed. The Misses Case and Hallowell School, Philadelphia; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '99; Univ. of Pa., LL.B. '02; m. Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1907, Thomas P. Ballard; one son: Hyde Whitcomb Ballard, b. 1909. Practising lawyer, Philadelphia, 1902-07. Since 1909 chief interest has been in social studies and establishing a suburban home, near Cleveland, on the shore of Lake Erie. Attorney Legal Aid Soc. of Philadelphia; attorney Seaman's Branch Legal Aid Soc of Philadelphia; mem. ward com. of City, Party, Philadelphia; mem. Educational School Board, Philadelphia. Has published articles on Seamen in Charities and The Commons. Mem. D. R., 1898-1907. Mem. College Club of Cleveland. Recreation: Gardening. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage League; mem. Exec. Com. Cleveland Woman's Suffrage Party, 1911-12.

BALLOU, Susan Ann (Mrs. Henry L. Ballou), 74 Harris Av., Woonsocket, R.I.

Born Woonsocket, R.I., Dec. 9, 1844; dau. Willis and Cyrena (Thayer) Cook; grad. Lowell Sem., Auburndale, Mass., 1864; m. Woonsocket, R.I., Oct. 6, 1868, Henry L. Ballou; children: Marie Louise, Roland Hunnewell. Mem. of Woonsocket School Com. for 16 years. Connected with Universalist Mission Circle, Woonsocket, R.I.; director of State branch Universalist Mission; director State Charities and Corrections; pres. Woonsocket Children's Home; director Ballou Home for Aged; ex-State Regent State D.A.R.; ex-State Pres. of R.I. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem, R.I. Council of Women, R.I. Women's Club, Woonsocket Women's Club, Fortnightly, Woonsocket Olla Podrida. Universalist. Against woman suffrage.

BALMER, Helen Pratt (Mrs. Thomas Balmer), 1327 Hollywood Av., Chicago, Ill.

Writer; b. St. Louis, Mo.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '76; Cincinnati Women's Coll., '79; Northwestern Univ., A.M. '02; m. Sept. 23, 1880, Thomas Balmer. Author: Bellevue Sketches; contributor to various magazines. Directress Chicago Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BAMFORD, Mary Ellen, 1235 E. 15th St., Oakland, Cal.

Author; b. Healdsburg, Cal., Dec. 10, 1857; dau. Dr. William and Cornelia Elizabeth (Rand) Bamford (father was pioneer physician who went across the plains in the early '50s, and her mother, a native of New Hampshire, went to California, 1854-55, by long voyage around Cape Horn); ed. in public and high schools of Oakland, Cal.; was four years assistant in Oakland Free Public Library. North California sec. Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Soc. of West. Prohibitionist (voter). Author: Up and Down the Brooks; My Land and Water Friends; The Look-About Club; Second Year of the Look-About Club; Her Twenty Heathen; In Editha's Days; Jessie's Three Resolutions; Three Roman Girls; Miss Millie's Trying; Father Lambert's Family; A Piece of Kitty Hunter's Life; Thoughts of My Dumb Neighbors; Out of the Triangle (first published serially); Ti; The Denby Children at the Fair; Eleanor and I; Marie's Story; Talks by Queer Folks; Janet and Her Father; Number One or Number Two; pamphlet on Burma: The Work and the Workers, and much writing for the