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��ary) ; sec. Hempstead Library Ass'n. Presby- terian.

PARSONS, Georgiana Hull (Mrs. Milo H. Par- sons), Stamford, Conn.

Bora Redding, Conn., Oct. 26, 1840; dau. George and Clara (Nichols) Hull; ed. in private schools of Danbury, Conn; m. Danbury Conn., Oct. 9, 1867, Milo Holcombe Parsons; children: Florence Hull, Fred Hull, George Milo, Harold Ashton, Marion Bulkeley, Waldo Hull. Active mem. of M.E. Church from age of sixteen. For many years an elocutionist, reciting in many promi- nent places on sea and land, by giving many en- tertainments in behalf of poor churches. Has written for daily papers, on local matters. Mem. D.A.R. (representing chapter many times in Con- tinental Congress at Washington, D.C.). Clubs: Stamford Woman's, Friday Afternoon (South Norwalk); vice-pres. for Fairfield Co. of State Fed. of Women's Clubs. PARSONS, Mabel, The San Remo, Central Park

West and Seventy-fifth St., N.T. City.

Born Flushing, N.Y., May 25, 1872; dau. Samuel and Martha E. (Francis) Parsons; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City; Barnard Coll., Co- lumbia Univ., A.B. '95, A.M. '93; mem. Beta Epsilon, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Teacher in pri- vate schools in New York for seven years; pre-s. of Parsons & Sons Nursery Co., Flushing, N.Y., for four years. Episcopalian. Mem. Women's University Club. PARSONS, Mae Frances (Mrs. Scott Parsons),

4052 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.

Born St. Louis, Mo., Mar. 14, 1872; dau. Jeffer- Bon G. and Laura J. (Poorman) Claphamson; ed. St. Louis public schools and Brann's Sem., Kansas City, Mo.; m. St Louis, Mo., Apr. 2, 1894, Dr. Scott Parsons; children: Scott Ghion, Jane Frances. Episcopalian. Pres. Friday Club. Mem. Mo. Federation Women's Clubs (mem. Com. Home Economics); and Gen. Federation Women's Clubs. PARSONS, May Hall Childs (Mrs. Walter Wood

Parsons), Great Neck, L.I., N.Y.

Born N.Y. City; dau. Harris C. and Emily Malvina (Robbins) Childs; ed. The Peebles and Thompson School, N.Y. City, and Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '95; m. Great Neck, L.I., June 5, 1901, WaUer Wood Parsons; children: May, b. 1903; Harris Childs, b. 1906; Emily, b. 1911. Mem. Vassar Students' Aid Soc. PARTON, Ethel, Newburyport, Mass.

Author; b. N.Y., Dec. 1, 1862; dau. Mortimer Thompson ("Doesticks") and Grace Harrington (Eldrsdge) Thompson (daughter of "Fanny Fern" —Sara Willis Eldredge); ed. in private school of Jane Andrews, Putnam School, Newburyport, and at home by her uncle by marriage, James Parton (famous scholar and litterateur), whose name she legally took on attaining her majority (having been left an orphan in childhood and brought up in his family). Was sec. and col- laborator to her uncle (biographer) and after his death she succeeded him upon the Youths' Companion (found ;d by hei great-grandfather), and has now been twenty years upon the staff. Interested in civic betterments; active in local movements and charities. Served seven years as director of the Newburyport Public Library (the only woman who ever officiated, eligible only as a voter for school com., the requirements for the position demanding "a voter of this city"). Favors woman suffrage. Writer of staff and magazine work; poems and historical ballads for children; stories and sketches, in St. Nicholas and Youth's Companion chiefly. Christian, but undenominational. Progressive in politics. Rec- reations: Gardening, literature. Pres. Newbury- port Woman's Club, two years; Exec. Board o£ the Mass. State Fed. of Women's Clubs, three years. PARTRIDGK, Frances Rosamond (Mrs. W. S.

Partridge), Norway Lake, Me.

Born Norway Lake, Me., Mar. 29, 1851; dau. Benj. Grosvenor and Dorcas (Chamberlin) Bar- rows; ed. Norway, Me.; m. Nov. 6, 1869, W. S. Partridge; children: Maud, Winifred, Victor, Evelyn, Donald. Sec. of Norway Lake School

��Ass'n; mem. Norway Lake Woman's Club. Con- gregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

PARTRIDGE, Mary EUzabeth (Mrs. George Henry Partridge;, 1676 Hennepin Av., Minne- apolis, Minn.

Bom Wethersfield, Conn., Dec. 13, 1832; dau. Anson and Betsy (Hatfield) Francis; ed. in N.Y. and Wis. country schools, one year at academy in Janesville, Wis., and in later life took com- plete Chautauqua course (diploma) and the American Univ. course of home reading; m. Janesville, Wis., Apr. 26, 1855, George Henry Partridge (died 1860); children: George H., b. Aug. 21, 1856; S. Lillian, b. Mar. 1, 1858; Harvey Earl, b. Dec. 5, 1859. Teacher many years. Always interested in the propaganda of liberal religious faith and for over 25 years a "postal missionary," sending out thousands of sermons and other literature to inquirers. Favors woman suffrage; always a suffragist. Unitarian. Mem. Sunshine Soc, temperance societies and active In movements for humanity and social justice. Mem. of Shakespeare Club 15 years and of sev- eral others; at age of 80 joined a boys' club of over 800, working for their social betterment.

PASKETT, Winifred Llewellyn, Palmyra, N.Y. Teacher; b. Seneca Falls, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1884; dau. Clement J. and Annie (Converse) Paskett; grad. Palmyra High School, 1900 (valedictorian); Cornell Univ., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '07. Pre- ceptress of Fair Haven High School, 1907,12; teacher of Latin in high school at Bound Brook, N.J. Mem. of Students' Volunteer Band, en- gaged in churdi activities; teacher in Sunday- school. Recreation: Reading. Baptist. Against woman suffrage.

PASSMORE, Susie Came (Mrs. Charles S.

Passmore), 717 W. Granite St., Butte, Mont.

Born Standish, Me., Dec. 5, 1864; dau. Mahlon and Nancy F. (Blair) Came; ed. (Jorham (Me.) High School; m. Andover, Mass., Dec. 8, 18S6, Charles S. Passmore; children: Blair S. (1887), Paul Benton, Lynnie Ethel, Gail Came. Mem. First Presbyterian Church; Synodical sec. of Mont.; vice-pres. of Northwest Board of Missions (Chicago); member of the Newsboy Auxiliary (Butte), Silver Bow Chapter, D.A.R. (treas.); treas. Florence Crittenton Circle, Butte; engaged in temperance work and missionary work. Mem. Atlas (!:iub (literary), served as pres. three years. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage. Repub- lican.

PATCH, Edith Marion, Orono, Me.

Entomologist; b. Worcester, Mass., July 27, 1876; dau. William Whipple and Salome (Jenks) Patch; ed. Univ. of Minn., B.S. '01 (honors in Englis'h, Sigma Xi); Univ. of Me., M.S. '10; Cornell Univ. Ph.D. '11 (mem. Delta Delta Delta). Author: Homologies of the Wing Veins of the Aphididffi, Psyllidae, Aleurodids, Coccidse, Chermes of Maine Conifers; Gall Aphids of the Elm, The Cottony Grass Scale; Strawberry Crown Girdler; The Saddled Prominent; Elmleal Curl and Woolly Apple Aphid; Aphid Pests oi Maine; Food Plant Catalogue of the Aphidida of the World; numerous bulletins on entomology of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, and papers in entomological publications; also Dame Bug and Her Babies (for children). En- gaged under the provisions of the Adams Fund in research problems in economic entomology, at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. Mem. Phi Kappa Phi, Entomological Soc. of Am- erica, Ass'n of Economic Entomologists, A.A.A.S., Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae, and Research Club, Univ. of Maine.

PATCH, Mary Greene (Mrs. Charles Patch),

Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Born Cleveland, Ohio, July 2, 1871; dau. John Elliott and Mary Elizabeth (Seymour) Greene; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. '93; m. Cleveland, June 25, 1896, Charles Patch; one son: Charles. Active in Woman's Guild of Christ Church, Woman's Auxiliarj-, Franklin Street Settlement, Y.W.C.A. Episcopalian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnse, Girls' Protective League, Girls' Friendly Soc. oi America, Coll. Settlement Ass'n, Smith Club ol Detroit and Consumers' League.

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